Roger
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These are pretty bizarre.
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Well, I could see how money problems might be an issue. Lifestyle inflation would be a serious problem for someone with his kind of income. I expect even those closest to him don't really know for sure why he did it.
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For those that haven't seen this all over the news in the last 2 days, Robin Williams committed suicide and was found dead in his home.
I never met the man but enjoyed his work, it's a shame that someone with so much talent was not able to find any joy in his life. I know that he had past problems with substance abuse, apparently it was something he was still struggling with and contributed to his latest bout with depression.
So, if there is any sort of afterlife, hopefully he's working the lounge with Jonathan Winters.
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While I'm not doing this now, I have done it in the past and I would suggest you be very careful with "suggestion creep" by clients. Meaning, you quote say $1000 for a job and know it can be completed in 20 hours, giving you a profit of $500 (assuming half for overhead/taxes). They start asking you to change a something here, something there and before you know it you're working for minimum wage. I would suggest if you're going to bill in the low end range, make it very clear that since it is such a deal, they get what they signed off on with no changes or they can request changes but it will cost them. For your part, make sure you underpromise and over-deliver. If you think something will take a month, tell them 2 or 3 so that way when you deliver in 6 weeks you look like a hero. You don't want it to be the other way around, that's bad for your personal and business reputation. I call this my "Scotty" theory of deliverables (as in Scotty from Star Trek...he'd always pad his estimates of how long it would take to fix the warp core...the downside of this is if they figure out that's what you're doing).
Be wary about working for very little pay or no pay on the promise of future work later. They will expect to pay you less later, too.
Get a portion (1/3 to 1/2) up front and the rest on completion. If they aren't willing to agree to that, they're not serious.
I would suggest billing such that you're making at least $20-$25 an hour after all your costs. Otherwise, why bother?
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Simon,
You may very well be right, I can't remember where I heard it was shot on a Canon XL-1 (DV cam). I hit up Wikipedia and they noted that a portion of it was shot with an XL-1, but who knows exactly what they shot. So they probably did use a DSLR for the rest of the movie.
Robcat that is a crazy wide aperture. I'm not sure I want to know what it costs to rent that. I'm sure buying it is out of reach for us normal folk.
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That's kind of my thinking, they must be getting ready to annouce a 2500x1600 pocket cinema camera. Which makes me wonder what's going to happen to the current model that has that resolution, they may get rid of that model and have just the 4k and 2.5k cameras.
But still, $500 for a super 16mm camera isn't bad at all. I think they shot 28 Days Later on DV which has about half the resolution of HD or less, so not that I'm planning on it but if I wanted to I could shoot a feature film with it.
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Yeah I haven't really looked beyond them. I just started looking at getting more into photography/digital filmmaking and have had my eye on the BMPCC for some time, been saving my $ with this recent price promo it is sort of a hard thing to resist.
There are probably better deals out there, but I don't know a ton about the technical end coming from "point-and-shoot" world, and my photography and film tech I & II classes were about 20 years ago at this point.
Ideally what I would like is to have the equivalent of a digital bolex for under $1500 all-in (memory cards, camera body, lenses & etc) and ideally under $1000. The BMPCC fits that bill, especially with the sale. I would also like a good, all-around lens that can handle most stuff (including night shots/street shots) and also allow me to tuck the camera in a jacket or coat pocket if need be (i.e. no 6" protruding lens, unless the situation calls for it).
You're probably right about cheaper sources of lenses but I don't really know where to look, am leery of buying on Ebay due to everything "vintage" getting a huge markup, and so on.
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The first lens looks like a good all-around lens, the lomography lens kit looks like it might be fun to fool around with. The last lens is the lowest aperture lens I could find and is in the upper end of my price range. I knew lenses weren't cheap, but I was expecting $1000 or $2000 to be the worst. They seem to range from $100 to OMGWTF$$$. I found a Zeiss lens for $40k? That's several times what my current car is worth. I realize that kind of lens is only for someone making a living as a photographer that is also able to charge fees that would put him in the top 1 or 5 percent of his field, but holy cow that is a lot of money. The very last one looks like something I'd need to save my pennies for for a year, but the reviews sound really good.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/918898-REG/sigma_19mm_f_2_8_dn_for.html
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1036901-REG/lomography_z760_experimental_lens_kit_for.html
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1024121-REG/samyang_sy85m_mft_85mm_f_1_4_lens_for.html
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/855215-REG/Voigtlander_BA175M_Nokton_17_5mm_f_0_95_Lens.html
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It's the digital equivalent of super 16mm. It shoots 1920x1080 in RAW mode. There are more expensive versions, one that shoots 2500x1600 and another that will do 4k video. I think they're $1995 and $2995 respectively, but that's a bit rich for my blood.
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What about one of these?
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/818962-REG/Panasonic_H_PS14042S_Lumix_G_X_Vario.html
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I don't think so, but I'm going to do a secure wipe on it just to be safe, in a non-windows OS, on system I don't particularly care about. And yes, I did order it. I would be a bit suspcious if it just came out of nowhere unbidden.
Just seems odd that it wouldn't have any packaging, ususally they come on a blister pack, not loose.
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Nancy,
Even though there are 39 bidders, this could easily be a case of 1 goofball getting all his friends over at weareallmiserablebastards.com to pile on and bid the item up as a goof. It doesn't mean anything. I suppose it is possible that there is one genuine bidder in there that thought it would be neat to have a rubber-band dress.
If someone really does purchase this for that price, then good for the seller. But this doesn't pass my skepticism/cynicism filter.
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So after seeing the Blackmagic Design sale, if I were going to get one of their cameras I would need a minimum of one lens. I know next to nothing about buying camera lenses. If I can only afford 1 lens with a maximum budget of say $200-$350, what do I get? The camera would be used for video/film as well as still photography.
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Black Magic Design is running a sale on their Pocket Cinema camera for half off.
So if you've been looking to get one of these, I think you have until around end of August or until they all fly off the shelves. I've been thinking about getting one and may very well jump on this, but something makes me think they must have an updated model just around the corner if they are selling the camera for half off.
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Not sure, I'd have to look. I can return it, but then I have to wait another 2-3 days for a card to arrive or just go to Best Buy or Radio Shack and pay double for a packaged card that I know is safe. I think I paid mayb $12 for a 32gb card.
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So I bought an SD card off Amazon the other day since I needed one and it was a good deal.
It wasn't a major store or other Amazon fulfilling the order, it was some little place or an individual.
So it arrives the other day and is just naked in an envelope, no sealed package or anything.I'm concerned about malware/spyware/trojans and I am wondering if it is safe to use. I can do a wipe on a PC I don't care about after doing a secure wipe/format on the card. Does anyone see any obvious flaws/holes in my approach? I don't think anything can survive a secure erase, as far as I know there is no hidden storage on an SD card, am I'm probably just being paranoid.
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Not sure, I think that's how it is supposed to work. Although with the number of ridiculous auctions I see, that don't ever seem to sell, that may not be the case. I think you used to have to pay, maybe they changed it.
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This sale will never complete. Whoever bid this thing up this much is doing it as a goof.
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This is some weapons-grade BS, that's for sure. I wasn't surprised when I found out Jobs was up to these kind of shenanigans, but consider my monocle popped at this revelation.
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I have to say, it would eliminate a lot of the bother with product activation, or using AM on multiple systems, since you could only use it on one machine at a time, but have it available on several systems. Tablet/laptop and desktop, for instance.
But I imagine Martin would have to give a pretty decent size cut to Valve, so I don't see that happening if only for that reason.
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I'm glad he's recognizable, at least. I let myself get to caught up with it being "perfect", between that and waiting too long to pick it back up, that was what did me in as far as making the deadline.
I think if I can knock out the details tonight, add a "skirt" or bumper to the base, he should start looking pretty close.
I'd like to redo the head, and if I wanted a photoreal version then I'd probably have to spend maybe another week getting the textures and lighting right.
But even with a half-finished model, if you knew what it was right away then that's a success in my book. Just need to finish now.
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Well here is what I was trying to bang out last night. I think you might be able to guess what it is. I didn't feel comfortable sending it in, though. I'm going to finish it today and post in the WIP thread.
Even if I missed the deadline, I think it's worth doing still.
I wish I had started over from scratch a few weeks ago, I might have gotten him done in time. I was really wedded to doing a strict recreation but then decided "screw it, I'll just do an interpretation of the character" but by the time I'd settled on that I had let too much time go by.
I think it would have been tough to finish the eyes, ears, tail, gun/snout and properly texture him with only an hour to go.
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I thought I was going to be able to knock something out at the last minute.
As usual, what I think and what is the reality of things are completely different.
Rather than turn something half-ass in, I think I will keep working on this and just post it later, and wait for the next contest.
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Is there any way to bevel after the fact?
I'm racing to finish my contest entry, and one of the parts is looking really awful with knife-like edges, but I'm not sure how best exactly to bevel it.
I could try adding more CPs and then smoothing the points, and seeing if that helps. It looks really rough right now, though.
Autodesk CAD and A:M
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Just looking through here and noticed the gibberish in the middle of the posts. Something up with the forum? URLs that didn't transfer, maybe?