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Nice shots but..... Title of video : I Got Arrested in Rome - What Every EU Drone Pilot Needs to Know before flying 1st line of description : I Want to tell you my story on how I got almost arrested in Rome twice even with a drone permit. Join us next week for my video "I Got Arrested in Madrid" where I detail precisely how I absolutely, positively didn't get arrested in Madrid either. The stupid thing about the shamelessly clickbait title is that it is actually an informative video that didn't require it.

Yeah, for me at least, the lighting anomaly really took away from the gravitas of the scene itself as this was the moment in the narrative where Mr. Taggart fully realised the extent of the indiscipline amongst his charges that would ultimately undermine his goal of driving the citizens of Rock Ridge away from their homes. In fact, Mel Brook's original reference for the scene was "Fractious Actions Rattle Taggart" which was abbreviated and became the erroneous name by which the scene is now widely referred to.

Certainly if Mel Brooks had had access to the Alexa 35 he might have lit scene this in a moodier way.

Ah that makes sense then. I last looked at the price of it about six months ago when I was flirting with the idea of getting a used R5. I'm surprised it has dropped that far that fast so, yeah, I wouldn't be amused about it either. For the particular niche that I was looking at - the R5 - it obviously makes sense but, yeah, the regular version suffices in general.

You would think so as it certainly bucks the trend of price rises ! I'd imagine that the V+ at that price is now a very attractive option for R5 users. For owners of cameras that can do RAW over SDI, the $898 package of V+/SDI Expansion/Activation is now also a great option. Not sure if they have expanded this list of compatible cameras that can use it but this was it at launch.

I’m not sure that this is being repeated at other retailers or for how long this offer is on but B&H have dropped the price of the Ninja V to $399 and the V+ to $599. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1637656-REG/atomos_atomnjvpl1_ninja_v_5_8k.html https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1401565-REG/atomos_atomnjav01_ninja_v_5_4k.html

The SteadXP has been around for several years and does exactly this. Great results but I think people have been reticent about it because it requires a separate app to process the footage rather than being a plug in as well as being put off by having to shoot at a higher shutter speed for best results.

I think the option to take the EVF is a big advantage for the G2 over the original 6K but the internal ND would definitely push me over the edge to spring the extra for the 6K Pro. Purely speculative but it hints at it being a way to get around a component supply issue for the original or economy of scale to not keep two separate bodies for the 6K.

Tilt screen and higher capacity NP-F battery. I had been pondering taking the financial hit and trading my 6K in for the Pro so this will make the hit bigger! I thought the next one they would bring out would be the 4K Pro (or even the 6K with an MFT mount) so this seems a bit meh to me and I’m not sure why anyone looking at the 6K wouldn’t just stretch to the 6K Pro. More details here https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera

Well if the price of shit is going up that much then the stuff that comes out of Boris Johnson’s mouth might actually have some value for once.

Well, the scheduled arrival for the next batch is now not going to be January 2023. Its March 2023. At this rate they won't have to worry about infringing RED's patent as it will have expired before they ship them.

Go to the DPReview studio shot comparison page, select those (or any) cameras at those (or any) ISOs, download the files and make your own mind up.

You don't have to hand over €1400 to shoot raw on a phone would be the difference. There may well be value in it on a €300 phone but when you are having to hand over €1400 to do it then the proposition changes completely.

Again, its not the title of the video though is it? It is you that has titled the thread as it being a masterclass and that is what was being responded to. The reality is that the actual video you have put up is asking if the phone is a masterpiece. "Sony Xperia 1IV - A Masterclass in Filmmaking" and "Sony Xperia 1 IV - A Filmmaking Masterpiece?" are very different things. Although, the answer to the statement in the thread title and the question posed in the actual video are both "absolutely not" in my opinion.

For what its worth, I completely agree with @PannySVHS point about alternative ways to use the expenditure than on that particular phone. It is €1400 and that amount could be used in many different ways to acquire film making equipment and still leave enough over to buy a perfectly functioning phone. Again, thats not ego, its just counting.

It is literally not a "Masterclass" though is it ? Not even the creator of it is claiming it as such. So saying it isn't a "Masterclass" is nothing to do with ego, its just about reading the actual title of the video that you linked. "Sony Xperia 1 IV - A Filmmaking Masterpiece?"

When RED announced at the NAB in 2006 that they were taking orders for a 4K cinema camera that shot visually lossless compressed RAW at 24fps+ internally to CF cards or connected HDs, I don't recall the reaction being "Oh really, another one? How many does that make of these types of camera now?". It got the reaction (and the blind faith pre-orders) that it did because it was unique. In point of fact, it was so disruptive that the late cinematographer Geoff Boyle got into a long running feud with Jim Jannard after an argument at NAB about it being a scam. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/reds-jim-jannard-continues-feud-609701/ Anyway, you can argue until 2028 about whether that means it was deserving of such a broad patent but its after Apple and Sony failed it is clearly not going anywhere so until then, if you want compressed RAW in camera, then we can either howl at the moon about it, hope someone successfully challenges it or buy one of their cameras. People forget that another factor that was in play that made the original RED ONE such a big deal was that the compression got around one big issue of the time which was the storage costs for RAW video. When it actually shipped, even generic CF cards were around $8 per gig whereas today an NVME works out at around $0.10 per gig. On that basis, as well as the huge uptick in computer power, shouldn't we be looking at manufacturers to take the path that Sigma have and got round it by using CinemaDNG anyway instead of waiting another six years for the patent to expire ?

The best I could offer you is controlling the wheel on the Fotodiox version 😉 Did Tilta ever release their version ?

Multiples of 50 will work. On white tiles lit with Philips HUE Led strips, there is banding at 1/80th, 1/160th, 1/320th, 1/160th etc but it is not there at 1/100th, 1/200th, 1/250th, 1/500th. The exception is 1/400th where it is a multiple of 50 but banding is visible.

Did you upgrade to 2.00 from the dinosaur version you had on it? It’s not mentioned in the release notes but it could be one those “solved the phenomenon where…” things (aka bugs 😂)

Not this mad bastard though.

I was very taken with it when we were looking at it last week. It’s ridiculous that it isn’t standard issue on all cameras that shoot motion.

Yeah, it doesn't state which but with it being from Sigma then I would guess RAW but here is some from it on the regular Fp that is shot in h264.

The thing that has always amused/bemused me about RED is how they portrayed themselves as the little guy fighting the battles for all the other little guys and how much they managed to sell that idea to their followers. Nothing says little guy fighting for the little guy quite like owning your own fucking island. Talking of defending patents and remote islands where there may or may not be an underground lair, has anyone heard from Jinnitech recently ?

Some examples with the Sigma FP-L