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Just clarifying before I respond in full to this but are you saying that he has never owned said camera?

If they have a sense of humour they'll announce the A7S IV instead.

To return to the original question in the post... Ultimately, of course, everything is about money and with the WTO saying today that we are likely looking at 1930s Great Depression era levels of financial crisis when we emerge from this then its not looking great. In such a time, you would think that realtive frivolity such as films, music, books etc would be the first to go but there has been a huge recognition during these lockdowns how much more difficult people would have found it to cope if they hadn't had those things to distract them so their importance has actually been amplified. Whilst that importance means they will go on, they can't exist in a financial vacuum so budgets will inevitably be tighter as a potentially bigger appetite for content will have to be served from a much reduced overall sum. As we are looking to financial times from the past then we might see TV processes from the past returning too such as when the BBC for example used to do a lot of live productions of drama etc. There is some interesting stuff going on in much lower cost emulation of the virtual production techniques showcased in The Mandalorian and that will become very important in cutting costs. As with everything, change will bring new opportunities. One of which might well be shooting background plates/modelling environments for productions using these virtual techniques to save on location shooting.

Really? OK, in the interests of not being drawn into this any further I've deleted the picture but I'm going to reply to the criticism. What I'll say is that my knowledge of him goes way back to when I was one of the original RED ONE owners so if you think this is some fleeting and very recent random encounter with his "work" then you are very mistaken. If you want to go in to bat for this innocent, harmless dreamer and talk of bullying then go and re-read the page for his latest film. I don't mean just read the synopsis, read the detail, consider what it actually means and put yourself in the position of a young actress desperate to get a break into films. As for REDUser, again, go and have a look at the reaction on there to this latest project. Having said all that, I'm sorry if any of you were offended by the photoshopping of Joe Exotic's hair onto the head of a man ostentatiously posing in front of his collection of camera equipment. I blame this momentary lapse of taste and decency on that bitch Carole Baskin. End.

I've removed this.

He does have form when it comes to controversial themes. I remember he was always going on about a feature he was going to make and then I think RED loaned him an early DRAGON to do a short version of it. Not sure how successful product placement has ever worked out for any company in a film about, erm, rape but it didn't end well and all trace of it has now disappeared. http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?315091-I-don-t-even-know-where-to-begin-with-this-Overreaction-or-delusion

They state that is PDAF only but it does actually work on CDAF but work is very relative term as its slow and doesn't alway lock. So I'd call it shit and miss rather than hit and miss ! Fotodiox did their own "version" of it which was so, erm, similar to the TechArt one that you could use the same firmware on it..... So with the release of this new L mount adapter its clear they've got the camera end of the puzzle as well so it may well be that they can produce an L mount version. Incidentally, I now have a suspicion about how they might have (sneakily) achieved this feat of getting around Leica's outright rejection of the MC21 and it has tempered my optimism of Sigma releasing a firmware update to make my MC21 do similarly.

The TechArt PRO E mount AF adapter will give you the same thing without optics and although its meant for smaller lenses, with a larger lens, like your Sigma, which has a tripod collar it still works very well. Here it is with a bit of an extreme example ! If TechArt could make this in L mount (2mm less to play with) then they would get a lot of sales off Leica owners wanting AF of their M mount lenses.

I remember him from Reduser back in the day. He didn't so much drink the RED Koolaid as got a franchise for his own bottling plant. I'm presuming he's going to shoot his latest film at his "Tree Of Life" campus...

So it looks like Fotodiox have managed to do what Sigma couldn't (or more likely Leica wouldn't let them) achieve and make an EF adapter that actually works with the SL/T/CL cameras. There are quite a few disclaimers in the product description regarding varying performance with different lenses so buyer beware but varying performance is still some advance on the zero performance that Leica allows with either MC-21. Hopefully this might encourage the actual members of the L mount alliance to sort their shit out and make the MC-21s compatible. At $200 its 20% cheaper than the Sigma too. https://fotodioxpro.com/collections/leica-t-tl-sl-adapters/products/ef-lt-fsn

Unless you include a Foveon camera on a slightly overcast day.

We've got a buddha statue somewhere so I could put some wheels and a lead on him and claim I'm a dyslexic taking his dog for a walk.

We are not allowed out for exercise but you can go to the most local shop closest to where you live. You can go walk there but what with the pitchfork wielding vigilante neighbours shouting out of the window at anyone on foot and calling the Police on them its absolutely not worth it. The anomaly is if you are walking a dog then you are allowed out to do that. But of course we don't have a dog. With three weeks completely locked in already and now another three to go I'm sat here staring at a bunch of motors, servos, control boards and my 3D printer and my other half's faux fur hat and getting ideas.

Well the total lockdown has now been extended here in Spain again so I've officially got until April 26th to finish all those projects in my initial post that I haven't even started. Phew.

The replay is here for anyone who missed it. I've cued it to the start point.

I was looking to get an ATEM Mini a few weeks ago but thank God for stock shortages.

The timecode thing is big. Was hoping this Pro version would have multi-view though. Unless he's leaving that to the end ! EDIT>>> Hahaha...indeed he was!

Ah...now I see why ! Very smart new feature.

The ATEM Mini is great but I can't help thinking that if you're showing off a four channel video switcher it would have been beneficial to anyone who hasn't seen it before to have more than just the one source attached to. Particularly when you are literally surrounded by cameras.

Its about to start then...

It'lI never catch on

I'm not sure how many of us are really in the mood for product announcements at the moment but at least it might provide some potential distraction. Only 5 hours of speculation time available so get those guesses in early.

To be honest, I think we've had our fun with that type of stuff and Panasonic have tightened it up but on the off chance I'd start with examining what modes that the S1H has that the S1 doesn't and take it from there. FYI, though, I had a brief look at the S1H that @Andrew Reid had with him in Barcelona and the authorisation routine has changed so that will need working around as well.

1). My current most powered up camera is the Pocket4K but I wouldn't class it as most used as its purely for the development of that project. Not that any camera is really being used at the moment due to the total lockdown we have here so I will go for the one that was the most used, which is the Sigma FP with the 7Artisans 35mm f2. Sadly even that was only briefly as I'd only had it about a week before being locked down and even that period it was only used whilst wearing a mask! 2). The first "real" camera I had of my own was a Nikon EM that I got new in 1979 (yes, I'm that old) which had to be replaced three months later after it was broken when I was by pulled from a crowded city centre street by a Special Branch anti-terrorist snatch squad, held face down in their car and driven at high speed to some sort of warehouse and interrogated on suspicion of taking surveillance pictures of targets for the IRA. I am a survivor of the Hillsborough disaster and at the official enquiry the Police presented doctored CCTV footage of me escaping from the crush to support a fictitious timeline of the events that would absolve them of any culpability. I have some trust issues with the UK Police. 3). Indie/new wave from 77 to 85 with an honourable mention to Kraftwerk who sit outside of that genre but influenced a lot of stuff inside it. Sport as a fan would be Liverpool FC but I've also been fortunate enough to shoot the two greatest players of the recent era (and statistically in any era) in Messi and Ronaldo and you can't help but be a fan of both when you witness it at such close quarters. From other sports, shooting Mark Cavendish at the Tour de France when he explodes out of the pack to win stages was something special and even his sometimes "challenging" demeanour when trying to shoot him post race if he'd lost made him more endearing to me because of the honesty of it. 4). Unfortunately, it seems pretty clear that we will be presented with a new normal after all this and it will likely be one with less money for a lot of people. It could be that in the new normal film making and photography etc will be seen as frivolous but it is as equally likely that creative pursuits will be vital to keep everyone's mind engaged, as an escape from the bleakness but also as a reflection on and documentary of this next period. So for that reason, the forum can and should be a great resource and support network for that. Inevitably, with the expected financial downturn, it should probably have more features about doing more with your current gear than getting more new gear. That should not only call for more articles about DIY projects and lighting/composition tutorials etc but also for retrospective reviews on older gear that is still perfectly serviceable and how to eek everything out of that. So as well as sub-$200 film challenges maybe look at "$2000 camera vs $2000 complete setup" type of comparisons as well. Some stuff about sound design as opposed to just recording sound would be cool as well. 5). Family, obviously. But also that triggering of memories when you walk down particular streets. Mainly, though, I miss having a decent chippy. 6). I think I started contributing at the end of 2016 or early 2017 but was a long time reader before that. I first came across @Andrew Reid at a two day film making conference in London about ten years ago that was mainly devoted to using EOS cameras, where, if memory serves, he was barracking Phil Bloom from the audience about the GH1 being better than the 5DMarkii. I thought he was rude, opinionated and extremely disrespectful. Naturally, after seeing that, I felt sure this was the place for me

No, I'm going to give you an excuse to buy THREE more of them.... If you get the Atomos Shogun 7 you can plug them all into it and use its new switcher functionality. This functionality allows you to live switch the four cameras off the touchscreen to its program out and then out to the internet via your chosen route (the Teradek Vidiu Pro for example is ideal for a computer free route) but in addition it simultaneously records all four cameras individually and the switched version that you've output. The icing on the cake is that it also produces a multi cam xml file of the switching that you did so that you can pull the whole project into your NLE and re-cut it. That means that say you were doing a live stream of a gig, you could be switching from the Atomos but then afterwards make another saleable product for the band with different cuts, colour correction, better sound etc from the same cameras. This demo is primarily on the Sumo but it has the same functionality on the Shogun. And this one is more focused on a real use using the Shogun. If they launch a four channel switcher thats cheaper than the ATEM Mini then I'll buy you it myself I'm curious whether they have maybe done a quick turnaround cheap single channel or dual channel product (ATEM Micro?) to address the current needs of journalists in lockdown, which would be great as the vast majority of them seem to be using the in built camera on their laptops even if they are working for national broadcasters. And a sub section of those also appear to have smeared those cameras in vaseline.