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If you sold it tomorrow you'd definitely have had your money's worth out of it! I've always liked the output that I've seen from it. I think RED have beaten them to it by just starting to ship the Komodo.

It has a dedicated stills/video selector switch so, yeah, I'd say it counts. I've said it here before but I've always had a bit of hankering for an XC-10 at the right price and fully expected to be able to pick a used one up for under £500 a long, long time ago but here we are a couple of weeks off the fifth anniversary of it being launched and it is still holding its price at nearly twice that !

Probably the simplest and most effective solutions to do chroma key particularly for small spaces was created many years ago by a company called Reflecmedia. The system comprises a piece of retroreflective cloth as a backdrop and a ring of blue or green LEDs mounted to the front of the lens. It works by the principle of the retroreflective cloth firing back any light it receives back to its source which in this case is the ring of LEDs surrounding the camera lens. So whilst the cloth remains a neutral grey colour, the camera sees it as a solid block of blue or green and it makes for an incredibly simple but effective key and one that doesn't require any additional lighting. This is an overview of it in action. The big drawback to the system though is cost. Although you have to balance that out against how simple it is to use and get the results you need and how often you are going to be using it. It has had many different incarnations over the years in terms of kits and sizes (look out for Play Holoset which was a licensed version of it) so there are usually quite a few used ones available on eBay to lower the cost. However..... If you want to lower the cost dramatically and don't mind doing a bit of work, or finding someone to do it for you, then there are a number very viable DIY versions of it which use the principle. Here is one such example and I have to say that whilst it seems a lot more work in the short term than buying a backdrop and lights etc I think the payoff is worth it. Cheaper too.

When you join the company Zoom meeting with a £10K webcam and wonder if anyone will notice.

The free Resolve license is another factor in favour of the P4K. Would be nice to have the option of the P4K being in that form factor though.

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Leica SL with new v3.7 upgrade

Yeah its not the full hit but it does give that capability for files at least as I can write an application that does all of the transfer and processing as though it was directly in the camera but does it in such a way that it doesn't interrupt you shooting or have the other limitations that many cameras have when using their own internal WiFi services such as reduced recording resolution or reduced run times etc. It also means it would work for cameras without any sort of network capability such as BM Pocket, Sigma FP etc Currently, unless you have one of a limited number of cameras such as my LS300 that take a 4G dongle to directly connect to the internet, you have to use an additional device to tether the camera to anyway so its no additional requirement hardware wise. Don't get me wrong, it would be ideal if this could be integrated directly in the camera but Sony had their pants pulled down with people making apps for their PlayMemories system that allowed the camera to be hacked so I doubt we'll see it from the major manufacturers so this might be as close as it gets. For the full integrated solution, the Axiom project probably offers the best hope currently and it does seem to be edging closer

You can already somewhat do a lot of this in a roundabout way on any camera by using the Toshiba FlashAir SD cards as your media. The FlashAir card generates its own WiFi network so can be accessed independently of the camera's own network functionality (if it has one) by apps or even a web browser but can also run custom scripts of its own to automate the process. So for example, you can lock an image in the camera and this attribute change can be set to be the trigger for the file to be uploaded automatically by FTP to a connected device. Or an application on a device can run a watchdog to automatically upload any newly created files. As the files can be accessed while you are generating new ones, you can just concentrate on shooting and all of the file transferring will be happening constantly in the background. Once you have the data off the card onto the other device (which could be a tablet or phone etc) then it is the apps that you have on there that can then do the functions that you need. The other device could also be a single board computer like a Raspberry Pi which is a bit more configurable in terms of processing the incoming files to transcode them or process them with adding LUTs etc If you don't want to store the files on another device but just send them to cloud services then you can also set the card to just work in station mode connected to your phone as a WiFi hotspot and script it to automatically FTP the files to Google Drive, Dropbox etc. if thats all you need. None of this will give you access to change the internal processing of the camera of course but it will take care of the rest of it and is configurable to the exact needs of each user and is also transferrable between multiple cameras.

Leica D-LUX/D-LUX7 Leica V-LUX/V-LUX5 Nikon D500 Nikon D5 Panasonic FZ1000/2000/2500 Panasonic LX10/15

Still very restricted here about how far we can go from home but managed to use some of our allotted exercise slot this evening to take a bit more footage with the FP/45mm/Anamorphot. And yes, that is a snake in the bottom left of the top picture. And yes, I did shit myself when I saw it.

I liked all three of them but this one in particular has a great tone.

Funnily enough, it actually does give off a nice light but it being solar does make it a little impractical I think I've nailed it. With a bonus for using Comic Sans.

Ah...so maybe breaking it and covering it in barrel grease is the secret. I need to do a YouTube video about it immediately with a thumbnail of me holding it at arms length in front of the camera whilst doing an open mouthed shocked face

Well, inspired by your post, I thought I might sort out a setup today. Nowhere on the same level as your ones but here is my very compact L mount full frame RAW anamorphic setup. Taking lens is the Sigma 45mm and the (currently) less than ideal anamorphic element is provided courtesy of a pretty fucked SLR Magic Anamorphot-40 1.33x Compact. I got the Anamorphot-40 very cheap used about 18 months ago and it literally fell apart like a clown car the second time I tried to use it and as you can see it hasn't fully been re-constructed as yet ! Obviously, when picking up the separate parts of it I managed to get barrel grease all over the elements (front and back of both of them no less) so it needs a proper clean as well as a few more screws. I think I might persevere with that though as I think it will be worth the effort as even in its current smeary condition its got some promise from the couple of quick tests I did.

The beauty of this though is that because this combo is £12K you can lust all you want over the next combo but you'll be too skint to afford it A sub 3x zoom doesn't bother me though to be honest. None of the high end zooms I used for work (14-24,24-70,70-200,120-300,200-400 and 300-800) are 3x or above and I could live with this as I did with them as a "this lens plus one prime" kit with the additional one being a wide or long some distance focal length wise from the range that the zoom covered. Its obviously not going to cut it range wise as an ENG lens of course but then, to be fair, neither is the camera its going to be mounted to. Its a pity that the 1.4x TC isn't compatible with the 45-100 as having that in my pocket would cover a multitude of sins as well because when you are £12K in whats the difference in another £800 between friends

Yeah, the external ND thing is a lot less of a pain in the arse if you just have a single zoom like that and can just leave it on without titting about with different sizes and step up/down rings. I didn't realise that Fuji have just released that GF45-100mm f4 OIS though so ignore everything I said about the FZ2000 and buy that for your GFX100 instead. That combo is definitely a contender for "and then turn the internet off" status

I'm presuming you are looking at the Leitax adapters ? I've never installed them myself and it looks straightforward enough but I think the path of least resistance (or prospect of damage!) would be to enquire with a camera repair place like Sendeans and ask them if they can quote to install the Leitax adapters for you if you source them. https://www.sendeancameras.co.uk/free-estimates Other places to consider would be ApertureUK and Fixation.

Maybe get yourself a cheap 2nd hand Panasonic FZ2000. Its got everything needed Big lens range with OIS Internal NDs VLOG Flip out articulating screen Decent battery life Decent codec Then just restrict yourself to using that and only that for a month or whatever. The restriction will probably get you going again creatively as it takes the "what if?" factor out of the equation and at the end of the month you'll have likely gained a clear set of requirements of what it is you actually need and can then put those packages together out of what you've got. Seems counter intuitive to buy another camera to stop you buying more cameras but spending £500 on that one will get you closer to enlightenment than buying another lens ! Then when you're done with it, it'll make the perfect camera for your upcoming series of YouTube rants

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Ah right. Blimey.

Stormtrooper price ? At the risk of sounding like this guy, what on earth is a stormtrooper price ?

I very nearly bought the Leica housed version of it but then came across the Minolta one for under £30 if I remember rightly. Using it here with the Leica T and its a very nice compact setup.

Its the Zacuto Shootout 2012. Its in 3 parts.

Many moons ago I had a pair of these Olympus Eye Trek video glasses and they were OK actually. Would work in this context if you converted to composite video and are very cheap on eBay !