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Rare KGB spy camera collection goes to auction next month. https://kosmofoto.com/2021/01/rare-kgb-spy-camera-collection-goes-to-auction-next-month/ .

Hello - I'm new to the cinema line of cameras. I have a EOS R and 1DX Mii. The colors are very flat for me and I'm sure it's something that I am doing wrong. I have tried the REC709 straight out of camera as well as CLOG2 and then importing into Final Cut Pro X and applying the built in CLOG2 LUT. I downloaded the OWL C70 color profile to see if that would help and same result. I'm not very good at color correction but I tried to push up the saturation and just not getting the desired results. Additionally, I'm getting more noise at 800 ISO than my 1DX Mii. I'm using a 24-105 RF L lens. Any pointers? Thanks in advance!

Small & lightweight 1.3Kg + 1Kg solution absolutely amazing, powerful and unique up to 32GB of memory (16GB VRAM based on the new RTX 3080 by Nvidia) puts this brand in the tech top today IMHO. https://www.gamerbraves.com/check-out-rogs-flow-x13-convertible-gaming-laptop-and-xg-mobile-external-gpu/ 3 grand.

A few hundred thousand people throwing $100 into a hat is not wealth to many people. I didn’t say it was life affirming. I simply said people are doing it as a form of protest now. And the reaction of some of these certain hedge fund people just affirms why people have disgust for their behavior and their actions and more people pile on. And probably a lot of people doing this are victims of these same hedge fund and Wall Street types that wiped out many families wealth in 2008. So I can understand their emotions and cause. So you could say it’s revenge with low risk and good rewards that seem to be paying out. If you read my post more deeply you would realize that I was advocating for some self-realization dose applied equally for all.

Looks like gamers can bring the revolution to the creative industry so far.

I found this an interesting video: There's a few things about this that struck me. First, it looks like an ad, which is odd. The other things are that they shot the whole thing on the camera hand-held, that the lenses seemed to cover the basics (but weren't especially fast) and that it didn't look fundamentally different to a well-shot video from <insert nice cine camera here>. @elgabogomez I agree that you have to consider the whole package in terms of codecs, tech features, battery life, ergos, etc etc. I also agree about the relative new-ness of the format with lenses and other supporting factors as @noone says, but think about where FF was 3 or 5-years ago, without the frame rates, stabilisation, etc that FF now offers and is even considered a requirement rather than notable feature. Your Polaroid 600SE might appreciate in value proportionately to the newer MF systems and you might be able to swap the Polaroid for a complete MF setup at some point in the future as more players enter the MF space and lens systems are built out etc. I think it will be a very very long time before video can do fake DOF like you're suggesting @Video Hummus - as you say the effect has to be consistent across many frames and so considering the push for higher and higher increases in resolution, the bar is continually being raised about what level of quality the fake effect has to create. I suspect that if you programmed the latest iPhones to take 24 Portrait-mode photos per second and downscaled the result to 640x480 the effect would be perfect, maybe it would hold up at higher resolutions than that even, but 4K? Not a hope in hell. Sensor technology might have to have an oversampling factor too, like you might need an optical and depth camera pair that operate at 5x the resolution of the output image for the result to be video-perfect, but as sensor resolution increases so does the expectation about distribution resolutions, so it might be an equation that won't be answered for some time.

No need to wait, you can do it from now on ; ) https://www.diyphotography.net/convert-any-android-phone-into-an-hdmi-monitor/

No offence taken! I've played with shutter angle and waving my hand on front of my face and I've gotten a sense of how 24p is different to reality. The subjective experience for me is that 24p has a 'look' which is made to look the least un-natural by having a shutter angle somewhere in the 120-240 degree range, depending on your mood and if it's dark etc. But the thing is that 60p doesn't look more neutral to me, it looks like it has about the same amount of a 'look' in comparison to reality that 24p does, but the aesthetic of that look is very different. 24p seems to have a kind of 'heightened sense' aesthetic, like realty can have in moments of strong emotion. Kind of like the visual component of "time slowed down" and in a sense it's an effect that kind of increases the romance and emotion and depth and pain and very texture of experiencing the world as an emotional animal. 60p has an aesthetic that makes reality seem like every atom has been lubricated and everything is kind of slipping all over itself, kind of like everything is falling in slow-motion except that it's doing it at the speed of reality, and perhaps a little bit too fast for comfort. It has an aesthetic like the love child of slipping over in the bath, being scammed by a con artist that was so good the only warning that you got was that everything was happening slightly too easily, and what I imagine it would be like taking pills that make you smarter and give you superhero reflexes. In my mind, 24p has a more relatable aesthetic, it fits with things that I occasionally experience in my sober real-life, but it's also familiar from watching movies and TV, so that's an advantage too. 60p has an aesthetic that I have never experienced in sober real-life. 24p disappears but 60p never seems to fade-away into the background, it's like I've had my brain downloaded into a robot body and somehow they got the code wrong. My answer to your question about what to film for a simulation ride was 60p, but not because it mimics reality, but for two reasons - the first is that in motion-simulations it's been shown that lower frame rates make people nauseous and that it doesn't look like reality or like 24p. So people would come out of the ride having kept their lunch and having had an experience that they'd say "wow, it really was an experience" rather than say "I watched a movie and the seat moved". Talking about frame rate and shutter angle to mimic reality is like talking about drawing with crayons to mimic a moving sculpture - there's enough similarity to make it seem reasonable to ask the question but only good enough to choose between fundamental challenges that cannot all be met.

As you say, 60fps, shutter speed of 60.

Go to video -> Sound -> audio setting -> PCM Recorder Link -> Camera REC volume. You need to have it set to "disabled". Now there's no more hiss, but you need to have your external recorder connected to the mic input as it is now the preamp and the camera does nothing (except record the audio it receives). Took me forever to figure this out. I thought someone might be interested.

Stills are a good supplement to Photography, a replacement.... maybe for those who don't need a full Photograpjy service. How do you accommodate Flash into video stills or shooting vertical. There is an art to Photography that stills from video can't duplicate. That said, I offer video stills as part of my Wedding Services. However I always make it clear that it a service that is not a replacement for Photography.

This are some of this screenshots in cam processed with Lightroom mobil. 4k50p 1/100 natural profil only 8bit

Heh - I shot 20-odd weddings on a pair of 10MP 40Ds with a 350D as backup. People were happy to pay £1500-£2000 (and we didn't even give them prints - that was extra!) in the early noughties. Happy days.

Inequality of wealth is not the problem. Its inequality of rules!

Otherwise, I am perfectly fine from a 13" tablet computer screen coupled to a Thunderbolt 3 port right now ; ) This is a special unit for a very restricted use and nomad users of their own, you have everything else for whatever you're looking for : ) https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/01/12/geforce-rtx-30-series-studio-laptops/ https://www.notebookcheck.net/Quadro-RTX-5000-Laptop-vs-GeForce-RTX-3080-Laptop-GPU-vs-NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-3080_9852_10474_10487.247598.0.html And let's not forget RTX 5000 is a workstation GPU...

I did do a quick test. My process was to film a white wall as a 4k Raw clip, which I processed into a 4:2:2 10 bit uncompressed file. I then used ffmpeg to process the uncompressed video into two different clips with the only difference being the bit depth. I used 420 color and crf 16 on both. The two files both ended up roughly the same size. (8 bit is 3,515 KB, 10 bit is 3,127 KB). I applied a fairly extreme amount of gain, and white balance adjustment equally to all clips. I've included a 100% crop of the uncompressed, 10 bit, and 8 bit files. As you can see, the 8 bit has significantly more ugly banding than the 10 bit. As you can see, the 8 bit has some nasty banding that is not present in the 10 bit version. This is of course an extreme example to show a relatively small difference, but also it does get perceptually worse in motion rather than still frames. Also note that the PNG files themselves are 8 bit (which would match a typical delivery). The banding you see is from the color grading, as all 3 versions have been quantized down to 8 bit upon rendering. Moreover, the 10 bit is actually a 10% smaller file. I find 10 bit HEVC is consistently a smaller file size than 8 bit for better quality. The real benefit of more accurate sampling is that it allows more accurate processing throughout, from compression to coloring. On an related note, both the HEVC clips have lost all the grain and detail compared to uncompressed, which is very unfortunate. However, they are 1% of the file size so I can't complain too much! Edit: just look at the file names to see which pic is which

A decent test would be to shoot a scene in as high quality as you can, like uncompressed raw, and then export a 10 bit and 8 bit version with roughly matching codec and size from that Raw master, and compare those results. If you really want to isolate 10 vs 8 bit, export uncompressed videos with those bit depths. You will most likely see the biggest difference in scenes with smooth gradients in the shadow, particularly with big color grades such as incorrect white balancing, or underexposed scenes. Maybe I'll do some tests later today.

In fact, they say tent mode is where the full power is. One of the modes providing extra airflow. "Inside the docking station is Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 GPU clocked at 1810 MHz at 150W with ROG Boost and is cooled by a vapor chamber cooling system. This design increases the contact surface area by 54% compared to the traditional heat pipes." source And also here is an interesting review from the usual suspects. "The cooling module is designed to draw fresh air from the bottom of the laptop, through open intakes over the two fans, and push it out through two vents placed under the screen, and an extra vent on the left side." "As for the thermal design, illustrated below, Asus went with a dual-fan cooling module, with three heatsinks and a multitude of heatpipes. They also opted for the 2021-updated Arc Flow fans with asymmetrical blades, which increase airflow by up to 13% (official literature) without impacting noise. Furthermore, the laptop implements what Asus calls the 0Db technology, the ability to completely switch off both fans with light use on the Silent profile, as long as the CPU/GPU keep under certain temperatures."

You have boring arguments. Ofc 3080 would be faster than M1, but it is a francinstain solution - unportable, expensive, the one that doesnt work without its own power socket. If you need more power it is logical just to go desktop or wait for M1X.

Here's more useful information: https://www.pcinvasion.com/ces-2021-asus-rog-flow-x13-convertible-and-portable-desktop-level-gaming/ https://www.techpowerup.com/277199/asus-announces-rog-flow-x13-convertible-gaming-laptop-xg-mobile-external-gpu PANTONE validated for colour accuracy.

I would without a moment of hesitation recommend an Elgato Stream Deck. I have the mid sized one which is 15 keys. But you can work in layers - so press photoshop and have 15 shortcuts in PS, same for Premiere, LR, or Chrome (with website shortcuts.) It is just super easy and intuitive to setup...

Well here's my first use of the S5. Neutral profile, no tweaks to any in camera settings, SOOC, 4k 50p shot in shutter priority 1/100 with the 20-60mm kit lens. Clips imported into Premiere and only adjustments have been to the speed which is 50% for the visuals. Password = Woodworker