BTM_Pix

Just now, Matthew Hartman said:

We cool? ?

No.

Haha....yes, of course.

I just like the drama  

MTF Services were doing an FZ adapter for them a couple of years ago.

https://www.newsshooter.com/2016/02/23/bve-2016-mtf-mounts-for-veydra-prime-lenses/

I don't see it listed on their site but it might be worth dropping them an email

https://www.mtfservices.com

29 minutes ago, neosushi said:

Just grabbed 4 days of popcorn ! 

Best be this type in this thread.

1 hour ago, Matthew Hartman said:

And for the record, you all should know Arikhan bailed (this forum at least) way before BMT_pix started playing detective.

Whoah, hang on a minute there.

EDIT>>>>>

Nope, I probably got the wrong end of the stick

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15 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

Veydra has swappable mounts for MFT and E mount, wondering if they could also be used with a suitable adapter mount swapped in for Fuji X mount or Sony FZ mount? 

 @jonpais has got Veydra's Fuji X adapter for his set.

He's threatened to shoot some stuff on his X-T2 with them but I think he'll have to hold his nose when going back to shooting 8 bit video, eh Jon?  

2 hours ago, jzagaja said:

Is it possible control X-H1 through gimbal or lanc controller? One hand operation on e.g. bike):

1. electronic manual focus
2. power zoom
3. on/off
4. trigger (not via jack port)

Blackmagic Micro had nice interface for that. Why not through USB interface?

Unfortunately not.

For auto-focus (not manual focus) and stop/start you can use their app but even then it comes with that massive caveat of only being able to record 720p as when it comes to wifi and video, Fuji cameras are unable to walk and chew gum at the same time.

The USB options are as a lightroom plug in but that is stills only.

Its a pity they offer such woeful remote options, particularly as that cheap new 15-45 power zoom lens with OIS would be useful on a gimbal.

1 hour ago, IronFilm said:

(my underlining for emphasis)

Yes, I agree, I feel like BTM_Pix raised this intriguing point very politely and respectfully. 

Yeah but you didn't see me 10 minutes later when I logged into eBay and found out I hadn't been outbid on all 17 NX-1s that I was hoping to turn a profit on next week.

25fps according to the manufacturer.

It'd be a fun (if expensive) project to tinker with but you'd have to be keen !

35 minutes ago, MountneerMan said:

BTM_Pix opened up an online detective agency.... to this day he still takes on probono cases related to the camera hacks

With its spin off 70s themed detective series The Rockford RAW Files and Kojakrome no doubt.

13 hours ago, ntblowz said:

Terra 4K and GH5S share the same sensor?

 

 

Its meant for people using seriously, seriously, seriously long telephoto lenses normally but if you have a Windows tablet (and some gaffa tape), you can roll your own c-mount RAW cinema camera with that sensor in it for under £800 with this

https://www.firstlightoptics.com/zwo-cameras/zwo-asi-294mc-usb-30-colour-camera.html

22 minutes ago, Matthew Hartman said:

I'm not sure it will matter much either way. Arikhan told me he's done with posting here and has given me the lead to post his findings he outlined in a previous post. (If I should receive them) 

Instead, he will run his own website, and I can't determine if this means people who get access to the hack will be limited or not. Whether he follows through with this or not I can't really say. But I've been trying my best to mitigate this and it appears to have finally broken down. Let's just say strategy is not our best characteristic.  

Bottom line, the kid said April 1st. Read into that what you will, but the constant baiting, prodding, poking and in some cases accusations pushed him away it seems, and I can't rightfully blame him, especially given his age. Some of you may believe this is not a legitimate factor but then I ask if you've ever raised a child? Prank or not, you don't approach a child as you'd approach a fully grown adult. If you know anything about biology you would know the human brain doesnt fully mature until the mid 20's. Besides, the kid didn't commit a murder. 

People's skepticism and impatience or what he views as "hatred" were never his to mitigate nor shepard. He made a claim and very clearly stated that he would reveal it on April 1st. Done, end of story. Everything else at this point is white noise and speculation, fueled by impatience and fear of being wronged.  

We live in an age where we obviously just can't wait to see what's behind the curtain. We grab at guarantees in a world of no promises and are willing to mow down anyone who steps in the way. I believe this reveals more about us than Arikhan. 

I know this all sounds dramatic on my end but I have been in touch with him privately. You all pushed him, despite all the warnings. If you think he's full of b.s. full stop there's nothing keeping you from not posting here. But you do it because you actually want to believe in a world that holds no promises. That's not Arikhan's problem is it? 

Hmmmm....

Can I just clarify that I brought those two images up for comparison as I knew someone would search his posts and come across it and would, in all likelihood, have not couched it in, shall we say, quite the same terms.

There are very plausible reasons why those images are as they are that wouldn't disprove a RAW breakthrough.

Just as there are very plausible reasons why those images as they are would not support it.

However, I wasn't just going to ignore the comparison between the images because it didn't suit my suspected - and hoped for outcome - that this is indeed for real.

Just now, sanveer said:

Thank you. I think both the pics are JPEG quality (4k in 4-2-8 8-bit, and curiously their exposure seems Pretty Off, visible from how quickly the photo disintegrated when he tried to sell it as a DNG file). That's why his effort at trying to fool us fell flat on his face. The position of the cars and trucks at the traffic signal give it away. Also they are less then 5 seconds apart, as can be noticed from the position of various vehicles and ships/boats in the pic. 

 

Thank you???

Hahaha

18 minutes ago, lucabutera said:

I'm not a detective but you're not very careful ... the only auction in Germany expires March 31st!

Ah-ha

Yes, I should have read your post more carefully

I wasn't as specific as that in my search.

38 minutes ago, lucabutera said:

 

I do not have the skills of an investigator, out of curiosity I have a look on Ebay, the only NX1 auctioned on ebay in Europe is in Germany that expires March 31, maybe it's a coincidence or maybe not, until we have concrete evidence we can not know it.

Not that it matters but there are numerous NX-1s for sale from Europe on eBay. Including from Poland and Italy.

If anyone does want one or a lens for one, this video game shop in Germany seems to have bought a job lot.

And no, its nowhere near Frankfurt.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/The-Video-Game-Source/Samsung-NX-/_i.html?rt=nc&_fsub=18346352017&_sid=17190217&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14&_sop=3&_sc=1

56 minutes ago, lucabutera said:

 

@sanveer Good job, Finally someone with a clear mind! What do you think of the second image published?
Do not you find it strange a video shot vertically, casually with a 4:3 ratio instead of 16: 9, full colors, I think it's a dng picture, not a frame take from video.

You did see that it was a quoted post, right?

It is definitely 'a thing' with Fuji.

Precisely how much of an issue it causes depends on what you are doing with it.

Just to illustrate eliminating a couple of variables (sensor size and lens), I've just done this little comparison shot for you with an X-T2 against another APS-C camera (Nikon D500) and the same lens (Sigma 35mm f1.4 ART) in manual exposure (ISO200, f1.4, 1/800th). Profile wise, they are both set to Standard which, of course, is not completely common but those differences aren't the major player here.

The top picture is the jpeg from the D500 and the bottom one is the jpeg from the X-T2 and the one in the middle is the X-T2 with a 2/3 stop boost in post.

I deal with this issue when I'm working in stadiums under floodlights when I'll set a manual exposure on my Nikon bodies which will be common across all of them but the same setting on the Fujis will look underexposed. I leave it as is though (as I don't want to reduce shutter speed just to make it look 'right') and I have an automatic preset on import to do the adjustment because I know that (as in this example) I can pull it up without any discernible noise.

So, for me, whilst its 'a thing' it isn't an issue and, of course, there is one obvious advantage when you think about it....

Having said about searching posts, I was thinking the Frankfurt landscape one looked familiar to me and there is post from last year that is curious.....

I'd still prefer to give @Arikhan the benefit of the doubt over this (as I suspect the way he's got this to work if he has is not the way many are expecting) but I can't ignore the image in that post and the one in this thread.

The first one is a 2 stop underexposure from a burst/sequence containing the second one.

The -2 exposure one was first (check the position of the boat under the bridge) and in the post it is said to come from a 4:2:0 8 bit 4K file.

I know he  posted that he's been working on this for 7 months so the date (September 2017) doesn't concern me but if the first one is from a video file as stated in the other post then that would be some fast switching between modes in the time it took for that boat movement.

It could still be that it was also RAW and just exported as a 4:2:0 4K file but in the interests of balance - and the fact its bound to show up if anyone searches his previous posts - I think its fair to mention it as being a curiosity  at least.

Before you all start grabbing the pitchforks and firing up the burning torches, please bear in mind that these images could well be part of an A/B test.

46 minutes ago, lucabutera said:

This does not mean anything, even I can publish photographs of Rome but I live 10,000 kilometers away. It does not seem to me that the camera can only be used in the city where you live.

He has mentioned on numerous occasions in the past on this forum where he is from.

I'm not going to do the search for you but I'll just say your detective skills would've been better used looking here than on eBay if you want to find out that it isn't Hannover.

I love a good conspiracy myself as well but the man who is casually selling Samsung gear on your eBay link is from Hannover.

Which would mean that @Arikhan has casually enabled X100000 zoom mode on the NX1 to have taken that shot of Frankfurt from 350km away......

Sometimes coincidences are just that.

27 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

Even if it is just stating the bit depth and bit rate of the 4K raw recordings, so we can see that they get written to SD card and what speed of card we need.

You never know, depending on how its done, it might be more relevant to know what sort of screwdrivers and soldering iron you need

I really don't understand the aspect of anyone referring to this as some sort of scam.

If he starts asking you to send money via Western Union then fair enough but until that happens, what is the issue?

Irrespective of that, I completely understand why @Arikhan is taking his time with this anyway.

Last year, I made a small discovery while looking to build a hardware controller for Panasonic cameras and let everyone know how to do that aspect of it with a simple webpage.

Within days, the "Hey guys whats up..." vloggers were on YouTube showing everyone 'their' hack for Panasonic cameras.

Was I bothered about not being credited? Only by the brazen cheek of it to be honest but the bigger problem was the amount of disinformation it produced which I then had to spend a lot of time on here dealing with, which completely distracted the effort for what I was trying to do in the first place.

And what of that controller?

Well, it had to be back burnered when I had some real projects to do but what has really stalled it is trying to make it into something people can just get parts for off the shelf and have it work without any effort or confusion. 

Functionally, it has been working for months and I could give you all a parts list and some code now and you could have it but it wouldn't be slick enough and bomb proof for me to be comfortable with everyone sourcing the parts and building it themselves.I'm now on my third different hardware platform to make it viable in a turnkey way because I know for a fact that even from just handing out the simple Cinelike D webpage hack that you are making a rod for your own back when it goes into the wild if you don't.

So, the bottom line is that whilst its perfectly fine for me (and probably quite a few people on here) to go and buy a single board computer, flash some code on it, wire some switches to it, put it in a matchbox with a couple of AA batteries and have it controlling my camera, it is not going to be cool when I then try and offer that up for everyone to do themselves. 

It really is not worth the grief you open yourself up for, particularly when as with both my project and @Arikhan 's are not intended for financial gain. 

Even when its for free, the entitlement game is strong with many people.

Now, what he is doing is many orders of magnitude more complex than my silly little controller, so he has to make sure the technique is 100% bullet proof before he reveals it because while he might be perfectly fine in doing what needs to be done (both in terms of a mod and any consequential workflow) it will be another kettle of fish entirely when the "Hey guys, whats up..." vloggers get hold of it and pass it on (and pass it off as their own) to the general public.

They'll get the fame if it works and @Arikhan will get the blame if it doesn't.

Getting something to work is one thing but getting it to work for everyone else without a lot of hand holding is something entirely different and takes time.

Again, I think people would be well advised to re-read his original comments about this, which he has re-iterated in subsequent ones, about it being perfect for his application and manage their expectations.

____________________________________

@Juxx989 wrote......

We NX-1 Allstars together again.  @vasile @lucabutera @kinoseed @Otto K all have experience and serious knowledge of this gear. Some have not been here for months but I bet they could be coaxed back with something exciting as this.

@Arikhan Would be be the Lebron James of the NX-1 community 

@Matthew Hartman would be the coach.   

@Andrew Reid would be the owner... perhaps ive gone too far with this.

@Juxx989 is really good at dreaming about possibilities with no tangible skills (people or technical)  

Lets GOOO!

____________________________________

And you never know, if @Arikhan continues to uncover more things about this camera you may be able to call yourselves The Harlem Globalshutters

26 minutes ago, mercer said:

You know what could be cool though... but probably damn near impossible... to open up a GX85 and a BMPCC and replace all the parts except for the IBIS... so a Pocket cam inside a GX85 body... @BTM_Pix I nominate you for the task. Good luck and let me know when it’s done. 

You say that like I haven't already tried it.

I can give you a mic input on the GX80/85 if you want though.

16 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

Interested to see what you get up to with the app and wifi.

I looked at it very briefly last week and managed to find the connection method but its a lot more buttoned up than Panasonic.

Early days yet though

16 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

Has anybody come across any Fuji LUTs for F-LOG yet? I read there were some. However, such is the interest in the camera, 62 pages on this thread alone is a bit of a haystack to go looking in for LUTs

The latest pack from Fuji has the Eterna one in it now.

46 minutes ago, Castorp said:

Isn’t the main advantage with the two different modes to have different settings? I understand if using physical controls; a lot of operations are necessary, but is it the case that if using the silent touch controls the camera remembers aperture, shutter speed and iso set for video? So it doesn’t matter what the shutter and aperture dials are set to? It overrides them? That would be good.

Then there is separate focus settings and AWB settings. Not to mention picture controls. I can’t use them on my X-Pro 2 but even if I could I would have to change a lot of things before I would press that record button.

I rather like the idea of having two “cameras”, two completely separated modes. And it’s different from custom settings which I don’t like because I never remember what does what. To simply have a ? and a ? makes sense to me.

I don't necessarily think its a bad way of working myself either. It has caught me out a couple of times on the X-T2 when I've left it in video mode, brought the camera up to my eye, pressed the shutter and not been greeted by the comforting sound of a shutter firing though that serves me right for arriving so late on jobs! 

If my suspicion/crackpot theory about it being the reason behind the 720p recording limitation when controlling it from the app is correct though, then its far more of a drawback in that scenario.

A way of controlling it over wifi when its in video mode (even at the expense of it streaming a lower frame rate or resolution to the app if needs be) but the actual camera being able to record in all of its formats should definitely be on their to do list.

Though not before they've fixed the AF on it and done some of their kaizen loveliness and given us Eterna and/or internal FLOG on the X-T2  

9 minutes ago, Matthew Hartman said:

One of these days, Heaven forbid, a cameraman on a segway is going straight off a cliff. 

Thats precisely what happened to Jimi Heselden the former owner of Segway in 2010.