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Why do everyone keep saying the GH5S and BMPCC4K sensor is the same? They are literally different sizes. Did I miss something?
 
BMPCC4K: 18.96 mm x 10 mm
GH5/S: 17.3 x 13 mm

In my view the Sony UWP-D11 are the "best" right now from all the "no budget wireless" (i.e. not Zaxcom/AudioLtd/Wisycom/Lectrosonics/etc).
 
But G3/RodeLink are ok enough if you get a screaming good deal on them secondhand. 
If I was filming with a Panasonic GH5 by myself without a sound recordist, then I'd very seriously be considering a Panasonic DMW-XLR1 
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1304877-REG/panasonic_dmw_xlr1_xlr_microphone_adapter.html
 

Other alternative is getting something like a Tascam DR60Dmk2 or MixPre3 etc to just wear on me while running with the GH5, to then later on sync up. (as for that H4n, just do the world a favor and chuck it in the bin)

The same is true with lenses that you see not getting a great deal of love - or even outright contempt - and then you look at the Flickr pool for it and there is page upon page of great images shot with it.
On that particular thread - amongst the pom pom waving about the delay - someone asked if anyone knew how he could edit his videos that he shot with it.
I could hear the sound of the tumbleweed bouncing along the tarmac even from this side of the Atlantic 
I am intrigued by the Hydrogen but I'm a bit like a dog chasing a car in that I'm not entirely sure what I'd do with it if I caught it.

They're coming soon!

No worries. Those camera threads are always tricky! We want to assure ourselves we have the latest and greatest but we're also legitimately biased because our cameras are what we know how to use best. 
 

Some more of my favorite lights that I've seen from different NAB reporting so far. 

My MOST FAVORITE so far is this guy : 

https://www.newsshooter.com/2018/04/12/66093/

I messaged them via their facebook page, and I'll order couple of their 6W lights for fun. 
 
 
This Westcott has a great/performance value at $499: https://www.newsshooter.com/2018/04/12/westcott-solix-oled/
 
 
 
 
This 1X3 DPLumi at $1200 or so is also seem like an interesting option. It's about 3X the chinese versions but quality seems pretty good. https://www.newsshooter.com/2018/04/12/dp-lumi-flexible-led-lights/
 
 
 
These guys are doing a smart RGB panel. Their driver as they claim keeping colors within the rec709 color range. I'm assuming it'll help in color grading and preventing banding. It reminds me of photoshop and doing web graphic in the old days when you had to worry a lot about web colors and GIFs. 
They also are saying their profiling various camera sensors to better emit lights that match their characteristics.  https://nofilmschool.com/2018/12/litegear-litemats-litetile-nab
 
 
These guys have taken essentially a SCUBA diving lights and are marketing it to the cinema crowd. I guess why not. Anything with "photo", "Cine" or "Broadcast" in front of it usually demands higher pricers. The owner/rep sounds like a snobbish prick so I'm not sure even if I had the money, I would buy their stuff. 
https://nofilmschool.com/2018/04/distance-isnt-problem-stellas-new-leds
 
 
Lastly, I have to give it to another small guy. They got here so far via several fundraising campaign. And they build nice looking stuff: The CRI doesn't seem that good, so maybe their next version could be more interesting. https://nofilmschool.com/2018/12/blind-spot-lights-pack-powerful-punch-tiny-fixture
 
 
 
 
Anyways, hope others find this compilation useful or interesting. 
 
 

I'm not sure what you mean. Wasn't there just a DIY lighting thread? I didn't mean to brag about anything–attaching LED strips to velcro is pretty simple and anyone could do it who was inclined to. Same with taping together 4 2x2 Westcott lights into a 4x4. I'm just glad there are alternatives that don't require DIY.
If I was bragging about anything, it's just that a few DIY ideas I had were showing up in commercial products. But mostly because I'm glad to learn they'll be available for rental!

Lots of cool looking stuff there!
I was trying to build my own tiny flexible velcro LED lights, but it seems there are similar better options here, and also considering buying four 2X2s from Westcott when they were on sale for $500 apiece to make an 800w 4X4 to rent out. Looks like Litegear already has an 8X8 version, even better! That's the book light of the future and possibly bright enough for day exteriors, too. It claims 1600w and while I doubt it has the punch (beam angle) of a 960w MacTech (which gaffers tell me is about equivalent a 6k HMI through diffusion), the extra wattage might make up for it.
I would love to rent that for the right project. I'm sure the price is extreme, but the smaller lite mats are excellent, so that could be useful even for day exteriors... maybe...
That's a shame that lightning is gone, that's one of the main reasons I bought the light but I was probably going for more of a strobe effect anyway. To be fair, at that power output (guessing 10w equivalent about) you could just get a bog standard high CRI E26 bulb and flicker it with a switch or button on a dimming device. The brightness would not be that different whereas "real" lighting units are brighter than 6k HMI so it would never be useful for that except maybe in dimly lit interiors on an A7S or something. The real issue is the attack and decay envelopes being too hard with LEDs, though some seem to be worse than others... I'm experimenting with that now actually. For all I know the "strobe" effect on the viola is just as harsh as standard lights, unless you can carefully tune in the attack and decay (the sine wave effect looks good, but maybe too soft).
Though I hope I'm surprised about the brightness. And I assume the more of those you buy, the better. A fire gag constructed out of three or four of them could be brighter and more varied. I actually just found two more at $120 used so I picked those up. Could be useful for fire gags club light gags etc. and there's not much else in this price range that is.
 

Nice, FujiFilm is step by step making themselves a more competitive alternate option to Panasonic/Sony/BMD.

They're now the clear choice at least ahead of Canikon for the average hybrid shooter, and that isn't something you could have easily said a few years ago. 

Some more of my favorite lights that I've seen from different NAB reporting so far. 

My MOST FAVORITE so far is this guy : 

https://www.newsshooter.com/2018/04/12/66093/

I messaged them via their facebook page, and I'll order couple of their 6W lights for fun. 
 
 
This Westcott has a great/performance value at $499: https://www.newsshooter.com/2018/04/12/westcott-solix-oled/
 
 
 
 
This 1X3 DPLumi at $1200 or so is also seem like an interesting option. It's about 3X the chinese versions but quality seems pretty good. https://www.newsshooter.com/2018/04/12/dp-lumi-flexible-led-lights/
 
 
 
These guys are doing a smart RGB panel. Their driver as they claim keeping colors within the rec709 color range. I'm assuming it'll help in color grading and preventing banding. It reminds me of photoshop and doing web graphic in the old days when you had to worry a lot about web colors and GIFs. 
They also are saying their profiling various camera sensors to better emit lights that match their characteristics.  https://nofilmschool.com/2018/12/litegear-litemats-litetile-nab
 
 
These guys have taken essentially a SCUBA diving lights and are marketing it to the cinema crowd. I guess why not. Anything with "photo", "Cine" or "Broadcast" in front of it usually demands higher pricers. The owner/rep sounds like a snobbish prick so I'm not sure even if I had the money, I would buy their stuff. 
https://nofilmschool.com/2018/04/distance-isnt-problem-stellas-new-leds
 
 
Lastly, I have to give it to another small guy. They got here so far via several fundraising campaign. And they build nice looking stuff: The CRI doesn't seem that good, so maybe their next version could be more interesting. https://nofilmschool.com/2018/12/blind-spot-lights-pack-powerful-punch-tiny-fixture
 
 
 
 
Anyways, hope others find this compilation useful or interesting. 
 
 

For DIY crowd who want to create their own very high CRI LED panel, LED spot or flex lights. These guys sell CRI of 95-98 LEDs with everything you need to make your own LED lighting stuff. 
https://www.yujiintl.com
 
You might ask yourself why do you need to make your own lights, when you can buy them cheaply. The reason is some lights with high CRI are still very expensive and you can build something yourself for 1/3 or 1/4 of the cost. But more importantly you can build something modular that you can customize to your needs. 
 
Look at Roger Deakins custom light setup for his movies, https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/blade-runner-2049-lighting-cinematography/
 
 
 
or soft panel, 
 
 
 
If you read the Aputure article above, they also mentioned that RGB LEDs tend to generate more heat. Looks like it's the property of the RGB LEDs. Maybe they just need more research. 
I have not noticed over heating on my Viola but I have not tested them for a long period either. 

Couldn't help myself, picked up a used one for $118.
Can you program in animations to simulate flame or a flickering fluorescent or something? I've been looking for a budget magic gadget since years ago. Can you program color loops?
Of course the trick with magic gadget flame gags is ganging up a bunch of different lights to create some real chaos, usually including a constant base source dimmed way down to a low color temp like embers, so one of these will never replace but merely supplement that. Aputure's approach seems to understand the need for being able to program in animations; recording a flame and then recreating it on a larger scale is sooooo cool. But even a poor man's version of that would be wonderful, especially for $118.
Lighting with projectors as hard sources and RGB(W) displays as soft sources (look up Sony's Crystal LED technology) is sort of the holy grail of control. This is sort of like a super low res Crystal LED.
And until then, Digital Sputniks aren't bad.
They are too expensive, though. Hoping the app offers some decent control not just for color but also for animation. What are your experiences?
Edit: just watched this video: 
!
So cool
As for Deakins, I think that stuff is pretty common. I see a lot of batten strips/covered wagons and when I talked with the DP of the Sopranos he explained that most of their sets are lit by massive grids of 60w (or maybe 100w) incandescent lights on dimmers, at the top corner of each set. The approach is simple, always keep the scene backlit by those and then accent as needed. But you need to be very very good to dial in the details and of course the cost of constructing custom lights is often greater than just buying something fast and cheap and only justifiable or feasible on a big set in the first place...

For DIY crowd who want to create their own very high CRI LED panel, LED spot or flex lights. These guys sell CRI of 95-98 LEDs with everything you need to make your own LED lighting stuff. 
https://www.yujiintl.com
 
You might ask yourself why do you need to make your own lights, when you can buy them cheaply. The reason is some lights with high CRI are still very expensive and you can build something yourself for 1/3 or 1/4 of the cost. But more importantly you can build something modular that you can customize to your needs. 
 
Look at Roger Deakins custom light setup for his movies, https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/blade-runner-2049-lighting-cinematography/
 
 
 
or soft panel, 
 
 
 
If you read the Aputure article above, they also mentioned that RGB LEDs tend to generate more heat. Looks like it's the property of the RGB LEDs. Maybe they just need more research. 
I have not noticed over heating on my Viola but I have not tested them for a long period either. 

Ya I’ll ask. 
Believe me. I dug and dug at them to try to get info about the sensor and they won’t say. I don’t think we’ll know exactly if it’s the GH5S sensor until we can do some tests on it. But I’m guessing it is. 
Ya you can use an adapter and even a metabones speed booster to change the crop to almost full frame! 
 Not so fast my man! The ronin-s has a fabulous follow focus system that I played with today that would be a dream combination with the BMPCC 4K! I never like using autofocus on a gimbal because it never focuses on what I want it to. My brain is always better at focusing on the subject I’m shooting 

A Zoom rep is here in this video talking about the Zoom F8n, a "sneak peak":
 
 
The recorder is still a few months away ("July"), and details are not yet concrete (price is looking to be twelve hundred dollars). 
But some specs we can expect:
Updated GUI
Selectable line/mic input
New battery slot
Look ahead limiters
Better headphone Amp!
Improved voltage range for Hirose inputs
Anticipated July delivery with pricing around US$1200

My first look is live! HOLY CRAP THIS CAMERA ROCKS!! 
 

I am sure this thing has AF. My AF100 was the same way, it had a push to AF button on it and it AF'ed fine, actually pretty well.. It was just a thing to force it to focus on what you wanted not what it wanted LoL.

Downsample from full sensor width, but I'm betting the 120fps HFR is the one that is windowed. So, 60fps limit for downsample version, which will look very sweet.

In the Cinema5D video interview I heard full down sample to HD and they mentioned because of that no antialiasing, etc.

Ok question request... I’m going to be there later today. Is there anything missed that anyone is curious about?

Resolve 15 flyer
 

This is probably the highlight of the entire show for me (and we don't even know most of what is being announced yet)..  
This is awesome for a number of reasons:
My workflow focuses on capturing cleanly and then working hard in post to create the artistic parts, so this is an upgrade to probably the largest component of my workflow It's free It now includes Fusion, which apparently has much better trackers than Resolve, which for my stabilisation requirements (which are crazy) will be fantastic Did I mention it's free? It has all sorts of stuff I wouldn't know to ask for.  Like "Multiple playheads"..  ummm, what?

As we can see, they have written T values different from Veydras - T1.2, T1.5... Actually, and btw - Andrew Chan looks so nice man, although greatly devoted, yet so timid and humble in presentation of its lens-achievements. It seem to me that SLR Magic line suffer little bit because of such non-agressive promotional attitude.

unless they're just rebranded Veydra lenses. 

unless they're just rebranded Veydra lenses.