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Its not hindsight because I argued it at the time as well but I think the EF mount for the 6K was a mistake. The MFT mount was the best of all worlds because it would have allowed for cheap lightweight primes, speedboosted EFs to effectively make it a full frame camera and of course the shallower mount to take PL lenses or the MFT mount Meike Cine Primes which cover the s35 sensor anyway. Most other MFT lenses give at least 85% coverage so a simple window mode (which they have done now with the 4K for Super16 without the sky caving in) for when you are using those lenses would have been sufficient. There is absolutely no benefit to having the EF mount on it so you have lost full compatibility and inter-operability with the 4K and permanently restricted your lens options for the sake of having native control of a lens that you could already use anyway. Its like the Brexit of lens mount decisions and like Brexit I've yet to hear a single tangible benefit from the choice. I have both the 4K and 6K and I certainly can't give you an example of a benefit. The only way the EF mount makes any sense is if BM see it as a B cam for the Ursa but its surely more logical to see it as the A+ cam to the 4K. Unfortunately, the JVC LS300 wasn't popular enough to dissuade a lot of people about an MFT mount only being able to have an MFT sized sensor behind it so that inevitably plays a part too.

I've never tried one. MapCamera have a bunch of them for around £400 so you can pick one up when you take your FP to be fixed ! Main criticism I've read about, aside from not being constant aperture, seems to be size and weight.

Yes but its push/pull zoom so thats a bit moot in this case! Funnily enough, the 35-70mm is featured in that Media Division's Zeiss Super Speeds vs Contax Zeiss episode on YouTube. I actually only got it because the shop I bought the 85mm f1.4 at for what at the time was a cheap price (under £300) and the 35-70mm was sat next to it so I thought it was worth a punt as I didn't really know too much about that particular one at the time. Ironically, prices for the 85mm seemed to have stopped rising while the 35-70mm has carried on so it ended up being by far the shrewder deal

Let me know how you get on with it. I completely fluked the 35-70mm f3.4 for about £160 in Tokyo last year and its an absolute belter. The UK price is daft even by the usual differentials. Currently the difference between the used and new price of them Japan is so small that I'll likely buy a new one in a kit with the 45mm f2.8. They've got six weeks to sort out that firmware before I hand over my cash though !

Voted. I could have saved myself a lot of clicking if there was a "Shamefully, an awful lot of the above" option

Really weird about the Techart E to Z not being stackable with their M to E AF adapter. Don't really understand why they just haven't made a dedicated Z mount version of that adapter anyway but maybe thats the plan ?

By default, I'm a deviant so Safe Search is always turned OFF

Ffordes have got a few. This one described as being "ALMOST AS NEW" for £239 https://www.ffordes.com/p/SH-18-016844/lenses-contax-slr/28-70mm-f35-45-mm

I've a feeling you might end up with some less than optimum results if you sorted using those parameters. Most of them not safe for work.

No substitute for real testing of course but there is a way to mine Flickr using exif tags that can be useful. If you use this link that I've just created https://flickr.com/search/?exif_min_aperture=4&exif_max_aperture=4&exif_min_focallen=24&exif_max_focallen=24&sort=relevance&tags=cinematic Then this will find all shots taken at f4 on 24mm lenses. If you want to change the range to include shots from f4 to f5.6 then just change exif_max_aperture to be 5.6 Ditto if you want to change the lens range to be from say 18 to 50 then just change exif_min_focallen to be 18 and exif_max_focallen to be 50 etc I've added the tag "cinematic" as whilst not being a very accurate description in many cases, it makes the search a bit more relevant as it at least shows what the creator was aiming for If you just want to search for all images that match the lens parameters then just chop off the &sort=relevance&tags=cinematic off the end.

As its all a ploy to sell increasing numbers of ever wider aperture and ever more expensive lenses to people then an easy way to remember how to pronounce it is : Bokeh makes you broker

I think this should be de rigueur for travel vloggers * You can carry all your gear in it It goes 10kmh and has a range of 25km so you quickly can get to the nearest coffee shop even in quite remote areas to do the upload It has a power outlet to run the cameras You can put a mount on the handlebars to turn it into a ride on dolly and completely remove the Z axis bounce from your gimbal shots Plus, of course, you can do the obligatory riding through airports shots without people sarcastically shouting "Hey look everyone, its not Casey Neistat". Though, to be fair, you won't look any less of a tit. * CONFESSIONAL NOTE Not just for vlogging really as I can see a use for this in plenty of other video/photo jobs.

Yep, they do seem to be holding up very well both in terms of price and interest. Meanwhile, the thread about the 6K one here has been relatively dormant over the past four months.

Seems plentiful stock of them new as well, unlike the Pocket4K. As someone who has been working his bollocks off creating an intricate workaround to get remote focus over bluetooth working for the 6K this doesn't please me at all !

I wonder whether the deluge of used/and or discounted P4Ks that many (not including me by the way ) thought would happen as people "upgraded" to the P6K ever materialised?

No, they are dng stills. I've attached them if you want to have a closer look. Just pressed record in all BRAW modes with a Sandisk Extreme 128 v30 U3 10 SD card and it didn't explode. Archive.zip

OK, this is a quick and dirty test so ignore the framing and white balance differences ! So, the Computar 12.5-75mm f1.2 isn't strictly a Super16mm lens but we can use it as a guide to sensor coverage versus the OG BMPCC. This is it at 12.5mm with the Pocket4K in 4K DCI so you can see how much its covering. This is it in the 2.6K 16:9 mode And this is it on the OG BMPCC If you look at the vignetting, you can see that the BMPCC has a fraction more than the Pocket4K so the conclusion is that a lens worked for you on the BMPCC it will be fine on the Pocket4K in the 2.6K 16:9 mode as it appears to have a marginally bigger crop.

Computar 12.5-75mm f1.2

Let me go and dig out the worst lens in the world and put it on my Pocket4K Back in 10

Based on the split of Canon's overall income I'd say their answer should be that its more of an office equipment company as its the Office division where the majority of it comes from. Cameras are actually the problem child of their Imaging Systems division (which also includes Inkjets and Scanners) which in total only accounts for 25%, and falling, of their overall income. That is always held up as a reason why Canon can/could/should/will get out but its difficult to imagine that in, say 5 years, Canon wouldn't be making cameras or had sold the camera part to another company but then again I could never envisage Hasselblad being owned by a model aircraft company either so who knows really.

I wouldn't take the average quoted earnings of professional photographers as a guide to the affordability of this, or any other, camera. There is a key difference with a self employed professional photographer buying a camera like this that mean you can't equate it to an individual buying it from their net salary in the same way you can't equate a taxi driver's car with an individual's one. Its a business product so in the vast majority of cases it will be leased which not only spreads the payments but means it is 100% tax deductible. The working life of the camera will be 3-4 years so the monthly payment is about £130-150 and can be upgraded throughout the term of the contract. The cost of the upgrade for a leased Mark ii to a leased Mark iii means a manageable increase in monthly payments rather than having to find a £3K lump sum.

Yes, the focus motor is to the left of the bottom screw on the bayonet ring.

Funnily enough, I was looking for bigger pieces again yesterday to resurrect it. There is scope to do some interesting stuff with it linking the aperture to it as well so you can automatically maintain the same exposure. It can then link into the ISO as well for when you run out of road in terms of the amount of ND that can be applied. The whole "PBC as a central hub" thing is designed for these sort of expansions to be incorporated so its already in there from a control point of view but is back burnered until I can find a supplier for a suitably sized piece of glass.

I can't remember whether I did the build along in the end but it is a piece of piss to make but the trick is finding a supplier for a piece big enough for front mounting. As well as being easy, its very cheap.

I think the RF mount has legs and has already has great options for non FF cinema cameras like Komodo with the Variable-ND adapter and the EF>RF Speedbooster as well as just the shorter flange distance in general so you can put PL and M mount lenses on it. It has 43 discrete steps compared to 97 for an EF 18-35mm f2.8 and over 200 for the Sigma ART 18-35mm. Although the Tokina 18-300mm is currently king with over 400! I haven't ventured into Z-Cam yet as I don't have access to one but from their API its pretty straightforward. I'm taking a risk and buying the small Crane M2 for my upcoming FP as with the diminutive Voigtlander Color Skopar 21mm M that I'd put on it for such shots its only about 70% of the rated capacity. As its not massively bigger than a pistol grip so keeps within the overall minimalist vibe ! The used price of the Z6 is now flashing a serious amount of ankle at me now they've finally delivered ProResRAW. As far as I understand it doesn't, at least not at launch. I don't know what the Atomos exclusivity period is with Nikon, if indeed there is one, so I've no idea if its even a viable option. Looking at MapCamera in Tokyo they currently have 85 pre-orders for the 1DXiii which isn't bad for one store in one day !