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More like Panasonic handshake if you are doing it on your GH5

I think that spec or something very close to it may appear sooner than you think. I don't think they will call it the C50 though as Fuji are far more likely to call it the X-H2 When you look at what they have put in the X-T3 then they are obviously going to have to top that for the more video oriented X-H1 successor and I think that might be more than just IBIS....

You do a sort of masonic handshake on it to put it into clickless mode by pulling the aperture ring toward the camera and then rotating it 180 degrees and then turn it again until you hear a click. The instructions will be in the manual.

Right, we have a new contender for the RX100 ! FeiyuTech G6 Plus doesn't require any mods to the gimbal and it can do start/stop and zoom from the handle (albeit over wifi) and is about £280 so somewhere between the mobile phone ones and the Pilotfly.

Yes it is

The electronic ones are variable so you only need one filter for the reduction at least, but yes there is a need for a clear one as well. If you are building it externally (like this DEC one from Aputure built into an EF to MFT adapter) then you will need some electronics to drive it, though bear in mind this one is wireless controllable and also includes the electronics to drive the focus on the lens so the control unit is far bigger than it would be if it was controlled locally. And If you are building it into the camera then obviously none of that would be necessary. The Aputure one has a slide in cartridge for when you need full clear whereas the Sony FS7 does it with a wheel that rotates between the clear and the single variable ND.

The Nikkor 28mm f2 AI-S might be worth a look. Usually sell for circa £200. The usual mixed bag on the Flickr pool but some reference at least https://www.flickr.com/groups/nikkor28mmaisf2/pool/page1

I'd second that.

Mine has shipped today as well. I think I ordered it about half an hour after @JordanWright ordered his.

It says in the spec about being upgradeable to Bluetooth LE 5.0, which has roughly a 5x speed increase, so transfer of smaller jpegs is viable. However, BLE can be used as is within an app to wake up the wifi on the phone to auto connect to the camera for the period of the transfer and switch it off again which would be a faster and still relatively power efficient way to connect. I'm not sure in this age of the ubiquity of the smartphone, it can be classed as carrying two devices as having the smartphone in your pocket is a given A lot of this depends on the price and if it is sensibly priced (and with the no screen, no af and minimal internal processing, no card interface etc there is no reason why it couldn't be sub £600?) then it might have legs. If it gets above that sort of price and certainly above £1000 then a used M8 with a FlashAir card will get you most of the IT side with a fair amount more on the camera side.

I couldn't possibly comment. But yes

"I would like to learn more about how this works – does it send RAW DNG as well? Or just JPEG? How long does it take to send each file? If you’re shooting a lot of frames in quick succession, how large is the internal buffer? Does the camera have a large internal memory for pulling off the shots to a computer via USB, rather than having to send each shot from the smartphone to a computer?" My guess would be it sending jpeg first so you can get the fast preview on the phone with DNG going on in the background. Seems to have the option of 8 or 32 gig internal storage which seems fair enough as they don't plan on you having the images on there very long.

What I'd like to see is a review from two cynical Northerners. Possibly shot in London so that they are additionally disgruntled by the lack of gravy for the chips on their plate and the ones on their shoulders. Maybe sometime like a week on Wednesday. Around 11.30 for 12. I'd be interested in seeing that one.

If they'd used mine to guide them then they'd still be up there circling it, doing U turns, having to traverse small streams and being unable to find the nearest ATM. Note he's got three different Walkmans there as even then Sony wouldn't put all the features he needed in just one

I wasnt suggesting using the phone to control the camera though? You asked to control the camera by a wired remote and I showed you one for £20 being used with a gimbal in the first video. Here is a link for it https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01I4LQJYC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_lazYBb2EHTQN6 The phone aspect was in response to the monitoring issue with the Smooth Q as you can use their official app purely as a monitor if you needed to, which you dont if you use the Smooth 4. The reference to a hack was about using the control wheel on the gimbal to do that instead but would be a box to replace the controller I've just linked to but, again, isn't necessary. With regard to other gimbals, the Pilotfly C45 would be an option if you don't want to mess about with a modified smartphone one like the Smooth 4. You can then attach the cheap wired controller to the handle to control fhe RX100

The interesting thing about the Smooth 4 (aside from being able to see the screen) is that control wheel on the side that they use to control focus and zoom on their phone app. As it uses Bluetooth to send that to the phone, it does throw up a potential hack to get it to control the zoom function of an RX100 instead using a very small box of tricks.

Now you are just being picky I actually had a senior moment and meant to link to the mods to the Smooth 4, which is now the preferred option over the Q. The Q is still workable if you are just using it wide or if you have a handle mounted side grip to take your phone as a viewfinder through the Sony app, so it would be akin to a higher quality DJI Osmo. The Smooth 4 is a better option though.

Voigtlander 15mm f4.5 VM Super Heliar III

I think that might have been me I definitely prefer these types of films as well and yours is another good example. I also now know to pack some midgie spray if I go to Iceland

Kipon has announced it is has shipped its first batch of adapters for the new cameras. A very extensive range too and the standout for me is the C/Y adapter for the Z as you will finally be able to use the Contax Zeiss lenses on a Nikon without the shenanigans involved with Leitax mods or the 1.4x optical correctors like the Fotodiox. Interesting to see them talk of focal reducers on their way soon as well. If one of them is an EF to R version then it will be a way of getting some of the full frame FOV back off Canon in 4K mode http://www.kipon.com/en/articledetail.asp?id=129

Are they essential? No of course but IBIS and AF are like autoexposure functionality - as long as you can switch them off when you want full control then why wouldn't you have it if you could and have the best of both worlds? A lot of people, myself included, just want the option of a helping hand when they need it and its far, far easier to use an ON/OFF switch than try and build that additional functionality on yourself with gimbals and focus systems. Obviously, the only way to fully illustrate this is through the medium of hedgehogs. This is what it looks like to most people when they switch on a camera that has those features and want to grab some shots And this is what greets then when they switch on a cinema camera

The weather got a bit biblical to be honest! I haven't really got any long glass for it so I used it mainly for GV stuff of the stadium and preliminaries (including the moody shot of the soaked flags on the terrace as it looked like it was going to be called off at one point!). It worked really well in this role as the M lenses are so small that you can have quite a range of them in your pockets without having to haul too much gear round. In game, I used it for a few shots that were close enough to my position (both with the cheap 135mm f2.8 from the haggling at FotoMeyer ) and the manual focusing was fine although the peaking is a bit conservative at times. Roll on the new AF lenses from Sigma.

People have been having some success modifying the Smooth Q for the RX100 for a very minimal (size and cost) setup. There are a couple of different branded (JJC and Fotga being two of them) versions of the Sony wired remote which will give you Start/Stop and Zoom controls for about £20 to use with any gimbal. Or, like here, combined with the Smooth Q mod.

The trapped battery reports on BMC User are quite disturbing. On the other hand, one of the people that it has happened to got his camera from CVP, which means they have at least shipped another one other than @Snowfun 's one so I'm now one further up the list. So, swings and roundabouts and all that.

My favourite recent quote from him was when they were launching the EOS-R and he said "Every three years Canon releases a camera thats three years out of date". Always worth tuning in to his channel immediately after one of the well known channels posts a "Its full frame so its twice as good" type of video as he goes off his head!