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Aw yeah! ?
 

Not so sure about that. Crowdfunding drums up hype. It's just good business practice to capitalize on that. Don't think there's much more to it than that. That's the sorta thing Elon Musk is all about. Spending less on actual promotion and advertising... and just create hype and make people talk about it themselves. In Pokémon terms 'it's super effective!'. Also cutting out the middleman and the need for physical stores/showrooms. That's just where this is all heading imho.
The JBL project that just launched is already over goal and they only ship US/DE (where usually campaigns are run worldwide; that's also how you can guage demographics and markets to focus on if you decide to go retail). The Philips campaign reached 11000% its target goal (of course the bar set low on these campaigns on purpose, they know they're likely going to get enough sales to warrant production, but here again it sounds better if you're reaching 11000% over target (creating even more hype and articles being written about you) opposed to fully funded at 101%, which is only just making it).
Thing is. They already put in the market research + R&D. They can't afford to be publicly disgraced by flopping a crowdfunding campaign, that hurts more than it would gain. The products of these established companies are probably already production ready. They don't come out with a cardboard prototype and go like 'so... this is version 1.0, we'll make some more iterations as we continue to tweak the concept, let's embark on this journey together! We're looking forward to your support to make this idea a reality!'. They know what they've got and that it will be a banger... the question is just... will it be a small fire cracker or will it blow up like TNT. Crowdfunding can elevate its success for them with very little effort from their side. These sharks are just trying new waters to fish...
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But anyways...
Some more Tom Antos perhaps? New vid:
 

haha, I figured. A little bit more regarding the P1:
Seems pretty stable and all. Just the motion/transition in movements seems a bit robotic on/off, rather than organic. But I believe he said he had the same feedback and that they were trying to see to address that with firmware.
Btw. Is it me or does it seem like Sirui's been sending gear to try to relatively small channels? A bunch under 2k subs, this particular dude 67:
 

Etc... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sirui+anamorphic&sp=CAI%3D

I’m actually thrilled to be a backer for this game changing lens! I’ll be using it with the GYLS300 and maybe try it on the E1. So far the best footage I’ve seen rendered with this lens comes from the users with GH5s and BMPCC4Ks. Like this one in particular:
 
 

Here is something to get you going. 
 
Unfortunately, there is no option for 1.33x desqueeze, so you are either stuck with having to look at squeezed image on your camera monitor or using an external monitor with more desqueeze options. 
Shooting Open Gate 4:3 with 1.33x Sirui will roughly result in a 16:9 final video. 
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Here are a couple of grabs from me in the house. The grab in the dark is from a scene out of the documentary Marcy Made, which is on Vimeo On Demand. I used a JVC GYLS300 and the Sirui 50mm. 

I”m posting becouse this thread pops up on Google. 
 
2 years have gone since you opened this thread but we are still limited to these options:
Manfrotto Befree MVH400AH  = 370 gram, <90$ Sirui VA-5 = 530 gram, 150$ FEISOL VH-40 = 600 gram, 135$ Benro S2 = 400 gram, 80$ iFootage Komodo K5 = 700gr, 159$ To be honest none of them provide superb smooth fluid pan and tilt.  If you want superb smooth pan and tilt for affordable price I would recommend Komodo K7, which is till hard to get.
if you want something very lightweight and which makes pan and tilt easier, I recommend Manfrotto BeFree. It’s not superbly smooth bat smooth enough for average fast mobile video production. I have used it with tripods and monopods as well and even if it isn’t the most perfect you will get get better video with your very lightweight equipment. 
if you need superb smooth pan and tilt you shal use a lot heavier equipment or alternatively to use some motorised video head, which might be even better solution than any video head mentioned above. 
 
 

Hey guys,

I wanted to share a film with you that I just finished and released. 
It is also a project I've been very passionate about, as it is the retelling of a true story. A short excerpt out of the life of a good friend of mine.

A while ago a severe fire destroyed many houses inside the neighborhood of San Andres, Manila.
Everything was raised to the ground. My friend took literally his destiny in his own hands and they were able to rebuild the houses just by them and the community.

Everything was shot handheld on the OG Pocket, with the old MFT-Speedbooster and a vintage Nikol 35mm f2 and a very old Nikol 50mm f1.4.
No artificial light, was really like run and gun. I shot all formats, CinemaDNG, ProRes - even LT - depending on how much space was left on the SD card.
This little thing was really a workhorse! The archival footage is from different mobile phones.

I hope you like the film! Enjoy

 
 
 

That would be a great initiative, Andrew and I recall Kodak as for instance to have offered something similar in the past, but are they willing to offer it ever, today?
There are many players in the digital realm, the world is different nowadays. Sony, for example, has changed in twenty years as far as my memory serves the way their marketing was used to work twenty years ago. No need to go back, even though, a decade earlier when I started my career their commercial practices didn't much differ. Seems we live in another century now.
I think that's where also comes part of my weakness for brands like Fuji Film, only to mention their case. Old school : ) No idea if they stand their former programmes anyhow, they probably have to adapt themselves to the other contenders' policies.

They could do a lot of things, I think, to help but I think companies in general have a problem thinking outside the box, especially if it means giving up control. I mean, even the current YouTube / influencer model was something that was literally thrown into their lap and was only embraced given how beneficial/one sided it was to them. "You mean we can send these people stuff and they'll make enthusiastic 'reviews' even if the product isn't great? That they'll do it almost exclusively for free stuff, access to us , and the revenue they can make from affiliate links?!"
Long term it'd be for everyone's benefit to properly fund journalist and art programs that can help grow the video / photography community, but I can't see a scenario where they'd do it because it'd mean giving up a level of control that they're not comfortable with. 

You're right and... oh yes, affiliate links are a plague of these days.

Pity. Very promising tool.

Pity. Very promising tool.

Greece is here:
 

Greece is here:
 

ML isn't dead hahaha, it's the same as always.
Yes. It's not a port any developers are working on. You need to have that specific camera and want to invest time in it, right now no one has taken that task up.

Your stuff is one of the best aerial footage we can actually find on web or anywhere -- here are the links to the subforum Andrew created for us and where this thread misplaced here by my fault : ) should actually be located as well:
 
By my mistake too, I also re-posted some other video already linked before when it should be this experience of 3 hours and 40 minutes (yeah, you read it well : D) here made in the beautiful Croatian landscapes:
 
There's also this series of portraits by air and country I have no idea if you've ever noticed (aired on National Geographic):
https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/tv/china-from-above/episodes.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_From_Above
https://www.natgeotv.com/za/shows/natgeo/europe-from-above
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/program/video/japanfromabove/
 
And powerful shots don't necessarily mean to be captured in motion, so here is a marvelous row of those:
https://www.nationalgeographic.fr/photography/2018/12/le-monde-vu-du-ciel-avec-jassen-torodov
 
This planet is plenty of different locations to give to the world to see and business opportunities from networks for local shooters... I imagine the beautiful Greece as for instance ; -)

Looks like very promising.

To the rest who don't give a damn for kids trying to play the adult game and have the pro label right into the business card, can we enjoy some imagerie by Autel without risk to meet DJI trolls in disguise of nasty boys? LOL : -)

 

More here by user fotofletch on Flickr
Hope their new 1-inch 6K Autel Evo 2 (full pixel readout, no line skipping, no pixel binning) may bring this out from stills realm closer to video.