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I suspect its more political than technical. With the MC11 they only had to satisfy themselves whereas with the MC21 they have to satisfy their other two partners in the L alliance, both of whom want to sell their own lenses. Leica threw their toys out of the pram completely and won't entertain the MC21 being on their cameras at all and I would suspect the compromise with Panasonic is that Sigma favour compatibility with the SA mount version of it rather than the EF version. Sigma always maintained that the MC11 would only work with their own EF lenses rather than Canon or other manufacturers yet we all know that to be quite a conservative stance! In the case of the MC21 perhaps that stipulation has to be seen to be more literal. When Sigma release the L mount versions of the SD Quattros it will be interesting to see how much better the compatibility of the MC21s are on those.

Nice. It will be North West coast and is very similar to your edge of shore shots actually. It will likely be on the mystery camera as I will be in desperate need to pad out my entry! It varies so its best doing an "x vs y" google search for the specific lenses. In general, a lot of them do share the same optics but the further complication is the vintage of them and the variance that can bring in terms of the life they've led. The only sure way I suppose is to buy mint versions of both, test them and sell the loser!

It was around £200 so yeah you got quite the bargain there! Nice shot. I do like an old school boardwalk. I might shoot a UK one when I go back in a few weeks for comparison! Could be a bluff though and the "mystery" element is how on earth I made a RED look that cheap!

I was in a used gear shop in Tokyo and they had a 35mm f2, a 50mm f2 and an 85mm f2 at really decent prices and I was thinking "right, I'm going to have an f2 prime set then"....and then I saw the price of the 28mm and 135mm and the moment passed I wouldn't rule out me being able to make it sing like Britney without Autotune by the way.

Which particular one is it?

Its unfortunate that it produces more noise than an AC/DC gig.

Video grabs from a mystery noisy camera with a mystery unsharp lens

Absolutely !

Absolutely not. As I said in the very first post in this thread, I never thought that RED were producing their own media so I'm surprised this has taken this long to be laid bare in this way. My point is that it is the evidence from those posts on the other forum of the attempted procurement of resources to extract and duplicate the firmware from the drive that will have a potential impact on the case Jinnitech have brought against RED. As I said earlier, I am watching this whole thing with interest because I don't think this is going to stop with the MiniMags and the spotlight will be turned in the same way onto the original 1.8 Mags. My sense of indignation will then be turned up from a solid 8 to a hard 11 when it involves something that I have personally been ripped of for and with any luck it will then move on to the RedDrives for the RED ONE as I can climb on that particular bandwagon as well.

I would suspect it could impact some aspects of the suit by Jinnitech against RED that include accusations from RED of IP theft if it is proven that those posts requesting help in extractinf and duplicating firmware were actually from Jinnitech and were related to the MiniMags. But yes, the other stuff about capacity, country of origin, pricing etc will still stand though. I shall go and have a nose at the new thread

Yeah, that is in the Reduser thread that I linked to earlier. It might changed the story considerably.

Just pointing out that the instructions were as an illustration for the, erm, low cost "tribute" edition of the Hydrophobia that Kye has got rather than recommending the using the actual class A drug containing bag pictured

The upside of the Lexar is the availability as the RED ones are rarer but price wise they are inline as the Lexar is half the price for half the capacity at usual used prices. But, yeah, 4 minutes I don't know why they wouldn't open it up to 3rd party cards and ditto letting people put SSDs in the original external drives. So many people upgraded into the DSMC programme that they would/have been still making money off the newer media types.

Looking through the post, the story seems to have moved on as someone has unearthed a possibly related thread on a hard drive forum from three years ago with some requesting information regarding how to dump firmware from drives and clone it onto another one.... http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?177083-Jinnitech-back-at-it-again/page12

Although not as cheap as that price, there are a lot of places in Switzerland that offer it at a healthy discount over the UK price for example. I've bought a few Nikon cameras in Switzerland over the years as whilst its much of a muchness for other brands it has always been a lot cheaper for Nikon gear. Have a look at these other stores and see if they will ship it. https://www.toppreise.ch/price-comparison/Digital-cameras/NIKON-Z6-Kit-Z-24-70mm-F-4-0-FTZ-Lens-Adapter-VOA020K003-p536812

This is how its done on a ThinkTank Hydrophobia so you will need to replicate this. At its most basic level then, you can do this in a DIY fashion by removing the EVF cup and cutting a hole in the plastic cover to snugly fit around the EVF that the removal of the cup has exposed but keeping the mounting rails for the cup exposed. Then when you want to use it, you remove the EVF cup, press the cover onto the camera and slide the EVF cup back on and the overhang from the cup will hold it in place. As I'm being extra helpful this morning, I have just produced this handy guide illustrating that poorly described process via the medium of a Fuji X-T2, a plastic bag and some scissors

I'm hoping Jinnitech crack open the original 1.8 RedMag and find there is just a couple of cassette tapes in it so I can join in the lawsuit ! Nice work !

It could well be that. Atomos settled their suit with RED recently so maybe a contract re-negotiation now has to take place with Nikon regarding the royalties Atomos now have to pay RED?

I'm surprised what's keeping them (and 3rd parties) with the battery grip for the Z6 as it uses the EN-EL15 battery which has been around for a long time with D8xx/D500. As for the ProResRAW...I have to say its also a bit surprising why it its not out yet nearly five months later but even more curious that there isn't a definitive release date. I don't doubt it will happen though.

Fair enough

He doesn't deserve it? RED have accused him of all sorts in a court case that had been running for nearly 3 years that has now been dismissed. A company owned by a multi-billionaire trying to bully a tiny operation out of business based on absolutely bogus claims and he's had to keep his mouth shut about it? I think he deserves to be able to make it into a 5 part mini-series after all that. Not to mention be bought a drink by everyone who will benefit from what he has laid out there.

To be fair to him, he's only repeating the truth with the same frequency as his accusers were repeating the "alternative facts".

These are the key mappings for the two joysticks (the 8Bitdo is the small one) As the 8Bitdo is mapped to be used in a vertical orientation, it will be as follows There is currently no option for re-mapping keys inside the application but it is something that could be incorporated into a future version. You might also want to keep an eye on our PBC controller as for gimbal use as although it is primarily designed as a Rec/Stop controller (plus one additional one shot function) and monitor, it will have an expansion option for additional hardware switches that you can map to aperture/iso etc. https://www.newsshooter.com/2019/06/22/cda-tek-pbc-pocket-bluetooth-controller-for-bmpcc-4k-ursa-mini-pro/

I think there are probably three reasons for it. Their reputation has been trashed by RED so they need to establish definitively that they have done nothing wrong in terms of theft of IP and are prepared to show their working out They have other products to sell like an adapter for RedMag cameras such as EPIC etc to use MiniMags so this has established the legitimacy of those (not to mention raised far more awareness of the company) and I would presume that the MiniMags that will go in these will be theirs as well rather than REDs. Its a huge two fingers to RED that means even if someone else does come along and undercuts further at least it means no more profits will be coming REDs way for them. Who knows, considering the scope of their case against RED which must have severely impacted Jinnitech's business for the three years its been going on, they might also be on the receiving end of a settlement that means they won't mind losing a few sales to other companies. As far as I remember, the 8 gig Lexar 300x CF card is compatible so can be picked up off eBay in multiples to kind of mitigate it. One way round it is to get one with the SSD Side Module as you can then use either the original 1.8 RedMag or use the Jinnitech adapter to let you use their lower cost MiniMag modules. By the way, someone had some joy with a 16gig version of a Lexar car and, well, here is his story on Reduser about what happened when he tried to share the love !