#barndoor lens hood

[johnnymartyr]

The Most Hated Lens Hood for Leica Summitar & Summicron Is Also The Best

by Johnny Martyr Like many Barnack Leica shooters, I picked up a SOOPD/SOOFM “barndoor” lens hood for my Summitar simply because it was cheap and said “Leitz” on it. I’d never handled one in person and bought it online from Tamarkin.com without much consideration. After attaching it to my lens, however, all I could do was consider. And reconsider. What a weird ass lens hood! It looks more like…

[karingottschalk]

A review loaner of the Panasonic Lumix DC-GH5 arrived yesterday afternoon and it immediately found its way into Seercam’s Cube GH5 camera cage with Extension Kit for Cube GH5. Then I attached a Manfrotto Pixi Table Tripod-cum-handle to the Extension Kit’s coldshoe mount, ready for action should it occur. First thing the next day, I was pleasantly surprised by a visit from Petra, one of the three young female brush turkeys whom we raised almost from the time they leaped out of their eggs on the mound next door. I grabbed the GH5 plus Seercam cage, hoped that the Griffin Hammond GH5 camera settings file I had installed late the night before would be up to the task, and jumped out the door. 

It was excellent to finally be able to try out Seercam’s one-piece cage for Panasonic’s Lumix DC-GH5 camera.

The Panasonic Lumix DC-GH5 review loaner camera arrived minus several items including the eye cup, USB 3 cable and lens hood for the Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 Aspheric Power OIS zoom lens. We later improvised a temporary solution for the GH5’s eye cup from a spare eye cup from my GH4, attached with UHU Yellow Tack and hope.

We helped Petra recuperate from attacks by dogs who had stripped her of tail and wing feathers twice over the past six months, and she has grown up into a beautiful, confident young adult who now, it seems, has formed her own little tribe of three young brush turkeys whom she was leading about.

Still frames from my first GH5 video shoot of Petra and her friends

The footage reveals that I will need to reinforce the way we have attached the spare GH4 eye cup to the GH5 as critical focus was missed on several crucial shots due to relying solely on the monitor with focus peaking while shooting in semi-darkness.

I will be trying the GH5 out on some stills photographs next and then will load up Paul Leeming’s Leeming LUT One settings for Cinelike D and V-Log L on the GH5 for further video shoots over the two-week loan period.

I will be editing and grading GH5 footage in DaVinci Resolve Studio 14 and Final Cut Pro X and processing stills in a number of image editors, LUTs and color grading plug-ins, and raw processors. I will be relying on Lesspain Software’s excellent Kyno media management and productivity software throughout.

Links:

Blackmagic Design – DaVinci Resolve 14

Griffin Hammond – How to Set Up Your Panasonic GH5 for Filmmaking

Leeming LUT One

Lesspain Software – Kyno

Seercam – Cube GH5

Seercam – Extension Kit for Cube GH5

Image Credits:

Header image concept and hack by Carmel D. Morris. Product shots made on Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX8 with Panasonic Lumix G 25mm f/1.7 Aspheric lens, lit with Rotolight Neo with barndoors, processed in ON1 Photo Raw 2017 using Fujifilm Velvia 50 preset.

Panasonic Lumix DC-GH5 Review Loaner Arrives, Testing With Leeming LUT One and Seercam Cube GH5 Cage A review loaner of the Panasonic Lumix DC-GH5 arrived yesterday afternoon and it immediately found its way into Seercam's…