BTM_Pix

7 minutes ago, TwoScoops said:

100 pages. Maybe by 500 we'll have some new footage. 

Pages 200-499 will be devoted exclusively to discussions about it missing its release date.

8 hours ago, kye said:

More people have Shotlists and Schedules than Scripts?  Really?  How does the logic of that work?

Not all shoots have a script though.

Even if you are just going out to shoot stock footage, you'll still have a list of shots you need to get and a schedule.

Ditto any event work.

4 minutes ago, Rikoshet said:

Hey BTM_Pix!

Great work but it's a year since you work on!

I'm a gimbal user, you have to make a support for it to be able pull focus and maintaining the gimbal (crane 2).

Or I have a greater idea: contact Zhiyun-tech and sell them your code or work together to provide focus functionality embedded to crane 2 since they have a wheel on it already!

As per the other thread, here's a sneak peek 

Sneak peek

46 minutes ago, jonpais said:

It also protects the vents from the rain.  

When this camera arrives there will be no more rain Jon.

There'll only be sunshine and nice things for everyone.

17 minutes ago, Grimor said:

OMG!!

How do you get this?

Whouhh Impressive!!!

You'd laugh if I told you how easy it was to find that !

5 minutes ago, Kisaha said:

STRICTLY FORBIDDEN TO REPRINT OR REPRODUCE THE CIRCUIT DIAGRAMS IN PART OR IN WHOLE. 

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

I'm not worth suing !

58 minutes ago, Grimor said:

I've spend a week trying to control marantz thru arduino with no success.

Neither of my optocouplers or relays worked as expected.

Someone in an arduino Spanish forum suggest me to use a Mosfet (2N25) or a dip reed relay, but i've not tried yet.

Seems all this components need to be low impedance (rds=2 ohm or less and logic level).

 

Oh...hello...what do we have here

4 hours ago, Damphousse said:

I thought you would be interested...

 

He had me at gaffa tape.

51 minutes ago, Grimor said:

I think BTM would became a Panasonic Ambassador, just like Driftwood did before.

Always trying to improve their products.

Always trying to avoid buying their expensive ones you mean

Aside from the 4k60p external upgrade, the last firmware update (4.0) also gave it 4:2:2 internal 4K, although only 8 bit.

It was from June/July 2017 so might be worth comparing with older footage to see if its improved any in that regard.

I only really use it for live ENG streaming so haven't done too much with any of the new features. 

3 minutes ago, Kisaha said:

Oh, really? I never explored that idea with the JVC LS300, we almost do not use it anymore in the company (so many GH5, I step on them!).

You manually crop the sensor and it is ok? Pros/Cons?

I have missed those old B4 lenses, very comfortable to work with, a parfocal lens with a servo motor is my next quest (Canon 18-80 probably, but with what camera?!).

Oddly enough, I've just posted a new thread about the LS300. 

Very intrigued why a major UK dealer is making a new promo film about them !

It has a doubler in it so its a choice of using that and losing some light or use the VSM on the LS300 to alter the image size.

In HD, the extra reach from the prime zoom goes to the rocker of the LS300 so you have huge zoom on the lens and then you can carry on with the internal zoom!

It makes the camera pretty long so if you haven't got it on a tripod and use a shoulder mount then you have to use an additional EVF mounted quite far forward. Which, considering how bad the EVF is on the LS300, is pretty much a given anyway.

At the end of the day, I'm going to say its probably the best 15x par focal servo zoom with a constant f1.7 aperture in M4/3 mount for circa £250 on the market at the moment  

Quite surprised to see one of the UK's leading photo/video retailers producing a brand new (and pretty comprehensive) video about the LS300 this late in the game.

Its a very decent run through though for anyone who hasn't really taken a detailed look at its array of tricks (and foibles) before.

I'd expect to see bundles with this probably around the £3K mark when the Ninja V comes out as the last firmware update gave the LS300 4K60p to external recorders. 

Used, I've seen them go for £1500-1800.

I can't really see it making some sort of miraculous comeback as there are tons of other options out there now compared to when it was released.

Having said that, sometimes for certain jobs you just need a camcorder and at the prices they are getting to used there aren't many offering more bang for the buck than this one does.

Budget for an EVF though.

7 minutes ago, Kisaha said:

You.Are.Unlimited!

You should have a disclaimer on those "Do not try this at home", or something, people can get hurt!

Its for the LS300 really but I thought "Micro 4/3 mount....might as well have a go on the GX80 as well"

In ETC mode you'd just about get away with it with a small crop.

If the OP wanted servo zoom as he's described though, he'd have to go for old B4 ENG lenses with an outboard 12V supply to drive it.

You'd have to be quite mad to do something like that though.

Like this weirdo attaching an Angenieux ENG lens to his GX80 and lashing a Sony battery to it.

Oh hang on.....

Thats mine

11 minutes ago, jonpais said:

Not only can't you use an external monitor when shooting F-log internally, but the record light continues to blink while recording, fooling you into believing the camera is actually recording to the SD card when it's not. Major flaw.

When I first read this I was wondering whether it might have to do with having the HDMI record trigger set to ON but, nope, its the same with it ON or OFF.

That is not cool at all.

Also, while you can monitor (for what thats worth) on the camera while recording externally you can't play anything back on it until you unplug the external monitor. 

Right, after battering away at this thing all day from numerous different angles, I now remember why I put it on the back burner in the first place !

When you try and put cinelike d or v on it, it responds in exactly the opposite way you want it to and puts a ton of contrast into the image with a saturation boost just for good measure. 

The histogram looks like a truck has driven right through the middle of it and pushed everything to the shadows and highlights.

And not a small truck either.

A big fat one.

Possibly with a sidecar attached as well.

On both sides.

Trying to correct this in camera with exposure compensation and highlight/shadow curves made a difference but still nothing even approaching usable.

One interesting thing (well, interesting is all relative but after hours of fucking about with this you take your pleasure where you can) is that there is the expected colour response difference between the cinelike d and cinelike v so it knows what its supposed to be doing but this is also accompanied by a hue change. 

Again, trying to correct this with hue adjustment commands wasn't exactly a roaring success.

What I suspect is going on is the other two cameras that share the same guts, the GH4 and the HVX200, have exposed (if you pardon the pun) controls for hue, levels (i.e. 0-255) and master pedestal and its a combo of these that the LX100 just falls apart on when it receives the cinelike command.

The HVX200 is the only one that has an app (iOS only which makes it trickier though not impossible to harvest commands from) that can access those functions remotely so there is no chance of me finding anyone with that combo to have a look it. The camera I do have that has these functions is the FZ2000 but its all done in camera rather than via the app so no chance of harvesting the commands that way either.

So, sadly, no cinelike for the LX100.

Which is all the more reason to give EOS HD pro colour a whirl on it

I think you'll be disappointed with the AF performance of the Canon with the metabones.

With regard to the Lumix lens, its not going to get wide enough I wouldn't imagine for what you're after.

If you're looking for the facilities that you are used to from the camcorder but in a handheld form factor then I'd recommend you have a look at something like the FZ2000/2500.

Its a 1" sensor so its the same as the UX180, in built NDs, 20x zoom (with external LANC controller for the zoom if you need it too), VLOG if you want it, 5 axis OIS etc.

Where it falls down for you might be the lack of higher frame rates at 4K (though it does 120 in 1080).

The GH5 is a very, very nice camera indeed but as an overall package with the lenses you've listed based on what you are doing and how you are used to working, I think you might find it gets a bit unwieldly juggling it.

2 hours ago, Walter H said:

I don't think it's a nitpick. I was expecting to shoot F-Log with the exposure tools and / using a monitoring LUT with my SmallHD Focus. Buh-mer.

Yeah, I meant the blanking while scrolling through selections was a nitpick.

The other thing is....well....erm....unusual shall we say.

Going back to the nit pick one though, these mini reboots as it changes what it is doing when its reconfiguring the HDMI port are quite intriguing. As I said in the other post, if ever there was going to be a dark horse about who could enable ProResRaw on an HDMI port as a firmware update....

2 minutes ago, Márcio Kabke Pinheiro said:

Unfortunately the video quality is now lagging behing the GX85 - G9 - G85 - GH5; the noise levels are from the GH4 generation. If it could be updated to the GX85 level, would be amazing.

I might have another tinker with it over the next few days regarding what happens when I was trying to put cinelike d on it.

Its been sat on the naughty step for a few months because I never got back round to trying to probe it a bit more.

They could do with getting on with it.

This still isn't there for the longer lenses but for everything else these things are getting better with each version.

6 minutes ago, Trek of Joy said:

 

Here's a guide with all the new features/options -- http://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/manuals/pdf/index/x/fujifilm_xt2_manual_01_en.pdf

 

Yeah, the one they've missed the trick with is recording 4K F-Log internal whilst outputting an HD version of it over HDMI.

Ditto having no HDMI when you're recording HD F-Log either.

Not being able to get a monitor feed when its own monitoring is bit limited  (no zebras are even more of an omission now with internal LOG as, arguably, is the monitoring LUT) is a letdown.

I found stepping through the recording options is a bit painful as its doing one of its fast reboots between each step to switch the displays on and off so it takes a while to get from HD to 4K. It would be good if they could at least let you save your formats in the C slots.

Oh well, I'm nitpicking now

Right, I've sorted the Zoom protocol out now so any of those that take the wired remote port can now be controlled.

Just leaves you Marantz freaks to sort now

1 minute ago, Snowfun said:

How long had you been saving the Century caption? A good job it was an Englishman who reached it first!

Only about a week  

Been trying to position myself to have strike so I could've hit it myself but I'd miscalculated a no ball or a wide somewhere along the line.

4 minutes ago, Kisaha said:

I really applaud their try though, I imagine how happy you are given some features weren't there when you bought the camera.

The single biggest feature that would make this camera immeasurably more useful for what I personally do with it is to have the lock image function being able to be assigned to a function key.

It's such a trivial thing to most people and such a trivial thing to implement for Fuji but, honestly, it makes it too slow to use in my workflow. And in the workflow of anyone else who is trying to use it for what I do as well.

So whilst I love them to death for adding in these new features, it does make me shake my head when we are so many firmware updates down the line and they are prioritising kind of niche things like folder renaming and transfer of settings via USB to their app that no one uses anyway over something that is such a glaring omission for one of the markets they like to tell people they are doing well in.

14 minutes ago, Kisaha said:

What do you thing about the 120f image quality?

 Its looks OK to me but I'll need to go to the beach and find a dog shaking water off itself to be truly sure.