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LT storage rate is just over 40% of HQ so roughly 2.5x the record time per TB.

The second camera is the Sony X3000 though. In its (I'm guessing) primary role as a second angle its not issue but even in 'selfie' mode its plenty wide enough and small enough sensor to get in focus shots without needing too much reach. Well for a normal human that doesn't have T-Rex arms like me it is anyway For what its worth, though, if @kye was open to suggestions about alternative cameras (which I appreciate that he isn't), I agree with your earlier one that the camera I would be using for something like this would be the Osmo, not least because it has a screen but also because it can be driven remotely by a travel companion from a smartphone, something which opens up a ton of additional possibilities to squeeze additional coverage from a fixed position as do the automated tracking options. I'd mount it on a flat bar in the hotshoe but mount the bar facing forward so it overhangs the top of the GH5 lens to give distance back to yourself when its in selfie mode. Mounted in one of these brackets (which has a 1/4 20 mount in the base) its really fast to take it out to use it standalone as well.

Yep, the adapter works fully on the S1. This is an auto-translate from Map Camera's website where they have tried it with a Canon 24-70mm f2.8 L lens (which is outside of the scope of lenses officially supported as they are all Sigma ones). The gist of it seems to be that a) it didn't blow the camera or the adapter up b) it could AF and c) best try it yourself to see if its adequate for your own usage. Considering the only other comparable-ish equivalent lens in L mount is the best part of £4K then it might well be very adequate !

For what you are trying to do, I don't think you can go far wrong with a folding L bracket like this one to mount the X3000 on. The first advantage to this is that the camera can be forward facing but with a quick turn of the screw you can spin it to be rear facing so you can carry on shooting forward with the GH5 but still get your own reaction in simultaneously. The second advantage is if you remove it (and I'd recommend a quick release plate to make it even more effective), you fold the bracket up and have a nice pistol grip for the X3000. With this set up you can go from the X3000 being used as a second angle, a selfie angle and fully autonomous camera within a couple of seconds.

You're talking like I haven't already got a hacksaw, some wires, a few switches and the good old epoxy out

The old 'tape over the contacts' trick has made a comeback ! Manual focus and locked aperture but at least it mounts and I can see some enterprising 3rd party making a cheap semi-smart adapter now that has aperture control.

I was always more interested in the Huawei one when it and the Samsung version were first announced. I'm not sure as a phone really but my interest was in them in a tablet form factor that folded out into a more laptop sized version. I can see much more potential in them for that.

Most have USB host ports though so you can just plug a reader in to them. I do like the look of the Nexto (and whilst not cheap its actually cheaper than I thought it would be) but for my uses it lacks the ability to serve the files wirelessly so I'm still looking at the DIY route. There is a new SBC called Rock Pi that as well as USB3 ports also has an M.2 interface onboard. That is a bit of a gamechanger as it means you can have 1TB on onboard SSD storage for portable card backup in the field that can also act as a wireless drive to an iPad and can even transcode if you wanted it to and all for a total cost of under £200 including the storage. I've built experimental ones with other SBCs but even the ones with USB3 have had that achille's heel of needing external drives to dump onto which makes them a bit clunky. I'm going to try and pick one of these up and see if it can match the potential.

Well thats great news. Weird as well considering they had to do firmware updates for the SL and the CL (and said they have to do one for the TL2) but great news none the less! Makes me wonder whether the T just might be accidentally compatible with the MC-21 as well

Is the T able to control that Panasonic 24-105mm by any chance?

You forgot my Hasselblad

Santa Maria eh? Here is your namesake ship. Why don't you load it full of your Spam and make like Columbus and fuck off in search of new lands.

When they've finished they give the cameras to influencers like Gnome Knows Kodachrome here to hype it up.

There is also the 7Artisans 50mm f1.1 Cheaper than the Mitakon too.

Well, someone on the Leica forum has an MC-21 and put the latest 3.5 firmware update on his SL and.... It looks like they weren't kidding then. What a fucking downer that is.

Canon ones have a special gnome prison in theirs where they keep all the dissident gnomes that want to paint on the whole area of the canvas instead of just the fenced off area in the middle.

Quite apt calling it an Oasis when its run by a frequently angry Mancunian

I am actually getting on with that, despite appearances to the contrary! Currently through the SD car/lightning adapter. LumaFusion can save a project archive including the source clips to cloud services if you have the bandwidth but it can also do it to a wireless drive so I just use a WD NAS when I get home. I got this dock for my SurfaceGo which clips on the side in the USB C port and adds a bunch of expansion ports and readers to it. It was £12. I dread to think how much an Apple one would be if they ever offered such an option !

For it to replace the iPadPro/LumaFusion, for me at least, it has to be self contained as I use it there and then in the field to do quick pieces. As I've mentioned earlier in the thread, LumaFusion is my favourite editor irrespective of platform as I don't have particularly sophisticated needs but it just lacks that ProRes import which is more important to me now and the file handling is, erm, less than optimum ! I'm now re-visiting my own integrated portable auto backup/transcoding/file serving device that could solve those issues and might be useful for other people as well.

There is an 8GB version of the SurfaceGo but how good it would be for running Resolve in a meaningful way (ie for colour correction and the rest of it) as opposed to purely using it for the Cut page I would still be very cautious. On my 4GB one it loads, responds reasonably OK playing back HD media and exports at about 2-3x real time but the interface is way too small to do anything with, although learning the keyboard shortcuts would be a way for me to go ! I think a new generation of the SurfacePro is not far off so I would certainly be interested in trying that out as a PC definitely has more potential for other things such as running vMix to do live switching.

As an experiment, I installed Resolve 16 on the cheap SurfaceGo to see if the new Cut page could be the LumaFusion with ProRes and better file handling option replacement. It kind of almost sort of worked OK but obviously the UI is not designed for touch input so you are tied in to using the keyboard/trackpad. If BM had a mind to re-skin it for a touch interface (and running it on the SurfacePro obviously) it would probably be the solution I'm after but I doubt they are in a hurry to ever do that.

Back to M mount with the Voigtlander 40mm f1.4

Picked up a cheap used copy of the already cheap Fujinon XC 15-45 mm f/3.5-5.6 OIS PZ. I have the companion one to this lens the 50-230mm which I think is a great value so I was hopeful for this one too. It didn't let me down particularly but it being a power zoom is a bit of an acquired taste and its an underwhelming f5.6 at the (shortish)long end but its small, light, has OIS and covers a great range for reportage. Both lenses as a kit work well with something like the X-T20 here as a compact, lightweight stabilised travel kit (particularly if you add in a faster prime to compliment them) that are cheap enough used that you won't cry yourself to sleep over some mishap befalling them on your travels. Top two rows are the 15-45mm and the bottom row is the 50-230mm.

Yeah, I've looked longingly at the Gnarbox and the newer version is still not out so I don't know whether that will be the solution. I'm rather thinking now that I might just roll my own as there are a few SBCs now with multi USB 3 ports, gig ethernet that can run as portable file servers that would suit for what I need. With regard to the Lacie, not sure whether they've updated the firmware but it does work with the iPad. I'm also not entirely sure whether the link with DJI is just a branding thing as the app does just seem to present it as it would any other file system rather than something specific to DJI format files for viewing and copying.

Bravo. And a good reminder to everyone about how much sound design brings to the party. And well done on casting @webrunner5 in it too