Thanks Ray. I love the Letus Extreme. As for the vignetting, it was intentional. I used Magic Bullet Looks for vignetting and grading.

But... I did notice in my raw footage that there was some soft and minor vignetting on the extreme sides and each of the four corners of the frame. I do not know if this was because of the Letus Extreme or the $30 28mm f2.8 prime lens I had mounted on the front. I will be doing more experimenting at my website.

I will be getting a much more expensive prime lens set (24mm, 28mm, 50mm and 85mm each at f1.4) soon and hope to work on similar projects to post up here on vimeo. For more info, keep an eye on my blog at tomguilmette.com

dude that was sweet quality
you recorded it in 1080i yeah
what frame rate ?
what format did you upload this?

this is awesome. love the effect - love the bokeh

Danny, yea it was recorded in 1080i 60i at 29.97 frames per second and i edited the hdv with final cut. I exported the entire timeline as a quicktime video with h.264 codec. I kept the current frame rate and limited the data rate to 3000 kb. The frame size was set to 1280x720 and I de-interlaced the video. The total file size was 65.49 MB. I hope this helps. If you own a PC computer, recycle it and buy a brand new Apple Mac. Just trust me, I made the transition four months ago and have never looked back.

nice..love the bokeh

nice work.

if you have pictures of your rig, I'd love to see them. and if you have/setup a flickr account, you can add them to the side of this page.

looks great. I just recently had to run my dsl line through a surge protector, vids came back to life here. not necessarily a slow machine stopping hd, even software can render it on a 10 year old machine. I was listening to muse during the vid "falling down".

Nice use of Nine Inch Nails song 2 from Ghosts I... it is such an amazing track. I know the entire Ghosts collection was released under creative commons but you should still have put a credit in there for it... your name is credited so should those of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (who both wrote the particular track) or simply "Nine Inch Nails."

With that said, it was an excellent piece... and you might be interested in Trent Reznor's announcement today about a "Ghosts Film Festival" that just launched with "that other" video site. See NIN.com for details.

Fantastic dolly moves. Lovely visuals. Really nice piece. How do you like Magic bullet looks? Worth buying?

Really looks great. Very nice.

Jon, I do like Magic Bullet Looks. It is worth it. MBLooks is like $350 and the entire suite is just over $700. I just have MBLooks. I added a music credit in my description, thanks for pointing this out. NIN deserve credit. As for the dolly in this project, here is my blog on the production from my website: tomguilmette.com/Site/Toms_Blog/Entries/2008/3/10_Left_For_Dead_Short_Film_Behind_The_Scenes.html

I just bought six more lenses for my letus this morning. As I create more content, it will hit my website first at tomguilmette.com and then it will be posted here. Thanks for viewing it.

Damn man! nice!

that was amazingly beautiful
35mm + dolly + HD = WIN

Thank you. I am shooting in New Hampshire with the dolly track on Monday. I hope to post more here by the end of the week.

A really classy piece. For me the smoothness of the movement was stunning. One critisism, if I may, the first 'running man' worked very well after that it was a bit gimmicky. Having said that...I wish I could produce something as good. !!

love it!. Nice work ;)

Great camera use, editing and the soft tones make the film even more intriguing. Of course the music also tops it off.

check out "the warehouse" in my other videos. shot at the same location but this time, with a story and actors. same dolly moves.

which cam are u using? Z1?

yea. "left for dead" and "the warehouse" were both shot with the z1u. i now own the sony ex1. it looks even better than the z1u.

ok...now this reminds me of some dodgy places I know in Dublin....home sweet home ey....nice vid mate - as always....

so goooooood...i'd love to download it!!!!


ddm