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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.

Hang on. Its a Brawn F1 car sponsored by Canon. Proper grassy knoll territory now

Bear with me for a minute then. That has given me an idea ....

It works out at just on €3000 but you do get the world's most expensive HDMI cable and Sony NP batteries included. With the BM summer specials on the Video Assist, there is a potential saving of a few hundred if you just get the camera and cash back but I don't know if the VA supports the 4K60p.

Its a pity its not the other way round ! Great deal though. With the new V4 software, thats 4K60p ProRes off a Super35 sensor for under €3000

If you still have V2.3 on your GH4 and have access to an Android device and don't mind doing a bit of work to do GX80/85 owners a favour (even if its to put them out of their misery!) can you please post here and I'll give you some instructions.

Glad to see you've put it to such really productive use. Best of luck with the contest. OK

Speaking of Zoom, that U-44 interface is quite the bag of tricks for the price. Lots of connectivity and can be used as a field recorder with an iPhone/ipad. It also lets you use their add on mic modules, which are, well, not that bad at all to be fair.

And double the outputs and inserts as well. MIDI too if you need it. Its a bit more of an all rounder in terms of capability because of that. You can assign the additional ins and outs as aux sends and returns inside the NLE, use the inserts to patch additional outboard like limiters in and the MIDI side can let you drive the NLE from a cheap controller so its a bit more of a hub than a straight 2 in/ 2 out like the Focusrite. Doesn't matter a dime of course if it sounds like shit but thats all in the ears of the beholder so you'd need to A/B them yourself. Here's an A/B that someone has done but its still subjective because of the test not using the same mics or environment or source as you might yourself so take it with a variable amount of salt. Should've maybe got a USBPreNup... Too soon?

Its already been described in the thread a few times? The camera is connected to the smartphone app, which is also running a separate app (Packet Capture) which captures the messages passing between the smartphone app and the camera when you adjust settings. We can then see what message the app sends when you adjust the shutter speed etc. Or in this case, it would be when you enable VLOG and in the case of the DVX200 the master pedestal level. The issue is more to do with finding people with the camera and firmware needed than the actual process itself. The forum poster that had access to the right combination is currently MIA