Aussie Ash

Hi Mercer are you intending to purchase auto focus lenses as part of the equation ?

Zine homepage has had a major update Big news for the ZR community. When we launched on TestFlight on March 30th, ZineControl was already a powerful tool. Then on March 31st, Nikon officially released the ZR SoftwareDeveloperKit — and everything changed. Most of the known beta issues are now resolved, and the app has taken a serious leap forward. But that's not all. We shared the project with the team at Accsoon, and they loved it. Accsoon is now officially collaborating with ZineControl. That means full SeeMo integration — convert your ZR's HDMI output to USB-C and get ultra low latency monitoring directly inside the app. No compromise. No workarounds. What's new in this update: Touch Focus — Pull focus directly from the app screen. Tap where you want to focus, done. Accsoon SeeMo integration — Real-time HDMI monitoring via USB-C with near-zero latency. Switch between wired and wireless without dropping the signal. Slow Motion quick access buttons — One tap to set your ZR into slow motion mode. One tap to go back. Fully automatic. Aperture control — Full iris control now available directly from the UI.

Did you watch the 90 second demo ? still early days and beta testing bug squashing.A guy in Melbourne has installed it & will be doing a review soon ,I don't own a ZR.The developer says he hopes to put this on the App store when fully functional and stable.Nikon should be putting more effort into these sorts of developments !!! more at reddit

don't draw attention to the camera !

Adam Savage's Arriflex 35mm camera motors

https://www.zinecontrol.app/

Tilta Nucleus auto focus is scheduled to ship April 27th Viltrox nexusfocus seems to be getting quite good reviews

"without drawing to much attention"-having the camera hanging on the neck strap about 1.1m above ground and therefore looking down at the fold out screen most of the public don't even know they are being filmed.It is also quite easy to do steady pans and tilts like this.

https://petapixel.com/2025/12/30/china-now-owns-the-action-cam-market-the-us-once-dominated/

A steam train visited Sydney for Easter so it was fun to capture some video of it.The day was overcast so didn't use any ND filters.The lens is an clunky old AF-S 24-85 non VR that needs persuasion to get past a notch at 50mm

There is also Chinese camera manufacturers like DJI,Insta360 and Z-cam capturing specialised market share

They could learn with Blackmagic. They could learn with Red.

The 0.71 speedbooster to Mamiya 645 is around Aus $700 so not on the XMas list.I am quite happy with my present rig

sorry about the confusion the adaptor and cross section with dimensions posted on Thursday is for a camera with a PL mount and the adaptor will therefore take the older standard lenses.Adapting the other way is more difficult

here is a hard front conversion for Nikon F

Yes it was done in the past called a "PL hard front conversion" but for the amount of film you intend standard mount lens hire would be easier.

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Mamiya 45mm f2.8 645 and 2 soviet lenses for 6x6 Pentacon six or Kiev-88

Expeed 8 release must be getting close. Expeed 7-October 2021 in Z9 Expeed 6-August 2018 in Z7 Expeed 5 in January 2016

Here is the "Retro Foto House" mod done in Ukraine