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Yeah, I think people will be sold on the image (crop aside) but its the longer term reliability thats troubling everyone so it'll be great if he does a brief monthly update. "And this week, I put version 2.3 firmware on which allows you to charge the batteries in the grip without removing them and I have to say the results were mixed...."

I'm having to pour the WD40 on mine as well. Its the remote that fascinates me. Especially if its combined with the gimbal remote.

The Ninebot Pro as a gimbal operator platform has some legs (well, wheels) for something like that. As well as being able to be ridden, it can also be driven remotely by an app without a human on it thus removing their pesky Z axis thrashing about. As most of the small gimbals use the AlexMos controller which itself can be remote operated then you've got quite a capable package. Allied with the auto tracker that you backed on Kickstarter we would have ourselves a very nifty operator. And with a couple of guns, our own Robocop.

He's in another thread too but I hope they leave that post alone as it just says 'Panasonic is a device wrapped in the heart of the house is used.' I don't mind spam when its as poetic as that Though I'm surprised it didn't spark an angry response regarding the weather sealing of that house such is the recent hair trigger vibe of this place.

I wouldn't be too hasty to write this off to be fair. I don't know @Arikhan in real life but he's always struck me as a standup fella.

GlideGear sell the wheels only from their system. Never used them personally but they seem to get good reviews from people using them to go the DIY route. https://www.amazon.com/Glide-Gear-Tripod-Swivel-Wheels/dp/B0125IUEV4/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1521573335&sr=1-2&keywords=glide+gear+dolly

You'd have to be a whole lot richer to buy it in the UK. Just added all those items up at a big UK camera store and its $8800 if you buy those parts here so your $5499 is the sale of the century !

Whatever fantastical AI driven gazillion megapixel light field camera recording onto a grain of rice that manufacturers come up, you can bet your life they still won't put a microphone input on the entry level ones.

I'm less concerned about where it goes to be repaired but how they can keep you going in the meantime. If the distributors got plenty of swap out units (which I've been led to believe by one of them that they will) then it doesn't matter to me where they send it for repair.

Well, the debate can end, the master has spoken.

Potential solution depending on how you're working.... Cage for the Shogun which you can then attach camera strap to. Cheap quick release plate on the cage to get it on and off your rig for when you want to monitor on it for composition setup etc and use the camera screen for actually shooting and have it over your shoulder when you don't. If you are mainly using it as a recorder then you can leave it over the shoulder and set the HDMI trigger to auto start stop when you press record on the GH5. https://www.amazon.co.uk/SmallRig-Camera-Monitor-Assassin-Recorder-1788-Cage-1788/dp/B072MS5J3W

This looks like an interesting add on to help with the Z axis movement. Not a magic bullet as you still need to hone your technique but looks to be a definite advantage to people like me who move about as elegantly as that Honda robot. Has anyone here got one?

C'mon.....Its been Monday for 10 whole hours now @Arikhan

Maybe they need to switch the second one on then

Yes, I meant that there must've been a good reason to have left it off the X-T2 and this is probably it ! Not specifically that they knew it would cause an AF issue but that the overall processor impact was too negative. If thats the case, the quick fix will be an auto disabling of it when in video mode as it is on the X-T2. Curious about if having IBIS off changes the outcome as well. Ditto if using the grip with its extra grunt changes it too. One of the great things about the X-T2 is the degree of AF tuning you can do but that flexibility might also be an achilles heel when it comes to tracing stuff like this.

If it works, why not. Bit less flexible and it would be better being enclosed but as a solution you can't fault it for battery life

I've just looked at replicating this DR impact on AF on my X-T2 and, unless I'm missing something, you can't change the DR setting when its in video mode. If you set up two custom profiles, one with DR on 100 and one on DR 400 for example, it always defaults back to DR AUTO when you switch to video mode. (Obviously another of the 'quirks' of the X-T2 is that you can't switch profiles while its in video mode so you have to switch back to stills each time to make the change) So is the 'bug' here that they actually allow you to change it in video mode on the X-H1 and they should've left it disabled?

Interesting resource for anyone wanting to look into discussions from existing Kinefinity users https://kinecommunity.com/index.php

Thats a really neat setup. I have to say though, if I attempted to take something like that on holiday, I'm pretty certain I'd get this sort of reaction from the other half !

I know. Here it is on the the new camera doing AF-C eye tracking (albeit of a picture but it gets the point across!) on one of these

Eh? The D5 is a full frame camera. As is the other de-facto standard for shooting sport, the Canon EOS-1 DX Mark II

Its the TechArt Pro adapter that intrigues me for the Sony mount cameras. AF for any manual lens you can get a Leica M adapter for (i.e. all of them!) is pretty amazing. It even works with modern AF Nikon G lenses if you have an M adapter with aperture control.

You not getting an X-H1 then Jon?

I don't own an NX1 so had't really been paying much attention to the what and how of the hacking development but I started having a closer look at it last night and today. From what I've now seen of the tools and architecture - and a couple of clues in @Arikhan 's earlier posts about there being no audio and there being a particular workflow element to it - then I can surmise the approach to this and its more than viable. Roll on Monday is all I can say. And to speed the wait along, here is a flashback to a thread from here showing it in 15fps stills mode to simulate what it might look like