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I've just a got a job with Canon to work on the launch event for 4K in their DSLRs. That should be me safe for another 7-9 years.

I expect Reduser will be collectively moist and greeting it like the invention of fire but I have to confess that I've no idea what it even is. I read the press release twice and still don't know. I felt like this fella.

I'll give you one example that isn't at a low end where people don't just think they're photographers. Light field capture will massively impact the area where I now work of sports photography. A live event like a football match can sustain the number of photographers it does (120+ at major events like CL Final) because of diversity of coverage from around a large field of play. When that can be achieved by several fixed position devices then the human work switches to the editors. As a lot of editing is done off camera remotely anyway now this will not be new jobs created either. So that will be the end of those photography jobs as the editors will have the raw material to work from themselves. With light field, you certainly won't have to worry about AF and DOF again.

Fairlight had the OLED keyboard thing going on in their Xynergi system at the same time as the Optimus. Maybe BlackMagic might do something with it now

Its a decent combination and value thats for sure. I don't know whether the subject separation on that 300mm with it being on an M43 would be ideal and its really hard to judge any long lens on M43 because flickr pools which are my normal gauge only ever have pictures of birds, planes or the moon for anything over 150mm on an M43 ! They also weren't on my radar because APS-C was the limit for me regarding low light but 6400 would generally be OK but you'd be surprised how poor the lighting is at some major stadiums. Its improved a lot in the UK since BT got the rights funnily enough and insisted on additional lighting. They obviously wanted to shoot on M43! I've actually used M43 cameras as remotes behind the goal a few times (the OMD-10) but the battery life just couldn't hack the amount of exposures it was having to do. My faith in Fuji being serious about getting into the game is dwindling unfortunately so I think its going to end up being a system I only use for covering stuff like cycling and boxing etc where you don't need the longer stuff.

I'm still in this Fuji trialling period but the lack of 400mm 2.8 is a bit of a killer. Their 100-400 is OK (some of those CL pictures of Ronaldo used it) and the AF is fine but the 5.6 cripples you even in an elite stadium like the Bernabeu. I'm off to do the UEFA Women's Euros next week in Holland for a month and all of the matches are evening kick off which is a bit of a concern when none of them are even on UEFA's 4 star list. So, I'm still going to be doing a bit of a fudge using Nikon D4s for the longer stuff. The whole point of trying to switch was to get the crippling weight down (not to mention the cost savings and maintenance prices) but at the end of the day none of that matters if you can't actually get the images. So it will be a combination of X-T2 and X-T20 (for remote camera stuff mainly) with 10-24mm f4, 50-140 f2.8, 16-55mm f2.8, the 1.4TC and I probably will end up taking the 100-400mm f5.6 to shoot training sessions and crowd build up stuff. From the Nikon side it will be a D4s with 400mm f2.8 and a D500 with 70-200mm f2.8 and the 1.4TC. I'm going to be doing some press conference and training session coverage live to YouTube so I'll be taking the JVC LS-300 and the cheap Angenieux B4 lens I got off eBay!

I put in Photographers and was surprised to see it was only 2% as I can see definitely technology emerging that will make the capture part of the process far more automated. However, underneath Photographers was Models. Now then, surely we must all be very worried considering the score given for them..... Although, on the other hand, I can see an awful lot of undatable nerds getting ready to welcome this apparently imminent army of fembots. https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/41-9012-models

No, I only did their games against Real, Barca and Atleti as there is always interest in coverage of the players from those clubs so I doubt games against Lorca and Corboda etc will be as sellable!

The really annoying aspect to this is that Panasonic's image app does actually allow you to listen to the audio on your phone headphones when playing back a video but not while preparing or recording one. So I guess that might be a half solution for you where you could just record a snippet and play it back using the app to do a quick check that there's nothing untoward. With regard to your AC problem, Crumplepop make a good plugin for FCPX et al that is very effective at removing noise. There are tons of stuff out there that does this stuff but the Crumplepop one does it without hours of twiddling ! Theres a demo of it here. Its $99 but I don't consider that to be outrageous for what its doing, particularly when dealing with a camera's own internal mic amps which aren't always exactly noise free.

Use a small Bluetooth earpiece and you can monitor it live with those two bits I linked to Jon. You don't have to wear it all the time (unless you wanted the 'And now over to our correspondent in Vietnam' effect!) but just pop it on as you go into record for a quick confidence check.

Indeed. I'll be covering Granada against slightly smaller clubs next season after their relegation! I was using their description of it for continuity purposes but yes you are quite correct.

I can see the DPR headline now... "Pro Sports Photographers Warned Of Banding Issues On Sony A9 When Using Posterization Picture Effect In Stadiums With LED Ad Boards"

I'd have struggled to understand a fair amount of the answers without the subtitles if it was a podcast to be honest I was actually considering at one point if maybe they shot it on 5Ds because the cameras themselves would've been provided by the hosts. If this was the 'old' days of the Soviet Union (which I think Putin wishes it was), security concerns would've meant them not allowing new fangled technology in. Mind you, it was also a pride thing then too where they'd use their own versions of the western technology that they'd copied and often enhanced. MIghtn't have been a bad thing these days, imagine it : "You use our new Canonski Shest MK DVA. It is like your Canon 6D Mark 2. But made of cast iron. And has 4K" Putin's personal photographer also uses Canon so perhaps he felt more at ease seeing those cameras around him. Looking at his personal photographer, I'm sure I'd feel at ease too if she was around.... If I was into conspiracies (which of course I am!!!) then maybe the look was also a deliberate bit of propaganda done to not beautify the subject and his surroundings. You could take that one way - which was to make Putin more relatable - or the other way to make him and his surroundings all look a bit shabby and low end. Its like whenever the BBC have a news item or documentary that includes TV adverts they always seem to get the advert, record it onto VHS, put it by a huge magnet, dub it onto another VHS where the tracking is fucked and then get a VHS camera to record it off a TV that they found in a skip. The message obviously being 'Look and behold how horrendous and grubby TV advertisements are compared to our beautiful images. Please keep giving us your license money so we don't have to sully your screen with this garbage'. Whatever the reason though, after just starting to watch the first episode, I think the content trumps the technical for me.

vlog_gamma It is definitely the correct command. The issue is at the camera end because it accepts it and actions it but just not in the right way. Exactly as it was a few weeks ago.

Nope. I've been doing most of the hardware controller development using a G7 so all VLOG messaging (including the one that is actually correct for the GH4) were tried a good while ago.

Whoever that was is going to be apoplectic when I post my upcoming essay "Canon and Nikon as viewed through the prism of the template for competing Japanese technology duopolies established during the transition from analogue to digital synthesisers in the period 1979-1987" Well, pentaprism at least. Anyhoo.... If you want to monitor audio from your camera but it doesn't have a headphone jack then a little lateral thought will get you here. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B016I34422/ref=mp_s_a_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1499264817&sr=8-13&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=hdmi+audio+extractor Plug this into the HDMI socket and it will extract the audio to a 3.5mm jack socket at which point you can then use a similarly cheap and small battery headphone amp to monitor it with or if you want to be all fancy and wireless you could use a Bluetooth transmitter like this which are all over amazon for about £12 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B018YU3VVC/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1499265402&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=battery+powered+bluetooth+transmitter&dpPl=1&dpID=41aHuVS8uuL&ref=plSrch Good thing about this - apart from sticking it to the man and not having to buy the next model up to get such a fundamental feature - is that you are listening post the camera taking it in. External pre-amps are good by offering you headphone monitoring but its before the camera has taken it in so can give you a false sense of security.

Nope, unfortunately

Unbelievably, the shop had an actual Panasonic rep in who was eager to help me evaluate the G80 so I had to think on my feet. "Can I just see how the focus tracking works when its being controlled by the app compared to my GX80?" "Of course" "OK, you go over the other side of the shop and I'll put the app on and then you walk towards me. Slowly". " OK....Is this far enough? " "No. Further away". (Faintly) " How about now?" "Yes. Now walk back really slowly" (pretend to study app screen while sending commands) "How did it do?" "Its the same as the GX80 so I'll stick with that for now" What's also the same on the G80 and the the GX80 is that VLOG doesn't work on it either. I have an idea about a clue in the GH4 that might shed some light but don't hold your breath.

Fair warning though that I fully expect it to be the same outcome as the GX80.

What, you think I'm just going to wander into a camera shop in London tomorrow asking for a demo of a G80 and casually try and put VLOG on it? Because of course thats precisely what I'm going to do !

If there is any company that will have a massive standoff amongst its users about adding anything video related (even an optional larger grip for more battery life and XLRs etc which you wouldn't be obliged to buy) its Fuji. The poor man's/smart man's Leica purist vibe is strong in that community! If they produced what I think they should (basically a video oriented mini RED) there would be skinny latte spat out over beards in Starbucks the world over when the news broke.

What would concern me about Fuji doing IBIS is that the lens corrections they currently do are far from seamless without adding movement into it. Could end up like a lava lamp. Would've liked to have seen them take a chance on form factor as well instead of putting it in an X-T2 style box. Something a bit more modular like a slightly bigger BMMCC (or even XC10) where you could have then have the EVF as a separate mountable addon etc. Otherwise its just going to be a bit of a me-too with nicer colours but a less flexible mount.

EDIT >>>>> OK After harvesting commands, I can confirm that as I suspected it is game over for VLOG on the GX80/85. You all owe me £3.99 for that discovery

EDIT >>>> OK Scratch that. I've found a different route and, as I suspected, it is game over for VLOG on the GX80/85.