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Only 7.1k? Better just stay home then. Everybody knows that it's a waste of time to shoot anything less than 7.2k. 😉

the camera is really attractive for the right person but i just can't but help look at the price of the media for it though. am i misremembering or did they have some kind of adapter that you could put your own M.2 SSD to?

7.1k even. I was getting a bit carried away there referring to 7.2k…

a lot of the content on products made by big channels feel like infomercials. for example, i was interested in the S1 ii and a creator was talking about the 70fps burst mode but failed to mention that the buffer takes 35s to clear and you can't lower the burst fps at all. don't get me started on hardware unboxed, i trust my grandma more than him when it comes to testing and correct results 😁

Did you gather more info regarding C70 compatibility?

those photos look amazing to be from a phone, then again a 1" sensor and a competent lens (for a smartphone) will pay off.

Sorry, another Q re. cards... So for stills, pretty sure I'm OK as I was using these cards for S1R previously but it's 7.2k 30p video I am thinking about more. I'd rather avoid dropping a ton of cash on this, unless I absolutely have to, but I have: 3x Prograde 256GB 250/MB/s (V60) cards and I 'presume' 7.2k (and what I suspect is 300 Mpbs?), will write to these OK (as back up) with the primary files being written to my single Prograde 256GB 1700 MB/s CF Express card? Or is this CF Express not good enough for 7.2k footage?? The other option...and especially because CF Express is soooooo much cheaper than SD, is to pick up a Prograde 3400 MB/s CF Express card at €226 for a 512GB or €392 for a 1TB and switch out the SD's if they become full. But you can get, what 4 hours of 8k Vlog on a 256GB card and shooting purely clips, even over a full weekend, I can't see that ever happening...so a 1TB CF Express is probably massive overkill? My other 3 cameras are quite happy writing 4k or 6k to 128GB 'silver' cards and I have plenty of storage in that regard so it's only the new big boy I need to do something with.

when i bought my Z9 i had to upgrade from my 3080 Ti. if anything i was running out of was VRAM. My specs at the time were a 13900, 4100c16 32GB RAM. a good GPU is a must as encoding with NVENC is the best option. Faster and more power efficient, you're not going to draw 160W over an hour for a long video thru your CPU.

was this message a lifesaver or what. i was just about to ship them my unused camera gear.

Does anyone know where I can find the Mpbs numbers for the S1Rii? They have an extensive data sheet here: https://av.jpn.support.panasonic.com/support/global/cs/dsc/connect/sd/dc_s1rm2.html And they go on about not exceeding 600 Mpbs, but where exactly is that data?! I'm pretty sure the 7.2k 30p is below that (300 maybe, but guessing) for Vlog, but I ought to check before splashing the cash...

Do you have those clips that I did with it? Because I’m fucked if I can find them anywhere ! I’ve got some frame grabs from them (with the base then the different ARRI LUTs applied) when I was moaning on here about the warpy IBIS on the S5ii but not the actual clips. Not that they are a great loss to the world !

I was on a very, very slow internet connection this morning so YouTube was loading in instalments. It loaded the titles but the thumbnails were a long time coming and it’s interesting how much more appealing a lot of the videos were to me when just looking at the title but how much less so they were when the thumbnails eventually loaded. I’m probably missing out on a great deal of good content by my inner “oh fuck off you absolute tit” dialogue when I see the content creators stupid gurning shock faced bullshit. Whether the narcissism that infects so many of them would allow them to just do a content relevant thumbnail is the big question. I can hear the ”But the algorithm makes us do it” whining from here.

i just watched that guy's video, talked about Andrew. that's why i decided log back in here and yap.

" a forum should not just be a link farm or library of YouTube clips" finally someone said it.

Does your last 28-200mm is sharp wide open at 200mm or a bit soft ? It doesn't bother me so much because my sample is pretty good at 200mm f8 (at least for a small zoom lens like this).

Only Lexar cards, those approved by Panasonic.

Been on the look out for a yellow lens for awhile now. Some one said something down in the lens thread a while ago about a yellow lens , that got me thinking... Also i know there's two trains of thought with with photography / videography either do it in camera or do it in post. In most ways i like the in camera theory. Seems more authentic to me to do it in camera or more personal / intentional perhaps. In post seems more like an after thought to my way of thinking. Not wanting to rock any ones boat and if you like to do things in post that's great, please continue. Anyway finally decided on a lens, a super takumar 35mm f2. Should be a thorium lens from what i have read. So probably best, not to sleep with it under the pillow. I purchased this lens mostly with the intent of adding some warmness to an image / video. Not sure if the result will be a yellow or more sepia effect. There's a couple of images for your perusal. Should arrive before my birthday i hope.

I should add that I will NOT be shooting raw but 7.2k 30p open gate Vlog when I do get to using for video. Raw I think is just a step too far for me and as my other 3 cameras do not support it, no point.

Eek. Well mine is coming used from MPB so maybe it's one that you sent back 🤪 I'll see how it goes but for me it's really intended as a 'secondary/occasional' use lens, almost exclusively outdoors in good light. I'm still not 100% I even need it but as I transition over to fully L Mount, it fills a gap. For now... What cards are you running? I have an older Prograde 256GB 1700 MB/s CF Express and a Prograde 256GB 250 MB/s card that I was using in the old S1R. For my next 2 jobs, (5 days in a row from this Friday), I will only have these for the S1Rii on it's first two outings and will ONLY be shooting stills, so these should be fine.\ But beyond that, from mid Aug, I will start shooting hybrid and as I have to invest in some new cards, it would be a good idea to get something 'approved' just to help minimise any potential overheating. I'm also trying to do the math on what size cards as it's generally cheaper to buy more smaller cards than less big (capacity) cards...

Just to understand, are the shadows maxed out SOOC because you're underexposing to get the highlights looking better on the screen? It sounds like it could be weird interaction between the Ninja and the Olympus. I never experienced anything like that with the Ninja on a Fuji or a Z Cam. And I'm pretty sure I used the PQ look most of the time when monitoring - but I've since sold my Ninjas and switched over to Video Assist.

So, how is everyone monitoring ProRes RAW video accurately? On my Olympus OM-1, I get highlights on the Ninja V monitor blown out by about 3.5 stops, but they're easily recoverable in post. I tried creating an LUT to pull back the exposure on the monitor, but all it did was lower the white point while keeping things looking clipped. I've seen the internal PQ LUT mentioned as a solution for RAW monitoring, but it still heavily clips the highlights while making everything else punchier. My biggest issue here is that the shadows are maxed out SOOC. Meaning there's absolutely nothing left to recover in them, and they're noisy as it is, so this isn't close to an ideal situation. I'm viewing the bottom 1/2 of the dynamic range, presented as a normal exposure. Having that extra 3.5 stops of highlights back would help a LOT, both in maintaining my sanity in terms of knowing what's actually clipping (even zebras can't see the extra 3.5 stops), and requiring a lot less/no post NR by letting me drop the exposure to something normal.

I did some research some time ago from what i have read raynox are the wide angle adapter of choice. If you are keen to go further maybe do a little of your own research.

The 28-200mm has quite a wide sample variation in terms of sharpness and uniformity. I had to buy two before I had a good one. What I like about it is the size and weight, for such a nice range in full frame it's tiny. The optical stabilisation is also very good, especially in video mode - which is super-useful for cameras like the Sigma Fp that lack IBIS. An alternative (although I haven't tried it personally) on Sony/Nikon is the Tamron 28-200mm F2.8-5.6. Faster, but heavier and longer. No OIS, but cheaper.

Has anyone noticed with some of the biggest tech reviewers on youtube like Hardware Unboxed or MKHB, there's a trend at the moment for deadpan anti-hype style reviews. Be careful with that as well, it's a style-change to counteract the falling viewing figures caused by them overhyping everything every day for the past god-knows how many years, as people catch onto it and get bored of it.

An update on my testing. I was thinking about what I wanted - something low quality in the optical path to dirty up the image a bit, and then it struck me - what I want is a cheap wide angle adapter! Then I remembered I had bought one years ago and went and found it and gave it a go. It's too small for most of my lenses (it's 52mm but most of my lenses are 58mm) but is a cheap 0.45x wide angle adapter so I shot some quick tests. Here are some direct with/without comparisons to give an idea of what does. These are all SOOC so ignore the incorrect WB settings and mismatched exposures etc. All lenses are wide open. GX85 + 14mm F2.5 without adapter: GX85 + 14mm F2.5 WITH adapter: Very interesting and definitely makes the image wider. If I use a zoom then I can match the framing and we can get a more direct comparison. GX85 + 12-35mm F2.8 at 12mm without adapter: GX85 + 12-35mm F2.8 at ~18mm WITH adapter: GX85 + 12-35mm F2.8 at ~25mm without adapter: GX85 + 12-35mm F2.8 at 35mm WITH adapter: Very interesting results and in the direction I'm going for. As a proof of concept it definitely has promise, but I'd need to buy one correctly sized of course. BUT, then I put it on the TTartisans 50mm F1.2 and fully wide open (of course!) basically all hell breaks loose! GX85 + TTartisans 50mm F1.2 without adapter: GX85 + TTartisans 50mm F1.2 WITH adapter: It's obviously not rated for F1.2 lenses!! The bokeh is also heavily modified too, which the above images hint at, but check this out.... GX85 + TTartisans 50mm F1.2 without adapter: GX85 + TTartisans 50mm F1.2 WITH adapter: These are the sorts of things you can't do with plugins, so this is what I'd be chasing real optics to do. However, the most interesting thing about a wide angle adapter is that it's basically a speed booster, so you get more light into the lenses and you also get a wider angle of view, which means that to get the same angle of view with the adapter you can use longer lenses, which can give shallower DOF for a given f-stop. Double bonus for MFT! So, I ordered the cheapest 58mm wide angle adapter I could find, and ordered the cheapest vND I could find to fit it (as the fronts are larger than the rear which makes it larger than my good vND. Oh yeah, and I also watched a bunch of reviews of anamorphic adapters and after seeing the prices (wow!) I just ordered a Sirui 1.25x anamorphic adapter, which is the cheapest of the bunch by a long shot. I'm not really that interested in the streaks but the softening and edge distortions should be great, and it's also like a horizontal-only speed booster so will let me use longer lenses for the same FOV.