 Yo, what up? Welcome back to another episode. I just want to take a moment to address the rumors that haven't been swirling around Yes, I have been growing a Mohawk mullet. Do you enjoy spending a small fortune on film processing? Have you ever wanted to shoot Cinestill 50d like it was Portra 400? Well, boy Do I have the video for you on every film cartridge of Cinestill they write push one two and three stops Like they were personally challenging me to actually push it three stops and guess what that's what I did Cinestill 50d is a daylight balanced motion picture film rated at you guessed it 50 ISO What Cinestill does is they work their magic and they remove a layer from the motion picture film called the rem jet layer So that the film can be developed in standard C41 chemicals the side effects of not having the rem jet layer on the film are as follows psychosis impotence blood shards and death. Oh wait. No, that's if you take bath salts Halation is the side effect that I'm looking for but we'll get into that later pushing a 50 ISO film three stops means we're gonna be shooting it at 400 ISO instead of 50 ISO so that means we're gonna be Underexposing this film by three stops of light to compensate for the underexposure I asked the lab to develop the film longer. This process as a whole generally results in more contrast and more grain It's worth mentioning too that labs generally charge more to push or pull your film And you also have to develop the entire role as pushed or not at all Damn someone took their uh They're cruising too. Holy s***. We weren't even going that fast. It's because we suck bro Anyway, it was time to shoot and I figured we should go big or go home And while most of the time I'm down to go home Caleb and I actually headed out to the desert to shoot some abandoned buildings that surprisingly have not been destroyed with graffiti yet They say load in subdued light I shot with my trusty steed the Canon AE one with the 28 millimeter lens You might have noticed right off the bat that a lot of these shots get very muddy in the shadows pretty quickly This can be easily explained because we're underexposing the film by three stops Which is quite heavy and then trying to lift up whatever information is available on the negative A lot of the shadow detail just never existed color negative film doesn't handle shadow information as well as it does Highlight information. So when it's underexposed the shadows get quite muddy Ultimately pushing your film isn't going to create any additional detail that wasn't already captured on the negative It's only going to brighten the details that were already present Some of these shots really did not turn out at all like this one I was using my Canon AE ones internal light meter And I suppose it's possible that it leans more towards the highlights in most cases having an extra three stops of light Probably would have saved some of that shadow detail too, but hey What the f*** can you do as we cruise from building to building all in various states of decrepitness Similar to me and my friends livers. We noticed that the small population of locals were keeping an eye on us But frankly, we didn't really care. We were just glad that we didn't stumble upon any murder scenes in any of those houses Another thing I definitely noticed with these shots was there were a lot of color shifting I used negative lab pro in lightroom to invert all of my shots and frankly They looked like ass more specifically Michelangelo's ass the turtle not the painter the shots leaned heavily into this like teal turquoise wash And needed heavy color correction to get some semblance of an image that is somewhat white balanced This is probably because pushing film especially color film produces a lot of color shifts So that's something to look out for if you're brave enough to even do this dumb s*** in the first place So there are a couple reasons besides peer pressure that you might want to push your film Maybe you're shooting at a low iso and low light and you just need that extra range or brightness Or maybe you want more contrast on your negatives and are simply too afraid of the contrast slider in lightroom Either way, I'd say that this process is a lot more common for black and white film After a little while we finally arrived at my favorite building a little off the beaten path Inside there were a lot of photo opportunities as it was still relatively untouched and even still had some furniture Unlike some of the other buildings where all we found was a swarm of pissed off hornets Holy s*** And you may be thinking wait, this is sinister Where are the violent over-the-top halations that are a major characteristic of this film while there still are some halations present I think because we are underexposing the film so heavily to begin with it brought a lot of the Highlight information down to the point where that effect didn't really happen So there we were having the time of our lives firing off a bunch of shots that may or may not turn out amazing The world was our oyster We were living in ignorant bliss and in that moment we felt untouchable But that all came crashing down when well, I'll spare you the details But it ended when we had to google search angry carpenter ants biting penis A lot of these shots are noticeably grainy as I mentioned before pushing your film ups the contrast and ups the grain For black and white film, I generally think that that look is pretty cool But for color film, I'm not so sure that that look works as well Additionally, this was shot on 35 millimeter if this was shot on 120 film Not only would it be sexier because bigger format is better But also the grain would obviously be less significant We stopped at one last spot that we had no idea what it was or I guess what it used to be Based on the evidence that was all around us, it seemed like a place that local teenagers would go to make out Listen to dubstep and chug for locos. Also, apparently they come here to worship some sort of ceremonial idol Kids these days Anyway, the light was amazing So we blasted away regardless of the curse that was surely placed on us for trespassing I think the effect of pushing Cine still 50d worked the best around sunset time The light isn't as harsh so the film could render the difference in light a little bit better Later on as we chowed down on some Wendy's Baconators, which uh fun fact was what we were originally going to name Baxter We noticed the perfect light on the Walgreens across the way and just decided to finish up the roll I didn't get any footage of this because the light was fleeting about as much as your interest in this video Would I push Cine still 50d three stops again in the future? Hell no, I think a lot of these shots are actually half decent But they kind of get ruined by the lack of shadow detail if I showed Ansel Adams any of these photos He'd probably smack me upside the head and tell me I f***ed up the exposure settings Hypothetically if someone broke into my apartment and pointed a gun at my head or worse My momia seven and told me to push Cine still 50d three stops again I'd tell him pull the trigger bitch or I could just expose for the shadows That'd probably be better I could really only see someone needing to push this film if the light was getting really dim like maybe it was Blue hour or something This is probably my favorite shot that I took that day The lighting is pretty baller and the composition was not half bad The colors are okay, and at least some shadow detail is present So that's that if you liked the video or maybe even thought it was less s***y than the others Let me know in the comments or if there are any other films. I should try pushing or pulling Please advise, but I'll tell you right now You can stop asking me to push color plus six stops because it's never gonna happen Touch it jason How many greens doesn't shoot so yeah, I hope you enjoyed the episode If you thought this video looked better than the rest of my videos then you're probably right It's probably because I shot the entire video with a few exceptions on the black magic 6k pocket cinema camera Boy, that's a mouthful black magic reached out the channel and asked if we'd be interested in collaborating on something And of course I said hell, yeah, because I'm sure all of you guys are tired of me filming on my phone in potato quality Let's talk a little bit about the pros and cons of the pocket camera Which definitely will not fit into your pocket So as we were shooting Caleb and I handed off the camera to one another and I'd say the whole process was pretty simple We had a t5 ssd drive that black magic kindly lent to us and we recorded most of the footage in 4k pro res 422 the camera also accepts sd cards and c-fast cards one of my favorite parts of the camera is the touch screen You can change all your settings without fumbling around with like dials and buttons and stuff Which was a huge plus for me though admittedly I do wish there were some games we could play on it like frogger But hey, maybe in the next firmware update you can also shoot in 4k 60 frames a second like I did here Or you can switch over to glorious 6k raw resolution My mind was blown that you could shoot 6k raw on a camera this size definitely a major selling point However be warned as far as I know you can't shoot 6k to sd cards And if you shoot black magic raw you're gonna need to download black magic's raw sdk application Before you can move the footage over to any of your editing applications The body is super lightweight and never became a burden to carry But nevertheless it feels sturdy in your hands It was hotter than the core of the sun that day in the desert and the camera never had any overheating issues Which is really impressive the dynamic range was pretty great It's around 13 stops apparently which I think is pretty on par with a lot of other cameras But I'm no expert We used some ef mount cinema lenses that Caleb brought along and the whole process was pretty smooth overall The back touch screen comes in at a massive five inches. Well Massive to some no judgment here Additionally, you can attach a video monitor to the camera if five inches is not enough for you Wink in the interest of fairness here are some of the cons we found with the camera Keep in mind with any of this. These are just our opinions. Some of these things may not really matter as much to you First and foremost, let's talk about the battery. The camera takes standard lp e6 batteries Which are common with Canon cameras, but I gotta say they do not last very long at all We weren't constantly rolling the camera and we would even turn off the camera between takes But I'd say each battery only lasted about one and a half hours on average compared to my sony a7 r2's battery Which is smaller in size and lasts twice as long. That's kind of rough We were only supplied one battery in the kit that we received and that definitely would not have been enough Thankfully the homie Caleb swooped in and dunked on everyone with some extra batteries we could use on top of the camera There's no hot shoot slot. So we had to rig up something to hold our microphone while we were shooting I suppose with the screw up there It's a little more flexible for most filmmakers to do whatever they need to do But for very small running gun productions like the crap we do for this channel It would have been nice to have a hot shoot there the camera comes in and a scorching $1995 Or $44,500 pesos and if you're interested in learning more there are some links in the description So in the end that's really all I have to say about the black magic 6k pocket cinema camera other than maybe you guys should consider shortening the name