foggyflute

I agree with Andrew this time. I know more photographer and enthusiam than videographer, most of them now own another Olympus or Fuji, but not give up Canon or Nikon at all. And the reason most of them not buying anything new from Canon and Nikon is there's nothing new to buy. Imagine Canon sudden release something with 1.5X the dynamic range of the current one? At least 20 of my friends will buy it in the heart beat while not putting 5dmk3 on sale. But there's nothing like that gonna happen.

Hope RED and Sony not sue Blackmagic... they kick all competitors ass so hard this time <_<

It's a very good still camera IMO, more button than I actually need, good AF, and a body that feel good in hand.

Picture shot before send it back to Pana:



But I'm not gonna miss it. Hah.

I got photostyle with four setting contrast, sharpness, saturation, noise reduction. No creative control or anything.

There's a i-dynamic or something turned on already.

Thanks for the link. I really need that.

F5.6 1/125 iso 200 picturestyle: standard, 25p all-i
Against morning sunlight. The video look good, but not sure about DR, I dont have Premier Pro on my home computer to leveling it.

Upload from home is real slow, and my computer batt are dying, aw.
Here's the capture picture from the video, the video it self must wait.

I cant even read the raw, LR4 not reading it, not sure how :-?
And I dont have any other M43 camera here.

Noted, I do think I need tighter apperture when I do this but the room quite dark so I open it up. Maybe I will do a re-test.

I love video, but not working in the field, I only do video review of gadgets and short interviews because I have connection in technology industry. So I'm not really understand about codec and moire and stuff related to it fully (anything related to photography is in my knowledge). Sorry if my test not provide useful information, if someone can direct me to do this or that and explain why, I can do it better :)

I ask everyone here use it fair, protect me as the source, not prevent anyone using it on their own.
It would be great if someone can download and reup it, then notify me, I will delete it.

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It's kinda big :-? I will try upload one to vimeo.

This one is normal style 0,0,0,0

Tried a little rough canvas on a seat pillow:



I move back an forward a bit to find the point it produce moire, but look like everything still ok.
This image captured from the mov 25p all-i

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I got 12-35 and 45-150 with me, have a lot MF lens but no M43 mount.

Please note this one is pre-production model too, not a retail one (eventhough they tell me it's a retail one, it's really not.)

It's suck that I got a lot of other work to do right now.

I'm pleased with what this camera provide in photography. There's one thing I missing from NEX is peaking focus, everything else work fine, and very good, better than X100 and new mirrorless from canon (m or something, I dont bother to check, it not AF right even under full sunlight lit scene).

The 12-35 (24-70) is too sharp, I repeat: too sharp for video for my liking. I either dial down the contrast in picture style or do it in post.
I will do a moire test for you guys tomorrow (got quite bad headache today due to go outside under hard heat from the sun with GH3 yesterday), what kind of moire test is most practical and provide useful information?

Got one pre-production today with two lens, testing it...The AF is fast, very fast. And EVF very responsive. I like it.

Yes, I fully understand that matter, and I had been in your situation before, that's very sucks to be the maker for limited run products when people expect price for the mass. This is not my first time making something for the communit :)

So, everyone heard Richard, right? I will make the sample the way I post here, then mod it but ignore any feature that will rise price if everyone not agree to buy the pricier one.

:)

Thanks for your input, Richard :) That's good information.
I will stick with this project to at least one fully working sample so we will wait and see.

that's all we can do without modding the main body of the camera.

Well, I'm a former overclocker that hold a few world records before (we pushing computer processor clock like from 1.5GHz to 3.5GHz under LN2 or dry ice), so I even better at cooling solution than with CNC things
Here's my solution:

[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/74152067/DSC_0247.jpg[/img]

Normally, under these extreme narrow space like this, the most useful options is using heat pipes (you can see it under every laptop) , but unless I'm making thousands of this, no company gonna make custom heat pipes for me.

Using 3m thermal tape will make it easy, clean and clear, but pry the heat sink out is gonna be pain...

Using thermal cream will leave nasty and sticky devices after that, but it's easier if you need your normal camera quick. And I'm not think about making clamps before so I dont know if I can making clamp or not

I can even build watercool, but it's ridiculous for this thing.

Overall, there's no perfect solution, I only have a NEX5K next to me right now, so I dont know how bad the situation is.

Here's one of proposal design, I'm not going for this look, but function will remain:

[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/74152067/DSC_0241B.jpg[/img]

Look like no one interested, so I will comeback after having at least a render one.

Hi,
My English is far from good, so bear with me, sorry. Just call me "Foggy"

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I'm a full time designer and hobbyist photographer from Vietnam. I'm not making any gears for camera before, but I'm experienced with modding, building parts for RC helicopters and boats: plastic, carbon, composite, alu, steel, etc... with my friend, who is an engineer.

Recently, I see a large demand of Nex housing and cage, especially when the new hack available.

What I trying to build here is an aloy housing for nex5n:[list]
[*]Full body housing.
[*]Aloy (aircraft grade, hardened, anodize black) - precision CNC from a block.
[*]I want it look like a RED camera body from outside.
[*]Silent cooling fans with fan speed control, maybe dust filter to block dust and noise too.
[*]All button accessible, some may under button extender build in the housing.
[*]Ports available and have lock to keep cord in place.
[*]Can mount on rail system or fluid head, and also can mount a lot of stuff on it.
[*]Quick release and lock the body in place.
[/list]
What I want to hear from you:[list]
[*]Which camera I should focus on first: Nex 5N, Nex 7, or waiting for 5F, 6 or anything else like GH2, GH3?
[*]Most of you prefer cage or housing?
[*]Include plate and mount for rail system or not? Modular or just screw hole so you can mount yours on?
[*]Battery for fans: Canon battery or Eneloop or anything else?
[*]You guys will put functional first, or the look (to please clients) first or balancing between them?
[*]What you dont like about current products available on market right now?
[/list]
Quality of finish product will be at level can hold up against ReWo products - at least with what I see via photo, I'm not seeing it in real life, but I can sure RC helicopters part quality is not far behind, maybe even better in models using gasoline.

Don't suggest me cloning ReWo's cage or Richard's housing, of course all previous products on market give me insipration and design clue, and I learning a lot from them. I can build one myself with feature you demands, but I'm not doing clone.

Price: I can not promise anything at this stage, but housing will be around 800-900 usd, cage will be around 400-500, I will try to keep cost down without cutting quality, but I will not run down to "mass produced in china" level.

I willing to work on mattbox, follow focus and many things, but let just start with this housing project first.
Thanks for reading.