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My all time favourite lens. I actually got this lens to use for shooting full band photos from next to the stage which was made possible with FF mirrorless cameras but especially the A7s for me. Mainly stills but also the occasional video of a song (sometimes hand held in crowded pub rooms, sometimes seated near the stage, very rarely on a tripod). Last couple of years as I have gotten older and been shooting bands less...partly due to closing venues too, I have discovered the lens is not bad for buildings and architecture (who knew) and light projections and murals ...I REALLY have come to hate buildings that lean back now. On my A7s I also use it as a two times zoom with clear zoom (virtually lossless for Jpegs and video but not RAW). I love being able to use it handheld as a walk around lens at night. First photo is a snap from a video at Xmas a couple of years ago. Others are stills ...some years ago with my first now dead A7s last was from this morning.

The ATEM Mini is great but I can't help thinking that if you're showing off a four channel video switcher it would have been beneficial to anyone who hasn't seen it before to have more than just the one source attached to. Particularly when you are literally surrounded by cameras.

It'lI never catch on

Would love a "cheap" EVF. Something around 800$. Also a fullframe ursa mini pro in a smaller sizer than previous models with dual iso.

I was a somewhat new user on EOSHD running with a 5DII back then and the chatter here by Andrew led me to buy it. Solid recommendation then, still good today depending on your wants/needs. Another anecdote. Gave the Gx7 to my 14 year old nephew at my wedding and told him to get stills of my family's smiling faces at the reception. We put the Oly 45mm at f1.8 on there and set it to point and shoot. The kid got better shots than the Pro photog we had running around. Proof to me that it's often the skill of interacting with people that's sometimes most important.

I'm not sure how many of us are really in the mood for product announcements at the moment but at least it might provide some potential distraction. Only 5 hours of speculation time available so get those guesses in early.

DPReview have just posted a follow-up video focusing on the A7iii. In short, the camera they tested wasn't defective; a second camera performed exactly the same. However... it also looks like the A7iii's audio performance can differ drastically based on the microphone that's being used. Some microphones end up sounding as bad as the initial test, but others end up in the S1H's ballpark. Not sure what's going on there - maybe Sony cheaped out on the camera's EM shielding or something? Also, based on what Jordan says at the end of the video, it sounds like they may have unwittingly tested the Z6 under optimal circumstances, and that with other microphones the results are much, much less rosy than their initial test indicated.

Why does some guys still believe X-T4 is a steadycam. It's not a promotion for this camera. I could have done a better test, send me that camera please 😉

I would like to see a Pocket 6k active m4/3 mount.

Didn't even consider that, I love their viewfinder for the Ursa so would absolutely love a smaller form factor version of that. In the age of mirrorless? I doubt it. I'm hoping that they join the L mount alliance.

@fuzzynormal GX7 and Oly 45, what a beautiful photog combo. Awesome lens, great image wide open. Mine is silver, hardly used it over the years due to its attraction seeking colour. If GX7 had a higher grip instead of ending after two thirds of the height, I would have gotten it instead of the G6. One pretty outfit, prettiest mft camera in my opinion, besides GF1 and GM1. @IronFilm Shooting wise I used to dial in color temp manually. That way I had to correct a lot of times for pleasing results. I work very obsessively with curves, interacting, counteracting on certain color attributes, gaing desirable effects and correcting unpleasant ones, a lot of times working from right to left to right to left with the nodes. I create an "emulsion" first that way, then cc, then grade, with the emulsion often including the latter. In my opinion G6 sauce lies in working the blue channel, lifting shadows and lowering highlights, and then correcting undesired effects infront of the node. Profile used to be Natural with -2 on all parameters and contrast at 0. Nowdays I enjoy it a big deal to create the look incamera when shooting 709. So much fun to WB a sunset a 10000K in the Vivid profile. My G6 gave up on me this fall. Was a great mate and tool to learn video or film so to say. Now back to ibis:) Super wide angle works better with movement, static handheld shots always give warping madness of strong geometric attributes due to perspective. It is not IBIS´fault, neither from Panny, Oly or Sony:)

Has been a while since I used the Zoom F4, heh, used it only once in the past year perhaps?? I ought to sell it. But I always powered it externally, so the exact amount of internal power left didn't bother me too much. However from memory, it always remained more or less the same? Even if it had been months since I'd charged the batteries. (as I'd only be charging my external battery!) If you're in doubt, and freaking out, just turn it on for a couple of minutes before you leave and check yourself!

@IronFilm I love mine too, that and the Sanken 1M (they go together anyway) are my most used piece of equipment for the TV season 2019-2020, that doesn't change the fact that is the best softie around, but not a zeppelin design.

1. Currently the GH5 and the 10-25 f1.7 (previously the Sigma 18-35 and SB). GH5S and 12-35 2.8 are gaining ground... 2. Scottish/European - grew up between Greece, Cyprus, London and Scotland. Lived in Spain for over 17 years. Work as freelancer video/photo. 1 wife, 1 daughter, 2 cats and presently dealing with the lockdown shit storm that's already hit businesses hard here. 3. Music: Present favourite group is All Them Witches Also like Jimi Hendrix, The Faces, The Black Crowes, Faith No More, Rage Against The Machine, Van Morrison, Funkadelic, James Brown, Bob Marley, Love, The Stooges, Terry Reid, Naxatras, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Mogwai, Spooky Tooth, Slint, Soundgarden to name a few. Sports: Celtic FC Hobbies: gardening in my terrace, camping, day dreaming... 4. In general the content is interesting (minus the rammies!). I hope it continues as a positive space where professionals and enthusiasts can share experiences, knowledge and opinions. Looking forward to the GH6 as I enjoy the video centric design of the GH series along with the reduced weight and costs (although the 10-25 1.7 was pretty pricey!). A slightly more ergonomic BMPCC 4K/6K would interest me. 5. My home town is now Madrid. I miss the openness when I'm away. 6. No idea

Now, that! Totally agree. Until my Lumix G6 gave up on me I enjoyed it a big deal to practice eloquent handheld shooting. No Ibis and vintage lenses. What opened my eyes was the 2x digizoom. Lineskipping gave me a very fast readout and I felt like a smooth operator. Of course it was an aliasing party:) Maybe a 8ms readout would be perfect for smooth handheld action up to 50mm on s35 format.

1). My current most powered up camera is the Pocket4K but I wouldn't class it as most used as its purely for the development of that project. Not that any camera is really being used at the moment due to the total lockdown we have here so I will go for the one that was the most used, which is the Sigma FP with the 7Artisans 35mm f2. Sadly even that was only briefly as I'd only had it about a week before being locked down and even that period it was only used whilst wearing a mask! 2). The first "real" camera I had of my own was a Nikon EM that I got new in 1979 (yes, I'm that old) which had to be replaced three months later after it was broken when I was by pulled from a crowded city centre street by a Special Branch anti-terrorist snatch squad, held face down in their car and driven at high speed to some sort of warehouse and interrogated on suspicion of taking surveillance pictures of targets for the IRA. I am a survivor of the Hillsborough disaster and at the official enquiry the Police presented doctored CCTV footage of me escaping from the crush to support a fictitious timeline of the events that would absolve them of any culpability. I have some trust issues with the UK Police. 3). Indie/new wave from 77 to 85 with an honourable mention to Kraftwerk who sit outside of that genre but influenced a lot of stuff inside it. Sport as a fan would be Liverpool FC but I've also been fortunate enough to shoot the two greatest players of the recent era (and statistically in any era) in Messi and Ronaldo and you can't help but be a fan of both when you witness it at such close quarters. From other sports, shooting Mark Cavendish at the Tour de France when he explodes out of the pack to win stages was something special and even his sometimes "challenging" demeanour when trying to shoot him post race if he'd lost made him more endearing to me because of the honesty of it. 4). Unfortunately, it seems pretty clear that we will be presented with a new normal after all this and it will likely be one with less money for a lot of people. It could be that in the new normal film making and photography etc will be seen as frivolous but it is as equally likely that creative pursuits will be vital to keep everyone's mind engaged, as an escape from the bleakness but also as a reflection on and documentary of this next period. So for that reason, the forum can and should be a great resource and support network for that. Inevitably, with the expected financial downturn, it should probably have more features about doing more with your current gear than getting more new gear. That should not only call for more articles about DIY projects and lighting/composition tutorials etc but also for retrospective reviews on older gear that is still perfectly serviceable and how to eek everything out of that. So as well as sub-$200 film challenges maybe look at "$2000 camera vs $2000 complete setup" type of comparisons as well. Some stuff about sound design as opposed to just recording sound would be cool as well. 5). Family, obviously. But also that triggering of memories when you walk down particular streets. Mainly, though, I miss having a decent chippy. 6). I think I started contributing at the end of 2016 or early 2017 but was a long time reader before that. I first came across @Andrew Reid at a two day film making conference in London about ten years ago that was mainly devoted to using EOS cameras, where, if memory serves, he was barracking Phil Bloom from the audience about the GH1 being better than the 5DMarkii. I thought he was rude, opinionated and extremely disrespectful. Naturally, after seeing that, I felt sure this was the place for me

Can someone confirm that after installing the latest firmwares on any of these Canon cameras (M6 MkII, RP, 90D), firmware versions that now enable 24p recording, the HDMI-out STILL defaults to 30p? Peter Berg over at Youtube says that even if you set the camera to 24p, if you connect an HDMI cable to a Ninja V, the camera reverts to recording 30p without telling you about it. Can someone confirm?