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The 4k 100fps is just crazy detailed and lots of latitude IMO (given it's an action cam). I've been experimenting by taking short bursts of 5s and finding just the right moment, focus, FOV. I wonder if others shoot like this. It works fairly well as a substitute for having to take actual photos. I know it's not a real photo camera, but it works great in a pinch and with some interesting features.

I have FPsup running on my FP now and it was pretty painless. I hadn't upgraded the FW to 5.02 yet, so I had to do that first and then went to their GitHub and checked the features I wanted, and it compiled the code and I downloaded it. Unzipped the files, placed them onto the root of my SD card and popped it in... Sure enough it worked... my FP can now shoot OG2K, OG3K and S16. An initial test at home went smoothly. I was even able to get 30 seconds of OG3K recorded to the SD card for 30 seconds before I stopped it. It was a static shot, so I assume that helped. Gonna head out today and see what some movement will do on a busier shot. I'm really interested in the 3.5K in 2:1 but I assume I'll have to use an SSD for that. As far as the FP-L, I assume someone will work on it. The Dev isn't planning to do it, but he kinda pointed people in the right direction.

ALL ABOUT IT: https://www.eoshd.com/news/eoshd-backrom-hack-mario-64-on-the-canon-eos-r8/

You look great : ) It’s perfectly in keeping with the tone of your posts as always, and we’ve gotten used to it BTW ;- )

Some really interesting things going on in the electronic music world at the moment. A company called M-Vave released a product called the FM-1 which is a little £60 synth that ostensibly does FM synthesis like a baby Yamaha DX7 but adds other features and controls. Someone decided to see if they could use Claude or Codex to see if they could hack it and put their own firmware on it to change it into what they wanted it to do. And they were successful. So other people thought they’d do the same to turn it into what they wanted it to do. A lot of other people in fact. I lost count at fifty but there is more or less a new firmware from someone every day making the FM-1 into what they want it to be for their music making. And most of them are completely different from each other and take into account different genres of music making and more preferred workflows etc The FM-1 is now just a development platform of components and everyone uses the screen, keypad, switches and encoders completely differently. And how did M-Vave respond to this ? Throw their toys out of the pram and threaten to brick everyone’s device and issue legal threats ? Nope, they went “Fucking hell this is cool” and released the source code so everyone can actually build off it more effectively and make even more cool firmwares for different genres of music and unique workflows. This largesse is obviously underpinned by their understanding that this will sell WAY, WAY more FM-1s than if they went the other way. Previously, anyone who didn’t want the very specific type of synthesis and workflow the FM-1 offered would have gone “That’s cute and great value for money but it’s not something for me”. Now it’s appealing to EVERYONE because there are firmwares to suit everyone and if there isn’t then it’s within their grasp to roll their own. So not only buying it, they are buying them in multiples to have different firmwares on them. This has been going on for about six weeks and whilst it’s been interesting in and of itself it’s what it’s caused in the past week that is very eye opening. This is an Akai MPC one, a very sophisticated music production device that retails for about £700. Behringer have now announced this, the Kick Now, under normal circumstances this would raise a few moans but no surprise as Behringer have built their business on releasing products that are heavily “influenced” by other peoples. However, what is different here is that they’ve seen what’s happened with the FM-1 and the Kick is not only open source but is also only going to be $150 Even by their standards that price is wild. And they haven’t stopped there. On consecutive days they’ve released two other products (a drum machine and a sequencer) that are also open source and the same price point if not lower. Akai have come back with their own new product that will also be open source. The genie is out the bottle here and going forward these companies are now just effectively selling development platforms with minimal functional “examples of operation” firmware. And cutting out the cost to them and the end user of full blown software development. Want a feature ? Make it yourself from the building blocks we give you and leave us alone. From a manufacturer point of view, not having to deal with the demands of a certain section of whiney entitled arseholes who want everything bespoke to them even when it didn’t include it in the spec when they bought it would be reason enough to go this route 😂 Anyway, I’m wondering if a camera manufacturer might be brave enough to go down this route ? Cameras as development platforms would be pretty amazing wouldn’t it? Traditional guardians of the cripple hammers would be aghast but there’s nothing to stop an upstart manufacturer from doing it. Someone like Sigma or Sigma or even Sigma would be very appropriate. If they look at what’s happening with the nascent FP hacking and embrace it rather than ignoring it then things could get very interesting. I don’t even think it needs to be either or as they could do this in parallel. FP2 for £1800 or whatever it is and the FP2Dev for say £1400 would be an interesting proposition. They could hardware protect it to fully lock down the FP2. Well, for a while at least 😂

I definitely did not get one delivered from a Japanese ebay seller after watching that video in 2021 And have absolutely no plans to go picking it out of the cupboard to see if it works with the PS2 to USB PC adapter I definitely didn't just order. There is absolutely no chance of me being distracted by getting claude to hack up a PC version of the PS2 Densha de Go ROM in a reverse engineering session and making it work on my Windows machine. I don't get sidetracked by things like that any more. And it certainly won't be coming to the EOS R5 later next month. Also no chance of a USB C experiment on that camera with joypads, that would be extremely silly.

The 1/200 rule feels more like a starting point than a real answer, especially once the shot has any movement in it. Plenty of people will take nicer motion over clinical sharpness every time, which is basically why 16mm refuses to die.

I'll surely love the camera if Sigma sends one my way to test ... and keep.

I’m curious about with it sharing the same sensor flavour if not THE same exact one as the a7cr what could potentially be coaxed out of it. Sigma have lost me a bit with the FP2 but I’ve always had a hankering for the FP-L as a mini Leica Q3 with it bonus video features over the FP in terms of PDAF and a small crop mode which @Andrew - EOSHDraves about for a very clean image. The used prices are now heading to £1000 so it wouldn’t take much to persuade me that that was the upgrade path for me * I’d get to keep my EVF as well. * Obviously as a crazed addict I’d keep the original too.

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I’m hopeful someone will investigate the FP-L in the near future. Unless of course Sigma have put entirely different internals in it as well as the larger sensor. The internals of a Nintendo DS or some other such kinkiness.