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For me, @mercer 's unintentional christening of it as The Pocketii has stuck with me. I'll be in Modena in July so I might see if someone can re-house it in chrome and leatherette with walnut finish loupe for the rear LCD with an eyepiece made from hand fed calf hide with accent stitching. See if they can fit some chrome exhausts to the bottom as well.

Great test. I'm not sure I'm any the wiser about motion cadence but after about 55 seconds of watching that pendulum I definitely felt that I could've been prompted into giving up smoking and getting over my fear of flying

There is a 70-210mm in the Series E range that might be worth a look. Its a bit slow (f4) but optically its very good. Generally available for way less than £50 as well !

This is what Grant Petty had to say when they acquired DaVinci in 2009. "When we were doing the due diligence on DaVinci, I saw a $50,000 price in the price list if you bought a secondhand system, and now wanted to be supported by DaVinci. And not only that, you're paying upward of $80,000 a year for support contract after that." That was just the service charge price you paid to get it checked out if you bought a second hand one. At that time he was talking about getting the purchase price of the high end systems down from $850K to $500K At $1299, I'd say its the camera you are getting for free and not the software.

Lovely in winter though.

At the risk of this becoming even more off topic, can I just say that this must be made to happen as you two co-hosting a vlog arguing about this stuff would be absolutely compulsive viewing

If you don't mind a bit of a project.....? You can start and stop the MixPre 3 with keyboard commands on its USB port (CTRL+R and CTRL+S) and the arduino boards like the Sparkfun Pro Micro have easy programmable functionality to emulate a keyboard. They can also be used to make LANC controls (with a minimal amount of breadboard action ). So you could make a very simple (and very small) box with a simple push button that would start/stop the C100 over LANC and also simultaneously start/stop the MixPre 3 over USB with the TC being passed via HDMI from the C100 to the Atomos to the MixPre 3. Or even a small HDMI splitter if the Atomos is stripping it. The little box would actually be powered by the LANC port of the C100 as well.

That was the first Nikon lens I ever owned as it was the kit lens with my EM when I was but a pup! If you come across the 75-150mm Series E it is also a bargain. I regularly see them on eBay for less than £40. The 100mm f2.8 Series E as well is worth a look for what they go for as well. Really compact little thing.

Ursa Nano it is then

The same is true with lenses that you see not getting a great deal of love - or even outright contempt - and then you look at the Flickr pool for it and there is page upon page of great images shot with it. On that particular thread - amongst the pom pom waving about the delay - someone asked if anyone knew how he could edit his videos that he shot with it. I could hear the sound of the tumbleweed bouncing along the tarmac even from this side of the Atlantic I am intrigued by the Hydrogen but I'm a bit like a dog chasing a car in that I'm not entirely sure what I'd do with it if I caught it.

Yeah, their thread about the new BMPCC4K was quite interesting I'd love to be at that Hydrogen launch event to see how the forum's collective persona translates into the real world when they actually meet Brian, erm, I mean Jim. I'd especially be interested in knowing what he thinks of it. I mean, he must know its a bit 'unusual' for grown adults to react to what are often negative statements with such fervour? Even Steve Jobs would be saying "OK, lets tone this down a notch lads"

Yes, I spotted that the other day. Was it Jon Brawley who said that? Yes, I'm hanging on waiting for someone else to buy it and do an A/B

It truly fascinates me to be honest. Good luck to them though. Oh to have that serenity to accept disappointments. Everything I ever bought from RED was arrived late and undercooked. Like the worst chicken restaurant in town.

I must be getting old as all I was thinking watching that was "Get off the tracks you bloody idiots" Its impressive stuff though. The Kipon version with the focal reducer is the one I'm hanging on for. I'm also hopeful that now we are getting AF adapters from several sources for Fuji that the TechArt Pro adapter might cross over as well.

I love the reactions on Reduser to bad news like that. They welcome Jim's announcements of delays with the same exultation as if he was the bank manager extending the date you have to pay a loan back. It always reminds me of that scene in Life Of Brian where Brian screams at everyone "OK, I am the messiah...now f*** off" to which he gets the response "How shall we f*** off Oh Lord?"

Maybe Nikon should build a robot with enough AI to work out how to take mirrors out of their cameras

Yeah, I think the expectations of what it can achieve as a skilled boom operator replacements need to be re-adjusted somewhat. It is a brilliant technology but the real revolution here is that it is now available at a fraction of the price that it has been for the past 30 years. Its primary application has largely been in classical music recording and latterly sports broadcasting as a steerable stadium mic. This demo of a B format plug in shows what you can expect in a pseudo shotgun mode. Its good but, its no substitute for a Kiwi with a beard just yet

I think they could make it switchable based upon V-Log being installed on the camera, which would be the fairest thing to do anyway. That way they give themselves a revenue opportunity from those who haven't upgraded and reward the people who have already paid. Whether its worth having when, as you say, it then involves the user paying another chunk of money for a recorder is neither here nor there for Panasonic I suppose if it means that they overcome a major objection from customers. Its a bit like the X-T2 only having F-Log externally - it offered a solution for Fuji to an objection and for customers to tick the box of their own 'must haves'. And then hardly anyone used it

No, I associate Angelcam with the CCTV streaming platform. I think you meant angel view which is the generic term used for 360 cameras for things like GoPro's Overcapture function ? I think its the post process that needs branding somehow to get the point across rather than the capture method because, as I say, 360 has got a novelty/gimmicky thing attached to it which is a big negative to a lot of people. Maybe we should call it Videofield as its pretty analogous to Soundfield capturing in all directions for targeted steering in post

I don't think it will be long now. Huge market for whoever gets it right and pitches it properly to consumers.

Just on this point, as I seem to remember you are a fan of the Crumplepop plug-ins, their AudioDenoise one does a very credible job on those Saramonics without too much hair pulling. I know prevention is better than cure but might be worth a whirl if you can find a trial version.

A £180K ND filter on wheels. I like your thinking

Kinefinity's non-focal reducer EF mount has electronic ND. I think the Aputure MFT to EF follow focus (again the non-focal reducer version) has it too?

I'm not saying it can't. I was referring to the testing of it not being subjective in the same way as the other improvements will be. I have the 100-400 they cite and any improvement on focus speed in lower light with or without the teleconverters will be welcome. Not to mention obvious

I don't think its out until next month. The low light limit for AF being extended and being able to use it up to f11 should be simple pass/fail though. The other two changes are subjective and will need someone who tracks oncoming birds in flight at varying focal lengths to test !