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Une petite présentation de mon follow focus hf, pas compliqué du tout à réaliser.Author: mountaindirtsurfer Tags: cinema redrock ps technik mini 35 dof adapter diy letus sg pro brevis Chrome35 short film kit mini35 rng35 WDR35 W35-V Mk3 Cinemek G35 Posted: 24 July 2008 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

SEESAND from Maarten Toner on Vimeo. Little video shot after a diner on the beach. All shot with DVX100A, Letus Extreme and Nikon 80-200 ED 2.8 at aperture F5.6. Two slight problems: so much sun in my face it was very hard to see what your doing even in the viewfinder. But not just because of the sun, also because of the 35/40 mph wind that was trying to blow me and my rig off the beach. Because some of the subjects where really far away I zoomed all the way in on the ground glass to get maximum tele. More then doubling the range, with the added bonus: more grain and almost impossible focus! (woohoo) Another problem that became apparent was the crooked rod sytem. Even after the tripod was leveled, pans turned out to have crooked horizons. (replacement risers are on the way) Anyway, just another quick vid. put together after being sandblasted for an hour or so. Cast: Maarten Toner

Premièrement petit gueulante à l'encontre de daily qui me zappe à chaque fois pour l'encodage en HD !Paranthèse fermée, voici un petit clip tourné il y a trois semaines pour un artsite du nom de tema. Ce clip a été tourné en une journée avec une canon hv20 et mon kit mini35. On l’a réalisé avec très peu de moyen (juste 2 mandarines). Plutôt content du résultat vu toutes les merdes que l'on a eu sur cette journée de tournage. Allez dites moi un peu ce que vous en pensez.P.S. : Apparement Romain mon associé monteur ne m'a pas filé la version finale, quelques pb de synchro et un pb sur deux plans...Author: mountaindirtsurfer Tags: clip tema kalif cinema redrock ps technik mini 35 dof adapter diy letus sg pro brevis Chrome35 short film kit mini35 rng35 WDR35 W35-V Mk3 Cinemek G35 Posted: 19 June 2008 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

The Boat Ramp - Letus Extreme Film - HDTV from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo. I had the day off today and it was finally warming up. The temperature was 85 degrees F with high humidity. I thought that the Ashland State Park in Massachusetts would be full of people in boats and I was right. I brought my Sony EX1 with the Letus Extreme 35mm film lens adapter to the lake. I am using the EX1 acromat upgrade kit. This time, I brought my dolly with twenty feet of track, my super-secret EX1/LEX underwater system, my home-made jib, my Vinten Vision 3 tripod and some lenses. I only used the short arm today on my jib. I also have a long arm that lets me extend to almost 20 feet off the ground! I also brought my Glidecam 4000 with body pack, the panning telescope head and my super-secret motor to pull my dolly down the track for motorized time lapses. I did not have time to use any of these contraptions. I will incorporate them all in my next short. I hung out by the busy boat ramp and shot on or near the sloped dirt where people load in their floatables. I moved my jib to about four different places, used only the Sigma 18mm (on the jib) and the Nikon 200mm lens (long shorts) with a gradient filter and a polarizer. The Sigma lens is cheap and I only use it because it is so wide. I will be using my Nikon Nikkor 24mm f2.8 for these jib shots in my next short because it is better glass. The lake people were very pleasant and very interested in my jib. They would come over and check it out and ask a few questions. This entire short was shot in 720p 30p and the camera was overcranked to 60 FPS. This gives you the sliky smooth slow motion. I dialed the EX1 camera picture profile to “Cine2” and set the HiSAT to +99 for a lot of in camera saturation. I messed with the saturation and black levels in Final Cut and used Magic Bullet Looks to color grade and add blue to the sky. Try to find the fish jumping in the video. I will soon reveal my secrets for putting the EX1 with the Letus underwater and I will also post pictures of my jib to my blog on my website, http://www.tomguilmette.com Music: James Newton Howard - OST Water Horse TRT: 3 minutes Cast: Tom Guilmette

Food HVX Demo from Lorand Toth on Vimeo. HVX200, letus Extreme, Nikon lens Cast: Lorand Toth

What are YOUR life questions? DOWNLOAD HD VERSION - www.sendspace.com/file/qje5oh Produced by JDM525 and Daveyboyz. http://uk.youtube.com/jdm525 http://JDM525.net Filmed with Sony FX1 - Letus extreme 35mm depth of field lens adaptor. Author: daveyboyz Keywords: daveyboyz life questions JDM525 is the best sony fx1 letus extreme lens short film depth of field Added: May 13, 2008

What are YOUR life questions? DOWNLOAD HD VERSION - www.sendspace.com/file/qje5oh Produced by JDM525 and Daveyboyz. http://uk.youtube.com/jdm525 http://JDM525.net Filmed with Sony FX1 - Letus extreme 35mm depth of field lens adaptor.

Graduation from jmharper on Vimeo. Cast: jmharper

Want to challenge the filmmakers who spend millions of dollars on their films, yet, still have the nerve to call themselves indie? Pick up a 35mm adapter or build one yourself and you can give your movies that "film look" and start being taken more seriously!

Want to challenge the filmmakers who spend millions of dollars on their films, yet, still have the nerve to call themselves indie? Pick up a 35mm adapter or build one yourself and you can give your movies that film look and start being taken more seriously!Author: indymogul Tags: indy mogul four minute film school 35mm adapter depth field look lighting gels internet video cheap filmmaking vimeo hvx200 redrock micro m2 letus Posted: 09 May 2008 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

Heinz Commercial: First Cut from RNG35 on Vimeo. This is the first and rough cut of another Heinz contest commercial. We used the RNG35 35mm adapter Cast: RNG35

Day Game - Letus EX1 Panning Time Lapse - Fenway Park from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo. I decided that I would do another time lapse at Fenway Park from the same spot I did my first panning time lapse. This time, I had fixed my back focus on the Letus Extreme and it was a day game. The first thing I did was to secure the tripod to the railing in the camera platform. It was very windy. The highest gusts I had ever experienced while shooting in the new section occurred on this day. The camera took a few hits from wind blasts. The second thing I had learned from past experience was that auto white trace was not good for six hour time lapses, especially at night. The color temperature changed a few times during the day and into the night. I now set the preset white balance on the camera to a happy medium. In this case, I was shooting during the daytime hours, so I set the white balance to 5200 K. I used my Celestron Nexstar 114GT telescope motorized pan head for the very slow pans. This system worked really well and I had modified it so that I could mount my Sony PMW-EX1 XDCAM to it with the Letus rail system. I really, really, really wanted a day with puffy white clouds. I hoped for it and framed the time lapse accordingly. As you will see, I only had a few clouds in the sky during the first hour of the time lapse. The rest of the day was under completely blue skies. I had hoped to capture dramatic cloud movement during the elapsed time. Like I said before, I will try again later... One other obstacle I ran into was a problem with my Letus Extreme. I had replaced the battery for the spinning motor that vibrated the ground glass inside the contraption. The problem was, the motor would not start. I had to fix this by opening up the Letus and manually starting the motor with my finger. I guess it had gotten slightly “gummed up” and need some help to get moving. I hope this does not become problematic in the future. This time lapse was set from 10:30am to 4:30pm eastern time. The total elapsed time was about six hours. Take a look at my blog for more information on how I set this system up and fixed the motor on the Letus. TRT: 1:17 seconds I have a detailed explanation with pictures of this setup on my blog. Check it out now... Website: http://www.tomguilmette.com Cast: Tom Guilmette

Kawada - Creating a Bigger Boat from senne on Vimeo. - HVX, Letus, canon fd 28mm, crappy homemade dolly - my first video ever - one man crew - 2.5 hour shoot, no script or ideas - letus ran out of batteries The edit is not good because i was more concerned about filling up every gap on the time line then being creative. ( due to the lack of footage ) Anyway, next time i 'll do better. Cast: senne

Lake People - Letus Extreme EX1 Film - HDTV from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo. This video was shot in a few hours at Ashland State Park in Massachusetts. The weather was finally beginning to warm up and people were out enjoying the outdoors. I brought my PMW-EX1 camcorder with the Letus Extreme, a Vinten Vision 3 tripod, my homemade dolly system, three lenses and two filters. I used PVC pipe and my dolly for the slow slides and trucks. I do have to be careful because even a speck of dirt makes the camera vibrate in the dolly system. The three lenses I used was a Sigma 18mm f3.5, a Nikon 24mm f2.8 and a Nikon 300mm f4 telephoto. I used the telephoto lens to get tight shots of people fishing from across the lake. I also used it to get shots of the turtles basking in the sun. I recycled a few shots from previous trips to the lake. The macro shots of the Garder snakes was from a video I shot a month ago called “Snake Eye View”. I used a Nikon 55mm f2.8 macro lens for these intimate snake shots. I used a Tiffen 52mm circular polarizing filter to help with the sky and water reflections. This made the water a deep dark hue and created a very blue sky. I also used a four point start filter for the sun smear you see at the end of the video. I edited this in Final Cut Pro and color graded with Magic Bullet Looks. I over-saturated the colors in the video. TRT: 4 minutes Music by: James Newton Howard For more info go to: http://www.tomguilmette.com Cast: Tom Guilmette

Powerline Sunset - Letus Extreme Film - Time Lapse HDTV from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo. I grabbed my PMW-EX1 and drive to the powerlines about three miles from my house. I knew the sunset was gonna be sweet. But, I was about ten minutes to late. I saw the soft ball of fire just drop out of site as I parked the car. I managed to get a few shots as it became darker by the minute and the sound of thunder rumbled in the distance. I used interval recording and shot 720 30p at 1 frame per 1 second of time elapsed. I used my 35mm f2.8 and my 200mm f3.5 lenses to shoot this footage. As always, I had the Letus Extreme attached to the front of my camera. I did not have time to set up my motorized pan head for a panning time lapse. Next time... I edited this in Final Cut Pro and color graded with Magic Bullet Looks. I over-saturated the colors in the video. TRT: 44 seconds Go to http://www.tomguilmette.com for more. Cast: Tom Guilmette

The Letus Experience from Maarten Toner on Vimeo. A bunch of shots at the beach, abstract and absurd images from a 20 minute experiment. Trying out tele-shots and running with a 17mm wide-angle on my LEX rig. Stuff used: Nikkor glas: 180mm 2.8D and the cool 17-35mm 2.8 ED zoom. Letus Rod support system RedRock micro Follow Focus Vinten Vision6 tripod DVX100 MiniDV Letus Extreme Not graded in a quick and dirty edit with FCPS2. Cast: Maarten Toner

Hockey East Championship Game Flavor - Letus Extreme from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo. I was asked by a production company to shoot behind the scenes footage of the Hockey East Finals at the TD Bank North Garden in Boston, MA. Boston College was taking on the University of Vermont. This footage would be used in a “flavor” segment of a DVD documentary about the hockey league. It would be intercut with network television coverage. All sound was recorded with the on board shotgun microphone. The idea was to get what the network television cameras could not. I decided to try to shoot this footage with my Letus. This would give the shots a film appearance with a shallow depth of field. The footage would look much different from what the network could provide. This video is a sample of what I shot before, during and after the hockey game. I used one lens the entire time. My fastest prime, the Nikon 50mm f1.4. This is a fat piece of glass and it let a lot of light into the Letus adapter. Most of the shots were from inside dark florescent lit locker rooms and back hallways. I need all the help I could get to make usable pictures. Some of the shots were bumped up with 9dB gain. The client asked for standard definition 4:3. My Sony HVR-Z1U can shoot HDV 1080i, DVCAM SD, and MiniDV SD footage. This is a real plus because every once in a while, a client needs SD. It is so hard for me to look at the tiny SD 4:3 window and compose shots. I have lived in the widescreen world for so long now. It is great to own a camera that can work almost any job. The video was edited with Final Cut Pro and I used Magic Bullet Looks for the film look and color grading. I really funkified this video. It looks much different from the original tapes. I also used a filter effect to add more color saturation. Check out my website for more info: http://www.tomguilmette.com Cast: Tom Guilmette

"bees" - a miniature mini - HD from Charles Lowthian on Vimeo. I'm not really sure lol :) A combination of boredom and a craving for some macro shooting at the wee hours of this morning - 2am. Soundtrack is the majority of the unsureness of this video - 'attempting' to compose. Still had a teeny bit of upload space in my first week here so why not =) Cast: Charles Lowthian

Franklin Time Short Film - HDTV from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo. I went out and shot some time lapse this afternoon in my town. This is the result of one hour of tape. I used a telescope computerized pan head for the slow pans. Please excuse the crudity of the edits, I exported this project before I rendered it. I never actually watched it until the final export. I will do many more of these. This was just a test. I know what looks good and bad now by watching this video. The model of the telescope is the Celestron Nexstar 114GT. I used eight AA batteries to produce 12 volts of power and the system comes with a remote control to enter star data. I simply set the rate to 1-9 (1 slowest) and hold down the left or right buttons. I then yank the data line and the head keeps on panning until I pull the power source. Another option would be using a spring clamp on the remote to hold down the left or right arrow. The system does tilt, but there is a built in clutch that disables the gear system so that the cogs don’t strip when force is applied. The camera and Letus contraption is just to heavy to do more than a 5 degree tilt up or down. I shot this in Franklin and surprisingly, nobody bothered me. A few cop cars moved slowly past me, but none stopped. In this day and age, seeing a guy with a camera mounted on a contraption with wires and battery packs hanging off it could raise terror suspicion. The video was edited with Final Cut Pro and I used a filter effect to add more color saturation. I did not vignette this project. Music Selection: Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts II - Track 18 Special thanks to: TJ Powers for helping me get this idea off the ground. Cast: Tom Guilmette

Belmontas from tomas riuka on Vimeo. First evening out with the new Letus Extreme 35mm lens adapter on my Canon XH A1 camera. Cast: tomas riuka

Three Hour Lunch from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo. I bought six new lenses and put two of them to the test in this short film. I shot this during my extended lunch break after I was finished setting up network TV for the Bruins game at the TD Bank North Garden in Boston. I then took my Sony Z1U with the Letus35 Extreme adapter outside and shot in and around Quincy Market. This film was what I saw, where I went and the people I bumped into. I used a Sigma 17mm f4.5 super wide angle prime and a sweet Nikon 85mm f2 prime. These manual lenses were beat up and used, but they still have a lot of life left in them. It was difficult shooting indoors with the 17mm because of light loss. Most of the wide indoor shots had 9dB gain added while recording. The video was edited with Final Cut Pro and I used Magic Bullet Looks for vignette and color grading. I also used a filter effect to add more color saturation. Music selection: Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I - Track 1 Cast: Tom Guilmette

Cold day in Union Square from Derek Scott on Vimeo. Cast: Derek Scott

Just my dog...DVX, Letus Economy, uprezzed with photozoom.

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"I Ain't Said Sheeeeet" the Clay Davis Story from Chris Garcia on Vimeo. Cast: Chris Garcia

Dead Hooker Removal Service from bittner on Vimeo. Commercial for a dead hooker removal service. Cast: bittner

Saturday Morning from wreckandsalvage on Vimeo. Pour yourself a bowl of Fruitee Poopies and gather around the tv, it's Saturday mornin' cartoon time! Step one, walk over to Wendel. Step two, IRON FIST! Cast: wreckandsalvage, Aaron Valdez

noi taki nummok from Sebastian Loewe on Vimeo. This is the mov-version of an interactive work for keyboard and screen. For every alphabetical key you press a gesture is shown. Realized with After Effects and Pure Data (PD). Cast: Sebastian Loewe

Senor Dinosaur. from Jennifer Kinsman on Vimeo. I was eating breakfast before work and my brother's dinosaur was on the table in front of me and the controller had a demo button,... so I did. And I didn't know it had sensors. Ha. Cast: Jennifer Kinsman

Not About Love from Moj on Vimeo. Short film shot on my hv20. Enjoy Cast: Moj