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The old "reply to your own post and insert spam link" routine @ricardotore

Replying to your own post and sneakily adding a spam link to it. Yawn. Don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.

No, honestly, I have.

Sigma now do a plugin for Photoshop https://www.sigma-global.com/en/download/cameras/sigma-x3f-plug-in-for-photoshop/ The Quattro series can use DNG so its less of an issue than it was on the DP series. Sigma PhotoPro has improved quite a lot from when I first started using it but, yeah, its still not exactly super fast. Most of the time I just use the batch processor in PhotPro to save them to TIFFs and then edit them in Lightroom.

<makes last minute spec addition> This new thingy will make audio mixing a bit easier/more intuitive when you do though

I will do a thread about it next week. Its nothing earth shattering to be honest

These micro toggle switches might the way to go in terms of getting switches outside of the case and aesthetically they won't look too far out of whack with the Bolex. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positions-Miniature-Connection-Arduino-Switches/dp/B07ZYKQ4F5 You have to buy them in a pack of 10 but thats no bad thing as you could use a few of them to toggle between different preset functions etc. This link will give you some example code based around Picamera to be able to start and stop the recording from an external switch. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=195019&hilit=Camera#p1221076

I've only skimmed through it but the implication of it for the future is that boards with other (higher quality) sensors could be developed by 3rd parties and this API would provide a standardised way of accessing them. So you would create one control app that would work with whatever sensor you had attached to the board, thereby establishing the PI as a generic starting point for independent camera development. The reality here though is that the boards with the higher quality sensors have to exist so it will be a good while before this bears fruit and, even then, access to the sorts of sensors that people on here would be interested in aren't readily available so as always expectations have to be managed with what this really means in terms of viable alternatives to "real" cameras being available soon.

Yeah, for the P4K Panasonic have 14-42mm and 45-175mm powered zoom lenses and Olympus have a 12-50mm. For the 6K, the servo thingy (Canon refer to it as the PZ-E1 which is a far less useful name ) could be used remotely with some modification as the 18-135 is quite a good range for this sort of stuff.

And for anyone who does rush out and buy one (or has any ATEM product for that matter), I've developed an interesting little product for it.....

+1 for the fp. Very rarely have to go into a menu once you've set it up, which is always a good sign but could maybe do with a programmable button on the front. One annoyance with the QS button is that it retains selection by numbered position rather than function so I leave it on ISO (which is option 6 when in Cine mode) as thats what I am most likely to change but when I change to Stills mode and press the QS is it is on the JPEG/RAW selection which is option 6 in that mode. Tell your mate about that one next time he is re-tweeting your pictures ! With regard to the SL2, I could have done with that faux leather finish on my SL as it probably would have averted the disaster I had dropping it onto the tiled floor.

If you just want to directly wire one switch then this tutorial will take you through it . If you haven't got any components or access to a component shop then these starter kits are a good inexpensive way to give you enough things to start experimenting with. https://www.amazon.co.uk/DEYUE-Electronic-Electronics-Components-Raspberry/dp/B07HF62TC3

In a similar vein and less than half the price is this but you'd need to modify you case https://www.amazon.co.uk/Waveshare-1-44inch-LCD-HAT-Communicating/dp/B077YK8161

There are tons of different options but something like this which combines the case, a screen and some buttons is probably the most comprehensive way to do it https://www.amazon.co.uk/WINGONEER-Aluminum-Enclosure-Raspberry-Screen/dp/B06XGG28CW

You might want to try picamera which will give you a pure Python interface to the camera. You can then develop your own apps and incorporate keyboard or network access to the functionality. https://picamera.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.13/index.html

I haven't got time to look at this until next week but I'll have a little play with it next week, albeit with the V2 camera rather than the new HQ one.

I think there might some mileage as a low cost studio camera that is controllable over a network. I'm pretty deep into developing a new product for the ATEM and the Pi has some potential as a cheap PT (not so much Z though) camera.

In my world, I refer to the hammer as a fine adjustment tool.

Well its a nice day here so I've set myself up on the balcony to do this al fresco and have gathered together the components that I need for my particular style of product development.

Yeah, its a lot easier to get around now but I embrace that because it means the fear factor of getting hopelessly lost has gone so it encourages exploring a lot more ! I'm still capable of spending hours on end in Akihabara but its now based purely on prices for certain things being better or rummaging in 2nd hand or component stores rather than the "wow what the fuck is this?" wonder products that there used to be there.

Ah, got you now. The screen issue isn't something that can't be mitigated with any number of cheap loupe solutions. Using a loupe also adds a point of contact which is useful for stability when shooting with such a lightweight camera. As far as the menus go, they are easy to navigate not least because there is not a lot in there but in all honesty if you are using the camera with the sort of manual lenses that are talking about using there wouldn't be a lot of menu diving going on anyway. With regard to power, it can run quite happily on its internal battery but obviously only for a shorter period (25-40mins is a ballpark) but they are cheap enough (and light enough) to buy and carry a few spares if you don't want to attach an external power solution. If you do want to have long run times then there are plenty of cheap compact battery plates that will accept Sony NP-F compatible batteries to give you all day run times. Cost wise, the options would approximately be : Loupe = £15 4 x Generic internal batteries with£ dual charger = £40 or 1 x Battery plate and 2 x NP-F 8800mah generic batteries with dual charger = £40 So, about £55 whichever route you went. I'm not saying you should go this route if you are unsure about the camera but just letting you know that you don't really need to be spending big money if you did get one. Although the money you save will probably all have to go on SD cards so its swings and roundabouts !

I didn't actually say it was better or worse, just that it was different. Virtually all of the signage being in kanji being just one difference that made it more foreign to me then than it does now. Funnily enough, despite having the same love of the place, it feels a lot less exciting to me now than it did then because they had stuff so far ahead of when we got it in the UK that you'd go in a shop and see something genuinely new but with global launches and the internet everything is much more aligned and known now. But yeah, nostalgia ain't what it used to be

Found this guy's channel and its quite fascinating for a few reasons. The first is that the areas he is visiting are far more representative of the "foreignness" that I remember of Tokyo when I first starting working there a couple of years after this was shot rather than it is now. Secondly, is that if you plough through his videos you'll notice that there is pretty much no one in the background taking any pictures which shows the relative lack of popularity of photography and videography had fell to at that time and I've always felt it is quite possible it could return to that "man in a shed" type of hobby for enthusiasts. In point of fact, you can see a lot of people recoiling at seeing someone wielding a camera. The most interesting thing though is that this guy was doing the YouTube travel selfie style 30 years ago ! Its littered though his stuff but is illustrated in this one from 4:10 onwards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqQS_j-UrTY (Embedding isn't allowed for the video so you'll have to click the link) I don't know what handicam he's shot these on but obviously it will have been CCD which you can definitely see the advantage of on some of the whip pans and especially on his other stuff featuring rides on the metro ! I suppose one "upside" to the current situation is that it will put the brakes on tourism for a pretty long time and perhaps that pause might allow some of these places to regain some of their own original identity, particularly when combined with a retraction of the globalisation march that has homogenised so many of them. Then we can go and visit them and moan that no one speaks English we can't find a Starbucks

I'm not going to debate anything with such a blatantly obvious Armageddon fanboy troll

I think you might be mixing up the BMPCC (Pocket) with the BMMCC (Micro) ? The Pocket is fully self contained in terms of monitor, settings adjustment and battery whereas the Micro requires the external monitor etc. Both cameras also record in ProRes so you don't have to go near the RAW aspect if you don't want tot. The Pocket doesn't do 60p but they are significantly cheaper used than the Micro and I think its a far more practical solution to what you want to do than trying to modify action cameras. It will also grow with you if you want to experiment with different lenses as its adaptable to pretty much anything. It also helps that the image it produces is pretty nice.