Leica X2 Mockup

Things i would like in the upcoming Leica X2

features i want

W E A T H E R S E A L E D ! ! ! ! !

direct drive manual focus, fixed prime lens equiv. 50mm

internal focus no moving lensparts

a clickstop on infinity to turn on autofocus

dedicated lockable buttons for : ISO/AF/exposure compensation/aperture/shutterspeed

four assignable user buttons/one clickwheel for menu etc

no back LCD but high resolution top LCD

factory installed soft release, i dont know why this isnt standard even with the 6k M9

all connections under a single sealed door at the bottom

focus indicator under hotshoe like in pro nikons for manual focusing

it would be cool to have a small prisma that you can attach via the hotshoe, thats like an angled viewfinder and looks at the top LCD, like on leicas with dedicated rangefidners and viewfinders. could show a magnified view of the AF point for example

and i would like to have a software that allows the user to define RGB and luminance curves and put them on the camera for jpeg processing

AKAI MPC FLY

We still dont know how the mpc fly will look like, nor do we know what the akai mpc exactly is. All we know is its an ipad controller …

so i made a mockup

 

blender 3d // no postproduction

A M I E R I N K Z

this time its not about me, but about a very good fellow artist and friend called amierinkz

click on the picture for more information:

C O M P O S I T I N G test // night / rain

i started testing for the night scenes, the raindrops are overlayed, the rest is render output.

the colored lightning is made mostly by reading out the z-depth and converting it to a color map, where the nearest objects are colored slightly yellow, the mid objects are colored in blue, and the objects near the horizon are colored darkblue to black.

by this i try to make the viewer believe, that the yellow light next to the camera is made by the streetlights, without actually having real light sources as streetlights

there are 80 cars with raymirror material and semitransparent raymirror windshields, and 8 houseblocks with around 1200 raymirrored windows in it and rendertime is 2:20min for fullHD on one dualcore machine

iam rendering it on around 40 quadcore i7 imacs, so iam looking forward to render in near realtime ^^

L O G O // concepts

I thought i should make myself a logo

and did it

B I G B R O T H E R awards 2011

on-stage visuals for the vienna based band “collapsing new people”

song copyright by collapsing new people 2011 http://www.collapsingnewpeople.eu

made in blender 3d, compositing in finalcut

all lights are baked to the songs waveform, using bake sound to ipo curve

this post will be updated during their live performance today the 25/10/11

17:00 soundcheck

RICOH GXR / Super 16mm // c o n c e p t

As RICOH can make virtually any sensor/mount combination, i made a concept for a super16mm mount.

Of course it should have:

• a sensor that has exactly fullHD resolution
• record in cinemaDNG
• 1-24 fps in 8/12 bit
• 1-60 fps in 8 bit
• minimum one extra sd card slot
• two HDMI live outputs
• some kind of battery(pack) option
• super 16 PL-mount, at least with an adapter
• i wouldnt mind about a super35 version too, but i think for now we`re fine with 16mm

PS: I know thats basically the Ikonoskop A-cam dII, but i could never afford a 7k – super16 cam, so i thought .. because i kinda gave you the idea … so if you got one ready for me, just leave a post

seven minutes

Join Markus Carr on a weekend trip to Kassel Germany for the Red Bull “King Of The Rock 2011″ German Finals.

Very special thanks to Red Bull and the KOTR team.

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Filmed with a Fujifilm X100, which was nice because no one guessed i was shooting video, but very limited because of absolutely no control in video.

Fuji please, there is still time for an update, just let us lock the exposure, we are not asking for fancy stuff like manual focus in movie mode hehe

car // c r a s h

there will be no carcrash in the story, but i wanted the path test to be as spectacular as possible

smoke sim broke down, and further testing is not needed, very work in progress hehe

blender // a t h m o s p h e r e

two tests of blenders athmosphere simulation

also a test how far its possible to drive the modifierstack of the house, 10×10 duplicates, relief etc