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I have the W-04 and I've found it to be very reliable. I have used it for video a lot less so than stills but when I was testing it the transfer speed has pretty much been as described by Toshiba so a 100mb file would be about 30-45 seconds. I can't really comment on other people's experience as there are obviously quite a few variables involved with people's setups but if I take what people said about the eye-fi cards and extrapolate that (i.e. lots of people just couldn't get it to work at all but I found it generally OK within reason) then it doesn't surprise me necessarily that there would be issues reported but I would venture they are as likely to be infrastructure related rather than the card itself. One factor that can also interfere of course is over conservative power saving settings on the camera putting it to sleep during long transfers. What I can say though with certainty is that the FlashAir is leaps ahead of the EyeFi cards on every level. The tinkering aspect is a godsend for specific customisations (or custom applications in my case) but is absolutely optional and the system works fine as is with the native app.

And I didn't know it didn't originally do it

True, the Ninja V doesn't but if they are going to bring out a smaller screened "Shogun V" then it would be worth holding out for a few weeks until NAB to have a look unless the purchase was needed immediately if you had the need for the burst 4K mode of the FS5. The Shogun Inferno had a firmware update to handle the 4K120p RAW from the FS5 https://***URL not allowed***/firmware-update-atomos-shogun-inferno-brings-quad-dual-link-support-4k-120p/ At $1395 its quite a bit cheaper than the Odyssey 7Q at $2300 (including the additional RAW license for the 4K120p burst) although the Odyssey does have a very nice additional trick with the Titan HD extract feature for doing faux multi cam from a single 4K camera.

Which is a perfect metaphor for precisely what those unchallenged newspaper headlines about them ended up causing

I'd definitely hold fire until after NAB. The Shogun Inferno will give you the ProRes RAW capability but if Atomos announce an SDI version of the Ninja V then that might be a better form factor.

Yeah but will God force cows to wear nappies though ?

Its more a case of "Same as it ever was" rather than it being a specific omission on the Z cameras as its exactly the same in my other Nikon cameras like the D500 etc. so I'm guessing they don't get enough push back on it from users to have changed it. Whether that changes with Z cameras being a lot more video centric is open to debate I suppose.

I'm on a diet so I'm not stockpiling anything at the moment ! The current situation is that with 41 days left we absolutely still don't know what is going to happen so we can't decide on anything. All we know for certain is that the cliff edge is there in 41 days time and the UK will be careering over it but all that remains to be seen is how hard we hit the ground. The worst case scenario is the 'no deal' where we leave without any form of continuity or transition arrangement with the EU and even the best case scenario of where we do have some form of deal will be infinitely worse than the current deal that we have with them. Because the Prime Minister can't get her deal through, due in part to it being pretty poor but also in part because of the lunatics in her own party who want to capitalise on the chaos of just crashing out, then the default position in law is no deal. Its really hard to express just how bad that it is. But when your own government is issuing statements that they are stockpiling body bags and other essential medicines and can't rule out deaths and having to instigate martial law when you ARE NOT IN AN ACTUAL FUCKING WAR then you know its not exactly what people voted for. Although, bizarrely, under some mass delusion there are many, many people claiming that no deal is what they actually voted for. Whatever happens, things just will never be the same again and the fact is that we have sleep walked into this because for 20+ years our national newspapers have been conditioning people to be anti EU by splashing front page headlines of bare faced lies about EU laws. Here is a list of them https://tompride.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/see-20-years-of-fake-news-about-eu-by-uk-press-vote-for-your-favourite-here/ When you just pick a few out at random such as "Church bells silenced by fear of EU law", "EU forcing cows to wear nappies", "EU to ban zipper trousers" or "English Channel to be renamed Anglo French Pond" you'd be forgiven for thinking it was some kind of satire or published by conspiracy theory obsessed fringe publications. But they're real. All of them. And all from our national newspapers. Because no one actually got a grip of them and said "now come on lads, this is absolute shite and well you know it" it just carried on and carried on and when it goes unchallenged it must be true, right ? Which then brings us on to the anti-immigration agenda they were able to keep promoting. That is just ONE national tabloid. But if you think they were acting in isolation, you'd be mistaken because they were all at it, with varying degrees of success in trying to mask the inherent racism in the message. The official Leave campaign thought nothing of pushing an anti-immigration message based around a single country. You can fill in the blanks yourself about why they chose that particular country. The official Leave campaign has been fined by the Electoral Commission for illegal spending and reported to the Police for criminal charges which you would imagine would've been enough for the result of the referendum to be declared void yet for some unknown reason the Police have had the file for several months and not pursued it. Weird, eh? I just can't see how, as a country, you can come back from this sort of insidious shit and the divisions its created for many, many years. Currently, I can't foresee a reason for me to stick around on the Island to wait for that to happen.

I think you might mean the Nikon Z6 rather than the Sony Z6 I've answered in the other thread. Short answer is you can't.

Yes. There are a raft of things that you can do with it to create your own workflows if you don't mind getting your hands dirty. The developer page has tutorials to create scripts to create bespoke configurations. In this case, you might want to think about getting something like a WD Wireless Cloud device as you could then have the files automatically FTPing to it and use that as a central hub so from there you have options to pull them in to edit them or stream them through Apple TV. https://www.flashair-developers.com/en/documents/tutorials/lua/

No. In video mode, you can only have the histogram display and highlight indicator.

Yes, it is its own little wireless drive so you can be reading from it while the camera writes to it. When you use the app, it copies the files to the iphone/ipad so you should only need one device as you will be likely editing one file as the next one comes in. If you use LumaFusiom to edit with on the iphone it should also be able to take care of directly transferring the files to cut out a step of using the Toshiba app.

I'll answer more fully to @kye question about Brexit in general when I'm back from this job later but I'm just going to chime in about Scotland. Prior to their independence vote in 2014, the people of Scotland were told that the only way they could stay in the EU was to remain in the Union with the rest of the UK. A year later, the Conservative party won an unexpected majority at the general election and instigated their manifesto pledge of calling the Brexit referendum. The referendum was only in the manifesto to placate the right wing elements who might defect to UKIP and Cameron never thought it would have to be called because he expected to have a coalition government with the Liberal party who he knew would veto it. So he took a massive gamble to keep the warring factions of his own party together and it blew up in his face when they won the election outright. Fast forward a year later to the Brexit referendum and the people of Scotland of course voted to stay in the EU as that was the factor that had swung the vote in their independence referrendum but of course they end up being out of the EU by virtue of the number of Leave voters in England. So they have ended up being railroaded into staying in one Union that they barely wanted to be in and then forced out of another union that they did want to be in. They have been shafted royally in my opinion.

I think its fractionally sharper but nothing to write home about. The only problem with dumb adapters with EF lenses is that they are a bit too dumb in the sense you can't control the aperture or power the IS. I'm not sure if there actually is any smart adapters from EF to MFT that aren't also focal reducers? The solution would be to buy the very cheapest smart focal reducer one and take the glass out of it.

At the risk of sounding like a shill for Toshiba again, the simple solution for this (and many other things!) is to use one of their FlashAir SD cards in the camera. Their app then runs on an internet connected smart phone or tablet and allows you to browse and copy the images/video off the card and share them straight onto your social media accounts. Crucially, as it operates independently of the camera, this can be done in the background without effecting the operation of it. So you can carry on shooting whilst someone else is operating the app to view, select and copy from the SD card. With the files then on the smartphone/tablet they can of course then be edited if required before transmission to social media. If you setup a public social media account(s) for the event then guests can simply link or copy the posts to their own account. Alternatively, the card can also be setup to ftp directly to a cloud account where guests can access the videos or locally to a wirelessly accessible hard drive.

I'm actually quite partial to a spam sandwich myself. And also to its spiritual brother, Bacon Grill. A childhood of camping defined those sorts of sophisticated tastes! Good grounding for the post Brexit food shortages as well.

No problem. I've never really done an A/B between the LensRegain and the Metabones as I use them for different things so it was useful for me too

A posting history of precisely two posts and both with the same link to some no doubt dubious site.

Funnily enough, we had a long discussion about making a slow motion booth on here a few months ago. Its buried inside the GX85 cinelike D hack thread but this links to the start of the conversation. A lot of it may not be relevant as it was related to creating an unattended booth so it will be much simpler with operators involved. What camera are you intending to use as I think there is a relatively simple solution in this case.

That's very kind of you to say so. Yes it does.

No, I mean if you take too long to get through the metal detector then by the time you've arrived at the collection point for you gear through the x ray scanner it may well have been sitting there long enough for someone else to have mistaken it for your bag.

I'm not sure where the disagreement is here (or even if there is one) to be honest mate? The original point that @AlexTrinder96 made was that Pocket 4K owners wouldn't be interested in a monitor free version of the Ninja V to which I said that they could be because it would give them a transcode free Proxy workflow but I then said it was overkill because you could use a Ninja Star if they re-released it. You then said they could use a Ninja Star to which I obviously agreed because I'd already said it in my original response.

After taking numerous cameras from numerous manufacturers through numerous different airports, I'm going to venture my anecdotal experience of the only risk to your gear going through the scanner being someone "accidentally" picking your bag up at the other end if you yourself don't get through the metal detector fast enough. There are also some airports (Manchester in the UK for example is a bastard for this) where they make their own rules up about what electronics have to be separated out and make you take all of your electronic items out to go through the machine separately which means you can have a ton of very expensive gear sat there on very public display on the end of the conveyor while you are waiting in a queue behind half a dozen idiots who've left coins in their pockets .

I know. That's why I said they could/should also re-relase the Ninja Star. The argument for Pocket 4K owners having a 4K version is that they may have more than one camera that can benefit in a different way (opening up 4K60p for the LS300 etc).

This is true. I can see how they could do that as a combi module but, yeah, commercially they are probably better off doing a Samurai V anyway.