Turin Brakes: Ascension Day from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.
Turin Brakes: Ascension day commentary by PhilipBloom
Philip Bloom posted a new [shoplink 16841]AG-AF100[/shoplink] video he has taken with 3 awesome and expensive lenses and the cheap [shoplink 18603]SLR Magic Toy Lens[/shoplink]. But he also added this nice audio track you can listen. I embedded both inside that post but I also suggest you to visit his website to read the full article and see some backstage pictures.
Lens used for that video (Click on name to check price and availability):
– [shoplink 15659]Voigtländer Nokton 25mm f/0.95 (eBay)[/shoplink]
– [shoplink 18603]SLRmagic 26mm f/1.4(eBay)[/shoplink]
– Olympus Zuiko 14-35mm f/2.0 (Amazon)
– Olympus 35-100mm f/2.0 (Amazon)
8 Responses
So which part was taken with the “toy” lens..
All looks the same to me…
Pretty sure Toy Lens is used at 1:11 and at the end with the clips switching back and forth
Philip Bloom, AG-AF101 + DLSRMagic toy lens = you are my hero!
Camajan, perhaps some of the close-ups, but at 4:35 there’s a definite toy lens shot. I would be curious how much it was used, if it was just very short snippets I’d be disappointed. If it were a lot of shots, I’d be impressed. Having taken pics with my toy lens, I really enjoy the retro look, almost tilt-shift effects, and washed out colors it creates. But it’s hard to take a “normal” looking shot.
Some nice Bokeh, but I’m surprised how noisy it looks in low light (of course I can’t tell what the illumination level was). In the scenes when he’s sat in the burgundy-coloured chair, there’s a lot of noise visible, esp. on the chair.
The blacks are also very badly clipped. That might have been an artistic decision, but it’s also a common way of hiding noise (a la Red One).
Listen to the audio clip he explains every shot and every lens
As a note, Philip added grain to the video as well. The toy lens was only used in a couple of shots. Finally, don’t judge video from the internet regarding compression or noise.
@Bob: compression adds characteristic artifacts, but it doesn’t add temporal noise. As a engineer in the image sensor industry, I can tell when I’m seeing noise artifacts arising from the sensor. Unless it’s a deliberately added simulation of that noise, of course.