SleepyWill

Oh sure - I choose my words very carefully! What's interesting is that, and bear in mind ALL these monitors are for professional use and calibrated by people who know what they are doing! When viewed on a Viewsonic PLS panel with the AG coating removed driven by a Quadro, I really like the original best. When viewed on a Dell IPS panel with reasonably aggressive AG coating left on driven by a Quadro, the original looks flat, I prefer yours. When viewed on an ASUS IPS panel with the best AG I have even encountered, driven by a Quadro, I like both equally. When viewed on a Viewsonic PLS panel with the AG coating removed driven by a Firepro, I really like the original best. When viewed on a Dell IPS panel with reasonably aggressive AG coating left on driven by a Firepro, the original looks flat, I prefer yours. When viewed on an ASUS IPS panel with the best AG I have even encountered, driven by a Firepro, I like the original best, the colors on yours look way too much. When the same monitors were driven by both Geforce/Radeon, the results are the same as above and predictably when viewed on a TN panel, they both look muted. And on my TV, I prefer the original, but yours matches most programs! So in conclusion, I think the AG treatment on monitors has a massive effect but mostly it's all in the eye of the beholder!

Ohhh... proof positive that colour is in the eye of the beholder (and their monitor) Yours, on my monitor and to my eye looks over saturated and like you've put it through a tv's "cinema" mode. I find the original (and I share some peoples concerns about the A7s colour rendering) much more natural, much more pleasing and far less Michael Bay. But please don't take that as criticism, I'm almost certain if I looked at it on your, doubtlessly scrupulously calibrated monitor (as is mine) I would share your opinion, it's just the difference in rendering and taste.

I mean, we all mod our kit - that it can't out of the factory doesn't mean that it didn't and, presumably the police have to provide evidence that what they say happened did in fact happen - those helicopters have cameras and they are very good at pointing it in the direction of trouble so if there is no footage, I would be very suspicious - but then if there was no footage, any half decent lawyer is going to run circles around the prosecution.

Given the law in the US, it would seem that they acted appropriately, unless they flat out lied about having to change course to avoid getting too close to it. That these guys are getting felony charges instead of a slap on the wrist and a leaflet detailing their local airspace rules is the over-reaction, but that's on the DA's office, not the police themselves. Presumably it wants to make an example.

While that may be true, don't tar all amateurs with that brush - I love film making and yes, I make films about my kid, my dog and a tonne of other stuff you're not going to enjoy watching - but then, you're not the intended audience. When I make a movie about an incredible bridge I saw, just remember, when you sneer at it, you're sneering at my holiday album - I put it on vimeo so that I can share it with the other people who were on holiday with me by sharing a link. Do I rack focus, well actually I do, but do you make you family wait for golden hour to make sure your holiday snaps of bridges are "professional" quality? I'm not a professional, I don't want to be and if you know you can make better than me by virtue of doing it for your living, that's just fine, but I'm a test driver for a living. I get to drive exotic cars every day of my life, fast around amazing roads. Is it fair of me to sneer at what car you drive, offer professional level "critique" when you need a second stab at parking straight, chortle at you in internet forums as you can't change a wheel in 30 seconds? I understand what it's like to be so good at something that you can make a living out of it while being surrounded by everyone else who can only just function, I really do, but I promise you, it's not necessary to be a bellend about it.

This!!!

As a newcomer to the forums, and one who wishes to be a positive member but won't have the time to prove myself, all I ask is that there is some public section, even if you never go there yourself to allow us newbies to prove ourselves and if some few of us prove to be the type of people you want, that we can be highlighted to you somehow and get access!

Depends on how vigilant they are on the integrity of their own accusations really - the people in here throwing around accusations clearly didn't do the research they demanded of the site here, so they just came here, made some rude, unpleasant comments and are yet to apologise for the mistake they made and Captain hook really needs to research fair use for review purposes before making requests on behalf of someone else, in public in a clear attempt to stir the faeces.

I was referring to the sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 but there is also the: sigma 10-20 f3.5 nikon 10-24mm f3.5-4.5 tokina 10-17mm f3.5-4.5 samyang 10mm f2.8 if you want faster or the: samyang 8mm T3.8 sigma 8-16 f4.5-5.6 if you want wider All of course require the metabones speedbooster

While it does beg the question, why use FAT 32, a file system literally designed to deal with fragmentation efficiently if you are only going to write segments- at least we know that this mean the cameras are wringing every drop of performance out of the hardware they can - the process to write continuously over several fragments is less than a single percentage of writing a single frame, which means that the cameras do not have that much processing resource free. Nice in a world where most people sandbag their hardware and you pay for significantly more than you actually get. I wonder if the answer is something along the lines of allowing you to delete clips but that space can't be utilised by the camera until you "defrag" the card - so if you have a 64Gb card, and you have three clips recorded - a 10Gb file (1) a 30Gb file (2) and a 5 Gb file (3) - you have 11Gb left, give or take but if you delete clip 1 or 2, you continue to have 11Gb left until you press the defrag option - it ties up the camera for a few minutes, but then you have that extra space available, though this approach is hardly the most battery friendly approach!

Do you have a smart phone with a good camera? I use an app called pocket light meter - others are surely avaliable - which while not as precise, gets you to within 95% of a baseline exposure. If you're literally going to put it in the bin, give me a shout - I'll happily swap it for a canon xa10 in almost pristine, but dusty condition!

Isn't the right camera for any individual entirely subjective? What's good for you may be terrible for him and vice versa?

10mm x2 crop = equivalent view as 20mm 7mm x3 crop = equivalent view as 21mm The 10mm with the effects of the speed booster will give you a wider pov! Add into the bargain an f stop boost of, I believe 1 1/3 of a stop, over twice the amount of light let in and you've got the pov you want with a faster (effective) lens! It will be manual focus, but you'll not get autofocus working to any desirable level on any camera, the autofocus can't possibly read your mind and understand where you want the focus, where you want it shifted to and how fast. No camera will offer you this. Check out this for a better written guide to your camera: http://wolfcrow.com/blog/the-blackmagic-pocket-camera-guide-part-one-ergonomics-and-specifications/ - This is a link to part 1 I think you've got a wonderful opportunity here to ditch your reliance on automatic systems, no computer is as quick as your brain at complex, subjective tasks such as pulling focus or exposing a scene to your liking and after a couple of weeks of practice you will be better than the automatic systems on any camera in the world. Good luck, have fun and always remember, you don't need faster, lighter, wider, longer, automatic anything - get creative, move your camera smoothly and never stop learning!

Heh, I think you were talking to a young teen who thinks money grows from mummy and daddy's wallet.

So for stills, that APS-C bit of the sensor is about 5Mps - I've got a tonne of glass for my NEX 7 and I wonder how viable this is for stills in crop mode - I suspect the answer is that it'll be great, plenty of pixels but it will place a demand on getting it right in the camera rather than in lightroom!

Well, no - as I said in my first post, I love that camera and I use it every day. But now I have one black magic camera, I wouldn't buy a second because, for whatever reason they cannot or will not add simple cheap to implement features widely requested by the community - it's not like I'm bemoaning the battery life, design or other features that are difficult and expensive to change. I'm talking about software features a primary school child could code. Formatting a card, deleting a clip and displaying recording space left. Now Blackmagic have demonstrated firmly, as a company, they will not listen to their community. They have had over a year now and these features that exist on my £15 digital camera (no brand visible) have not yet been implemented, despite being asked repeatedly over and over. I would understand if they explained that it was impossible to put these features in, but they haven't. They haven't even acknowledged that people are asking for these features. Which is fine, I'm not going to attack them on how they run their business, but I won't buy from them again, because I don't wish to financially reward that attitude to their customers. I'm not going to enforce my opinion on others who have different priorities either, I'm glad there are customers out there for their new cameras, and I'm glad there are people out there who are happy customers - I'm a happy customer - did I mention, I love my BMPCC! But now just because I wouldn't buy another camera from them, I have to sell it??

Ha! A friend of mine spend well over £1000 for a matte box.... for no other reason than to make his camera look a bit more professional.

As a customer, I have a choice. When a camera arrives on the market, I am allowed to decide whether I wish to buy that camera or not. There are many factors that make up that decision, one of which, quite obviously is price and the features you get for that price. One very important feature is aftersales support. I get it, you and a few others are happy with bare minimum after sales support due to the incredible features you get for such a low price. That's fine, that's your choice. But when I make my choice, why do you feel it is appropriate to tell me to "stop throwing the babay (SIC) out with the bathwater?" Its my choice to make and you need to respect that, if you wish to be treated with respect for the consumer choices you have made.

Have you tried a nikon fit 10mm lens with the metabones adapter and manual focus? Sigma do a 10 - 20 f4-5.6

I love my BM Pocket and thanks to it's size I use it every day! I'm no professional but a proud amateur and I have to agree with the sentiment of this article, I wouldn't buy another Black Magic camera until they start looking after their userbase. Card space left should have been included the moment it was bought to their attention, and if, at this point they are unwilling to write the patch themselves, open the source code up to the community, we'll do it!