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Some terribly cynical opportunism and profane language from whoever was stood near you when that Ferrari ran off the road there.

So....considering how they did a cripple number on the $5K mirrorless to protect their cinema line it does beg the question what they will have done to an actual cinema camera at $6K to protect the ones above it. They might well surprise us but I'm guessing most people will be quietly humming this waiting for the answer to that as the press conference unfolds.

I thought so, which is why I was surprised at the $200 figure as its less than 100 in the, erm, "World Series" style denomination. There is absolutely no way that I will be doing do the same thing to buy a GFX100 in Tokyo for €3K less than it is in Madrid. Absolutely no way at all. Not until the immigration restrictions are lifted.

$200 US or Australian ? The Contour ShuttlePro v2 is only €90/$99US so it should be under $150 AUS, how much import duty are you paying over there 😉

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You might want to look at one handed programmable keyboards designed for gamers too as they are relatively cheap (circa €25-35), have a lot more keys and have wrist wrests which makes them a bit more comfortable for long sessions. Plus, garish RGB lights of course !

Well compared to the BM controller they're not so its all relative 🙂 I use the jog/shuttle all the time (I even developed an interface to be able to use it with LumaFusion on the ipad) but I'm an old fart who grew up with that sort of interface from the tape days. With the jog/shuttle and its surrounding keys mapped for play/pause, mark in/out, insert to timeline, previous/next edit point and zoom in/out, I find it really fast to cut with. Its not just the mapping (as that can be done with anything) but its the way the keys are positioned around the jog/shuttle that makes it more intuitive and, as a consequence, faster for me personally.

When dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was starting off as a tape op, Beyer DT100s were all a boy needed and I used to wear them all day long. I use Audio Technica ATH-M50s now and I can still do fairly long stretches with them but the DT100s still edge it for me in terms of duration. I don't like the way either option messes up my bouffant though.

I think its a Sony AX100 (or one the variants as they have a few cameras that share the same shell) and the images themselves been flipped horizontally. Unless Sony have released a limited edition left handed version.

If you don't mind paying a bit more then you might want to look at something like the Delux T11. This video shows it is a real world comparison in Resolve versus using keyboard shortcuts. To be honest though, if you are looking to get a slice of the editing acceleration that the DaVinci edit controller gives you then I think you could do a lot worse than the Contour ShuttlePro v2. I think a lot of people have forgotten about it because its been out so long but it really does offer some good functionality. You can combine it with one of the cheap programmable keyboards if you like too and also do the same with the cheaper Contour ShuttleXPress if you just want the jog/shuttle wheel and a few programmable buttons.

Check your inbox in about 90 seconds 😉 We downloaded and tested it early this morning and all is good now.

I don't remember Canon being particularly keen on a trusted journalist from the BBC getting a grip of them when they launched the EOS-R !

I suppose that technically you should report that to Canon as a bug 🙂

By the by but giving out advance copies of the firmware to YouTube "influencers" to make videos of them testing it who didn't lift a leg to test or raise any objection to this issue in the first place is not a good look for Canon.

DEVELOPMENT UPDATE AFX has five user selectable focus transition modes. When the transition mode is set to Off, no transition is applied and the AFX snaps immediately to the new focus point. When the mode is set to 1,2 or 3 then an increasing preset length of transition is applied from the current focus point to the new focus point. The final mode is called Natural and applies a transition that is based upon the distance between the current and new focus points meaning that the greater the distance the longer the transition. Focus transition mode is available in both AF-S and AF-C modes.

Cripple Hammer Live Cam when Canon read about people using workarounds for their cunning plan.

Shhhh.... I'm very much happy to be the Stuart Sutcliffe/Pete Best of this saga when you all get sued for inciting people to break their cameras 😉

It sounds like they've broken it in a very creative way then ! I think this update was for external control of the cameras by the ATEM Mini ? So it sounds like there might be a conflict there. They've acknowledged it publicly at least but I don't know what "ASAP" means in BM terms but I'm guessing it won't be too long in coming.

It certainly helps with the diagnosis if not the issue ! It appears that Blackmagic have broken Bluetooth in 6.9.5 and are doing a fix. If they had made changes then I'd sort out a firmware update but they've flat out broken it so the solution is to roll back or wait on them unfortunately.

So you don't mind having to format your cards in a PC, jamming a screw into the microswitch of the battery compartment, making a sacrificial recording while ejecting the battery and reconstructing the files on a PC later but you draw the line at switching the wifi on ? 😉 Only kidding. The entire process of getting around this is currently impractical but if it ultimately ends up with Canon stonewalling the issue and not fixing it with firmware then my point was that there is a method there to restore your settings if the only solution ends up being the data clearing internal battery reset process. Call it doomsday prepping if you will. Although, for what its worth, if it does prove necessary then I can use the same principle to do this with a small hardware box that plugs into the USB port and does it that way so at least we can take the wifi/smartphone step off the list.

There's no getting round the fact that the internal battery life is limited as well as unpredictable and so you are already into some sort of external solution for that. Obviously the ND situation will also need attending to, which will of course be per lens if they have different thread sizes or even if they have the same size you will likely still need it to be per lens if you are doing fast lens swaps. Or you could use a matte box which as you are already into some sort of rigged solution for the power would be a way to go. With audio you are down to one XLR channel with phantom but you can use an adapter to utilise the 3.5mm jack input for dynamic or non phantom condensers. So with all that you are losing the immediacy that you have with the C100 mkII which may not be such a big issue for the sit down interviews but will be for your run and gun stuff. The bigger elephant in the room though is the screen and having no EVF. It is next to useless outdoors and if it swivelled then that might mitigate it but it doesn't and this also makes it a pain for lower angle shooting too. This means that to work as you are now as a replacement for the C100 mkII then you are going to need to budget financially and form factor wise for some sort of external monitoring solution be that a monitor or EVF. If you don't mind doing all of that and ending up with it rigged (which you could leave it permanently like that if you wanted of course) then you'll be rewarded with a huge bang for the buck in terms of image quality. To keep your current way of working with the C100 mkII but get access to BM RAW then I think a used Ursa Mini Pro would be a more seamless transition but, of course, even used its still a considerable amount more than the Pocket cameras.

Yes, it has all the flexibility that you need in terms of routing inputs to channels and setting individual levels to do that. The 3.5mm jack is stereo so you can choose either channel to route to Channel 2 or a mono mix of the both.

Late.

Whilst the hope is that Canon will fix this properly, the probe app (which we made after the temperature monitoring one) can be used to restore the majority of user preferences, not a big deal to get it to chain them into one big faux preset to send back to the camera.

They are there in the SDK but not everything always works on all of their cameras so I'll have a quick poke at it and see what happens. We've built a custom PBC based rig for a customer who wants to do stop frame with their P4K to get around the stills function not being supported. To say its a sledgehammer to crack a nut solution would be an understatement !