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A reel of some of my recent works, this version has live action shot entirely with the JVC HD100 & HD200 ProHD cameras with Stock 16x Fujinon lens and a 35 mm and mid format lens adapter.
Lenses for the 35mm include Sigma for nikons 20-40 and 15-30mm zooms, 80-200 nikon.
For mid format I used mamiya 645 lenses, 80mm f1.9, 45mm and 150mm.
Several scenes include 3D Animation and green screen composites.
Video texture maps of some 3D Logo animations were also shot with the JVCs.

Updated: 13 months ago

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Genre: Demo Reel

Duration: 00:02:22

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Ted Ramasola Show Reeal 2

Hi Ted
Very good work. Your picture make me, I want to go there.
good luck andrzej olesiak

thanks andrzej,

do inform me if in case you do!

Ted

Bob Hart

Hello again Ted.

Good looks as always.

I wonder a little about about the magenta toning in the beginning and some of the vision being apparently oversharpened. Is this a local contemporary style running its course at the moment?

The lateral tracking shot sequence in the library and the "chance" encounter I guess is one of your favourites.

The JVCs still hold up well against the higher res UHD cams if you treat them right.

I'm guessing some of the softer footage in your clip is from an older SD camera or was HD assembled and finished for SD and subsequently uprezzed for this clip?

As showreel material to depict your current skillset and facilites, I would be inclined to loose those shots as hard as that may be, especially if they are favourites.

If they are to remain, my personal preference would be to scale them into a smaller frame within a thick black pictureframe so that the pixel count across the entire screen remains closer to the same as the sharper HD footage and the "apparent" resolution is more comparable rather than upres SD material if that is what it is.

I think a smaller pictureframe that pops up in different offcentre positions in the final presentation screen may work better than a static frame which pops up in the center.

This is a personal preference and I am little qualified to critique as I am not an industry professional in audio-visual production, so please ignore anything there that is not helpful.

Offtopic. - With a bit of luck I will be able to borrow Steve Rice's HD100 after the final Sonic Sessions shoot this week and do the 35mm, 40mm and 45mm relay tests with it.

So that there is a more valid comparison with your kit, could you nominate from this lens list, your preferred test lens.

I will be testing on a Letus Extreme initially with the relay cranked out as wide as I can get it to get as close to your medium format view as I can as well as being valid for your Nikons.

Nikon 28mm f1.4
Nikon 35mm f1.4
Nikon 50mm f1.4
Nikon 58mm f1.2
Nikon 85mm f1.4
Nikon 105mm f1.8
Sigmatel for Nikon 135mm f1.8
Nikon 200mm f2

There are also the Nikon 45mm f2.8 and the Voigtlander 40mm f2 which I have bought in for relaying on the SI2K.

With the wider view on the Letus, the 50mm will no longer frame and retain sharp focus on the A4 sized Lemac chart unless I set it forward in the mount which invalidates the test somewhat.

The Lemac chart should show any chromatic abberation. I imagine there will be some. Is there any particular setting or scene file on the JVC you would prefer for the test. It has Paolo Ciccone's Truecolor 3 set at present.

Regards.

Bob,

thanks for the critical comments, I'll be fixing this reel after i'm done with a project I'm currently working on.

On the lens list, please use the 50mm, 35mm, and 85mm. Paolo's TC3 is fine.

I really appreciate your assistance.

Regards,

Ted

Follow-up on JVC 35mm Nikon Lens Testing

Ted.

I have the JVC overnight after the Sonic Sessions No5 shoot wrapped late tonight.

Unfortunately it is the one with the blown firewire port so I won't be able to capture so will mail a tape to you when the tests are done.

Please email me with your postal address.

Out of curiosity I hooked it up to the Letus Extreme with the 35mm Nikon f1.4 as relay to the JVC via a Les Bosher Nikon to JVC adaptor.

With detail set to "off" the apparent resolution is not all that great. With detail at "normal" the "B" block on the Lemac Chart seems to resolve and the "A" block returns a moire pattern.

There is however a slight gradation of brightness from top to bottom, a sort of a vertical brightness falloff. It is only really observable when white balance is off in the red direction. It will probably go the other way with blue.

This will be related to prisms as by the time you factor in the three prisms in the Extreme and the CCD splitter in the camera, theres a lot of light bending going on.

The field-of-view to the groundglass does not seem to pick up any edges however I do not have an underscanning monitor to check it. This Letus Extreme is also modified for a wider groundglass view and accurately centered.

The view is a little wider than the Mini35 direct relay on the JVC but not by much as I thought it would be. It is certainly wider than the original JVC direct relay version of the LETUS35 flip which used a 50mm Minolta lens.

The optical path in this case uses the Letus Extreme EX1 achromat and the rectangular condenser which is about 20mm from the groundglass.

Nice reel, Ted.

I really liked the timing of the edits and the selection of colorful footage integrated with the 3D.

I do agree with Bob that the SD footage is a bit distracting and I like his suggestion about making it smaller framed images.

My first love has always been 3D animation and visual FX. I did an SD piece back in 2000 on a whim that you might get a kick out of as it involves a lot of 3D animation and green screen compositing.

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Marcel

Thanks for the kind words,

I'm actually gonna redo this after taking all the constructive comments. I just whipped it up in one 3 hr sitting for my seminar presentation. Glad to know your also into animation. I'll post my SD reel since theres a lot in there. Its kinda old but it includes motion capture for character animations that I did.

Furthur follow-up on Direct Relay.

Ted.

I have replied directly to here because my email provider has gone down again.

On the Letus Extreme, I have tested a Nikon f1.4 35mm, a Sigma f1.8 28mm and a Sigma f1.8 20mm prime as relays. All work and the 20mm almost does not require the motor to be running to dissolve the groundglass texture.

The 20mm field-of-view of the Letus groundglass begins to pick up an edge of the prism path so that is about as wide as one can go on the JVC with the Letus Extreme. The focus across the entire groundglass area appears to reamin sharp so this may be Quyen's special EX1 achromat at play here.

My next trick will be to substitute the Extreme's EX1 achromatic dioptre for the Century 4+ and see what the field-of-view difference is.

What it is shaking down to is that you may be able to direct relay your adaptor for the JVC with as wide as a 20mm lens.

I think with your non-flip arrangement, you may have to set back the achromat and camera furthur from the groundglass with a weaker achromat than the one you are using to avoid edge softness and possible distortions like the ones you were getting originally.

This longer setback may give away some of the advantage of the shorter path enabled by your more powerful achromat from Wayne on the standard JVC lens.

This is all going contrary to my beliefs of how lenses would work on the JVC for relay. The EX1 achromat and the condenser in the Letus obviously have a lot to do with this.

It is not worth testing with my AGUS35 as the prism path is much smaller and very confined to about a 28mm wide view of the groundglass.

FOOTNOTE:

The Century 4+ dioptre appears to be a slightly less powerful magnification than the LETUS EX1. I would roughly guess the Letus Extreme EX1 achromat as 5+.

DIRECT RELAY TEST

There is a very short clip of mediocre quality at this web address :-

http://exposureroom.com/members/DARANGULAFILM.aspx/assets/567354b362d84f7bba9fa25d62896f0f/

I patched the JVC to a SD DVD recorder and converted the DVD in cineform into a form I could edit in Premiere Pro 2

Nice update, Ted. In my opinion, very much beter than version 1.

Thank Marcel,

I'm updating it again in a while, i notice a slight glitch in one cut.

Bob noticed the SD clips which I upprezed so I decided to remove them as well and add a recent work I did last month which included the 3d animation of the Building "growing up".

Marcel,
I'll share with you and other viewers an old reel of mine which included a lot of character animation and some "guerilla " motion capture work.

Looking forward to it.

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