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    • That depends on which back-bone modded camera you get.  Their modded Sony RX0 has a 1" sensor, passive MFT mount, and the exact same crop factor as the Mission 1 (if I remember right).   My modded Insta360 One RS also has a 1" sensor and a passive MFT mount.  It suffers from lack of any option for wired monitoring - so one either needs to focus on the tiny action camera screen or over wireless which can get laggy at the most inconvenient times.  It's pretty great, though, for setting up to record with fixed focus (I shot the eclipse with it, for example).  The GoPro has at least some option for wired monitoring so that'll be nice. It's possible, even, that one of the older 0.58x boosters made for the OG BMPCC would work (if you could find one).  My Metabones 0.64x and 0.71x boosters work fine with the Insta360.  Though it's sometimes more fun to use it with a 1.4x or 2x teleconverter.  With a 1.4x, the Canon 100-400 becomes a 140-560 with an equivalent view of about 380-1500mm.  That can be pretty fun in nature. I don't need to anticipate it.  I've lived it and I know the limitations don't bother me too much. But mainly, the ergonomics of an action camera are poorly-suited to trying to hold the camera and manually focus.  Mission 1 seems to be a little bigger than some others and it has a small protruded grip on the right side which could help a bit.  But otherwise, one ends up with the right hand curved into a weird claw, trying to hold the camera steady while the left hand turns the focus ring.  If the focus ring is stiff, it can look pretty funny.  Mounting a handle to the camera can help and it feels a little more like carrying around an 8mm or 16mm film camera. Passive MFT mount means that indeed, autofocus won't work.  It also means that aperture won't work on a majority of Panasonic/Olympus lenses - and in some cases, manual focus won't work on them since they're focus-by-wire.  Removing Pany/Oly doesn't leave a ton of lenses that are optimized for M43.  Veydra mini-primes were nice (and still are, can't remember who bought the Veydra brand)...  There are some nice Voigtlanders that are MIcro 4/3 designs.  But a lot of the other third-party makers just take their S35 or FF lenses, jam on a M43 mount, and call it good. For me, I'm much more interested in it as a platform to mount my C-mount and some D-mount lenses.  Like I have a 13mm f/1.9 Yvar which could be fun - or a positively tiny 15mm f/2.8 Yvar. But like I said, I think a lot of people are going to find that a 1" sensor with a passive MFT mount sounds like fun, but will balk once they start using it and realizing, for example, that they actually need a monitor to effectively focus it.
    • I was going to comment on the gate weave.  For me, it's a little much. If you told me it was shot on 70's-era 16mm, I probably wouldn't second guess you after watching it.  I think that in some shots, the blur/lack of detail might go a little too far - like the shot of all the trees with orange leaves seems a little too blurry to me and looks a little closer to super 8 than to 16mm. Otherwise, great job!
    • Thats probably good thinking 🙂  when i did a quick google check on the mission 1 and variants the older model from the major store outlets are selling for less than $500 trying to clear old stock no doubt. Which makes me think what price could they actually sell a camera for ? I did look into the backbone at the time, however the crop put me off as i remember it being like a 5 times crop ( i could be wrong about that) rather than the  2.7 crop from the mission1 compared to a crop of 2x from a normal mft mount. My oly 12mm would become like 32mm, my 24mm sirui would become almost 65mm which is certainly something to think about. The 17mm takumar i play with a bit would become 50mm. Not sure how to get a wide angle look on a mission 1 and a mft mount ? So far i think i have to find a lens around 6mm - not more than 9mm.   Haven't seen any footage yet, but i suspect a speed booster should work either 0.64 or 0.70 to get you back close to a 2x crop or is my thinking flawed as i'm curious about that ? Of course this is all still theoretical as the mission1 ils is not yet available.  What limitations are you expecting with a 1 inch sensor and passive mount, the lack of auto focus ?    
    • It's not just the ILS model that is $700 - it's the Mission 1 Pro as well.  Currently the Hero 13 normally sells for about $430 and they are often on sale for $350.  The Insta360 Ace 2 and DJI Osmo Action 5 are in generally the same price range.  At least for traditional action camera use cases, it's a relatively hard sell to say that Mission 1 Pro is worth almost twice the price. For the ILS, Back-Bone haven't exactly been lighting the world on fire with sales.  I think that there will be a first wave of adopters who quickly dislike the limitations of a 1" sensor with a passive MFT mount.  I'm excited for it, but not at $700.  Maybe a year or so after it's released, the price will drop.  It's a lot more interesting at the price of the current Hero 13.
    • Your mileage may vary for your particular speed booster but if you look at the options for MFT on MetaBones versions they are transparent about which lenses may have restrictions with their products. For Nikon lenses, for example, there are limitations for their modern E range lenses (as distinct from their older lenses for their E Series cameras). This is a typical set of available options for the manual only lenses. Fungus optional. https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/bn_16098984 For completeness, here is a rated list of fast Nikon AF lenses. https://phillipreeve.net/blog/the-rated-list-of-the-fast-nikon-af-s-f-1-4-f-1-8-f-2-0-f-mount-primes/ The EF Art ones are excellent but are chunky fuckers.  
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