Andrew Reid

Thanks for your opinion. So just to be clear... No more 5-6 videos per post. Just select 1, a good one. Or better yet, get your camera out and help others to figure out that particular model and what works well with it in terms of lenses, workflows, etc.

Yes light years ahead... But still no 10bit mirrorless camera!

I don't mind a few things, if they are of GOOD quality and informative. The problem is when people just dump any old shit into the thread just because it happens to be on the same topic. And I can't tolerate flooding every thread with clips and bumping posts with YouTube shit, for many reasons - firstly, that it encourages people to leave the site and watch stuff elsewhere, and not contribute, thus killing a topic here.

I agree we should bring the Sigma Fp thread back on topic. I'm going to clean it up.

This is not the YouTube Video Digest Can we cut down on threads where there are 3 or 4 youtube clips in every post? How about making or OWN content rather than reposts?

"Output Color Spaces: sRGB, Rec.709, AdobeRGB, Rec.2020"

Videos like these are just superb. The Canon 55mm FD F1.2 SSC Aspherical is a big improvement over the older version. Would be good to see him test that in a follow-up. I like what Kipon are doing. Don't like the images wide open from the 40mm though, sadly. Draws a lot of attention to itself and it ain't cheap! I'd go for one of their BavEyes adapters instead and vintage glass.

Fuji did an interview with MapCamera in Japan. Translation: https://www.fujirumors.com/fujifilm-manager-talks-x-t4-and-more-we-want-to-make-fujifilm-x-h2-fujifilm-x-t3-firmware-update-under-consideration/ "The mere difference in design and operability does not make it possible for the X-H and X-T series to coexist. Fujifilm is currently studying these issues" So this could explain the delay and rumours of cancellation. It seems Fuji want to segment the lines more strongly. They have also added so much video functionality into the X-T4, it makes their life harder when it comes to the X-H2. It would have to be borderline pro-camcorder now, to avoid 'coexisting' with the X-T series. Which makes me think they will reinvent the concept? Like a XC10 type body? Or even as a pro video camera to challenge the FS5 II? "Fujifilm would like to make the XH series a camera with a clearly different concept from the XT series" "Fujifilm wants to continue with the concept of the XH series, which is different from the T series" So they don't want to cancel, that is the good news. But they don't want to give it the same specs as the X-T4 but a different design and 'operability'. Finally some good news for X-T3 owners... "Fujifilm X-T3 firmware update is under consideration" "Certainly, it is physically possible to add new functions to X-T3, since the sensor and processor is the same of the X-T4"

Thanks for starting the new thread. How about a utility or app that converts Cinema DNG to ProRes in rec 2020 space, which you can then edit and grade in Adobe Premiere? Has this been covered yet?

Yes I am fine with the technical talk. But we don't need some ultra dry conversation about Resolve hijacking the thread for 20 pages. It's time to move on. Thanks for opening a new thread for it @Lars Steenhoff But first I have a story to share with you about Mr Hook here. When I used to be a Blackmagic user myself, I blogged this article: https://www.eoshd.com/news/blackmagic-respond-eoshd-supporting-existing-cameras-audio-levels-histograms-way/ A pretty positive piece on the whole but it does do a bit of investigative journalism as to why the firmware updates and black hole fixes weren't out for existing cameras yet and why Blackmagic introduced URSA before fixing the existing cameras. The article clearly reached Blackmagic HQ and a damage limitation exercise began. This was 2014 and the reason for "CaptainHook" joining the forum. His first comment? To lambast me for basic journalism. I had taken a screen shot of one of John Brawley's public Vimeo clips demonstrating how the black hole problem was fixed with an update. And here was Mr Hook trying to hack away at the article and get content removed from it. Let me tell you all I do not put up with hostility like this from camera companies where it concerns freedom of speech. And I don't react well to someone implying my article was shit and that nofilmschool covered the announcements better. CaptainHook then flounced off the face of the earth for the next 4 years without a single contribution to the forum or PM to me. Not once has he ever been in touch or at all friendly to me. I guess that is the job of the PR guy, huh?! CaptainHook may say he is here 'on his own time'. And it may look like to you guys that he is helping Blackmagic pocket users "directly" with his high level of expertise and knowledge. Actually it is purely marketing. The guy is here to make Blackmagic look good. And perhaps 'more connected' to their user-base. They even have a guy spamming me Blackmagic news tip offs by email. I do not accept advertising and sock puppets in the community especially not ones who are rude to me straight off the bat from 4 years back, or ones disguising themselves as an oracle or 'here for the users'. If Blackmagic want to communicate directly with their users, there is a place for that. It is on their own website. It should NOT be in the Sigma Fp topic on EOSHD.

Most people come to learn more broadly about the camera, but we've had pages and pages of this now and it's really dragging on. It should be a separate topic. CaptainHook please forgive me, it's nothing personal. I just absolutely hate the company you work for.

No this is not the point where DNG "fails". I am happy to grade in sRGB just as I am happy to grade any sRGB 14bit RAW photo file in Adobe Camera Raw. I never open a RAW photo in Lightroom and think "damn this limited colour gamut, it looks terrible, what a failure..." You guys really need to come into the real world and stop bitching.

Resolve was made for Cinema DNG. Of course it works. Blackmagic are implying it is a pain to use the Sigma Fp's raw with Resolve. Of course it isn't. They just don't really want it to be a thing or to support it in any way. Doesn't take a genius to work out why.

Some Blackmagic shills keep floating ridiculous conspiracy theories on here about my experience with the Pocket 6K, and even that I never used the camera! Time to put some facts straight then... It came damaged brand new from the cellophane. Here's proof: Shiny and sealed, ZERO damage to the pristine box or any signs of "rough courier handling": Here is the scratch mark on my sensor And here is me having to urgently clean the brand new sensor before setting off to the Italian Grand Prix at Monza: And finally here is me returning the actual Pocket 6K to Blackmagic at IBC in order to talk about the issues I had... And there is apparently an audio recording and further material from this encounter. Who wants to hear it?

The box was sealed with the original cellophane. It hadn't been used in the store. It came from the store shelf brand new. They have two locations for stock - the showroom, and the central warehouse. I paid full price. Futhermore, they always clearly mark ex-demonstration or "used" goods on the website and reduce the price. They were a reputable dealer, one of the largest in the Netherlands, not some shady red-light district illegal one

Why shoot vertical video on a phone when you have a RED Dragon?

Hope he has a good aim. He might break the neighbour's window. And the neighbour would be even more pissed off after they find it has no 10bit codec to protect the FX9.

You better take yourself back to FuckwitsRUs for a FULL refund Harry. Clearly a faulty brain.

Like the rape movie?

It is a shame to users battling Resolve here with this camera. If Resolve is out there as a serious NLE to replace Premiere, and it is... I frankly expect universal compatibility and I expect far more from Blackmagic to work with companies like Sigma in providing that better level of recognition for their RAW files. We all know why they don't. Blackmagic clearly sees RAW on the Fp as a threat to their camera division. This thread is getting really bogged down by the way with long running and incredibly dry technical stuff. I would like to see the conversation get more broad as there is a lot more to the Sigma Fp than just Resolve. Maybe it's time to split the topic into one for the camera, and one for Cinema DNG in Resolve.

Keep your eyes pealed for camera announcements from Saturday through Monday. This was originally the NAB show 2020 (11-14th) If we don't get an A7S III next week, we can assume we may never!

I like eccentric characters and dreamers. Berlin in the old days was full of them. I think Ketch is a character that deserves further investigation and exploration. It is not a witch hunt. It isn't a circus. It's just banter and I don't think myself or BTM_Pix or anyone else in the filmmaking community should have to seek approval from Ketch. It's freedom of speech and freedom of Photoshopping Joe Exotic's hair. At the same time, if somebody very purposefully puts themselves into the limelight so knowingly, trying to make money or a film out of coronavirus, they have to expect the attention. Personally I only see the comedy of it! You're right, it is harmless.... But somewhat hilarious as well. A cheerleader, slasher, coronavirus movie!?

Hah where to start. Somebody should do a documentary on the guy, Tiger King style.

Looks like slasher Ketch has found a way to snare some teen cheerleaders on webcams.

Do you remember the translucent mirror phase detect AF adapter for Sony A7S... Gave the camera phase-detect AF with the old SLR lenses... That's what the L mount cameras need ;)