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There are a lot of variables with this mate ! The first of which, of course, is budget. The second which, may or may not be related to the above completely although of course they will impact on each other, is how many cameras you want to use. The third would be how many of them are going to be live operated. The fourth would be the network capability of the venue, both in terms of is it wired as well as the speed and if it will be for the exclusive use of you broadcasting. So if it is just a single camera on the halfway line then you will only need a way of encoding and getting the stream out, which could be done with one of the low price HDMI encoders with wifi and/or singular cellular option or a more sophisticated, not to mention expensive, one with cellular bonding. The upload speed you will need for 1080 live streaming is around 5 Megabits per second so isn't particularly onerous for a fixed installation but if the club also use that connection for other purposes such as providing internet access for staff, press or fans then you'll be sharing that with them. With cellular its exactly the same if not worse as a lot of fans will be as glued to their smartphones these days as they are to the action in front of them sadly. If you can guarantee a network connection (ideally wired but wifi if not) and are only using one camera then the price of entry for you to do it will be an HDMI cable and about €150-170 on Aliexpres for an NPF powered on camera encoder like this one. The version with a single 4G sim will be around €350. If you want multi-cellular bonded connections then you are looking at products from Teradek or the LiveU Solo which will be over the €1K mark and also require fees for cloud services that reconstruct the different data streams into one for broadcasting with. In terms of scaling up, the encoder/transmitter aspect won't change but obviously you'll need to have a budget per camera channel both in terms of the cameras themselves, the switcher capacity and the control and connection costs. That last part will form another big part of the equation because the cable runs and infrastructure required to have multiple cameras around a football pitch can become a headache and might actually end up determining what sort of cameras and switcher you have to buy. As will whether you are just having to provide a basic video stream or are being asked to do a full production with scoreboard, action replays etc. Definitely a how long is a piece of string question this one.

This is an example starting point of a ticketing service provider. https://www.ticketspice.com/ticketing-for-livestream-events/ I've never used them, or any other provider of a similar service but it will at least give you an idea of what is involved and an outline of pricing. Obviously, shop around.

For anyone wanting a bit more tactile control of the clear image zoom on Sony cameras, this Fotga RM-VS1 will give you a zoom rocker to operate it with as well as a shutter release, record button and power on/off. If you are using a lens with servo zoom such as the PZ18-105mm f4 etc then it controls both the optical zoom and the clear image zoom as one (kind of continuous) lens. I say kind of because there is a slight pause when zooming in when it gets to the crossover point at the end of the optical range. If you've got an RX100 then it also controls the optical and clear zoom extension in the same way. There is no variable speed so don't expect to be doing variable speed zooms but its good for framing if nothing else. Expect to pay around €16-18 on Ali or €20-25 on Amazon.

Some demo footage of the Quad Lock functionality will be forthcoming later next week, likely Friday.

Yes, it can be implemented but we tend to avoid anything that will make a destructive difference to the recording format. If BM had something on the camera screen that indicated it was in window mode then it would be safer and I suspect that it is why its not available to be mapped to one of their function keys even though it is a very useful tool to have. It is slightly different with the PBC because it would be a very deliberate process to go into setup and assign it (and it could be mapped to a long press so its more difficult to trigger accidentally) so it might be possible to consider it for the benefit of consenting adults in a future update.

Ah thats OK because, to use the current favoured terminology of our glorious leaders, they were only bullshitting in a 'very limited and specific way' then.

The same nonsense is being repeated by other sites as well. How can the 124 x 71 x 60 mm dimensions of the Sony a7C make it smaller than the 112.6 x 69.9 x 45.3 mm dimensions of the Sigma fp. At best its just absolute laziness but really shows again how rife the plagiarism and unchecked content aggregation really is.

This announcement appears to have caused a lot of anger in the comments at Newsshooter for some reason. Someone has even played the CineFran card. Thats like the Godwin's Law of discussion about an independent camera development.

Yeah, the problem with equivalence tests is finding or having the equivalent lenses to not prejudice the FF camera. Having to have the FF at f4 because the APS-C had to be at f2.8 and the MFT with the SB could be f2 is not doing the FF any favours. Matching the focal lengths also make it a challenge without using a zoom as well of course as at least they maintain the same contrast and colour for each camera. I'm trying to think about which set of cameras and primes that could be used for be a totally accurate test if someone wanted to do it properly and its a tricky ask to get exact matches.

This is a very interesting side by side between the S1 and S1H specifically looking at the OLPF aspect. It does beg the question whether the OLPF from the S1H might be available as a spare part from a Panasonic service agent as that would appear to be the path of least resistance to have the same capability on the S1. Apart from taking them to pieces to fit them of course 😉 Here is a teardown of an S1R to give you an idea of what that entails but if you can find a camera repair service that are able to source the parts from Panasonic then they would obviously be able to oblige on that front too. https://kolarivision.com/the-panasonic-s1r-disassembly-and-teardown/

FWIW, I did a very quick basic comparison between MFT, APS-C and FF at a couple of focal lengths a few years ago on here and the differences in those specific limited instances with zoom lenses to create the correct equivalent focal lengths were marginal. A more thorough test at different distances using primes would possibly yield more telling differences but I got bored. Close enough for jazz as we would say.

Good news. Control of the audio levels for both channels has now been incorporated and will be in the PBC firmware update that will be released to support the AFX (though its not dependent on buying an AFX !).

Well they do have a lot of form from the film days when they made quite a range of different medium format P&S cameras. If they based it on the GFX50R then they could probably bring it in with a fixed lens for under the price of the Leica Q2 but, yeah, it would need to go on a serious diet.

The trailer for part 2 is now up.

Well, more like gingerly hold it up under those circumstances rather than happily 😉

Hence the inverted commas. Considering the absolute dragging that independent voices had and continue to have after raising this issue, why would they ever want to raise their head above the parapet again ? When that proved how so many people there are that value the currency of happy feels, idolising and faux-friendship above objective reality then the only words being said with those independent voices from now on are likely to be "Alright, get the products you deserve then".

Canon lost a lot of trust with the initial song and dance though @Emanuel Based on that, if you owned an R5 and had a workaround that you were comfortable with - which Canon clearly don't want you to have otherwise they'd have never included this nonsense in the first place - would you trust them that they hadn't included something to shut the door on it ? Let the "reviewers" who were so keen to say it didn't have a problem in the first place do extensive testing on their R5s and show the results, as its fair to say they certainly owe one to anyone who bought these cameras based on their initial "reviews". Or, more radically, how about Canon do a livestream of their own testing to put this to bed once and for all about what they stand behind with regard to this camera's performance. If you can do livestreams to announce and push your product specifications then you should certainly be able to do them to qualify them too. If it turns out they are just being conservative to extend the life of the product - which is a perfectly valid stance in my opinion - then fine just demonstrate and explain that properly.

Not sure for the Alpine events but I covered the FIS World Freestyle Ski & Snowboard championships a couple of years after that and DJI invited us for one of the sessions to shoot from where they were flying their drones and have a look at what they were up to. I'm not sure whether they thought as stills shooters we'd be interested in buying them to get new angles but, having been witness and participant to some almighty confrontations at sports events competing for shots, the notion of fifty of us flying drones and taking those battles airborne doesn't bear thinking about ! Anyway, they were stressing about how they had used mapping to ensure they had safe flight corridors to operate in so maybe that was a new stipulation for them to be able to continue, but some of this footage does look like it was from directly overhead, although I do recall some of it being shot during practice.

To be fair, the camera unit is based on the H6D but is actually a separate product called the A6D with dedicated power, control ports and mounting points to attach to the M600 and has been built specifically for it. In that respect I wouldn't consider it to be particularly less integrated than having a ribbon cable between the camera module and the rest of the unit on a Phantom etc. Which doesn't make up for it being stupidly expensive of course 😉 Its actually a drawback it being a different unit than the H6D because at least then you could detach it and use it as a standalone camera whereas with this....well...you'd have to have some sort of cobbled together controller made for it. I'd be curious to know how many of these they've actually ever sold.

Dickhead.

DJI have actually produced a Hasselblad H6D-100 based drone. Its not particularly backpack friendly though. Or wallet friendly for that matter.

It will be able to focus anything that can currently be focused with a single motor. Each lens is calibrated individually once (it takes about 2-3 minutes) and stored in the unit for later recall. In the case of the electronic lenses on BM cameras, the calibration is recalled automatically by lens when you power on or change lenses and for manual lenses with the motor option it will just be a case of recalling it from the list on screen.

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Yes you can but obviously you have to stop recording first. To change quickly between them, you can save setups the Custom mode functions (C1 to C3) as the APS-C selection is also saved. So you would have C1 as your Full Frame setup with APS-C set to off and then C2 to be the same but with APS-C set to on. Although I would be inclined to save C1 with it set to Auto as this would then be a dual purpose single mode if you were only using APS-C lenses. One thing to bear in mind about tripod usage - although I'm sure with long record times you would be using a small SSD - is that Sigma have committed the sin of putting the SD card slot in the battery compartment so you would have to remove it from a tripod if you wanted to swap cards. Anyway, just done this as a quick demo to show you the 45mm 2.8 in full frame and crop mode.

Its the strangest thing. I said I'd do a test for a fellow forum user of that Panasonic lens and a separate test of it on the micro. I wasn't quite sure where either of them would be lurking in the draws of doom so set off on what I thought would be a long quest but I found them both straight away as they were already attached to each other !