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This had the air of what Arthur C Clarke meant when he said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Right up until the point in the demo where it had clearly gone a bit awry. Incredibly promising though and nowhere near as expensive as I thought it might have been.

Get all three. Its the only logical option here! Add the Ninja Inferno while you're at it and get ProRes and pristine monitoring for all three for only $300 per camera!

If all you're after doing is adding to the weight of the camera then one option could be to get one of these hot shoe to tripod screw converters and then put some heavy washers on the screw part. The advantage of using the washers is that you can progressively add them to build up to the correct weight if thats what is causing the problem. If it doesn't work then you'll only be a few quid out of pocket and at least you've got a hot shoe to tripod screw converter which are always useful to have ! And some washers for general plumbing emergencies. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Camera-Mount-Tripod-Screw-Adapter-x/dp/B01KFUBALM/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1493939870&sr=8-4&keywords=hot+shoe+tripod+mount

I haven't got a GH5 buy, yeah, looking at the manual and online videos of the VFR it doesn't appear to be variable within recording like it is on the FZ2500 and their consumer camcorders that have that function. The Dolly Zoom would be out because its a combination of the optical lens zooming in/out and image scaling that requires an integral lens for the software to pull off. It *could* be possible on the few MFT powered zooms that Panasonic do I guess but it doesn't appear to be part of the feature set as yet. Its some camera that FZ2500 isn't it?

Stockings?

Be sure to check back in at the end of this month when the new free firmware update enables it. Well, the upgrade is free its just that you need another £900 to actually record it

I've been browsing across different news sources and YouTube channels and there were some interesting products outside of the usual main players. It was always this sort of stuff that I found more interesting when going to NAB. This slider is pretty cool. Supposed to going to be $2000 complete with all of the motorised stuff. More info here http://www.waterbird.at ---------------- If you've got an interest in iOS or Android mobile film making then this is a really nice dual channel wireless solution for it. And also has analog outputs so it can be used with an ordinary camera as well. $249 for a receiver and one transmitter or $349 with an additional transmitter is a decent price.

And with the removable top handle it breaks down easily to fit into a small backpack. They could've saved even more space by leaving off the EVF! The ones I'm going to use it with are all featured on their should work list so fingers crossed! The EF-S ones require some modification to make it fit into the mount but should be OK. I picked up a great deal on a 10-18mm (£130) that is a much better lens than it should be expected to be even for its real price so that I could have a cheap small wide for the LS300 but also for my other MFT mount cameras. I followed this guide to modifying it to make it work with the metabones so I'm looking forward to testing it when I get the adapter. When I say that I 'followed' the guide what I mean is that I did all the same steps in removing the screws but then as I haven't got a Dremmel I reverted to using a hacksaw!!

I'll get back to you about that when I get my metabones Canon smart adapter! It does actually have face detect AF too and according to the manual its got some scope to tune it properly with the hysteresis particularly. But I think the world has seen enough face detect AF tests!

Here it is doing that particular job by the way. HD to the card and simultaneous live stream broadcast via the £10 Edimax dual band wifi adapter you can see sticking out near the back next to the peephole viewing device. Or the EVF as JVC laughingly refer to it. And my Nikon 70-200mm seeing some action as a very functional broadcast lens ! As this was in HD, using the Prime Zoom (or Zoom Zoom in this case) actually turns it into a 70-460mm f2.8 lens. Not too shabby really.

I did ponder that it might be the Sony but wondered if he'd be bothered with the extra hassle of recording external audio. Of course if it WAS the Sony then he'll obviously have to fly Max and PhotoJoseph in to get to the bottom of it

Yes. It adds some improvements to the remote monitoring as well so you can control it when it's in 4K mode.

Has Neistat moved over permanently to the GH5 now? Just curious as if you look at his latest vlog when he's doing a piece to camera on the bridge where he proposed to his wife then he must've had it in the hitherto unknown Bridge Detect AF mode....

Puzzled by his answer to when the new LS300 firmware will be available. "It won't be released until March" Erm....its already April mate. I hope its not March 2018! As a side note, I used the LS300 on its first job this week live streaming a press conference. Not thrilling obviously but it shows how versatile this thing is. Just having the USB host port on it so you can plug in a cheap USB wireless or ethernet adapter and get out live direct off the camera or even just plug in a 4G modem stick and go live is an absolutely incredible feature. Considering how much a Teradek Vidiu would cost to add this function to another camera, thats well over a third of what I paid for the LS300.

I was watching that with headphones on. I'm sending you an invoice for some new underpants.

Thats a real let down isn't it? As you say, all the ones I've seen seem to operate panels no problem but no consolation. Its not just the batteries either, the chargers can sting a bit price wise as well. Cheapest way in that I've seen are the batteries where you get the direct tap charger included. Though whether I'd budget for a fire extinguisher to go with it is another matter! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FENTION-FS-BP150-V-Lock-V-Mount-Rechargeable-10-4Ah-150Wh-Battery-Charger-Kit-/361957152174?hash=item544653d5ae:g:rsQAAOSwmCVY9dAy

That Slingstudio system that they're talking about is very very interesting. I've just been tearing my hair out trying to devise (i.e. cobble together) a more cost effective version of multiple Terradek Vidius and switching system to do some (very) small scale multi camera live outside broadcast stuff and going backwards and forwards with different permutations of small hardware switchers, software switchers and no name hdmi to rtsp encoders. This thing seems to do it all as one integrated and much more cost effective system. https://www.myslingstudio.com

Yes, he's pricing the NPfs at $30 a piece by the looks of it. So 2 hours means he's using 2 x NPF at $30 each and the adapter at $50 so $30+$30$+$50=$110 And then every additional 2 hours of power is $60 (2 NPF x $30)

From the original post on Cheesycam, someone ran a test on another LED light between a real v lock and two NPFs on the adapter. Won't be absolute in terms of how long they will run this new Dacast of course because its on a different light but the comparative figures will be a good guide. The advantage of the NPFs is obviously cost but also that they'll do double duty as there are numerous low cost powering solutions for cameras like BM and field monitors/recorders that use them. From the original thread >>> "I did a test on the CN-600s with a Beillen 150 Wh V-mount battery, and it lasts 3 hours. The cheapest 150Wh V-mount battery I see on Ebay, Lanparte brand, is about $200, and the Beillen --also Chinese-- is about $250. The dual-NPF solution is much more economical. 3 hours v-mount=$200-250 2 hours NPF+adapter=$110 4 hours NPF+adapter=$170 6 hours NPF+adapter=$230" ------------------------- http://cheesycam.com/v-mount-adapter-for-sony-l-series-np-f-batteries/

Curious decision at that price point to use V lock batteries. I know Dracast do their own V locks so they'll be happy to sell you some to use with it but they're more than the price of the light itself. A cheap light for a pro if you've got v locks kicking about already but not having it use NPFs makes it less so for everyone else? Has anyone tried one of these NPF to V lock adapters? The no name ones I've seen on Amazon seem to be supplied with a suspiciously large number of spare fuses!

I'd be interested to see them side by side to be honest. The versatility of the LS300 has had me wetting myself but I'll reserve judgement over the image quality for a while. Yeah, I think this is where they should be heading myself at least in the short term. There is a big hinterland between the SLR form factor cameras and the FS5 etc Thought it would be an area for BM to dominate but they seem to be leaving it alone and going after the £5K+ area. Who knows, there might be a very good reason for that in that people like the idea of a production style GH5 but don't actually like the idea of buying one in the end!

I'd see it more as a refresh of the DVX-200 internally with the lens removed so they could get it into a price range closer to £3K than the £5K of the FS5. Might be easier for them to own a market segment of their own and bring an existing user base who are invested in the mount up with them than try and slug it out with Sony in a market where they wouldn't have a price advantage? An integral speedbooster would be the way to arrive at an attractive compromise if they could pull it off

It seems the quickest, easiest and probably lucrative thing riding the crest of the GH5 buzz would be to swap out the GH4 sensor from the DVX-200 for the GH5 one and take the lens off it. And not paint it red this time. I picked up a used LS300 a couple of days ago and its a very compelling package with the combination of sensor size, the versatility of the mft mount and some smart stuff from JVC. I've had native mft lenses on it (which you can use way beyond the 82% scaled coverage that JVC recommend for mft by the way), PL cinema lens, long Nikon primes with and without speedbooster and small Contax primes which it can magically turn into par focal constant aperture zooms complete with a rocker switch! All with the convenience of built in NDs, physical switches, XLR's etc So it can go from stripped down shot grabber to cinema style to sports and wildlife broadcast camera and all points in between within a few seconds. That type of functionality with the goods on offer from the GH5 like IBIS and 10 bit and so on would be a pretty incredible camera and theres no reason it couldn't come in at the same price or less than the DVX-200. With all of that capability, would the sensor size be an absolute deal breaker?

You know, I didn't really want to get drawn into responding at length to this - hence my earlier self deprecating response - and I don't want to now either to be honest but I'm just going to say I'm a bit bewildered at such a withering put down at the suggestion of how separating the sensor and the processor and being able to modularise the rest of the interface and control to shape it to the function. Surely its better for the user to be able to use the same imaging unit stripped totally down for, say, a drone or gimbal and then built up again to shoot in a compact form for other shots and then even put in an SLR style body because you want to go and shoot some stills than to buy separate cameras? And for the manufacturer, why miss out entirely on a piece of the drone market because you don't make a specific camera for it when you could just repurpose your sensor? Anyway, I'll just leave this here .... http://www.newsshooter.com/2017/04/24/sony-umc-s3ca-block-camera-a7s-ii-sensor-in-an-even-tinier-package-nab-2017/ Sony eh? Clueless pricks.

Funky, as in do bears funky in the woods. I always reserve judgment when I read reviews from people that say the EVF on x,y or z camera is terrible until I've tried it myself as I don't usually find them as bad as people make them out to be, relative to budget expectation anyway. I won't be doing that again after the LS300! I thought my eyes were broken.