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It offers great additional functionality, particularly the timecode element of it with v2.0, but yeah its annoying it isn't inbuilt and the price comparative to the unit itself is also a bit harsh. I can't find one locally either so I've got to order one from Germany which won't make it any cheaper !

My entirely subjective content suggestion @kaylee is that dog videos do well and tiny home/van living ones do well so.... Big Dog In A Tiny House would be a fusion that I'd watch religiously

Its a complete long shot but the Aputure EF to E electronic ND would be very interesting but I don't know anyone who's actually got one.

Considering I don't own a Z camera to put it on, I'm really excited about this adapter ! If you confirm that it works when you stack the original E to M AF adapter on it then I might finally cave in and join the Z gang.

Just curious as to whether anyone actually downloaded the Zoom Ambisonics Player and had a play with the B-Format files, particularly anyone who has their computer attached to a 5.1 system ?

For the Pocket4K, I know of a device that uses a wheel to manually control the speed of the pull between two marked points on electronic lenses. My main takeaway from the video is how insanely priced the ultrasonic "AF" systems for the cinema cameras are.

HDV 1080 was about 25Mbit/s. Cameras like the Canon HV20/30 would still be relatively interesting as a really bargain basement option if they included one of the 35mm adapters with them. CCD mojo That Fisher Price camera that I posted above above actually records to cassette. As in audio cassette. So its less a case of a bit rate and more a case of a bit shit.

I was pondering getting one of these to deliberately finish last with and spite the winner ! But I then discovered that, shockingly, the money they change hands for wouldn't actually fit in the budget. Must be because they are CCD and not CMOS so ergo must have more mojo .

Yeah I need to not cheap out and buy that one. Minimum focus distance on the 28mm with the one I've got is about 2 nautical miles.

Which adapter do you have for MFT?

I'm waiting on a couple more parts to arrive next week but I've picked one of these cheap RC transmitters up as a starting point. You can connect the receiver to the Micro and assign controls to each channel of it so a full turn of the wheel will take the focus from near to far etc. This one has 3 channels (the wheel, the trigger and a switch) so probably looking at focus, aperture and record but I'll need to modify it to remove the springs so that the wheel and trigger don't return to the central point when you let go. Its more or less the same size as those cheap LANC handles so is size appropriate and will be quite neat to have a wireless control handle.

Thanks. They're just jpegs off the SL as I only used the lens for about an hour after I got it before resuming holiday mode so today has been the first chance I've had to look at what I did with it so I was just pushing them to make a LUT with for when I do some video with it. I want to use it on the Pocket4K (or my newly acquired Micro ) but I don't know whether its just me but I don't seem to be getting much joy with M mount lenses on MFT. I picked up a dirt cheap A7Rii a few days previously to use with the TechArt to have a poor man's AF high res Leica M but only got chance to have this quick go with the 7Artisans 50mm f1.1, which I love on the SL, but the jury is out with it on the Sony although, again, I'm just pushing jpegs about so need to have closer look when I get more time.

A couple more from the 7Artisans 28mm f1.4 that I got the other week.

Oh that it were. Oh that it were. And Brabham want to fit a fuck off big hoover on the back

I was struggling to think of what to shoot but I'm definitely going to use that title now to make a James Bond film where he goes after a deep state conspiracy to rig elections.

Sounds about right. Only from the date that the rules have been finally thrashed out though. So...end of December it is then.

Last query from me then.... If the budget for the camera is £200 and a reasonable lens expectation would be another £70 can we use a £270 fixed lens compact? Or, more specifically, can I use my LX100 or Cinelike D hacked LX15

It works with any lens that the camera can drive so that is all the native MFT lenses but also EF lenses if you have an adapter (like the Metabones smart ones) that the camera supports. There is a switch module, a joystick module and a generic GPIO module. They can all be assigned to different functions so switches could do aperture or ISO up/down, joystick could do focus on one axis and aperture on another etc etc. The GPIO module is intended to let you trigger record from a pulse input such as a custom cable or even a radio trigger and also to be able to send a pulse out to trigger external equipment such as an audio recorder when the camera is in record. With regard to price, they will be appropriate to the cost of the PBC itself so expect between €20-25.

A quick peek at one of the expansion options for the PBC. This one is a focus controller where the focus range of the lens is mapped to one full turn of the control. Obviously, ignore the electrical tape thats holding it together. The production version will be using gaffer tape.

The problem with speedboosters is the budget aspect of it I suppose. Feels daft in the spirit of things to exclude cheapo ones when they can add so much to a cheap camera but by the same token if you've already got an expensive one then you could argue it makes the overall cost of the package outside the spirit of things. That would mean anyone who has got an expensive one will have to buy a cheapo one to keep in the rules which seems a bit unfair. Optically, there isn't a massive difference between them (certainly not relative to price) so its probably less relevant in that regard than the price of the ND filters people will be using so you'd then end up having to have a rule for that as well. I think if they are allowed then it should be irrespective of how much they cost.

I think Canon's running ML are not allowed. A standard EOS-M is a contender as would be the EOS-550D (or whatever its name is in the US).

Yeah, I think if you've already got one and it could be bought in working order for £150 on eBay on a Buy It Now or from a used dealer like MPB then thats fair enough. Just have people declare beforehand what they are going to use with a link to where they can buy it for that price if they already own it.

I think he'd have a Charlton Heston/NRA moment with that one.

Absolutely not in my experience. The battery level indicator on the camera has such a vague and usually inaccurate grasp on reality when used with their own battery that it could well become Brexit minister in the new cabinet.

It would be easy enough to make a multiple choice poll on here to let everyone vote on the various options. And don't forget to include the options for which camera @Andrew Reid has to give up as the prize for the winning entry !