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It's a tough one - Joaquin isn't the only person to mention it at the event, but he clearly has the loudest voice - it's been posted all over the internet. Also, how many awards has he won for 'Joker'? Basically all of them right? How many times can he thank his agent? How many times can he nod to his fellow nominees and ask Christian Bale to suck just once? The whole thing is rubbish at this point, he's just trying to use his airtime to his advantage.

Personally, I think it's an artist's job to speak up about the things they feel unjust about. Sure equality in the film industry is a small part of the world's injustices, but if Joaquin started talking about the situation in South Africa that @Amazeballsmentions, it'd feel like it came from nowhere. In the 1 minute he has to talk, an actor can only really talk about the industry they're in.

Films can perhaps make a better point with more time and a more focused discussion topic, and let the art speak for its self but many of them will have a smaller audience. How many people around the world have watched this small speech? How many people would watch a movie about inequality in the film industry?

This is why - for me - music has so much more emotional power compared to any other art form. An artist can make their point, explain it, express it in a way that resonates with their listeners and then hammer it home all in the space of 3 - 5 minutes. That means you can listen to it easily 20 times a day and share it with your friends. Films and books simply can't do that. Photos and painting take more energy to read into them. A song spells it out for you, but still gives room for your own imagination to make even more connections.

Phoenix has stated many times over the years that he thinks awards shows are stupid and pointless, and leaving his award on the podium made me laugh. Good for him.

New Update for the 4k and 6k:

What's new in Blackmagic Camera Setup 6.8

New features for Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K

Improve camera startup time.

Improved USB PTP control performance.

Increase 4K 2.40:1 recording pixel height from 1712 to 1720.

Fixed issue with slow mounting of media containing large number of clips.

New features for Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K

Improve camera startup time.

Improved USB PTP control performance.

Fixed issue with slow mounting of media containing large number of clips.

Fixed issue where EF lens stabilization cannot be turned on if camera is started with lens IS turned off.

I’ve not tested, but I expect the main effect would be a crash - same most features Adobe introduce. 

Does anyone know any reasonably inexpensive FD speedboosters for X systems? I've found a no brand one on Ebay for £65, which seems pretty good, but wondering if there's a go-to option that other people are using.

Everyone knows more weight = more stability.

53 minutes ago, mercer said:

Anyway, the Sigma 85mm is full frame.

Side note... I believe the Art 30mm 1.4 just barely covers a full frame sensor with slight vignetting. I think BTM confirmed this.

Ah great. 

30mm 1.4 had pretty bad vignette on a 6d I once put it on. Bad enough that I took it straight off without even clicking the shutter. 

The Sigma 85mm seems hard to find around these parts. I think I’ll grab whatever comes my way for the best price.

It’s nice to have options. 

2 hours ago, mercer said:

I've heard great things about the EX Sigma as well.

That actually highlights a potential problem. I had and loved the EX 30mm f1.4 - however had to ditch it because the focus ring got really stiff. 

The problem is, the 30mm is not a FF lens. Is the EX 85mm FF? I assume so since i figure you had it on a 5D - but where you using a crop mode?

Hmmm. good idea! In theory then, on the fuji I'll have an f1.0 85mm full frame image?

Can anyone help me decided between two lenses?

I'm looking for a portrait lens and use Fuji X and MFT mount cameras. I also have speed boosters to Canon EF for both systems. So I can't decided whether to go with the Viltrox 85mm for the Fuji and limit it's use to one system, or get Canon 85mm f1.8 USM and have more flexibility.

I assume the AF on the Viltrox will be much better than an adapted lens - but the adapted Canon will become f1.2 and it'll be basically full frame on the Fuji, which is of course very tempting. 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

17 minutes ago, Kisaha said:

This an a list job with probably Schoeps and probably the usable sound is of the man on the piano.

Usually they are doing a wide and a close up of the piano player - the right sound position, and a double on the couch and maybe one or two close ups of the people there.

Yeah - my point was none of those mics are any closer to the talent than the one @IronFilm is saying is too far away. Even the mic for the man on the piano is about the same distance as in @thebrothersthre3 photo. Saying its 'waaaaaaaaay waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too far away' is a bit much.

I guess Danny Boyle doesn't know how to control his sound men either.

With the custom WB options, is it possible to have 2 presets (5600 and 4200) ? 

From what I can see, you can only set custom presets by white balancing off a card or something. I want to dial in the kelvin manually and have the two most used settings at the touch of a button (or screen)

25 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

But I never shoot with my Blackmagic Pocket 4K and sent the 6K back.

Just not reliable enough, or ergonomic, or feature rich enough, compared to mirrorless cameras

Fair enough. I much prefer how and where the buttons and grip are in my hand on a P4k compared to XT3. In fact the XT3 often has too many buttons and dials. One thing it doesn't have though, is a dedicated rec and stills button. Interestingly, the P4k does - so you don't need to keep switching between modes!

As for reliability, QC is for sure an area BMD should focus on, and it's a shame you're not so happy with yours. I've not had any problems with my camera and find it very reliable for both on the run street shooting and studio work. I choose to use my own P4k way more than the studio's FS5, and thanks to Braw and dual ISO, I also use it more than their UM4.6k.

2 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

The H.264 or H.265 files can be edited in any NLE, you are not pushed into Resolve like with BRAW

Blackmagic also released a plugin that lets you use Braw in Premiere. They didn't have to do that, and I think it's that approach that brings a lot of business. Their short comings are well documented, but they added higher frame rates, anamorphic modes and a bunch more in a free update for all. Not to mention Resolve seems to get free updates for life. Meanwhile Panasonic ask for a couple hundred bucks for Log profiles and Nikon are even worse, you need to pay them and send them your camera for a few weeks. Then you also need a 3rd party recorder to get raw, which locks you into FCPx, so only good if you're on Apple.

That's also what drew me to Fuji - adding 4k to the X-Pro2 gave me confidence in them. They're not about to ditch the customer, release the same camera as a 4k model and cash in.

I feel like this is also so dependent on how you want to use your camera. Anything released in 2019 and on has great quality, but there's more to a camera. I've never used a GH5, but do use an XT3 and while the codecs are of course very different, editing with the files from the P4K is quicker than with h264, and of course h265 is even harder. Having an edit ready format SOOC is very valuable for me. BRAW even edits easier than h264, but is much easier to adjust the image - if you even want to. Braw can now embed custom LUTs, so your SOOC files can look however you want them to. That's another big bonus that only BMD offer.

Then there's audio inputs. If you want to record internal audio from an XLR mic, you need the adapter box for the GH5/s - isn't that the same as mounting an NPF battery onto the P4K? Essentially, the same solution for different 'problems'.

They're both great cameras, neither are better than the other, it just depends what you want your camera to do.

(also both these videos are a year old or more... how come they're here now?)

I have the 35 f2 on my xt3 as a default. Great for basically everything. 

For shots that I want wider / longer lens, I have the Viltrox adapter and use either Canon 17-40 f4 or 24-105 f4.

They work very well, but slow AF. So if that's important to you, go native. The Viltrox makes it more or less FF so 17mm is mega wide. 

I use Canon because I can also put them on my P4K. So I have 1 native lens for each system I use, and other than that always adapt.

That said I might look into those new Viltrox lenses if AF works well.

Oh man, I just sold my OG Pocket, otherwise I could have checked and compared for you. Sorry about that. Hopefully someone else around here can double check it.

10 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said:

I can't remember whether I did the build along

Not that I'm asking you to do this, but in theory, if someone where to make a small bluetooth controller for a camera, could one of the function buttons adjust the ND level wirelessly? That would be really handy if one could get a filter that would fit in the small Tilta Matte box.

37 minutes ago, Turboguard said:

Just curious, why not do your color in DaVinci?

Although I'm not the person you asked, I often edit in Premiere and on those projects, I find it much easier to grade in Lumetri rather than round tripping. This way, you can do a rough edit, rough grade, fine tune the edit, adjust the grade, tweak the audio, tweak the grade, add titles, tweak the grade leave it over night, tweak the grade with fresh eyes and then export. 

I'm sure it's different for everyone, and workflows differ, but rarely am I totally happy with my first grade, and even if I think I am happy with it, watching the project again will prove myself wrong. If I had to roundtrip for every pass I'd waste even more time for not very much gain.

For this reason, when I can I also edit in Resolve, but due to client criteria, that's not always possible. I'm also much quicker with Premiere than I am with Resolve and when your workflow wastes as much time as mine, claiming back as many seconds as you can really helps.

9 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said:

I definitely think that for anyone comfortable, or even preferring, shooting with DSLRs and the accompanying workarounds/addons for audio, ND and having a fixed 3.5" monitor and no EVF  then this is a gift that no one ever thought Canon would give.

Sounds a lot like us P4K/6K users. But that extra 1.5" monitor makes up for it all.

9 minutes ago, Paul Jonathan said:

@Anaconda_ the Nomis seem pretty bulky - I am looking for the new, more compact versions..

It's depth is a lot thinner than most batteries, but also the same length and width as most v-mounts. It depends where you want the compact to matter. You can easily put the Nomis in your back pocket for example, though I'm not sure if you can with the smaller ones. Some look like you could, but I can't test  

I use this one to power my P4K and it works great!

https://www.photospecialist.com/nomis-nvm-95-v-mount-batterij-95wh

7 hours ago, bytebuster said:

Any speed boosters u can recommend? Will AF work with these ? 

I have fujis 35mm f2 and don't feel like it's too dark. Though it does depend on your tolerance for ISO noise - especially coming from Sony. The AF is amazing on it.

I also have the Viltrox speedbooster and it's hit or miss with which lenses will have usable AF. the nifty fifty 1.8 seems to work very well, but the 24-105L and 17-40L both have pretty terrible AF on this setup.

I've not noticed the smell on mine, but I'm also not in the habit of smelling my cameras. Next time I'm using it, I'll keep a nostril out though.

So I tested and bought the lens. Despite seeing tonnes of reviews its a lot wider than I expected. I've only done some simple tests, and I'm looking forward to shooting with it in a car. 

Edge sharpness is not a problem in what I've shot so far, though I'm going to limit it's use to f4 on the booster. Interestingly, when I first put it on my XT3 with Viltrox booster, I saw some pretty bad vignetting which really surprised me. However I changed modes and now I can't replicate it... 

Thanks guys. Shooting in a car is exactly what I'll be using this lens for, and I like the point about reducing digital sharpness. The lens seems to be pretty soft in the corners, especially wide open. That said, the speedbooster will make it f2.8, so if I stick to using f.4 I've technically stopped the lens down and that might actually help a little.

Going to see it tomorrow and will probably pick it up... Will keep you guy posted. Thanks for the help.