"Club Penton" - Ask questions to Hollywood insider "Penton-Man"

[sharkshark]

ps. You should buy THIS

[Joe Cain]

Originally Posted by sharkshark

Sometimes, you must admit, the [content] trumps the format. (*poke*, *poke*)

My 8-track of Buckingham-Nicks would agree.

[Esox50]

Penton,

I know you are a fan too...
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=1015

The young guys on our forum are going to give us old guys a heart attack...

-Esox

[Vincent Pereira]

Originally Posted by hellobugmenot

Since he reads this thread I'd like to congratulate him and Sony for really going out of their way to not take my money. I'm talking of course about the ridiculous "trilogy" boxset that CTHD can only be bought in...

I sincerely doubt that the tech guy Penton was referring to has anything to do with how Sony decides to package and release their titles.

Vincent

[Vincent Pereira]

The tool strikes again- BARAKA on Blu-ray is "filtered" and looks "like a pile of mushy crap", and "problems with the transfer" of GHOSTBUSTERS "were predicted years ahead of time" :

http://www.landofwhimsy.com/archives....html#comments

Vincent

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by hellobugmenot

Since he reads this thread...

Most of your post deals with a topic not allowed for discussion under the forum rules. Not a very smart way to make your point. I agree 100% with you in that it is not consumer friendly to include a new catalog release (CTHD) exclusively in a collectors set with two previously released titles. Somebody really slipped with that marketing ploy.

[Penton-Man]

I must have missed some trolling that occurred last night.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Vincent Pereira

The tool strikes again- BARAKA on Blu-ray is "filtered" and looks "like a pile of mushy crap", and "problems with the transfer" of GHOSTBUSTERS "were predicted years ahead of time" :

http://www.landofwhimsy.com/archives....html#comments

Vincent

Give me a few moments to read ^ as there are a bunch of comments on that page you linked.

[Penton-Man]

The “ultra fine detail” everywhere that “the tool” comments about in The International is really not so much a reflection of what was or wasn’t done during the production of the Blu-ray transfer…..which was relatively straightforward and not any different than typical protocol used for any other SPHE Blu-ray, i.e. make the encode as transparent as possible to the HD master, unless the filmmaker directs otherwise for some reason.

The crisp look of the motion picture is really related to the fact that the DP primarily used Arri Master Prime lenses (which are super sharp) with no diffusion to capture the great majority of the imagery during the principal photography. In fact, the DP has gone on record stating on more than one occasion that he strives to have the sharpest possible negative!

I don’t know what “the tool” means by “the problems” with the transfer on Ghostbusters “were predicted years ago”.
I mean, you can’t ask for much more than getting Laszlo Kovacs (https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...ostcount=10050) involved with the production of the HD master. I did however keep my notes from a cinematographer workshop up at Lake Arrowhead from “years ago” (’94 or ’95) in which Laszlo spoke about Ghostbusters, and his intentions thereof, so I guess I could always dig those out, if need be.

P.S.
RAH, I see in that link posted to that fine review you gave for The International on HTF, you questioned the rationale for shooting some scenes in large format for that feature film.
The reasoning was the DP felt that (through past experiences) that panoramic 35mm shots sometimes had the tendency to appear a little more grainy than medium or close-up shots on 35mm film. So, that’s how the idea came about for shooting some scenes in 65mm, in other words, he wanted the panoramic shots to be essentially grain free along with being as sharp as possible.

[Bobby Henderson]

I tried visiting the link to the "tool's" review of The International to see what all kind of nonsense he wrote about Baraka. Ended up getting a "404 - File Not Found" error.

Maybe the guy took down the article after getting an inferno's worth of flames.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by Esox50

Penton,

I know you are a fan too...
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=1015

The young guys on our forum are going to give us old guys a heart attack...

-Esox

Thats a good thread. I check it daily.

[sharkshark]

on a related note to the above poster, and Penton's proclivity for diving, did you hear about this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/sc...TH_BRF.html?em

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Bobby Henderson

I tried visiting the link to the "tool's" review of The International to see what all kind of nonsense he wrote about Baraka. Ended up getting a "404 - File Not Found" error.

Maybe the guy took down the article after getting an inferno's worth of flames.

Wow, that didn’t take too long for that *discussion* to evaporate.
Bobby, I noticed you were talking about the Canon EOS 5D Mark II on the Digital Bits et. al. thread with folks there.

Given the Blu-ray Star Trek news of today, I thought you would get a kick out of this clip, starting when J.J. Abrams interrupts his own interview and says “Is that the Mark II?”....followed by “So, where’d you get this, and why don’t I have one”.

http://digital.littlewhitelies.co.uk...ter-egg-2.html

For the record, the interview was shot with a Canon Mark II and a Sony EX-1 (not shown).

This is the actual interview for the Star Trek fans out there….
http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/tv/...rek-interview/

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Esox50

Penton,

I know you are a fan too...
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=1015

The young guys on our forum are going to give us old guys a heart attack...

-Esox

Speak for yourself !
My heart is fine and I aint “old”.
Post more pics please.

[Deciazulado]

. . . . . . Iron-Man = Penton-Man?

[Vincent Pereira]

Originally Posted by Bobby Henderson

I tried visiting the link to the "tool's" review of The International to see what all kind of nonsense he wrote about Baraka. Ended up getting a "404 - File Not Found" error.

Maybe the guy took down the article after getting an inferno's worth of flames.

To be fair, I wasn't calling the reviewer a tool. I correspond with Mike McKenzie fairly regularly and like him. I was referring to the AVS Forum's resident Robert Harris basher Kram Sacul's typically ridiculous posts in the follow-up comments thread. I quoted the relevant comments the tool made- i.e., BARAKA being "mushy crap" and "filtered", the "problems with GHOSTBUSTERS", etc. In other words, pretty much the same crap the tool is constantly spewing over at the AVS Forum.

Vincent

[sharkshark]

heh, that's how I took your post Vincent, I got confused what everyone else was going on about..

If you haven't heard, Cronkite's dead...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n5170556.shtml

[Penton-Man]

Well, I knew that Vincent was referring to “Kram Sacul” or “Mark Lucas” if one desires to do the intended grade school letter reversal game.

Bobby, if you’re confused, to elaborate further, Vincent linked to the top feedback comment made by “Kram Sacul” in which he was *analyzing* The International, Baraka and Ghostbusters in a two sentence hit-and-run followed by a slew of other feedback comments made by other people.
I just avoided commenting about Baraka, as that horse has been beaten into the ground repeatedly in the past.

Out of the office by 8.
Have a good weekend folks.

[horseflesh]

Yeah, it's well for some.
It's almost 4am here; why am I still awake???

[Bobby Henderson]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Wow, that didn’t take too long for that *discussion* to evaporate.
Bobby, I noticed you were talking about the Canon EOS 5D Mark II on the Digital Bits et. al. thread with folks there.

Given the Blu-ray Star Trek news of today, I thought you would get a kick out of this clip, starting when J.J. Abrams interrupts his own interview and says “Is that the Mark II?”....followed by “So, where’d you get this, and why don’t I have one”.

http://digital.littlewhitelies.co.uk...ter-egg-2.html

That's pretty cool stuff. Hehe. I like J.J. Abrams' reaction. He just stops mid sentence, "hey, is that the Mark II?"

I didn't know a lot of other video camera oriented accessories could be attached to an EOS 5D Mark II camera body. It looked like a video assist monitor was attached.

I'm actually very close to "pulling the trigger" on buying an EOS 5D Mark II camera body. I have more than enough money in the bank to get it. The trouble is most places have it on back order.

The 1080p AVC video recording capability is very interesting. I've read about a number of workarounds shooters can use in defeating the "auto" nonsense of the Live View only mode for 1080p recording.

My main motive in buying the EOS 5D Mark II is its 21 megapixel sensor and awesome sensitivity. Using Photoshop and other "panorama" stitching tools, I'll be able to create some very high resolution shots great for doing vehicle wraps on vans, trucks and buses. It won't take more than 3 to 5 shots to completely fill the background on most large vehicles at full size resolutions of 60ppi to 72ppi. There's a LOT of "bad wraps" out there where that checkerboard pixel pattern is all too visible if you get within a few feet of the vehicle. That absolutely SUCKS.

I'm probably going to add Canon's EF 135mm f/2.0L USM lens to my arsenal. It's one of the sharpest lenses Canon makes. That will come in handy for getting the most out of a 21 megapixel sensor.