They shot it in 6k, but uploaded it as 1080p. Because we were doing every focal length, which to me is really important. We shot RED and we shot Dragon Color 2 and Red Gamma 4. But there's a lot of bad information and a lot of people not really being objective, giving opinions. But Mark knew someone that owned Leicas, and I found a set of Kowas on ShareGrid and asked the owner if he’d be down for the cause, he said, "I would love to come by and hang out and help out with the test," and he just let us use his lenses for free. I think that was a nice little surprise as I was going through the edit process. I think that speaks to the community that we have. We BUY-SELL-CONSIGN used Vintage Cinema Lenes like Lomo, Canon K35, Cooke Speed Panchro, Super Baltar, Canon GL Optics, Ultranon, Schneider, Zeiss Super Speeds, Kowa, Cinevision, Todd AO, Hawk and Canon FD Lenses. No color correction has been done, no sharpening's has been done. I didn't think it would be that dramatic right off the bat.". We made the adjustment to change the shutter and modify our exposure a little bit more than we typically would just so you get a clearer representation of what the lenses are. Big time DPs shooting blockbuster movies, they're not able to get Panavision anamorphic, so they go and they shoot Hawk. You can just go there and see, "Oh, okay. Back in the time before the use of computers, lenses were made by hand and had character to them. Read professional cinematographers, filmmakers and lens technicians' thoughts from their first-hand experience with each of these lenses. They’re kind of built to draw you, the viewer, into the center of the images, the way that people used to frame things. You have to decide if you're making a project, where do you want to save your money? I was like, "Okay, either we can move forward and keep the settings actually the same, or we can try and adjust the shutter and camera to try and keep the key light exposure so it's right as far as the waveform and IREs go. If you want to learn more about creating a cine-lens out of vintage glass check out our previous post on the subject. Like the lens was made for the format, where it's just kind of pulling you into the image. We modify the legendary vintage lenses for videographers to create a true movie. We wanted to use those presets because if somebody takes an .R3D and they plug it into REDCINE, not only are they going to see full resolution, but they're also going to see exactly what the standards are that RED has created. NFS: Was there a common theme era to era? We have an Excel spreadsheet with all of our findings. Sometimes your brain adjusts quickly so that you don't notice it as much. Thanks to our friend, Matt Workman, of Cinematography Database, we were able to recreate our lighting setup digitally. What's the Best Cinema Camera for Under 10K? Modifying and Rehousing lenses is a time consuming task, so it may take some … 8. Character (Vintage). Even if video is originally 1080p it's better to upload it as 4k as then youtube will give much higher bitrate and less compression. Seen below is an example of a previs of our setup, created with Matt Workman's Cine-Designer. We're trying to educate our filmmakers and our community. We actually ran a number of tests in 4K on YouTube and the banding and compression was marginally better. December 17, 2016 at 12:40PM, Edited December 17, 12:47PM. I think people are starting to realize that, "Oh my God! By teaming up with the ShareGrid community (where Barbano is a co-founder), Duclos Lenses, and Old Fast Glass, they created Vintage Cinema Lens Library.