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Triton Audio do a bi-directional phantom power blocker. Not cheap at £36 per channel but cheaper than buying a new F4. https://www.thomann.de/gb/tritonaudio_phantom_blocker.htm

Insert your own "Well, the heat management is certainly innovative, I'll give them that." joke here

Sorry about that. The description of it was a bit misleading what with metioning Konica AR just the five times and all that! "Fotasy Konica AR Lens to Leica L Adapter, Konica AR Leica T Adapter, Konica AR Leica SL Adapter, Konica AR Panasonic S, Konica AR Sigma L, fit Leica SL TL2 TL T & Panasonic Lumix S1 S1H S1R Sigma fp" There are plenty of AR to M adapters around so combined with an M to L adapter that would do the trick. The M to L adapter very rarely leaves my Leica SL or T or Sigma fp bodies as I'm either using M lenses on them or using it as an intermediary to C/Y or R so it is very useful, particularly as prior to Panasonic and Sigma making L mount bodies there wasn't such a comprehensive range of adapters and those that were available tended to be expensive. So now that there is a much bigger market has meant manufacturers have started to make low cost direct to L mount adapters I will probably pick a few more up. But for holdouts like the AR mount then the M to L as an intermediary is still an option.

Fotasy do one. Out of stock at Amazon so you might have to hunt a bit to get one. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004X9Z32E/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_btf_t1_ZxgoFbMPTA4FN

I was doing some software control of it and its internal fan kicked in so hard that I thought it was about to become the world's first switcher drone combi. Honestly, I did agonise about putting that in but as I was referring to the specific named function on the camera (and had included screenshots of the manual) I wasn't sure there was any right answer. Coincidentally, part of the product that I'm developing for the ATEM does have an aspect where those terms would be used so of course I'm having to come up with alternative terminology. I'm thinking "Leader/Follower" .

Mine does. Those savings pay for the camera bodies. Its the guys who's wives are into the Space Opera genre of Sci-Fi that you have to spare a thought for as they're taking a double hit. Its all fixed lens 2mp 640x480 cameras for them.

Thanks. It will be a formula based on a combination of the actual temperature, the last time the temp status threshold was triggered, subsequent processor uptime and projected impact of the current settings rather than a basic clock calculation. Storing it on the memory card would leave the camera vulnerable to overheating damage with a powered off card swap if someone inserted a fresh card. The onboard RAM by its very nature would lose the value on power down as it is a volatile storage medium. There is no internal drive powered by a battery or otherwise. The internal coin cell battery is used for the real time clock, which we have proven that reseting doesn't effect the recovery times. Which leaves the NVRAM. Performing a settings reset doesn't actually even clear all of the user's settings so it is not in that area of NVRAM and by consequence that means any accessible area.

The app has a single button press function which sends the camera date/time ahead by one year. It doesn't resolve the issue.

EDIT>> Sailing on by.

If you are comfortable with the monitoring capabilities of the fp in terms of fixed screen, no false colour etc and the file sizes and the data processing of 12bit RAW CDNG then there is absolutely no benefit. From my own personal point of view, my ageing eyes will thank me for the brighter, tilting screen and additional exposure aids and my ageing MacBook Pro will thank me for the ProResRAW or just plain ProRes if I want to. Thats the beauty of the modularity of the fp in that you have these sort of options to stay compact or add more functionality based on your personal needs.

They've sent the download link to me by return and I've downloaded it so it looks like we are game on.

They fixed the link . You have to register here https://www.atomos.com/firmware/ninja-v#PRBsigmafpFB

In good news for owners of cameras that don't cause internet rage wars, Atomos have announced v10.53 pre-release Beta version for ProResRAW on the Sigma fp and Fuji GFX100. Slight snag is the link in their tweet just goes to the usual Ninja V firmware download page where the new firmware or a sign up option to apply for it is nowhere to be seen ! I'm sure they'll sort it out though. If I ever get round to using a camera again for actually making images with rather than testing a product with it then I'll be really looking forward to trying this with the fp.

No it doesn't. It reads the temperature status from the API. This is an entirely different thing to the temperature as a value, which is being read from the EXIF in the exposed image. The temperature status is the camera's own interpretation of its internal temperature with relation to what restrictions it will apply to camera operations. When this is "normal" everything is, well, "normal" and the camera is reporting that there is no cause for alarm or any restrictions. It then goes through an escalation process of different inhibitors including, amongst other things, restricting fps, reducing image quality and prohibiting recording. There is no interpretation other than by Canon of that status as it is being reported through the API. The temperature in the exif is being used as a comparative indicator of what the actual internal temperature (or one of them) is and provides a visual reference (as it is pointed at the screen of the app) to cross reference which inhibitors are activated and deactivated as time progresses. The rate at which the camera is commanded to take an image is variable so I'd probably stay tuned for a few more tests at different rates.

My wife hates opera so I make her happy by not taking her. Then I use the savings made on the tickets to buy more lenses.

Don't know what happened there but I couldn't put this in the proper reply.

I think the E2 is likely the best option to be honest as it ticks the boxes for being compact, doing 4K60p and being easily synchronised. The Master/Slave modes will take care of the sync-start and synchronisation You would need to absolutely double check with them but this should then mean that their Android/iOS phone app can be attached to the master (front camera for example) to give you monitoring and pressing record on that screen will start the recording on the front and rear cameras. Again, you'd need to absolutely confirm it with them but you should also be able to use another Android/iOS device on the rear camera and have them back to back if needed. As it can run on Android it won't cost a fortune to have two devices if you want to set it up like that.

Well my ATEM Mini Pro ISO has shown up already. I know the clue is in the name about its size but it really is very, very compact. Major hassle is I need to change its IP address so I'm having to do a 1.4gig download to get their software. And then upgrade the OS on my Mac to be able to install it. I really don't understand why a device with 60+ hardware buttons and an output screen shouldn't be able to fashion a menu system to be able to do this directly. I get that no one wants a menu screen being brought up accidentally during a broadcast but it wouldn't have been beyond the bounds of possibility to do this as a startup option by holding down two or three specific keys on power up. Mind you, that would also have highlighted the niggle of not having a power on/off switch. Oh well, at least it doesn't overheat.

I've got a bit of an old fashioned view on this which is that instead of everyone else running round like blue arsed flies that perhaps Canon themselves might want to have a go at it themselves.

OK but after you've finished doing your 9 1/2 weeks remake perhaps you could do some more testing of the R5.

There is also a relative relationship between the exif data temperature and the inhibitor triggers that are read from the internal temperature status monitor object. When the temperature goes up in the exif files the inhibitions increase in the camera. When the temperature comes down so do the inhibitions. Its like an inverse of a beach holiday to Magaluf.

Without pre-empting the next blog post too much, it is fair to say that we have noted some curiosities between the internal temperature status monitoring from the camera and the removal of recording inhibitors that have been previously triggered. It is unusual but also quite frustrating from a testing perspective to get it back to a clean state for each iteration.

It can in my imagination but clearly that doesn't chime with the actual facts ! I've no idea how I've got it into my head that it was shallower. In my defence I was primarily thinking of chips at the time.

These people you mean ? They can get to fuck over this to be honest after dismissing this issue out of hand and instigating that Twitter pile on when @Andrew Reid raised it. After that, any "article" they write about this should always open with "As pointed out by EOSHD but completely ridiculed by us because it was ruining our launch bliss and for which we now unreservedly apologise..." Maybe you just need to throw those ice cubes away and be more positive and it will go away @Andrew Reid

The Mac Pro actually contains components made by a dozen different US companies so it is a different situation to the REDMAGs. It also benefits from this somewhat opaque dispensation from the US government which allows it to satisfy the "Made In The USA" criteria. "The US manufacturing of Mac Pro is made possible following a federal product exclusion Apple is receiving for certain necessary components. " https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/09/apples-new-mac-pro-to-be-made-in-texas/