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I posted some things in the older Sigma FP thread but I feel like these new FP hacks are picking up momentum and deserve their own separate space. In my opinion this project has big time EOS HD vibes and I’m getting old school Magic Lantern feelings all over again. : ) Like most of you, I’m disappointed by the new Sigma FP2 and have always held off on the original FP because it just never made sense for the price and all the fiddling needed to use it. But time and time again I’m impressed with content coming from this mighty little brick. The users that know how to tame the massive cDNG files and work with all the shortcomings are rewarded with some truly glorious images and I want in on that mojo. Lots of new hacks making open gate possible on the FP and giving some new recording options that cut down considerably on rolling shutter and data rates. https://www.elcacharrista.com/en/articles/hacking-the-sigma-fp-with-ai/ Many of the shortcomings are still there of course, (the lack of flippy screen etc…) but for a now, $800 camera I feel like it’s worth picking up just to play around with. I’m also really excited about the new Super 16 mode. Super 16 At the last minute we decided to add a Super 16 crop mode -something I had asked about in this post two years ago, which is genuinely useful if you own cine lenses in that format. Recording quality is excellent despite the small image circle compared to full frame. At 2096x1238, with no scaling whatsoever, it is already more than the 1080p the original Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera gave us. What are your thoughts on the new hacks and is anyone else thinking about getting an FP in 2026 now that gyrodata and open gate are crammed into this little guy?

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 spent my recent vacation shooting the OG2K and S16 modes without an external drive and its amazing. This hack is a real game changer for a long time fp user like me. Gyrodata, lossless compression, 1 to 1 pixel readout at FHD and Open Gate. Really all I ever wished for... Finally I can run & gun all my manual lenses and don't have to rely on the stabilised 28-200. My fp was already up on ebay because i switched to the fp L but luckily nobody bought it. I was ready to switch to the fp L for the gorgeous photos and clean FHD but now the fp has the latter aswell plus that mind blowing Gyro magic. If someone enables Gyrodata on the fp L I might reconsider but for now I'm just happily running both (lowercase) fp's. No need to go all caps FP for quite some time.

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.

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’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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You can always rely on Sigma to do baffling stuff with their cameras. It’s actually borderline kinky. Swapping the HDMI port to full size and thereby blocking the upgrade path for those of us with the existing EVF is another one by the way. The least said about including internal storage that isn’t fast enough for the higher data rates the better.

I've shot documentaries on the Ronin 4D for four and a half years now, from Senegal to Greenland. I still love it. Two things bugged me the whole time. The tripod. The 4D has no good bottom, and getting it on and off a tripod quickly and reliably never really worked for me. So I designed a base plate with a dovetail for the Manfrotto quick release system. It drops onto a normal tripod head and comes off again in seconds. The microphone. The obvious spot for a proper mic is above the motors. So I built a bracket that holds two Rode NT5s as a stereo pair. Full disclosure: these are my own parts and I'm going to sell them. The plate is still a prototype and only gets made if enough people pre-order. I made a video about both, with a long take from Senegal and a beer bottle test for the stereo pair: Curious how others here solved the tripod and the audio on theirs.

Absolutely brilliant.

The 1.55x has never looked this good on previous iPhone models. The adjustable aperture of the 18 Pro seems to make a huge difference in the overall detail and IQ. It also carries through on the video side and makes focusing much simpler. The 1.55x was always pretty dreamy wide open and is even moreso on the 18 Pro, since it has a faster lens. I have never tested it seriously on any of my other cameras, because it won’t cover full frame (whereas the 1.33x seems to if you find the right lens). But I suspect the 1.55x would actually work great on a M43 or APSC sensor. Here is another iPhone shot from this evening. There were a few raindrops on the lens, which created some interesting artifacts.

Some really beautiful tests with the new 3k open gate modes.

Here are a few shots with the Beastgrip 1.55x lens on the 18 Pro Max. These are both at F4. The adjustable aperture makes a night and day difference with the 1.55x especially for open gate stills/video.

I think it looks like a good deal to me. The articulated screen is a big plus over the original cameras. L-LOG too (interesting that they took Leica's rather than make their own Sigma LOG or use Panasonic's). ProRes RAW is to SSD. Internal 8bit Cinema DNG seems to have gone away. All cameras need an HDMI port - far better it be full sized than micro. Autofocus is a big improvement too, as is the open gate sensor, much less rolling shutter, higher resolution recording, bigger battery (the original used the same battery as the GH2!!) I'd rather have one of these over the Z6 III, it only lacks IBIS and internal raw. But as any GH2 owner will tell you... You don't really need either 🙂

Yeah the OG2K is pretty good. It's clean with a nice texture that was lacking in the original firmware... Quick shot after the sun set. Minolta MD 35mm 1.8...

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

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 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.

No I think it only works with the original FP.

You are simultaneously the best and worst person to be let loose with these tools 😂 Seriously though, a database of cameras with their associated shortcomings would be useful to target some fixes. I’ll keep banging the drum about you patching the S5ii to get the S5iix features ! At the very least let me run Galaxians on it.

Yeah this is pretty cool. I've been thinking about selling my FP for a while now, but I definitely need to test these new modes before I do... the open gate 2K and super 16 mode specifically.

Maybe the iPhone 19 or 20 will go LOGIC? I'd consider upgrading if that was the case.... but with my 17 Pro I now have Prores and Apple Log, so the images now look like they're from a camera and not from a phone.

I've ordered the Beastgrip 1.55x MK2 lens, and I also found an adapter that I can mount my Neewer 1.55x onto, so that will mean I can test it properly on various lenses. I have no idea which lenses these will work on, but combined with the 2x digital zoom of the GX85 or the continuous digital zoom of the GH7 any coverage issues should be able to be overcome. You'd think that cropping would make the FOV too narrow, but actually it's perfect because with a 1.55x stretch factor it makes lenses far wider, so cropping narrows them back up again, and cropping also lowers the resolution of the final image, but that's fine because we're interested in a flawed and character rendering, not clean soul-less images, so it's potentially an advantage. Given that coverage might be an issue, this might really suit the GoPro ILS as well.

100% agreed : ) Deserves a space of their own ;- )

Wow.. they're not optically perfect, but in the grand scheme of anamorphic adapters (and especially vintage anamorphic adapters) they're on the clean end of things for sure. I'm now back to contemplating pulling the trigger on the 1.55x....

Personally I am still intrigued by the FP form factor so will def be keeping my eye on this, specifically for travel/casual stuff - especially bcuz it seems to have a much better build than its competitors in that size range.

Yes, the ZR is the new benchmark in a number of ways and for me is probably the pick of the bunch of these new ‘cine’ style bodies including: S9, ZV-E1, R6V and now FP2. I love the size and build of the FP and the new rear LCD, but that lack of IBIS, aaaaaaargh! S9 has the best video spec for me (the ZR beats it sure with it’s Red Raw but for the massive amount of storage it gobbles) but the ZR counters with a very nice body and rear LCD….except I would rather it was fully articulated (first choice) or at least tilted like the FP (second choice) but really don’t like the flip out to the side. I don’t care for that side mounted EVF though. Ugly as fuck and all the FP would need for me is a base plate and grip and I’d be off with it. But that’s if it had IBIS, which it doesn’t so back on the fence waiting to see what LUMIX do. FP2 was/is one single element away from being perfect for me. ZR is two elements. ZV-E1 two elements (rear LCD and something else I forget). S9 two elements (rear LCD and overall build). Someone will hopefully get it right soon…

Not according to the specs on B&H, I only see h.264, h.265 and ProRes Raw HQ. It also says they included 70GB of internal memory... but according to DP Review, you need an SSD to record ProRes Raw... so I seriously do not understand this camera. They keep all of the annoying issues, take away the one good spec (cDNG) and then don't give us IBIS either?! So you still need to rig out the small camera with an SSD to get a higher resolution that nobody asked for? I mean at least make the internal card slot CFExpress... hell give me regular CF. The FP was frustrating in a lot of ways, but it was released in 2019, so I still feel it was a pretty great release. This is just stupid.

I will say that even though the Beastgrip adapters are made for phone use, they actually have very good build quality and the newest versions have pretty decent optics, with 1.33x being better corrected than the 1.55x. They also have good front filter threads - the 1.33 uses 58mm and the 1.55 is 62mm. Once you get them properly attached to your lens, they aren't going anywhere. The first versions are not as well corrected, but that may be what you are looking for. The build quality seems consistently good across all models and versions. I'm guessing you could find some on the used market for reasonable prices, as they aren't super expensive to begin with.

I also found this video below, which combines a cheap adapter from Aliexpress with 17mm rear-filter and the Viltrox 28mm F4.5 lens. He just sticks the mounting plate from the smartphone clamp for the anamorphic directly onto the Viltrox lens with tape, so hardly and ideal situation, but it is more proof of concept, and it covers FF too! Test image: Video:

Add it to the bag with the EVF... You know you want it!