Yannick Willox

I really do not get it. If it would have bluetooth and the same record/crop modes as P4K they would sell a shitload of these camera's !

Apparantly it does have Gyro.

The only logical thing is about possibly revenue from ads not going the right direction, so somebody forcing the channel to close ? No pay for anyone.

It is almost always about the money.

1 hour ago, Phil A said:

You can't, that's only on iPhone 15 Pro (Max)

That means BMD should not make the app available to other Iphone users. I get big file sizes, the stills look ok-ish, but when I press play everything turns into moving blobs.

18 hours ago, kye said:

The footage will look highly processed, even if you shoot Prores, unless you shoot Apple Log.  It's not the codec that disables all the processing, it's the Apple log.

I'm pretty sure that means you can shoot Apple Log and h265 and have an image that isn't over processed, isn't the huge file sizes, and you can record internally and not have to have an SSD etc.

OK, so I found out I can record to FILES instead of the app.

But I cannot figure out how I can record Apple Log on my Iphone 13 ? Where is this setting ?

Two thoughts.

I shot a short second cam footage on my Iphone 13 with the BMD app. Next to my old P4K, the image is utter sharpened crap. I shot in prores...

Second, does anyone have an EASY way to get the footage from the BMD app into my PC ? If not, forget about it. It is useless. The BMD cloud also did not work, because you need to pay a subscription, just to get your (local) footage from the phone to your (local) PC.

I have known for ages literally everyone is running around completely blind on this planet.

Deaf as well, by the way.

In Belgium the S5 II is 2500 euro and the G9 II is 1900 euro. At 1500 I would buy it today...

But one has to remember, when the GH5 came out it was priced 1999 dollar, and it was considered a very correct price.

The G9 ii is a much better camera, and inflation happened ... (1999 in 2017 is 2450 dollar right now)

Sennheiser promised this mic over 15 years ago when the 8000 series was released, to replace the MKH30.

It was then delayed, scrapped, rebearthed, scrapped again. 4-5 years ago there was an online poll by Sennheiser (probably the beancounter department) to see if there was intrest.

Now it will become reality (???) - and suddenly worldwide about 2,5K sound engineers will either buy 1 MKH8030, or - finally - buy into the series and get 4-6 mics.

IMO some beancounters will faint, and some will be fired instantly, because they have cost Sennheiser a lot of money during those 15 years.

If it is as durable and even better sounding then the MKH30, it will be the best (full-range) fig8 mic available.

In defense to the size of the body :

It has no fan.

It does not overheat.

The IBIS is stellar, so you could often get by without the gimbal. This alone makes it actually a lot more compact.

Anyway, I tend to put everything on sticks, or walk around with it, and I need a new MFT photo camera - this means I am actually happy they release this. Except for the price.

10 hours ago, D4cl00 said:

Oppenheimer’s attempt portraying the Dutch language horribly fails. It’s some kind of German? 

Not a big Nolan fan myself - at least his later work. Too much exposition, non-lineair story-telling, inaudible dialog, frontal lobe numbing music and heavy-handed dialogue.

Oppenheimer speaking Dutch was the absolute low of the entire movie. It was a mistake a low budget, first ever beginner shoot should not make.

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I saw Oppenheimer (and Barbie !) and did find Oppenheimer really good.

I was not bothered by the complex timeline. I read beforehand this was an issue, but fail to see the problem.

The dialogue : indeed, the editing makes for a roller-coaster type of dialogue. I was wondering if I could keep focused the entire length of the film. Actually I think this is the best part (much more than the cinematography) of the movie. When the testbomb goes off the most exciting moment of the movie has gone, halfway through. I thought literally, how are we going to get through the next 1h30 ...

Turned the next half was even more exciting !

Probably it helps if you see this one with a clear head and enough sleep.

On 3/23/2023 at 11:44 PM, Andrew Reid said:

It might not be the right target group for those uninterested in video here.

Photo Camera Review on the other hand...

https://www.photocamerareview.com

🙂

Good thinking. I think you really need to do this, for more than one reason. And a brilliant opportunity as well.

I really hope those ICBM launchers are not connected to Bing.

At least this AI seems to be performing so poorly it won't launch in 0.1 s as Skynet did. It will take at least 3 seconds.

Clearly it will be the next gen mft P8K dual iso cam, because that is the one I want.

Another heads up for BRAW. The quality and flexibility you get (even white balance can be completely changed afterwards, ISO basically does not exist, except for the dual gain choice one has to make, carefully !) is great, while being more data efficient than the comparable prores.

For me it is most often Q5 for 6-10 cam shoots, which typically are 2x 1.5 hours. That usually gives around 3TB of footage in 4K.

Q5 BRAW 4K DCI at 25 fps typically gives something between 200 and 300 mbit/s if I am not mistaken. 400 mbit max for wide shots with movement and much detail.

I am sure the same will happen as with my 10.5 inch ipad pro. I bought that one hoping to use Lumafusion and prores for on the road edits.

It happened finally a while back, but only with newer models.

This time I will spend 1.5 K on the M2, to find out braw will never be supported ???

I would not be surprised, as end of the 90s I bought two different HP products which were not functional upon receipt. Even after a couple of firmware updates they did not function as advertised. HP took them back, I even brought them straight back to their Belgian headquarters at that time.

If HP could do it ...

After reading the original article I bought a GX85, and an adapter for my Panaleica 14-50 fourthirds lens. It was my first cam that could do video.

Years later, I have now shot several concert (live or production) video's, up to 10 cam (mainly P4K), 3 manned cams. I currently have 3 fourthirds lenses (adapted to m43) and 8 mft lenses and 14-15 Samsung T5 ...

The GX85 still serves (mainly photographs, or as a fourth cam when I am in a pinch).

So, a big THANK YOU to Andrew.

Without getting into video for music, the last two years would have been a personal disaster ...

Considering the ump12k is quite cheap these days, I would expect a new flagship in a few hours ?

I honestly dont know if it is so different from centuries ago. We remember maybe 5% of painters, or composers. Or that one blacksmith that made a fantastic blade.

The problem now is we see all of those wannabies and amateurs pretending to be something they aren’t - all on a big pile in just one place !

and they are getting paid for it…

That should not withhold us from maintaining some kind of standard.

18 hours ago, kye said:

If anything is different to a calibrated monitor then it doesn't look "better", it looks "inaccurate".

My Dell panel was also factory calibrated, but oh boy did it change when I calibrated it.

What I meant was, the newer lcd looks better, but colors match. Contrast is better, red goes further, etc, the previous one did not cover srgb and rec709 100%.

i use them side by side, the proart is better. The factory calibration report is better than what I got with my old dell with my old spiderpro.

so, if you are not in a 100% controlled environment, and dont recalibrate often, imo there is no use if you have a decent factory calibrated item.

of course, you could have had bad luck. And of course, this changes if you have to do critical, highend color grading.

But then, I am not mastering audio on Soundblaster speakers in an untreated studio either.

I have a proart PA248QV. It is also a lower cost type of this series, 24 inch. It comes "calibrated" out of the factory. Side-by-side to my much more expensive Dell 24", which has been calibrated with a Spider, it looks better/more accurate.

Getting into the hassle of recalibrating, more expenses for a (used?) calibration device etc. is only worth it if you are in a VERY controlled environment, with a fixed lighting setting.

I think for REC709 these kind of displays should be quite reliable - although certainly not reference grade ... Benq has a very interesting photo/video series, which can switch between photographic and video modes easily, but at 4x the cost (which is still quite cheap).

The Asus proart series easily goes to 5K euro, but I think there is not 1 model able to do 24p (natively). If you need that, you need to look at the Benq video series.

Except that, in 2022, one can actually buy a truly highend system for exactly the same money (inflation included) you could buy an entry level system for 30 years ago.

In that regard, maybe Mr. Huff is perpetuating his own sin. Audiophile hifi is complete nonsense once you see what you actually have to buy.

At the very least video buyers don't use their cams immersed in a big pot of white paint, which is the visual equivalent of putting a 100.000 dollar "highend" audio system in an untreated living room. Way better to spend 75K on a good listening room, and then putting in a 10K system.

I am no expert, but isn't the entire point that sensor size at least matters & makes a (significant) difference because:

a. for the same resolution, the pixels are much bigger

b. different lenses, even if equivalent

c. and even if you put the SAME lens on different sensor sizes, it effectively becomes another lens.

Over the years I have found some lovely lenses for MFT, as the Kamlan 50mm f1.1, and the DZOfilm 20-70 T2.9 parfocal zoom (and an old 43 Samyang 85mm f1.4). Those lenses on MFT sensors just work. No point in discussing equivalency.

The newest MBP have WIfi 6, which should be quick enough. The problem would then be upgrading your NAS so it would actually get that speed and connect to a wifi6 access point.