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Get off the fence and tell us what you really think of it Was looking at the list of updates they announced in the new firmware for the a9 thinking "surely somewhere in that long list they'll have finally added picture profiles...." Nope.

Well I did actually shoot an international match with the Leica SL a few months ago but that's another story! To be brutually honest, nothing has come along in the mirrorless realm from any of the manufacturers (including Nikon and Canon themselves) that has come close to usurping mirrored versions for sport at that level anyway so in that respect it won't be much different. For all the specs of these cameras, you know full well that I'm still going to beat that drum and say it none of it translates into them breaking that stranglehold at the sharp end. The long lens issue is an unknown until Sigma produce their roadmap as I would expect it to be them rather than Panasonic that would service that end. They have a serious back catalogue to work from though and one thing that isn't talked about much is that they have always had to reverse engineer and make tweaks to get them to work with other cameras so it will be interesting to see how much performance boost they can get when they are involved from the ground up. Having said that, I have an SD Quattro with a 30mm ART that is entirely their design from end to end and the AF on it is absolutely shit so probably not

I'm still hopeful they can work together to add ProRes RAW to my original one as one last firmware hurrah. I'd buy the Ninja V in a heartbeat, not least to gain an actual viable monitoring capability !

There is some interesting bits of information contained within the (lengthy) share offer prospectus for Atomos from a few months ago. Aside from them licensing an SoC to JVC for upcoming video cameras (which may mean hello LS300 MKii ?), four new products for 2019 described as 'next generation' and some interesting data about how big the market is for external recorders, which is bigger than I thought. One other thing, though, which crops up several times throughout the prospectus as a risk factor is a dispute with RED. Elsewhere in the document it states that RED are in the same dispute with another party and, whilst it might not necessarily mean its to do with ProRes RAW and REDCODE it does seem a coincidence that the date of the dispute coincides with the announcement from NAB. Hopefully it will get resolved and if it is about ProRes RAW that it won't put the brakes on the development of it and expanding it to other camera brands and models. Full document here http://downloads.atomos.com/investor/IPO Prospectus.pdf

I have Panasonic's current full frame camera (the one with the expensive German overcoat) and I've got to say that based on my experiences with that and then adding in the four years subsequent development that they will have had by the time the new one is released that they will do just fine with it as a pure photo camera. The drawback of the current one is the limited range of lenses and the eye watering price of them. Both of those aspects will be addressed by the alliance between Panasonic, Leica and Sigma. What they will actually be offering with this camera is a mark II version of the Leica SL at less than half the price with a vastly expanded and cheaper lens line up. When viewed like that, even taking off the premium cost factor of adding the red dot, it is a competitive offering. If nothing else they will shift a bunch of lenses to owners of their existing full frame camera

Most of the 8K TV's I saw on demo in stores in Japan were Sharp ones so them being first with something a consumer can create their own content in 8K with doesn't surprise me. But I have to say I'm surprised at it being in this form factor of being an interchangeable lens camera as I thought it would be much more in the realm of a Sony RX10/Panasonic FZ2000 type of camera if not even a traditional camcorder format like a Sony NX80/AX700. Whilst the price seems very high for it to be a "consumer" product, its actually far less in relative terms versus the cost of the screen its intended to provide content for than it was for those early adopters who wanted to do the same for HD and 4K. And its certainly cheaper than Sharp's other 8K camcorder.

I hadn't but I've just watched it on YouTube They used to scare the shit out of me as a kid. My Dad preyed on this to keep me from playing in the electricity sub station (it was the 70s, we had a different benchmark for danger back then) by saying the loud buzzing noise coming out of it was from the daleks that lived in there.

Nah, you only need a flight of stairs.

Sounds like some really fucked up hidden mode you've discovered on the Alexa there.

Fuji used to make very handsome cine cameras. If they did move back into dedicated motion cameras, carried on their retro styling cues of the stills range and put the X-T3 internals in this then I suspect many people would wet their pants. I'd be one of them

In the UK, he went from being the editor of the right wing News Of The World tabloid to being the editor of the left wing Daily Mirror tabloid. And as far as I can tell he is simultaneously and equally loathed by both left and right. He truly is Schrodinger's Twat.

I picked a copy of this magazine up at the airport when I was back on the Island this week, primarily because it featured an interesting piece with Jihua Zheng, the co-owner of Kinefinity. As a gentleman of a certain age (and increasingly uncertain age due to my expiring memory) I have to say its very reassuring to pick up an actual paper publication to read equipment reviews and editorial content. Its also reassuring after all the "are they or aren't they being paid for this?" doubts about YouTube reviews in particular to see real unambiguous adverts on a page so you know exactly where the money is coming from. Ditto that what little advertorial content there is in it being clearly labelled across the page as being so. Also, because it isn't created on the hoof on the back of press junkets or off re-cycled press releases it has a bit more diverse content too rather than just feeding the hype of whatever is the flavour of the month. Or flavour of the second in a lot of cases. For me at least, it provides if not a complete alternative then certainly an interesting addition to the deluge of online stuff. And its a far easier medium to consume when you are on a plane and don't have wifi as well Hopefully it will get the support it needs to grow further https://www.promoviemaker.net/index.php/current-issues

It really does take a special type of reactionary dickhead to consider a vegan sausage roll as an act of political correctness. And then to articulate that thought out loud.

Yes. It will be published on the 27th. Of this month. And this year I'll put a bit of an update here later in the week with a couple of pictures and a final run list of its functionality.

No need to waste the metal as he can be apparently be brought down by meat substitute alone. After helping whip up a national frenzy after a bakery chain released a vegan version of its sausage roll (like we don't already have enough pressing matters in the UK to dominate public debate) he decided to really show his moral outrage and disgust by eating one on his TV show. After spitting it out (yes on live TV) he is now claiming it is responsible for him being hospitalised. A part of me is hoping that the bakery in question had actually sneakily obtained his DNA (possibly from a bile soaked microphone used during one of his whiney rants) and identified a way to attack his gastrointestinal system to see if they could make actual shit rather than the usual metaphorical shit pour out of his mouth. Many countries come up with creative ways to surrepticiously remove enemies of the state but I suppose it does still speak to a certain type of Britishness to attempt to do it via the medium of baked goods.

I suppose that's the issue when it comes to disagreements about music when you have so many guns around. To paraphrase a British comedian on the issue.... You sent us Elvis Presley and we took him to our hearts, we sent you John Lennon and you shot him. Speaking of comedians, I think Chris Rock had a great idea to enable people to still own guns but reduce the number of "heat of the moment" murders by charging $5000 each for the bullets on the basis that you would really have to be mad at someone to waste $5000 on them

The crux of it is that people were given an opportunity to give a simpllistic answer to a very complex question. Irrespective of the flat out lies, they were asked if they wanted to sit on a chair without being told it was an electric one. For such an enormous change to have been actioned, the threshold should have been set at a much higher level than 50.1% For anyone outside the UK, the impact of this vote might not seem as seismic as they are being portrayed but the underlying factors that caused it should scare the shit out of you. The targeting and manipulation of voters through social and traditional media sounds like something out of a conspiracy thriller but was frighteningly real and comparitively frighteningly cheap. Anyway, time for a break for me.

35% of the total electorate voted to leave of the 72% that voted, so its the 28% that didn't actually go and vote that have got what they deserved. I'm not actually sure what Britain or being British actually even means anymore let alone what the difference between the two may or may not be. The only thing that it seems unites everyone is the feeking of division. Pretty ironic really.

Unfortunately, the detail involved means that we will be anything but fine. Frictionless trade and with mainland Europe isn't just a buzz phrase but a vital part of not just how much trade we do but how we are able to do that trade. Everything that has evolved over our almost half a century relationship with the EU from food and safety standards, to human rights, worker protection, research projects, funding of development of deprived areas and the two way benefits of freedom of movement will all end in a couple of months. My right to work, trade and latterly live in other European countries that I have enjoyed for the past 27 years will be over. My wife who is an EU national has also spent those same 27 years working in the UK, paying taxes and contributing to the economy will now have to pay a registration fee to stay in our own home. Her pensions and other assets are locked into a currency that has been devalued, her future status is no longer protected by EU agreements and living in a country that is becoming ever more flagrantly hostile to EU nationals. And all of this while we are still bound by the terms of membership so God knows how it will become when the gloves are off after we leave the EU. So we have had to make a decision to open an EU company in readiness and unless a miracle happens and Brexit is halted we will close our UK one because it will just present too many problems to trade with and within the EU from outside it. Without sounding too dramatic, due to the ideologies behind it and the impact it will have on my ability to maintain my career, Brexit has made me a political and economic refugee and I will be leaving the UK permanently. Even if everything is 'fine' in the UK after Brexit, it will never truly be 'fine' again due the fractures it has created and the light it has shone on some ugly truths. And yet we continue to sleep walk to the abyss because of some insane combination of an outdated notion of exceptionalism within the wider world and keeping a stiff upper lip. Summed up really by this from one of our better comedies that I'm sure you are both familiar with From the same programme, this also sums up where we are and what we need at this late hour instead of just blindly walking into no mans land. Unfortunately, all we've got is a government who have handed a £15m contract to bring in the emergency medical and food supplies we will need post Brexit to a ferry company that has no ferries. Not very cunning at all.

Well if you can't blame it on the sunshine,the moonlight,the good times or indeed the boogie then I suppose I'm next in line.

Prores RA To reflect the crop factor.

Have you got a +1 for this Barcelona thing ?

Have a look at The Thick Of It as well. If you can't find the boxsets then there is usually a live improv version of it currenty running pretty much every day on the BBC Parliament channel...

If its old world and fucked up you're after then look no further than us from the end of March. Bring your own medicine and trade deals with you though.

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