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If you are planning to get the mac mini for video editing you should definitely consider pairing it with an eGPU otherwise normal MacBook Pro probably will do the job better!

On 10/31/2018 at 4:52 PM, fuzzynormal said:

Looked at the mini for a hot second, but don't think it would be a good fit in the long run.  At least not for my main editing chair.  My wife does mostly rough cut editing though, so it would work well enough for that.  

I'm tempted with an alternative that seem a better bet for me: building out a hackintosh.  

I already have a decent PC with 3 monitors, so all I'd do (if I commit to switching over to FCPX) would be to swap out my current GPU for the AMD brand.  All I'm seeing makes the mackintosh install process look rather straightforward...and it's more hardware flexible and affordable to get a good performing computer running OS X in this way.

If I don't hop onto FCPX I can forgo the AMD and stick with the NVIDIA GPU, but I'm getting really weary of Premiere these days.

I've build a Hickintosh with an AMD VEGA 56. BruceX benchmark result is roughly around 12-13 seconds.

43 minutes ago, jase said:

Actually, I am really hoping that Apple is going to create FCPX for iOS, since FCPX is about the only reason why I still have my 2011 Macbook (which is kind of unusable even with 4k proxies)..

Now with this here:

I am really wondering whether this would be a kind of intermin solution... Getting an ipad pro and doing everything else except editing with it. Until FCPX isnt available for iOS I could simply use the ipad as a monitor for the Mini... any thoughts? afaik the eGPU solution doesnt really help FCPX.. is the Intel GPU any good or will i experience slow editing all the time?

I have used the Duet app but unfortunately it was not reliable and smooth!

4 hours ago, webrunner5 said:

The Nikon Z7 looked the best to me. Better than the DPAF of the EOS--R. Best overall I think.

Yeah, it felt the smoothest among all of them.

There is this Chinese seller, TomTop. they have Viltrox EF-M2  with a really good price for 139$. the only caveat is they are really slow! so if you are not in hurry go ahead and order one.

1 hour ago, Phil A said:

The marketing material says it can control Panasonic cameras but I couldn't find a single early review video where someone was using it with a GH5 and show if/how the focus wheel works. I saw a bazillion videos with plain A7-something setups (small-ish lens, no cage, etc.) that would have worked with any other one-hand gimbal in the past.

Can anyone point me to one?

There you go:

I did some tests as well and definitely, there is an improvement but still not useable and reliable for my liking.  I think at the current stage GH5's autofocusing is as good as it gets! can't expect much from contrast based focusing system. 

I'm happy I asked the question! some good ideas around here!

5 hours ago, Anaconda_ said:

Me too, although I can use it on the cameras I already have, so if it doesn't work for some reason on the p4k, it's not so much of an issue for me. I also have a metabones adapter with no glass, so I image I can also use that on the p4k with no problems. If both adapters work, I'll essentially double my lens collection, giving each lens a little further reach with the non speedbooster.

As for lenses, I'll mostly be using the Sigma 18-35 1.8 and Canon 50mm 1.8. They're both great lenses and give me all the focal lengths I need with lots of light. Especially if I keep both adapters with me. When I need something more discreet, I'll more than likely be using my trusty old Sigma 30mm 1.4 with the speedbooter. I find for holidays and more walk about kind of stuff, it's the perfect focal length and looks great, even with the worst lighting you can imagine. Especially since the booster makes it f1.0.

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I'm eying the Sigma 18-35 as well now that I got a good offer for it.

3 hours ago, cantsin said:

For best image quality and handling, I would use manual lenses (Voigtlander, Veydra, SLR Magic, Samyang).

 

Do you have any of them in your arsenal or planning to get?

I was checking Samyang 85mm T1.5 ef mount paired with speedbooster should be an interesting combo.

3 hours ago, Snuff said:

I'm going to use with the new Pocket 4K vintage full frame manual lenses with Metabones Speed Booster XL 0.64x (Nikon to M4/3). 

1. Tokina 28-70 f/2.8, with BMPCC4K (crop 1.9) and 0.64x booster it covers 34-85mm f/1.8.

2. Leica Summicron-R 50mm f/2.

3. And I would like to get Angenieux 70-210mm f/3.5.

Nice, combo. Certainly that Tokina looks good.

5 hours ago, SR said:

Viltrox EF-m2 0.71x 

Tokina 28-70mm f/2.6

Possibly Sigma 18-35 1.8.

I've bought the Viltrox EF-M2 as well just in case, I just hope it would be compatible with bmpcc4k, though I don't have any EF lens at the moment.

I was wondering those who have pre-ordered or planning to buy this camera, which lens/lenses have in mind to pair it with bmpcc4k?

15 minutes ago, TwoScoops said:

^ Pretty sure 37 people have already said that.

37 people? how accurate, well I guess now that makes it 38 people now than!

As for frame drops in that test shots, why don't we take into consideration that, that unit was pre-production model, it might not have been fully ready (both software and hardware)?  

2 hours ago, Axel said:

On the lens debate - 'crappy', 'different strokes for different folks', 'opinion vs facts':

There are a lot of optically superb native M43 lenses. For example the Olympus 12mm f2.0 (Zuiko Digital or so). Had better reviews than SLRM 12mm f1.6 (less distortion, sharper at wide open, less lens flare). 

But was not a manual lens. And (my opinion) you should prefer a lens with a good and big focus ring. A 12mm was a 35mm equivalent on the old Pocket, the 'reporter wide'. Now a 16mm (Sigma 16mm f1.4) would be a 30mm. 420 €. Easy choice.

I own the 18-35mm Sigma (once for Nikon, now Canon, swore to never sell it again). Had it with the Pocket MB speedbooster then, made it a 30-58 @ f1.0 (!!!). Practically never changed the lens from then on.

Speed booster Viltrox is just 160 €, will make it effectively a 24-47 @ f1.3:

Easy choice.

Don't need to go wider, but obviously need a longer lens. Adapter without speedbooster? Didn't look into that, but why not? 

 

Opinion on adapted vintage lenses: good, but you need to become an expert. Don't expect good old lenses to be bargains anymore. People became smart.

Opinion on slow lenses: no. Anything below 2.8 should be considered 'crap' for this kind of camera. This is no Sony.

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I wonder if this Viltrox Speed booster would work on BMPCC4K as well. Or we should wait for different version!

I saw this picture on BMPCC4K FB Group. It's upcoming DJI Ronin-S

7 hours ago, buggz said:

So, not only is weight a factor, I find that the physical geometry of the rig is a HUGE factor!

Both for the gimbal and the camera rig.

While my anamorphic rig is well within the limits of this gimbal, the physical geometry is not.

It is far too long with a taking lens, adapter, and scope lens.

Perhaps a bigger gimbal overcomes this constraint?

Yeah, maybe Crane 2. I'm also currently contemplating at Crane 2 and Crane Plus!

hmm, this doesn't look normal to me! I have the same combo as well, G80+12-35mm and I don't have this micro jittering issue. 

27 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

Hackintosh is great, but even when you have every single aspect working fine, there's a lot of errors in the logs thats go unnoticed but do point to it not being just right, and updates could break things at any stage.

Mine has been rock solid, it's just the wirelesss stuff... At one point the WiFi was dropping out when I plugged things into USB! Since I'd rather be editing videos than installing custom KEXTs, I think going back to an official Mac would be a creative move.

With Windows 10, yes I know it has come a long way since 7 (shudder) but still the look of the UI makes me vomit. Not exactly easy on the eyes is it? And the control panel - holy crap - what a stinking mess. Two in one - an old one and a new one - the new one is practically useless - the old one is from 1995! WHY?! Why have two?!

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Exactly I know what you mean, as I mentioned as well, when you go for Hackintosh you should accept the consequences of facing errors down the road, but luckily I'm a geek and developer so I kinda love to solve the issues. But even that has not stopped me to not to have a real Mac, so besides my beefy Hackintosh I have a MacBook Pro as well.

My issue with Windows is UI and Font rendering! Oh god, windows basically sucks with retina displays, even in Windows 10 (which I like the most among all other versions). I even prefer Linux over Windows. I'm not talking about performance aspect here, mostly representation of the OS.

6 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

Hackintosh owners (I am one!) will say "yeah but you can just put Mac OS on high spec pc hardware" and that is true! But mine doesn't work with WiFi or Bluetooth. I have a wired mouse and keyboard attached to it and a LAN cable. The performance advantage in the real world with shitty Adobe software is not actually much more than my 2013 iMac.

I'm Hackintosh owner as well. I bought apple's official wifi/blutooth card really cheap from eBay.

This is the card you should be looking for:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/working-100-official-apple-bcm94360cd-with-pcie-adapter-from-mallaid-taobao.137070/

But I get the point if you are not looking for troubleshooting your hardware and software issues, you better off getting a real mac.

1 hour ago, jonpais said:

I’ve just done a little casual shooting with it, nothing screen shot worthy. ? My model Huong even texted the other day, asking when we’re going to shoot again, however.... I made a vow to myself to start making short films this year... nothing extraordinary, just 2-3 minutes long... but I haven’t come up with any remarkable ideas. If lightning strikes, maybe I can do some test shots next week and share the results.

Looking forward to it 

@jonpais Did you get a chance to shoot anything with that Sigma 60mm?

I was considering to get this lens as I can get it around 400€ but damn that's big and heavy (around 400g?) Maybe I should go for Pana 15mm f1.7 instead. 

Does anyone here have Pana 15mm? 

48 minutes ago, lmackreath said:

In terms of the IBIS and focal settings you have to input every time you turn the camera on. I think you pretty much have to stick to the focal length setting that relates to the focal length that you are going to use on the lens. So if you set it at 18mm, shoot at 18mm and you will get good stabilisation. if you set it at 18mm and then zoom in at 35 you get strange warping effects and issues. there is a delay from when panning to when the sensor \stabilisation recognises the pan and then catches up. if i set the focal length in cam to 35 and shoot at 35 again this looks great and stable, but if i then choose to go to 18mm i get the same issue, strange warping effects and delayed panning.

So in order to do change it every time we should turn the camera off and on again?

2 hours ago, seku said:

of course. But I better wait to see what this beast is about, so i can make an informed decision to get the GH5

Why would you wait? Just buy it already! as I did.

I would've not buy it. 1-If I was planning to mainly shoot in low light situation. 2-if I needed to relay on auto focus most of the time.

On 9/19/2017 at 10:14 AM, jonpais said:

Grumpy old man tests out the Laowa 7.5mm f/2 lens in ETC mode. 

 

Really nice! this lens went to my shopping list as well 

Moving to XenForo is good move. For one local forum my friend and I had also transition during years from vBulletin -> IP Board -> XenForo and we couldn't be happier with XenForo! so far so good.

17 minutes ago, Phil A said:

So after all the discussions here and always seeing Kidzrevil's stuff on social media, I'll give the diffusion filters a try. Got a Warm Black Pro Mist 1/8 off eBay for 28€ incl shipping. Should arrive today and I'll give it a spin on the weekend. Wish I had thought of getting a step-up adapter already to use it on the Voigtländer, for now I'll try with the Olympus 12-40 2.8.

In unrelated note, we have now bought way more native m4/3 lenses than I wanted. My girlfriend hogs all the lenses I like but the 17.5mm 0.95 (she doesn't dig the manual focus). We now have the Panasonic 14mm 2.5, 25mm 1.4 and 42.5mm 1.7 and especially with the GX80 the size of the system is really neat.

Hey Phil, could you please share the eBay link? 

Any more updates on this?