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i remember that canon just stopped making fd lenses pretty suddenly once digital and ef mount came out. So its not like they haven't done it before 😎

dont think many have lost out on the p4k as some people suspect. Im thinking most of us are pretty happy with it, no need to make a leap for a negligibly improved p6k boat, sailing from a port near never never land🙄 dare i say it, the p6k doesn't trounce the p4k as expected ? Not sure what bmd's thinking was to release two models so close together, probably caused more angst than anything but its water under the bridge now

hunting waaAy left of field but how about a canon m like the one mr reid reviewed ? its cheap and i do realize thats a 2nd and new eco system to play with. However with magic lantern installed that would open up a bunch of possibilities. no idea if your lenses would mount to it via an adapter. It looks quite small and with ml it would give you timelapse and and all the extra functionality that ml brings to the game. Main issues would be batteries and the aforementioned issue with mounting your lenses perhaps. food for thought

i have seen two sites that state that canon wont be making any new ef lenses instead focusing on rf mount. https://petapixel.com/2020/01/08/canon-done-making-ef-lenses-unless-photographers-demand-more/ I presume they will still make ef lens for a while yet otherwise there is a bunch of guys probably going to be out of work. So with that in mind, do you think 2nd hand ef lens price may drop or go up ? Also is there a lens you would be tempted to buy before they go off the market ?

start your own rental shop ?

gopro's can fulfill a niche, they have even been used in some feature films, i have 2 and i dont ride skateboards or surfboards. Like any equipment used within their limits and its all good. Youtube has certainly benefited from them, whether that's a good or bad thing, i'll leave that up to you to decide. I'm just a little bit saddened that you can be so condescending towards the little action camera.

Someone please tell me, this didn't make it onto the list of lesser known youtube channels one should watch. If this doesn't drive home the importance of having at least one camera person or support person, i'm not sure what will. On the upside i guess he gets to keep all the revenue from this episode for himself ?

mr reid has given them every opportunity to succeed, statistically sony have had 7 bites at the cherry and still lag behind in percentages. make of that, what you will ! theres a base of 30000 forum readers, 36 votes is embarrassing. It seem like bloody hard work to engage any of them in any sort of activity on the forum ? Maybe mr reid should have added a { i desperately want a cinema camera category } for the other 29964 others or perhaps their all out vlogging ?

maybe they do and that could be a good option for some, I do buy alot of stuff of ebay. For the p4k i pre ordered and i wanted the warranty, just in case ? i am quite happy to buy of ebay i know they have a returns policy if its isnt as expected. At the time p4k's on ebay were quite pricey it was cheaper to buy from from a bmd reseller anyway, lol Plus i think ebay returns is ninety days ? ( not sure about that) verses 12 months for reseller warranty.

coming from a laymans understanding of things, whether its raw or not, its just had enough done to it to get around the patent issue they were having at the time i think. I doubt they have deliberately set out to deceive people, marketing departments always seem optimistic about definitions and some of the terms they use no matter who you buy from ? i remember gopro were flogging protunes as raw or raw like with the gopro4. Anyone that knew anything could work out pretty quickly while protunes with some settings could look better, than the typical vivid/saturated settings, raw it wasn't. It was the 5 that actually came out with raw images, so bmd aren't the first company to claim raw when its not, probably not the last either. lemac the camera shop i bought my p4k from list the p4k for $1,990.00 or a $100 more now than when i bought it and the GH5S for $3,340.00. Same sensor apparently but priced quite differently. Is the gh5s a $1300 better camera ? don't know, don't care either. Once you own something, i find these comparisons become alot like white noise.

dammit man, you have stuffed up the validity of the whole survey ??

i'm a bit surprised the is no category for other black magic cameras, not to mention red or arri, perhaps they come under pro cinema cameras ?

er....13.7% if you count me

blur may encompass some of what bokeh is about but thats only half of the equation. Telling the dop to blur all that background shit out and well call it a wrap, seems a bit half assed to me. No matter what field of endevours your involved in, be it law, welding, film there is an aspect of technical jargon that needs to be learned so that everyone is on the same page. It kinda frustrates me that people want to master their craft, yet can hardly put an effort into the language side of things. I'm willing to bet good money, that if you have a good director he'll be able to articulate his thoughts, present them in a manner thats sits comfortably with all. that's not an english lesson, that's art. remember double points the next time you play scrabble ?

not sure whether you have seen this or not but mattias burling did a comparison between a couple of speedboosters I bought the cheap villtrox nikon nf to mft adapter just so i could mount the tokina 28-70 in nikon mount to the p4k, later i bought the vilttox ef-m2 speedbooster with a cheap dumb adapter i can mount the nikon to the speedbooster or i can mount m42 lenses with another cheap adapter. The only thing i can add is that i find the thumbscrew tighteners on the tripod socket foot to be a bit wriggly, never seem to tighten sufficiently for me. Buying the ef mount would certainly add some flexibility for later

wh3171 just posted a page of sports trivia with links to shoes sales i''d consider this as spam

i still have one ?

i liked it, those guys were a bit corny at times, but i guess pretty much anyone goes a bit odd after midnight. Still they were enthusiastic lol. definitely filmed under real world conditions kudos's for that I also thought the ronin did a pretty good job all things considered. One thing i am curious about is the crop he quoted, does the crop factor vary with the lens mount as he quotes a 1.25 crop for mft compared with a 1.9ish crop from a full frame on the p4k ?

touche ?

i have the ef-m2 on my p4k. My only ai lens is a tokina atx-pro 28-70. the auto focus doesn't work but the aperture control does. its not an issue for me not having auto focus. As i understand it the nikon mounts don't work through the adapter on the p4k. i have heard only some older versions of firmware will work with some models you may have to google it, hope that gives you something to work with. you may have to reinstall an older firmware perhaps. Maybe check the contacts see if there is any visible wear or dirt as kye has suggested

No idea how royalties or copyright works. Seems to me youtube has to be getting away with murder with the amount of people doing "covers" and the music sometimes associated with some videos. Technically is that not an infringement ? While in principle i agree with the concept of artists getting their due. I mostly buy cd's so you cant really not pay royalties but i suspect the royalties may be a bit steep if i wanted to use a song in some sort of video, which would probably stifle things somewhat. Getting back on topic i think i could do something creative with the 1812 overture or ride of the valkeries but classical gas is still copyrighted as well as everything from the 1080's. You know by the end of the 80's all the best notes had been used up. Stuff that came after that might have had a beat or bass but i'm not sure you could call it music. ? sadly its all academic, well all be long dead before its free to use creatively?

Man up. Get yourself a p4k and a couple of vintage lenses. ?

well the first timelapse of 2020 is done and dusted. If you have a spare one minute 40 seconds take a look, used the gopro with the letus anamorphic and the rage cam battery eliminator. The battery easily lasted the day. I had the gopro setup on video with the timelapse function so it built a video as it took a photo i ended up with 1.3 gigabyte file. I did edit it down to just show the birds, lots of bees use the water i notice. Pretty sure a lot more animals use the water than i caught this time round as usually the bath is half empty. May have to run a light or two and film into the night, but thats a test for another time. i'll keep going trialing different settings and see what else turns up. I defished in gopro studio then edited in resolve, the cuts are pretty noticeable need more practice with that aspect. there is no sound might have a word with ironfilms about a cheap 2 channel recorder thats good at ambient nature sounds

Good morning all, Happy new year. New year, new resolutions i guess. I plan on being a bit more active/creative this year Got the gopro setup, running a timelapse as we chat. May have some sort of wildlife video to show for it later today. The ugreen usb c lead with a 90 degree angle connector turned up a few days ago. Initial setup wasn't promising, i couldn't get a connection between the p4k and the t5 ssd. However i have had another play with it this morning and turned all the connections either, upside down or the other way around and now i can record to the ssd, not sure if perhaps i didn't have the cable seated properly the first time round which is a bit embarrassing as i left a neutral comment on the ebay feedback link . On the back of the ugreen packet is a sticker showing thats its only usb 2 not 3.1 so looks like i have some testing to see how long i can record to the ssd before it drops frames. Considering that it was $10 posted and the tilta p4k cable comes in at $40 posted to aus i 'll be using the ugreen for awhile. The 90 degree connector does make for a more streamlined setup much less chance on getting hooked up on something i hope. Theres nothing on the ebay link to say its not usb 3.1 that i noticed, you just assume that being usb c it would be 3.1. At the moment the main thing is i can record to ssd not sure for how long, at some point i'll have to upgrade. i'm kinda hoping it will be later rather than sooner. Got an email from sirui this morning apparently there's 10 days to go till the early bird offer closes for the anamorphic so i'm still in with a chance to get one. Got some colour correcting gels to play with last week haven't opened them yet. I was thinking of doing an unboxing video for something different and the experience. I have also ordered a cheap led light i have seen reviewed on youtube. When that turns up things should get mildly interesting. there's a metal backboard in the process of being spray painted. I have some plans of using it for testing purposes and vlogging if all the planning comes together.

thats almost blasphemous, is it not ? ?? i keep hearing, story is king. Are they lying to me ? and if so what else are they lying about ? Maybe the earth is flat after all. These are questions that don't need to be posed this close to new years eve, i tells you. There are 30,000 + subscribers, i regularly see about 10 people post content. I presume of the forum base, a bunch of those people make movies professionally, another bunch do wedding and events, another bunch are probably like me and having a go. Maybe @Andrew Reid could do a survey on subscriber demographics. Professional/ non Professional, camera used , that sort of thing. I think the statistical break down of that could be pretty interesting. Regarding evaluating each other's content are we critiquing ? because if someone posts something from a red and i comment that looks great, did you use a sony, you just know that's going to start a flame war ?