How to make dslr look like 16mm Videos

@memilh This was shot on a Pentax K-x. Not sure what you mean by 'work'. You can colour grade any footage to a degree. Some cameras will be better than others and the more flat you can get the profile, the better — allows for more scope when grading.

I'd be very interested in seeing how you would do it with 5D footage. Myself, I use a combination of 5D's and 7D's... and sometimes I get to molest a RED. I use magic bullet occasionally but I have never used it to create a film effect.

I'm sure I'll get around to doing another video at some point. But since this last video, as well as acquiring a 5D, I also acquired a daughter so I have a lot less time these days. Watch this space though. I'll do one eventually.

@jaworskij No. This tutorial is about colour grading to get the feel of any 16mm format. The aspect ratio used here matches no 16mm stock. It's for aesthetic reasons.

Congrats! I too am a father (of 3) so I know what you mean. I'll definitely keep an eye on this and I appreciate any and all effort you put into it.

I don't know if anyone else can see it but I see glowing around the subjects in the video. Is there a way to get rid of that?

Thanks, great stuff. What type of camera did you use? Could any camera type work with the right combination of settings?

Nice video, but how do you put the film dirt like the one you have in your other video ? Thanks

Wouldn't that be Super16? I thnk what you've done here is copy old 35mm Eastman stock.

Wow, awesome. Sorry if this was already asked, but what lens are you using?

Can't remember off the top of my head. Was probably the Sigma 30mm f/1.4.

your tutorial made my day :) was looking for something like that

Thanks for making a concise and informative tutorial.

By "look like 16mm film", you mean Super 16?

Very nice, good job.Thanx.

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that was nice!

great job man

THANK YOU!

Awesome!

@stoawayintheflesh Thanks for your comment. Great music videos are about ideas, not camera quality. For example Michel Gondry's Hardest Button to Button video he did for the White Stripes. Filmed on a low-fi camcorder but a simply idea executed well.

That's because it's a different video. I believe the process was pretty much the same. I think the difference is in the production rather than post-production (single light source/time of day/handheld shot etc.)

what about that filmic texture ? i mean those dots.. couldnt find it on your tutorial.. you need extra video for that ? very very good color btw.

This is really good! I checked out your tutorial and it looks nothing like this video. how did you do this video in particular?

I'll tell you if you can tell me what year George Orwell's "1984" was set.

@nandya Hi. I made a tutorial for this already if you check my channel. J

i can still tell it's digital though...the edges are just way too sharp

nice job, man.... i would like to get a tutorial for this one....

I am very interested and I would love to learn how to do this.

very good work, thanks. keep up the good work...

I would like to have a tutorial too... pls

Me too! I also like the aspect ratio crop.

I would like to have a tutorial..

Nice. Yes. a tut, please. thx.

Make a tutorial! Please !

I would like a tutorial

That's pretty cool.

tutorial pleaaase :)

Im interested

tut plz thx

+DALE SUMMERS Here's the link to a video that talks through the software I use and the tech behind the photo booth https://youtu.be/E7B-Cj5Ca7Q. I don't have it hooked up to a printer, all of the photos are just shared digitally.

+Grown Folks Tv Not yet. I'm working on a website for future project docs. I just sort of went for it on this one.

+The Born Maker Is there somewhere I can go to download the specs for this booth?

Measurements are 14" wide x 16" tall x 11" deep.

+re ge I use an EyeFi card with an app called Shuttersnitch. Here's a video that goes a little more in depth about the way it works. https://youtu.be/E7B-Cj5Ca7Q

+The Born Maker Yeah, but if you build it now, you can enjoy it until then ;)

Thanks! He should be ready for a backyard zip line in like a month or two, right?

Hi Dom, thank for your review. I have a question and hope you will answer it. I'm using this lens with my D90 and I found a problem with Back Focusing every times when I select the corner area of the focus point.. My friend got this lens too but it mounted with D300 and found no problem after all.. I swap this lens with my friend and thinking maybe I got a bad copy, but it still remain the same.. and my friend got no problem when using my lens. Sorry for my bad English..Thank you..

My conclusions from my own sharpness tests with this lens, it's sharper than my 16mp camera can handle at any aperture down to f11 (at all focal lengths) and then there's a slight loss of sharpness at f16, f22 is not nice at all and rather muddy though. There's a tiny loss of sharpness in the very corner of the frame at f2.8. No big deal, you don't even notice it on close inspection unless you're shooting something textured in the corner.

@DrPillowPaper Well my passion is photographing the night sky and with the tokina you can go down to 2.8f which realy makes a huge diffrence when you shoot astro. Also for videos in dark places the tokina was better than the canon. The sharpeness is pretty much the same also i think...i didnt test that but just from my pictrues there is not much of a diffrence...maybe in the corners the canon was a little sharper but not much.

dom pls help, i am fter a camera to restart photography back up, i'm kinda like a intermediate beginner if you like, was thinking of the new d7000 nikon and maybe the tokina 12-24mm or maybe even the 11-16mm from tokina also, mainly i will be shooting landscapes, pls advise as i am even thinking of the new sony nex5 interchangeable lens camera that offers like dslr quality, what do you think?

What you shooting with? I have a 550d and looking to get an external flash,are there some flash's out there that can be triggered with my built in flash as the trigger as I still want the camera flash as the front light source and the external flash from side on,just like in this video? I'm new to external flash so any help would be great.

@Dombowerphoto from the videos i have seen already the sony is like for like against mid range dslr's for sure, yeah the size is small but it does have a same size sensor as a dslr and far better at low light photography, and when you think of the cost is your ego really that much to not save like £800??

@PracticalGuitar NIkon flash system is amazing its ttl metering is all automatic, but if you want to use an external flash you can use any kind of flash as a slave flash, just meaning it fires when it sees a flash as well. ill explain on the blog

@ParkourSchweiz I have the canon 60d as well and I was considering the canon 10-22 or the tokina 11-16, why would you say that you would rather have the tokina over the canon? It'd be appreciated if you could tell me why you chose that one. :)

i've read a lot of your responses to comments - you're really quite opinionated and annoying, you don't like criticism, do you... now we're using a wide-angled lens for portraits, maybe we could try a fisheye for bird photography too...

Hi Dom, thank for your review. I have a question and hope you will answer it. People said that this lens has a serious problem with Chromatic Aberration. Do you find this problem with your lens and how about it? Thank you

This cracked me up this morning, thanks Kim and Dom. for the entertaining and informative video. I have been considering a ultra wide for my Canon 500D and looking at Sigma 10-20 , Canon 10-22 (pricey) and the Tokina. Rick

@atyl1972 dont be silly, sony nex. fine for a party but you aint going to see any land scape photographer whipping one of those out on the hill and attaching to their tripod

@yantan1123 I own a canon 60d and bought the canon ef-s 10-22 and after a week i had the chance to put the tokina 11-16 on and after that i never touched the canon again.

@PracticalGuitar Also how do you work out how to allow for the light of the flash, as in how to work out the amount of exposure without taking tonnes of attempts?

Hello Dom ! I was wondering why are you holding your camera in the oposide portrait hand helding. Isn't it harder for you to control your camera? Best whishes!

i was think about the nikon 12-24 f4 for landscapes but iv recently wanted to start concert and local band performances would that two stops really help me?

can I ask for your comment and thoughts with regards to Tokina 11-16 Vs. Canon EF-S 10-22 on Canon 60D,, having a lot of confusions,, thanks so much!:D

You film this video with your Canon T2i or 550 Her shirt is moire issues in the video. I know 1080p has less moire and aliasing issues then 720p.

@DepressedSod i would say go for it, i cant complain and for video it is super. check the links in the blog to see if i managed to find a discount

Tokina 11-16mm Lens is GREAT!! you guys should check out my time lapse i did using that lens. very solid lens and offers sharp images.

+John Hnatek This is similar to DPI in digital photography.  I have a camera club and people frequently ask me what dots per inch I shoot at.  Try as will to explain that in the camera and in the computer the dpi is just meta data, that the photo has no inches, and therefore no dpi you cannot convince people. 

+Barry Parker In the above in meant focal length settings instead of aperture settings.

I knew what you meant because I make the same mistake. I think there needs to be more clarity about crop sensors impacts on image content. To use FX Full frame aperture settings printed on DX lenses at best creates confusion. +Barry

+Brad Rex That is correct,this lens on my D7000 which has 1.5 crop factor would have the same field of view as a 16-24mm. Maybe I should've worded my comment differently.

+Barry Parker Focal length does not depend on sensor size. This lens on a FF, crop, or not attached to any camera is still an 11-16. The field of view it provides on a 1.6 crop sensor is similar to what a 18-16mm would provide on FF. Think about taking a photo with a FF camera, then in post processing cropping that photo. Did you just change the lens you used? No, you just changed the field of view of your photo.

+andreiiasi nope. No IS

+TheHereticAnthem20 changing profession

There is a version for nikon anyway

On Matrix metering my Nikon lenses behave differently. i understand if the majority of the frame is dark and then of course the camera will make it bright. that is not happening here.  it is mis calculating how much area is dark or bright in the frame.

Autofocus is sometimes an issue with fast lenses. Over exposition is your mistake. Well, take a look at the histogram and especially at where you focus. If you focus on dark spots then bright portions of the image are naturally overexposed. Or you go into the more midterm illuminated region, "save" the exposition time (exposure button?) and then go into where you want the focus to be, that's how I do it often, and my canon has less DR than your nikon I fear :-/. Else you could stop your camera down by a few 1/3 stop steps?

+RainnMakerr Oh sorry, I thought you were shooting video. Though even if I shoot photos, I still expose manually. You can check your histogram.

At matrix metering it should adjust to how much light is coming in. Like other lenses. I always shoot at aperture priority. I have read issues about this lense exposure issues. What would u recommend for exposure setting. I dont want to take multiple shots and manually adjust. That is not worth. It is not a manual camera or a lens

Overexposing is because of your settings, not because of the lens. Same goes for focus. It's always better to focus manually unless it's impossible for some reason.

+Alan Smith awesome, always good to hear that someone else is getting good results, thanks for watching!

+Sk4zZi0uS yeah the AF/MF push/pull is funky. Hard to switch while filming in realtime. But overall, nice glass.

+Philippe Schultz thanks Phil, happy holidays!

+Ray Ortega

+karen mendoza the good news is that it will look as good or better on the 70D;)

+J. Nwokedi thanks!

+Ray Ortega Thank you. Guess i'll wait for the next canon 10mm lens with a larger aperture.

+lil manlet (lilmanlet) not fast and not quiet.

+lil manlet (lilmanlet) also, how fast is the autofocus on this lens and is it silent like canons 10-18mm?