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Yes lots of nice cars on show. Made for a nice day, to get out and do something. i did think the camera did ok with battery life. As i would turn it on and off between shots. although i did lose time when people would wander through the frame and i'd have wait for them to wander out of frame. I noticed that increasing the iso made it harder for the peaking to work. Well thats my conclusion anyway. Luckily cars have lots of bright shiny parts to focus on. I'll get a second battery, probably have a look at a usb charger, if i can can find such a beast. My current car has a dual battery set up for when i go away camping, it would be nice to able to charge batteries off the grid. My drone can be charged from 12v and a few other things, i'm sure it can be done but i haven't looked into yet. Used to own a charade that had 990 cc engine, that thing could rev ... and you needed to rev it to get it moving. Not sure i ever passed anyone in that car. 1. I lived in suburbia at the time and 2. It felt like you really were taking life and limb into consideration when doing anything "courageous"

took the e-m1 and the sirui 24mm anamorphic to a car show today. here's a couple of images that i found interesting. I label the first, Oh the irony.. Clearly i wasn't the only one in a frivolous mood today... I wanted to get some car shots as my dad used to work on cars and race them. he's got Alzheimer's now, 94 and not out. He still remembers stuff. I'll make the photos up as a slide show, make the day a bit more interesting for a change, . It was a bit cramped inside not much room between cars, which is why i took the sirui anamorphic 24mm. Still a bit tight but thats ok its for me and my dad. Had to bump up the iso even then sometimes it was down a fifth of a sec which seem really slow. I presume the ibis must have done its job as most photos turned out ok. Wasn't till i hit a blurry photo that i thought about it much then when i did have a look, i came away quite impressed with the camera. i Did take a few panning video shots however my held held skills are very limited lol. One thing i will have to do is buy an extra battery as its fairly easy to flatten a battery in a couple of hours or less. Also been continuing with some Black and white. This would have been the takumar 17mm. I now have a orange filter that will fit the front of the 24mm sirui, so i want to give that a try next.

Can you elaborate on what software you use ? i presume resolve for video editing, however i hear theres a few things to watch out for when installing ?

It worked in all the terminator documentaries !! No crappy steel sports car but i do have a crappy steel suv. Nearing 60, i'll take the comfortable outlander. The DeLorean looks a bit cramped.

trump is going hard on australia at the moment. On friday the new tariffs comes into affect. i grabbed some texts from online that seem relevant. Some of it might be a couple of months old by now. Australia Post will temporarily partially halt sending parcels to the US ahead of the Trump administration’s changes to tariffs on imports. As of Tuesday, businesses will no longer be able to send postal goods to the United States and Puerto Rico until further notice. Those using Business Contract and My Post Business will be most affected, but gifts under $US100 ($A154), letters and documents will not be affected. The move is in response to US President Donald Trump’s changes to customs and import tariff rules that will take effect on Friday. The US government will suspend the de minimis exemption, which currently allows parcels valued $US800 or less to come into the country duty free. Parcels above this value will now require a pre-payment of tariffs prior to the item’s arrival in the US. Australia Post executive general manager of parcel, post and e-commerce services Gary Starr said the company was “disappointed” to have to implement the suspension. However, due to the complex and rapidly evolving situation, a temporary partial suspension has been necessary to allow us to develop and implement a workable solution for our customers,” he said. I suspect aus post is trying to minimize the amount of lost money/ products, as if the US seizes them, good luck getting anything back. The second thing is australia is dead set on limiting under age minors on social networks. We know that social media can be a weapon for bullies, a platform for peer pressure, a driver of anxiety, a vehicle for scammers. And worst of all, a tool for online predators, Australia’s parliament has passed a world-first law banning social media for children under 16, putting tech companies on notice to tighten security before a cut-off date that’s yet to be set. The bill passed the lower house on Wednesday – 102 votes to 13 – before progressing to the Senate. A poll by YouGov conducted this month showed that 77% of Australians support the under-16 ban. The survey was conducted in the second half of this month and sought the views of 1,515 people with a margin of error of 3.2%. The Senate approved the social media ban late on Thursday, the last sitting day of the year, following months of intense public debate and a rushed parliamentary process that saw the bill introduced, debated and passed within a week. Under the new law, tech companies must take “reasonable steps” to prevent under-age users from accessing social media services or face fines of nearly 50 million Australian dollars ($32 million). It’s the world’s toughest response yet to a problem that has seen other countries impose restrictions but not hold companies accountable for breaches of a nationwide ban. The ban is expected to apply to Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and X, but that list could expand. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese praised the new law on Friday, saying it sent a message to parents that “we’ve got your back.” “Platforms now have a social responsibility to ensure the safety of our kids is a priority for them,” he said. Elon Musk, said in its submission to the inquiry that the platform was “not widely used by minors” but expressed concern about the law’s impact on their freedom of expression. Pretty sure he actually meant he's more scared of his company actually being made accountable for something and the loss of a bunch of impressionable kids probably hurts too..

I also feel, a hundred foot tall version of Ana de Armas is an acceptable use of ai...😉 Speaking of power consumption. When the new / reconditioned or whatever you want to call it nuclear reactor comes online at thee mile island in the next year or two, all of its power is sold to microsoft to power its data servers / Ai. Thats 800 megawatts a year for twenty years, Ai is surely is one hungry little bugger.

Thanks for sharing, might be the only lens that can compete with the first nikon 43-86 zoom😉 After some research, a little while ago, i got the 2nd edition? of the nikon 43-86mm. One odd thought later (like how bad could it be? ) and a first edition was on its way... easiest way to tell them apart is the first has the text on the inside of the filter ring from memory. The second gives a more pleasing image for the masses, the first is er... more subjective, dare i say it a specialist lens for particular projects. Now i guess i have to find the adapter to suit as its been awhile.

Put the 17mm takumar smc back on the e-m1, as it has inbuilt filters. Thought i'd try those filters and apply some black and white effects. First is the clear filter / uv or your normal look. yellow filter changes things by about a stop of light and adds abit of yellow. last but not least is the red filter, loses three stops i think and delivers a full on Armageddon effect. These are photos from the em1. Grabbing stills from within resolve and doing b+w conversions on the image, they fell apart so quick. It was really quite disappointing. Next image is the original then a desaturated image which is kinda bland. Third is done through ps/ image / calculations and messing around with some of the options Finally is the finished photo which i think is visually a more interesting image compared to a desaturated image or plain greyscale. I think some of this comes from being inspired by mercer's lovely images and a little is lifted from the the lighthouse youtube break downs and some b+w youtubes i have watched. I was aiming for a darker moody look, i think its ok. Next is to replicate this process over in resolve with some moving images. Also my shuttle xpress has arrived and has been installed. You do have to go off to their website and download the drivers for it, however its not a large file. Once you restart your pc, you run a setup program thats also been installed and you can select from a menu which program/ programs you want to use it with. Resolve is listed, just have to scroll down abit. Not much weight difference between a mouse and the xpress, similar sizes as well. It seems like a tight little unit. No looseness in use. First button isn't programmed to do anything, 2nd button is reverse play, third is stop, fourth is forward or play, fifth is .., i forget it does something 🙄. The inner dial/ circle has a detent for your finger and makes rolling forward and backwards through footage, a rather lovely experience. It also makes stopping on the exact frame you want a breeze. The outer ring does jog through footage at increasing rates depending on how hard you twist it. I have to confess, i giggled like a five year old when i first fired up resolve and run some footage backwards and forwards. I suspect editing isn't supposed to be fun and the effect will probably wear of pretty quick. I also presume after using the contour express that all other controllers available from various sources add a measure of efficiency. Whether you can justify the cost vs the efficiency, that's the thing. Btm_pix recommended this down in one of the threads and i have to agree with him its a good improvement over a mouse, keyboard arrangement for editing. I have yet to try it with any other programs to see what other improvements can be realized. I got it on an amazon prime day, delivered for $125 Australian. Not cheap like a mouse, but then probably cheaper than some of the name brand items associated with video editing. Also i'd like to point out no affiliate links. nor are there ever likely too be... Now i'm off to bed, been an exciting day 🙂

I thought i was the only one who had to deal with windy days... I suspect that the gustiness of the wind on the day, might be causing some issues with the cadence ? things seem to jump around a bit, not that the the g7 should have any cadence issues but rather the gustiness is making it look like that. I also suspect that the edit points dont help the issue either. Just seems to make it more apparent. Obviously its a test and your not trying to tell a story, however the jumpiness is a bit distracting. For me anyway. As to softening I think it looks ok from here, from what little i know... personally i'm still working out some of the ground rules for a look i like. I think your much further along the road to where i am at. In fact the last project i did went the other way and i was sharpening ever so slightly. So there you go. Hopefully some of the more experienced people can be more insightful.

Never thought i had particularly large hands, however one gripe i have found (its a personal one) is when i grip the e-m1 my little finger tends to wrap underneath as the camera isn't tall enough. Not that i want to call the e-m1 vertically challenged. Its more of a me thing than a camera design issue. One of the reasons to get it was the mft form factor. Its just a little uncomfortable to hold after a little while. At the moment it lives with the ziyhun space plate on the manfrotto base plate and that seems to work ok. I don't seem to have any issues with the plates on the bottom, i don't seem to accidently hit at all and i can put pretty much any lens on it without fear of it falling over. I suspect one of those optional HLD-9 Power Battery Grips is in the near future for this camera and the gimbal should accommodate the extra weight. At the moment its about 50 % tripod time and then 50% hand hold. Its nice the space plate and base plate are out of the way of the battery door and its easy to change the battery without having to take something off. I did get a few photos with the super takumar 35mm f2 today and i'm quietly confident that i met or exceeded the mission brief of finding a yellow lens. i should also point out it was nearly 4pm and winter here, so the sun is low in the sky. From the left, straight out of the camera. For the middle shot, and to get back to a less artistic image, i took a grey point off the lavender as thats kinda grey, perhaps a little too blue ? I do like the colour of the dirt in the middle photo but i suspect the rest of the photo is a bit too cool ? which might come back on using the lavender as a grey point also the gerbera isn't as orange as in real life. I can of course massage things in post but that kind of defeats the purpose of the exercise. Plus its all subjective anyway lol. Third is from the iphone 13 for a bit of a comparison, the flower certainly is more orange, maybe it pops a little too much. I guess the iphone is doing some " magic " although i am sure the profile is set to normal. I think its kinda interesting how cameras / lenses interpret an image and then how humans interpret that result as pleasing or not. I'll also add i don't like to overthink it, more of a conceptual thought rather than a whole process. Next shot is taken at the same time and i threw it in as i thought there was abit of fine detail in it with the spider webs. After that the battery died. I was hoping to get it charged for sunset however i was a bit late and it was abit of a bland sunset as well. So far i am liking this lens, from the very limited time i have played with it, it behaves like i thought it would. I have a bunch more things to try with this lens yet. I doubt anyone else will buy this lens for the same reason i bought it. Most would buy it and stick out under the sun or uv light to clear away the colour cast. To me thats what makes it unique. I do have other takumars super taks and smc's and the 17mm smc on the desktop beside me is clear or almost clear of a colour cast. I'll have to check the others now ... The 17mm smc also has a filter wheel built in with a red, yellow, and clear, i remembered that only a couple of days ago... I should get some comparisons to satisfy my curiosity. Also its very much a mint looking lens and the focus works smoothly and aperture work nicely, i also bought one that had front and rear lens caps. After my first couple of takumars it began to annoy me that people will sell these lenses and ship them round the world without a front or back lens cap. I am confident i have always paid good prices for the lenses i have bought and honesty i think its just lame, that people cheapen out and won't put a cheap cap on it. I have a birthday next week, kind of ironic and depressing to think that i am as old or older than these lenses. These lenses keep working just fine, however my shoulder is starting to pack it in... 🙄

More blogging My lens has arrived, i think. Well before my birthday. Haven't opened it yet will do that later today. I would open it except its a pretty ordinary day here, overcast and a few drops of rain. I'd be more excited if it were sunny... The postie has done her normal thing and left it out behind the rose bush, apparently no one will notice it there. I guess she also assumes someone will pick it up before it rains... I got an andoer 50cm camera slider, it moves quite smoothly. I'm impressed with how solid / rigid it is, i wouldn't try standing on it, but for every camera and mount i have subjected it too, its been awesome . In hindsight i should have bought the 60cm slider as it would still fit between a doorway and i'd have an extra 100mm of travel. I tend to lose 45mm of travel from each side of center which is a bit annoying. The only issue i have had is when i mount it to a tripod within a minute of use the 3/8 bolt loosens and the whole slider can then swing in the breeze. Not exactly inspiring. To fix that issue i inserted a 10mm end mill into the drill press and cautiously milled some material away. There are two holes in both the mount and camera slider, neither match up. One is 3/6 and the other is 1/4 inch. The 1/4 inch hole got slotted as well which allows the holes to align. I previously have had to machine the front away as it was catching on the tripod somehow. If this doesn't hold it steady i'm not sure what else i can do. One of the first things i did, was to cut 100mm of a 600mm steel ruler, it fits snugly between the rails there's double sided tape holding the ruler in place. I dabble with animation and i figure it would help with consistency.

Too late. there's a f2 35mm takumar on its way, i may also get a warming filter for the double whammy or more likely just for comparisons Lens should be here by the end of the month. It kinda rounds out my takumer set, i have most of the focal lengths i think although none are matching, there's taks, super taks, and smc's. i don't think i have a 28mm and definitely no eight element either. Next item will be a speed booster i think, to claw back some of that crop and i presume it gives me an additional focal length for each lens. Well thats how i'm looking at it anyway.

Awesome.. a new market opportunity opening up, for buying cheap plastic lens caps and grinding RX1R III into it with the dremel. Obviously i couldn't sell them too cheap as one of the smarter cookies might smell something fishy going on...

Herbie goes to monte carlo 1977. Even more vintage... or the village people that was 1980 as well.

I have a sirui in 24mm mft. I quite like it. when i first looked at it on youtube they were preproduction models i believe. I thought the flares might be a bit to much, however after buying it, i find the flares not to be too overpowering. I suspect either sirui toned them down or perhaps or youtubers sought out the absolute brightest lights to test on, which may not have been in the lenses best interests. Be interesting to see how your anamorphic adapter behaves. It was prime day everywhere wasn't it ? may not have been just us aussies... btw i like your room light. I have been setting up a black velvet curtain and i have some fairy lights to do some bokeh experiments with. If i can find something similar it might make it in as a foreground object.