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They had the SD and the 30mm as a bundle for £799 in their summer sale and I thought it'd still be available so I could get it when I was next over (ie now). Wrong!

It will mirror whatever you have assigned to the zoom rocker on the camera. It mounts to the tripod pan bar

Fuck. In an aisle seat with a man on the right and a woman on the left. I'll go with the gender of whoever checks my passport at the other end. Update in 2 1/2 hours !

Well here's ironic.. I found the H3D for you because I was trawling Park Cameras as they had a deal on for the SD with a 30mm but they've stopped it ! I've got the 0 and all 3 of the DPm's and I wanted to hate the SD so I didn't have to buy it but tried it and , well, you can guess the rest. I'm not sure people are feeling the benefit of the H version versus its extra price and, for me, I'd have to pair the SD with the 50-100 to make it make sense in terms of filling the gap as something different to what I've got from the rest of the range. The big problem with that is finding anyone with a Sigma mount version of that lens to try it. I don't suppose you've got one have you?

No excuse not to get that cheap 50-110 now then, you know you want to ! The mirror delay is a good option when you're hand holding to offset any issue with the slap/thump/seismic event of the mirror. You might want to get familiar with cleaning the sensor by the way as it draws in shite like no other camera I've ever known. Possibly due to the air displacement caused by the shutter

I'm going to let fate decide. I'm getting on the plane to London in an hour. If the person sitting next to me is a man then I'll take the sensible route and get the Fuji. If its a woman then I'll take the Zeiss path. Stay tuned...

I got mine in 2009. It felt like when we got a colour telly in the 70s

That is exactly the problem isn't it that the complete set would be showing me a bit too much ankle if I got the 85. I thought it was God giving me a sign but it might well have been the other fella!

Well according to FujiRumors, feature updates are largely driven by what Fuji read on their site so maybe we should register 200 fake accounts and ask for it.

Maybe they'll put 4K on the GX50S while they're at it

Set it in stills mode to one of the 3 custom ones and then you can select that one from the Q in video mode. Daft that they couldn't make it follow through to the video mode for setting but it seems to be because it uses the shutter button. You can go through all the motions exactly like when its in stills mode but then there is no way to set it when you have the square over an area you want as the shutter button does nothing! Unless it uses another button to set but I can't see which one it would be and, of course, I can't possibly countenance reading the manual

I have the 28 f2.8, the 50 f1.7, the 135 f2.8 and the 28-85 f3.3-4 which I've built up over a few years if I see them cheap. The one I've been after for a while is the 85 f1.4 but never found one cheap enough to make me cave in! Until now.... Well, until tomorrow at least. I've found one in London but the same place has also got a used Fuji 23 f1.4 for a silly price and which would probably be more useful (but I could easily persuade myself otherwise !) so I've been agonising over it as I can't get both. To break the impasse, I thought "I know, I'll put my Sigma Art 35 f1.4 on the X-T2 with the Lens Turbo and do a few shots and see if I can dissuade myself of needing the Fuji so I can get the Contax Zeiss....." I took the Lens Turbo out of the ever growing box of adapters I've acquired, went to put it on the camera at which point one of the elements promptly dropped out and smashed on the floor. I don't know if this is God's way of telling me to get the Fuji (because there'll be no speed boosted Nikons for a while now) or the Contax Zeiss. He was telling me to get both wasn't he? Yeah, lets go with both.

The flickr pool for that lens is quite interesting. The first few pages are dominated by a single shooter (seemingly on a holiday to New York) and the processing is not to my taste but its all shot on A7Rii so its interesting to see from a resolution perspective. The content gets a lot more people-y towards the bottom of page 6. It's a shorter range than the 28-85mm that I've got but its a bit smaller, lighter, sharper and usually cheaper.... I'll see you on ebay https://www.flickr.com/groups/1571522@N25/pool/

How about using some of the very early EF lenses with the lens regain as an alternative half way house? Things like this 35-70 from 1989 have a certain, erm, 'charm' to them https://www.flickr.com/groups/605152@N24/pool/ And the 35-105 from a couple of years earlier as well https://www.flickr.com/groups/2049731@N22/pool/page1

I could only try it on the G7. It has the same issue so I'd hope it had the same workaround but you never know with Panasonic.

I used to compare stuff I did at the time with my D800 and H3Dii-39 and the word that always came to mind was 'smoother'. Only in terms of the output was it smoother though as it was a clunky fucker to use!

DXO rate it to be worse than the 5DmarkV, the D810 and the A7Rii by a considerable margin. I'm predicting you'll take some actual images with it and decide otherwise....

In all likelihood, no. However, you should test it with the specific camera and lens combination you are going to use it with. If you need to stop the particular lens down so that the edge sharpness is acceptable (as the main point of interest will no longer be in the centre of the frame in this orientation) then you might negate the advantages by introducing more noise etc.

In the dim distant past, Newtek used to demonstrate their Tricasters at tradeshows with the cameras in portrait mode for this exact application. The logic was that using SD cameras in that orientation was giving them the equivalent of HD resolution for the limited area of interest that they required for their task. This worked well to not only save a bunch of cash (HD cameras were exotic at the time! ) and showcased their real time scaling and rotation capabilities for their virtual set system. The same situation doesn't apply now but using the same logic would give you an 8K equivalent I suppose

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This was asked about in another thread but might get lost within it so I'm putting it here in case anyone else needs a solution. The issue that was asked about is that when these cameras (might affect GH5 too but I don't have one) are under wifi control, the rear screen switches off after about 5 minutes and is there a workaround for it. Now that I've stepped away from the tapas and had a look at it, the answer is yes there is. Or, in point of fact, yes there are as there are 2 ways to address it. 1) If you are near the camera, put your thumb over the EVF momentarily (providing you have the correct auto sense LVF mode set) and this will bring the rear display back. 2) Any command it receives over wifi will also wake it up again so press something benign on the main screen of the app like the peaking function etc and this will wake it up. For a non-intervention method, you'll have to wait for the now almost mythical controller I keep threatening to foist upon you which will have a similarly benign command sent to be used as a keep alive function every 120 seconds or so to stop it going to sleep in the first place. But until then, 1 or 2 will work for you.

EDIT Hang on.... My old brain was thinking about the Ninja Inferno and not the Assassin. The Assassin doesn't do 4k60p so scrap that part of the equation. "All" you will be getting for your money is edit ready ProRes, great monitoring tools for both cameras and audio recording for your GX80 Still a bargain!

At that price, I'd buy it now and worry about the subtleties later ! You'll get your money back and then some all day long if it doesn't bring enough to the party for you. But with the LS300 it's going to give you 4K60p recording and edit ready ProRes, neither of which the camera can do so its a hell of an upgrade for €400 just for that alone. And that's before we get to it as a monitor to make up for the joke of an EVF that JVC have seemingly recycled from an old 'What The Butler Saw' machine for the LS300. The exposure aids on the Assassin are also an absolute boon when using JLOG.

You'll never regret the 80 even if you add a few other lenses later on. The 50-110 is so enticing because it hits all three of those focal lengths but, yes, it is at the expense of it being a bit of a brick. Although in my working world of lenses its positively lightweight At 1.4fps I've never felt in any danger of any of my HC lenses not outliving me !

Haha....I do enjoy a bit of decisiveness! Its usually worth double but I think that one is a bit beaten up. On the other hand, MPB are a solid outfit so I'd a) Expect the description to be accurate. b) Them to describe it as sold as seen if it was fucked. I'd give them a call about the warranty and how much service they think it'd take to get right. Its a good opportunity at that price as the lens is not far off being a variable prime.