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4 hours ago, Video Hummus said:

 

I recently picked up a used Pentax K1000 for cheap and bought some film and have really been loving it as an escape from the optimum capture settings mini-game we all play with these digital cameras.

I've been having a blast buying and shooting old film cameras.  It brings the fun back to photography.

Good news in 2020???

Is this a dream? 

One recent development that is of particular interest as @stephen mentions above is card spanning to CF and SD cards on the 5D3 to allow for higher write speeds, therefore higher resolutions and/or longer record times.

I may have jumped the gun here though, claiming real time correct framing for the 5D3. 😳

But if it brings people's attention to the fact that Magic Lantern is still alive and delivering the goods then that's a good thing I guess!

13 minutes ago, stephen said:

Don't think that latest development from Bilal is part of this release. At least don't see it when testing this release from Danne.

Ah, I see. I must have misunderstood what I read. Haven't tried it myself yet. Just to be sure Danne posted this to show which mode it is

https://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=23041.msg216899#msg216899

Background: user TheBilalFakhouri has unlocked correctly framed real time preview for EOS M and Danne has ported it to 5D3. Previously, Magic Lantern high res modes had a preview image that had either correct framing but in unusably slow frame rate black and white or real time colour preview with wrong framing. 

Now, however there is high res, real time preview with correct framing.

Kind of fun to try if you already own one of the supported cams 😁

22 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

it would require a second adaptor with no ND for indoor/low light

I read somewhere that the Fotodiox actually loses a bit more than one stop of light at the minimum setting even though it's rated at one as the minimum. So in extreme low light where you need that extra plus one stop then it would be better (and more of a nuisance!) to have another adapter with no ND.

How is infinity focus with wide angle lenses on the Fotodiox?

5 hours ago, Vprocessing said:

Hi Andrew !

Nice to have U testing reel camera that works !

Does Panny now includes "Magnify" to check focus during video recording  ?

Or still not…

THX !

.V

No 😭

Love me some 1080p!

A fortnight ago, I shot 5 hrs of interviews for a 5 minute corporate video. 1080p 100mbps all the way. I do lots of jobs like this and like to keep everything I shoot in case a client wants to use it again. I hate when hard drives fill up and I have to deal with offloading projects to external backup. Give me clean 1080p every day of the week!

I shudder when I see specs like "8k, 960mbps". Where is all this footage gonna go?

They're all relatively wide shots, so not too taxing for IBIS. As long as you're using it to steady handheld shots, like here, I'm sure it'll be fine. But Wong's videos show that it's just not a substitute for a gimbal in the same way that a GH5 or S1 might be - if you really need to do a walking shot but don't have a gimbal.

I'm impressed by the highlight retention in the market scene - mixed light, low light and garish light sources that tend to blow out are all handled nicely and it looks very natural.

Is it a  straight out of camera file?Yesterday I downloaded some "sample" S1 VLog  that was edited and encoded to ProRes. When I pushed it I saw highlight banding that I never see with GH5 VLog mp4s, and that I haven't seen with S1 SOOC files.

1 minute ago, TheBoogieKnight said:

It does have 4k 60 10-bit surely?

 

It does but it's 4:2:0 not 4:2:2 in 4k 60.

Shouldn't be an issue for the contrasty profiles but there might be banding in V-Log if you push it hard.

I think I'd probably prefer to buy a €2000 GH6 and continue to use my compatible glass than spend €2000 on an S5 and have to faff about with lens options from scratch.

I'm almost perfectly happy with EF glass and a Speedbooster XL which makes the 2x crop of M43 a 1.28x instead. That is a very sweet spot if you need to go wide or if you need narrow DOF. Then if I need reach or more DOF I can swap that out for a non-speedboosted adapter. This makes for a very versatile system.

Yes, I read that section of the interview and was puzzled too.

It could mean:

"There will be a GH6"

or

"There will be no GH6"

😂

Well that doesn't really look any smaller at all 😂

5 minutes ago, deezid said:

I agree, probably since no one really cares about heavy videoish processing anyway but AF on the other hand...

I care! You made a brilliant point about the smoothness of the Panasonic S series V-Log compared to what other manufacturers are doing with their profiles at the same price point. That's worth more to me than AF.

9 minutes ago, Trankilstef said:

Maybe not in the UK as all I see on the CVP website is the free Sigma 45mm or free XLR1 MICROPHONE ADAPTER offer. So yeah maybe not outside EU.

Neither does it seem to be available in Ireland (who are thankfully still in the EU 🤣), so it must be a continental Europe thing. But I guess you could try ordering from a continental seller if you're in Ireland or UK?

I agree about the financial pain of moving to L mount. If I were to do it I think I'd stick to my EF lenses and just manual focus them like I've always been doing. The image is nicer than the GH5. But would any of my clients notice? Probably not!

You could get €500 off the 24-105 or 24-70 instead

Lots of good deals on the S1 on eBay right now 🤣

Look at the resolution target in the center and you'll see the aliasing and moire on the Z6

Things to be aware of from Newsshooter:

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After being in the hot sun for 19 minutes and 45 seconds the temperature icon came on and it did stop recording.... Once I took the camera back indoors I could press record straight away and it started recording again. There wasn’t any downtime, but after I hit record again I got about 8 minutes and 30 seconds before the overheating warning came back on. The camera kept recording even with the warning on the screen until the 30-minute recording limitation was reached. Once it stopped recording the temperature warning turned off.

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Now, one thing to note, you can’t turn Noise Reduction to -1 when shooting in V-Log on the S5, like you can on the S1H. On the S5 the lowest you can set Noise Reduction to is 0. Maybe this will change in the future.

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there are no ALL-I modes

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The autofocus performance does seem to be quite a lot better than the S1H, but in my honest opinion, it hasn’t improved to the point where it is comparable to Sony or Canon. In saying that, it is now at the point where continual autofocus is actually usable (in good lighting conditions), and the Tracking and Face/Eye/Body Detection work pretty well. I would actually use AF on the S5,

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you can’t punch in to check focus when you are recording

I know that manufacturer's launch videos are notoriously poor, but the colours here are just not nice.

I also know that you can get pretty much whatever colour you like by pushing 10bit log around a bit. And I'm sure we'll see some pretty S5 videos too. But I can't believe that Panasonic let this one out the door looking like this.

And if I understand correctly, you're always losing a stop of light with the Fotodiox adapter with ND as it's 1 to 8 stops and can't be removed?

12 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

 of particular interest is the Fotodiox one which also has an integral variable ND in the mount.

For anyone with a lot of EF glass, thats an attractive option

Any info or reviews on this adapter are much appreciated. I'm an EF glass guy who's very happy with his speedboosted GH5 and carefully curated lens collection. I don't want to start from scratch again!

Fotodiox's list of possible side effects is kind of off-putting:

https://fotodioxpro.com/collections/vizelex-nd-throttle-adapters/products/ef-lt-fsn-ndt

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• Autofocus may be disabled for older Canon lenses and some third-party lenses (Sigma, Tamron and Tokina lenses).

• Third party lenses like Sigma or Tamron lenses have more issues with auto focus.

• Auto Focus can be slow or even not function with varied model lenses and even different lenses of same model.

• Longer focal length lenses tend to have more issues with auto focus with the auto adapter.

• Not all Canon compatible lenses work equally well, dependent on: internal lens motors, firmware versions, lens age, etc

• Continuous AF and video AF are not supported as performance may be unsatisfactory.

• Switching between image and video can cause camera to freeze.

• Switching f-stops in video mode can cause white flashes in video.

• Certain video modes can cause the camera to freeze.

 

There is also a model without ND for considerably less.

What time is the announcement tomorrow?

Can we expect an in depth preview from Mr Reid?