Leaderboard

53 minutes recording 6k 30p continuously 31 degrees Celsius in the shade before the heat warning came on but it kept rolling and the speech ended before I got to experience a shutdown. Not too shabby!

How is this marketed as a hybrid when its C line and the teaser today show it on sticks with a top handle on a film set? For all we know this won't even do stills like all the other Cxx/Cxxx. That would be ultimate cripple hammer lol. This is clearly an FX3 competitor and the FX3 isn't much of a hybrid. It can take stills but it's cumbersome compared to the A7Siii. The absence of an EVF and possibly mech shutter will damper most serious photogs. Another thing to consider is the absence of IBIS, that would be a big mistake imo but Canon took it off the R5C and no C line camera has it. Also just saw the teaser on Instagram, it adds "Open your World" another hint towards open gate!

There is, car wobble, and thermal won't be as good as sensor sticking directly to thermal plate.

Downsampling 7K to 6K isn’t crazy just a bit more pixels than 6K itself, easily handled by a modern DIGIC processor plus cooling. The FX2 does 7K to 4K downsampling in similar form factor and has like 13 hours of recording time. Canon doesn’t mess around with their cinema line; that’s the whole point of going that route vs their hybrid cameras. I doubt heat management will be an issue. Battery life wise I'd assume it uses the new R5ii batteries that pretty much remedied the R5C battery life issues.

Lumix S1RII and it’s identical twin, S1II glare sullenly in your direction. IMO, if it’s ‘cinema’ camera, it either can’t shoot stills at all, or it’s at least a bit crap in that department whereas if it’s ‘hybrid’, it should be able to do both equally as well. Perhaps not video as well as a dedicated cinema camera and perhaps not stills as well as a dedicated camera, but at least both comparable to each other. By its C designation, I would not expect this new Canon to be that great for stills so most likely, will be that smaller more dedicated cinema camera. But where will the hammer strike? I came close to building a hybrid system around R3’s which despite their size are surprisingly light and I think are a really great balance for stills and video. The only thing that put me off was the price and last year these were still commanding 5-6k on the used market but can now be had for around 3k so if I was looking today, they would be very strong contenders. Good stills, great video spec.

I'm glad - I do my best every day to forget them. 😉 (I also forgot Kai and Lok, but less intentionally)

You forgot Chris and Jordan LOL

Put the 17mm takumar smc back on the e-m1, as it has inbuilt filters. Thought i'd try those filters and apply some black and white effects. First is the clear filter / uv or your normal look. yellow filter changes things by about a stop of light and adds abit of yellow. last but not least is the red filter, loses three stops i think and delivers a full on Armageddon effect. These are photos from the em1. Grabbing stills from within resolve and doing b+w conversions on the image, they fell apart so quick. It was really quite disappointing. Next image is the original then a desaturated image which is kinda bland. Third is done through ps/ image / calculations and messing around with some of the options Finally is the finished photo which i think is visually a more interesting image compared to a desaturated image or plain greyscale. I think some of this comes from being inspired by mercer's lovely images and a little is lifted from the the lighthouse youtube break downs and some b+w youtubes i have watched. I was aiming for a darker moody look, i think its ok. Next is to replicate this process over in resolve with some moving images. Also my shuttle xpress has arrived and has been installed. You do have to go off to their website and download the drivers for it, however its not a large file. Once you restart your pc, you run a setup program thats also been installed and you can select from a menu which program/ programs you want to use it with. Resolve is listed, just have to scroll down abit. Not much weight difference between a mouse and the xpress, similar sizes as well. It seems like a tight little unit. No looseness in use. First button isn't programmed to do anything, 2nd button is reverse play, third is stop, fourth is forward or play, fifth is .., i forget it does something 🙄. The inner dial/ circle has a detent for your finger and makes rolling forward and backwards through footage, a rather lovely experience. It also makes stopping on the exact frame you want a breeze. The outer ring does jog through footage at increasing rates depending on how hard you twist it. I have to confess, i giggled like a five year old when i first fired up resolve and run some footage backwards and forwards. I suspect editing isn't supposed to be fun and the effect will probably wear of pretty quick. I also presume after using the contour express that all other controllers available from various sources add a measure of efficiency. Whether you can justify the cost vs the efficiency, that's the thing. Btm_pix recommended this down in one of the threads and i have to agree with him its a good improvement over a mouse, keyboard arrangement for editing. I have yet to try it with any other programs to see what other improvements can be realized. I got it on an amazon prime day, delivered for $125 Australian. Not cheap like a mouse, but then probably cheaper than some of the name brand items associated with video editing. Also i'd like to point out no affiliate links. nor are there ever likely too be... Now i'm off to bed, been an exciting day 🙂