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I'm a little cynical about the whole (ai thing and what they call ai ) certainly there are coding improvements and other improvements that perhaps can maybe put down to Ai i'm not so sure. I think its a great selling point to call any product Ai enhanced whether Ai is superficially involved or not. Besides that i am confident if you buy any of the current models you would notice improvements, maybe not earth shattering improvements, but improvements none the less. Most likely small things like balance, handling, how easy it is to use that sort of thing. Most of the manufacturers are on their, second, third even fourth generation models. Safe to say they have all improved, however i doubt any of them are perfect despite what the youtube influencers would have you believe. I have no exp about the ai tracking that wasn't a requirement when i was looking. I know some cameras have predictive tracking, how that would integrate with a gimbal is above my pay grade. As far as i'm aware its still up to the human to pan, tilt and rotate. 🤔 I have a little gimbal suitable for iphones and gopros and not much else. When i use it, it works great, maybe my style or my needs are modest, certainly my skills are 🙂 Once i got a bigger camera, i watched a lot of youtubes on various gimbals. I made a list of things i thought desirable in a gimbal. Now as i write this i cant think of any of them... For whatever reason a crane m3s was decided on as desirable. There was also a crane m4 available at the time, some thing in the m4 specs was different enough from the m3s that it was ruled out despite being the latest incarnation of said gimbal. There was a potential bug reported with the m3, it seemed to affect some people and not others. When mine arrived it worked ok, i did the update thing anyway... i'll be honest i did stress about whether i would get one that had an "issue" and needed the update, in the end it was a non issue. I can't really say anything bad about it. It works without issues, so far. What i can say, is its big, probably stands half meter tall. its kinda heavy even before you put a camera on it and it likes heavy cameras. Put a light camera on it and it will have apoplexy for ten seconds straight. I tried that 🙃 the little om-1 mark two is way to light for this gimbal. Later i did add a focus motor and cables and whatever else came with the kit, surprisingly it was pain free getting it all rebalanced and working, not what i was expecting at all. I did have a usb cable in the wrong port, there's 3 or 4 ports for different things and two ports side by side, once i figured that out it worked fine. For me the only down side is the weight of everything, maybe i should join a gym. Filming anything much longer than 30 seconds or minute starts becoming a struggle real quick or it seems like that... If you have a dji ronin, there is some wisdom in staying within that brand as you know it already and have the muscle memory as well. A different brand is buttons in new places, the functions probably 180 degrees to what your used too. The kind of stuff that makes you inclined to pull your hair out... not impossible to do, just longer before your up to speed. I did ask a question similar to yours when i was first interested in a bigger gimbal within the forum, not sure i got a definitive answer and thats ok and i hope no one takes offence at my comment. What it did do, was make me ask some questions to myself and then it was a journey of finding answers that matched my expectations and sometimes redefining criteria when criteria clashed or probably closer to the truth my understanding was flawed technically and needed readdressing anyway. In the end i think i made a good choice for me, whether the crane m3 is a good choice for you is something you would have to do your own homework on 🙂

i'm looking at the tiffen magsafe for my iphone 13 as well i have been pretty happy with the phone 13 for photos and vids. 9 times out of ten its the only thing i have with me capable of video, Its also hard for me to justify the price of a new iphone or even android. I purchased the camera raw app for the iphone that i read about in another thread and i'm going to give that a go. I also plan on replacing the screen due to a large crack which doesn't stop me using it, but it does annoy me none the less. Also i have noticed the flaring in photos is growing so i'm thinking its time to replace that clear front lens housing as well. I feel those measures aught to provide a useful increase in "useability" and stave off a new phone purchase for 12 months / two years hopefully.

too late now probably, but could you not get the k&f iphone 17 filter ? although it doesn't look threaded which is an issue at the front

I have heard its not wise to use two types of stabilization together as they can fight each other. I have no idea where i picked that particular nugget up from however and i suggest you take it with a grain of salt. There was one discussion some time ago on the forum about cadence and motion blur in videography, perhaps its abit like that. You may notice peculiarities that pass the rest of us by. Bit like some people are susceptible to flickering lights or flashing lights. What sort of image resolution and frame rates are you talking about ? I have a small gimbal and a crane m3 gimbal that can carry anything reasonable and then some... i could do some 10 second clips if that helps narrow the issue down.

Your right of course. I did forget to mention that some skill is involved I was being slightly facetious. I can see how its a win for oppo to send him a smartphone to "vlog" with. Less clear to me is how brandon li wins ? I guess you could call playing with a 8k smartphone a win. Theres only a link to take you to the oppo site. Am i over thinking it, if i presume theres some code in the link that tells oppo i have come from a brandon li youtube ? Ok i had a look at some of his other vids there are some affiliative links for gear and there's a camera course and gimbal course to purchase if that interests you. I guess his approach is slightly more refined / tasteful than the usual here's the links to everything i use youtube shrill.

I'd like a dollar for every time he says oppo find... I believe the more youtube camera reviews i watch, the more cynical i become and the cynical part maybe exponential... i did like the intro, for a guy who lives in the country, its nice to see some travel footage. Although the title, travel film could be "code" for you, secretly need a new 8k camera phone. That in turn would probably necessitate a new tv, new computer, and maybe some other peripherals. So for me, probably not going to happen. Perhaps this new oppo is amazing, and good on them if it is. Personally i cant take a camera phone seriously if it doesn't have a lens cover. Every single lens i have bought except a couple of 2nd hand lens from japan have had lens covers. If smart phone manufactures cant put a plastic lens cover on it then their not taking their product seriously. During the into did think to myself one could do a similar thing with a gimbal and any phone camera or perhaps even an action camera. Sure enough a gimbal seems to be the secret sauce, oh and add 8k of course and the occasional hand held shot for added realism. I shouldn't knock the guy, at least he's out and about doing stuff, while i'm content to simply watch it, in my comfortable desk chair.. It was nice of oppo to send him the phone to vlog with, after that my mind boggles at the boat trips, plane trips, bike hire, and i'm thinking at this point his his business financials must be going backwards. 🙃 I did learn a few things from the behind the scenes part, so thanks for that . PS. Somebody should probably tell the dude, that you ride bikes, you don't drive them. It sounds kinda lame to anyone that does actually ride one.

Ok I'm more interested, now that its got a mft mount. I feel that alone will elevate the litle gopro to next level for a lot of people. The open gate mode sounds interesting and i would like to pair that with my 24mm sirui anamorphic. No idea how that would turn out but it does sound interesting and then there's 3 other mft lens i own and a whole bunch of vintage glass to play with as well. Looks like gopro have a whole range of accessories to buy as well, tailored to fit, for that integrated look. Cant blame them for that i guess and it kinda cuts out the others from getting a slice of the pie... I like the concept so far.. still unsure about the photo and video file types. Apart from saying its 10 bit, there's not much to go on. I just hope theres some flexibility built in and the ai doesn't just burn a lut in 🙄. Abit pessimistic i know, but i'm not a fan of the default settings from gopro for things like sharpness and saturation. So i'm still not preordering. I'll wait for some initial reviews, and then hopefully wait for some more before i do anything rash...

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Perhaps this new gp3 is designed better, requires less assembly from humans and with all the normal things companies do to save money getting rid of paying salaries is always a winner... Besides they can always rehire them at the same rate or reduced rate at a later date. Considering we are up to a gopro13 now, I'm not exactly holding my breath in anticipation, I know its an action camera but we have had 13 of em now... I guess it helps keeps the influencers busy. Honestly I'm a bit jaded with it all. With a 5-nanometer System-on-a-Chip and an innovative GP3 processor is a specialized AI Neural Processor Unit, i wonder if we have more control or less ? Admittedly the images are nice. I think I'll wait for the bird to hatch to see if we end up with a bin chicken or an eagle.

Nice images for sure. Still i'm not preordering, more cherry picked stuff with little in the way of information to back it up. I have convinced myself i don't need another camera just yet, and i just have to stay with the programming... till theres some reviews and more info out there and even then i'll be a little skeptical. If its like mercer said and has a face plate or similar that would definitely increase my interest, but i'm gonna wait and see how its achieved first.

I have one. i dont mind it for when i do road trips. The 15mm olympus lens i mean... Can use it like a lens cap, push the lever and away you go. Although i do worry that ultimately dust or dirt is going to find its way into the lens... takes up no room what so ever. You do get a slightly different look, its a simple lens, i guess you like it or you don't . If your camera has peaking that helps with depth of field i find. Would have liked the 9mm as well but that hasn't eventuated yet. Not so sure about the moon shot, the moon is pretty bright, if your using a tele lens of some kind you dont need to venture too far from a normal iso and shutter speed. I can string a lens combo together of about 950mm on a mft mount, and i can tell you that image of the moon thats been supplied is huge. Be interesting to see how they did it, my money's on this new gopro gaffer taped to a telescope of some kind at least. maybe 1200mm as my images of the moon aren't that big. I'm also willing to bet gopro gave their camera to someone who's heavily invested into astrophotography and got all the gear and said, here have a play with this. Its actually a very nice image of the moon all things considered. I am confident that optimum conditions and fair amount of skill were involved in that photo of the moon. Same with all the other images supplied they all look done under optimum "conditions" Gopro might sell a bunch of these, if all you have to do is gaffer tape it to the back of a telescope and can get similar results. There's plenty of enthusiasts out there who would buy one, however if you have the gear already, you probably have a decent camera already as well... I like the little go pros, i think their pretty cool considering what you can do with them. They are a great little action camera, maybe not a great cinema camera but that comes back to the owner and time and effort and money they want to put into it. My "gripe" with gopro is its all digital, digital stab, digital zoom. I dont like the fisheye too much, so i shoot linear , which is a digital zoom i believe. Now i'm not nocking the digital stab or the zoom per se but there's no optical with gopro if you want optical its up to you to supply your own diopters or other type of " kit ". I would be interested if gopro did do some kind of two lens system like a wide angle and a normal lens that you could twist on and off like the front element does, but i fear with the new gp3 there will be just more digital and an Ai moniker 😉.

I'm glad Mr Burling replied. I was always happy to watch his stuff, always felt hand made with a touch of love. Bit like Nona's home made tomato sauce... You always new you were in for a treat. The man had a talent for finding interesting lenses and using them in ways i wouldn't consider. I own a couple of lenses, thanks to him and i do try to emulate him as i can. So thank you for the artistry and the knowledge you shared, and good luck for the future.

Happy new year everyone, been a bit chaotic here. My mum fell over and broke a leg, Thats thrown a spanner in the works for the last 9 weeks. Things are slowly getting back to normal. Theres now 16 bits of metal holding here leg together, 17 if you count the drill bit that broke off inside... Had a bit of brain fade with the e-m1 iii battery. Somehow i ordered a bln-1 battery and dummy battery which is in the middle of the photo. e-m1 on the left and em10 on the right. which doesn't fit anything i have and i'm a bit disappointed with my self for messing that up. My second attempt at a battery was cancelled and refunded, however the stars aligned for the third attempt and i now have an extra e-m1 battery. Yay Another almost fail was buying a metabones speedbooster. It was an ex rental although it looks immaculate. My issue is there is no glass. Going back through the order it seems like i miss read the description. I can only presume i bought this late at night ... Still its well engineered great tolerances and rock solid on the camera. If i'm honest its a better mount than the other no name ef to mft adapter i have. So the hunt for a speed booster continues. Not sure if this counts as a xmas present, however a Zhiyun focus motor turned up yesterday I'm excited to get this installed onto the zhiyun gimbal, but that will have to wait till later as i have some fencing to do before it gets too hot.

I'm sure you have heard the old adage of selling ice to Eskimo's, whether its useful or desirable is almost irrelevant, the main goal is to have you part with your money. Standard sales technique, sell the sizzle, not the sausage. There can be no greater exponent of this, than youtube at the moment. Full disclosure, i do consider myself to be one of the needy / slightly gullible as i sit here and count the 24 lenses from at least 4 manufactures. There's probably more, thats just the one's i can see. Hey, everyone needs a hobby right ? 🙂 btw does that gravel, come with gravy or wine to help wash it down ? I'm missing something here. Your using a single-focus anamorphic front adapter with a speed booster right ? Because i'm thinking with just a single-focus anamorphic front adapter on the lens and relying on anamorphic compression as a rudimentary type of light gathering and calling it speed boosted is being quite optimistic. Also adding a speedbooster and single-focus anamorphic front adapter is going to cost you some $$ I suspect this conversation is geared towards those that have been in the game for a few years and have a selection of lenses to work with. Adding a speed booster and single-focus anamorphic front adapter to the mix is pretty much next level for anyone just getting started. You'd really want to be confident in the look your going after i reckon. I'm that guy in the 4th lane doing it all wrong then... Personally i feel the whole tiktok, instagram, social media thing is a fad anyway. Mostly designed to dumb things down for those with a short attention spans and if you didn't have one before you will after.. I pity those those that watch their mobile in a vertical format. Here's a tip turn it 90 degrees, you'll probably double your field of view and widen your mind. 😉 I don't mean to be condescending but the whole vertical thing only works on a mobile phone held vertical right? Which is kind of a small market when you compare ipads, tablets, laptops, desktops, tv's are all 16/9. Although calling smart phones a small market might be doing it a bit of a disservice.. I find the whole turn anamorphic 90 degrees to shoot for vertical sounding a little gimmicky to me. I presume there are those who want the vertical format to be the next big thing, which means more tech to sell that influencers can flog through their affiliate links.. because you need this. It also wouldn't surprise me to find that shooting anamorphic in the vertical format and stretching it makes for a nicer image, thats easier to sell to our brains. It works with a horizontal stretch, so i figure it might work in the vertical as well, Bizarre thought i know, but there it is. Squeeze factors or ratios never died, never went anywhere, never even had a holiday, they have been doing exactly what they were designed to do, whether that is on mft, s35 or full frame or cinema. If you bought a 2x anamorphic, the only realistic thing you can do is apply a 2x de squeeze. Quite literally nothing else will work and look good. I like to look at the industry standard squeeze ratios as guide lines, boundaries that define a standard that most people find pleasing. Once you go past that, everything else seems a little gimmicky to me and theres science to back me up on this.

3 reasons i suspect, 1) There's a dollar in it. 2) Pretty much every influencer has been selling these and other products and their souls as well. 3) Taking a slightly less cynical view, digital cameras being "digital" these lenses may take that edge off and they give you a different field of view as well as some unique character you may or may not like. But you know all of this already. Personally, i'm pretty happy with my sirui 24mm on mft mount. Its taken awhile to get used to it and i think i'm about 80% there. I do like the flares, i don't think their overdone. bokeh is kinda meh buts its not a 2x squeeze so to be expected, but i could insert an oval shape if it bothered me more and then there's trades off's as well. Mostly i just like the convenience i think. Attach lens to camera and shoot. A single-focus anamorphic front adapter sounds simple but would add complexity i think, something i'm not keen on at the moment. I could be wrong but wasn't 1.33 tailored towards mft ? and the bigger squeezes to s35 and full frame sensors? thats the impression i have about the different sensors sizes and squeeze ratios.