Jordan we want to hook this up to your car

Anyone running a canon APS-C? Got a 7D and am trying to decide between 11-16 tokina or a 17-40L.. Leaning heavily towards the L, but I could really use the width of the tokina.

Way to go Bill, your post that you stole from Richard, totally killed my 2nd page! GAH

Fuhrer: All my vids are shot on a 7D, works great! If you're sticking with the APS-C then get the Tokina, the 17-40L will hurt you big time at night with f/4. The Tokina is DAMN sharp too. Not to mention it can fit on a FF at 16mm which is pretty cool still.

Yea I stole that shit!

Stupid Bill.
Bump! :fullofwin:

Dope, I just didn't know about the sharpness of the tokina, since I'm comparing it to a L lens. One more quick question for ya, at what point are you getting barrel distortion with the tokina? I know at 11m it's almost fish eye like, and at 16 on the crop sensor it isn't noticeable, but what about in between?

In no way is 11mm close to a fisheye. Its distortion is typical of an UWA. My friend has the 8-16mm and thats almost fisheye but still very manageable.

Examples of my Tokina:

11mm:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4131/...5631eb08_z.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5088/...ba50e58a_z.jpg

12mm:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5249/...1ab1a509_z.jpg

However, my friends 8-16mm Sigma:

8mm:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5091/...6e3c63dc_z.jpg

^ Tokina will be my next purchase, thank you good sir!

i swear i've seen that Type R by my house D: on holmes/Lee street, just as i got out of my car ;p sweet car and sexy teaser!

Oh, are you around that black Prelude with the "You Like This" sticker? Yeah I live around that area and go that way to get to Richmond all the time. I saw you with Jivan the other night coming out of DTP. I was taking video for this clip haha.

haha yee that's my prelude and i live right there :P but i do not know of a Jivan D: and i didnt go to DTP ;p but nice nice! next time i see you or you see me stop by and say hello haha

You still think it's worth getting?

I checked today and the price has dropped.

ya totally worth it. Better than the $175 lightshop one. Wtf they dropped price, i paid $40 =( but still worth it


btw anyone knw wordpress coding? My blog got hacked and it keeps getting injected with pill links. I thought I got rid of it but I guess not..

So I finally got my 5D MarkII and just installed Magic Lantern AJ 5.8, does anyone know how to set up the automated focus racking feature? I dont even have the Blue R icon on the top of my settings.

On a side note, this camera handles low light like a champ... miles ahead of my 7D.

Anyone with a fluid head I can borrow for Saturday? :)

hey Jordan,

was wondering which of the gini did you order? like what is the actual name of it.
also can you do a small review of it? i know you mentioned the build quality is superb.

you mentioned that it has rods long enough for 70-200, can you show a pic with that setup?

thanks for answering :D

I ordered the Magic 17 Plus or something with the counter weight. I'm actually thinking about selling it though so if anyones interested let me know. I think I've settled more into using a Glidecam and slider for the shoots I tend to do. I'll try and get some more pics with different lenses on it so everyone can see.

group buy steadicam now

Damn, saw this a day too late. I had a spare you could have used. :( lol

I think we need to go out and do a video shoot one of these days!

i havent filmed a single video yet. i wanna try especially this slow motion stuff. is the slow motion just editing or is there a lot of equipment involved? what programs do you guys recommend me starting off with for editing?

There's actually cameras that are used specifically for slow motion.

You can always edit the slow motion but it will never look as clean as opposed to an actual shot with a slow motion camera.

There are cameras that do like 1000fps or something crazy like that.

As for programs:
Adobe Premiere Pro
Sony Vegas
Final Cut (OSX)

and Adobe After Effects for SFX

^ Don't need a Slow motion camera. Just overcrank/shoot your DSLR in 60FPS then conform it to 30fps. You can use cineform to do the conforming. it's quite easy.

For that footage, a high FPS camera must have been used. Slowing 60fps to 24 or 30 wont look that good.

^ Like the vimeo discription states, it's using a Phantom Flex camera.

twixtor?