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I'm not necessarily advocating it either for every use case but more curious about where it has gone. The two upsides it would offer though are more convenient edit ready files with ProResRAW (for FCPX at least) and freeing up the USB-C port for external control. Those things obviously don't particularly chime with the stripped down pocketable aspect of the FP but as modularity is a big draw of the system, for me at least, they could be appropriate in a more built out setup and would also address the monitoring issue.

Interested to know whats happened with the RAW over HDMI that Sigma were talking about as a firmware update. https://***URL removed***/news/8516367576/sigma-confirms-log-picture-profile-raw-over-hdmi-coming-to-its-fp-camera-via-firmware-update

From our conversations with Sigma at IBC, the SDK will be for building remote control solutions so as per Blackmagic, Sony, JVC etc won't give access to anything not already available. Obviously this was a primary interest of mine in the camera so that aspect is welcome, if a little belated as we understood it would be at launch. The elephant in the room though is what you have to give up in order to use anything that is developed for it as it will be addressed through the USB port, either directly or wirelessly through a USB to BLE adpater. I did explicity ask about whether a hub could be used so you could record to the SSD at the same time and the answer was No which certainly cooled my interest in developing something for it. Hopefully in the intervening period they have found a way around that.

I've already done one for the Zoom and Tascam recorders integrated into a wifi controller for the Panasonic cameras so this is a bit less comprehensive and a lot more DIY. The PBC will have a small general purpose I/O add on module soon that will have outputs for the audio recorders and a tally light and an input for a latching record start/stop switch. That module will also work with the......<<drum roll>>..........PWC

No, unfortunately the GH3 won't trigger from HDMI. The solution is a custom one but isn't too daunting or expensive to do. Adafruit make a tiny board called a Trinket M0 which amongst other things can be used to emulate a USB keyboard. The way this would work is to get a standard generic cheap remote release controller for the GH3 like this one Then split it out to the Trinket so that when you press the record switch on it the camera receives it but so does the Trinket and then you have it send out "CTRL+R" on the USB port to the MixPre to start recording and then "CTRL+S" when you stop. With this, you'd never have to remember to press record or stop on the MixPre. If there are enough people interested I don't mind doing a thread on how to do it and throw the code up as because it uses a simple trigger people can modify it for different camera types. Would be a few weeks though as I've got quite a bit on.

Some unusual shorts he's got there.

He's made it himself as a Photoshop comp of the FP and the SD-Q

The short answer is no. https://www.atomos.com/cameras/panasonic-dmc-gh3 The (much) longer answer is that it would be possible to create a record trigger that fired the camera and simultaneously the MixPre 3 using its USB eyboard input which allows you to put it in and out of record using specific keystrokes (CTRL+R and CTRL+S)

Yeah, he could do himself a serious injury there ! What they don't really explore in that video is that when the bar rotates around fully, you can use a central mounting point for a monopod instead of using the two outlying ones for tripod legs. If you put a gimbal on a short monopod in it then I could see how you would get some pretty good jib shots from this by leveraging the stabilisation and pan/tilt controls of the gimbal with it. Discontinued though by the looks of it.

Sounds like you all need a HipJib I suspect my overhanging fat bastard stomach would interfere with smooth operation.

No, there is no custom white balance so as @mercer says, you'll have to do it by eye. The manual gives you the ballpark ranges for different light sources. https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/UserManuals/BlackmagicCinemaCamerasManual.pdf They suggest to pick from 2500, 2800, 3000, 3200, 3400, 3600, 4000, 4500 and 4800K for indoor/artificial light so if this is for a repeatable test setup then I'd be inclined to shoot a couple of seconds at each one then eyedrop the colour of the grey card in whatever editor you're using to determine which one has the most neutral RGB values for your lighting setup.

Just under £8K new, Map have a used one for just over £7K

Map have quite a few of the SD1-Ms for £400 that I've got my eye on, which is a saving of about £9K on its launch price !

I've got the regular one rather than the H and was about to post a cheap one that MPB had today for just over £300 but its obviously so much of a bargain that someone has just bought it ! I think the DP1m, DP2m and DP3m compacts will become the coveted ones if this is the end of the road for Foveon as looking at used prices at Map they are already pretty much at parity with the Quattro versions. Of the compact Quattros, I think the DP0 will be the one that will find a niche as a poor man's digital X-Pan with its 21:9 mode. I didn't know until recently that Sigma do a shoe mounted OVF for it so I'll be on the hunt for a cheap used one of those on my trip !

`Here are two 3D files that will give you both ends of the story. This will give you the Fuji mount camera side https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2776932 This one will give you the MFT lens mount side https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:534335/comments Split the meshes to get the mounts, merge them into one mesh with the right distance between and then print. Or have them milled if you have CNC access.

Cheers. Yeah, in terms of functionality it started off as a hang glider and ended up as a plane but hopefully people can find a use for the extra bits. The challenge of getting focusing to work on the Pocket6K and the variances in the focus resolution of the different lenses forced the development of the calibration/lens database functionality but its something that will be required by the autofocus add on so its a necessary evil. The calibration is related to physical focus ring position so with regard to zoom lenses it is as parfocal (or not) as the lens that is being used. There is some potential to force virtual parfocalness on lenses by using focus point offsets but that would be a later firmware update.

We are pleased to confirm that all of the First Wave PBC orders have now been despatched and your contribution account updated with your tracking number. You can track your delivery here : https://www.royalmail.com/track-your-item#/ Now that the PBC is out of the door, the development of the autofocus adapter that goes with it will be in full swing so I will likely be far less active on here so if you have any issues then please contact us directly at admin@cdatek.com Once again, many thanks for your support and I look forward to showing you something interesting with the focus controller on here soon......

Heartfelt thanks to everyone on here who backed the First Wave release of the PBC and please click the link to download some light reading ahead of your units being dispatched over the next few days. https://tinyurl.com/PBC-USER-GUIDE The fact that this single screen application with two buttons has ended up with enough functionality for a fifteen page manual is testament to how something that started out as a record start/stop controller ended up getting waaaayyy out of hand

I was looking for some 50mm stuff in my test library and found this. Looks like I did the promo shot for the testing but for the life of me I can't find the test images themselves so I'm presuming I never actually did it ! I could do though if anyone is interested.

I've had a bit of a wobble about it recently but I've bought two spare 3rd party batteries for it now and I'm not just going to throw away that £15 investment so I'm committed to getting it now. By a strange quirk of timing though, the CP+ show is on the same weekend I arrive in Japan so I'll be going and having a look round before I finally commit so all bets could be off depending on what gets launched there.

I'm hopeful that in a few weeks I'll have ditched pushing that LANC handle on you and instead be pushing the FP at you harder than a YouTuber pushing Squarespace.

Everything is a trade off of course but, for my own personal use, a more limited dynamic range is something I can deal with or work around whereas the "look" for want of a better expression of different formats is more difficult to work around. In looking at it as a "forever" camera as I'm now sadly old enough to be that kind of buyer, I'm more likely to compromise on the dynamic range. The GFX100 has less dynamic range than the GFX50S and R so maybe the sweet spot would be if they could bring the video side of the GFX100 to a model with the 50 sensor. At a much cheaper price

Its gone a bit quiet about it in the past few weeks so currently there's maybe more likelihood of Hank Marvin making it out of the shadows.

I'm still rooting for the return of the camcorder. If you gave me the baked in look of that Monaco film with a 10x zoom on an APS-C sensor you'd never hear from me again! I had the subscription model of Lightworks a good few years ago but I let it lapse to switch to FCPX when I fully moved over to OSX which they didn't support at the time but I like the simplicity of it so I'm going to give the OSX version a go. Resolve has got so much stuff in thats it like some open world RPG in comparison that I end up getting sidetracked in. Thats why I like LumaFusion on the iPad as its fantastic to do basic cutting on but its let down with lack of ProRes support.

The "drone" shots were pretty good too