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My fear is that Apple starts to care about LimaFusion a bit too much and buys the company out! Coincidentally, I got it just before I went on my recent holiday and this was its first outing and it did both of those tricks too. It musn't like people enjoying themselves Well thats saved me a job as I was just about to add support for a trackball mouse to my bridge interface for LumaFusion!

For reasons unkown (and undocumented) it uses a different ip address when you are accessing the configuration page by wifi. If you use 192.168.8.8 then it should find it.

Roll it into a tweet asking what cameras the Apple pitch fork mob that are currently responding to your tweet about the new Mac Pro are actually going to be using to feed it with content

I meant "lost me" as in "I don't understand" but no worries ! This majority of this thread has lost me in both senses though.

You've lost me with that one but it definitely looks like a game Nintendo would make !

I think whats very interesting is how hard Apple themselves are pushing LumaFusion in their own ads. I'm not sure whether it means they are more likely to offer the sort of file handling that is required or that is more likely they are going to buy them out ! The feedback I've been getting regarding my interface bridge for LumaFusion also tells me that it is definitely on the rise as an alternative to a desktop editor for some projects even when people are sat at an actual desktop rather than just out in the field.

I was hoping the integration with the WD Wireless Pro drive was going to be the missing piece of the puzzle as it is integrated straight into LumaFusion for import and export and it is conceptually great but having picked one up a few weeks ago the reality doesn't match unfortunately. I was given pause for thought by @Robert Collins report about it being slow when I mentioned getting one but the demos I'd seen of it with LumaFusion looked workable and thought it might work better as it was a specific integration job they did for it like they do with Gnarbox. Unfortunately, the performance of the drive is absolutely shit with its own application let alone with someone else's. The standalone auto import from SD card is not only incredibly slow but also very, very suspect. On three different cards from three different camera types it purported to have finished copying but had failed to import all of the files and no way would I trust it again to do it on its own. The less said about its wireless transfer speed, even on 5.8Ghz band, the better. So, to return to the original post anything that can sort out the file handling will be very welcome. The ProRes thing is getting in the way for me now though and that still might make the new version of Gnarbox worth a look as if it can also be directly attached then that will be the whole import/transcode solution sorted.

To be fair, I didn't promise June. I said it would likely be June or July.

Haha..thanks for the consideration.

Why the sad face @kye ?

No, a different one

Only very briefly on a stopover coming back from Singapore a good few years ago so the only diffusion I saw was from the crew running up the aisle spraying us with some sort of bug spray.

They do exist but not at the sort of price or with the sort of footprint you're after This "even sillier lens to put on an MFT camera than the B4" from my previous post is actually a 200-400mm f4 zoom. Back in the real world, Sigma actually do a lens that is quite close to your hypothetical 100-400 f4.5-f5.6 which is their 120-400mm f4.5-5.6 APO OS which used is usually around £300-350. Its a decent performer, has OS and with a smart adapter you'd have some AF.

For a cheap (just over £20) handle with start stop, these are OK I think. https://www.amazon.co.uk/JJC-HR-DV-Remote-Handle-Pistol/dp/B00MRNP2LA Well, I was in Tokyo so maybe the smog takes care of it automatically

This is a common thought about me but more in terms of me being the cause rather than the solution.

I have that Tamron as well, it is an absolute steal for the price they go for. Which controller are you getting as a matter of interest, a basic LANC one or something more dedicated to the Micro ?

Thanks. No IR cut filter, unless there was one built in to the cheapo vari ND that I had on there ! I'm actually actively keeping an eye out for a cheap Micro now. The Pocket needs an EVF/Loupe anyway so I don't see the Micro needing one as an issue and the extra things it offers over the Pocket are worth it. The expansion port for external switch control is appealing in terms of building a custom handle. I've already made some development steps in preparation for that so it might be something that might be of interest to you when I find a camera. The expansion port also has a composite video output which gives some possibilities for cheap wired and wireless monitoring. With regard to the Pocket4K comparison, the OG has less of everything and obviously isn't going to win a game of Top Trumps against it. But...well we know thats not the whole story. In some respects, I don't actually care how it stacks up as long as it is good enough for the situation I need it for. On this trip, I had the OG Pocket in a small side panel of my bag with a couple of spare batteries and the 12-60mm lens. The whole thing weighed hardly anything, wasn't bulky and was discreet enough to take shots without alarming anyone. That just wouldn't have been the same at all with the Pocket 4K so in that situation for me it won hands down because it produced a standard and style of output that was acceptable in a more practical package. I would undoubtedly have been able to potentially do more with the Pocket 4K and done it in lower light but that potential is worthless if it not practical to actually shoot with it. If I only had one or other of them then I wouldn't be crying into my beer about what comes out of them even if one of them is "only" 1080p. I think someone on here was supposed to be doing an A/B comparison ?

I'm expecting it to fare better on the P4K with its greater sensitivity as it was getting fairly marginal on the OG Pocket that I was using it on at times in lower light.

Yes because I'm getting a bit bored of juggling all of my other unfinished symphonies. This is a pretty comprehensive camera app that does the capture end of it but you still need to do the merge in an external app but thats no bad thing in terms of the extra finessing standalone HDR merge apps provide. https://www.camerafv5.com/tutorials/hdr_tutorial.php

I have no experience of them but one thing that does look interesting versus the Uray is that it has an integrated status display screen and buttons to control it whereas the Uray has to be operated through the web interface. That is a big advantage for setting up and making changes and the integral battery makes it a neater overall package too.

I was in a shop a few days ago where they had an A6400 attached to a screen doing a permanent Eye AF demo. I had a great time trying to catch it out with the whole leaning in and out of frame, glasses on/glasses off, covering my eyes with my hand and so on and it NEVER missed a beat. As much as Panasonic get slaughtered for their AF performance (and I spent a good hour comparing the AF of the S1 against the Z6 and EOS-R in the same shop where it was beaten but not totally embarrassed I have to say) we really should acknowledge that Sony have some serious witchcraft going on with their AF.

And this is one of those three. I have quite a few cameras with MFT mount but I've never really bought anything from the mid let alone high end range of native lenses. Partly because I have lenses that I'd sooner use through adapters but also because I just baulk at the price of them really. As a consequence my collection mainly consists of cheap secondhand editions of the lower end stuff but while I was away I spotted a cheap used edition of a mid end one, the Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm f/2.8-4, and bought it as I was looking for a fastish (by MFT standards) standard zoom with stabilisation. As this one has a bit of extra reach on the long end, albeit at the loss of some speed, I thought it made even more sense and I have to say its not bad at all, although it probably distorts more than I would like at the wide end. For use as an all round travel zoom, particularly with a non stabilised camera like the OG Pocket Cinema Camera that I was using it with here, I think its a keeper.

In defence of the L mount*, the two most often used mounts for cinema cameras are PL and EF. There is an adapter for the former and a smart adapter for the latter so the risk such as it is resides in the body. In this respect it is no different to what people have been doing for years with an FS-5 or an FS-7 etc where you would be putting an adapter on it anyway. If people don't want to use an adapter then Sigma's L mount lenses will be here before this camera so the situation in terms of fast native lenses at reasonable prices will be completely different then. I think that considering the track record of the three current members of the L Alliance then the L mount will be around for a good while yet. Its easy to forget that it has already been around for five years as it is. * I'll exclude Leica in that defence for being absolute grade A arseholes for not making their cameras compatible with the Sigma MC-21

After going out and climbing the tree in question, I can confirm that it is just less than stellar rendering/focusing the red 'teeth' of the plants against the blue sky. When I say "climbing the tree in question" I mean taking a shot of it with a real lens