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I meant "lost me" as in "I don't understand" but no worries ! This majority of this thread has lost me in both senses though.

You've lost me with that one but it definitely looks like a game Nintendo would make !

I think whats very interesting is how hard Apple themselves are pushing LumaFusion in their own ads. I'm not sure whether it means they are more likely to offer the sort of file handling that is required or that is more likely they are going to buy them out ! The feedback I've been getting regarding my interface bridge for LumaFusion also tells me that it is definitely on the rise as an alternative to a desktop editor for some projects even when people are sat at an actual desktop rather than just out in the field.

I was hoping the integration with the WD Wireless Pro drive was going to be the missing piece of the puzzle as it is integrated straight into LumaFusion for import and export and it is conceptually great but having picked one up a few weeks ago the reality doesn't match unfortunately. I was given pause for thought by @Robert Collins report about it being slow when I mentioned getting one but the demos I'd seen of it with LumaFusion looked workable and thought it might work better as it was a specific integration job they did for it like they do with Gnarbox. Unfortunately, the performance of the drive is absolutely shit with its own application let alone with someone else's. The standalone auto import from SD card is not only incredibly slow but also very, very suspect. On three different cards from three different camera types it purported to have finished copying but had failed to import all of the files and no way would I trust it again to do it on its own. The less said about its wireless transfer speed, even on 5.8Ghz band, the better. So, to return to the original post anything that can sort out the file handling will be very welcome. The ProRes thing is getting in the way for me now though and that still might make the new version of Gnarbox worth a look as if it can also be directly attached then that will be the whole import/transcode solution sorted.

To be fair, I didn't promise June. I said it would likely be June or July.

Haha..thanks for the consideration.

Why the sad face @kye ?

No, a different one

Only very briefly on a stopover coming back from Singapore a good few years ago so the only diffusion I saw was from the crew running up the aisle spraying us with some sort of bug spray.

They do exist but not at the sort of price or with the sort of footprint you're after This "even sillier lens to put on an MFT camera than the B4" from my previous post is actually a 200-400mm f4 zoom. Back in the real world, Sigma actually do a lens that is quite close to your hypothetical 100-400 f4.5-f5.6 which is their 120-400mm f4.5-5.6 APO OS which used is usually around £300-350. Its a decent performer, has OS and with a smart adapter you'd have some AF.

For a cheap (just over £20) handle with start stop, these are OK I think. https://www.amazon.co.uk/JJC-HR-DV-Remote-Handle-Pistol/dp/B00MRNP2LA Well, I was in Tokyo so maybe the smog takes care of it automatically

This is a common thought about me but more in terms of me being the cause rather than the solution.

I have that Tamron as well, it is an absolute steal for the price they go for. Which controller are you getting as a matter of interest, a basic LANC one or something more dedicated to the Micro ?

Thanks. No IR cut filter, unless there was one built in to the cheapo vari ND that I had on there ! I'm actually actively keeping an eye out for a cheap Micro now. The Pocket needs an EVF/Loupe anyway so I don't see the Micro needing one as an issue and the extra things it offers over the Pocket are worth it. The expansion port for external switch control is appealing in terms of building a custom handle. I've already made some development steps in preparation for that so it might be something that might be of interest to you when I find a camera. The expansion port also has a composite video output which gives some possibilities for cheap wired and wireless monitoring. With regard to the Pocket4K comparison, the OG has less of everything and obviously isn't going to win a game of Top Trumps against it. But...well we know thats not the whole story. In some respects, I don't actually care how it stacks up as long as it is good enough for the situation I need it for. On this trip, I had the OG Pocket in a small side panel of my bag with a couple of spare batteries and the 12-60mm lens. The whole thing weighed hardly anything, wasn't bulky and was discreet enough to take shots without alarming anyone. That just wouldn't have been the same at all with the Pocket 4K so in that situation for me it won hands down because it produced a standard and style of output that was acceptable in a more practical package. I would undoubtedly have been able to potentially do more with the Pocket 4K and done it in lower light but that potential is worthless if it not practical to actually shoot with it. If I only had one or other of them then I wouldn't be crying into my beer about what comes out of them even if one of them is "only" 1080p. I think someone on here was supposed to be doing an A/B comparison ?

I'm expecting it to fare better on the P4K with its greater sensitivity as it was getting fairly marginal on the OG Pocket that I was using it on at times in lower light.

Yes because I'm getting a bit bored of juggling all of my other unfinished symphonies. This is a pretty comprehensive camera app that does the capture end of it but you still need to do the merge in an external app but thats no bad thing in terms of the extra finessing standalone HDR merge apps provide. https://www.camerafv5.com/tutorials/hdr_tutorial.php

I have no experience of them but one thing that does look interesting versus the Uray is that it has an integrated status display screen and buttons to control it whereas the Uray has to be operated through the web interface. That is a big advantage for setting up and making changes and the integral battery makes it a neater overall package too.

I was in a shop a few days ago where they had an A6400 attached to a screen doing a permanent Eye AF demo. I had a great time trying to catch it out with the whole leaning in and out of frame, glasses on/glasses off, covering my eyes with my hand and so on and it NEVER missed a beat. As much as Panasonic get slaughtered for their AF performance (and I spent a good hour comparing the AF of the S1 against the Z6 and EOS-R in the same shop where it was beaten but not totally embarrassed I have to say) we really should acknowledge that Sony have some serious witchcraft going on with their AF.

And this is one of those three. I have quite a few cameras with MFT mount but I've never really bought anything from the mid let alone high end range of native lenses. Partly because I have lenses that I'd sooner use through adapters but also because I just baulk at the price of them really. As a consequence my collection mainly consists of cheap secondhand editions of the lower end stuff but while I was away I spotted a cheap used edition of a mid end one, the Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm f/2.8-4, and bought it as I was looking for a fastish (by MFT standards) standard zoom with stabilisation. As this one has a bit of extra reach on the long end, albeit at the loss of some speed, I thought it made even more sense and I have to say its not bad at all, although it probably distorts more than I would like at the wide end. For use as an all round travel zoom, particularly with a non stabilised camera like the OG Pocket Cinema Camera that I was using it with here, I think its a keeper.

In defence of the L mount*, the two most often used mounts for cinema cameras are PL and EF. There is an adapter for the former and a smart adapter for the latter so the risk such as it is resides in the body. In this respect it is no different to what people have been doing for years with an FS-5 or an FS-7 etc where you would be putting an adapter on it anyway. If people don't want to use an adapter then Sigma's L mount lenses will be here before this camera so the situation in terms of fast native lenses at reasonable prices will be completely different then. I think that considering the track record of the three current members of the L Alliance then the L mount will be around for a good while yet. Its easy to forget that it has already been around for five years as it is. * I'll exclude Leica in that defence for being absolute grade A arseholes for not making their cameras compatible with the Sigma MC-21

After going out and climbing the tree in question, I can confirm that it is just less than stellar rendering/focusing the red 'teeth' of the plants against the blue sky. When I say "climbing the tree in question" I mean taking a shot of it with a real lens

Well that is very interesting. I just picked up a very cheap Zoom H3-VR on my travels to have a play with and one of the clinchers was the V2.0 upgrade now includes support for UltraSync BLUE so I suspect support for Tentacle won't be far behind it if it releasing an SDK. I suppose the SDK would make it more feasible for an inveterate tinkerer to look at making some sort of converter that glued the UltraSync and Tentacle together as it at least provides one side of the puzzle.....

The fastest low latency monitoring (without getting into massive expense) is to use an old style FPV transmitter as per solutions for GoPros on the original Phantom drones etc. As that is an analogue signal, to use it with an HDMI camera then you need and HDMI>AV converter such as this (approx €12 ) Then you connect the output of that to a transmitter such as this one (approx €10 ) There is also this product from Skyzone that is a transmitter with an HDMI input so combines both devices but is a bit more expensive (approx €50 ). Once it is transmitting in this format you then have a multitude of options to receive the signal such as a dedicated monitor like this which come in an array of sizes (approx €30 for 4 inch, approx €50 for 7 inch ) Or you could use an adapter such as this which lets you use your Android device as a monitor (approx €17 ) Another alternative are the FPV goggles which aren't exactly the most discrete thing in the world but are certainly effective outdoors (approx €90 for these particular ones ) Or even this wristwatch receiver which with a Hoodman or similar loupe could actually be fashioned into a remote EVF (approx €35 ) The upside to going this route versus any HDMI wireless solution is that its low cost, lower latency and also very much longer range (1km and up). In addition, as it operates on 5.8Ghz, it is much less prone to interference in crowded public spaces than if it was on 2.4Ghz. The downside is that its not HD obviously as it gets downconverted but with the focus tools on modern cameras for critical manual focus that certainly not the issue it might once have been. The other downside is that its a bit messy on the transmitter end as you need a battery solution for it but making it need is only a question of getting a small project box to put it in really. Here is a latency demo of a typical solution using the Skyzone TX-5D I haven't used one of those but it looks like an ideal integrated solution with having the modem built in. The only thing to be cautious of is being able to get enough cellular network coverage at the location. Not only in terms of there just not being any but also if its a big public event trying to get enough bandwidth can be a problem. I use a Teradek Vidiu Pro for this reason as it allows you to bond multiple connections together to create a much higher bandwidth. This means that if a venue has public wifi for instance but because of the number of people connected to it you can't get enough bandwidth to get a decent stream out then you can combine that with several cellular network signals and aggregate them together into a much faster connection. There are three things to bear in mind about the Vidiu Pro though, the first being that as the streams are aggregated and then sent on to their destination via Teradek's servers then there is, not unreasonably, a usage fee has to be paid to use it. They have the a pay as you go option which is $10 per gigabyte of uplink or subscriptions starting at $20 per month which gives you 50 gigabytes of uplink. It sounds a bit onerous but if you are doing it commercially then it won't add much to your fee to pass this on to your customer and its definitely worth it for the extra security that bonding connections brings. Obviously, if you don't want to use that service then you can just use the wifi or ethernet ports if the venue has them available. The next thing to bear in mind is how it does the cellular connection as it doesn't actually have a cellular modem built in and how it achieves it is a bit unusual in that you have to use iPhones to do it. At first this sounds like a non-starter based on cost but as it can be run on anything from an iPhone 5s upwards then if you get three of those used you are looking at less than £250 to have a very powerful bonded system. Bear in mind as well that you can also put SIM cards from different providers in each of them to give yourself more safety as you then have an opportunity to spread your uplink out over a number of different networks. The final thing of course is cost as Vidiu Pro and the three phones (although you could start with one and build up ) is going to be not far off three times the price of URay. Whether that is worth it to you is something I don't know. If you are doing it commercially where you can't let the client down and will be working in different environments that will have very varying network connections then I'd say it was but if you are just looking to live broadcast one camera from the same place all the time for personal use and you have a consistent network situation then its probably overkill. Details about the Vidiu Pro here anyway. https://teradek.com/collections/vidiu-family Which bit of it was causing the issue ?

For a bit of context on that Angenieux and GX80 combo, I've just put it back on and shot a quick test of it at different stages of its range.