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Absolutely nothing other than the drive light coming on. Doesn't show up in Finder or System Report. On Android it doesn't show up as an OTG device as it should be doing. Yet there it is in iOS bold as brass in Files and also as an external source on the WD Crankdrive which often has trouble finding its own internal one let alone an external one connected to it. Previously, the T5 had happily been trundling around between Mac, iOS and Android without any issues whatsoever. Its very unusual and I can't find anyone else online having a similar problem with it although being able to mount and use them in LumaFusion etc is a relatively recent development so I'm not sure there is a big sample out there.

Well... The recovery software route didn't work. Attached the drive to a PC and...nothing. Even connected it the Pocket4K and Pocket6K who were equally unimpressed. Connected it to the USB port of the WD Wireless Pro (aka the worst wireless backup hard drive in western Europe 2019) and it welcomed it with open arms. I'm currently copying the vital stuff onto that. If my previous backup efforts with that drive are anything to go by then it will take another 3 or 4 attempts to get them all across but I'll take that in this instance. Really weird problem though.

I'll take a look at that tomorrow when I've calmed down! Cheers

So I've been using a T5 drive with an iPad to import some footage without any problem for a while. Tonight (when I really, really fucking need it obviously) the drive is no longer readable in anything OTHER than the iPad. Tried on different Macs and different Android devices and the drive LED lights up but it doesn't show up. Put it back in the iPad and its fine. Seems like the iPad has put some sort of lock on it but as there is no eject disk option I've tried different approaches such as completely powering down the iPad with it connected, closing the File app and just yanking the power out and absolutely nothing STOPS it working again in the iPad or MAKES it work in anything else. If anyone has a fix then to say I would be grateful would be an understatement. I can't stress enough how much I do not want to hear any sort of variation of "have you backed up the data onto another device"

72 hours to go... When you are using either the Nucleus Nano wheel or our now PXP expander to pull focus using the PBC, you can store A and B focus points and then activate the focus Limit function to enable you to pull focus between the two points at your own rate without worrying about overshooting. Works for both native and adapted EF lenses as in this example using a Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 on a Metabones adapter. More tomorrow.

I'm hoping to release it before Q3 As in before Leica launch the Q3

I'm up to something that could yet result in the GH5 not needing to have to use gears and motors either....

T minus 4 and we welcome our upcoming PXP expander module to the party. The PXP wirelessly connects to the PBC to give you five more hardware switches to assign controls to and a focus control wheel for your native and adapted lenses. As they are wirelessly linked, you can use them separately so the PBC on top of the camera as a status monitor and the PXP on a tripod/rig handle or combine both units into a single comprehensive hand controller. As well as acting as a hub for the Tilta Nucleus Nano wheel and the PXP, the PBC will also be the central hub for our other upcoming control modules such as the Auto Focus system. More tomorrow.

And through window 5 we have the Tilta Nucleus Nano integration to give you wireless focus control without gears, motors and additional power. They work in tandem so you can now have full aperture and focus control from a gimbal. More tomorrow. You can test it next week when we do our election special from Waterstones cafe!

USB-C is for charging/powering and the comms to/from the camera is Bluetooth

You get a free USB-C cable with it. Can't get more generous than that.

Well I did have a couple of early prototypes that left a lot of white smoke in their wake so its not too different.

And through the 6 day countdown window today we have this. The PBC has two buttons but with their three operation modes (single click, double click, long click) you can assign up to 6 different controls to them so you can have aperture up and down on single click, record start/stop on a long click etc. Or not. Its up to you so you can just use it as a simple record start/stop controller if thats all you need. The status screen also takes care of syncing settings that you have made on the camera as well as on the PBC so, again, there is no restriction on how you use it so if you want to just use it as a pseudo top plate display then thats fine. And talking of status monitoring, the PBC features a very unsubtle tally indicator method so you will be left in no doubt whatsoever if the camera is in record mode Another window opening event tomorrow.

I'm da behind schedule man, certainly.

I haven't really been paying attention to the price in the meantime but at launch it was £2430 in the UK including VAT. Its now available pretty much everywhere at £2199 and I paid a bit less again after some negotiation. Its not super duper end of line price slashing levels of course but the 15% price fall in just over 3 months, not to mention the readily available stock, struck me as quite the significant contrast to the Pocket4K.

What am I smoking? Some very fine Montecristos bought with the savings I made on the one I bought.

Yeah, I was surprised it had dropped in price so quickly.

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Well, its been a while and its changed quite a bit.... But this is your official 7 day countdown for pre-orders opening on 12/12/19. As the festive season is approaching then in true advent calendar style, open this thread every day for more stuff. PBC Tease 1.mp4

Six weeks since the last post on here about the Pocket6K, did you all sell them or something I picked one up today and it annoyingly had the same scratched mount and bits of shavings QC as @Andrew Reid had with his so it will be going back for a replacement. On the upside, if you are after a remote focusing solution for it (as it isn't compatible with anything for the 4K) then I now know a man who has a solutiom for you.

Yeah but after me bigging that route up, I've just been transcoding some footage on my cheap MacBook Air and...

I don't have any direct experience with Sony's higher end glass (or even that much with their lower end as I tend to use adapted) to say whether there are any killer app type ones. A lot of people rave about them but how they stack up directly against comparable EF lenses is open to debate. I'm about to become a reluctant short term owner of a Pocket 6K, so a set of lenses that I would think would be very worthwhile for that but which aren't available in EF would be Sigma's f1.4 trio of 16mm, 30mm and 56mm. Offset against that of course you have the 18-35mm f1.8 which perversely isn't available in E mount There is also the perennial aspect of EF mount cameras not being able to directly take PL lenses and, again on a personal note, Leica M lenses which add up to me personally viewing the EF as being a great mount for lenses due to its adaptability but actual EF cameras themselves less so. I think thats why the RF mount on the Komodo is a great option as it gives you that extra distance to accommodate PL with a couple of great options for using EF lenses either boosted or with the Variable ND whilst still maintaining a "factory" level of electronic compatibility.

It depends on how many electronic MFT lenses you have and love that you wouldn't want to give up and the sensor size of the camera. With a £15 adapter you can use MFT lenses on an E mount, which obviously you can't do the other way round. Whilst these are useless for electronic lenses they are perfectly fine for manual ones both native (so the Meike cine primes and Voigtlanders etc can do double duty) and also any adapted lenses. With regard to coverage, a lot of the MFT lenses can get out to about 89 or even 95% of an APS-C sensor but the image quality invariably tails off at the edges so in practical terms its less whereas with the E mounts you'll have no issue. The E mount gives you room to grow as well as you can buy EF full frame lenses, use them with a speedbooster if your current camera is APS-C but then be able to step up to a full frame camera without changing lenses. I have an A7Rii and A6500 and get a lot of mileage out of that flexibility. Where native MFT scores is for compact electronic lenses but only if you are sticking with the smaller format sensor and unless you have an LS300 (or someone else pulls the same trick) then you can't go any bigger with them. Again though, having said that, with the E mount you can use the TechArt PRO and have autofocus control of very compact, fast Leica M primes (and by extension virtually all other types of manual lens) so its not something that can't be done. For me personally, I don't have any native MFT mount lenses that I'm fond enough of that I wouldn't swap all my MFT mount cameras irrespective of sensor size (I have them ranging from Super16 in BMPCC to standard in GX80 to Super35 in LS300) to be E mount in a heartbeat if it were possible.

In the case of FD lenses, the "New" designation is to differentiate between the second generation versions of lenses which have a bayonet mounting mechanism rather than a sneaky trick https://cameraville.co/blog/list-every-canon-fd-lens-ever-made

Most of my experience of them is in physical shops there where you could probably take the goods straight into an operating theatre without fear of challenge! I've only had a couple of things from there off eBay and they were mint condition as well and also looked like they had been wrapped by this Rowan Atkinson character Yeah, they look like they'd have no bother being matched up. There is definitely some value for money in the FD stuff.