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They are quite cheap in the UK too https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Olympus-M-Zuiko-Digital-15mm-1-8-0-F8-BCL-1580-Body-Cap-Lens-White/123095987776?epid=1708126927&hash=item1ca917b640:g:X9UAAOSwXrBa3ico I find that the quirkier coloured lenses like white ones (and silver for quite a few as well) tend to be sold off cheaper.

Those of you who follow me on Twitter (all one of you ) may have seen me referring to developing a controller for the LS300 and other JVC cameras. One thing that bugs me when recording externally with it it still having to use the fold out LCD display to see the current settings, which isn't ideally ergonomically but also its pretty difficult to see. So here in all its taped up glory is my first mini-product for the LS300 which is a small wireless status display which shows current settings and can be mounted on a tripod handle, a gimbal handle, a rig or on the monitor itself. And has a small switch in it tor remote start/stop recording.

The value of the £ is somewhat, erm, "fluid" depending on where we are in the shambles on any given day but even so it shouldn't have lurched that much !

That's precisely what I did. So if @Kisaha clicked where the red arrow goes he gets to the exact post, rather than clicking where the blue arrow goes which takes him to the first post. The issue was his link clicking game being weak

Make sure you click the arrow top right it will take you directly to the post. Its Page 362 mate. Although its 362 on my phone might be different on a laptop etc.

Some white wall based comparison testing with the 18-35mm on the LensRegain, the Metabones 0.71x and a dumb adapter on the Pocket4K for you. Including downloadable files to peep with

This one is a cine version that looks to be in decent condition and with some haggling I'm hoping to get it for £200ish. Which is, what, $68 at the current exchange rates?

Whereas I've been hunting for a cheap copy of their 135mm and think I might have found one. There will be a scant amount of resisting going on.

Yep, its down to what the OP wants to do with it and how often so I'm only throwing it up as the compromise as it seemed to me like the requirement was for an FS5 form factor and features with a more cinematic look (like we can ever define that on here ) and RAW hence the Odyssey. Which would be the Ursa Mini Pro but then, as you say, everything else gets bigger around it. The obvious answer is to buy both but I'm very liberal with other people's money.

Just playing devil's advocate but maybe the compromise play is to get an Ursa Mini Pro to get a bit of both worlds ?

Uncle Acker you mean? Yeah, he said its fine. As long as you get the PRS to agree as well https://www.prsformusic.com/licences/using-production-music/films-and-trailers

If you are going to be doing a lot of this and just want something you can set up and leave then I'd have a look at the Samson G-Track Pro USB condenser microphone. Nowhere near as flexible as doing it using separate components but its far easier to deploy and actually performs very well. Not only does it keep within 3 figures price wise it actually only just creeps into 3 figures !

Here's a fun fact that connects Stranger On The Shore and lens tests... Gene Cernan included the Acker Bilk version of it on a cassette tape that he took to listen to on a work trip in 1969. When he went on a similar work trip three years later he left his camera at his destination when he returned home because he wanted to see what effect solar cosmic radiation would have on the lens but he expressed regrets about it later because in the end no co-workers ever went back to pick it up for him. Its a pity really as it was quite a decent lens, although I'm sure we could find a Samyang that would match its performance quite closely even without the radiation damage.

The pre-orders for their other products like the monitors etc is what concerns me really as, yes, it would only have been an optimist who pre-ordered the 8K

The cheap K&F one to see if its any better than the cheap Fotodiox one ! https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07D9BSKN4

I have the 35mm f2 and 50mm f1.1 in M mount. The M to MFT adapter I've got doesn't play particularly nice (infinity focus issues) but I've ordered a different one so I'll let you know with regard to the Pocket 4K next week.

The only lenses that I haven't put on it as yet are the motley collection of Berlin flea market M42 lenses that I've acquired over the past few years and a Mamiya 645 Medium Format 35mm lens. But it is only just before 1:30 in the afternoon here so you never know.

Good to hear. I've spent a fair amount of time in Utrecht over the years and I've always been very fond of the place. Sorry for the alarming stalker thing ! I remembered from the LS300 forum on DVInfo.net

VERSION 1.2 RELEASED Version 1.2 of 3C has been released into the Play store today. It adds support for the Blackberry KeyOne/Key2 devices for controlling the camera from the integrated physical keyboard as well as the touch screen. The scan process has also been enhanced to allow filtering of device names for easier camera selection when 3C is used in environments that have large number of Bluetooth LE devices active. Link to Play Store - https://tinyurl.com/y5eyujeu Link to updated user guide - https://tinyurl.com/y2wa9vl8

Completely off topic but I seem to remember you are based in Utrecht. Hope you and yours are unaffected mate.

I'm not sure how much pie Cinemartin were consuming to be honest. Space cakes perhaps but not pie.

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"