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I went for a walk in the park yesterday and took a few minutes to check things out. It was about 21C here yesterday and I was by a river so the entire area was in the shade because it's down in a valley. The setup is a filter adapter that connects by Magsafe and the Angelbird CF express adapter which connects with magnets to that. I set it up on a rock and rolled 4kp120 ProRes in the Blackmagic Camera app with the 1x/24mm equiv lens. Sometime between 4 and 8 minutes, the BM app started showing a warning on the record button which seems to indicate that the camera is heating up. At 13 minutes, I got bored and stopped the recording. The phone was a bit warm to the touch. The CF Express adapter was warmer. At least for me, I don't expect that there will be a lot of times when I need to roll 120 fps for 10+ minutes. Detaching the reader from the phone would probably help with cooling. After that, I played around a bit with the phone. I really like the 5x lens (not sure if I like it enough to replace the 3x) - but I ran into a bug in the BM app where stabilization gets weird with the 5x or 0.5x lenses. It jumps around a lot. Hopefully they fix that soon.

No. 16 Pro with "natural titanium" color. With the "Pro," I can still just barely use it with one hand when walking, etc. With the Max, I definitely can not. Maybe in my next life, I'll be born with bigger hands. Probably a bit if in sunlight. Probably not much if out of it. How long do you need it to roll before stopping before you'd consider it? 😅 Probably somewhat, but I wouldn't expect it to be night and day.

Not really. It's some metadata that is sent with HDR video streams that theoretically helps displays to better understand how to display it.

No update. Gotta' find a time when I both remember to do it and am not worried about killing my battery. 🙂

My magnetic filter holder and Angelbird CF reader/writer showed up today. It's a bummer to have to take off the case to put on the filter holder, but there are worse things and the camera's pretty comfortable to hold with both stacked on. It could be that I finally have a decent 4K pocket camera. 😉

It sounds like you really like the R1, even to the point of obsessing about micro-differences between images which would be removed during even basic color grading. Seems like you should get one.

Why should people buy any Atomos product? They shouldn't. Atomos is a terrible company who moved a while ago from selling customers a working tool and supporting it to trying to build new revenue streams from their existing customer base. The whole reason to release a "new" Ninja V model seems to have been to release the same hardware again, but with a few licenses that were an additional cost on the original NInja V (such as H.265), but that nobody in their right mind was going to buy (why would I get a Ninja V to record in the codec that my camera already uses?)... difference in price for the new monitor? Basically the cost of buying those add-ons for the original. It's also why getting the activation code for ProRes RAW for the Ninja V went from a simple basic website where you entered a serial number and it gave you an activation code - now the site forces you to register and wade through a bunch of ads (for things like add-on software licenses) before you can register it. Meanwhile, you take the Video Assist 12G out of a box, plug in your camera, and start recording BM Raw. And that's all in addition to the bad press, sexual harassment allegations, covid fuckery, etc. If Atomos are struggling, they have only themselves and their own terrible choices to blame.

Current pricing for the D16 is IMO a bit crazy - there are two which come up in a sold item search on ebay - $4600 in working condition and $1900 for parts/repair. Original price was about $3,300. Are you really sure you'd want to walk away from about $1,300? FWIW, I'm guessing that anybody who spends $4,500 on a camera is going to use it. At least, I hope so. 😃

Also 1080p240 and "Dolby Vision" for other things, whatever Dolby Vision is.

That's not out of the question - or that Apple had nothing to do with it and they just ground off the lenses for the 24mm. Though for whatever it's worth, the cage that the phone is in really looks like a Beast Grip cage. It's a popular cage regardless of DOF adapter, though - and IIRC the DOF adapter is EF mount, not PL. I also wouldn't be at all surprised if Apple weren't throwing some money at the production for them to use iPhone to film it - so that they can later say "look what you can make with an iPhone!"

$2,500 is a pretty big premium. The body is also bigger and less portable. And yes, on test charts, there is a visible difference between LT and ST. I'll still say that on my current cameras, shooting real-world scenes, the difference seems negligible to me.

In my experience, Canon RAW ST is not "much higher quality" than Canon RAW LT. I'd call it "nearly visually indistinguishable from Canon RAW LT." I'm told that it can matter for special effects, but for almost anything else, RAW LT is generally enough. As to the rest, the user interface on my EOS R5 is pretty decent for a hybrid camera, but if I'm going on set, I'll take my C70 over it nearly every single time. i'm sure the R1 will be fine and people will make great stuff with it - but speaking for myself, I'll be a lot more excited for the C80 to hit the used market.

I just ordered a couple of fairly inexpensive magsafe filter holders as well as the Angelbird magsafe CF adapter. At least one of the filter holders claims to be stackable so we'll see how it all works out.

If you have the money for it, I'd consider a Smoke Genie or a Smoke Ninja. They're generally the best-regarded of the various "vape pen, but not a vape pen" variety of smoke machine.

iPhone filmmaking has made DOF adapters a thing again! I was just curious about this the other day and looked into it - Beastgrip seems to be the only company currently making them and they are sold out now. It's sort of a weird niche - use the phone as a super portable recording device... but then lose that portability by throwing on big cinema glass.

I'll be picking mine up tomorrow. Maybe at some point, I'll plug in an external drive and see how long it can record without overheating. 🙂

The S5 isn't a very big camera. To get smaller in some meaningful way and if the S9 won't be enough, your best bet is probably either from Fuji or Sony - that or check the existing thread here about the smallest ILC that can shoot 4k.

Definitely - but in the cases of the zoom lever and XLR adapter, the MPB site specifically listed them as included. I'm just saying that the people in the shipping department don't seem to be using a checklist of expected stuff when they send it out (at least here in the US). Customer service made it right in both cases (sent a zoom lever since they had one handy and refunded the used value of the xlr adapter since they didn't have one around)

Osmo Pocket 3.

Echoing this. I have to be really excited to pay "new" prices for something (looks at GFX 100 II), but nearly every piece of gear that I have was purchased used or from sales that temporarily drove new prices below used prices. With hundreds of things purchased used over the years, I can't even remember a single thing that showed up from a reputable vendor in the wrong condition. Though do check that everything that should be included is - mpb have been bad about that for me and sometimes little things are missing - like the zoom lever for a Fujinon MK lens or an audio adapter for a camera, etc.

Canon Rumors mentioned today that a firmware update was expected this month. Canon should also send a check to you for kindly beta testing their camera for them.

The most surprising part? 35 people have viewed that in the last 24 hours.

What are the current security measures? A blood sample sent to Andrew by mail? A video selfie reciting the forum rules to the tune of Good Ship Lollipop? Signing an affidavit to guarantee that you are not Anish Kapoor nor are you affiliated with Anish Kapoor?

No. They either use Ambarella (like every other action camera vendor) or make their own (which might be why they're struggling) GPU, huh? Graphics Processing Unit? You're right. It would be stupid to think that there's anything in a camera that could use a graphics processing unit. Things like web browsing and online money transfer are not done with dedicated hardware - they are done with general purpose CPU cores. In context of a camera, they would run the operating system, display menus, etc. Audio encoder/decoder ("playing music") are, in fact, useful in cameras. Video editing? Do you mean encoders and decoders for popular video formats? Hmm. Sure would be weird to put those in a camera. 1) This is wrong. Learn how things work before talking about them. The amount of heat generated by "moving electrons" isn't a lot - otherwise, power lines and every electrical cord in the house would be too hot to touch. People would need special coolers installed on the interconnects on their computers between the ram and the processor. Every RV with a 30A receptacle would need several inches of asbestos by their house connection. 2) Even if it were true, if all other factors are even, if every other system has been optimized as much as possible for efficiency, reducing the power draw of any one component is a win.

I don't think I've seen the ZV-E1 mentioned, but I think it falls into that price range (a bit less when used, even!). Otherwise, the A7 IV is notorious for having really good dynamic range. Could be worth a look.