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I'm considering picking up an ARM Mac and Atomos Shogun 7 for what I assume is currently the best exprience for ProRes RAW. Currently shooting CDNG with a FS5II to an Odyssey 7Q and editing on PC with DaVinci Resolve. It's... OK. Please chime in if you're editing ProRes RAW on the new ARM Macs! I would love to hear your thoughts, good and bad. 🙂 @Oliver Daniel any updates on switching to the ARM mac?

@KnightsFan it's only being manufactured by them. Z-Cam did the reverse engineering, design and coding to have the lenses communicate with their camera bodies.

@Andrew Reid If they're willing to reverse engineer the Sony protocol, Z-CAM might crack RF next. I know you aren't too keen on the 28–70mm F2, but that's a monster lens for the cine look. (The fly-by-wire focus and aperature are a bumber, but still, it's an incredible lens.)

Not a trade show fan. That said, in my neck of the woods, it comes down to having reps that know ZERO about the product. On the rare occassion the booth is manned by a product manager or engineer... yeah, trade shows are totally worth it. You get real answers and your feedback is often used in firmware updates and possibly future products.

Wow.

@Oliver Daniel Please let us know how it goes. I'm going to assume the limited amount of RAM in these first, entry level units, is going to suck for 4K/8K editing. But who knows, for basic edits, FCPX may be able to hold enough footage in RAM to make previewing/scrubbing doable.

Is giving stupid people the crap content they want such a bad thing? Which came first, the idiot or the content algorithm? Happy as a pig in shit. Ignorance is bliss.

@EphraimP No sound, no. It's just a demo of what's possible with any MIDI controller with appropriate software. And to be honest, looking through this thread, look how expensive everyone's "solutions" are. Crazy to think people are willing to spend hundreds if not thousands on some dedicated device that will be much slower at the start. Chances are too they will not use it enough, or simply never relearn a workflow around a specific piece of gear. Why relearn anything? You can get midi controllers localy for literally $10-20. All it takes is a small investment in time to learn how to map the inputs and then you can dedicate buttons, knobs, sliders, etc, to commands (or a combination of commands,) you use all the time. No relearning someone else's workflow. No spending insane amount of money. Even the Elgato which offers flexibility is way too fucking expensive. (Terrible software and god awful hardware btw.) Imagine spending the equivalent of a used lens or light on a glorified keyboard.

Grab a cheap used midi controller locally and use Midikey2Key for PC (not sure for Mac, something free is out there,) to remap the knobs, buttons, whatever, for keyboard commands. Here's the idea:

@Nathan Solomon Please keep us up-to-date, I am personally enjoying following this project and am interested in pursuing doing something similar. 🙂 Everything you share is a great help.

@ajay supposedly the 2 aussie companies had a falling out a while back, that BM is dragging its feet to fuck over Atomos

@Josue Nunez be really careful buying any used blackmagic bodies, lots of units floating around with bad FPN, SDI and HDMI connector issues and just weird sensor problems Unless you can extensively test beforehand I would only buy 2ndhand from somewhere I can return, even if they charge a restock fee

Weak codecs. No locking mount (though clearly designed to be swapped). No SDI. It’s an awesome ILC upgrade to the XC camcorder but calling this cinema is laughable. Will continue saving for a URSA 12K.

Knowing these aren’t crappy rehousings makes me tempted to pair them with a ZCAM E2-M4. They now have a locking MFT mount. With an SDI module, you have the tiniest cinema camera package on the market.

@Antoin e Look for someone who advertises modchip installations for consoles or look for a "hackerspace"; anyone with intermediate soldering skills and the ability to order a BNC connector from mouser can repair it for you, quick and cheap, assuming you didn't crack the PCB or dislodge some SMDs.

@IronFilm the used FS5M2 and 7Q I picked up has been the best camera package I've ever used, camcorder ergonomics with cinema camera features

@kye Sitting infront of a 4K 43" monitor, the difference in resolution between clips is easy to spot.🤷‍♂️ I could also tell when clips were sharpened because of the microcontrast haloing. The order of clips was annoying, had to rearrange so they were back to back, not sequential.

@ntblowz long term strategy is riding tesla ATH and buying airline shares? lol, why not double down and buy 2021 options? 😆

already made 400% on silver, let'ssss gooooo!

So with Olympus exiting the business, what lenses are you going to purchase in case they become super rare and expensive in a few years? I personally just bought both body cap lenses: 15mm f/8, 9mm f/8.

Wouldn't mind picking one of these up for controlled studio shooting: if sales are poor we might see heavy discounts by holiday season or more likely next year. The original EOS-M bombed and Canon was forced to clear inventory by basically giving it away.

I need to build a large, evenly lit light source. I own plenty of paper, cloth, silk, etc, but I need something that will make for very uniform diffusion. Objective is to make a backdrop that can be rear lit with RBGW strips to dial in any color. Currently using hard lights with gels but can’t shoot larger than 2 feet without hitting massive light fall off. And when I try to diffuse my lights I lose intensity big time. Ideally I require: - 3 x 3 feet or larger - Neutral, no color casts - minimal light loss - rigid, no tooling marks, uniform translucency when lit dimmly I believe what I’m after is some sort of acrylic sheet, like the panels used in fluorescent lighting, but I don’t have any experience with these types of materials. Anyone have any advice?

No SDI-out is a shame. Also no positive lock MFT mount is sad. Would be awesome to use the few m43 lenses that have proper mechanical focus. I still think a Kinefinity Terra is a better entry level cinema camera: you get RAW and ProRes at 160fps in 4K. The Terra is just way more expensive now. Z-cams have a mishmash of framerates and codecs. Annoying in post.

There's a few big budget movies that have used a 360° shutter, Public Enemies comes to mind:

@Oliver Daniel go all out with the nanlite stuff. I own quasar crossfire tubes, aputure 120ds and lightstorms, and, nanlite pavo tubes. The nanlite products have more features, are often better built and cost less. Only thing nanlite doesn't make are the tiny credit card sized panels. I use aputure amran al-mc (RGB) al-m9 (bicolour) Edit: though they do make a mini RGB tube, pavotube ii 6c