Andrew Reid

It always puzzles me why these people end up in such powerful positions. Who did she know, what did they see in her, and so on. Indeed, it puzzles me even more why a finance person is the CEO of a creative video sharing company. Surely they do not need a leader in banking (who was turned down for bank jobs), rather, they need a leader in Online Video Sharing Platforms, and then under that leader a finance department. It all seems backwards to me. By the way I asked for my personal data from Vimeo a new weeks ago. They finally got round to giving it to me. A text file with just four columns in it... Under the EU law, that is actually illegal not to give the user full access to all the data. I.e. my original video files, personal message inbox, comments and more. In the event I need to rebuild my online video portfolio at any moment given Vimeo's policy of deleting entire accounts for DMCA 3-strike reasons, am I supposed to take this piddly little text file and that satisfies the job? It isn't even fit for purpose. Their legal and compliance department just seem clueless. And all this is accountable to the person at the top.

Haha. +1 It's ridiculous.

He's not even very consistent ... Sometimes it is the stuff of a Canon PR plant. Sometimes it is rabidly anti-Canon. Sometimes I wonder if the internet is populated at least 50% by faulty bots.

$1200 is not bad considering who it is aimed at and the Titanium PL adapter it comes inside. So I ask again, wonder what is stopping more adapters like this one? Tech clearly exists dunnit!

Wait for the copy-cat drop-in variable ND filters for all sorts of mirrorless cameras! Technically one is possible for Micro Four Thirds Mount / Pocket 4K as well.

Do you like Roxette? Fringer do!

We should start a new sub-forum. Fixing Max's tests in post.

You wouldn't want a trad. vari-nd in your camera body. It doesn't have a 'clear' setting and it messes with reflections. Unless we are talking electronic ND or a filter wheel. I am really surprised the FS5 is still the only e-ND on the market, must be a Sony exclusive tech!

ah those well known matching colour profiles - PP1, Eterna and Neutral!

The Fringer needs to be used on the X-T3 in phase-detect AF mode with compatible lenses. I don't think the Phoblographer had much luck on the X-Pro 2 as it's a much older AF system especially in video mode where it is particularly useless.

So is the battery meter actually dodgy, or does the battery swell and the contacts pull away from +/- polls in the compartment? Hmm. The mystery deepens.

At least with Fringer adapter for Fuji X mount you can add IS to the X-T3 with Canon IS lenses. It works well. Also the AF is supposed to be amazing.

I have the Crane 2. Doesn't mount on it out of the box, Pocket 4K is too wide. Not sure if adapter plate. Ronin S is twice the weight of Crane 2. Reason I went for the Crane was the lightness and compactness of it. Be curious to see what works and what does. Nice thread.

I have yet to hear a report of the genuine Canon batteries jamming, because I think the cheaper cells in the third party LPs expand under stress or heat generation, wedging the battery housing into some kind of kink in the camera compartment. I definitely recommend investing in some proper Canon batteries and chucking the one that came with it in the bin.

Well the Nikon Z7 is a $3500 pro camera. Does Max really think the people who buy it are going to use it on the default settings out of the box and not even explore the different automatic WB presets which would have fixed Bart Simpson and the other picture styles such as Flat which would give more control of colour in post? It's not a mom & pa's camera. It's a professional mirrorless camera and he's testing it like a bloody iPhone or a point & shoot. It's just an excuse for lazy testing and gettin' it out quick. Sadly he has 100,000s views and the good guys who WAIT do not. That's what happens when you have no editorial control over a network (YouTube) and promote stuff based on FIRST and VIEWING STATS.

Was it a third party LP-E6 battery or a genuine Canon blue label battery?

My Z7 just doesn't do that to skin tones on the default settings. You'd think I'd notice if someone was BART SIMPSON. And anyway, 90% of people do not use the default settings. They set up the camera correctly according to the shot. Give people some credit.

Pinch of salt. You need a bucket my friend. Unless that guy's name is Bart or his liver has given up the ghost, there is no way the Z7 is set up correctly. Again, in the Pocket 4K shot the man with the Apple tampon in his right ear seems off. It's under exposed. I have not watched the video, I will just get annoyed... But can anyone tell me if Max says ANYWHERE in it, what the camera picture profile and white balance settings were, what kind of lighting was used, what the workflow was in post, what the codec settings were or what he did to the Pocket 4K to make it look about a stop darker than the EOS R at ISO 1600? If there is anywhere near that level of basic detail in the video I'll be astonished. I don't care if Max is a nice guy or not, he is misleading as shit with these basic cobbled together test shots. He simply does not deserve that many subscribers on YouTube, based on the quality of his info. But hey, that's YouTube for you! You are Alice. I am Alice. It is always the Mad Hatters YouTube Party. It's eternally 6pm, time to be mislead into buying some shit we don't need.

That's not because of the LCD panel though is it!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?! It's because there's practically a PC inside processing your recording!

A fan to cool the screen? Are you ok? This doesn't make any sense. Anyway, if it were a tilting screen then the heat source (backlighting) would be away from the body of the camera and would have a lot of nice airflow under it. As a modern LED backlit screen it doesn't create enough heat to need any cooling, so it's a moot point anyway. They are both great, but I think the Pocket 4K has the better video quality. That's not to say that the X-T3 isn't also nice, plus it has brilliant AF tracking, EVF, larger sensor, stills camera body ergonomics that some may prefer, nice bunch of Fuji lenses, so it depends on your preferences really.

Cheers mate! Is there a way to have Auto WB dynamically change in real-time as you shoot? Like on a mirrorless cam or DSLR? Yeah that playback segmenting of clips is a strange decision, or at the least should be optional. It's very confusing as other have mentioned. Firmware update needed!

Yes the menus are fantastic, the general control layout - I did not realise this until today when I finally put it in my hand - is lovely. Much nicer than I expected. Even the polycarbonate plastic construction doesn't bother me. If anything it's good, because it makes for a very lightweight construction. This is a big camera by mirrorless standards but a TINY and light on by pro video standards, let alone cinema RAW proportions. Yes there are baffling decisions going on but a lot of common sense too. I still do not like Blackmagic's launch strategy and initial shipping quantities, it is ridiculous to be tormented for months with a mix of teasing and social media hype - I almost went mad - but believe me it is worth the wait. Again like BTM says, far from perfect, or without quirks - but it is different to anything else I own and a worthy upgrade from the original - in fact it is SIGNIFICANTLY better than that first camera in every way. Something I did not realise until I actually turned up. I am going to have so many words to eat from this thread, I'll probably choke to death.

For the first time ever I've come face to face with the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K and the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K has come face to face with me. It's time to face facts without doing an about-face. Read the full article

It's very strange why I have so many insufferable cum badgers on my own website. It's not like I haven't tried over the last 8 years to get logical info out... Apparently, some will still think the difference between EOS R 4K and other 4K cams is as big as the gap between faux 1080 80D and 4K on the GH5. Stupidity is like death. It's only difficult for the other people.

I am finding it pretty hard to come up with a good alternative to Vimeo. I even thought about opening a second Vimeo account without any DMCA strikes, and moving stuff over to that. Then if that gets a strike in future, cancel it, and move again. Yes it's a pain but might only have to do it every couple of years. Thing is, you never know when something can happen. YouTube is full of ads and community is... erm... yeah. Self-hosting I think could honestly be the way forward, but won't help draw viewers to your work. If it's just to show clients on a web page, then self hosting is fine though. How about this - https://fabrik.io/for/filmmakers "Instant import from Vimeo and YouTube" sounds like a good time-saver to getting started