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ProAV on YT did an interesting video showing the EOS-R as a B-cam to a C200 and it looked like a reasonable option. The crop was even a feature as it means you can get a bit of extension on a shorter lens for a tighter portrait shot. If the P4K thread is any indication, let's reserve the next 80 pages of this thread to BATTERY RAGE!! As a consolation the contrast / saturation controls might have some decent leeway in them? With 8-bit it might be preferable to allocate more of those bits to the middle parts of the exposure range. I did really like the Normal profile on the XC10 which provided the same DR as C-Log, it just had a knee at a higher point so it was only compressing the highlights. (From the XC10 EBU Test Paper - Normal = Look1, C-Log = Look 5) As far as I know the XC10 is the only camera that had this feature - the rest just clipped highlights. For an 8-bit codec this would be a spectacular gamma curve, and it wasn't something that Canon or anyone else seemed to make a big deal out of, so although I'm not optimistic for the RP, we won't know until someone tests it.

@leslie Wow! I bet that would have been a pretty nerve wracking few days!

I used to be an IT technician for a small organisation with a modest IT budget, so we used to try and solve problems ourselves. We'd often clean keyboards, printers, and other hardware when they went a bit funny because often a good clean can get something back to working well. What was quite common was when me and the boss would pull apart a laser printer or something, there were almost always parts left over. Sometimes they were parts where both of us would look at them and think "I've never seen that thing before in my life!". Funnily enough we never pulled something apart and had it not work again because we stuffed it up - everything always came good. I think they just put spare parts in there so that there will always be parts left over and you'll be less likely to try and service things yourself next time

Hi A1ex!! Keep up the great work.. we appreciate it! ??? (https://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=22770.msg211977#msg211977) I have had a recurring thought that ML would make a spectacular project for someone who wants to work in PR to get real-world experience and actually make some kind of difference by making ML much more accessible to people who don't want to trawl though threads about registers to understand how to turn on crop-mode or similar things like that. The information is around, and even just collating it and providing some instructions would make a huge difference. I think one of the main issues is that people want to record in some combination of RAW, 4K, and >30fps so the challenge isn't installing ML, it's installing the right build, installing the SD-Card hack, working out the menu system (that keeps changing faster than the blog posts can keep up) to enable the right modules, the button combinations for preview modes, and potentially other bits and pieces as well.

OMG - that brought tears to my eyes!! How funny! Let's hope A1ex has seen the other nice things I say about ML!! ???

I agree.. However, in my experience it's sometimes hard to see who is a spammer and who might be a newcomer who is potentially from the instant-messaging generation, or doesn't have English as their first language, or both. Film-making is a pretty complicated topic and it's pretty easy to ask a genuine question that seems inflammatory or non-sensical, so apart from posting links, it can be hard to tell.

We're going to try and make P4K footage have the same "look" of the OG Pocket camera, so that should tell you something about how well regarded the images from it are. I was seriously considering buying one, but I wanted something small and it seems that the P2K works best when you can rig it up with external power and audio. Weren't you going to stick with Fuji as a C-camera? Or is this for a different setup?

Or we don't want to be limited to minuscule and rather bland selection of Canon-compatible IS lenses. There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of different aesthetics available from the different lens designs, materials, coatings, and manufacturers throughout the history of photography. I personally think that the ability of mirrorless to adapt every SLR lens ever made is potentially the biggest advantage of taking out the mirror. The fact that IBIS gives IS to every lens ever made is a real game changer for those who don't (or can't) always shoot on tripods or larger rigs.

Brandon Li is a famous travel film-maker who has made a number of viral travel films, with all of the special effects we associate with the genre. His latest project went beyond that and included actors, a storyline, dramatic tension, as well as being a travel film. Tom Antos interviewed him for a BTS look, and he talks about process, equipment, logistics, editing, the balance of control vs improvisation (there wasn't a script), and other interesting things, as well as showing some BTS footage. I think it's an interesting crossover between fully planned shoots and completely unplanned travel films. Here is the final film, and the BTS interview:

Actually, no chance of being disappointed. Since buying my GH5 I haven't been genuinely interested in any of the newer releases. At least for my particular needs, nothing out there really comes close, and there isn't a lot with the GH5 where you think "gee, I really wish that it could..."

Man, I read that whole thread thinking AA was an Anti-Aliasing filter, which even made sense in the context that it's in the filter stack!! Too many acronyms! ???

Interesting. I was just going to say that if it had 4K with only APSC crop, Canon colours, and 10-bit C-Log then it might be the first camera since the GH5 to tempt me.... but then realised it probably wouldn't have IBIS. For non-handheld shooters though, and depending on the final specs, it might be an offering to attract jaded Canon shooters back into the fold.

Worth watching. It's partly an ad for his course, but there's also lots of useful stuff in here.

It looks nice to me To give any criticism I'd have to know what you were trying to accomplish.

Wonderful videos! I know my GH5 is so much better than I am 41K.. screw 8K! Wow!! ???

Thanks, just got time to watch that. I like how he starts by saying something like "let's get through this as quickly as possible" but it then takes 45 minutes I found the Contax Zeiss Survival Guide on Reduser and was heartened when the guy distinguished between "Vintage" and "Organic". I'd noticed that when people were talking about the lenses they were talking about how that more organic look could be had from certain lenses, and that those same lenses might also be super sharp, whereas Vintage seems to indicate a softness that is at the expense of sharpness. To my eye there is something that some lenses do that is similar to the effect of shooting in RAW, or even shooting 10-bit colour instead of 8-bit. I think whatever that thing is, it's the thing that nasty kit zooms tend to have the opposite of, which is why they don't get a lot of love, despite often being sharp and optically quite good performers. You mean, you're doing it the right way around? ???

Take twice as many batteries as ... just kidding! Have a checklist of some kind so you don't forget things. It can be written, it can be filling each pocket of your bag, whatever, but have a system. Have a process when you get back to base (your room, your office, whatever) and be sure to include: Putting everything back on charge Downloading and backing up media Cleaning things After getting back to base take 5 minutes to think about what worked, what didn't work, and what you might change.

And for people that run it as a studio camera, they could even just plug it into a large cheap HDD, assuming that it could handle the bitrate. That would make the setup cheaper again. All new cameras should have a USB port as a media option

Never underestimate the potential for people to take online comments the wrong way, or just emotional insecurity and immaturity. One of my favourite things to say to people is that most people don't grow up or become adults, they just get older. It gets a few laughs normally, often enthusiastic agreement, but it's kind of the opposite of a joke because it's mostly true, and I only say it when the subject of someone being a total !@#%^ comes up in conversation. I'd rather have a different saying on repeat, but alas..

Works for me.. but if it's a bug and they're doing their software development right then they'll have it fixed in a very short time.

..and if you're an amateur like me, you're budget limited and partly overwhelmed when shooting but have hours and hours to fiddle in post. If you're able to spare the extra render time, you can create a nice set of preset looks that you can just apply to each project, so post work doesn't have to take a lot of time.

Yeah, IBIS seems to be like IS but can handle more movement. Having IBIS to stabilise fully manual lenses gives you the best of both worlds. I've just registered over at reduser to hopefully be able to see image attachments when they talk about lenses, as they seem to share my taste in lenses: manual, fast, and expensive! ???

I agree completely. IBIS is something that people who don't need it don't understand the value in. That's like everything in a sense, we don't appreciate what we don't use or don't need. For me, IBIS provides a nice level of camera movement. If you hand-hold a camera it's ok for action scenes, but too jerky for anything else and just screams "8mm home video". Something like a shoulder rig gives a nice level of motion, the extra size eliminates the hand-shake but keeps the human movement, especially when paired with IS in a lens. More stable than that are the glide cams which are very smooth, but @KnightsFan is right in saying they're still intuitive and can still have that human movement. Gimbals are very difficult to control to let that human movement through, but I think part of the difficulty with them is that they let basically no changes to where the camera is pointing but still let through all of the changes in where the camera is positioned, and the combination looks odd. You're absolutely right that it allows something new. We used to have glide cams or shoulder-rigs to give that level of movement, we also used to have rigs that were very fast to setup and use which allowed spontaneity and life to blossom in front of the camera easily, and we also used to have small setups that you could take into places that don't allow professional filming. IBIS brings these three together in a way that we never had before, and for me that's what creates new creative possibilities. You can use the size and speed to allow filming in situations where there wouldn't have been time, or to allow more movement that would have been very difficult before. Shooting calligraphy is a beautiful way of saying it, another might be to have a dance between the subject and the camera. I am attempting to make videos of my family (who don't re-do things and I'm not going to ask them to) in places where there is no professional shooting allowed and I'm carrying around the camera all day, and I want the end results to be as beautiful as I can make them, which hand-shake completely destroys IMHO. IBIS is what allows me to shoot in places and not get told off or asked to leave. I suspect they will get better, and may incorporate additional features that make this easier in the future. For example, if there was a little camera looking at you scanning your face and you could steer the direction of the camera by angling your head, like those separate controllers do when you tilt or rotate them now. This would be very intuitive because I know that when I'm watching something and I want the camera to look somewhere else at something off-screen I move my head by instinct as if trying to get the camera to move.

Screw what is over-used or under-used or what the cool kids are wearing, if it fits the story then use it It's like that saying about continuity "if someone notices continuity issues, then your film is crap". Shoot the whole film in slow-motion in golden hour and into the sun with flares all over the place and it will be fine as long as all that stuff fits the story. It's when it doesn't fit that people start complaining. I used to think that the 3D thing was just a DOF thing, but I'm beginning to understand. Last night I did a bunch of reading and found this comparison: https://www.thephotoforum.com/threads/warning-lrg-lens-shootout-contax-zeiss-planar-50mm-f-1-4-t-vs-pentax-smc-takumar-55mm-f-1-8.394768/ Tell me that the 5mm difference in focal length (and therefore aperture) is responsible for the differences in those shots. I suspect it's the contrast, which likely comes from the coatings. I would have expected the Takumar to be sharper than the CZ, but not so. Maybe I just let my mind wander with Takumar sounding like Tak, as in "tack sharp"