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Its way beyond mine most of the time too

Here are the screenshots of it in action today in a city centre. First scan shows everyone's Fitbits etc as well as the camera. You now click on Search List and enter the filter term you want (I chose "Camera") And then it filters all of the other devices out. You could choose "4K" or whatever but I decided against a default in case people have renamed their cameras.

Looks like they missed off the "t" in bankruptcy in their initial link. I suspect that they were looking to get some positivity from letting a couple of outlets see it but its backfired as it obviously wasn't ready but financially it was probably a bit of a last roll of the dice so they had to roll it too soon. If they had got a glowing review from Bloom having it then it might have given them the breathing space and impetus for a reasonably quick Kickstarter process. I'm quite sad about it to be honest because it takes a lot of graft to try and get a product to market and there is a big difference in this case in my view than something like the Meyer Optik Görlitz situation where there was clearly some chicanery going on from the get go. In this case, I think the spirit was willing but the finance was weak. Conceptually what they were attempting to do was a sound one and would have been of benefit but you need deeper pockets to fund that even when you are using off the shelf parts. I just hope they weren't using pre-order deposits/full payments from their other products to fund it. Though they wouldn't be the first company to have done that.

Yep, the last image is because it is not showing in the scan which means that the camera still thinks its connected. Exiting the app through the Close Application in the top right menu ensures that the connection is terminated correctly. There is a v1.11 update that I'll put up tomorrow to filter out non-Blackmagic devices during the scan which helps A) if you are in a very congested public place and B) if your phone scans very slowly as it appears to be the case from looking at some reports of that particular one. I am off to a place that satisfies criteria A this afternoon to test it and it will automatically update your app when its published tomorrow.

Yep, thats the same one as I'm using. I need to do more tests with the original battery versus the RavPower ones as it may be a factor here.

I wouldn't worry about what other people are up to or where they seem to be at. Everyone is winging it to some degree or another. Plus, they haven't got Jasper so, you know, who's really winning here? If its any consolation, I have been through several more of those 0 birthdays than you and still don't feel completely like an adult. Its often no bad thing.

I had the same issue last week with an NP970 sled. In my case the internal battery drained completely and the camera wouldn't power on without one in so I had to let the power bank re-charge the battery for a while before resuming. I'll have to do a few more tests myself as well.

Sadly, they have announced bankruptcy. Hopefully no one has been stung financially with regard to pre-orders. https://www.newsshooter.com/2019/03/16/cinemartin-to-close-due-to-bankrupcy-/

With the GH5 it is not listed in the menu settings as it automatically switches on when no lens contacts are detected.

There was something about that voice that made me think you might have been better off using an orange coloured sock...

Unfortunately I don't have a similarly fast 24mm to test against the Samyang 24mm f1.4 But as way of an interesting comparison I do have a reasonably fast 25mm lens. So in the next episode of "Fun With Focal Lengths" we will be doing this...

I'd have to say that for someone surrounded by sharks then in terms of worries you've certainly got bigger fish to fry. Or avoid at all costs in this case ! Lovely footage.

Didn't know you'd been to my in-laws place.

Oh man...that sucks ! The small Panasonic 14mm and 20mm pancakes are pretty good little lenses. For versatility, particularly as it has OIS, the yacht club special is cheap, cheerful and definitely worth having in your pocket. Although judging by the size of your pocket in the picture above you could probably fit a large tele-zoom in it.

Having looked at the spec, it seems likely to be based around this Sony display. Based on AR/VR glasses that also use this display, I'm suspecting it will be between $800-1000? https://www.framos.com/en/ecx335b-20618

He looks like he's struggling to work out where to plug that unicorn tail in.

The spec sheet is the same as the 360 ONE X so yes that will be 18mp total. 360 ONE X also shoots LOG but I only briefly experimented with it as I wanted something I could share fast out of the camera on holiday so didn't fancy the extra steps in colour correcting it. Should be lots of examples on YouTube of LOG footage for you to have a look at though. The ONE X had a spare battery in the kit as a nod I guess to acknowledging battery life isn't great but I'm not sure if this one does? What I find is that because its capturing everything then I don't need to use a phone as a preview monitor so that improves battery life but also I just had a small usb power bank in my bag to keep it topped anyway. What I would say after using it up a mountain is that if you do extended takes you won't need to pack a hand warmer!

Damn, I was hoping you were going to say it was awful so I could save some money

Its to commemorate the spot from where Oskar Barnack took the very first picture with a Leica camera. And this is it I'm a lightweight drinker so I'd have taken a shot of booze every time I took a shot of the booze I'd have been on my back before we got to the third lens.

I think it has a fraction more contrast but really only a fraction and its nothing that couldn't be adjusted for. I have the 8mm (not a fan but purely for ultra wides of stadiums so a necessary evil), the 14mm and, yes, the 24mm f1.4 Is that a challenge ? I think I should take the post down while we sell our Contax Zeiss collections on eBay ! I haven't got the 135mm but I've seen a few cheap enough that might change that...

I've noticed the BBC have started to use the OneX for self filmed walk and talk reports on things like Newsnight. The use of the tiny planet mode from time to time gives the game away (!) but in the main its actually very effective. You can tell its not been shot on something more elaborate but how many generations are we from it not being the case, one maybe two ? The stabilisation it can do is actually very impressive. This new one is about 10% more expensive and looks to be more aimed at trying to carve out something new for phone users but, like RED, unless everyone has the screen (or adapter) in this case then your target audience is limited if or until it catches on.

I am really knocked out by how good the X is as a fun travel camera but I'm looking at this new one thinking "mmm....but that looks even more fun" Its how they get you isn't it ?

Speaking of which.... I did tests at f1.4 and at f5.6 The top row is the Samyang 85mm at f1.4 and f5.6 and the bottom row is the Contax Zeiss 85mm at f1.4 and f5.6 I deliberately underexposed slightly as I would do normally with the SL but have added no corrections hence the slightly darker image. First up, the chart stuff. The Contax Zeiss has a glow at f1.4 but its a tiny focus error on my part being a blind buffoon. I could have stopped at this point as its pretty obvious that the difference between them is marginal but I like to give value for money so I did a bit more of a contextual test. It might not seem an obvious test (it looks more like a cry for help with all that booze) but its quite informative to illustrate the out of focus rendering, handling of colour and tonality, detail etc etc. Same lineup, so the top row is the Samyang 85mm at f1.4 and f5.6 and the bottom row is the Contax Zeiss 85mm at f1.4 and f5.6 and focus is set on the Cointreau bottle. Just to add a bit more context to what you are getting separation wise for your f1.4 dollar, I brought a couple of slower manual lenses of a similar focal length to do the same test with with both being shot at their maximum aperture. The top row is the Contax Zeiss 28-85mm at 85mm f3.4 and f5.6 and the bottom row is the Leica 90mm Summicron M at f2 and f5.6 CONCLUSION ? My own view is its not really worth pixel peeping between the Samyang 85mm f1.4 and Contax Zeiss 85mm f1.4 when they are as close as this. The Samyang though.....bargain.

It does need a modification but its perfectly easy to do. Here is a full tutorial on how to do it for this specific lens (but can be applied to other similarly tricky EF-S lenses) although this is a far higher precision route to doing it than I did. I took the "hacking" part of the title of this tutorial a little bit more literally !