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I expect every screenwriter to give a co-writing credit to their youngest child to ensure the family get the maximum run out of it!

I'm hoping supply of used ones increases over there by the time I arrive as its a bit hit and miss when I check stores at the moment. God forbid I have to buy a new one and only save £800

Be aware that the rules are different for different countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries'_copyright_lengths#Copyright_durations_by_country In the US, for anything made before 1978, it is 95 years (so anything 1925 and older is now public domain) but for post 1978 it is now the life of any of the authors plus 70 years. That 1978 split throws up some interesting anomalies when you look at the music of John Lennon for example and his two number one records "Imagine" and "Woman". "Imagine" was 1971 so is pre the change so has the 95 years protection and won't expire until 2066. "Woman" was 1980 so is post the change so now only has 30 years left as Lennon was killed the same year and expires in 2050, which is sixteen years prior to a song that came nine years earlier. In the UK, which doesn't have the same 1978 split but does have the "70 years after the last author dies" rule, there is an even bigger anomaly with Lennon due to his work in The Beatles. If you look at a John Lennon solo track like "Working Class Hero", then due to his death in 1980 that only has another 30 years to run, whereas something he wrote for The Beatles with Paul McCartney a few months earlier like "Let It Be" , still has 70 years plus however long McCartney lives for. So the solo track expires in 2050 whereas the co-written one is going to be at least 2090. For years, McCartney has been trying to get Yoko Ono to do a deal where they would change the joint Lennon&McCartney credit to whichever of the two of them actually wrote the song. I'm presuming this is because many of The Beatles' songs that McCartney wrote such as "Let It Be" and "Yesterday" are covered far more frequently than Lennon ones such as "Strawberry Fields" or "I Am The Walrus" so he wants what he sees as a fairer slice of the cake. Yoko has always resisted this, I'm guessing not only because it would be a sizeable and immediate financial hit but also because the joint authorship with one surviving writer in the partnership will alive will keep The Beatles royalties coming in for the Lennon family for far longer. As @Emanuel says those rules for films (in the UK at least) meaning that the clock doesn't start ticking until the Writer, Director and Soundtrack Composer have all died will keep a lot of films covered for quite some time. If you look at "Driving Miss Daisy", the Best Picture winner at the 1990 Oscars, as an example, the Writer, Director and Soundtrack Composer are all still alive so that is now guaranteed to have a minimum 100 year run. The 1980 winner "Kramer vs Kramer", still has all three alive as well so that is going to be a minimum of 110 years.

Surely you aren't suggesting I buy one of each and swap the cases and just take the higher capacity one on trips in its cunning disguise as the lower capacity airline legal one are you?

Thats a good recharge time, much better than my NPFs. Although thats possibly more to do with me not buying a decent charger for them! I think he was just showing that you can power it directly if you want. He was certainly using the plate with the lower capacity NPFs. I've had no problem personally with my SmallRig plate dropping on my P4K even when using servo zoom lenses on it but my main bugbear is the recharge time of NPFs and this certainly addresses that.

Thanks for this. Its a very versatile solution as well being able to power laptops too. I'd be tempted by the higher capacity version but would need to get 2 of these instead to keep within the restrictions for flying. What is the recharge time ? The battery itself is only 7.4v so I wouldn't be powering it directly from that as he was showing either but that version of the SmallRig plate he is mounting it on does then bump the output to 12v to the camera.

And its in stereo judging by this then.

There have been large amounts of 2019 where I've already felt like I've been in some sort of VR experience minus the cables and the helmet.

The 18650s are usually good for around 400-500 recharges before its cycle life is over (defined as when it can only achieve 80% of its original capacity) and will still likely be good for a few thousand after that so it will be some time before you throw them away ?

Tilta do their own compact dual 18650 solution that gives out 8v. https://tilta.com/shop/18650-battery-pack/ It doesn't come with the batteries but you should be able to get 2 of those with a charger for under £20. At £60-70 total its not the cheapest solution out there as you could roll your own but at least this way you get the cable and know its officially supported and tested with the motors. Advantage of 18650s is that they aren't that much bigger than AA's depsite the extra capacity and output so you can carry a few spare to increase the run time if you needed.

If you have some time, you should download the free Zoom Ambisonics player and the original files from that thread and have a play with those to see how you can move the listening position when set to Binaural. If you have a 5.1 system connected to your Mac then so much the better when you set it to that but unrealistic for how people will be consuming VR on headphones obviously. The 190526_001.WAV file has the constant source of the fountain so is a good example of how far you can shift things.

The H3-VR has a six axis motion sensor so it always knows its position relative to the "front" of the camera and encodes internally in Ambix (used for YouTube and Facebook 360 stuff) and FuMa (usually for games) formats so everything remains in sync with viewing angle. Considering how long Ambisonic recording has been with us (I was selling those Soundfield microphones almost 30 years ago now and even then it wasn't new), it is the video tech that is in its infancy really.

If you want to dip a toe into binaural recording in a budget self contained unit then I have the Zoom H3-VR which is a pretty good unit. It records the audio internally in multi channel ambisonic format but also provides a live binaural stereo downmix to record to your camera. This gives you the option to post-produce the ambisonic files or just go with a binaural version on the camera as with this example I did here with the OG Pocket camera. There are links to the original files and the free Zoom Ambisonics player so you can play around with the possibilities here

I did say "solution for me" and I don't have a need for them in those mounts The MFT>E and E>Z mounts are both wafer thin to be fair so even if you stack them it isn't in the same ballpark as stacking say a C/Y>EF with an EF>MFT(Speedbooster) that I routinely use.

Yep, thats the rub with them if you go for the really cheap ones. For what @kye is looking to do with it (just a big monitor to do focusing on a locked off camera) then it might be OK but for anything beyond that its a crapshoot. Literally If you can't find someone who has used the exact one with your exact camera config then it comes down to being a £30 gamble versus a £120 certainty of the BM UltraStudioMini.

Solution for me as I would need them for MFT and E-mount is to buy the MFT version and use the newly discovered (for me at least !) cheap MFT>E mount adapter. As a used Z50 is probably on my horizon in the next 12 months, then as there are now similar cheap dumb adapters for E>Nikon Z as well then I can have the Meike's be "swappable" to MFT, E and Z for about £40.

There are plenty of cheap HDMI>USB3 capture devices around that people use for games console capture. This one is currently on offer from Aliexpress for £30 https://a.aliexpress.com/o0rZGAIYT You need to do some research with these type of units though to make sure they will accept the format you are using as some of them will have issues with 4K or even 1080 if its 24p. Panasonic cameras are usually no problem at providing an output that capture devices accept but its worth checking. In this case, checking might actually involve buying one blind as you'll probably find lots of comments about using it with an Xbox but few about using it with a GH5 in the specific format that you use. As for quality and latency, these things are generally good enough for what it is you will be using it for as a focus monitor for a locked off camera as that task is likely to only create very small differences between frames so won't be taxing the compression too much.

Crashed into a wall in my living room whilst fending off an attack when playing Superhot. And never been happier.

I know who my money's on to come up with a way to beat them both though

Is anyone using the Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di II VC with their Pocket6K ? The one I've got I've had for years and it works perfectly but I'm having a lot of trouble with it on the Pocket6K in terms of electronic focus control. If you press the AF button it goes off for a while trying and generally failing to find a lock and after that it won't accept any more commands so you can't change the aperture or do another AF without un-mounting and re-mounting the lens. The obvious answer is not to use the AF of course but it is prone to doing exactly the same thing with my focus controller, particularly when its being driven backwards. It would be a pity to put have to put it on the banned list (as its a decent and very affordable stabilised standard zoom for the Pocket6K) but as it stands its going to have to be unless I can get someone to verify their copy. As I say, I'm pretty certain there is nothing wrong with my particular copy but if there is anyone one here who has the same combo if they could just check theirs then you'd be doing me a big favour. In a similar vein, if you have the time and could check for this on any other EF lenses you have (just press AF and see if it locks and then survives subsequent aperture changes etc) and have any similar rogue lenses then that would be a great help as well. Thanks

You don't want to see whats left of next door's cat after I switched the animal detect AF mode on then.

No, I'll still be in hospital for a few weeks due to the laser getting surprisingly accurate during a self portrait test of the new eye detect function.

You can buy a Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Recorder which is HDMI/SDI to Thunderbolt which is about £100. Then you can use ScopeBox which will turn it into a fully fledged monitoring solution with scopes, LUTs and focus peaking. https://www.divergentmedia.com/scopebox ScopeBox is $149 for the first year and $99 to renew although you don't have to continue and get to keep the latest version. So if it does all you need then consider it a one off purchase of $149. There is a free trial to let you decide if its right for you. However..... You do know that for exactly the same as that combined price I'm just going to tell you to get the Acsoon CineEye system again don't you ? Its just a far more versatile option and gives you all of those same facilities but does it wireless. If you don't have an iPad then there are a ton of 10" Android tablets on Amazon for well under £100 that it will run on that, combined with the tools it has, will give you more than enough screen size to get the job done. If you yourself are going to be the subject that you are trying to nail focus on, its a lot easier to be doing that holding a tablet than it is juggling a laptop on your knee.

You never know, I might also sell this one for $10K so that part of your assumption could be wrong as well The released product will be different in a significant way other than just the price though but its still a way off being revealed yet. I wouldn't delay any camera buying decision based on a yet to be available device from a serial deadline misser such as myself.

Considering how close you were to getting it last Thursday, I'd say you've resisted long enough !