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Maybe even if ever? On the 30th anniversary of the EF introduction in 2017, Canon announced it had sold 130 million of them. Even if they maintained that rate of over 4 million lenses a year for a few years, how niche a product will interchangeable lenses be in 2048 when everyone is taking selfies in their hover cars using computational cameras? I think EF lenses are by far the safest bet for people looking for a universal lens that doesn't tie you into a system. The last hurdle was getting them onto a Nikon body but even that has been solved now by the TechArt adapter opening up a route to mount them on Z mount. When you add in being able to use them with the variable ND on the R as well and also them being able to be used on the Panasonic L mount, the new full frame mirrorless systems have actually cemented the ubiquity of the EF lenses rather than diminished it.

I suppose you could say it was the Panasonic S1 look as it was taken on what we all know was the "mark 1" version of that camera

M mount again A bit of melancholy with the Voigtlander 40mm f1.4 Nokton Classic

From RP to RIP then.

I thought it might be something they got enough feedback about to change it in the new firmware release but apparently not. I understand why it is done but there is a far more elegant way to make that seamless/invisible for the user.

Just as soon as they come up with this nebulous future solution that they claim they could use to try and control such an expanse of crossing points. With 50 days to go they will probably end up using this plan from Blazing Saddles.

We should have a dog thread. I love dogs.

Had mine do the phantom screen pressing last week and delete all of the LUTs I'd put on it. I was watching it delete them one by one and half expecting a ransomware pop up to appear on the screen telling me it was going to delete more stuff. I had the last laugh though as the LUTs were crap anyway. Then on Tuesday it did it again but it was too fast to see what it was doing and I just switched it off to stop it doing it. I then thought it had deleted all the recordings off the cards as when I went to playback there was nothing there but after a mild panic I realised that "all" it had done was change recording format which of course renders recordings made in a different format invisible when you go into playback. So it was the perfect storm of an actual defect interacting with a function that is so annoying that it should probably be considered a virtual defect in itself.

I'd give the UK a wide berth for a while until it all shakes out. I was outside Parliament shooting a news job today and lets just say its all getting a bit fraught as the countdown ticks louder. Ireland might be worth a look though.

Do you have much experience as a war correspondent?

The cable kit with the dtap has made things a lot simpler as you can use V lock batteries for really long run times now. The Core is OK but at the end of the day its really quite a low capacity battery compared to a V Lock of a cheaper price.

If its anything like their Pronto adapter then Fotodiox will have to wait for TechArt to make it first so they can clone it like they did with the TechArt Pro. Just adding 'nto' onto the name doesn't make it an original product.

The BM battery you mean? The percentage thing was odd for one that they supplied themselves but my experience of its performance was that it didn't have a predictable curve once it got below about half full. It would shut off and then you'd switch it back on and it would still be showing a third or whatever and run a bit longer. It was a bit more critical at the time because they hadn't shipped their cable kit to power it externally but now that's here the internal battery is more of a backup anyway for me at least.

Mmmm. I'm pretty sure it did so I'll double check when I get back in a few days but the battery supplied by BM with the camera was so poor that I don't use it any more and only use these ones now.

I use this RavPower dual USB one. The batteries work well in the camera and the whole kit including the two batteries is £30. Three of those sets and a triple outlet USB mains adapter will get you a good hands off overnight system for under £100. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0722RWV5G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_EeRwCbTTY30XR

I'd maybe pause until the X-T30 comes out and take stock then to see how much of the X-T3 it ends up containing. The X-T2 is currently ridiculously cheap secondhand so if you need something in the short term as a second body then I'd be inclined to go for that as B camera now and decide whether it stays there or becomes the C camera when the X-T30 shows up. If you decide to ditch the X-T2 at that point then its likely the current used price hasn't got that much further to drop so you won't lose much money on it.

For something like those, I'd look at using an adjustable phone tripod mount like this one which can be adjusted to grip the battery (and rotated to be vertical or horizontal) and then use the male to male bolts as above. If you are only going to use the battery for the camera and want something more permanent and direct then you could use my old friend epoxy to attach the flat side of one of these to it so it can be directly mounted to any 1/4 20 point on a cage or the camera etc.

If you use the NPF sled (and its certainly the best value option in my opinion) it has an integral 1/4 20 mount on the base. Then just use the male to male bolts like these to attach it directly to the top of the camera or a cage or with a rail adapter etc.

Will it render unto Caesar any sort of lens control ?

For the Nikon F, you would use this one which is direct : https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Kipon-Adapter-for-Nikon-F-Mount-Lens-to-Leica-SL-Camera/112029189539?hash=item1a1575c5a3:g:Ki4AAOSww9xZJ9m5 For the other two, you would use the M mount adapter as an intermediary : https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Kipon-Adapter-for-Leica-M-Mount-Lens-to-Leica-SL-Camera/112030390459?hash=item1a158818bb:g:KZ4AAOSw-3FZJ9X- With the M mount on, you can then add the individual FD to M and EF to M adapters. I have to stress though that that is the situation as it stands today (ie. for people like me who use a Leica SL) but now the mount is being opened up to the wider world, I expect a lot more of the direct mount options like the Nikon one I linked to for your other two mounts so that you don't need to use two adapters with the M adapter as a bridge. EDIT>>>> Just noticed that you down voted the original reply. Harsh.

Kipon do a pretty comprehensive range of adapters including Nikon F/G, Leica M/R, M42, C/Y, PL and even speedboosters for medium format lenses for it. https://m.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=sh_photo_1&LH_PrefLoc=2&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=m4084.l1313&_nkw=Leica+sl I have the Leica M adapter permanently on my SL and then use an M to EF adapter as an intermediate bridge to every other mount.

Its just a pity that after doing all that titting about to balance it that I realised I hadn't brought any memory cards with me.

No, the adjustment is just in the rails part so that you can re-adjust the height of the lens support. This is a similarish one on my BMP4K. With the tripod plate on the bottom, the lens support centre column forms another contact point so when you align it you can settle down on a surface like it is here. It all depends on the lenses you put on it but with something like this PL prime you obviously need that adjustment to get the camera up higher but with a longer tripod plate on the base it becomes stable enough to set down.

This Camvate one is OK and great value for £35. Takes standard Manfrotto QR plates (they do an Arca Swiss version as well) to swap the cameras and has adjustable rail height for the lens support. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0749MLGHG

The shame about this really is that in the BM camera control spec, you can have access to a pretty full range of colour correction tools for lift/gamma/gain, contrast, gamma, offsets etc. to create in camera looks in real time. There are quite a few full on CCU controllers for the Ursa that use this capability and although it is still in the spec for the Pocket 4K, the commands are ignored by the camera when you send them. Hopefully they might switch it on in a future update. How dare you. My people will be in touch with your people over this scurrilous accusation