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it seems i like a bit of glow. Pretty sure i can do something similar with the pentax 85mm 1.9, up for a glowfest anyone ...?

andrew should at least give one away for reaching 400 ?

well i am sitting down but the only coffee worth drinking is this stuff ? ordered a cheap set of neutral density and graduated filters to play with, the aussie sun needs some calming down so to speak . Once i figure out what i tend to use most often I'll spring for something more pricey. Can anyone comment on best practices for videoing a sunset ? I have also created a youtube channel in anticipation. it should be a pretty laid back affair nothing too serious using the bmp4k and the elmoscope. i'm no casey neistat but i'm hoping the anamorphic angle gives it a bit of difference. been looking at the filter sizes on my pentax m42 lenses trying to figure out a common size for the m42 to elmoscope adapter. at the moment i'm getting some grub screws/bolts machined into the old mount the will attach to the piece of alloy i got cut on the waterjet that will support and secure the elmoscope to the smallrig. the machinist reckons theres no problem cutting the fine threads that the lenses use. i do think i need some kinda short barrel with a sleeve in it to alloy the elmoscope optics to align properly once it is screwed together. I hope to have it back by next friday, i can take some pics. I should also be able to wrap a bit of tape around them both and do a bit of shooting anamorphically. till i figure out a thread size for the adapter.

ok work has commenced on the anamorphic lens clamp adapter should be able to pick it up next friday so i should be shooting anamorphic next weekend. I did shoot some footage today holding the elmoscope inn front of the lens. Shot hand held, as you can imagine footage like that isn't going to win any awards. it was interesting however and upon viewing i had something of a round blur or distortion happening in the lower right corner consistently as i panned. need to figure out if its the lens, elmoscope or some kinda flare. i checked both lenses and the bmp4k and everything looks clean. will try some other lenses and try to narrow it down. Still no internet at home which is getting annoying as i can only get the internet if i take the laptop into town.

is this like what happens when you crush the blacks ?

A : if i could afford it. At my age i don't care so much about prestige. thinking about it, that much prestige even second hand, could buy me a ton of lenses but i guess it comes back to priorities ?btw i drive a secondhand proton jumbuck probably ranks lower than every thing else on the previous list. Actually it was voted unsafest car of the year some time ago. lucky i drive pretty safely.? kinda sad i wont be setting any land speed records, well not in the jumbuck anyway because a land speed record in 4k braw would be awesome.?

did some ringing around, then drove to the other side of town. found a place to machine me an adapter from the elmoscope to a standard filter thread. The elmoscope is 50mm on the rear thread, it seems the pitch is .75 as far as we have been able to ascertain at the moment. if dimensions change i'll post them for posterity later . Most popular thread sizes for cameras seem to be 49mm or 52mm then 55mm which makes the 50mm of the elmoscope a bit of an oddball . I think i may have to incorporate some kind of sleeve arrangement in the adapter, as if i can thread an adapter onto the back of the elmoscope i can pretty much guarantee the anamorphics in the scope wont align correctly. I will give it some thought over the next few days and proceed ahead next week. Its kinda exciting to being so close to being an anamorphic videographer?

nice views, very pretty country i liked watching it its nice to see something different from time to time . i wish i could say after the rain but we are in drought here . I would quite literally kill for some of that water flowing down that ravine ? seems almost criminal to have a porshe sitting under a tarp. if you need a stable, i have one right here where you could park that porshe and be all nice and safe and out of the weather ? A mate of mine somehow managed to kill his gopro5 a few weeks ago as well. so your not alone

No internet at home at the moment. Which kinda sucks. Have had another enlarger lens from russia turn up. It is a m42 mount 50mm 2.8 and has 12 blades in the aperture i believe. Hope to give it a workout shortly and post some pics. Also learnt how to melt lead with just some twigs and leaves and a piece of pipe for a draft. plan on doing a vid and making a utube channel for fame and fortune ? Due to a safety scare won't be doing much more of that till i get some protective gear ? hit a speed bump with the clamp for the anamorphic lens. getting late here think i'll get some shuteye. Night all.

love that bird shot, have to google that locally and see if we have something similar happen here. maybe just a toss a box of hot chips around and wait for the seagulls to descend ? might have to buy a couple more fd lenses before people see what mercer is doing with them ?

actually he states pocket 4k i am also wondering with the 2x crop on the p4k how wide one could go before vignetting ? the only rule i know of is about 85mm for full frame. How things work on m4/3 is a mystery i have yet to delve into.

i might investigate this. i have a couple of inferred filters, a 680 and 720 nm from memory and one ir modified digital still camera. i should be able to fit something to the front of the bmp4k and see how responsive the camera is to inferred. its already a given that it would have an ir filter as pretty much all cameras have ir cut because, well infered red looks odd or weird even peculiar in photos. not that i have anything against inferred. i think the issue is our eyes aren't accustomed to seeing inferred and when we do it tends to stand out. if its a sunny day i'll try to get some footage with and with out filters then you can judge for yourselves

red motorbikes go fast as well, they also slide pretty fast as well, don't ask me how i know this ?

Did a bit of redesign this week, got two pieces cut on the waterjet for testing purposes. I changed the design of the ssd holder it now sits beneath the smallrig 15mm rails surprisingly my measurements were rather accurate and all i had to do was a little sanding to made things slide together. if i had to do it again i'd made things 0 .1 mm bigger for some wiggle room. The alloy clamp required the most time, broke out the dremel for that. The alloy holder clamp is a bit tall at the moment, i made it that way as i was guessing abit at the time. The last two pics are a bit of a mock up at the moment. i actually have the original clamp holder on the back at the moment. Not sure if i will get that machined to hold a step down ring or do something different. I am however happy that more progress has been made.

one word : afterpay ?

water creatures ? are you sure you haven't been smoking a little of what your cousin sent you??

serve the chilled moonshine first, after two glasses no one will care !! Bonus points will be awarded if you get some vegans to eat the kebabs ?

If i water and fertilize it do you think it will grow ? ?

i'll take one if i can get it in ef mount and 4k ? i was thinking of the lomography with the 3 kit lenses would be awesome, but if andrew and mercer can have a dianna, i'd be joining an elite group right ? bit of a detour now. When it cools down abit i plan on doing a camping trip, way out west, no mains power. So i have started preparations on a battery bank. This little beastie aught to keep me out of trouble for a few days. At the moment i have an switch and usb dual outlet socket. Need to get a dual battery charger set up in the car so the battery can charge while i drive. Then i can power or charge everything from there i hope. Also i plan on getting a set of bm cables to integrate as well. and anything else i can think of.

might have been a $100 us. However the aussie dollar did an impressive swan dive before i bought it (actually i dont even think the dollar has made back to the surface yet ) so it cost me alot more than that. Original stuff is always worth more i think, be it cars or camera bits. At this point i'm keeping it pristine :) . Been out with the p4k and the Olympus 15mm body cap lens to a local lookout and i quite like it. Maybe that's because a : i don't know any better or b : don't have anything better or c : all of the above ? . has anyone bought a helicoid and inserted either a projector lens or enlarger lens inside it and how did it turn out ? i got to thinking about a helicoid after tuning the el nikor with the m42 extension tube.

after fitting the el nikor 63mm to a m42 extension tube. i wondered if i could i avoid an extension tube by using a m39 to m4/3 adapter instead. So i ordered a m39. Turned up a couple of days ago. here's a pic of the m42, m39 and el nikor. While the el nikor fits to the m39 to m4/3 adapter it protrudes out the back of the adapter by about a millimeter and a half. Which is shown in the second picture. Which hits the edge and or contacts on the bmp4k which is shown in the third picture. so using an enlarger lens on am39 adapter is a dead end unless i want to grind down the back of the el nikor and i'm not keen to do that at this point.

when can we pick up our prototypes for betatesting ? ? you probably going to need a large sample batch to statically minimize the mean absolute deviation within specified control limits right ? ?

two pages back the was a video shot by moonlight. i wonder if that's how it was accomplished with a 0.95 and speedbooster. I googled supermoon and they can be as much as 30% brighter and 14% larger. So maybe a combination of all the above would make it doable perhaps.

i think thats just hilarious. the whole forum is about making the best footage possible from some pricey cameras (alexia) to not so pricey (bmp4k) and others. People are talking 4k, 6k, 8k grading like a hollywood blockbuster and now we are comparing results or watching it on a phone. Is that some irony or what ?. I really cant be bothered watching stuff on my phone. Dont get me wrong, phones are great and i use the camera quite a bit for pictures for work and personal stuff. i also have about half my cd collection on a card in the phone to listen to. But to watch stuff online, i'll spend a whole extra minute and turn the phone into hotspot mode, fire up the laptop and watch it on that or the desktop at home. i personally dont find phone screens immersive or captivating enough (if immersive is the right word).

i'd agree with that, couple times now, its had me scratching my head wondering if it was me accidentally turned something off