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Does this still look like a "GoPro"?

I suspected as much... I have been attempting to use the gopro ils in a unconventional way, after my dad passed away we had a bit of a clean up. A box or two of slides turned up, so i did some research and it seems the jjc slide copier does the job, so one of them was ordered. It seems to work ok once its assembled i have had the olympus 60mm macro lens attached to the e-m10 ii and i get ok images i think. There's a strong colour cast and a bit soft but for the nostalgia factor alone it wins, i guess. Oddly enough inside photos with flash come up decently sharp. I should add i suspect these slides are probably older than me. 🙂 The 60mm olympus doesn't work on the ils as the olympus is electronic and ils has no contacts and it came as no surprise that it didnt work lol. With the mission1 ils the only macro lens i have is a pentax m42 100mm f4. The issue i have is i think i'm let down by the minimum focal length on the lens is longer than what the jjc allows for. Wondering if some extension tubes attached on the front of the lens would help at all?. Its that or i buy a shorter focal length macro lens, which i'm not keen to do at the moment seeing its mostly just an expiriment.

Progress report The GF1 in a world first is hacked and runs apps automatically after boot-up, with an autoexec.bin file on the card. Onto the GH1 and GH2 next. Efforts for the GX80 are ongoing.

An update on the Sony RX10 IV side... It's able to run scripts! This was a small test C script. Next is to get it to automatically run code off the card at normal boot-up without service mode or USB tethering.

GH2 hack project could be coming back soon without a dirty russian... stay tuned.

Have you also seen someone unlocked open gate on the BMPCC6k? It apparently also works on the BMPCC4k The same person is also working on getting 4 track audio and continuious AF on that same camera. There are samples in the comments - here's the link: https://onedrive.live.com/?id=%2Fpersonal%2Ff4ef3cccd6a0c849%2FDocuments%2Freddit&listurl=%2Fpersonal%2Ff4ef3cccd6a0c849%2FDocuments&ithint=folder&e=1qTGIJ&migratedtospo=true&redeem=aHR0cHM6Ly8xZHJ2Lm1zL2YvYy9mNGVmM2NjY2Q2YTBjODQ5L0lnQW5ZcThfZHlMdFNxNGRyR2VqR09xaUFkczFqT1pFZVBENVlWUUwwa2lFYkJBP2U9MXFUR0lK&ga=1 It seems manufacturers can't really keep features back for more expensive cameras anymore. Be gone, Cripple Hammer!

Some more progress with Mario 64 on the EOS R5 The camera has a GPU hidden away with OpenGL. Software rendering is out. Mario is now rendering on the GPU which means the Nintendo 64 of cameras just got a significant hardware bump. The previous version ran only in software (ARM CPUs), the GPU version looks identical at the moment but with much more headroom to go gangbusters on frame rate, resolution and 3D rendering techniques. It would wind up being useful for photography and filmmaking apps if it had OpenGL general compute capabilities, still exploring that bit. Meanwhile I have my film emulation app that started on the 5D Mark II working on the EOS R5 (and soon R8). They are beasts of a camera, let's hope it doesn't over heat

Made something that GenZ can appreciate.

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.

What a fucked up insight it is into software dev and releasing stuff I've had so far in 2026. Seems that influencers have conditioned everyone to expect everything for free, you just can't charge money for work any more even if it is a cutting edge NLE, they expect open source, free, and zero copyright so they can clone the source code and offer their own. Dark days ahead. It seems partly a generational thing not just social media (I hope not) but the internet crowd is tough to please for the camera hacks too. The Mario 64 stuff went nowhere. On reddit even outright hostility - a mix of luddites and anti-AI. A lot of the younger folk who have grown up without computer skills (phone conditioned) don't seem to appreciate the technical side at all, or have that nice pirate outlook on it. They have gone from punks to a "why would I risk bricking my valuable possession" mindset, and I don't remember this being the case in 2013 with Magic Lantern and the 5D Mark II raw video mod, even pros we using it. The internet needs sorting out. It's a cesspool.

My mind keeps coming back to the GX85, and I've realised that (yet again) it's far more capable than I'd given it credit for. To this end, I did some additional testing by shooting some night cinema on Halloween. This batch has my Super-16mm film emulation on them, but there's other grades below. What I've worked out is that there's an incredible synergy between the: The GX85 itself (of course!) paired with small lenses Resolve and the Film Look Creator The 1x, 2x, and 4x in-camera digital zoom function It will come as no surprise to anyone here that the GX85 combined with small lenses provides a very small and light rig, the tilt screen and customisable buttons gives great ergonomics, and the assist features are great too (setting the display to B&W, have coloured focus peaking enabled, exposure meter and the histogram all combine to give a great UI that doesn't need an external monitor). Where the synergy comes in is using the in-camera crop modes combined with the Film Look Creator in Resolve. If you like the look of Super-16mm film, then the 1x and 2x and 4x modes are all usable and give the following FOVs with my tiny lenses: Panasonic 14mm F2.5 AF lens gives 31mm at 1x, 62mm at 2x, and 124mm at 4x Panasonic 25mm F1.7 AF lens gives 55mm / 110mm / 220mm FOVs TTartisans 17mm F1.4 MF lens is faster than the above and gives 37mm / 75mm / 150mm FOVs Risespray 35mm F1.6 MF lens is fast too and gives 77mm / 154mm / 300mm FOVs If you prefer the extra resolution of Super-35mm film then you're still good with the 1x and 2x modes, but the 4x might be a little too soft depending on your tastes. It does depend on the lens though, and lots of stuff shot on S35 in the past was on lenses that weren't as sharp as the GX85 4x mode. Having the combo of a 31mm / 62mm FOVs, or 37mm / 75mm can be incredible for shooting events and street stuff, not to mention travel and general out and about shooting. It's even quicker than using a zoom because you don't even need to re-focus when swapping FOVs! Here's the 1x, 2x and 4x on the 25mm with my custom S16 emulation which also includes a lens emulation too: If those are too retro / soft / degraded, these are with a 35mm grade and without the lens emulation, so should be a bit cleaner: Or you can make it cleaner again by lowering the diffusion a touch and adding a tiny bit of sharpening under the emulation: and here's the 1x / 2x / 4x with that grade: Hell, you could even use the 65mm setting, which when combined with some sharpening looks like this: I'm not sure if it's going to replace my GH7 as my main camera, but in situations when I don't need the extra DR or IBIS modes, it's a real contender for sure. The level of enthusiasm about the new GoPro shows there's interest in smaller camera packages and having used the setup again I'm reminded why - the experience is so freeing. The GoPro has advantages over the GX85 for sure, but for this type of shooting, the GX85 with its IBIS wins hands-down for me. Also, the better at grading I get, the less I miss the OG BMPCC and the more I feel the GX85 does what I want the OG BMPCC to do.

I expect you still need the private keys to break encryption so they run without the Switch's ROM's encoder/decryption service. This is nothing like how Magic Lantern worked. You should be grateful there are people willing to take that risk. And at least they make the effort to understand the legal side, unlike the armchair internet experts. Yes I agree, how dare they run a business in communist camera town. ---- The same people whinging about an indie dev selling a genuinely amazing tool for $5 are the ones who happily pay Adobe $50 per month on a subscription, the monster which their dumb attitude towards software licenses created in the first place. I have never seen such an entitled generation of users in my life when it comes to software. Every smartphone app is now freemium junk, that relies on gating features behind a subscription because nobody wants to pay the $5 one off up front. Open source and free is the fastest way to find the bottom of the software quality barrel. If you can't pay the devs, yet expect them to answer customer support requests 100 times a day, how do you expect them to keep grinding at the millstone and updating the project? Why do you think so much of the open source stuff gets abandoned by the main devs? Even Magic Lantern at one point too? I just think the whole attitude is fucking stupid to be honest.

Have you seen the updates on the site here? https://www.elcacharrista.com/en/articles/hacking-the-sigma-fp-with-ai/ New updates 28 October 2026 · composer on Bei’s Loader v4, with Res-Custom 0.1.6j · 2:1 3.5K format (3552×1776) up to 50 fps, framed 2:1 on screen, and 12-bit to SD. 5 October 2026 · fpSup-Formats v0.6.0 · new OG4K format, Crop Mode on OG4K and OG3.5K, lossless compression and gyroscope data that remember their state on the card, and our own composer to build it. 3 October 2026 · fpSup-Formats v0.3.2a · S16 up to 100 fps.

Crop can be scaled and moved.

I agree, the Sony looked super digital in that comparison. I don't think it's a sensor size thing, as there are other videos from the GoPro that look more digital than the Sony did in that video, and if it was a sensor size thing then the GoPro would never look that digital. No, but my impression if I'd seen it blind and had to guess would be a modern mirrorless of some kind. It didn't have the magic of some of the older classic cameras, and the older non-classic cameras never get used anymore, so that only leaves modern cameras! Still there are some shots where it looked sharp and the colours rec709-ish enough to look modern (like the slow-moving deep DOF wides from the drone). In my mind the GoPro is now solidly in the territory where you can get almost any look you want from it, provided that you know what you're doing enough. This is great news as the tools available have never been more accessible or easier to use. It really does look like a great option if its particular quirks don't clash with your particular needs.

I think a lot of people don't understand what this revolution is :- )

Added 1.33x anamorphic support. Just tap the icon and you’re ready to use it. The preview will be automatically desqueezed, and the RAW Adjust view will automatically rotate to landscape mode with the 1.33x icon displayed. GPU and h265 (ISP) modes are also desqueezed. You can crop the image to remove vignetting, or use the 20:9 crop to fill your phone screen as much as possible.

Before anything, thanks for digging deep into the R5/R8, it would be unbelievably awesome once we can get to use Opengl for image processing on Digic X Canon cameras I probably read the exact reddit reply you're referring to here a few days ago. The redditor who replied was the perfect mix of immaturity, ignorance and cynicism. And an utter tool I think the negativity around vibecoding is usually spewed by those who are at the left peak of the dunning kruger curve - they don't know the effort and time required for the reverse engineering (especially if the system is offline/cannot be remotely accessed) and testing

Today, a slightly goosed Sony RX10 IV arrives from MPB (well... it might do) I've got Claude waiting behind the door with a scythe. The plan is to use a file called "bootin.elf" This little elf (or goblin?) is the Sony equivalent to Canon's famous autoexec.bin I'll see where I can get with it. The Panasonic hacking is hitting a bit of a dead end but more hopeful with the Sony cameras - I don't want to go down the old Android PlayMemories route either - got to be something to offer the new cameras not just the A7R II or A6000! Reversing tool is here if anyone fancies having a go on their A7 III or newer... https://github.com/ma1co/sony-pmca-re

By the by, one of the new firmwares for that FM-1 synth I was talking about was widely - and rightly - praised for how good it was and how completely transformative it was for the unit. People absolutely loved it. Then he had the temerity to want to sell it. Well you can imagine what happened next.

Solved! Live View over Micro HDMI on Samsung NX2000 is finally possible Hey everyone! For years the consensus was that the NX2000 hardware physically blocked Live View when an HDMI cable was plugged in, forcing it into gallery mode. We managed to bypass this limitation by using a hidden factory 3D demo mode (hdmidemo.adj) and applying in-memory RAM patches to force it into 2D, redirecting the native 720x480 live buffer directly to the TV video window via /dev/fb0 ioctls. Continuous AF/MF switches and the lens ring focus are working live too! You can check the full source code, scripts, and how to set it up here: https://github.com/michumichifu/nx2000-hdmi-live

Sadly, it’s just part of the world that we now live in. It peaked for me around 1986/87, though at the time as a teen, I did not realise or appreciate it. I rank my decades as: 1980’s, 1970’s, 1990’s, 2000’s, 2010’s with the 2020’s firmly in last place… I don’t think the world/society is fucked as such, just that it is in decline and the more it is (IMO), the less I take part in it and do my own thing(s) instead. Unfortunately, the human race & society cannot be hacked…

Maybe someone can reduce the file sizes of Red Raw on the ZR to around 20-25% of the size and then after that, work on adding IBIS to the FP2 so that it can be purchased by the other 95% of potential purchasers.

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

I have also been looking at the Panasonic cameras for Canon style Claude opportunities. My S9 is very bolted down and not getting very far. My G9 II takes the ROM dump service mode key combo (AF-ON + PLAY + POWER ON) but the ROM dump options are like your G81 - they dump meta data and camera settings not a firmware dump from RAM so Claude can't take a look at the unencrypted ROM binary. The S9 doesn't even take the key combo which is odd as G9 II and S9 are same gen. The other avenue in USB PTP commands to trigger a deeper service mode of some sort, but one of these commands crashed my G9 II so I backed off after that. Might be worth probing on a throwaway camera though. After the GH1 and GH2 hack I think Panasonic bolted down the hatches! Still hopeful it can be figured out though.

When the algorithm finds an audio recording, the "+Audio" button turns green (batch processing is possible). Another screenshot shows the experimental AI edit and halation window in RAW adjust.

5 sec bursts might be an interesting alternative to live photos like on the iphone. I actually hate that feature and turn it off although it seems to turn itself back on every now and then . But for creative types a five second burst could be useful. btw nice sunstar at the end there 🙂

Added: Support for ColorChecker and CCPPV2 video targets. See: how to Currently working on: Audio sync for Zoom H1e: When the user clicks the "+Audio" button, the app automatically searches the connected device or folder. Auto Edit / Quick Export: When multiple clips are selected, the app can automatically export them from RAW to H.264 or H.265 with a predefined total length for easy sharing. Minor adjustments: Users can make small manual tweaks to the edit before exporting.

So I was also able to get the OG3.5K to record to SD card which is crazy. But it isn't really practical since I'd only get about 10 minutes per 128gb v90 card. Anyway, here's a frame from that mode, if anyone is interested...

Well, I guess it's too late to get the ILS- sold out everywhere it seems! Who saw that coming? Some interesting comparisons with WAY bigger and more expensive cameras are out there now. Obviously YouTube footage. I wish he'd don it in 4k 24fps or 8k 24fps. To my eye, the GoPro is heavily dependent on lens. The Sony looks super digital to me, but maybe it's the fact it's at 60fps. Is it possible that the GoPro takes off some of that ultra digital look but leaves the detail? Maybe it's simply a sensor size thing?

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.

Update: Added a real RAW preview Added 2K RAW with anti-aliasing. RAW-to-H.265 conversion is now much, much faster. I’m working on automatic CC PPV2 color target readout and calibration. I’m also working on the website and have uploaded some temporary sample footage here: https://agacia.pl/tmp/

Vectroscope added to main screen and RAW post-processing.

Right now, I'm still debugging the GUI (portrait/landscape), cleaning up the code, and trying to push the Oppo Reno 2Z to its limits on RAW capture, see calibrated 2K samples below. Will post an update soon.

Build 169 uploaded: https://groups.google.com/g/rawlogcam-closed-testers Most important test ROT button for landscape mode. In my Motorola Edge 50 Pro it stopped working. Test RAW and RAW+C for dropped frames—upper diagnostic messages. Use the METER to scan the scene for a few seconds and get the average exposure. The HDR button sets a shorter exposure time to keep highlights. In the COLOR section, you can switch off sharpening (Edge HQ). For IT8, push REF to load the reference file, then push the grid to adjust the rectangle, and push it again to auto-fit. Astro mode in the HIDE section is still under construction. Test DNG export in PROCESS RAW.

I would have published the demo already, but I’m currently having a problem with GUI rotation between portrait and landscape modes — it used to work, and then suddenly stopped. RAW/RAWC does a nice job of compressing the full usable dynamic range of the smartphone sensor.I'm still making little adjustments

Hello, I hope everyone is well! Even though I’m not really active on camera forums anymore, I frequently read the EOSHD blog and every now and then the forum, so I saw the thread and thought I would respond. Because it wasn’t ”poof gone”, it was announced on the channel over a year ago and mentioned in the last three videos. Before going into why, super flattered that this thread exist. I mean that. So here are some thoughts on the matter and why I took it down. Hobby vs Work YouTube was never my job, just a hobby. So was video making and photography, in the beginning. When starting the channel I was working as a producer after a couple of years as a radio/TV reporter. So I started the channel to keep my practical skills fresh. And to keep up with the development, which was huge at the time. The DSLR revolution, Blackmagic, cheaper editors etc. Fast forward a couple of years and I started making more videos at work again. At the same time I pretty much lost all interest in doing it as a hobby. And actually canceled the channel. Winston Churchill was definitely right in saying that work and hobbies should not be too similar. But what I had discovered was a passion for still photography, which I had pretty much no experience with. So I started making videos again. That’s why my videos became very repetitive and short. I didn’t care about that part, I just wanted to display my stills work and get feedback, talk to the community, experiment with cameras and develop. After a few years I became a good enough photographer that my new employer noticed and just like that I was shooting stills professionally all the time. And I still do (I work in marketing and PR). It’s a huge bonus in my field and if you are good at it you will never be out of work. So photography also became less and less of a hobby. Instead I found other hobbies. They where things that for example got me out into nature, so photography tagged a long a while, as a secondary activity. But eventually it faded. It was also nice to do things and not share it with people. I know I probably could have a very successful channel by making videos about my current hobbies, and even make some money. But I never really wanted a channel for the sake of a channel. And always had a full time job. The fact is that at no point would I had been able to live of my channel, not even at the peak. Even with sponsors it was never more that a regular salary (in my field and country). But as long as it was a hobby and I was glad to do it, it was a welcome addition to finance camera gear. Time At the same time as my channel started to feel less fun and other hobbies started taking my time, I started a family. So.. you get the idea: full time job + family + 2-3 hobbies = no YouTube. Upkeep So why take it down, why not leave it for the community? I did.. at first. Like some of you pointed out, the YouTube crowd in the photography/video space is generally nice and positive. That is my experience as well. Early on I learned that a good way of keeping the trolls away was to be present. Respond and engage. Trolls are usually idiots or cowards, so they don’t like getting push back. But once I stopped making videos, views and comments obviously went down. But the trolls started coming back. Not so much after me, and I don’t care about that. But agains the community. The people commenting started being nasty towards each other. I felt a responsibility to moderate, which was annoying. That’s when the thought about simply removing it started to grow. It wasn’t an impuls. It was an internal debate that went on for months. And the issue grew much much larger than a couple of trolls. I started thinking about five years ahead, 10 years, 30 years.. This post is already way too long so I won’t go into all of it. But I think you get the idea when I say: Privacy or when the content no longer reflects the creator. Digital minimalism, control over one’s narrative, inactive or outdated content. Risk of misuse of content due to me not checking the terms updates. Closure. So there is a looong ramble :) To keep in spirit of the forum I can charge my current gear for pro work :) For the longest time I used the EOS-R for 75% of all my work and the R5 (rental) for the rest. It wasn’t mine but my employer told me to buy whatever I wanted. Paired it with a 28, 35 and 70-200. 70/30 stills/video. The R5 is peak camera imo. Today is a little different. I started working for a new company about a year ago and again was told to buy what I needed. I would have bought the R5 without hesitation if it wasn’t for the Sigma 35-150/2-2.8.. I just had to have it. So I ordered the Nikon Z6iii. It’s not as good overall as the R5 for me and what I like in a tool camera. But it’s 90% there. And coupled with that lens it’s becomes on par. //MB

Runs locally on 12GB VRAM... https://ltx.io/solution/vfx