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You can twist the lens covers off most of the go pro models. I'm no engineer, but to extend that to make the lens interchangeable should have been a no brainer. Something a little less fisheye if an individual wanted would be better than sliced bread 😎

Some time ago noone was asking about long lenses. As it turned out i'd just received a canon fd 500mm mirror lens a few days before. While its its taken some time to find some traction, i finally made some progress with a base for the whole contraption. The chinese fd to mft adapter has a more than tolerable amount of play inbuilt. To remedy that i spent the morning measuring and drilling and more measuring. Surprisingly it all fitted together and adds a nice amount of rigidity, No more play. probably due more to good luck than good management. 😉 i added a bubble level i had lying around as the tripod levels are tiny dam things 🙄 Its a bit oversize yet and i have to add the samsung t5 drive to it yet plus i plan on adding a stepper motor for focusing so its an ongoing project. Its useable now, so looking for interesting subjects to video.

good job, grimor. nice that someone makes an effort 👍 oh yer .... merry christmas everyone 😀

i can get down to a 40mm pancake lens on the type 1 elmoscope. With mft and a speedbooster, if my maths is right, and somebody should probably check that 🙄 40x .71 = 28.4. i would however be cautious hanging that all that out a car window, looking in. those russian nap lenes are pretty big especially the 2-4 i wonder if they would allow a wider lens. food for thought

I got a new mavic pro 2 as well. Been pretty happy with it so far. Curious, is polar pro nd the way to go ? Internet's down at home so only get a chance to research things a bit sporadically at the moment.

ok I have the s20, as phones go and in my limited experience seems ok . The camera side of things is an improvement on my last phone i reckon as well. My question is, does anyone have experience with the blutooth shutter buttons ? Most promise to work with the camera but i'm unsure if they allow control of the video as well. I have been playing with the slow motion aspect and while starting and stopping a slow motion video is doable. Doing the same with super slow motion is proving vexing as by the time i start it and reposition myself, the slice of time the camera grabs is half gone. I have googled it but i have found not much certainty on the issue. some say it works others claim its sporadic. i am hoping for something a bit more concise from the forum. I do wonder with the rise of camera phones and their improvements, if maybe there isn't room for a phone sub forum on the eoshd platform. Of course i'd like it steered towards the cinema side of things, i"m sure there's plenty of sites out there for the more mundane aspects of phones It might help organize matters a little and maybe threads are less likely to fall of the main page quite so quickly. Not sure if its ben suggested before, food for thought.

yeah i'm just not sure how it all works and i'd rather not find out the hard way, how zealous the authorities want to be. I'll approach some of the local vineyards and see if anyone will allow some footage to be shot instead

thinking way... outside the box but can you control two motors ? Like if i had a taking lens and anamorphic lens would it be possible to calibrate both lenses then not have to worry about a single focus solution ?

Had this happen in town on the showgrounds in the middle of an oval. My third or fourth flight, nobody around except a few blokes from the mens shed who wanted a demo. i had an all clear ready to take off, sent it up about ten meters, then the warning box popped up scared the crap out of me. Cant doing nothing till you click ok. I was in beginner mode which limits you to about thirty meters. So i wasn't doing anything to ambitious, Very annoying. Probably wont send it up anywhere near town in future lol. Don't need the aviation authority bashing down any doors 🙄

I did go looking for a p40, cant get them in aus at the moment or not easily. No big deal, not really interested in an apple product either. So i jumped back into bed with a samsung s20. My only constraint for a phone was it has to fit the mavic controller The old s2 had developed it own glow filter after years of casual abuse and wouldn't run the dji controller either so its been retired. first photo from the s20 after midnight because i was bored, and want to try the low light out. I guess the s20 is total overkill just to run the mavic. 8k video will be something to experiment with as will the slow motion capabilities, eager to try the slow motion tomorrow with some balloons and water or coloured chalk dust.

I just got a mavic 2 pro. So its its a bit like the empire strikes back 😉 done a few flights, getting used to it. Seen a few vids where somebody lifts things with the mavic so i ordered an accessory that mounts a gopro to the top. Darth better be careful or he'll find himself replaced. not so sure about the little anamorphic adapters for the gimbal, which is why i'm trying out the gopro first.

nice enough footage and how to desqueeze and why you need to desqueeze on a mac, but not much on flares or how it flares.

i suspect its an early preproduction ulanzi or maybe a different brand. From the vids i have watched, the demo units had warmer flares with muted blue flares. The production version just have the intense blue flare. Which is kinda sad. Their not a true 1.33 either only 1.15. So that's something to be aware of. Apparently marketing got it wrong somehow 🙄 This dude talks about it at about 4.13 of this video https://youtu.be/OYHFwpWCna0

nice work. i took mine out too. I learnt old gopro mounts are none too sticky even with new double sided tape, which means i do have some footage of the go pro taking a tumble, amongst other things... The main concern was the letus anamorphic lens is ok

after my reply i thought about the wind buffeting also. i live in a high wind corridor pretty much right on the edge of the great dividing range. I have to go into town later i'll take the gopro and perform some rather unscientific tests. I think there's some grounds here for some collaboration and group therapy 🙂

yes it was well done, It does surprise me that unlike the p4k release there are no media clips for the ursa 12k around. Seems a bit odd to me. But who can say how bmd thinks 😀 I confess i preordered the 4k from mostly those media releases. Not to mention the fact i was happy to help out a local company. Kyes been talking about image thickness in another thread. I'm going out on a limb and say the ursa 12k has it and with some to spare.😀 i thought there was some banding or blockiness with the red lipstick and red background, i had to watch it at 1440 before it went away. Perhaps something to do with what geoff cb was talking about or just youtube doing its evil thing i'm not sure.

that does seem to make American roads appear super smooth. Anything that could make an aussie road appear as smooth as that, would sell like hotcakes but i digress. He does drive pretty consistent, no big swerves or hard cornering, so im thinking he's working within the constraints of his particular system. even when he turns around, assuming its a he 🤔 he is doing his best not to upset the apple cart so to speak. I'm in two minds whether its internal or external I suspect its mounted outside on the front or bonnet. If its internal, i thought that a shot of the sun might have given something away with how it flared or or sun through the windscreen, but nothing there. Not sure what the laws are like in America but if i mounted a gopro to a suction cup and strapped it to the bonnet, i could probably make it out onto the highway but the first highway patrol would pull me up and i'd be either fined or politely asked to remove it, before i was allowed to proceed. I suspect there may be some kind of stealth setup, a gimbal mounted in behind a bull ball with the camera just poking its head up. If it is a gopro then he's shot linear or narrow as theres little fish eye or warping at least to me anyway.

thats so VIVID i need sunglasses to look at it 😉

part of my devious plan is to exploit that lightness and pair it with a small light weight camera then mount said contraption on a astro tracker i have. I presume stars will be out of " reach " with f8 but i 'm more interested in catching moon rises and sunsets with some foreground object and time lapse the whole thing. I do have two canon fd 2x teleconverters from the days of film. Been watching for a fd 1.4 teleconverter but their a fair bit pricier than the 2x. Oddly enough, donuts don't seem to bother me, yet i don't like swirly bokeh, go figure 🙄

not sure how i missed this thread until now. However i'm quite literally throwing the "cat" amongst the pigeons. One canon fd 500mm mirror lens, found a mint one out of japan and couldn't help myself. For a good price as well nearly had to pinch myself. Main issue is my tripod isn't up to the task. Too much play sadly. Thats an issue i'll have to address shortly. This kinda fulfills some deep unconscious desire from a bygone era. Probably doesn't make a lot of sense an f8 mirror lens, but what the hell. I have set up a bird feeder out the front, the 500mm should bring them in a little closer 😀

that definitely low light. Google low light photography find some images you like and emulate them. If you have a tripod, i'd use it. I've heard it said that experience isn't something you get until just after you need it. take lots of photos, develop a style, maybe even stack a few images see how that goes if your doing a lot of evening photos. i dont have that lens, no idea how it performs for photography or video . I guess all you can do is try it. Try it in every conceivable variation thats the only way to learn a lens and whether it can work for you or not. There's a multitude of lenses out there. Some lens have an almost cult like following, others have yet to be tried and not everyone makes a record of how it performs. as a video based forum a bunch of stills sometimes may not garner a lot of response. Magic lantern does amazing things for canons video abilities, not forgetting photos either. Not sure if its available for the 800d however and its definitely got a learning curve. but with a canon i'd lean towards ml for video work. By the way welcome to the forum.

VIVID... noone, you heretic 😀 Mr reid you now have the forums permission to sacrifice noone on the alter of c-log... call me an atheist but i'd hope for a thicc bone density xray, other than that i think its all bit naff. Maybe people are trying to carry something over from the days of film. You remember film surely ? when every home home had one of these (ok maybe not every home 🤔). My point being digital and film are fish swimming in different oceans as much as people like to emulate film with digital. I hold grave concerns when it come to technical terms of film being applied to digital. it all sounds a little suss to me. I'm normally a fan of the things you do here on the forums kye, but i cant help but wonder if your not overthinking it this time.

one of these beasties then. To be honest my kit lens doesn't get a lot of love. 9 time out of ten there is a m42 adapted to the canon or on the p4k. Although some years ago i did buy a katzeye microprism screen for the canon kinda shows you i tend to like my mf 😀 I also find mf on the 18-55 a bit ordinary even a touch rough. the af works fine however. i just dont use it much.

If canon own the camera cripple hammer title, then Fastway couriers own the courier service that don't deliver title. I have had 2 lenses come from russia 1 from ukraine a single focus solution from the united states, 7 or 8 lenses from japan and a drone from china, no problems what so ever. Buy something in australia and i cross my fingers and prey to almighty God above that they dont use fastway couriers. now if it had happened once i could understand you saying, ease up mate its only a parcel. Nay say i, not once, not twice, not even thrice, but almost 6 times, i have had the misfortune of dealing with fastway. But we'll get to that 6th shortly. first time i was lucky that i got it delivered... eventually to the local newsagent who are part of a parcel service. Second time i had a two hour drive up to their depot, thats a four hour round trip. third time after some detective work and some begging i got it delivered to another local parcel service in town. 4th time i bought a neewer camera slider of ebay from Melbourne it made it as far as sydney before getting sent back to melbourne. Nobody gets in touch via email or phone and says hey mate there's an issue here. this isn't rocket science. I did ten years as a truck driver, the phone number is on the side of the parcel or delivery sheet somewhere. 5th time, i found the same neewer camera slider on amazon and it was $30 cheaper, you little beauty i thought, lets get that one. Guess who they used as a courier 😭, tracking today showed it was being returned to sender. i rang the Toowoomba depot to check. her exact words they don't service my area, i asked if they could hold it at the depot till i could pick it up, hey, what's a four hour round drive between friends 🙄 no can't do that they dont service my area and she was quite adamant about that. 6th time or almost 6th time. Bought some drone batteries from phaserfpv.com yesterday. Big shout out and thank you to the kind soul at phaserfpv.com who actually did some homework and caught the mistake and rang before they sent it to fastway, the drone batteries are now on their way via aus post. End of rant !!

you should prank him. I'd pay to see that :)