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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.

Just popping in to say that I quite like Deep Impact. Coincidentally, this thread couldn't have been more destroyed if it had been hit by a giant comet either.

I think where this board might of interest is maybe not with the Pi itself but with more powerful SBCs such as the Jetson Nano which can also accept the same camera boards as the Pi. The RockpiN10 is another one that is compatible and has the advantage of having eMMC to boot off (waiting for the Pi to boot off its MicroSD will get very old very quickly in a camera application) but it also seems to have a decent Android distro for it which could be a boon in terms of the decent video apps already out there. Essentially, it would then become what people have been after which is a smartphone (minus the phone ) with an interchangeable lens. A big advantage to doing something like this would actually be the "on camera" rather than "in camera" processing as you could easily have other apps such as transcoding available on it as well so, for example, all your footage could be automatically converted to ProRes etc while you are on your way back from a shoot. Standalone live field streaming from it with a 4G/5G dongle would also be easy to incorporate. So it would be interesting to tinker with this stuff but your expectations would certainly have to be managed though as it won't bear much fruit performance wise to the level that people on here would be after.

Any excuse to pick it up again ! Here are variants of the Portrait with the different Tone settings. PORTRAIT - NO TONE PORTRAIT - AUTO TONE (MILD) PORTRAIT - AUTO TONE (STRONG) PORTRAIT - AUTO TONE (MANUAL) With the manual one, I'd set quite a big boost in the shadows and the highlights and you can see here I was able to pull everything back even on a jpeg into something sensible. PORTRAIT - AUTO TONE (MANUAL) - GRADED One of the good things about the Colour and Tone functions of the camera is that they are both on dedicated buttons on the camera so you don't have to dive through menus to get to them which makes it easy to quickly tweak the curve for a shot.

Desperate for any excuse to actually use my fP again, I've just gone outside to shoot this very quick, non-scientific and, indeed, slightly not focused on the ColorChecker test to show you the different profiles. I actually quite like the Portrait one as a flatter profile myself. STANDARD VIDID NEUTRAL PORTRAIT LANDSCAPE CINE TEAL&ORANGE SUNSET RED FOVEON CLASSIC GREEN FOVEON CLASSIC BLUE FOVEON CLASSIC YELLOW MONO

My camera of 2025 is likely to be the Leica SL as I'm pretty sure it won't be back from its repair at Leica until then.

So if RED are to feature reduce the camera so as not to undermine their higher end followers then perhaps they've licensed Canon's DPAF technology and their Cripple Hammer ™ .

It is a standard UVC compliant source like a webcam so as long as the application and your hardware supports it then it is no different. There are caveats to using it that I have outlined in this post here regarding using it in this way with a phone as an external monitor and not being able to change settings and those apply too if you are using it as a source for OBS etc so its not particularly flexible As a standalone way to get high quality easily in to the computer for streaming, as @Andrew Reid is using it for, it is ideal but for anything multi-camera, I'd look in a different direction.

Looks like great detail on that sim though. All it needs is a couple of dickheads at the first corner who've forgotten to bring the right lens adapters and are wielding a tripod that is about as sturdy as three lolly ice sticks.

You can use it with your phone so can broadcast live from somewhere if need be. Or use it as a bit of an emergency monitor. Fucking hell !

And RED also get to include the phrase "NOW INCORPORATING CANON" in their marketing as we know they are very partial to military based allusions with their product styling

I think having R3D compressed RAW could be a price worth paying to lose some of those battles at the higher end but enable them to win the war not only in the DSLR market but also the EOS300 and downwards cinema market. I'm guessing its not beyond the bounds of possibility that their existing latter cinema cameras are not inhibited from a processing power point of view to do R3D compression but legally obviously they can't so if that is the case then the potential profits on offering this as a paid upgrade is pretty considerable.