Yannick Willox

Recharge is 3h. in the youtube vid he was connecting the npf straight to the camera. I thought he was just using the plate as an attachment. The main question remains if the smallrig plate does not drop below 10.8v under power draw. the thing i really like about this batpower is the moment it stops, the voltage drop below 14.5v is less then a second, probably it just switches off instantaneously and the p4k takes a few seconds for the indication to adjust to the internal voltage.

That is a reallly bad solution, only 7.4v. Extended use will probably destroy the camera. My solution above stays above 14.5 V all the time.

The Muxtronics man answered : there were still a few little problems, and he has zero time to finish the development. In the meantime I got this BatPower EX7D 98Wh. It fits the smallrig powerbank holder on my smallrig cage. Great. The EX7D is about 18cmx2.3cmx8.4 - so is slightly larger than the website & manual state. If the size of the next model is correct, you can get 148 Wh in exactly the same case ! My first tests (after what I think was a full load, but not completely sure about this): BMCCP4K with an old 4/3 lens with OIS enabled / p4k lcd at 60% / recording to T5 drive : genuine Canon LP-e6n 1865 mAh battery : 44 min BatPower EX7D 98Wh : 270 min (with the Canon battery fully charged in the camera) Retested the Canon LP-e6n, this time OIS disabled / p4k lcd at 30% / recording internally to SD card : 55 min In theory this would result in 337 min on the BatPower EX7D 98Wh - need to rerun a very long test to confirm this ! Bonus : the powerbank outputs an almost steady 15V. There is also a 20V mode, but that does not seem to work on the p4k (need to test if this is maybe defective ?). When the capacity goes to 0, it switches off. Transition to the internal battery is flawless and recording continues ! This gives at least an extra 44 min to the 270. Or 55 + 337. In theory, with the 148 Wh version, this results in 7-9h of actual recording time. I think the 98 Wh is enough to get through a full day of (30%?) shooting. You can also charge the powerbank while it is powering the camera ... The only downside for me is that I expected a slightly smaller enclosure, but it fits the Smallrig holder perfectly. I either mount it on top, or I can hang it under the camera, which is much more stable handheld, but needs some time to put on a tripod. edit: i was shooting max 4k dci, braw 12:1

Ok, i’ll send two camera’s ! Can you advance the shipping costs ? Or this

If you give me a. 20% deposit, i will give you a Ferrari for free ! I need the advance to get you in front in the delivery cue, but after the transaction i will refund.

Yeah I had high hopes for my Ipad pro. But it is still clumsy to get in and out, your T5 trouble is just not worth it. Moreover, Apple's own Prores on Ipad seems centuries off, so now that I finally have my P4k, the Ipad pro is completely useless. Luckily there are some nice games on it. And facebook, if you are still into that. The Ipad pro : a social doorstop or gaming presse papier. Can someone remind me what's pro about it ? Ah yes, it has the speed, we just need to find a way to use it.

The designer of this power bank clearly knows something about batteries. He has a complete list of parts, and could be willing to share/license this for almost nothing. personally i cannot do this kind of DIY, but maybe some users on this forum have the skills ? @BTM_Pix ? imo this powerbank should power the p4k for at least 2,5 h, plus a perfect handover to the internal battery for an extra 45 min. The cost should be less than 120 euro, even when commercialised.

Posted this at blackmagic as well : I have stumbled upon this: https://muxtronics.nl/powerbank.html if only I could contact the person. Maybe if he receives 50-100 demands, he would take it in production. This powerbank seems like the ideal companion to the p4K : constant voltage, programmable (!), variants with more 18650 cells are possible. The standard form factor is really small, and fits the smallrig powerbank holder perfectly. I want to order one, have tried contacting, no response yet. I did not find a direct email ...

I Realize many are on a tight budget, myself included. But i think the t5 is very cheap. If it is too expensive, you need to get out of video as soon as possible. A decent filter or two costs more ! i remember the time we did backups on cd-rom, when they were about 2 euro each. That is about 2500 euro to backup a 1 TB t5 drive ?

The yellowish cello is with the Jordanwright lut, the reddish is the same fram with the standard p4k to extended video lut. I can disclose that the real instrument is quite yellow, but I am not sure about the hand. No other grading done on these shots, straight out of camera.

Ok, thanks !

Almost ... no scrolling possible Lol my previous phone had 344x240 pixels. very small screen size... it is five inch you know ! Like the p4k !!! almost the same resolution as my 40inch tv ?

Key1 enabled = same issue

1. Yes I can 2. Motorola E4 plus, 720x1280 pixels 3. portrait cuts off the right part of the screen, about 15% 4. nothing is scaling ? screenshot is difficult at the time. I removed the app, cleared some data, reinstalled. Now it behaves the same in portrait, but landscape is better ! The width fits, and now I can scroll vertically (this morning - not !). 5. auto update is on, so probably from 1.4 6. only focus 7. no 8.seems better now, big focus sweeps take a long time, and the app needs some time to be able to focus again. 9. native lens (panaleica 12-60mm) 10. no I noticed also, in previous versions as well, if I store a focal point and a second one, transition (eg 3 sec) is quite smooth if they are not too far from each other. If I do a transition from a really close focus to eg. infinity, it jumps in quite big steps (about 2,5 steps per second). Smoothing does not change anything. (same lens)

Hello BTM_Pix, my smartphone updated to v1.5 and the app does not function anymore. The UI does not scale to my screen, and the app becomes unresponsive quite often. I am still on android 7.1.1.

I posted before, the pl 12-60 is passable at 12mm if there are no important vertical lines in the frame. My old 14-50 4/3 lens is better at 14mm than the new 12-60 at 14 mm. Even my 4/3 14-150 mm is better at 14 mm. Glad I kept my old glass. i am planning to get aMeike12mm for those wide shots. however, the 12-60 is parfocal, and the old lenses certainly not ...

No, i just wanted to point out that, although I like the m4/3 system, using native lenses on p4k can have some big disadvantages. I have those lenses and a gx80, so I know the differences. So, what happens with the new and very expensive 10-25 mm ? It could be borderline unusable on the P4K ?

I need to correct this. The new lenses ARE parfocal. The 12-60 on the P4K is still parfocal, without continuous AF.

Just for information, some quick tests. The L-ES014050 is the old 4/3 PanaLeica kit lens for the Lumix L1. The other lens is the new PanaLeica 12-60 mm. To compare it was around 15mm, not exactly the same field of view, but difficult to judge, as the distortion is already way higher. At 12mm it goes crazy, still useable for wide shots if you don't have anything straight near the edges. Now I have read that the Oly 12-100 has even more severe distortion then the PanaLeica 12-60 ? Does anyone know how we can use something like a lens profile in Adobe Raw (Adobe Raw does not have them for Panasonic lenses, as they are corrected in-camera) ? H-ES12060_12mm.mxf H-ES12060_12mm_bis.mxf H-ES12060_15mm.mxf L-ES014050_14mm.mxf

I am always wondering of the oly 12-100 does not have way too much distortion on the (uncorrected) P4k. my panaleica 12-60 is just OK at 12mm. My old 14-50 4/3 panaleica is already better at the wide end (as is my 14-150 mm). Glad I did not sell them ! AF does not work on the 14-50 by the way.

I just built a pc with Ryzen 3600 (not even X), and it plays those files easily. It overclocks to 4.1 GHz easy, which even gives 15% more headroom. But that is not necessary. I got a nvidea rtx2060 super 8gb graphics card, which can play 4k files with color grade without a sweat. Doing full res 4K playback with noise reduction on the fly gets on the limit with BRAW files, then you need a considerably faster gaphics card. But outputting to 2K is no problem at all, no proxies needed. I am still on a 2k monitor anyway. 32gb ram, m2 ssd drive for video files. However, compressed files and braw files edit fine from my external T5 drive. i did the braw speed test, and this system can play 8k braw files without problem, up to 25 frames/s i was in doubt about geting a 3700x, which costs nearly double over here, but decided to get the ryzen 3600. Makes the decision to pop in a 16 core/32 thread in a year or two much easier.

You probably missed the link in the older thread to a Youtube vid, with proof of a link between the two. I agree, there is no excuse for the way Red has been running business. No hostility needed.

I finally got the cable and the P4K syncs perfectly now ! When I play a file on the F8, the timecode changes immediately to the TC in the audio file. That will save a couple of hours in post-production !

From the back you are never going to get decent sound. Your options are: 1. try to negotiate PZMs in front of the stage 2. Hide two DPA 4060 (or similar) in furniture/plants of use those as pzm mics (making sure nobody can stand on them)

I did read the thread, but I did not know that the NTG3 is also an RF design. Good for Rode ! If the off-axis response is indeed as well-behaved (lobing) as the spec sheet (with an idealised polar plot, which I do not like to see, it suggests they are hiding something) suggests, it should work very well indoors, as noted above.