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  1. hyalinejim

    Panasonic GH6

    Just so we're all on the page: I was testing battery life, not overheating. Of course, the figure doesn't mean anything until it's compared to something else. I'll try to run the same test on a GH5 to compare. Not in Ireland lol! Hottest day of the year so far 😂
    3 points
  2. hyalinejim

    Panasonic GH6

    Yes, it was! GH5 ran to 1h 44m 56s! (4k 60 8bit 420) So why are people, myself included, moaning about GH6 battery life? Perhaps the GH6 battery eats battery faster when not recording? I might try a test where both are switched on but not recording and see when each one dies. That's kind of a drag, though, as I'd have to sit there and watch them... unless I had a third camera that can record forever, which I don't 😂 BTW am I right in saying that on the GH5 you can't use V-Log view assist during playback? As in, it will always be in log? If so, that's another thing I like about the GH6: you can show the client the shot you just took and not have to say "It looks all grey and washed out now, but I'll fix that in the final video, don't worry!"
    2 points
  3. Not quite the same, but rather than switch my recently acquired 14” M1 MacBook Pro for what I should have bought, the MacStudio (or whatever it is called), I have ordered the parts to build myself a super dooper fast external SSD which I can not only download to, but edit off. I don’t really like messing with techy things and prefer plug n’ play but Mr Gordon Laing had a good video on the subject. And has saved me 1000+ euros as a result.
    2 points
  4. mercer

    Panasonic GH6

    That's not bad at all. I was starting to think that it was getting OG BMPCC type of numbers with how much I've heard about the bad battery life.
    2 points
  5. I've got a bunch of Samsung T5/T7 drives for the Fp and Pocket cameras and, as small as they are, they are still a bit cumbersome and in the case of the T5s I've had a couple fail on me. This is not exactly a unique or challenging DIY project to make my own alternative to the T5/T7s but thought it might be useful for anyone looking for something similar that is both faster and, for my purposes, a bit more ergonomic. Enter the Sabrent NVMe enclosure and the WD SN770 NVMe drive. The Sabrent takes both SATA and NVME in sizes 2242/2260/2280 and is tool-free so you just pop it open and then insert the drive. Once you've done that, simply snap the case shut again and you have a ready to go drive which, for me at least, is a far better form factor than a T5/T7 for mounting on a camera and is easily swappable in the field for another NVMe if you run out of space. To be able to mount it to a camera, I decided that the most appropriate and versatile route would be via a standard 1/4" 20 thread so I designed and resin printed an adapter that will take a screw and which is then bonded to the bottom of the drive case. With that in place it can now be mounted to the camera cage horizontally or in the case of the Pocket cameras, directly into the thread on the top of the camera. For my own use, I much prefer mounting it in this orientation but, of course, with it now having the 1/4" 20 mount it can be mounted anywhere. In terms of price, the 1tb drive and the housing came to around €125 so it is certainly very competitively prices compared to the Samsungs. Oh and there is the small matter of the quoted write speed being 5,150MB/s which makes it significantly faster than even the gen2 T7's speed of 1,000 MB/s. In terms of actual real world performance, I shot all day with it on the P4K earlier in the week at 5:1 BRAW and it didn't miss a beat. As I say, not unique, not challenging and not for everyone but it fills a need for me. Some better cable/cable management required now though.
    1 point
  6. PannySVHS

    Sony FX6 is here

    Plus classleading lowlight quality without codec mush unlike the A7S3 plus 10bit in 422 full width of its FF sized sensor in all frame rates. Very fast sensor readout. @webrunner5
    1 point
  7. webrunner5

    Sony FX6 is here

    The FS6 with the ability to set the electronic ND filter on auto is a total game changer for run n gun I think.
    1 point
  8. I would add that from my experience of using a manual focus 58mm Rokkor 1.2 on a 5D3 for photography I found that if I used the optical viewfinder to judge focus, forget it, it was out of focus. I missed it nearly every time. However, I got an almost 100% success rate by using an LCD viewfinder (remember those?). So you're magnifying the large, high resolution image on the rear LCD screen. It's actually possible to nail focus this way.
    1 point
  9. Speed booster from the link doesn't have electronic contacts, S1 won't crop the picture. Camera won't know what kind of lens is attached. S1/S5 do the crop with ASP lenses when they have electronic contacts and are recognized by the camera. However I don't think it's a good idea to use FF with speed booster on a FF body. At least you need to try it first. Recently bought a relatively good and cheap Chinese lens with positive reviews: https://phillipreeve.net/blog/review-syoptic-50mm-1-1/ Never had such a fast lens and wanted to try one for photography. For video such a shallow DOF is totally unusable. For photography it was a disappointment too. It's a specialized tool only for portraits but at f1.1 it is soft and very difficult to manually focus. Almost any good 50mm f1.4 performs better than this one at f1.4. Other f/1.1 or f/0.95 don't differ much. If you are after ultra/super shallow DOF type of lenses try LAOWA 35mm f0.95 or 45mm f0.95 or Mitakon Speedmaster 50mm f0.95. I know people who similar to me bought some of those lenses used them for some time for portraits then sold them. It is really a special tool, you definitely has to like this type of look.
    1 point
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  11. webrunner5

    Panasonic GH6

    First picture taken with the 300mm. Exciting isn't it. That thing is about half a block away lol.
    1 point
  12. webrunner5

    Panasonic GH6

    Well, here is a picture of the beast rig.
    1 point
  13. It is because of YouTubers reviewing the F3 (and probably because of threads like this one as well....). Ever since this video came out a couple of years ago then prices have never been the same for the F3 😕
    1 point
  14. IronFilm

    Sony FX6 is here

    RED KOMODO vs Sony FX6 vs Canon C70
    1 point
  15. @webrunner5 Also by the results from your link, you would still have the R7 right up there with the Sony A6500 which sports one of the best APSC sensor for dynamic range. Add 10bit 422 and a higher 32MPixel count and it´s a pretty good sensor by this data. Fun fact, results from the website you posted, GH5MK2 betters both sensors from ISO 125 on. How it really turns out to be in pratical use, that we will see. Also rolling shutter and other great aspects of the cultivated image.:) I remember the Red Dragon test on DXOmark. Was really hard to believe the results. No one would ever believe these test results in the world of cinematography afaik.
    1 point
  16. One day i will buy one of those gizmos i swear.. i'm just waiting for the Black Sabbeth, black friday sale. Actually i have a table saw to buy then maybe i can look at something a bit more relevant to the forum.
    1 point
  17. thats pretty handy to know thanks for sharing your insight. I have two of the t5's however they dont get used nearly enough 🙄 however if one does die, i now know what to do.
    1 point
  18. hyalinejim

    Panasonic GH6

    Not more than 25C
    1 point
  19. Yeah, Cleff has been doing tests on DPR for a Long time. I find his stuff more accurate in real life than DXO's. Cine D's DR test of video cameras are way more accurate than what the company's spew out. Like Red's 20 stops bullshit.
    1 point
  20. kye

    Panasonic GH6

    What was the ambient temp?
    1 point
  21. With the latest cameras being 10-bit with full log profiles, I think that's changing. It used to be the case though. That was my impression as well.
    1 point
  22. hyalinejim

    Panasonic GH6

    1h 29m 17s This is in 4k 60p LongGOP with DR boost. Static scene exposed at +0, camera on tripod, IBIS off, LCD flipped out with backlight at 0 brightness.
    1 point
  23. This is it. All the other language about "greater than 23fps" and "4K or higher" or "internal, visually lossless" is all written to broaden the patent intentionally as a, in my opinion, blatant "idea" smash and grab. They only came up with a method and instead they got a patent for essentially: "visually lossless compressed bayer data in a camera at greater than 23fps and 4K and up resolution". Ford invented a novel form of locomotion via a box ("vehicle") with 4 or more wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine (as described in prior patent XYZ), moving at speeds greater than 23mph. Ford is calling it a "motorized vehicle" and will sue anybody that tries to use wheels and internal combustion engines to go faster than 23mph.
    1 point
  24. The Sony doesn’t record though, let alone in ProRes or ProResRAW It can monitor and stream but in that respect it’s no different to adding a $10 HDMI converter to any Android phone. As opposed to it needing a $2400 one. Even if the iPhone had an input (which Apple have zero interest in adding as they want people to buy them as cameras) it has fixed (expensive) internal storage which makes it impractical as a recorder. Again, that’s before the other stuff that something like a Ninja gives you such as audio input, expansion for timecode and SDI etc Even if Apple did decide to add all that, the financials wouldn’t add up either when you can get a Ninja V now for $399 and the 8K capable V+ for $599 as opposed to the $1500-$2000 that a theoretical iPhone with the same capability would be. The threat that phones present to camera manufacturers will actually indirectly cause phones to be responsible for the demise of products like the Ninja V though. Not by replacing them like for like but by forcing camera manufacturers to include internal ProRes to compete with phones and therefore make the external recorder redundant by default.
    1 point
  25. The patent is about as dumb as one that says you are not allowed to sing in the key of C. Just crazy stuff.
    1 point
  26. Andrew, let me describe two of the biggest issues with RED's patent, ignoring how insanely stupid it is to patent compressed RAW above 23fps: 1) Their patent was filed over a year after the camera was on the market. It is invalid on that basis alone. 2) The patent should never have been granted because it is SO GENERIC AND BROAD. It covers not truly lossless RAW video, but visually lossless RAW. What is the definition of visually lossless in the patent? That the average person can see no difference. That's literally it. None of RED's RAW video is actually lossless. If it were, why would you have options of 3:1, 5:1, 8:1, 12:1, 18:1, whatever they are - or now I believe they're just HQ, MQ, and LQ. None of those are truly lossless RAW like you can shoot in most stills cameras. They are lossy RAW. So, by being granted a patent for visually lossless (to the average person) RAW, they have effectively been given domain over both lossless AND lossy RAW. Lossless and lossy RAW existed in stills form prior to RED developing a single thing. They took that and said "ok give us a patent on this except at 24fps or higher" - which, by the way, a number of cameras do now (there is no defined limit of time in RED's patent for how long it can shoot, because again, it's as broad and vague as you can possibly get). It would be fair if they had a patent on REDCODE RAW, just as I'm sure BM has one on BRAW and Canon on C-RAW and so on. But to patent something that already existed - and simply taking it to the next logical extension - and then being granted that patent with excessively broad language is simply wrong. It would be like if someone had patented all forms of audio compression. Instead, patents were filed on audio compression formats, like DPCM (the first) and coding standards (AAC, MP3, DC3, FLAC, etc.).
    1 point
  27. Django

    Sony FX6 is here

    Been playing around with some FX6 footage, gotta say wow I'm very impressed. Maybe not as clean shadows or as organic looking as C70's DGO sensor but overall just excellent detailed IQ with a modern look that can be "mojo'd up" when pairing with vintage lens & grade: Getting Venice vibes from this cam's IQ. Biggest/Only con for me is no 4K S35 mode.
    1 point
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