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We grew up drinking PG Tips in our house but that was primarily because we loved the ads for it with the chimps in. As my preference is for builders tea, most greasy spoon cafes hit the spot, although that could also be because of the accompanýing sausage and bacon sandwiches.

I think I speak for all of us in expressing the hope that you have been using it though !

Depending on how much it vignettes, a Canon 24-70mm f2.8 (as there are AF adapters for it) would get you a long way with that sort of additional punch in power. I don't know whether we could do a vlog as deep down we'd know we could never top the camera shop incident of which we can never speak. As for tea, you need to google "builders tea" for the preferred approach to tea. The way you are doing tea would count as a dessert where we are from

So the downside is that the camera costs ten grand but the upside is you only need to buy one lens!

Well we are meeting up again (in a different country) later this month but considering our last escapade involved forgetting to bring lens adapters, cables, doing deep focus shots with a lens adapter that didn't focus to infinity on the only lens that was common to all cameras we were supposed to be comparing and only having a tripod that would struggle with the weight of a postage stamp then three minutes of shooting is quite optimistic. As I've just managed to pick him up his very own Contax Zeiss 35-70mm that I will be handing over to him (so I can stop him using mine) then it might well become an homage to that lens. Although I wouldn't rule out me forgetting to bring both of them.

I did a comparison of it a few pages back with the OG BMPCC sensor coverage wise. Its close enough for jazz.

Lennon and the rest of The Beatles were on to this shit years ago.

I'm too busy obsessing over stats to build even a tin foil beret at the moment let alone the full hat. Thus far I'm comforting myself with "You're in a city with 14 million people and they take 8.5 million subway rides per day and they only have 60 cases". Doesn't stop me convincing myself I'm nailed on to be number 61 of course.

No need to wait, the tinfoil was already in full effect on here over a week ago

What I'm getting from that is that I should just stay here and buy more shit, right? Gotcha.

To be fair, it is having a big impact here and two events I was definitely going to (CP+ obviously and New Order) have been cancelled but its because they are taking steps on an official basis whereas the UK and its absent leadership is basically just saying go home and take a lemsip.

I landed in Tokyo about 90 minutes ago, my body clock thinks it 4:30 am and I'm off to buy a Sigma FP. So pretty much normal addiction service is ongoing but the only difference is I'm wearing a mask. Which looking at me after 24 hours with no sleep will come as a relief to the shop assistants.

We'll make sure we give you a heads up when the first epsiode of 'Apertureholics Anonymous' is available then. I'm hoping we can re-enact the camera shop incident from this most recent trip as it really did set the benchmark for what can happen when you have lens choice overload.

At the time, it blew me away and truth be told if I dug it out again now it probably still would. The criminal lack of use it has had is a long boring story and I now don't live in the same country where it is in long term storage so I can't imagine that will change any time soon! Its ironic that RED named their phone after the lightest element because God knows they built the RED ONE case out of some yet to be declassified alien type of heavy element. Thats one aspect that kills it for a great many people that could really benefit from how cheap you can get a used setup for now as its not something you can just pick up (literally and figuratively) and go out shooting with on a whim really. I think pride in ownership and sharing common ground and knowledge with other users of the same product/brand, whether its cameras or cars, was always OK in principle but the internet has warped the fuck out of it really. Or maybe just fully exposed the undertones that have always been inherent in it ! I think Apple was the template for that. And I always blamed Steve for that

If you took out all of the libellous remarks, the conversation would pretty much have just ended up with "does this come with rice?" and "can we have the bill please". If its any consolation, there is a thread on here somewhere where someone asks if anyone owns the 35-70mm and I replied saying that I regretted not buying it as I'd gone for the wider range of the 28-85mm instead. However, I made that statement a good six months after I'd actually, erm, bought the 35-70mm and clearly completely forgetting I'd done so ! Not that I have an addiction or anything. I'm not so sure about that. If dour cynicism ever becomes a key driver of the YouTube algorithm then we might have a chance.

Yes, I was one of the original $1000 NAB speculators. The whole place was getting weird even before that one shipped let alone the rest of them. Oakley sold aspirant lifestyle via the medium of sunglasses and there was a certain element of that carried over into the RED in my opinion.

I seem to recall that you were one of those people The thing with this is that of course this is my lens and I've obviously had it on a bunch of cameras so I'm familiar with how it looks so it was a bit wow how much new wow there was. I'm not talking about wow when bringing it in to Lightroom and pixel peeping etc either but wow as in immediately just seeing it on the rear LCD. It was very hot though so we could have just been hallucinating.

Not for me personally we didn't. A mirrorless version of it perhaps, to not only address it being a seamless transiton from stills to video because of the EVF but also to break away from the EF mount. The EF mount is good as an intermediary mount but not as a final destination as it rules out (most) PL lenses and all M mount lenses. Its this latter aspect particularly that makes the P6K far less useful to me than the P4K but its a personal preference.

Funnily enough we were actually discussing some sort of VSM mode for the GFX100 today as we were putting all manner of different format lenses on it. The Contax Zeiss 35-70mm above for example just needed moving to about 37mm to avoid vignetting and it would be great to just have that scaling as per the LS300 to keep the FOV. There is massive scope for Fujifilm to develop the GFX100. I said the other week that it is a camera that I could buy and then just turn the internet off and live happily ever after and although it was slightly tongue in cheek (we are addicts after all ) its actually not that unrealistic if Fujifilm really go for it. Today, we were using it for something that was ridiculous really as a proposition but I saw enough to make me think that it wasn't so inappropriate after all. With some work from Fujifilm, it really could become the ultimate hybrid, though more realistically for the rest of us that will be when they incorporate the video stuff in the next 50mp version. Yes its got a huge price tag but at the end of the day I'd sooner spend £8K on a camera that really inspires me to go out and shoot with it than have £4K tied up in cameras that leave me a bit cold. Put it this way, after also having access today to the other camera that could vie for the title of best hybrid, it won't be the S1-H that I'll be scheming to try and justify purchasing to the other half

I had a look at them on the back of the camera on the train and at least one of the shots is in focus which is one more than I was expecting. Curious about the false colour on the P6K though because I set the exposure quite conservatively but a few of them look horribly overexposed. The most impactful thing during any of the tests though has to be that Contax Zeiss 35-70mm when it went on the GFX100. Mojo is a pretty nebulous term but I'm quite prepared to use it in this instance.

You're probably too young to have seen some of the work of the classic British photographers of the 1960s Zach but some of them reached such a level of mastery of the maths that they didn't even have to point the camera at the subject. This guy is a good example and its worth digging out the longer form of this documentary about him to see where you could go with these techniques yourself.

You don't know the half of it. We had a great time and can recommend an excellent Thai restaurant but as for any meaningful comparison testing you'll all just have to rent the cameras yourselves. Although the working title for our next series of misadventures should definitely be Planes, Trains and No Autofocus. With regard to the GFX100 itself though....yeah, wow.

What he really needs to buy is a second MC21 so that the next time he leaves his current one at the hotel we will have a spare one so that our GFX100/P6K/S1H face off doesn't descend into the two of us standing in the baking heat shouting "Oh fuck" at each other over the sound of F1 cars hurtling past. Like it just has. We really should have made a vlog to document just how many fuck ups two apparently competent people can make in an a 24 hour period.

The Nikon FE?

Living in Manchester does save you a fortune in ND filters