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Yeah, the problem with equivalence tests is finding or having the equivalent lenses to not prejudice the FF camera. Having to have the FF at f4 because the APS-C had to be at f2.8 and the MFT with the SB could be f2 is not doing the FF any favours. Matching the focal lengths also make it a challenge without using a zoom as well of course as at least they maintain the same contrast and colour for each camera. I'm trying to think about which set of cameras and primes that could be used for be a totally accurate test if someone wanted to do it properly and its a tricky ask to get exact matches.

This is a very interesting side by side between the S1 and S1H specifically looking at the OLPF aspect. It does beg the question whether the OLPF from the S1H might be available as a spare part from a Panasonic service agent as that would appear to be the path of least resistance to have the same capability on the S1. Apart from taking them to pieces to fit them of course 😉 Here is a teardown of an S1R to give you an idea of what that entails but if you can find a camera repair service that are able to source the parts from Panasonic then they would obviously be able to oblige on that front too. https://kolarivision.com/the-panasonic-s1r-disassembly-and-teardown/

FWIW, I did a very quick basic comparison between MFT, APS-C and FF at a couple of focal lengths a few years ago on here and the differences in those specific limited instances with zoom lenses to create the correct equivalent focal lengths were marginal. A more thorough test at different distances using primes would possibly yield more telling differences but I got bored. Close enough for jazz as we would say.

Good news. Control of the audio levels for both channels has now been incorporated and will be in the PBC firmware update that will be released to support the AFX (though its not dependent on buying an AFX !).

Well they do have a lot of form from the film days when they made quite a range of different medium format P&S cameras. If they based it on the GFX50R then they could probably bring it in with a fixed lens for under the price of the Leica Q2 but, yeah, it would need to go on a serious diet.

The trailer for part 2 is now up.

Well, more like gingerly hold it up under those circumstances rather than happily 😉

Hence the inverted commas. Considering the absolute dragging that independent voices had and continue to have after raising this issue, why would they ever want to raise their head above the parapet again ? When that proved how so many people there are that value the currency of happy feels, idolising and faux-friendship above objective reality then the only words being said with those independent voices from now on are likely to be "Alright, get the products you deserve then".

Canon lost a lot of trust with the initial song and dance though @Emanuel Based on that, if you owned an R5 and had a workaround that you were comfortable with - which Canon clearly don't want you to have otherwise they'd have never included this nonsense in the first place - would you trust them that they hadn't included something to shut the door on it ? Let the "reviewers" who were so keen to say it didn't have a problem in the first place do extensive testing on their R5s and show the results, as its fair to say they certainly owe one to anyone who bought these cameras based on their initial "reviews". Or, more radically, how about Canon do a livestream of their own testing to put this to bed once and for all about what they stand behind with regard to this camera's performance. If you can do livestreams to announce and push your product specifications then you should certainly be able to do them to qualify them too. If it turns out they are just being conservative to extend the life of the product - which is a perfectly valid stance in my opinion - then fine just demonstrate and explain that properly.

Not sure for the Alpine events but I covered the FIS World Freestyle Ski & Snowboard championships a couple of years after that and DJI invited us for one of the sessions to shoot from where they were flying their drones and have a look at what they were up to. I'm not sure whether they thought as stills shooters we'd be interested in buying them to get new angles but, having been witness and participant to some almighty confrontations at sports events competing for shots, the notion of fifty of us flying drones and taking those battles airborne doesn't bear thinking about ! Anyway, they were stressing about how they had used mapping to ensure they had safe flight corridors to operate in so maybe that was a new stipulation for them to be able to continue, but some of this footage does look like it was from directly overhead, although I do recall some of it being shot during practice.

To be fair, the camera unit is based on the H6D but is actually a separate product called the A6D with dedicated power, control ports and mounting points to attach to the M600 and has been built specifically for it. In that respect I wouldn't consider it to be particularly less integrated than having a ribbon cable between the camera module and the rest of the unit on a Phantom etc. Which doesn't make up for it being stupidly expensive of course 😉 Its actually a drawback it being a different unit than the H6D because at least then you could detach it and use it as a standalone camera whereas with this....well...you'd have to have some sort of cobbled together controller made for it. I'd be curious to know how many of these they've actually ever sold.

Dickhead.

DJI have actually produced a Hasselblad H6D-100 based drone. Its not particularly backpack friendly though. Or wallet friendly for that matter.

It will be able to focus anything that can currently be focused with a single motor. Each lens is calibrated individually once (it takes about 2-3 minutes) and stored in the unit for later recall. In the case of the electronic lenses on BM cameras, the calibration is recalled automatically by lens when you power on or change lenses and for manual lenses with the motor option it will just be a case of recalling it from the list on screen.

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Yes you can but obviously you have to stop recording first. To change quickly between them, you can save setups the Custom mode functions (C1 to C3) as the APS-C selection is also saved. So you would have C1 as your Full Frame setup with APS-C set to off and then C2 to be the same but with APS-C set to on. Although I would be inclined to save C1 with it set to Auto as this would then be a dual purpose single mode if you were only using APS-C lenses. One thing to bear in mind about tripod usage - although I'm sure with long record times you would be using a small SSD - is that Sigma have committed the sin of putting the SD card slot in the battery compartment so you would have to remove it from a tripod if you wanted to swap cards. Anyway, just done this as a quick demo to show you the 45mm 2.8 in full frame and crop mode.

Its the strangest thing. I said I'd do a test for a fellow forum user of that Panasonic lens and a separate test of it on the micro. I wasn't quite sure where either of them would be lurking in the draws of doom so set off on what I thought would be a long quest but I found them both straight away as they were already attached to each other !

Sorry, I meant if the related to Chris Whitten bit is true rather than the your surname being Whitten too bit is true 😉 Park Cameras have a used fp by the way but nowhere cheap enough to tickle anyone's fancy.

Huge if true.

I'm not sure the FF equivalence is a particularly relevant one in terms of cine lenses as the vast majority of them are still only Super35 coverage (as are the Meikes despite the MFT mount) so in terms of that norm I wouldn't consider T2.2 to be "very slow". In terms of separation, I've just put my 18-50mm T3 PL zoom on a Super35 camera to illustrate similar sort of focal lengths that you might typically buy the Meikes in and even with this significantly slower lens there is still a good balance, for my tastes at least, between separation and obliterating the context of where it actually is in terms of its surroundings, even at the wide end.

One other feature is the ability to set four hard stop focus targets using the sensor modules and then manually transition between them using the joystick on the controller or a Tilta focus wheel. I'll put something up about that later in the week.

With this module, in the wide mode example, you can see that it begins tracking the face even before she enters the frame as it has a wider field of view than the camera. The standard mode AF-C mode only takes the focus when she is more centrally framed and the AF-S mode only activates on depression of the trigger akin to AF-On/Back Button Focus. on a DSLR. In either AF-C mode it will track wherever the target goes while you have that engaged, which is alsi switched in and out by the trigger on the small controller. In all these modes, the variable transition time is also active. I do have plenty of geared compact and cine PL lenses to test with but this version is direct control of electronic lenses on the Pocket cameras, a version to control motors will follow.

Neewer make some reasonably cheap collapsible ones that look like they could be persuaded to fit. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neewer-5-9x6-7-centimeters-Collapsible-Diffuser/dp/B00OXCGA28

If you buy a used package, the 45mm f2.8 is usually a fairly negligible part of the overall price as most people bought it in a kit so its probably worth having for the additional money. The reviews for the new f1.4 primes in L mount are very thin (to non-existent) on the ground but there are abundant reviews and flickr samples of them in other mounts to have a look at. From my experience of the 30mm on MFT and the 56mm on E mount they are great value for money.

So.... It's obviously no secret that alongside developing the AFX add on, we've also been busy creating a version of it with an interesting additional feature. More development details will be announced about it when the AFX is available for pre-order. In the meantime, here are some examples of the additional feature. Can you, erm,"detect" what that additional feature might actually be doing?