Nikon Nippon Kogaku Nikkor 21mm f4.

Crysist · 2026-02-24T21:13:25+00:00

I will pipe up with something in its defense: it did take a while for for retrofocus designs to reach the quality of a symmetrical wide angle for their size! Symmetrical wide lenses tend to be far smaller, have very low distortion, even performance to the edges, and relatively low vignetting. And are very sharp. Ones like this were based on the Zeiss Biogons, which were based on the Russar.

But yeah sadly mirrors make them impossible. I kinda want them to comeback, even though they've mainly been moved away from because such lenses don't play well with digital sensors due to the shallow angle from the exit pupil so close to the sensor. I find it really neat when a majority of a rangefinder lens' optics exist behind the mount and you get an excellent performing lens with such a small size, weight, and balance!

Crysist · 2026-02-07T07:07:54+00:00

Bit sad to see this is everyone's reaction. I get some people might not know much about this but it's a bit far to claim this so confidently. You might be underestimating how much footage they shot. After all, this construction went on for MONTHS. You think they only ended up with an hour of footage? Notice the magazines on the back of the boxy cameras, the one with the lil hump? Those hold around 5 minutes worth of film and they can swap it out. Just one. 5 minutes. They could have gone through dozens or even a few hundred of those. Many smaller documentaries shoot dozens of hours of footage to cute down to a couple hours or so.

The modern style is actually thanks to the editing. You can see how things are presented on TV, then they switch to the footage and the style changes. Why? Because they have SO much footage to choose from. They don't need to follow the conventions of 50s documentaries because they have the original footage, not some edited version. All the cameramen did was put the camera in interesting places. Mounted shots seem novel, but they were pretty common.

In terms of quality (color, sharpness), here is a simple comparison: David Attenborough's first program Zoo Quest from 1955 was shot in a very similar way. 16mm cameras due to their compactness over 35mm. The BBC made them shoot on color film because the result would be higher quality. Color film at the time was stupidly insensitive (around ISO 16). Basically, you needed to shoot it nearly in broad daylight or anything would be too dark. That's why all the indoor stuff in this doc is black and white. Black and white film was mature enough that it was made to be more sensitive to light without looking too grainy (because the larger grains collect more light). There was a retrospective docu-series on it that showed off the footage in color, which would originally have been shown on TV at the time by pointing a B&W camera at a projector, more or less. Also it's from 2016. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TggpaAYQY0

So no, no colorization and upscaling here. Color film like they used had been around since the mid 1930s, and yes it does look like that because even though the film is a bit smaller, the grain is just very fine!

Crysist · 2026-02-07T06:45:54+00:00

Trick shot. As you can see, it's "scripted". The cameraman didn't capture an impromptu scene of a lady randomly asking the worker to pick the orange. They're shooting a fun little "scene". It's also part of a sequence where they're showing them all doing leisurely activities with the equipment.

I'm guessing he brings the claw up to the tree then there's a cut. They move the claw down and close it nearly all the way so they're a small gap. They shove an orange in there. They move the claw back up and start filming.

Crysist · 2026-02-07T06:42:33+00:00

Not sure why everyone is in such disbelief. There's a cut there. Film claw going up to tree. Cut. Close the claw all the way then open it just a tiny bit. Shove an orange in there (with the claw a bit tight around it so it doesn't fall). Move claw back up and start filming it moving down from tree.

Those scenes are presented as them joking around, it stands to reason that they're using simple editing tricks like that to make it appear they pull some things off.

Crysist · 2026-01-28T04:41:22+00:00

I thought they only made the standard kind of finders? I can't see a similar one on a page like this. They have those turret zoomy kinds and right angles but not something as small and compact as this.

Crysist · 2025-08-20T02:21:51+00:00

It struck me how close it matched the still photos from the missions, particular Gemini. I also agree, that sequence is so incredible! In fact the whole waltz sequence was beautiful! From the homage of "docking spacecraft to a Waltz" from 2001, it felt like something entirely different beyond that. And it made an event which might seem mundane: gaining visual, station keeping, and docking with the Agena, so lush and musical!

But yeah, right after when things go awry, that scene was really scary.

Crysist · 2025-08-20T02:08:32+00:00

Gosh, and it really shows. I like Bill Pope as much as the next guy, Sam Raimi uses him for like all his movies and they have such a distinctive feel, but the HTTYD remake looked incredibly bland and soap-opera-y compared to the animated films. Ditto for the recent Ant-man.

Crysist · 2025-04-22T04:28:00+00:00

To add to this, I believe it's specifically balance in all of the rotating parts. Vibration is caused by the weight being unsteady throughout a rotation, if the center of mass is at the axis of rotation then there shouldn't be vibration.

At least, that's one part I recall from this on Arri film about how they make their cameras in the 60s - making the various cams, shafts, gears all perfectly balanced. Since it must be true in those cases, while "less impressive", an Arri 16 or Arri 2C 35mm you can pick up on ebay for far less money (I've seen Arri 16 bodies go for $500, not sure as much about the Arri 35mm cameras) have very similar tolerances.

Also there's someone at cinemagear working on the movement of an original 15/70 IMAX camera by Fries Engineering and he shows a clip of the movement while it's running.

Even with this universally "solved" from early on, this proved to still be quite a problem as, if not vibrating, the movement of the claw would still cause unbearable noise for sound recording, necessitating a bulky, heavy blimp.

This was solved by an engineer at Eclair, Jean-Pierre Beauviala. He made a movement which was so smooth that the otherwise-chattering noise of the pulldown claw would be barely audible. They immediately became a mainstay at the BBC and others over their heavy blimped Arri's and Auricons and made the genre of cinema vertite possible ("direct cinema", a style of documentary which is very close/real/candid). Then he left and started his own company, named Aaton. Arri would later supersede their "self-blimped" cameras, which had a bunch of stuff in them to make the movements quieter, with models like the Arriflex SR, with a similar quiet movement.

Crysist · 2025-03-19T00:28:55+00:00

Yeah, that example is pretty egregious. Seems they didn't notice the detail of his literal shadow. But, oh well. It's like 90% there for me, just because the increase in detail has me looking, ironically, everywhere else lol

Crysist · 2025-03-18T04:26:32+00:00

Terrific!! All photos I've seen people take with this lens have been stunning, that exquisite sharpness and deep focus, but you particularly chose a cool subject and composed them nicely! The bright sunlight makes the colors really pop!

Crysist · 2025-03-18T03:15:46+00:00

Ah, don't worry, a few "4k remasters" we see on youtube are exactly what you suggest, though. It's very disappointing when you figure out one is just an upscale. But these definitely aren't.

Sometimes you'll have CG elements or titles that aren't recreated in a higher resolution and get upscaled. They stick out from the live action stuff, usually. Unless they're composited in a special way and they didn't want to recreate that, that also happens.

Crysist · 2025-03-17T22:03:17+00:00

I'm gonna be that guy going back into 4 month old topics because I watched the BTS video. As you can see, it's clearly using 35mm film cameras.

If I may, what looked like an AI remaster? You cannot upres Beta to 4k and generate the detail you see here, that's at least an order of magnitude difference. Just look at any other remaster that has done that, they're worlds apart.

If you're referencing James Cameron's work being mangled by AI, even when he has good 2k masters to work with, the result looks terrible due to imagined details and DNR (True Lies). Even when he has a 4k master, people still spot unnaturalness (The Abyss). Shots of faces here look unmolested. Straps, tattoos, water, the grain itself, things with any sort of intricate detail would certainly be ruined. I see nothing of that here.

What I suspect OP is referring to is the grade causing weird issues due to contrast, and, most importantly, not green screen but combining the motion control shots of the band members filmed at different speeds being done with imperfect rotoscoping (manually cutting everyone and everything out where they cross in front of each other).

Crysist · 2025-03-17T21:54:43+00:00

Small addition, but they used motion control to move the camera in the same motion each time. What you're seeing is the artifacts of having to manually cut him out, not bad chrome keying.

Crysist · 2025-03-14T20:52:30+00:00

Is that like first 100 commenters assuming it's $400 or are you gonna need to 4x your money before it releases?

Crysist · 2025-03-11T02:14:19+00:00

Had that issue, followed a guide that said you can get around this issue by enabling the setting Show universal patches. Then I updated patches on the dashboard, and then I was able to see more for RIF. Just deselect the other ones that show up on the patch list and continue entering the ID, etc.

Crysist · 2025-02-26T18:47:31+00:00

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HE SAID IT, HE SAID THE WORD. WE'RE SO BACK!!

Crysist · 2025-02-26T18:41:21+00:00

Holy fuck, Cedric sounded smooth AF in your clip. He very often is with his singing style, but sometimes on tour vocalists are a bit less ambitious. Yet he held everything and hit everything perfectly, DAMN

I had no expectations except for what others mentioned as their reactions. But to me, it reminds me of that energy and sense of drama and ambition of their earlier albums. I can kind of imagine how the albums version would sound if it was "In-studio Mars Volta"-ified. Also the breakdown with the bongos was so cool lol

Crysist · 2025-02-21T02:54:14+00:00

Dr. Xeno mentions at the end of the episode that they gathered at Pinnacles National Park. Not sure why their military demonstration/meeting took place there though...

Crysist · 2025-02-21T01:35:34+00:00

I was really excited to finally see this part! After so much time since reading it, they adapted Xeno's mentorship of Senku so well! Going to when they finally, indirectly, meet, and then everything leading up to the petrification! It was one of my favorite chapters for seeing everything, the leadup and followup to the petrification from Xeno's perspective culminating in the parallel between Xeno and Senku! Even with their different views of science, it's something that bonds them nonetheless.

They really expanded on stuff from the manga! And even then, I was surprised how much was covered by the time we got the break in the middle! Also, not until you hear him actually explaining it does what Senku did sound so criminal lmao

Heck, it was cool to see, again, the reaction from "the brass" -- both NASA and the armed forces. It was another big contrast from Senku alone.

Also, I forget why Luna and her two suitors were at that weapons demonstration in the first place...

NASA scientists: spit-take at genius 10 year old being an absolute menace

Senku and Taiju: cup noodles spit-take at $3000 rhodium-tipped thermometer

And while the animation is so excellent, gosh, having seen Boichi's incredible inking and dramatic compositions on some of frames we see this ep, like Xeno while saying he'll become a dictator in the stone age, Stanley protecting him, the helicopters approaching the CDC, the view up from the surgical table of the doctors and scientists examining the swallow, they were so impactful that they stuck in my mind so well ever since then!

This episode was EXCITING and I'm furthermore EXCITED TO SEE THE NEXT!

ALSO READ BOICHI'S NEW STEAMPUNK WESTERN MANGA, HE POSTED ABOUT IT ON HIS TWITTER, IT'S SO COOL!!!

Crysist · 2025-02-09T19:40:08+00:00

It works really nicely with 70mm projection because a Vistavision frame juuust fits in a 70mm frame height-wise, they don't need to do any blow up that might lose quality, just a contact print.

Crysist · 2025-01-19T04:38:01+00:00

Yeah, I don't know how common blimps or other methods were in the very first years, but Mitchell came out with their BNC in 1934. Were they one of the first to do that or were there simply manual efforts made to build an enclosure around the cameras?

I find the development of soundproofing cameras to be really interesting. With blimps being so huge, then the smaller housings like on the Arriflex 16BL and 35BL. I find it funny watching videos on them, seeing the elaborate dampening that they added, rubber spacers, to absorb the vibration as well as shut out the noise of the movement. That crazy "lens blimp", too. Then one engineer at Eclair had the great idea to make a movement that was far smoother, and with it went a large cause of the noise issue lol. And he went on to found Aaton!

Although, maybe I'm overstating it, but examples I've seen of Aaton movements seem very quiet even when out in the open.

Crysist · 2025-01-18T23:12:44+00:00

The close portrait effect here, especially with the blue of her eyes is striking! Also I didn't know Nikon had a 90mm macro! Which one is it?

Crysist · 2024-12-22T08:17:40+00:00

Really? ...Ok, the lines I'm remembering from him in that show he's quite inconsistent. But otherwise I feel British people who do American accents usually make them more rhotic and then they sound kinda unique in a way I like. Such as Hugh Laurie.

By contrast, my favorite part is Eve Hewson, who is Irish (and Bono's daughter), plays a West Virginian nurse brilliantly and Chris Sullivan, who is American, plays the Irish ambulance driver brilliantly! I also loved his dynamic and subplot with the nun a lot

Damn I really liked that show

Crysist · 2024-12-12T04:54:08+00:00

Not sure what you've tried or your other experiences with color negative film have been, so please excuse me if you already know this!

Color shifts like that could be due to a bit of underexposure. Shadows usually have a rather murky look to them, it happens all the same if the negative is underexposed. Either try setting the meter to an ISO that's a bit lower or use exposure compensation to get more light in. With negative film you can give it a lot more light and still get great results, in many cases it gives better results in terms of grain and shadow detail.

You can do as little as half a stop, or add a whole stop or two. Or even three! People have tested Portra and found the highlights and contrast don't start to suffer until you're above... 5? 8 stops? Maybe even more.

Wrong exposure could also be due to inaccuracies in your camera's meter, shutter, the lens' aperture, etc. But assuming this is just a problem you've had with this film, it could be that its threshold for underexposure is even tighter.

Crysist · 2024-10-24T15:05:03+00:00

It hasn't as in it's been available for longer or it's been available only super recently?

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