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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.

netflix could win, but they'll have to pony up twice as much cash as Ellison , it will be the person who gives trump, the most kickbacks in cash, that wins... and maybe a few "promises" about bringing more work back to america. That will really help sell it..

probably but i'd speculate bm carved out a fair sized chunk of the market for themselves.. Another rabbit warren for you to crawl down kye, would be get an 0.5 or thereabouts achromatic diopter. Depending on your style of filming , probably not much good for normal distance stuff, however if you were using it for close focus out to 3-4 meters perhaps you might be ok. As you probably know the closer you focus the less the squeeze. With it attached you reset the infinity focus point to a lot closer, regain your squeeze ratio, and thats my understanding of it all, hopefully others can chime in with more clarification. Im looking for one for myself in 77mm diameter, but their rarer than hens teeth. I missed an opportunity to get one from Rapido and now they seem to be out of stock. Maybe they get done in batches im not sure, i'd take a tokina or slr magic as well but their all quite rare to find and they are all at least a couple hundred dollars as well.

you can make lasagna in an air fryer ? Now that's a video I'd like to see.. i guess the concept of an air fryer could differ from country to country. Ours had a blade that turned chips over as it rotated and cooked and thats about it. Japanese screw-head geometry, thats torx head or what we call torx head over here? A cross between a phillips head and hex bit ?

Thats pretty hardcore.. I once pulled a nikon coolpix 950 apart and removed the hot filter, i tried to keep it together as much as possible and photo'd most of the steps to give myself some chance of getting it back together properly. Surprisingly it still works, i did however have one ity bity little screw left over... Without the the proper thickness of glass to replace the hot filter it only works with close focus things like flowers. If i had to do it again , i think i'd just buy something that had already been converted. kudos to you for being more adventurous.

More blogging... So i bought an ipad 13 inch m3, i know there's a 4 out and the 5 is coming. Couldn't really justify the cost of the ipad 4 and couldn't be bothered waiting for the 5 and the cost of that little beastie. However i wanted something that had the " extra chip / processing on board for video" and the m3 has it i believe. Curious has anyone else got an ipad and what do they use it for ? Apart from a couple of pictures of some roses i haven't done much with it. Waiting for a cage to arrive to give it some protection before i let it out into the wild... Hard to believe this thing is only 5-6 mm thick. So far i'm pretty happy with it, but you'd expect that with any new toy.. Apparently it doesn't have the best screen apple make, but i reckon its still a very nice screen. Sooc er... Ipad i mean. I'm no pixel peeper apart from wanting to know what to expect. Thats about as far as i take it. Colours seem ok to me and there's some out of focus happening but that might be from the close focus i reckon but still pleasing i think. I can't watch much on the iphone 13 apart from some youtube occasionally or if i have just used the iphone to capture some video as its always in my pocket and convenient, sad but true. The Ipad 13 inch is much more watchable from my perspective, others may disagree. I got the 13 inch just for the extra screen real estate and so far I'm not disappointed. I initially bought it to help with reading sheet music as my music station has outgrown the desktop and is now 6 meters removed from where it used to live. I did consider adding a second screen run from the desktop. however its a beast of a computer and its overkill to run it just for music practice and i figure there's other options available that i can use the ipad for as well. May need to purchase one of those microfiber cloths, a cotton rag seems to struggle and leave lint or fibers. I also bought an extra small rig 17mm threaded adapter plate, i'm hopeful that i can mount to the cage i bought and attach some lenses for additional fun.. the neewer probe lens does an ok job for a camera phone, i mostly use it with the iphone 13 in a cage. Not impressed with the flaring but its manageable and it does suck up alot of light, but it is one third or less the price of a real "probe" lens.

high praise indeed, from the man who's usually the one dishing out impactful photos 😉 If i am honest, i'm quite chuffed with my shot as well lol. These cattle had been penned nearly for two weeks as the trucks couldn't get in to load and have been fed and watered every day and in that time have really settled down, being handled every day. The yards really quite long and there's about 103 cattle in there and widens out on the right hand side. Although you don't see that many in this shot.

First time in ages i got away for a few days and did a road trip out to a little country town i like to visit. Full discloser, never really considered myself, much of a cleanliness or sterility freak 🙃. However i am liking the sirui 1.33 24mm. Probably mostly for the convenience it brings. Its not 1.5, 1.6 or 2x, and i think the anamorphic effects are kinda tame compared to those other stretches i mention. I liken it to stepping stones i think, little bit different to what you'd normally see but not as jarring as 2x ( although jarring might be too strong an adjective). It will flare and do the blue streaks as well but i find the blue streaks to be less intrusive compared to what you see on youtube. I suspect the first prototypes steaked quite a lot in youtube videos, no idea if they toned them down. My experiences has been their abit more subdued. The anamorphics guy Tito Ferradans has a vid on using oval cutouts in sirui lenses. I'd probably try something like that next. If i wanted a look that was closer to 2x Its taken a while to figure this lens out and i expect i still need to do more with it to realize its potential. The whole sterility / cleanliness thing, is of course subjective. What you may like, i may not and vice versa. I personally don't find cleanliness and or sharpness objectional in a lens and i recently bought a lens with a whole lot of yellowing going on that most wouldn't buy. I think the sirui and the other modern anamorphic lenses bring convenience to anamorphics. Buying a vintage anamorphic is much like travelling down a rabbit hole. Theres lots of things to add on and sometimes that can take a while to sort out. Its my understanding that 1.33 are geared towards crop sensors and the bigger stretches for full frame ? of course you can mix and match, if you so desire. i'm on mft format and i think 1.33 stretch adds enough of a difference for me. i also suspect a 1.33 stretch is a good start, if your looking to dip your toes in anamorphics and have a crop sensor camera, but dont want to travel down a rabbit hole.

Just like camera manufactures i guess. You can get option A & B but not option A & B and C, or option C & B but not A Mini size factor may have less of a profit margin as well and perhaps even overheating, mostly i suspect its more about marketing segments and better profit margins. however i think you know this already 🙂

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 ?