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Thanks both. There is certainly an aspect of it seeming counter intuitive to have hardware control of a touch designed product ! What I'm seeing is more and more people, like myself for the most part actually, using LumaFusion as not just their favoured editor for on the road but also when they're not so this is very much a nod at that. I think with version 2.0, this will actually increase too with people using it as their main editor for a lot of work and with xml export even using it as a starting point for cuts editing for bigger projects. I'm also seeing LumaFusion appearing more frequently in press rooms at events I'm covering with most people, like myself, using keyboards so I suppose thats a hybrid portable studio use case. Having said that, the shuttle controller is actually reasonably small and all bias aside I find it a very intuitive combo combined with the touch control. I actually used it to edit the little video above so I can confirm it does last a project without crashing or deleting your files

Based on the backlash I've seen this week, I would find out which one they were using on Game Of Thrones and then not buy that one

As a by-product of the JSC-1 interface that I have just completed for using with LumaFusion, it is also supported inside 3C to enable wireless lens and aperture control from a ShuttleXpress. The JSC-1 takes the USB from the ShuttleXpress and passes it wirelessly to 3C using Bluetooth LE. The inner wheel controls fine focus and the outer wheel coarse focus. The two outer buttons control aperture, the next two in control transition/snap focus to Memory Position A and B respectively and the centre button activates the one shot AF. The left outer button acts as a shift control to enable the writing of focus Memory Position A and B when used with the inner two buttons and as a Rec/Stop control with the centre button. It can be used handheld as here if on a tripod or being used by an assistant but we will be making a mount to mount it and the interface for rails as per a standard follow focus. Here is the interface in use with LumaFusion and I'll put something together with the Pocket4K if anyone is interested.

Thanks for the feedback. Here is a sneak peek at what I've just finished developing. It is an interface that you plug the Contour Shuttle devices into which then enables you to use them via Bluetooth LE in LumaFusion to control it.

It can actually control the Panasonic. And the Pocket 4K. Unless Apple drop bluetooth support from the next generation of iPads then it is pretty safe from being obsolete for a while. Which keyboard shortcuts are you using in LumaFusion ?

It has actually featured on here before a couple of months ago as it was featured on Newsshooter IIRC. The interest is in adding it to cameras that have no integral wifi transmission capability to an app (i.e. the Pocket4K) or for the Fuji cameras where you can have 4K and you can have wifi transmission to an app just not at the same time. I'm interested in it for both really but primarily the Pocket4K so I can integrate it into 3C as the latency looks better than current bulkier ones I've been developing with. Not to divert the thread but I think the real future for this stuff is NDI to be honest though and the new Newtek versions are far more compact than the original spark and can do 4K. Atomos having the cheap NDI module for the Ninja V is a big deal as you can record/monitor from the HDMI port and have the NDI version streamed directly onward from there. Panasonic have integrated NDI into one of their new compact pro camcorders (CX350) and it is going to be the first of many. What it currently lacks is a viewer app for mobile devices (although Newtek do an app that turns your device into an NDI camera which is actually pretty good) which will no doubt come over time but, again, this is where the Ninja V comes into it as of course it can also be used as an NDI viewer.

The first is do you use keyboard shortcuts. The second is which ones. The third is would you like a bluetooth jog/shuttle controller for it........

Deep Trench Isolation sounds like some sort of PTSD from the First World War. I believe Ebrahim used a Pyramid Surface Diffractor to collect his money from Western Union without ID.

I doubt they will too for some time at least. This is all about Sigma going after the T/TL/TL2/CL owners as that is a big pool that have thus far not exactly been well furnished with affordable lenses. By which I mean, there haven't been any at all. As these will be newly released L mount lens then my understanding is that it won't be locked out (as the Panasonic L mount lenses work now on Leica) so Leica have to play the game but it is, currently at least, the adapter that is the line in the sand for them as that enables non-alliance lenses such as Canon etc to be used.

I actually think there is some potential life there for Nikon to make an APS-C Z camera. I read an(other) interesting interview with Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki yesterday that featured a couple of salient points. The first is that they are making L mount versions of their APS-C lineup and the second is that their engineers are actively, erm, "analysing" the Z and R mounts. Obviously they are going after Leica's T/TL/CL owners with the L mount versions as well as I would imagine a straight swap out L mount version of their current SD-Q to complement the upcoming full frame version of it. The assumption would obviously be that they will be doing their greatest hits collection of ART lenses like the 18-35mm f1.8 but when you look at the form factor of the T/TL/CL but I think they'd do very well with making L mount versions of their DN range for mirrorless https://www.sigmaphoto.com/lenses/dn-for-mirrorless?sigma_mount=12990 I've got a few of these for my A6500 and they are way better than their price would have you suspect but crucially because they are so compact they would be a great match for the T/TL/CL. Which brings us to the Z mount and if they repeated the same for that. Whilst a straightforward APS-C reduction version of the Z6 (as they do with their DSLRs) might be a bit meh I think Nikon would do pretty well with an X-Pro2/X-E3 style camera taking advantage of the size reductions of mirrorless for bodies and lenses. Basically, the Nikon 1 series as it should have been in the first place.

On the one hand I think it might suggest a loss of face about the new mount but on the other hand milking that range of existing EF lenses must be very tempting. Maybe the RF should have been the one to act as a gateway to mirrorless for their DSLR owners as one problem with having a lens system that can now be adapted electronically to every other system is that people have other options when it comes to going mirrorless if your own system is going to need an adapter anyway.

The red one here. The cluster in blue looked suspect to me as well.

Yeah your sensor looks absolutely filthy on this one Really nice shot. I was fine with the ones over water in the other shot being birds but it was the one in the cloud at about 1 o'clock to your actor's head that had me convinced it was dirt!

I think the price drops from Nikon and Canon are probably reflective of slow body sales due to people hesitating over buying into a new lens mount as much as they are about the bodies not being interesting enough. Both systems launched with pretty underwhelming native lens lineups that offered no enticement to anyone to make the switch if they could only get their current lens ranges via adapters. Most of us on here have no problem being early adopters and using adapters but I'm not sure its a view shared by the larger camera buying public. I think that Panasonic may well be walking straight into the same problem unless Sigma get those native L mount lenses out pretty sharpish.

I've been staring at this and wondering if they are birds. Do I need to clean my glasses or do you need to clean your sensor?

If you go on that BM forum you could probably sell half of them and fund the purchase !

Just as a cautionary FYI about this is that there is some weird shit going on with SD cards for these cameras now. I pulled my Pocket out to do something with it and it didn't recognise any of the SD cards (Sandisk Pro and Extreme ones off the approved list) that I put in it. Had a bit of a search and it turns out something changed at the Sandisk end that has caused their new cards to be permanently incompatible with these cameras but also with the Video Assist. Sony changed the firmware in their cameras to accomodate the change but BM haven't and are not really showing any intention of. The thread I found was long and alarming as people were buying and returning all manner of cards trying to find any that would work with them without any success. It now seems to have boiled down to only one card that you can buy new that will work in them (a Sony one ironically) so make sure you have some available! https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=80355

Another one to add to the list then along with the A7IIIs, the Sharp 8K, Canon Pro Mirrorless, Nikon Pro Mirrorless and the Kodak Box Brownie 8K. At this rate Tokyo 2020 is going to be four weeks of camera launches with the occasional athletics event thrown in.

If you want timecode sync of the Ninja V you can use their AtomX Sync add on module if you are within the wireless timecode ecosystem of products from Timecode Systems like pulse: and UltraSync One. If Atomos ever actually release it of course.

By the way, if you're looking for something to base a travel rig on that is really flexible and can be shaped to pretty much anything you want but folds down to pretty much nothing then I did a thread about the Movo a while back that might be worth looking at.

I doubt it will be for a few days but, sure, I'll see what I can do Here is a test between different BRAW rates and ProResHQ that someone has done which you could look at in the meantime There is a download link there too

LT storage rate is just over 40% of HQ so roughly 2.5x the record time per TB.

The second camera is the Sony X3000 though. In its (I'm guessing) primary role as a second angle its not issue but even in 'selfie' mode its plenty wide enough and small enough sensor to get in focus shots without needing too much reach. Well for a normal human that doesn't have T-Rex arms like me it is anyway For what its worth, though, if @kye was open to suggestions about alternative cameras (which I appreciate that he isn't), I agree with your earlier one that the camera I would be using for something like this would be the Osmo, not least because it has a screen but also because it can be driven remotely by a travel companion from a smartphone, something which opens up a ton of additional possibilities to squeeze additional coverage from a fixed position as do the automated tracking options. I'd mount it on a flat bar in the hotshoe but mount the bar facing forward so it overhangs the top of the GH5 lens to give distance back to yourself when its in selfie mode. Mounted in one of these brackets (which has a 1/4 20 mount in the base) its really fast to take it out to use it standalone as well.

Yep, the adapter works fully on the S1. This is an auto-translate from Map Camera's website where they have tried it with a Canon 24-70mm f2.8 L lens (which is outside of the scope of lenses officially supported as they are all Sigma ones). The gist of it seems to be that a) it didn't blow the camera or the adapter up b) it could AF and c) best try it yourself to see if its adequate for your own usage. Considering the only other comparable-ish equivalent lens in L mount is the best part of £4K then it might well be very adequate !

For what you are trying to do, I don't think you can go far wrong with a folding L bracket like this one to mount the X3000 on. The first advantage to this is that the camera can be forward facing but with a quick turn of the screw you can spin it to be rear facing so you can carry on shooting forward with the GH5 but still get your own reaction in simultaneously. The second advantage is if you remove it (and I'd recommend a quick release plate to make it even more effective), you fold the bracket up and have a nice pistol grip for the X3000. With this set up you can go from the X3000 being used as a second angle, a selfie angle and fully autonomous camera within a couple of seconds.