leslie

was it purchased new or secondhand ? unusual for a thread to be cross threaded or rolled over from the factory, but not impossible. There should also be about 5mm of thread protruding . Still the problem is probably out of warranty by now. Like mkabi has said the easiest  option is a new threaded screw if its removeable or baseplate  and screw 

home and away might have been a poor choice, as you say. I would expect  a level of difference between youtube and produced stuff. However if  youtube stuff was up there with the travel guides then they'd probably get snapped up for a job  pretty quickly i'd imagine.

I might be showing my age abit here, but not sure everything that has a beat can be qualified as music.   although i do think yt offers people more options off getting noticed, rather going begging at the doors of record companies.

1 hour ago, webrunner5 said:

I will be 75 years old in a few days. 

If you have a 9 to 5 job you like that's not a problem.

Happy pre birthday wishes then... 

Even in 9 to 5 jobs there are those that are married to it.

Whether your a boss, employee or self employed i think contentment or a balance is the key. 

I liked my last job, then covid hit and i probably did two weeks work in two years. In that time my dad got ill, became pretty frail has alzeimhers. So now the government pays me a pension to take care of my father which includes showering and wiping his ass once a day. 

Let me just say any job where you dont have to wipe someone's ass is a good job lol.

I only do it as he's looked after me his whole life, now its time i repaid the favour. Still i feel blessed, fortunate, lucky, i own my property, i live in a country with a pretty good health care system and there are no doubt people much worse off than me.  

first thought, you should do a comparison, like cutting up home and away  and get back to us with the results. 

2nd thought, how are you getting your footage?  using a capture card to import it or from online ? kinda curious 

I suspect each of us are set in our ways and i think most of the issue, is what we are used too. I think your coming from a television background ?  I don't think either of us is wrong just different aspects of usage i guess. 

My first digital camera was the nikon 950. Which was one of those cameras that could almost have the lens side of things twist 300 degrees of so. Maybe i exaggerate but only a little. It was great for holding above the crowd to get a picture. Then came the canon 60d which had a screen that flips out to the side and rotates. Even my newish Olympus em-10 has a tilting screen but thats all it does.

Since i have hernia and a back thats easy to irritate, tilting or flippy screens are the best inventions,  since sliced bread came along. Its a lot easier to take a photo of a flower down low with a flippy screen than it is to get down on my hands and knees, but maybe thats just me. Could be i'm just lazy as well 🙄

Still i think manufactures could sit down and take a good hard look at how their cameras are used and maybe, just maybe consider who is using them and how they could make that usage easier for everyone.

Perhaps their victims of their own success, i think once companies get past a certain size the mentality changes to lets give what we think they need rather than give them what they do need. 

For instance the micro hdmi out thing, everyone loves the hdmi out idea except when you do get it ( usually )  its in the micro form which pretty much every user hates. Yet the manufactures persist with the idea they doing us a favour by giving us micro hdmi out. 

Luckily bmd at least got the full size hdmi out on the p4k right, but then failed miserably with a fixed screen on the back.  Bmd could have sold hundreds more p4ks if it had an articulating screen. A lot more vloggers  amongst others would have bought it just for the sheer convenience that an flippy screen offers. Maybe a flippy screen seems inappropriate on a cinema camera. Who knows what they where thinking.

Personally i would have thought it better to have a p4k in more peoples hands, at least then they can't holding a competitors camera at the same or not easily anyway lol.

Maybe it has something to do with the size thing, everything has to be smaller. Except phones and tablets it seems. I am all for smaller chips, smaller pixels smaller electronics. except when it come to usability. Half the population of the world must have average to large hands. Those with smaller hands, well i pity you, i really do, must be quite challenging at times😉 

While smaller and lighter is good in general, when it comes to usability and ruggedness maybe not so good. Smaller ports and buttons are fiddlier to use, easier to break. There's quite a lot of surface area on a camera body plenty of room for full size ports and buttons. Anyway little extra weight isn't such a bad thing on a cinema camera as it helps with stability.

i'm thinking mr reid is right...

While i don't mind having a giggle making fun of people. I don't think theres a need to drag things down to a primary school level and  be vulgar about it in the forums.  

On 3/22/2022 at 4:59 AM, webrunner5 said:

Couple shots of my BMPCC with my 14x Fujinon.

 

wow.... thats some rig 

my p4k and its smallrig is feeling a little insecure at the moment lol

2 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

Just bought a GFX 50R by the way 😆

ok, so who's review did you watch ? 😉

8 hours ago, webrunner5 said:

I don't think Olympus even knew what Video was until the last years they were in business. 😮 Sort of the same with Panasonic on the Photo side. They both picked their Niche.

your right mostly. The video from the em-10 mark two is pretty ordinary, the mark three is definitely a step up as witnessed by andrew reid and his blog about it. However i'm complaining about the the photo side of things. The mark 3 doesn't have a port for a remote control shutter whereas the mark two does, although its my own fault i didn't investigate its ability for tethering at the time. 

call me cynical, however it seems to me, since the camera already has usb on board, it should a small matter or expense to implement tethering on it. Its just another usb mode right ? Its easy to imagine that somebody high up felt that it may impact sales of its big brother. 

We have these things called smart phones, their like electronic swiss army knives. Not much you cant do with one. Honestly i cant say the same about cameras, it appears there's no such thing as a smart camera. 

Camera manufacturing is in a hole, mostly because they lack vision or maybe their just a bunch of greedy buggers, not that i am asking for a phone or google drive on my camera. Best example so far  is canon, sure you can use it to take a photo, but then magic lantern came along and showed us there's truckloads more that could be done with the same equipment.  

Thats all i want, the same equipment with all the usability that can be thrown in. Until camera manufactures learn that basic lesson, some of them will keep travelling the same path as the dodo. Sad but true.

Two ac power adapters have arrived one for the Olympus em-10 and one for the Canon 60d. They both have dummy batteries, which means either leaving the battery doors open or removing said battery doors, so that will allow the use of the cameras continuously depending of course on how long the power lead is.

Originally i had just planned on a powered dummy battery for the Olympus however i had a bit of a hiccup with the Olympus which led to the buying of a powered dummy battery for the canon. 

Bit disappointed by Olympus  as it seems there is no tethering available on the  m-10  mark two. it seems to get tethering you have to get the next model up. Even canon famous for their cripple hammer allows tethering with their tier two models, not sure if the lower tier models like the 600d get tethering or not. The canon 60d has it and that camera has about ten years on the Olympus, personally i  do think its a bit rude of Olympus to leave it out.

I had planned to use the Olympus to do some stop motion video. However without tethering and having that input into the computer i won't be able to do any onion skinning, could still do stopmotion, however i feel it will be rather painful with out using the onion skinning feature.

  I may be able to get around that limitation by using the hdmi out into a 1080/ 4k capture card and passing that to the software. Which would then necessitate  two presses of two buttons, one on the software side of things and one on the camera as i'd like a spare image. Not a major problem however and for now i can use the canon anyway. 

Hit a bit of a quiet patch with the photo/ video side of things at the moment, heading into autumn now and  there's a bunch of jobs that need doing before the winter frosts hit. 

I did get some stickers made for the korg,  and its proving itself quite useful as utube video sound levels tend to be allover the place. Other than that not a lot of progress.

Also ages ago i found this site which focusses (no pun intended ) on lens ring flares and the lenses for it. Which might save you some time and effort if this is the effect your after 

Real Lens Flare - Done The Right Way (slrlounge.com)

On 3/22/2022 at 1:12 PM, webrunner5 said:

You probably can just take off all the electronic corrections on modern lenses and get all kinds of crazy stuff. New lenses are probably worse than the old stuff.

wouldn't that depend on the camera and or your software ?  Not sure the lens does much correcting by itself, but theres a good chance i'm wrong about that 🙄 

Some time ago i did buy a old nikon zoom just for this sort of  lens flare, which may not be everyone's cup of tea. However i liked it 

webrunner you forgot to add social influencers, i reckon they might be the next plague on society. Plus i'm not sure the rules need changing i think it might be the people that need to change first.

On 3/17/2022 at 12:41 PM, Donald said:

@leslie Any luck on that polishing? I'm trying to clean the inside (flat) of a rear element from a Mamiya-6 with the Olympus Zuiko 75mm f/3.5 lens from 1959. I've tried cerium oxide, hydrogen peroxide and ammonia, but no luck yet... in fact, the blemishes from the fungus seem more apparent. Got any tips?

 

i reread your post. since you have said its a flat side. It should be an easier job. Although you'd still need to learn how to polish an optically flat surface from some telescope making forum. There's flat and then there's optically flat.

There's also the fact that the coating cant be too thick. however you'd still need some rougher abrasives to remove the coatings and then proceed on to polishing. 

Cleaning it probably makes it more obvious, bit like caustics in a pool.

Sad to say its still on the to do list. You may need something a little rougher or abrasive at the start. Cerium is more like the final polishing step i believe. In the stone industry we used different grades of diamond impregnated pads for a polish 50, 100, 200, 400, 800  1500 and a 3000. never worked with glass only stone. Use water lots of water, glass and silica and lens coatings are things you dont want in your lungs. Maybe a mask as well.

Different granites or marbles required some or all of the steps with glass you'd want to do each step and clean, inspect then move on to the next grade of  pad until you got to cerium. You'd have to be meticulous in your cleaning one grain from the previous pad on an optical surface would undo all your hard work.

The other thing i would do is watch a few telescope mirror making utubes. I wouldn't try polishing a lens  with out making a lap for that lens first. Else you'll change the shape of the lens too easily. Which might take the edge of the digital look but would also introduce all sorts of other interesting optical effects. 

Going down this path and you'll learn a bunch of new skills. It will be time consuming polishing stone or glass isnt a quick fix, more a labour of love. Especially since your dealing with curves, Its all doable but it will require some dedicated effort.  

Which is why i bought a really cheap prime lens to start with, but thats as far i have got so far.

Had a new usb to mini b cable turn up today. I now have lights on the namokontrol2. Not entirely sure what i fixed as i uninstalled the korg editor and the drivers and reinstalled them. I did try three other usb to mini b cables before now, but no joy. It was quite an exciting moment to see the korg editor recognize that something was connected to it. So i hurriedly changed the lights from internal to external and saved it to the korg kontroller. Yay...

Next time i go into town i'll call into the print shop and get some labels made up.  

Somewhat serendipitously, i met a computer tech guy at the local jaycar (electronics shop). I mentioned that i had half the bits for a computer build. The end result being i'll send him a few photos of the gear i have and hopefully we can get it sorted. which would be rather awesome, as it will allow me to dip my toes further into resolve, as the laptops a bit iffy when it comes time to run resolve. 

On 3/9/2022 at 9:02 AM, hyalinejim said:

The GH6 is in stock at my local camera shop in Dublin, Ireland, where I bought my GH5 when it was first released. If I wasn't living on the other side of the world, literally, I think I would pop in and pick one up to see what all the fuss is about.

they have opened up travel here in aus. Dunno about nz ? but it would probably be worthwhile ducking home for a visit, getting a camera  and avoiding the import duty. If its anything like aus 🙄

11 hours ago, MrSMW said:

Funnily enough and slightly connected Kye is why 'MrSMW' in the first place?

It came from some extreme sarcasm from me years back on another forum where someone who had a bee in their bonnet with me over something (I never found out what, nor much cared), used to always refer to me somewhat sarcastically as 'Mister Simon Mark Whitten' which they suffixed the Mister to after lifting my name off my website.

MrSMW always then used to respond to them in the third person.

Just without the hat. Or purple jacket. The bow tie I have.

Can't help with the hat or jacket.

If you branch out with into wedding car rental, also doubles down as crowd control.

I know a guy...   😉

On 3/8/2022 at 8:23 PM, BTM_Pix said:

With the SA mount, you are pretty much limited to M42 adapters.

Leitax do a mount product for Leica R where you physically change the mount so you would need one per lens.

The "limitation" of only having an M42 option is all relative, of course, as there are plenty of excellent affordable lenses out there.

Sigma dropped the SA mount for new cameras to concentrate on the L mount so any new Foveon will be in that mount, but you can still buy the lenses which include ART favourites like the 18-35mm, 50-150mm etc

 

thats rather interesting i didn't know about the option for m42 glass. i'll have to look into it.

I admit to being tempted by one of these odd sensored beasts. From memory the Quattro and h use sigma lenses right ? I mean it’s hard to adapt lenses to them ? 
Since I already have a bunch of lenses to use any body I buy must be able to utilise said lenses. Not the least bit interested buying into another lens system but that’s just me.

i was happy enough to see dune on the big screen. However to be honest, i'm a bit blasé with all the batman / spiderman remakes. I realize its hard o come up with novel material and i do enjoy them for two hours of entertainment value, but it seems alot like groundhog day to me.  

glad you enjoyed it but i reckon i'll wait for the dvd to come out.

42 minutes ago, Robb said:

To me, alot of these "grievances" are just talking points of preference. Yes, MFT doesn't have the same "bokeh" as full frame. But I've never needed or wanted more background blur with my line of Oly 1.2s....there's no autofocus. Ok well maybe this isn't for all the Youtubers. Yes it's annoying they didn't address that issue, but I rarely wish I had AF when I'm manually focus pulling. Roger Deakins doesn't use AF so I'm good. Low light for the GH6 is excellent, especially with fast glass. The GH5s is amazing with the 1.2s, so the GH6 will be even better, I can't wait.

My one of few complaints is that they took away the dual SD card slots for backup recording. Why not have 2 CFast card slodlys with 2 SD card slots inside? Now I'd I want to back up record I have to pony up for the CFast. I've pretty much decided I'm going to wait for the SSD card update,as those are much more cost effective for storage.

Other hope/expectation is that either ProRes RAW and/or BRAW externally with come via update. That would be awesome.

There are so many positive upgrades for this, I'm super excited. I spot with Alex Mack who makes the GHAlex Lut...he's super pumped about this camera and had already preordered one. He's got his files prepped to have a GH6Alex update as soon as it's out. Looking forward to utilizing they with Prores and full Vlog.

mr Deakins probably has 10 people lined up ready to pull focus day or night 🤔

there's a chance that there's a Steven Hawking of videographers out there somewhere.  Af  and or focus motors for a dude like would be a godsend no doubt. I don't use af much. 8 out of 10 lenses that i have are vintage manual focus. Each to their own, i reckon.

left my run a bit late today. Still i did make some reflectors. 

camera of choice was the olympus m10 with a viltrox speedbooster and the 50mm super takumar.

I learned that i crushed the blacks on an already burnt snag. 🙄 I was almost wide open so thats a pretty narrow depth of field. So tomorrows effort will be a slower shutter, narrower aperture, a bigger reflector and perhaps more light.

I have reinstalled the korg drivers twice and the korg software as well. Didn't have any control over the buttons on the nanokontrol2 No idea what i did right, however i can now mute sound levels from the korg controller, so i'm counting that as a win.

A separate issue is that i cant write or update the korg controller with the usb cable, says its not connected, which is odd as i can nearly do everything i want from the controller. Looks like i may have to get a shorter usb cable with a ferrite core as the website suggests. That will have to wait till next week. 

Got some paving done today between rain periods, more importantly spent some time in the shed before it got too dark. With all the moisture about, mozzies are abit of a problem after dark and the bugs as well. Still i did make 3 corflute light stands for my lighting setup. Pretty simple arrangement with lots of hotmelt to bind it all together. even used a bit to  hold the light switches in position. Tomorrow i'll make some little corflute reflectors to help bounce some light around and maybe some paper modifiers if all goes well. This was the cheapest way i could think of to try things out.

I did have some other led lights arrive, they are quite abit brighter. Don't know if i need them yet,  still if all else fails i can use them whenever the power goes out. Which has been more often this year than i would like.