Video Hummus

I think most Americans would call that a “pot pie” with fruit pies being usually referred to as simply “pie”. Calling it a cake is straight on blaspheming. “Pie floater” conjures images of something you don’t want to see floating in your town pool. What is tripled cooked chips? Sounds like an excellent nickname for the R5.

Tax evasion is illegal in most countries. Legal loopholes that simulate tax evasion are not. They are too different things. It’s all in the name of course “loophole” - a hole in the law to slip through. We wouldn’t get on a ship that had a “loophole” for water to go through. Not sure why it’s ok for business to have the same for the law! It’s fine for “businesses to do business” this way until they get caught or until people get fed up with finding out their favorite multi-billion dollar company (almost trillion dollar company) pays less in taxes than your sick grandma each year. For some people, mostly rich people, that is “business as usual” but at some point people find out about this and: Wonder why they can’t do the same. Get mad as fuck in the unfairness of it. So as much as I would like to not pay taxes by funneling my business income through some shell company in a offshore account managed by my 5th cousin twice removed in Lichtenstein, I find that kind of behavior wrong and anti-greater good. So paying up the ass for low-quality commodity flash storage, a la REDMiniMag, and potentially lying to your customers about it, we shall see how the court finds it, I guess depends on which side of the money exchange you are on.... In my opinion JinniTech is fighting the good fight here for consumers.

I don’t know, cameras come nowhere close to the human eye. But like I posted before in a different thread the human eye uses a lot of evolutionary trickery. Reality vs perception is a real thing. You’re brain will literal mess with its perception of time to fix a deficiency in how your eyes work. You can see it for yourself when you look at a clock with a ticking second hand (one that ticks instead of a constant motion). Look at the second hand and then look away and look back. Every once in a while you may see the second hand tick back or seem to stay longer on one second...yes this is real. It is called Chronostasis and the Stopped-Clock illusion. There is also a blind spot on your retina and you can test this as well with a simple black dot on a paper test. You brain just stitches together the missing data by interoperating what it things should be there. Quite literally like the clone tool in photoshop. We also have built in HDR where our brain is again overcoming human eye deficiency to fake exposure, again all happening in real time. Where camera DR really lacks is in the highlights and we will need a sensor with an absolute DR of around 21 stops to match the human eye. That or some subtle HDR trickery. Another way to improve DR for current sensors is to develop an eND that can selectively darken certain areas of the eND glass. You can then develop the software to selectively apply ND to the highlight areas of the image. So for example, a sunset. You would just switch on your eND, tell it to only apply to highlighted regions and boom, you have massive “perceived” DR. You can even do something simpler approach and just have and eND that can simulate a graduated ND and allow the user to select the grade and intensity from top to bottom, bottom to top, and from left and right respectively. This would be more likely first step. I’m sure someone is already working on it.

Now that cameras are starting to use CFExpress 2 there is no excuses anymore. Those cards use NVM.e protocol over PCI Express bus to deliver data to the card. The same way a computer would deliver data to a NVM.e SSD card in a laptop, workstation, or NAS. The implementation would be trivial. Would love to see a company offer a battery grip with an extra battery and a slot to slide in a NVM.e SSD to record to. Maybe even make it a “media mod” battery grip and offer external RAW recording like Sony does for the FX9 but in a mirrorless camera. The battery grip could have the dedicated hardware to encode the signal. You could even add BRAW after the fact if the battery grip were to include special encoding hardware BM uses to skirt the compressed RAW stuff. So many possibilities, so many un inspiring camera brands.

An excellent look at the Voigtlander 60mm. Some day I would like to collect them all!

You might be surprised to find out that I find the Sony overheating just as bad. I am brand agnostic when it comes to my criticism because if you camera overheats when you want or need to use it, it doesn’t matter what brand it is, its fucking sucks. Furthermore, I WANT Canon to get their shit together so I can have a Canon mirrorless camera with my holy grail specs of bulletproof 4K up to 120p. Believe me, Canon would have my money. I bash Canon out of disappointment more than anything and hope they fix it.

That Ricoh GXR is exactly want I’m talking about but built around the latest PCI Express bus protocol and in a bigger camera body.

POS tiny sensor loser camera.

Why didn’t Sigma make the fP just a little bit bigger with the same awesome heatsink design. Even better, why not a totally modular camera with connection pins to a powered PCI Express Bus on all sides for accessories to build out as you please. Just have a built in EVF. Make the external screen an accessory that flips and flops however people want it. Mount it on the top, bottom, side. Other accessories could be on-board light, a battery and SSD media mod “grip” that attaches to the bottom that provides extra power and a NVME M.2 SSD slot for recording to SSD. The options are endless. a plug-able sensor modular that allows you to swap out sensors. Including upgrading your sensor in the future. In addition they could release “toy” sensor modules like super16 for fun and profit for people that want to play around with retro looks and stuff. So basically design a camera body with as much cooling and horsepower as possible and let people build their camera the way they want. The ecosystem would explode around it. Sigma, I’m available for consult. Send me an DM!.

We are only a few weeks away from “5 AWESOME WAYS to KEEP YOUR R5 from OVERHEATING 🔥🔥 🚫” and “My TOP 10 TIPS for Shooting 8K RAW on the EOS R5!”. With tips like: Buy a $400-800 external recorder for your $4,000 mirrorless photo camera. Take your battery out. Take your CFexpress card out. MAke sure to leave your SD card door OPEN! After shooting take off your lens and expose your sensor Avoid hot weather Don’t take photos before video Bring a second body, $2,600 R6 or another $4,000 R5 and swap them. Realize you paid $4,000 for another EOS R...again. LOL! But its Canon...if any other company released a camera like this they would be out of business fast and all the Canon apologist would be saying the same thing: “Unreliable piece of junk!, Not professional gear!, I wouldn’t dare shoot a a job where I was getting paid with that camera”. See my list above for 7 AWESOME WAYS to KEEP your R5 from OVERHEATING!!!

While long winded, and sometimes hard to follow he does finally come to some clear points. The latest video went deep into US Universal Commercial Code Law (yeah, sounds exciting right....) which are laws in the US to protect consumers and business from writing unfair contracts that will expose them to liability. He clearly lays out by reading the relative parts of REDs terms of service and makes a good case, he thinks, that they are in violation of several clauses as laid out in the UCC law. I don’t know any other way to explain that like he did without it becoming dry as a stale saltine cracker. He makes other points about REDs extensive litigious behavior towards other companies and individuals, including himself and JinniTech. Some of it for even having the word RED in your company name in a completely different industry. None of that is conspiracy theory. It’s all documented in the public record. So it’s not a conspiracy theory when he is actually going to court over it. The courts, thankfully, don’t put up with that shit. In my opinion, its all egg on the face for RED. Half a dozen really.

Actually, Panasonic has a built in digital live cropping. They should flesh that out for more control with a more precise speed control and key frames and perhaps even object tracking(!) Put the new feature in a new 6K or 8K GH6 and then all you need is a simple slider. Shoot a little bit wider and then after shooting the clip in playback mode you can do your digital cropping with all those features. It’s limited to how wide your lens is but would probably easily hit that 85% usefulness metric.

Why doesn’t anybody have a slider with real on-board manual controls. I hate having to pull out a phone and use some app with Bluetooth or WiFi. I’d like to see a slider with a motorized head where you can just use a button on the device to set mark points and then physically move the slider and motorized head all with your hands to line up the shot, hit the mark button, repeat again, hit the mark button. Then a done button and you have now programmed multiple waypoints with slider and motorized head and all you have to do is press a start button. Have a scroll wheel to set slide speed from 1% to 100% via 0.5 steps. I think the rhino Arc II does this? It’s just freakin huge! Super intuitive, no app, no Bluetooth connections.

He better hope it doesn’t shit the bed...wow. “ma’m I didn’t get your vows. My...camera overheated. It was so strange...haha haha.”

I get it. I was only paraphrasing the gist of the video by JinniTech. All opinions are mine and solely mine and are based off what i know from that video, which is one perspective only.

Any beta testing needed 😁?

It’s possible but I find the timeline extremely suspicious. I find the change of officers somewhat suspect. I find the zip code they registered this new company in suspicious (it’s basically a haven) for what goes on in Las Vegas. I find Jims answer in the discovery video when being questioned under oath by lawyers extremely unsatisfying in regards to this patent they tried to use to sue JinniTech. Any RED owners should read the terms of service and take note. I find the claims, made by Jim in 2006, where he claimed that REDCODE Needed proprietary firmware to store REDCODE on special hardware (later to be proven NOT to be proprietary and available for sale from parts manufactures, hence the JinniMags) highly suspect. Not to mention now that are using CFast cards for Komodo. It reeks of a class action lawsuit. I’m glad JinniTech is not going to be bullied.

That last bit is important as it shows some evidence of guilt. Can they explain why they made such a drastic change to the company? Is Jim’s “retirement” part of this scheme. Also apparently the new zip code they filed the “new” business in has legal implications as well. All in an effort to shield them from liability in this upcoming case.

That was probably an awful TL;DW But you should really sit down with a cuppa and watch the video.

Sure. RED sued Jinnitech for their JinniMAG saying it was patent infringement (On a patent application filed days after RED sued him!) and several other bogus claims. Turns out the judge threw out all the alleged charges against Jinni and the case was official closed. He goes into detail about the company structure. Shows evidence that two corporate officers are lawyers, who apparently have almost no identity on the internet (their LinkedIn page is now deleted...their website is broken). He shows evidence of him trying to get a minimag replaced and asking for a breakdown of the cost to fix it since they quoted him $1,600 dollars. He presses them on why he is basically told to shove off and that since he threatened them with legal action that they are refusing services to him (apparently illegal). He shows evidence that REDs terms of service violates US UCC law which prohibits unconscionable contracts. He goes into great detail about why they are...anyway the short of it is the terms are service are about as scummy as you can write them. The bomb though is he says he filed suit against RED and the case will be held in December of this year. He then goes on to say that days after the suit was filed against RED.com Inc that RED dissolved that entity, And filed a new business entity in Nevada under RED.com LLC and Jim Jannard is not listed as the corporate officer and in addition they listed the capital of this new company has having $0. Dissolving you’re multimillion dollar company ahead of a potential class action lawsuit says something about how RED is run.

Time will tell with both of these cameras. If your in the sun shooting a interview it’s probably a no go. Add some shade and it sounds like the Sony will survive. Which is surprising leaps and bounds better than than the R5. I prefer the R5 look straight out of camera. The Sony has better 4K120p. Honestly, if they fixed the R5 so it has faster recover times then it’s the better camera since it has excellent stills. If they add clog3 and get it closer to 13 stops DR. Even better. The DR on the Sony is great for such a small mirrorless camera.

Wow, just watched. Scummy as fuck. Thanks for reminding me to never buy anything from RED.COM Inc...or shall I say RED.COM LLC now.

Yes, and why allow Fuji and Olympus? Doesn’t make a lot of sense. I fear it’s a muck of patent deals and technology license agreements and Panasonic wasn’t privy to them at the time and since PDAF has come out on top for AF sensor technology it’s expensive to license (dual pixel is just a form of PDAF). Im sure they would have done it by now. So it’s more likely Panasonic will do something complete different (I hope) going forward. DfD, while amazing for what it does with contrast detection, isn’t going to cut it anymore.

If they were to move away from Sony I think the only viable partner for sensor technology would be Samsung. Hoewever, the business relationships between Korean and Japanese companies hasn’t been stellar. I think we would have seen PDAF by now in a Panasonic camera. For whatever reason, we don’t. I see nothing wrong with Panasonic using a ToF sensor (if integrated well) in conjunction with their DfD to supply reliable autofocus at useable distances (1-5 meters) and then switching over to DfD past that. Its not perfect but it may be good enough for interviews, gimbal work, vlogging, family backyard. If Panasonic doesn’t do it we always have @BTM_Pix device, possibly.

I just picked up a 7artisans 55mm f/1.4. Hasn’t come yet. It was $120. It’s going to be something like a 99mm f2.5 DoF on my GH5S. $120...why not. I too want the Oly 75mm but I can’t justify the cost and I can’t find it cheap anywhere so the waiting continues here as well.