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Hi All,

I hope all is well. I have recently released a short with a lot of macro shots, reversing the Zeiss Otus lens (5x crop). This seems to work perfectly.

If I do the same trick with an Alexa XT (preparing for a feature) there seems to be some banding on both sides of the image:



https://vimeo.com/701603837

password: wasp



Most likely this is due to internal reflections in the lens. However, since the sensor of the 5D is larger than the S35 sensor of the Alexa XT, I would expect this not to happen. Or am I missing how the 5x crop works. Is it not using the whole area of the sensor?

Here is the short using the 5D, without any banding: https://vimeo.com/647712972

Thanks for your help.

All the best,

Martijn

Hi,

I hope all is well. After a succesful film festival phase, my short film just went live. Thanks a lot Magic Lantern, for making it happen Please enjoy!

Mostly done with Zeiss Otus lenses (also reversed and extended) and all with 4k crop mode.

Production: Zero Landscape
Directed and Written: Martijn Rijnberg
Music: Vincent Fournier-Boisvert

"As an assignment for the parents, our daycare asked us to collect all objects that were important for our 3-year old son during the summer holiday and put them in a shoebox. These so-called summer boxes were used as an aid for the children to help them to vividly relate in the group about their experiences during the summer. I was thinking about a way to bring this box of objects alive in a film and to find a way to have the audience feel the emotions my son had during his holiday. As this idea grew, I contacted musician Vincent Fournier-Boisvert and asked if I could use his beautiful song 'Un Mois de Bois Mort' of the album 'Mon Coeur est une Arme' for this purpose. Being a side project, I have filmed this in a year or so, picking it up once in a while. It took patience creating the macro shots and seeing how the footage could be best combined with Vincents song. I loved to do the project, as I could do some of the stuff with my son, and it was always nice to see how the film slowly grew."


- Finalist Canadian Screen Award Qualifying 51st Annual USA Film Festival 2021 -
- Nominee BAFTA Qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2020 -
- Nominee Miami Short Film Festival 2020 -
- Official Selection Academy Awards® Qualifying Leuven International Short Film Festival 2020 -
- Official Selection 2020 BAFTA-Cymru Qualifying Carmarthen Bay Film Festival (CBFF) -
- Finalist Lonely Wolf: London International Film Festival 2021 -
- Official Selection 2020 The Valley Film Festival -
- Official Selection Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival Online 2020 -
- Finalist 2020 Around International Film Festival Amsterdam -
- Semi-Finalist 2020 Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival -
- Honorable Mention 2020 Film Los Angeles Film Awards -
- Semi-Finalist 2021 Dumbo Film Festival -

Hi Magic Lantern!

I have made a short book promotion film using a 5D MarkIII and Magic Lantern, with the crop function. Please enjoy:

To promote the novel 'Richard' (written by M.M. Visser and R. Hulshof), director Martijn Rijnberg, musician Roly Porter, and actor Leon Herbert (Alien 3) joined forces to create a teaser that shows what the mind is capable of and how you can be caught up in your story. Roly Porter created a unique (custom-made) musical composition that together with Leon Herberts voice guides the viewer through a short existential journey. The novel tells the autobiographical story of the co-author M.M. Visser, in which her past experiences keep her from having a life of love. A bit like taking the red pill in The Matrix, she discovers that everything she believes in and stands for, is nothing more than a story to keep her going.

- Winner Los Angeles Film Awards 2018 -
- Official Selection BAFTA Qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2018 -
- Honorable Mention Winner Los Angeles Movie Awards 2018 -
- Official Selection Glendale International Film Festival 2018 -
- Official Selection Nevada City Film Festival 2018 -
- Semi Finalist Miami Short Film Festival 2018 -

Production: Zero Landscape
Directed and Written: Martijn Rijnberg
Music and Sound Design: Roly Porter
Cast: Leon Herbert
Sound Recording: Leon Jean-Marie
Script Editor: Marieke Visser
Special Thanks: Gary Nurse, Acclivity, Dobroide, Ondrosik, Steven Lucke, Magic Lantern, FilmConvert
zerolandscape.com

Hi there,

I have made an animation film with quite some Magic Lantern shots in it (first part is primarily animation). The drone shots were stock, but the rest of the real footage is shot with my 5D Mark III.

A motorised Kessler slider was used (also for the 360 shots), and Zeiss lenses, 55mm Otus, 85mm Milvus, and some others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ4daMkH6DA

Enjoy!

Martijn

Hi there,

Please take a look at a music video I created for the musician Carla Bozulich. I used a 5D Mark III with the following lenses: Zeiss 35/1.4, Zeiss 50/2 and Zeiss 100/2.

Enjoy!

Hi,

I will soon start shooting a music video, and have a technical question. Some help is much appreciated.

- When shooting RAW on my Mark III, I get a lot of noise when my ISO is above 1250 in a dimly lit room. Is this normal? Sometimes I see videos with very high ISOs without any noise. The music video will take place in a dimly lit room. Is there a setting to decrease this noise?

Thanks!

Martijn

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www.zerolandscape.com   

Hopefully you will enjoy this (rather dark) video, shot with 5D Mark III using ML.

There were some flickering problems (I guess wrong shutterspeed) colour problems but I am quite happy.

All the best,

Martijn

Dear Magic Lantern,

I have created a trailer for a film festival competition (horror, sci-fi, etc) with my Mark III and am pleased with the raw footage, but have a question.

- When shooting the footage, all scenes with artificial lighting, were way of the actual colours. Considering that I am slightly colour blind, is there a way to get an auto balance in the raw shooting? After entering it in ACR, it was impossible for me to get the right tint and temperature (most dark outside lit shots looked yellowish). Especially after adding a LUT, all colours were even more unrealistic.
After a lot of testing, I got them somewhat right, but still feel that (also after getting rid of a lot of saturation) I lost a lot of image quality.
It would be great to get footage that is nearly perfectly natural regarding colours...

Thanks a lot,

Martijn