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Don't drag me into it I'm reading @Shirozina's post "I do know about Yashica and it’s (inferior) relation Ziess" as saying Zeiss is the inferior relation to the Yashica by the way or have I misunderstood ?

FCPX for video. Aperture and Lightroom for stills. (The former for work when its all jpegs). I'm going to download the trial of the Chromatic plugin for FCPX this week. For my needs (which are pretty basic), I'd sooner use ProRes and stay inside FCPX than have that nth degree tweak ability of RAW and Chromatic seems to me to be a good bridging device to a more pseudo-Resolve depth for correction with tracking power windows etc.

I haven't got a GH5 or a 0.67XL so I can't give you a definitive answer. I have got a GX85 and a 0.71x though so I went outside to do a quick comparison with some white walls for you. Top is the 10-18mm @10mm and the bottom is the Sigma 18-35mm @18mm As you an see, there is some vignetting on the Canon and I just adjust for this by zooming in a fraction as I'll still get the extra FOV, the light gathering and the sharpening but it can be put on a dumb adapter as well to avoid any vignetting. And the vignetting that is there is more than the Sigma. Hopefully you can extrapolate from that for your own system based on how you know the Sigma performs with your 0.67XL Bottom line is if the Sigma vignettes on it then the Canon will too and a little bit more. Hope that helps.

The diminishing returns are certainly particularly diminished when it comes to the Samyangs versus lenses many times their price. I hadn't really considered the 135mm but I will certainly pick up a cheap used one when I next come across one. Just push sliders in random directions until you like the look of it ! Many, many moons ago when I was a young pup recording engineer there was a set of cards made by Brian Eno called 'Oblique Strategies". The idea was that if you reached a creative block in the studio you pulled out a card at random that had a phrase written on it that would stimulate you to take a different approach. So there were ones like "Don' be afraid of things because they're easy to do", "Cut a vital connection" or "Give way to your worst impulse". The one that always stuck out because it was generally the most effective though was "User fewer notes". If Eno did these cards for colour correction he'd definitely have one that said "Use fewer nodes"

Another cheap and cheerful second hand MFT lens, this time the Olympus 45mm f1.8 on the Blackmagic Pocket 4K This grab is from an HD ProRes LT recording as I was running out of card space when I was out today !

Right, its charts and bottles time again ! Haven't got a PL adapter for anything full frame at the moment so these are from RAW stills from the Blackmagic Pocket 4K. Same as the other test, so maximum aperture in the left frame and again at f5.6 in the right frame. Bit of a caveat as the RPP Prime is in T stops so I had to get it in the ballpark and then adjust exposure to match. Also the framing wasn't matched as its a different focal length but also due to having to mount the PL on rails but, hey, its a free test so I reserve the right to be a bit sloppy So, across the top we have the Samyang 24mm f1.4 and across the bottom the RPP Prime 25mm t1.8 Charts first. Then the same story with the bottles, with the focus set on the Cointreau bottle. CONCLUSION ? Less contrast on the RPP makes it look a bit smoother but we again we are quite a fair way from night and day differences. The Samyang though.....bargain.

Its way beyond mine most of the time too

Here are the screenshots of it in action today in a city centre. First scan shows everyone's Fitbits etc as well as the camera. You now click on Search List and enter the filter term you want (I chose "Camera") And then it filters all of the other devices out. You could choose "4K" or whatever but I decided against a default in case people have renamed their cameras.

Looks like they missed off the "t" in bankruptcy in their initial link. I suspect that they were looking to get some positivity from letting a couple of outlets see it but its backfired as it obviously wasn't ready but financially it was probably a bit of a last roll of the dice so they had to roll it too soon. If they had got a glowing review from Bloom having it then it might have given them the breathing space and impetus for a reasonably quick Kickstarter process. I'm quite sad about it to be honest because it takes a lot of graft to try and get a product to market and there is a big difference in this case in my view than something like the Meyer Optik Görlitz situation where there was clearly some chicanery going on from the get go. In this case, I think the spirit was willing but the finance was weak. Conceptually what they were attempting to do was a sound one and would have been of benefit but you need deeper pockets to fund that even when you are using off the shelf parts. I just hope they weren't using pre-order deposits/full payments from their other products to fund it. Though they wouldn't be the first company to have done that.

Yep, the last image is because it is not showing in the scan which means that the camera still thinks its connected. Exiting the app through the Close Application in the top right menu ensures that the connection is terminated correctly. There is a v1.11 update that I'll put up tomorrow to filter out non-Blackmagic devices during the scan which helps A) if you are in a very congested public place and B) if your phone scans very slowly as it appears to be the case from looking at some reports of that particular one. I am off to a place that satisfies criteria A this afternoon to test it and it will automatically update your app when its published tomorrow.

Yep, thats the same one as I'm using. I need to do more tests with the original battery versus the RavPower ones as it may be a factor here.

I wouldn't worry about what other people are up to or where they seem to be at. Everyone is winging it to some degree or another. Plus, they haven't got Jasper so, you know, who's really winning here? If its any consolation, I have been through several more of those 0 birthdays than you and still don't feel completely like an adult. Its often no bad thing.

I had the same issue last week with an NP970 sled. In my case the internal battery drained completely and the camera wouldn't power on without one in so I had to let the power bank re-charge the battery for a while before resuming. I'll have to do a few more tests myself as well.

Sadly, they have announced bankruptcy. Hopefully no one has been stung financially with regard to pre-orders. https://www.newsshooter.com/2019/03/16/cinemartin-to-close-due-to-bankrupcy-/

With the GH5 it is not listed in the menu settings as it automatically switches on when no lens contacts are detected.

There was something about that voice that made me think you might have been better off using an orange coloured sock...

Unfortunately I don't have a similarly fast 24mm to test against the Samyang 24mm f1.4 But as way of an interesting comparison I do have a reasonably fast 25mm lens. So in the next episode of "Fun With Focal Lengths" we will be doing this...

I'd have to say that for someone surrounded by sharks then in terms of worries you've certainly got bigger fish to fry. Or avoid at all costs in this case ! Lovely footage.

Didn't know you'd been to my in-laws place.

Oh man...that sucks ! The small Panasonic 14mm and 20mm pancakes are pretty good little lenses. For versatility, particularly as it has OIS, the yacht club special is cheap, cheerful and definitely worth having in your pocket. Although judging by the size of your pocket in the picture above you could probably fit a large tele-zoom in it.

Having looked at the spec, it seems likely to be based around this Sony display. Based on AR/VR glasses that also use this display, I'm suspecting it will be between $800-1000? https://www.framos.com/en/ecx335b-20618

He looks like he's struggling to work out where to plug that unicorn tail in.

The spec sheet is the same as the 360 ONE X so yes that will be 18mp total. 360 ONE X also shoots LOG but I only briefly experimented with it as I wanted something I could share fast out of the camera on holiday so didn't fancy the extra steps in colour correcting it. Should be lots of examples on YouTube of LOG footage for you to have a look at though. The ONE X had a spare battery in the kit as a nod I guess to acknowledging battery life isn't great but I'm not sure if this one does? What I find is that because its capturing everything then I don't need to use a phone as a preview monitor so that improves battery life but also I just had a small usb power bank in my bag to keep it topped anyway. What I would say after using it up a mountain is that if you do extended takes you won't need to pack a hand warmer!

Damn, I was hoping you were going to say it was awful so I could save some money