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10 hours ago, jonpais said:

@webrunner5

I will bet you a plane ticket to Vietnam that if I show you two movies side-by-side on my LG OLED, that you will no longer think the same way. 

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.

1 hour ago, mercer said:

It could be a cool two lens set up with my Nikon 50mm Series E.

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

2 minutes ago, mercer said:

But if you look at Instagram and see the quality of work being done on Canon DSLRs and you begin to question everything you read on any forum. 

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.

6 minutes ago, mercer said:

Let’s be honest here... are people really going to buy this camera for its phone coverage or its holograms?

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.

1 minute ago, IronFilm said:

I think the extreme hatred/skepticism/negativity towards RED in the early days caused them to close ranks, and those effects still linger in their culture to today. 

Yeah, their thread about the new BMPCC4K was quite interesting

9 minutes ago, Snowfun said:

Don’t get me worried! I preordered a Hydrogen...

But, I agree, the worship on those fora is fascinating - I could be wrong but I’ve always assumed that hardcore professional RED users don’t bother with reduser as they'll have direct access to those who count. It’s the aspirational types desperate to impress who lead the kneeling rituals. I still think that a photo of using the Hydrogen running the BM app to control the Pocket 4K will go down a storm on That site...

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"

7 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

Apparently every time the original BMPCC switched frame rates it was rebooting! :-o But it was doing it pretty quickly. 

Yes, I spotted that the other day. Was it Jon Brawley who said that?

4 minutes ago, frontfocus said:

Yeah, it's very interesting, too bad that the Baveyes Kipon speedbooster, is optically by far the worst speedbooster. Would be nice to see Fringer collaborate with metabones. 

Yes, I'm hanging on waiting for someone else to buy it and do an A/B

6 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

The boot licking in that other forum is other worldly. 

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

5 hours ago, kye said:

Absolutely, something I've looked into before.  The term you're looking for is "angelcam", which comes from the fact it looks like there is an invisible floating camera that follows you around.  

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

27 minutes ago, Kisaha said:

@BTM_Pix I am following closely this category, and I believe it is the future, it is just not there yet. My impression is that 8K is mandatory, there is just too much information, for small 1-2 lens-ed, low bit-rate and resolution, cheap mobile cameras. I have played a little with the Samsung ones, and they were really useless. The 8K will happen, and will push this specific category of cameras. It is inevitable.

I don't think it will be long now.

Huge market for whoever gets it right and pitches it properly to consumers.

8 hours ago, Oliver Daniel said:

So with the Saramonic Lav - it's pretty difficult.... "hisssssssssssss"... 

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.

18 minutes ago, sanveer said:

 Even the maybach uses a version where clear windows suddenly becone tinted.

A £180K ND filter on wheels.

I like your thinking

16 minutes ago, sanveer said:

Actually, apart from Sony, I don't see anyone else using an eND. Maybe they don't have the tech. Atleast yet. And maybe it is too expensive to be borrowed from Sony. 

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?

44 minutes ago, frontfocus said:

 And it's not like f/11 fails to focus, it's that it will now work with phase detection autofocus, which ist faster. 

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

Just now, jonpais said:

Just curious - are there any before/after comparisons of AF online yet?

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 !

I'm not sure what BMD are going to do with their portion of the £54.98 that I've given CVP to pre-order one.

Or how they are going to give me it back if I change my mind.

If someone can market it correctly then the ideal cameras for holiday and travel are actually the new breed of 360 ones.....just not necessarily using them as true 360 cameras where you will be expecting people to watch your content with a headset on.

Using them to capture everything front and back and worrying about what the important part was you were meant to be pointing it at later is actually exactly what is needed for most casual users.

Making regular videos from 360 ones using things like Insta One's FlowState process where you decide the angles later would be such a game changer for travel and life with your kids stuff.

They just need to up the quality a bit and market it in a more targeted way. Currently most people just see 360 cameras as a gimmick so I think they need to come up with a new term like "OmniCam" or something that takes away the headset connotation and pushes it as being a more effective source for making regular videos with.

9 minutes ago, jonpais said:

Where's the camera?  

Not in their pocket thats for sure.

1 hour ago, Snowfun said:

Presumably a cage of some sort will emerge. Yes it possibly defeats the purpose but it’ll look good. (And possibly prevent the camera rotating on a quick release as it’s only got the single screw hole I think?)

If its anything like it was when the first version was released, it'll be rig mania for a while with people pimping them out.

Though I do have a soft spot for these two.

Thought $7995 for the set of 3 looked very interesting indeed.

Until I saw that was just the deposit!

Still groundbreaking price of course in comparison to others though.