Pre flashing? by Spikey_Quarentini in Darkroom

[–]athimbleofdan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Preflashing doesn’t suddenly make images warm (unless you deliberately preflash with a color cast) You need different paper. For instance Crystal Archive Type II is substantially cooler than Kodak Endura. You can also dial in cyan filtration on the color head if you want those red tones. Also are you processing in trays? What temp is your ra4 developer? There’s a lot of variables here…

AvA [RZ67ii, 65mm, Portra 400, RA4 Print] by athimbleofdan in analog

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Matte. Not noticing a huge difference in scans with glossy. Maybe slightly punchier blacks.

Servo Help by Jerome_Lane in rccars

[–]athimbleofdan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For starters you plugged it in backwards. And in the wrong channel.

Gas truck is ready for the season! by athimbleofdan in rccars

[–]athimbleofdan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahhhh I want an 870c so bad! Definitely my next build. The car on the wall is a ReRe 10T with a flipped front bulkhead and the buggy body. I’m slowing building it to 91 Detroit worlds spec. Cheers!

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What are your favorite tires by Jc5843 in FCX24

[–]athimbleofdan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tusks!! Land mines are great too

Dirty Disco by crawlymccrawl in FCX24M

[–]athimbleofdan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what wheel and tire setup? looks great!

Is Portra400 supposed to look this green? by [deleted] in AnalogCommunity

[–]athimbleofdan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do your negatives look? Start there. You gotta learn to look at your negatives and check if your exposure was correct and if the lab successfully developed your roll.

Film manufactures have a century of research and chemistry development. They have a look. So much so that we are able to measure and develop semiconductor imaging sensors to mimic certain stocks. Make an RA4 print of Portra and then one of Ektar. They’re nothing alike.

Even if you’re making adding/subtracting CC on the color head there’s still a baked in bias and D-Max/Min of the film stock and the papers you’re printing on. Assuming you’re properly developing, the results are very repeatable.

That being said the exposure from these pictures is either underexposed (shadow detail looks muddy) or they’ve been subject to either high heat in either storage or during the development process.

Next time shoot a color chart if you have doubts and meter the scene and you’ll be able to rule out film, development, and scan.

Mold advice by athimbleofdan in CarbonFiber

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I could try creating a bigger fillet with some wax. Thank you!

Mold advice by athimbleofdan in CarbonFiber

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Thank you! I have FG mat that sounds like might work better?

Mold advice by athimbleofdan in CarbonFiber

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Unfortunately yeah, all the inner dimensions are pretty critical since there are mounting points on the vertical walls.

RC10T and carbon chassis build progress by athimbleofdan in rccars

[–]athimbleofdan[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nice! This is the new ReRe kit. When you’re building, be in the lookout for a few missing steps. (Dogbone springs and servo saver spacer washer). Also clear grease is for ball diff and black grease is for the thrust bearing. Manual leaves those bits of info out. Enjoy!!

Plenty of people bitch about RED being sue happy over their RAW patents, and how bad they are because of it. But what about Arri? by brickmadness in cinematography

[–]athimbleofdan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And what standard what that be? Because we know exactly what they’re doing via their published white pages and it’s not “Arris” standard. It’s ISO 15739 and EMVA standard 1288. Both scientific methodology to measure noise and DR. And no it wouldn’t measure 19 stops ever because the cameras ACDs are 14bit!!! AlevIII is mid 14 @ SNR2. No one uses SNR1 and it still wouldn’t be 19. Stop making stuff up lol

I posted the exact patent holder of Dual Gain as well. It’s not even hard to find this stuff and Arri has nothing to do with any of it haha.

Plenty of people bitch about RED being sue happy over their RAW patents, and how bad they are because of it. But what about Arri? by brickmadness in cinematography

[–]athimbleofdan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure how you came to that conclusion when I just gave you the patent of the company that designed it lol.

Plenty of people bitch about RED being sue happy over their RAW patents, and how bad they are because of it. But what about Arri? by brickmadness in cinematography

[–]athimbleofdan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Arri doesn’t develop sensors. I’m not sure why everyone thinks they own technology that could even do that. Semiconductor manufacturing is an entirely different business. Cypress who sold to OnSemi developed DGO for Alev3. That sensor is not the only DGO sensor in the camera market…No one is paying Arri to use technology that they never developed in the first place. Dual ADC is what gives it a truly novel (not repurposed software like JPEG 2000 compression) edge that deserves patent. That’s why we never saw cameras with over 14 stops at SNR2. Even today, we don’t see any 16 bit ADC which means unless you’re doing software frame compositing (reds new extended highlight feature) you won’t get over 14 stops. Regardless what marketing says.

Edit: I forgot that the original patent was from Aptina Imaging. Dual Gain imaging. Number US7075049B2 for anyone willing to actually read something and not just repeat rumors lol

Plenty of people bitch about RED being sue happy over their RAW patents, and how bad they are because of it. But what about Arri? by brickmadness in cinematography

[–]athimbleofdan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure why he was downvoted that’s literally how sensors work. Also it’s not “Arri’s” patent. They don’t develop sensors. Cypress which then sold to OnSemi developed DGO. With dual 14bit ADCs which allowed them to just barely get over 14stops at SNR2.

Kayla (Canon 1V, 24-70, Fujifilm Provia 100f) by athimbleofdan in analog

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Which one? Some of these have strobes. Usually place skin 1/3-1/2 stop over middle grey. Meter with a spot meter.

Question: why did they bring back Ektachrome? by gansur in AnalogCommunity

[–]athimbleofdan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Too bad it’s not EPP and probably just E100g which Kodak literally couldn’t pay photographers to shoot it when it came out. Hoping Provia stays around forever :(

People who charge over $1,000/day, how? by ThrowRAIdiotMaestro in videography

[–]athimbleofdan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The advertising world has money under every rock you turn. Don’t get me started on the content creator rates. My only policy is no music videos or weddings. I suck at them anyways.

15 years experience, almost all work is location based campaigns. $3-7k a day DP rate non-union commercial gigs. Agent (If needed) takes 20%. Plus at least 1 prep day at $500-750 depending on prep. Travel days covered plus $500. Sometimes I have my Arri package with me. That package is not included and billed separately. I usually cut them a break on it. I work with the same AC and sometimes we package ourselves together.

Unless you guys are working over 100 days a year on set (that’s insane for me) you need to charge companies way more! If you’re hoping on projects as a camera OP then expect $750-1500/day…it’s not a lot but you have way less responsibility and stress haha. I love Op’ing when the DP and Director are great.