MrSMW

Another Premiere user also because I don’t embrace change unless I have to. It’s possibly/probably why I have never got along with log because try as I might, I can’t get it anywhere near as nice as I can near enough SOOC using a profile. Whether that was Eterna with Fuji or up to now, Natural with Panny. Though switching to Flat now as after some further play and based on someone else’s editing on The Toob, was convinced to give it a go. Log is just one big PITFA for me. I may give it a go and with Da Vinci Resolve right at the back end of my season, but right now, nah.

Did you know (do you even care…) that the venerable S1R can shoot 10 bit, 5k 30p internally? I didn’t until the other day but discovered it does so just for some amusement, tried it. Holy cow, - it’s better than the 4k 60p I have been getting out of all the S cameras shooting the Natural profile. It’s a 3:2 format, but so what. There’s no log available but the Flat profile is quite gradeable. I kind of knew it existed actually but had simply dismissed it as the 6k doesn’t look as good as the 4k so just ‘assumed’ 5k wouldn’t either. Wrong! I shot a few scenes back to back against my usual setting and it’s much nicer so giving it a run out at this weekends wedding… Had to flip everything to NTSC on all 4 cameras and will be working on a 24p timeline instead of my usual 25, but I can squeeze a little more out of my slo mo as it will be 60p @ 40% instead of 50p @ 50%. All the 30p will be @ 80% and only the static talky bits will be in real time, ie, 24p timeline shot at 24fps. So: 24 @ 100%, 30 @ 80% and 60 @ 40%. Could be a ‘game upping’ weekend… 🤔

Z9 pre-order = 7500 euros body only. Meanwhile, I paid less than that for all 4 of my camera bodies; S5, S1H, pair of S1R’s, all used but ‘as new’ except the S5 I bought new. OK, the Z9 is arguably a more capable bit of kit than the S5, but only marginal over the S1R and S1H…and then only if you need that ‘extra’ stuff. But no one can actually shoot a Z9 if they can’t buy the thing in the first place! It is on my ‘Future Potential Camera’ list, but by the time real people can buy the thing, maybe Panny will have announced the next gen S line. Those will then only be available in 2027 and only if you are invited to buy one depending on how many DikTok followers you have.

Thank fuck I don't need any fertiliser. Cheaper to buy a horse and make your own these days...

Nikon really have dropped a clanger with this haven’t they?! I just went to ‘buy’ one here in France and only one retailer could sell you one in stock…for a +1500 euro premium. 7500 euros if you want one this year 🤑

Panasonic Lumix S1 and S5 plus legendary first Netflix approved mirrorless, the mighty S1H 🤗 Not the right cameras but the cameras Ricardo guessed.

Sony APSC? Purely based on some of the skin tones...

Bridge was the final step then and I thank everyone who posted 👍

Sorted. Literally. Bridge was the answer! I knew it would be simple... 🤪

OK thanks all. Will try Bridge next…

How/where do I do a batch rename? In 'File Explorer' (Windows), I can get them in order, but go to rename and it only allows me to individually rename each even if I have the whole lot selected? I'm missing something here... It's probably really obvious but like so many really obvious things, not actually that obvious until you know how/where!

...or perhaps I'm just being a bit stoopid, but hit something I have never come across previously. Last week, I decided to shoot a couple of jobs back to back on 2 identical cameras. Nothing odd about that and normally, using a piece of software called Photomechanic, I sort pics (stills) into time order as both cameras are in sync in that regard. Then I just rename them whilst they are in that order and go from there. But video clips, from 2 different cameras, never tried that before and the best I seem to be able to get is date order? Well that's useless as it has clips from Set A in time order, but then all the clips from Set B are below in time order, ie, in 2 different blocks...but I want them in the same folder, mixed up into time order. I use Premiere to edit and can't see an option to display all files in the Media Browser in time order? Googled it etc but not come up with the answer... The answer would be appreciated, even if it means sorting the footage in another piece of software prior to Premiere. But no, I am not ditching Premiere and changing editing software mid-season! Thanks in advance.

There's a really 'funny' video ad on YouTube right now where the guy suddenly stops speaking (visually) but continues to talk...because of course it's an AI voice. Claims 98% of people wouldn't notice. Officially then, 98% of the planet are a bit stoopid. This. Is. An. Artificially. Generated. Voice. It. Is. Impossible. To. Tell. Though. As. It. Is. Exactly. The. Same. As. How. I. Speak. In. Real. Life.

How do we know these posts are not AI gen er rated?

The Sigma FP-L has a pinch to crop option I believe or some kind of button crop at various user chooser crops.

Probably one of those YouTubers that Kye likes has so much respect for 😄

I clicked on it to see how much exaggeration was going on and...oh my eyes. It's dreadful isn't it? 🤪

This.

Pretty solid option I’d say. For my needs, I have a requirement for 3 cameras so I’d probably go a pair of R6’s over the single C70…for my needs, but this would be my non-Lumix option right now. Not that I am switching myself. The S5 I could, but the S1H and S1R are too good!

Kye, it’s slightly disingenuous to state that anything and everything on YouTube is wrong and of zero value. A lot of it is indeed crap, but the ability to pick and choose is an option, but “if it’s on YouTube, it’s worthless”, isn’t even close to being valid.

I think you can learn something from lot’s of different sources actually whether that be Hollywood grade colorist or more humble YouToober. I learn stuff I implement into my work all the time from multi million dollar movies and from some guy who shot some shit in his back yard with a crew of himself and a budget of jack all. The main thing is long as you are learning something…

Depends on our needs but for mine (ultimate hybrid), right now, it would be the current benchmark. Pure stills, Fuji GFX100s. Pure video, my needs, probably still S1H. Most compact (hybrid), OM-1. Point being, there’s no one perfect solution…

Roger Sadknockers needs a forum invite.

On my PC, night and day. But I'd expect that... It's actually very useful because it pushes me further away from any consideration to ever going back to 4/3rds as much as I have a very decent business case for an OM-1 or GH6 based kit. And at the same time...you twat, makes me more interested in the FP-L again 😜 As I mentioned the other day, Ninja V hinged at the rear plus 24-105mm f4 for OIS and that could be a pretty fabulous, still pretty compact cine beast... Not DR related, but how's the electronic stab on the FP-L and how is it in combo with the OIS of the 24-105mm? I know they do not directly play together like say Panny's IBIS and OIS, but do they work together at all? I'm not bothered by a bit of cropping as I tend to shoot longer anyway. One other option that makes the proposition even more tasty, but slightly different and that is with the Fotodiox EF-L mount adapter with VND between the lens and body, EF mount has a lot more OIS lens options... Damn damn damn you Reid, you have my brain pondering again...

Yep and Sony's A7siii I reckon could be pretty good in this regard...but it's a bit more video-orientated. A lot of folks poo poo the Canon R6 for photography stating "it's only 20mp" but I could easily do all my work with that. Whether I choose to is another matter and currently I choose not to, but that's my personal choice.