Tim Sewell

Just when my wallet thought it was in for a nice long rest.

For the X-T2 - funnily enough I was bemoaning (to myself) the lack of such an ability just yesterday as I laboriously copied all the settings from twin 1 to twin 2. Not as simple as doing it by SD card, as in other systems, but good enough!

Horrible grade I thought - to the extent that I found it distracted from the story.

I tend to think that whether you're doing stills or video the very best option is to have a machine that is 100% optimised for that task - because it's really only then that the camera gets out of the way - where you're not fighting it in one way or the other. Of course - that ain't the way the world is going so...

I expect most of us have done work cheaply when trying to make a start in a creative industry that we love. Whatever you decide at the end of the day - make sure that after costs you are left with no less per day than you'd earn in a good day on your day job!

I did a treatment for a screenplay based on this a while ago - on the afternoon of the inauguration the new Prez is driven to a nondescript house on a nondescript suburban housing estate to meet with some badly dressed old men who take a break from arguing about football to let him know that while he might think he's in charge, he really isn't - and outline exactly what will happen to him and his family if he mentions any of what he's been told. Times now are such that I'd be rather reassured if I knew there were puppetmasters pulling the strings, because nuclear war, unlike the other flavours, is definitely very bad for business. Of course Harrison Ford (for it is he) turns the tables on them, defeats them and takes his presidency on to great things for God, truth and the American way. And explosions.

All I can do is bring my three children up to be good human beings and in my own life respect and celebrate the humanity in everyone regardless of race, gender, orientation and creed. At our current juncture, that feels like a radical attitude.

... elected president of the USA!

I used new batteries. I wonder if it's to do with the fact that buying old phones brand new means you get the original firmware, with any updates no longer being available. Mind you, it's mainly been the screens that have failed, so maybe they deteriorate if they're unused for such a long time.

The problem you find is that the non-smartphones on sale currently are of very poor quality. I tried to get around this by buying older Nokias - of which there are many, brand new, still around - but none of them has lasted more than a few months and I'm not sure why.

CAnon does seem to have - as we say here in England - dropped a bollock on this occasion.

Ahem. Feet are most definitely an English unit of measure, @Ed_David, old chap!

This is great and everything, but really only in an emergency. Most smartphones don't have removable batteries, so you're left with a choice of some kind of USB powerbank (adding weight/bulk) or running your phone down in the field - where you're most likely to need a cellphone.

There's quite an in depth review here of all 3 Quattros - and the guy has some other Sigma camera reviews/videos on his site: http://photomadd.com/sigma-dp-quattro-review-dp1-dp2-dp3/

I use a number of OM. M42 and Pentax K/KA lenses with thin ring adaptors on an EF to FX focal length reducer. I used to do the same with a Metabones EF to M4/3 Speedbooster XL. As @Cinegain says - with some lenses you won't get infinity focus, on others you will. On my Tamron Adaptall 70-210 f3.5 Pentax KA fit, for instance, infinity focus is slightly before where it should be on the focus ring.

Should that occur I will have no need of your tears. But thank you for posting without unpleasantness.

You may not agree with what Ed has to say, but he has been unfailingly polite in saying it. Perhaps you should dial back your aggression and disdain, as it is of no use to anyone and paints you as an unpleasant individual. And I agree, by the way, that administrators should abstain from approving posts containing aggression and profanity aimed at other users.

Didn't Sonny Bono assassinate Kubrick?

Heh - your video must have had an effect on the market as - right now - I can't find a DP1 for less than GBP220 on ebay UK!

Sorry to confuse. As per my original post, I'm intending/expecting initially to focus on getting stills work as that is where I have a portfolio (from when I did it before my children arrived) and the experience to (I hope) generate commissions. That's why I need to swap my C100mk2 for 2 stills/video bodies. I hope however (also per my initial post) to gradually add video work as I gain clients who are happy with what I've done for them (this actually happened to me in the days of Hi8, where a number of wedding clients ended up asking me to do video as well as, or instead of, stills - not that I'll be touching any weddings with a bargepole this time around!). Since I love the Fuji colour science and handling for stills work the purpose of my post was to find out if any members could confirm that I would be able to fulfil such requests with the Fuji bodies.

Yeah - I gave up the X-Pro2 idea almost as soon as I had it. I've found a seller who has multiple new X-T2s at GBP1099 body only. They're grey market - obvs - but the seller has a 99.8% rep on ebay over thousands of sales and someone on a Fuji X forum, who bought some, reported that he had spoken pre-purchase to Fuji UK who confirmed *in principle* that they'd honour the warranties. When the cameras arrived it turned out they are US stock. So in my budget I should be able to go for 2 x XT-2s with grips for both. I considered the X-T20 but as my main usage initially is going to be for stills I'm more attracted to the former - also the video comparison posted by @BTM_Pix clearly shows mushiness and artefacts on the X-T20's 4K output that I wasn't keen on.

In the light of today's news I'm wondering if the ideal combination might be one X-T2 and 1 X-Pro2.

Well - I've decided to go ahead:

You'll see the main differences in scenes with lots of movement and/or lots of fine detail - use of a low compression codec results in far fewer motion artefacts, better cadence and less smearing of detail. You'll also - as you surmised - have a lot more flexibility in post and be able to place much more extreme grades (should you need to) on the output. You'll also be able to do much higher quality green screen, if that's your bag.

Heh - I wouldn't be too sure. I've ordered business cards and set up a Smugmug site and I have to dig out all my old weddings/events/portraiture/music stuff from 8 years ago and upload it. Then I have to get some marketing going - I'm not expecting to do any paid work until next year (and that will more likely be stills). I'll probably find a couple of kooky businesses (I live in Brighton - there are plenty of them) to do free promotional vids for... we'll see. Thing is, I'm limited to weekends initially as to do anything on a weekday it has to pay a pretty large day rate to make it worth my while taking a day off from my main work - a calculation made necessary by my 3 children and the yuuuge mortgage I'm on the verge of taking out.