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Too big and too heavy are all a bit relative to me considering the rocket launcher sized lenses I've had to hawk around for work Funnily enough though, I saw the lens in the flesh for the first time the other day in a display case at a camera shop and it was actually smaller than I had been expecting. I've just used the camerasize.com tool to see how it fares to a lens that I use a lot which is the Nikon 14-24mm f2.8 and they are actually reasonably similar size and weight wise. Based on my experiences with the 14-24mm, its still a bit of a lump (though thats not always a bad thing stability wise) but I wouldn't be worried about using it all day. I'm looking at it really as three f2 primes, and all points in between of course, so for me there is an overall saving in terms of size and weight in the bag from carrying multiple primes which is often more of a priority than the size and weight when its in use. Doesn't hurt not having to change lenses (24 to 35 is definitely a regular swap for me) not just for speed and convenience but also in keeping the dust/out of focus birds off the sensor which I'm far more plagued with here in Spain than I was in the UK.

Yes, the mic output (the one on the top of the unit rather than the headphone output) is used to pass the input out to a transmitter so you can have the best of both worlds of a wireless setup with the recorder being a backup. I don't have a DR10 but I when I was looking at getting one this was one of the aspects that I liked and thought it would be useful to troubleshoot as the headphone output will be post the input and the processing whereas the mic output should be before the processing. This comment from an owner under a Cinema5D piece about them should help eliminate whether it is the physical input that is broken or whether the problem is in the subsequent processing as it should be passing signal even without the power on. The mic output will not be sufficient to drive a pair of headphones so you will need to connect it to the mic input of your camera or laptop etc to hear it. If you can hear sound when you do that (and even if you can't actually as you'll need to do something else ) the manual provides instructions in how to remove the top plate to change the connector types and I think it would be well worth you checking the connector (noted as B in the instructions) as that looks a very obvious place for a problem to occur between the input/output ports and the main unit.

Considering their intense dislike of this site, if he'd put links in his post to stuff on here then that would probably do the trick.

From their controller you mean? So you would want their controller to be used but to control the camera by wifi ? Do you have a link for it?

If it wasn't for it being entirely the wrong mount for you, I'd definitely say have a look at the 7Artisans 28mm f1.4 which has been on my radar for a while but been waiting for more reviews. https://phillipreeve.net/blog/review-7artisans-28mm-1-4-fe-plus/ The other lens I've been looking at that might be worth a look even though it is a zoom is the Sigma ART 24-35mm f2 I was definitely going to buy a (cheap) used EF mount one of these for my SL later this week when I'm in Japan but this whole Sigma MC21 fiasco has thrown a spanner in the works for that but with it being EF it won't go to waste if I see a cheap enough one. One of the shops I know has the 7Artisans 28mm f1.4 in stock so I'll be having a look at that in the flesh. So expect some sample images from one of these two roughly this time next week. Or both

Sorry for the stupid question but does it pass the mic signal to its output or is it not appearing there either ?

Sorry, I've only just seen this post. Can you describe exactly what you want to do?

I've had three where the case separates slightly and the guards between the contacts break off. I'm going to buy a few just to be on the safe side in case BM don't produce a fix. Surprising that they haven't thus far really as it impacts the Micro and the Video Assists which are still current products.

I haven't used that one but I did used to use this one, which is known by a few names (Bescor and Hague being two). They are available standalone with a wired connector or, like this one, used in conjunction with the Camranger wireless remote and interface which is the version I had. I used them for behind the goal cameras as they could be remotely moved with a live view back to my main shooting position and files could also be transferred wirelessly back to me instead of having to wait until half/full time to retrieve the images as we aren't allowed to enter the field during play. This setup can also control the camera, which was important in the role I was using it for as the exposure changes during a game with a floor level camera with a very wide angle lens with a lot of sky in the shot can be wide ranging enough (especially in winter games which go from daylight to floodlit) to cause big problems. In that role it worked very well although it was for stills so I can't really comment on whether the action is smooth enough for video use but it does have variable speed and it wasn't particularly clunky as far as I remember. There should be enough examples on YouTube though for you to look at as it was pretty popular for what people referred to as aerial photography before drones became popular The basic head that you just control from the wired remote is about £120 and goes up to around £400 with the Camranger wireless control/live view set.

Hang on, I thought it was his Grandfather that was doing the talking on here?? Seems on that DPR thread he's now saying its his Father.... The staff over there "monitoring" him is one thing but thats completely different to actually raising awareness of what a little shit he is and is completely ineffective and preventing him doing this again. He's not going to be dumb enough to actually use their forums directly to do the next scam but by being allowed to use them he can use it to build his credibility to sting someone off board.

This is following on from something in the thread for the Pocket4K for anyone looking to pick up an original Pocket or Micro or, like myself, dusting off an old one that might not be aware of an issue with available SD cards. All of the SD cards that I put in it (and I tried a lot !) where coming up with No Card error and no amount of re-formatting internally or externally was resolving the issue and then I went and had a look at the official forum and saw this https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=83050&sid=2c193679bb69a8d8f2c48ac0b85ced38 Basically, Sandisk made a change and the original cameras (and the Video Assist as well I understand) can no longer read them. Sony made a firmware change to accommodate it for their cameras but BM haven't and likely won't. The upshot is that it is a nightmare trying to find recently produced SD cards that will work with them and users have been trying and returning all sorts of different ones trying to find a solution. After a lot of this effort, the card type that came up as being able to work is, ironically, a Sony one. It is the UZ designation at the end that is important as there are a few similar looking ones. This is the Amazon link to this exact one https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00YOKOJOU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Mine arrived yesterday and I'm happy to confirm that it does indeed work perfectly well with my original Pocket camera so if you are looking at picking a camera up used or getting one out of the back of a drawer and don't have the original media for it then I'd recommend picking one of these up. Apologies for the cross post but the info would have got lost in the behemoth Pocket4K thread and at the time of my original post to @mercer in there about it I hadn't been able to confirm personally if this particular card worked. And now I can

Unfortunately it is difficult to raise awareness on DPR of what happened here due to them banning any links with EOSHD.com in them. So if he does pull the same stunt over there to one of their users then I'd have to say that it will have been entirely down to DPR themselves.

The thing I find odd in those responses on Newsshooter is that if BM had put a tilting screen in it themselves from the get go then it would have passed without comment. Well thats not strictly true as anyone who has actually used it in bright conditions without an external monitor would likely have made the comment that the tilting sceeen was a boon. I'd be curious to know if the design had just enabled it to tilt rather than go the whole way into being front facing whether it would have got a different reaction as the notion that this enables it be used for vlogging does seem to have caused concern for some reason.

Well, mad certainly.

I know what you mean, its a completely ridiculous post isn't it? I mean, obviously he'd use the time machine to go back and not cast his daughter in Godfather III.

In all fairness if he'd have been able to get hold of a C700 in 1979 then I'm pretty sure he would have spent most of his time zipping about in the time machine he'd used to aquire it rather than pissing about making films. Maybe you should get a C700 do a reboot of it with a more modern man sensibility to the dialogue. "I love the smell of lip balm in the morning" and "Charlie don't surf with Firefox no more since the plug in debacle" would work.

I have tuned the outer wheel behaviour a bit more now so it is a more progressive ramp up. I'll do another video next week.

OK.

It can actually run on an iphone so I suspect it will be OK. There is a decent user forum on the LumaTouch website that might yield the answer for you regarding your particular ipad. It is definitely worth the price as far as I'm concerned. Something to bear in mind is that V2.0 will be a free upgrade but the price of the app is going to rise quite a bit because of all the new functionality so if it does what you need I'd get it sooner rather than later. I'm also making something else new for it as well...

Not much plausible deniability about whether you have opened the case if you sent that in for repair. Although I strongly suspect whoever did it would be fine with doing his own repairs anyway.

The drive itself is USB3 when connected to your PC but the port for external card reader devices like the one shown there is USB2. For my application using it in LumaFusion that bothers me less because the determining overall speed factor is the wireless transfer which is slower than USB2 anyway.

https://www.newsshooter.com/2019/05/08/bmpcc-4k-modified-to-add-articulating-flip-screen/

Just as an FYI, I have used MPB a lot and aside from the range of products and good prices, I've always found them very reliable in terms of the accuracy of descriptions and delivery.

Its nowhere near as cheap as @Emanuel got his for, but MPB have one for £209 https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/used-equipment/used-photo-and-video/used-compact-system-cameras/used-panasonic-compact-system-cameras/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gx80/sku-821421/

I think the RavPower FileHub is a very good all round flexible solution for general use. We used to have something made by Kingston years ago primarily for long journeys where we had a load of films and music on a USB stick and we could each watch or listen to different content on our tablets but as it had an ethernet port I also used it for work to create a private hotspot for wireless file transfer from my cameras to my laptop in stadiums that only had wired internet. For media sharing on trips we now use a Sandisk Connect Wireless USB stick Its a much more convenient form factor and powers/recharges from a USB port. I have just ordered the 4TB version of the WD Wireless Pro ostensibly for use with LumaFusion as it is supported directly within the app so that you can be viewing the content on it (or connected devices via its USB port) within LumaFusion without having to copy it all to the iPad camera roll first so you can get on with editing faster. It then imports the sections of the clips that you are actually using in the background and then can output the entire project back to the Connect Pro drive when you are done. I am not expecting blindingly fast transfer across the wireless ( and I know that @Robert Collins is very underwhelmed with his ) but for my specific application of using it with LumaFusion, that tighter integration with the app should actually make it overall a little bit faster but certainly a provide more convenient and less clunky workflow. Well, thats the theory anyway. I'll let you know the reality soon !