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Yeah, I'm not familiar enough with that particular sport to know exactly what sort of groupings the shots would need so it was more a general point about shooting from a fixed position with the 100m+ range that @kye was looking for. At that sort of distance, even a five or six player grouping is going to be challenging with a 400mm FOV equivalent. For stills, when you can crop then its not so much of an issue but for video, purely at the range he's talking about, its going to leave you a bit short in my opinion. For Test cricket, I used to shoot on 300-800mm but still wasn't averse to throwing a teleconverter on or using a cropped body to get a bit more reach but with 5 days to grind out you'd take any chance you could to add a bit of variety in the shots

Even taking into account the 400mm FOV equivalence of you having it on an MFT camera, you are still going to be a bit short at those distances with a 200mm to be honest. Covering football (the real one not the weird variants that all of you colonials have cobbled together ), which, depending on the stadium, will typically have a 130m distance from my position to the other goal requires a fair amount of cropping with a 400mm to get anything meaningful for action at that end. I think you'd benefit greatly with a lens that ended at 300mm rather than 200mm not just in terms of additional reach but also in terms of separation from the additional compression of the longer focal length. Sigma have done a 100-300mm f4 in various mounts for many years which, whilst not exactly free, would be ideal if you went that route and is worth keeping an eye out on eBay for.

To the fully working in electric blue case with separate bluetooth remote controller stage thank you very much I'm looking for some bigger glass as there is currently a limitation on the size of lens it is suitable for. I did say I'd do a build along thread for it for anyone who wants to have a go as is (cost for the glass and controller is around £50-60) and I will get round to it.

Apologies if I have inadvertently offended you with that remark Don. It was just a failed attempt at some levity based on your personal ability to cause trouble in an empty house

Sounds like more than a coincidence that mate

I'll come back with more detail when I've got a bit more time but the one that ticks all the boxes is the Sony A6500. APS-C, IBIS, Log, EVF, Mic input and the rangefinder style makes it more compact than the SLR styling and therefore pocketable. Lens wise, the cheap Sigma primes for it are tiny and way better than they have a right to be. The fast native and M mount Voigtlanders and 7Artisans are also very compact. Its not a well loved camera (I say that as an owner of one as well!) but it does a hell of a lot in a small package. If you can get the stabilisation to come from your lenses then I'd have the OG Blackmagic Pocket in there as well but its tricky getting a fast one with OS. In terms of utility for a pure travel camera then I'd have to say that after using it for the past week in that role, the Osmo Pocket is a standout product.

Probably somewhere between far better than you expected it to be and far worse than you'd like it to be ? Look at that battery life though and thats with having physical moving parts in it as well ! For any youngsters looking at that camera, no, the control marked "Tracking" has got nothing to do with Auto Focus

If it was more than $5 you were robbed Looks nice actually but I'm surprised that there isn't a more pronounced difference in the background between f3.8 and f8 at 200mm?

You can get dedicated PTZ cameras from Panasonic, Sony etc but they are pretty expensive. If you want to use your GH5 then Panasonic do two powered zoom lenses (Lumix Vario PZ and 14-42mm and 45-150mm) so you would be able to control exposure, focus and zoom remotely over wifi from the app if you used those. The primary problem with those lenses, aside from the speed, is that they don't cover enough of a range in one unit and the long end is not long enough for a lot of sports. A better solution would be a Panasonic FZ2000/2500 which has the entire zoom range in one integrated unit and goes out to 480mm equivalent on the long end with additional digital zoom if you need it. https://www.panasonic.com/uk/consumer/cameras-camcorders/lumix-digital-cameras/bridge-cameras/dmc-fz2000.html It also has a ton of other features including in built ND, OIS and a paid V-LOG upgrade if you want it. Again, using the Panasonic app, you will be able to control focus, exposure and zoom over wifi. The missing piece of the puzzle then would be the tripod head and I would definitely have a look at the Bescor/Hague head for that which has both wired and wireless options for controlling them. Its not a totally integrated solution as the camera and head controls are separate but its as close as you are going to get without buying a dedicated PTZ camera and certainly a lot cheaper. It also has the advantage of giving you a standalone second camera for use in other projects rather than just being a single use device. Coincidentally, I walked past a glass windowed studio here the other day where they are using two of the heads to do a live show with.

If you want to do some dimension extrapolation, those are Ray-Ban CATS 5000 Classic sunglasses she's wearing which have a lens/bridge/lens diameter of 131mm. If I remember correctly.

At first glance I thought that was some sort of Lake Placid Blue coloured fin tailed 50s car with its brake light on !

Funnily enough, he landed here in it yesterday so he must be coming to pre-order it. We also had an earthquake at roughly the same time, though his hair remained unmoved obviously.

My "local" (until Monday) camera shop has it up for pre-order now for June delivery. With the tax refund and extra discount for paying by visa, its just on £7K. For UK buyers, I reckon that £3K saving its well within the realms of "definitely worth a plane ticket" if I was in the market for one, particularly so in 3 or 4 months time when used ones start to become available here and even bigger savings can be had.

I'm a bit confused about the objection to having to go external to record ProRes on the Z cam and then going for a camera that doesn't record internally at all ? Interested to hear how you get on with the Micro Studio Camera though as its not a camera that gets much if any attention on here. What recorder are you going to use with it?

I've brought a BMPCC with me on this trip and using it with the two Panasonic small cheap zooms as they have IS and using internal batteries to keep it all small as well. My batteries are pretty ropey so I get about 5 minutes of actual shooting per one but its no big deal carrying a few. I've no idea what the footage really looks like but I'm mainly doing night stuff with it but off the back screen it certainly looks suitably neon lit urban sleazy ! Don't forget to treat those old SD cards carefully because as you know its a bit of a bastard trying to get recently produced ones to work in them.

The thing that amused me about this was these sites doing an official timed launch announcement for the release of a rumour. I'm surprised they didn't live stream it.

Yeah, you've now made me up my buy it now price by a few quid. Really nice.

I know it has its faults and doesn't get much love but, purely in terms of what I've seen people shoot with them, I've never seen much from the BM 4K Production Camera that I didn't think looked pretty good. I saw one in the window at a CEX branch a while ago for £650 and I see MPB have got one now for £709. Won't be long before they reach my totally arbitrary "oh go on then" price of £500!

As is the camera

I think its this one https://www.wiralcam.com/

IBIS is the common denominator. New lenses could well be the reason actually.

I was only kidding about the external ProRes RAW thing obviously. Its internal ProRes RAW really.

I just asked the man in the camera shop what it was for and he said its for the upcoming ProRes RAW output. Or he may have been giving me directions to the toilet. I dunno, my Japanese is limited to asking if that price is tax free.

The current score is a bit measly, just a used 7Artisans 24mm f1.4 but I'm off for a serious go around again in a couple of hours so that will be added to I've been toying with the S1/24-105 as its about £600 saving so that might happen. Thats some deal for that 200mm f1.8. Judging by the picture you put of it on twitter, someone had the same dilemma over putting it in hand luggage and strapped it to the outside of the plane instead!

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