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My narrative? I'm looking at it from the perspective of describing what has actually happened in the process of trying to prepare for that and the well documented reasons for it, so it is commentary rather than narrative. To be honest, the idea that the current deadlocked situation has been brought about by a fifth column of Remainers within the government or parliament as a whole would actually be a better example of a narrative. And it is a narrative that is somewhat undermined by the fact that 81% of MPs voted to trigger Article 50 which ratified the referendum result by giving the EU official notice of the UK exiting and set in law that we would do so on March 29th 2019. Anyway, like the UK, I'm out. I thought you'd become an early casualty of it as we haven't heard from you for a while FlyBMI are better described as being the 'latest' rather than the 'earliest' but there is a bit of wood for the trees stuff going on with all of these announcements. There is no doubt it is a factor but whether it is the primary factor or just the straw that broke the camel's back is open to debate. Its probably the latter in this instance. With Nissan, moving production away from a UK plant who's output will be subject to an import tariff into the EU to a plant in their own country which, thanks to the new EU/Japan trade deal, won't be is a bit more clear cut.

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Its not an interpretation though. The default position in law is that the UK will exit the EU on 29th March so it is definitely going to happen. Any arrangement to agree a trade deal with the EU that kicks in on the 30th of March is incidental to that so the result of the referendum will be actioned irrespective of who is in charge. May cannot get her deal through Parliament because she can't persuade her own party to support it. She lost that vote by the biggest margin ever seen in Parliament due to large blocks of her own party not backing it and then promptly won a vote of no confidence in the government the next day because those self same people voted to back her. Putting party before country has never been more evident than that. Considering that what 'sort' of Brexit was originally voted for in the referendum can't be agreed upon by those who wanted it and has seen a constant shifting of goalposts by those who agitated and campaigned for it, there is scant evidence that the most rabid Leavers would have fared any differently. The appetite for the two lead Tories of the Leave campaign, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, to actually have any sort of leading role in delivering it once they won speaks volumes for what a poisoned chalice it is. There is also a shocking degree of inherent incompetence that has infested our politicians over the past 20 years that means the whole process has been pretty agnostic to the Leave/Remain leanings of those charged with implementing it. When the actual government minister for exiting the European Union (and rabid Brexiteer) haplessly and shamelessly admitted that he hadn't actually appreciated how important the Dover-Calais freight link was then you know you are in trouble. What was 'won' with Brexit was an idea or ideal but what was never there was any sort of detailed or cohesive plan to deliver that and what would happen when their ideal met some real hard facts. What we are seeing now that that reality presents itself is a blame game to try and shift responsibility on to Remainers in the government and the EU itself rather than accept that when you promise unicorns then you have to own that and actually deliver them.

I'm not sure how much quality you would be losing with the element in that adapter but I suppose its worth a go for that price. If it doesn't work out, the path would probably be to do the Leitax F mount conversion for them (its reversible) but if you have a few lenses then at €64 per lens the price might begin to stack up. You'd have to check compatibility as well. http://www.leitax.com/Zeiss-Contax-lens-for-Nikon-cameras.html Your other options then would be to get the Metabones C/Y to MFT but its only 0.71x. Or alternatively join the EF club, which would be the lowest cost if you bought a generic one, but again you will be likely be losing some reduction unless you sprung for the Metabones XL etc.

Imminent.

That's my 35-70mm in the picture so that one definitely works The other ones I have are 28mm f2.8 50mm f1.7 85mm f1.4 135mm f2.8 28-85mm f3.3-f4 I've got no problems with any of them on the Speed Booster Ultra 0.71x or the Aputure DEC Lens Regain. I'm wondering whether there may be issues with other types of focal reducer ?

My suggestion would be to it like the World Cup. Pair the vintage lenses together by focal length (as best as you can) and play them off against each other so you get the best of the vintage stuff. Then play the winners of those matches off against the modern versions. You haven't got like for like with the modern ones but at least you'll be pitching what you have deemed to be the best of the best of the vintage ones to compare them to. If you have an Android device, then I've written a couple of automated stepper apps for Panasonic cameras that might potentially be of use to you for this sort of testing. There is a basic bracket one but also a more elaborate one which will cycle through selectable parameter permutations such as saturation, contrast etc which can be of use in looking at different responses as well. With both apps, it automates the stepping of the parameter and taking the shot for you so you can just set up the lens, press go and it will take care of the rest so you will have sets of exact like for like shots for each lens. You will also get a better context of what lens works best with your particular camera's sensor.

I have a C/Y to EF adapter so I can use my 35-70 (and other Contax lenses obviously!) via a speed booster on MFT to help things along speed wise.

It frustrating really because the cost of making an E-ND is actually quite low. Aputure do a version of their DEC controller of course from EF to MFT or E but there is no pass through for AF which is not as much of an issue for the Pocket 4K as it doesn't do it for any adapted lens anyway but is for other MFT cameras not to mention the Sony ones. There is certainly the space available within an EF to M adapter or a Sigma MC11 EF to E adapter to house one and I'm tempted to pick up a really cheap EF to E adapter to modify and put my own in. When you want a focal reducer involved though then there is just no way to fit one in which brings us back to the front mounted option. You may remember this thread from last year And, well, from today's "Tales From The Lashed Together Protoype Lab" I offer you this that suggests the idea may have been dormant but not forgotten

As I said, I wasn't aware that anyone made one so thanks to you and @xzobinx for the clarification.

This is the user manual from a few months ago. It says in there the Cinema DNG is only up to 4K30p but then their press releases seem to contradict that ! http://downloads.atomos.com/shogun-inferno/Shogun_Inferno_User_Manual.pdf Honestly, I would email them directly and explicitly ask the question for the exact config combination that you want.

I have the W-04 and I've found it to be very reliable. I have used it for video a lot less so than stills but when I was testing it the transfer speed has pretty much been as described by Toshiba so a 100mb file would be about 30-45 seconds. I can't really comment on other people's experience as there are obviously quite a few variables involved with people's setups but if I take what people said about the eye-fi cards and extrapolate that (i.e. lots of people just couldn't get it to work at all but I found it generally OK within reason) then it doesn't surprise me necessarily that there would be issues reported but I would venture they are as likely to be infrastructure related rather than the card itself. One factor that can also interfere of course is over conservative power saving settings on the camera putting it to sleep during long transfers. What I can say though with certainty is that the FlashAir is leaps ahead of the EyeFi cards on every level. The tinkering aspect is a godsend for specific customisations (or custom applications in my case) but is absolutely optional and the system works fine as is with the native app.

And I didn't know it didn't originally do it

True, the Ninja V doesn't but if they are going to bring out a smaller screened "Shogun V" then it would be worth holding out for a few weeks until NAB to have a look unless the purchase was needed immediately if you had the need for the burst 4K mode of the FS5. The Shogun Inferno had a firmware update to handle the 4K120p RAW from the FS5 https://***URL not allowed***/firmware-update-atomos-shogun-inferno-brings-quad-dual-link-support-4k-120p/ At $1395 its quite a bit cheaper than the Odyssey 7Q at $2300 (including the additional RAW license for the 4K120p burst) although the Odyssey does have a very nice additional trick with the Titan HD extract feature for doing faux multi cam from a single 4K camera.

Which is a perfect metaphor for precisely what those unchallenged newspaper headlines about them ended up causing

I'd definitely hold fire until after NAB. The Shogun Inferno will give you the ProRes RAW capability but if Atomos announce an SDI version of the Ninja V then that might be a better form factor.

Yeah but will God force cows to wear nappies though ?

Its more a case of "Same as it ever was" rather than it being a specific omission on the Z cameras as its exactly the same in my other Nikon cameras like the D500 etc. so I'm guessing they don't get enough push back on it from users to have changed it. Whether that changes with Z cameras being a lot more video centric is open to debate I suppose.

I'm on a diet so I'm not stockpiling anything at the moment ! The current situation is that with 41 days left we absolutely still don't know what is going to happen so we can't decide on anything. All we know for certain is that the cliff edge is there in 41 days time and the UK will be careering over it but all that remains to be seen is how hard we hit the ground. The worst case scenario is the 'no deal' where we leave without any form of continuity or transition arrangement with the EU and even the best case scenario of where we do have some form of deal will be infinitely worse than the current deal that we have with them. Because the Prime Minister can't get her deal through, due in part to it being pretty poor but also in part because of the lunatics in her own party who want to capitalise on the chaos of just crashing out, then the default position in law is no deal. Its really hard to express just how bad that it is. But when your own government is issuing statements that they are stockpiling body bags and other essential medicines and can't rule out deaths and having to instigate martial law when you ARE NOT IN AN ACTUAL FUCKING WAR then you know its not exactly what people voted for. Although, bizarrely, under some mass delusion there are many, many people claiming that no deal is what they actually voted for. Whatever happens, things just will never be the same again and the fact is that we have sleep walked into this because for 20+ years our national newspapers have been conditioning people to be anti EU by splashing front page headlines of bare faced lies about EU laws. Here is a list of them https://tompride.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/see-20-years-of-fake-news-about-eu-by-uk-press-vote-for-your-favourite-here/ When you just pick a few out at random such as "Church bells silenced by fear of EU law", "EU forcing cows to wear nappies", "EU to ban zipper trousers" or "English Channel to be renamed Anglo French Pond" you'd be forgiven for thinking it was some kind of satire or published by conspiracy theory obsessed fringe publications. But they're real. All of them. And all from our national newspapers. Because no one actually got a grip of them and said "now come on lads, this is absolute shite and well you know it" it just carried on and carried on and when it goes unchallenged it must be true, right ? Which then brings us on to the anti-immigration agenda they were able to keep promoting. That is just ONE national tabloid. But if you think they were acting in isolation, you'd be mistaken because they were all at it, with varying degrees of success in trying to mask the inherent racism in the message. The official Leave campaign thought nothing of pushing an anti-immigration message based around a single country. You can fill in the blanks yourself about why they chose that particular country. The official Leave campaign has been fined by the Electoral Commission for illegal spending and reported to the Police for criminal charges which you would imagine would've been enough for the result of the referendum to be declared void yet for some unknown reason the Police have had the file for several months and not pursued it. Weird, eh? I just can't see how, as a country, you can come back from this sort of insidious shit and the divisions its created for many, many years. Currently, I can't foresee a reason for me to stick around on the Island to wait for that to happen.

I think you might mean the Nikon Z6 rather than the Sony Z6 I've answered in the other thread. Short answer is you can't.

Yes. There are a raft of things that you can do with it to create your own workflows if you don't mind getting your hands dirty. The developer page has tutorials to create scripts to create bespoke configurations. In this case, you might want to think about getting something like a WD Wireless Cloud device as you could then have the files automatically FTPing to it and use that as a central hub so from there you have options to pull them in to edit them or stream them through Apple TV. https://www.flashair-developers.com/en/documents/tutorials/lua/

No. In video mode, you can only have the histogram display and highlight indicator.

Yes, it is its own little wireless drive so you can be reading from it while the camera writes to it. When you use the app, it copies the files to the iphone/ipad so you should only need one device as you will be likely editing one file as the next one comes in. If you use LumaFusiom to edit with on the iphone it should also be able to take care of directly transferring the files to cut out a step of using the Toshiba app.

I'll answer more fully to @kye question about Brexit in general when I'm back from this job later but I'm just going to chime in about Scotland. Prior to their independence vote in 2014, the people of Scotland were told that the only way they could stay in the EU was to remain in the Union with the rest of the UK. A year later, the Conservative party won an unexpected majority at the general election and instigated their manifesto pledge of calling the Brexit referendum. The referendum was only in the manifesto to placate the right wing elements who might defect to UKIP and Cameron never thought it would have to be called because he expected to have a coalition government with the Liberal party who he knew would veto it. So he took a massive gamble to keep the warring factions of his own party together and it blew up in his face when they won the election outright. Fast forward a year later to the Brexit referendum and the people of Scotland of course voted to stay in the EU as that was the factor that had swung the vote in their independence referrendum but of course they end up being out of the EU by virtue of the number of Leave voters in England. So they have ended up being railroaded into staying in one Union that they barely wanted to be in and then forced out of another union that they did want to be in. They have been shafted royally in my opinion.