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Judging by some of the promotions and discounts I'm seeing on their latest full frame digital releases we're not far off the same thing happening with Canon, Nikon and Panasonic this summer

Yes it will be on Kickstarter. I understand the apprehension about Kickstarter to be honest but rest assured nothing of mine will ever be going on there until it is ready to go from a functionality point of view, which both this and the small one already more or less are. The problems with Kickstarter invariably happen when it is being used to fund development rather than just funding production. I'll put up a small video when time allows next week to show both of them in operation. The small one has another trick (or two) up its sleeve that I'll also show in the video.

Judging from this comment on a DPR thread about them, things may have changed in that regard .... Which would explain the reviews on here https://www.consumeraffairs.com/home_electronics/6th_avenue_electronics.html

Its for focus control. Unlike the small Record Start/Stop one, this one can control all the parameters as well as monitor them. It also has the multiple recallable Aperture/ISO/Shutter/Temp/Tint memory slots functionality from my app. The focus controller works with native MFT lenses and EF lenses on Metabones smart adapters and has adjustable rotation range (i.e. how many complete turns it takes to go from minimum focus to infinity) and one shot AF by pressing the wheel in. As per my app it has storable focus points with the option to instantly switch or with a selectable transition rate. The big difference with this though is that there is also a manual option where you control the transition with the wheel. Internal battery recharged by USB and can also be used while being charged that way too. Time from switch on to connected and controlling the camera is around 3 seconds so a lot quicker than an app. Haha....it was just a quick picture to show @Andrew Reid that it is daylight viewable. It is actually a terrible marketing picture for my balcony wall cleaning skills though !

The in-built NDI on that camera is a big win.

I'm still trying to find a supplier for the e-ND that can make a larger piece so slightly back burnered at the moment while I concentrate on other things. The electronic part does work in concert with my other controllers such as this one (and the app as well actually) so when it happens it will be integrated. Currently, the size of the glass that I have is only really suitable for in mount versions, which is a bit of an issue with cameras such as the P4K which relies on speed boosters. Anyway, I've just done a quick and dirty pic (literally when you see the finger prints all over the glass) to illustrate what the build along would have been with the smaller piece. I used the MicroBit as the controller (in an electric blue DIY case obviously) as its cheap and easy to program for everyone (although I would obviously provide the source code) so at its very, very basic component level this is how it works and you could finesse it from there in terms of housing etc. and not using croc cables to connect it! In this version you just use the two buttons to increment and decrement the ND level as seen here at 0%, 50% and 90% reduction although you can scale it anyway you want. Another advantage of the MicroBit is that it has a very simple Bluetooth link function so you can use a second one to remote control it. When I source the bigger piece, I'll put it up properly but thought it might be interesting to you in terms of how it works as it will be exactly the same simple principle but bigger! I'm actually pondering a mechanical version of it at this point though.... As a man who's latest phone purchase was a Blackberry I'm not sure ahead of my time is that accurate Wait till you see what this one does.....

No, you're thinking of Hardy Kruger.

Internal battery that is rechargeable by USB. Can also be powered by USB whilst charging. Don't be ridiculous..... Of course it can Screen is bright daylight viewable as well. Unlike the camera itself Yeah but their Orange is subtle. This one is more Emergency Oh My God Press That To Set The Alarm Off type of an Orange. I have a version that runs Leica cameras so that one will be in aluminium. And snakeskin. There's seldom any similarity to anything remotely related to quality with anything I make so we are safe there ! NB For our American readers, Quality Street is the UK equivalent of your Sesame Street and features characters such as The Green Triangle and The Purple One.

In fairness to Hasselblad though, the price is a lot more competitive than the launch price of the Mark 1 and is only a bit more than the price that people are still trying to get for used versions of it. Or were trying to before this happened at least. The knock on effect of the used price of Mark 1 will be interesting for any idiot sat with a collection of HC lenses he no longer has a working Hasselblad digital body for. Which will be me, obviously.

Lets head over to Fuji for a reaction from their CEO

Small Bluetooth remote Record/Stop button controller with screen to provide real time status from camera of : Aperture Shutter Angle ISO Temperature Tint Integral bright LED illuminates to show record status. Kickstarter in August. Price will be €60 Production version will not be orange.

If he made an L mount version of the original AF adapter I think he could probably name his price with SL/CL/TL owners to get AF capability with their M lenses. Conspiracy theorist in me suspects thats why Leica shit on the MC21 compatibility as an adapter like that exposes a bit too much that would enable reverse engineering. I need to resume my pin blanking experiments with the MC21 and the SL but from the ones I did its pretty clear its just a simple lockout based on the ID returned by the lens not being in the camera's list, hence why they had to do a firmware update after Panasonic released their lenses and presumably will have to for every new lens as well. So if we could find a way to inject the ID of a lens that it DOES have in its list via the MC21's return line then we could spoof it into working

Yes..... The problem with the LS300 is the ND filter wheel gets in the way when attaching anything with a tripod foot. With normal Speedboosters you have take to take it off to fit it which is no big deal but with the LensRegain there are electronics in theirs so you have to move them and tape them up. I did it and it works but I wouldn't recommend it. It'll be fine on the GH5 though. I would imagine you'd have no problem re-selling it for what you paid for it though.

If you set the VSM to 100% then its just like putting a FF lens on any other APS-C sensor via a Speebooster so like an EF lens on an EOS-M etc.

I hope they do keep the MFT mount as one aspect that seldom gets mentioned about the LS300 (although I'm going to do it again verbatim here ) is that if you want you can actually use an APS-C lens on a Speedbooster to make it faster and then use the VSM to crop back into it to counteract the vignetting. So, for example, I have a Tamron 16-300mm all purpose travel zoom that is a bit slow at f3.5-f5.6 but on a Speedbooster it becomes a far healthier f2.8-f4 and I set the VSM to 85% to take out the vignetting. Ditto for the Sigma ART 18-35mm f1.8 it becomes f1.2 and the VSM at 85% maintains its field of view as though it were on an APS-C camera.

Looks like its real and will be shipping at the end of June and at $249 its cheaper than I expected it to be. I'm disappointed they haven't actually shown it working stacked with their E to Leica M AF adapter but they do say in the comments of the video that it does work, albeit a bit slower obviously. They haven't answered the question someone has posed about it working stacked with the Sigma MC11 which would give EF compatibility as well so thats one to keep an eye on. As I've no real interest in buying new Z lenses, I've been waiting on this as it makes the Z6 a whole lot more interesting to me as its now adaptable to have full F, EF, E compatibility as well as AF for manual focus lenses. As does the tumbling price of the camera itself ! http://techartpro.com/product/techart-sony-e-nikon-z-autofocus-adapter-tze-01/

I think the original launch price of the X1D was around $9K but with DJI now involved it might well be in the same ballpark as the Fuji but whether it can compete on the video side is a big question if all it is is just a higher res version of the X1D. I understand from this video from the angry fella that Fuji have been sending firmware updates for all of the GF lenses for the pre-production GFX100 to enable PD autofocus and it seems it takes it to a level that Hasselblad could struggle with.

You can see the lens barrel reflected in the lens release button on both shots where there is a lens attached and it is absent on the other one, which also shows the locking pin of the actual mount.

The difference that you are looking at there is between a camera with a lens attached (top) and one without a lens attached (bottom). As per this product shot of the X1D .

In answer to "why was the LS300 overlooked by so many users?", I think this interaction that I've just seen on Twitter might be quite informative In fairness, JVC did show two different versions of it that year but I definitely think the fact it had an MFT mount has certainly clouded the message regarding it NOT having an MFT sensor.

Park Cameras have the free upgrade amongst a range of additional extra discounts for it. https://www.parkcameras.com/p/P016600K/mirrorless-cameras/panasonic/panasonic-lumix-s1-full-frame-l-mount-mirrorless-camera

Its been a couple of years since I used it (and with H3Diis rather than X1D) but I never minded using Phocus and it seems to have come on a lot since then but, yeah, its another tick for Fuji if you use Capture One for your tethered shooting/editing with other cameras as well.

I think they'd looked at what Leica were up to with Panasonic and sought a similar path with Sony but unlike Leica they used the same mount which kind of gave the game away that it was a NEX-7 with an overcoat on ! As is often the way with these brands though, if you picked a Lunar up during the fire sales that went on with them then you'd be sitting on a profit now from collectors whereas with "real" Hasselblad digitals from the same era you'll have lost most of the original price. I'm fascinated by where they will be going with this new camera as Fuji have given them a bit of a caning with the GFX but as the first new Hasselblad product post DJI then there could be some surprises not least in terms of price.

Yes it does. Some fast panning tests with it here

I like having a few cameras but even at 3000 dollars I think 2000 of them is a bit excessive Don With regard to the 6K or 8K issue, one of the drawbacks with the LS300 when you are in 4K is that the Prime Zoom function only gives you 1.25x zoom versus 2.3x zoom when you are in HD so the additional resolution would be of great benefit for that if not necessarily as a recording format.