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Make art now recently cut the front off a black magic 6k camera and interlaced it with a sony e mount lens. Our host mr reid has even tried his hand with various hacks and stuff, sadly i cant find the content now. So anything is possible i guess.
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Emanuel reacted to a post in a topic:
New Interchangeable Lenses for smartphones... are they going to kill anything?
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A new Super 16 Cinema Cam: the GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS?
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A new Super 16 Cinema Cam: the GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS?
maxJ4380 replied to John Matthews's topic in Cameras
Thanks for your comments. I'm looking forward to mounting the ils to a fd 500mm mirror lens which will sit on a sky watcher mount for moon shots. i could add in a 2x teleconverter but i prefer a 1.4 converter. They just seem to have an edge to me. Which is something i don't have at the moment. Isn't it ironic, how companies decide on how to implement features. Some critical thinkers might go with the word crippled but i like to be more polite usually. -
Honestly i thought i was generalizing, i don't believe i was accusing you of piracy. Apologies to you, if you thought that. Well not a music concert but we just had kylie Minogue do the half time entertainment at the afl grand final. I would expect out of the 100 000 crowd probably 95000 filmed that section with their smart phones. I doubt any of them would be accredited, I would have too, if i'd been there... 🥰 Hopefully the emoji displays properly as i been having issues with those little suckers.. I presume there would be licencing agreements and financial arrangements between the afl and tv stations about video copyright. I suppose neither group like the idea of having potentially a 100 000 smart phones or a smaller amount of cameras at the event but there's probably not much that can be done about it within reason. I could certainly see them getting agitated at someone wandering in with a 600mm lens without prior arrangement and i don't have a problem with that. I suspect a 600mm lens comes under "professional use" rather normal use or casual use. Personally i can see three use cases, for cameras at events, maybe you can think of more. 1) I can show my friends and family without issue that i was there having a good time 2) I could take a ten second selfie of my ugly mug and a very small pixelated kylie strutting her stuff in the background for a vlog, again no real issues. 3) I could conceivably somehow sneak a small monopod, a modern mirrorless camera with two forms of stabilization and a 10 times zoom and have at it, without paying a large chunk of money to either company and reproducing it on my social medium of choice. How to make money out of it, i have no idea. Maybe its not about the money, it could be the likes i guess or even giving the finger to the establishment. What people do and why, continues to amaze me at times. But i think we could both agree, due to intent, option 3 is wrong (probably on many levels) Initially i read this and had no idea what you were alluding to. Blame linguistics. semantics, continental drift.. In hindsight i missed the emoji as it didn't display for me properly, i now suspect what you said was tongue in cheek, it seems i misunderstood your meaning and jumped to the wrong conclusion, which may have led to the piracy issue you raised, sorry about that. Any time there is money involved or to be made, people are going to get antsy if they think their missing out. I suspect if you hosted an event free or otherwise and were the only person organised to cover that event and expected a financial return from publishing online and i rock up with my 8k gopro on a gimbal and wave it around and you find my video online for a small fee or even free later that evening, you'd be a little agitated, your not going to give me a medal.
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John Matthews reacted to a post in a topic:
A new Super 16 Cinema Cam: the GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS?
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A new Super 16 Cinema Cam: the GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS?
maxJ4380 replied to John Matthews's topic in Cameras
Lets just remember its basically an action camera that had fixed focus for the longest time. Gopro are to be lauded for giving us a mount that allows different lenses, maybe not every lens in the world, but an improvement on what came before. I look at like, baby steps, its a start. Getting af and every other modern lens feature would be akin to putting another man on the moon i think. Probably not doable for $700 us I suspect electronics and af motors in the lens would probably drain the battery pretty quick. The mission 1 does have better battery life, i guess GoPro didn't want to jeopardise that for a pretty niche product. Well i think of af as a pretty niche product, for the longest time cinema cameras didn't have af, realistically af is a fairly new development. No doubt lots of people will argue about it but i have gotten used to peaking and for me no af is a abit of a non event anyway. -
Emanuel, drop anything from a suitable height and you'll get results... although i wont go into detail about how to maximise your results... pink floyd once did a bootleg of the bootleggers taken from their concerts. Considering the price of tickets for these events these days aren't cheap. I feel it should probably come with a digital download after the event. I don't condone for want of a better phrase err... event video piracy however if its a 1 off event and its for personal use like nostalgia then i feel thats ok, however it you make a living from filming events and aren't accredited then thats just wrong.
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John Matthews reacted to a post in a topic:
A new Super 16 Cinema Cam: the GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS?
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A new Super 16 Cinema Cam: the GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS?
maxJ4380 replied to John Matthews's topic in Cameras
Good to know, i have gotten used to the peaking on the e-m1 iii. Occasionally i can still mess it up however but most times it works ok and i have to add its not the camera, its me with my Goldilocks syndrome, it has to be just right... I presume that if i use a fast aperture then the corresponding zone of focus is narrower too for the peaking and with a wider aperture then the peaking occurs across a wider zone of focus thats my thinking, although i cant say i have ever seen anything on youtube to confirm or deny that. -
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A new Super 16 Cinema Cam: the GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS?
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A new Super 16 Cinema Cam: the GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS?
maxJ4380 replied to John Matthews's topic in Cameras
OK I'm now excited too... Redid the gopro form, seems like the gopro system didnt like my street address. For some bizarre reason it was falling over on the suburb although that hasn't changed in twenty years. Actually even the local police station couldn't find my address when i first moved here. Which momentarily had me thinking about an alternative job direction 😉 I should have thought about it earlier. Its a major pita as all government centers think i live one suburb across even when i ring for an ambulance i have to tell then i'm in the next suburb. Since its a long weekend this weekend i doubt i will learn much before Tuesday / Wednesday. Any peaking available on the ils ? i read somewhere that gopro do some sort of glowy thing that supposed to help but thats all i know. -
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A new Super 16 Cinema Cam: the GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS?
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the mission 1 ils seems to be more rare than a unicorn or hens teeth here in aus. i would buy 1 in a heartbeat. as i have the mission 1 pro already. I have tried to buy from gopro here in aus however the sale, for want of a better word is (blocked) its not falling over because off insufficient funds, something else stops it. i could pay cash for an alexa or high speed phantom if i desired, so i know i'm not the problem. b&h photo wont ship it to aus. thirdly, pro av one listed as one of the few available resellers for gopro here in aus called me back today after i made a request on their webpage. basically, their middleman who gets cameras for them, have no idea when one will be available. Their not even taking orders for when they do become available. His advice was to be very careful chasing an ils as he feels there are some odd things happening. He did also ask a bunch of questions whether i had m43 lenses already and other things, once i had satisfied his curiosity he was quite happy to discuss the ils. I suspect he wanted to make sure it wasnt a rushed purchase and i had some idea of what i was getting myself into. Thats kind of nice when most are just chasing a sale. congrats to anyone who does manage to get hold of one. Not sure if it because of gopro got sold or something else but it looks like it will be awhile before one falls into my hands. -
Looks a lot like clickbait.🤪 Getting back to lenses i have been looking at the new 4.5mm - 10mm from laowa its a very unique lens going from a circular look to 180 fish eye diagonal. I'm not sure why but i seem to be going through a quirky phase at the moment... i realize its a one trick pony but i find myself intrigued by it. I think kye brought it up some time ago when it was in preproduction. Now that its out, i'm tempted to get it although here in aus i cant find it below $1000. B # H have it at a more reasonable $530. Its still a bit pricey i think but then it is bending light around and trying to keep it all together, i guess that does cost some r&d $$. The mission 1 is sitting in the front seat of the Mitsubishi with a little crane gimbal, sadly my dad passed away 3 weeks ago and the 3 weeks before that were a bit crappy as well. I think i just have to bite the bullet and start somewhere.
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Found you another camera to play with.. Godox C100: accidentally the best new toy camera 😁
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eatstoomuchjam reacted to a post in a topic:
new camera purchase
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I probably have the bull by the horns or my understanding is really really flawed. lol I have doubled the capacity of my memory cards 1x micro sd and 1 sd card. Apon opening the package the kingston card it looked like this Its obvious that its been opened previously, theres dust and grit inside the blister pack and the exterior shows signs of lots of rubbing. I have tried it in a couple of cameras and two card readers however it fails to show up on any device. A dud in other words, my other card i have is a kingston 256 gb from the same supplier. Which is a bit surprising as it runs fine and works at near the rated speeds, sometimes a little faster than the rated speeds. Not sure how this got past quality control but its going back tomorrow. The box it came in shows no damage, so i don't think i can blame the postal service. I got this card for the mission 1, while testing it, it doesn't operate at anywhere the rated speeds of 200mb. best i have seen 100 mb write speeds and 120 read speeds . I plan on doing some 4k recording, if it drops frames its going back as well. Both cards are from amazon as i thought there'd be less chance of buying a fake card and the fact i payed good money for both kinda ticks me off. Be interesting to see if this new card helps the shorten the buffering time after you stop recording on the mission1 although thats all dependent on how it handles 4k recording first.
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Does that mean there's a gh7 going cheap ? 😀 I have to confess, i'm suprized you have managed to wring further interest out of this thing... Not suprised about the iphone however i have another lens that i can use on the iphone and it does the same thing by jumping to different lenses. i figured it out in the end. I suspect another app rather than the default photo app will stop its shenanigans. A tripod collar around the middle part of your set up and some magic arms and or cheese plate to hold it together ?
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eatstoomuchjam reacted to a post in a topic:
Thoughts on the tiny camera market (and Kodak Charmera specifically)
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kye reacted to a post in a topic:
Thoughts on the tiny camera market (and Kodak Charmera specifically)
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kye reacted to a post in a topic:
Thoughts on the tiny camera market (and Kodak Charmera specifically)
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Do you think it’s time for a revival? I could blog about the mission 1 however it’s not a Nikon…
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Honestly... i don't know. I was coming at it from somewhat of an animation side of things as i know they used clean plates for various effects i think. im probably barking up the wrong tree. I need to do more research it would seem
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😝 not sure if i should be offended or not... I vaguely remember him as a nikon guy ? i watched few of his youtubes but there was something that didn't click with me, i didn't watch much of his stuff.
