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I'm about 15000 kilometers away from "ground zero". Kinda glad i'm not an american right now and i feel for you americans i really do. The basic premise of getting a businessman in to run the country sounds reasonable.. But it only works if your business man has some scruples, standards or a code of conduct. Pretty sure, none of that applies to trump. If he's dumb, what does that say about half of America, or however many you need to win an election over there? He's many things, but i doubt dumb is one of them. His speeches aren't particularly eloquent or articulated, but don't make the mistake of interpreting that as dumb. Was it the X files that used to have that, underlying we want to believe Psychology ? I think trump grabbed onto that with his, make america great again marketing scheme and hit a home run it. The scary part is after his first effort, when his term ends this time he won't go quietly. Thats if he isn't already trying to setup some sort of dynasty thing... A number of years ago, clive palmer (our version of trump) got himself elected after the queensland goverment imposed new taxes on mining. The first thing he did while elected was reverse the new mining taxes. We recently had our own elections over here and to every one's surprise we had Clive Palmers "Trumpet of Patriots" party as an option. Thankfully it didn't get enough support. Otherwise it would have been devastating for this country. My point being everybody with half a brain is going to latch to this strategy. Which probably means every country is going to face more "entitled people" yelling vote for me...

I started a poll on which tripod, gimbal, hand held system people are using. i couldn't seem to add one to the thread. Curious as what system people are using in 2025. You may also comment on your choices here, if you'd like to offer an opinion on why. Been looking at a new video head and tripod. However i wonder if perhaps a gimbal might be advantageous. Pretty confident hand held is out for me as i have to stabilize everything in resolve and it seem like an extra step that could be avoided, at a higher cost initially, i guess. Resolve seems to do a pretty good job at stabilizing footage from what i have experimented with, but i think if i can fix it before i import it, i'm well in front and as good as resolve is i am wondering what i am losing in the process. In some ways the less i have to do the more " authentic " i feel the footage is. With the advancement of AI i would like to do as little as possible with it. I understand that alot of programs will have it built in and there's probably not much that can be done about that. I'm also thinking in some ways AI is just a buzz word with a truckload more programming built in. I presume program file sizes are about to grow exponentially to accommodate that. Which in turn will require bigger, faster computers, which hardware manufactures will be only to happy to supply... Thats the cynical side of me creeping out again.. I'm certainly no cinematographer, and whatever standards i have, are low, low enough to walk over without tripping🤔Still i think its important to draw a line in the the sand and say. Yo̶u̶ ̶s̶h̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶p̶a̶s̶s̶!! er.. This far and no further.

Watched a few more youtubes, i think i have a better appreciation on anamorphics now. One of the trees in the park in town colouring up for autumn. At first when sirui brought out an anamorphic i thought the flares were too much. I guess its been a couple of years since then, perhaps by the time i decided to get one they changed something inside as i quite like the amount flare i'm getting at the moment. I haven't tried every possibility So there's a chance i may yet encounter some " bolder " flares. Maybe car headlights on dusk will do it, something to try later. A still, 4k 30p with 2.39 (DCI Scope) 3840 x 1608 A short clip, not log. I did play with the colours a little, but i dont think i pushed very hard as i still don't know much. Also the k&f m42 adapter arrived yesterday. I have the takumar 17mm on it. Seems like there is no discernable movement. i may get outside after lunch and get a few photos and video.

scotland ? not really a small town i guess...

After visiting the waterfalls, i realized there was some wisdom in having the olympus camera strap attached to the camera... I also came to the conclusion in using the takumar lenses the other day that my old cheap m42 adapter into ef adapter which then plugged into a viltrox mft focal reducer has an issue in use. The viltrox mounts to the e-m1 ok with no discernable play however the ef adapter does have some play. the m42 screw mount part has no play however when i insert the ef into the viltrox there is some play. Enough play that the focus peaking just disappears with any up or down movement of the lens. So a k&f m42 straight to mft adapter has been sourced. It wasn't the cheapest or the dearest adapter, hopefully it has better tolerances. I presume that maybe in part, why i am having issues with manual focusing. The other 90% is more practice, i guess. Not knowing any better, i like the look from the viltrox focal reducer. Moving forward i'm not sure if there's a metabones adapter in my future or not, I'm also considering buying some brass shimming material and tightening up the tolerances that way. I can get 4 different thicknesses of brass for $10 which is alot cheaper than a metabones adapter, so i may try that first. I have spent the day reorganizing my desktop as a couple of speaker stands that have c clamps attached at the bottom have arrived. I don't actually have any speakers to sit on them, but i do have some midi controllers and effects units sitting on them and it frees up some desktop real estate. They also stop stuff from rolling off the edge of the table Which is advantageous. They sit a little bit high but that's ok for now, i'd like to think about it some more before i do anything drastic with a hacksaw. A tether pro 3 meter usb c to usb c cable has also been installed under the desktop and runs along and out to the front to connect to the e-m1 for product photography and i hate climbing under the desktop as i always bang my head on the wire cage that runs the length of the table that's under there to contain the cabling. I have got the em-1 successfully tethered to the computer, however it's getting close to 2 in the morning so i'm calling it a night.

I see your contax 85mm 1.4 and raise you a super takumar 85mm 1.9 Very windy day here. No good for videography, i did get few nice images with the takumar however i struggle a bit with the focus peaking and it wasn't much fun, with the wind about. So i swapped to a 60mm oly lens as i wanted a comparison of how both lenses did sunstars. The next few images are the oly 60mm macro lens. I massaged the exposure to suit my preferences, however the colours are sooc

I think that last set is nicer, although i can't tell you why. i know its night and i expect it darker. I'm not entirely sure that its being down to night is the only reason they are nicer. You've done something different in your approach to grading or the initial video i think.

I suspect the gap between the free version and paid studio version of resolve will grow wider, with the studio version getting all the good stuff. Honestly i'm surprised its taken this long for them to get around to charging for it. I'm also glad its taken this long 😀 I downloaded ver 20 last night, its still free, maybe the last "free" version. The whole "We'll probably eventually charge some kind of upgrade for this." is just a way of softening the blow. its already been decided, its just the when may still be up in the air. Personally i feel paying a subscription is a like cutting an artery and watching the life leak out. I can live with a modest upgrade fee if i feel like i need to upgrade for the features, however if bm go subscription, I'll stick with whatever is the last free version or move to something else. I'm also thinking if and when they do start charging for it, they might have to do something special to entice us. At least for the first upgrade anyway. Maybe that is where the magic part comes in. If they do manage to make it something magical i'd probably look at buying one of the controllers That comes with a studio licence key. Assuming that it comes with the upgraded studio version.

I'm a bit lost, pardon my lack of business sense. When you talk about selling one unit is that a camera body or body and lens or more ? because later you talk about selling 3x lumix and 5 lenses later. I presume you have 2 different scenarios in mind ? As a person who recently just recently bought one second hand camera, my mind boggles at someone contemplating selling three to buy 2 more. However this video and photography is only a hobby for me. So i bow to your superior experience. Obviously, you would not be considering it, if there wasn't a strong argument for doing that. By the way are any of those lenses m43 mount ? asking for a friend 😎

I hadn't considered that.. if it comes in clear your could do the lens as well. Bonus points for the all in one glow / blemish remover filter. Wedding photos will no doubt sell like hotcakes !!

Your welcome 😉

Thanks for chiming in. I'll probably grab one in the next two weeks. Got some video and a Bunch of photos today, so i watched some youtube tutorials on resolve and made a slideshow. I used the e-m1 iii with the 24mm sirui anamorphic. Not entirely convinced i did the carpet snake justice with the focus peaking but i reckon i got better as i progressed through the day. There's probably a million things i done wrong. i did watch a youtube on desqueezing and i'm not convinced that going though the clip attributes and changing the ratio from square to anamorphic is the best way to desqueeze footage, something seems a little off to me. I didn't use log just the standard video setting. i didnt do much to the colour apart from clicking on the @ symbol in the colour page. If you have 2.30 or so to waste...

Question for the members. I'm looking at a Sachtler S2170-0001 Ace XL MK II Fluid Head. I know i know, i said no more buying in another thread. However my tripod and its head is proving to be better at photography and less good for panning and tilting in video. Reading some threads on here, Sachtler seem to be the bees knees and pretty much the same thing is said on youtube. Anyone one using the Ace XL MK II Fluid Head ? Kinda looking for some in house confirmation before i do anything rash... I can get the head at a reasonable price at the moment. How long that lasts is anyone's guess. It should fit my tripod which I'd like to continue using until i can save for a better tripod. Thats my thinking anyway. Visiting some waterfalls tomorrow, so that will be interesting.

Same problem over here local growers, can not get locals to harvest vegetables. Its all done by back packers and islanders now. In less than ten years. Its gone from contractors, and two crews of casual pickers. Which consisted of few locals and the grey nomads who were either heading north for the winter or south depending on the season. Local contractors who were paid by the box and had usually picked 70 pallets of produce and could go home by lunchtime while the casuals kept picking till 3ish to pick the same amount. Carrots are machine harvested and fed straight into semi trailers and carted away you might see 3 people all day. Other vegies like lettuce, cabbage, leeks in winter still done by hand which requires a tractor driver, forklift driver and 5 people cutting and 2 or 3 packers. Theres still jobs in town, their easy to fill. With air conditioned offices, desk chairs, but try filling a position that has manual labor involved and outside, its a different story. Theres some sort of arrangement that if backpackers do 90 days of work in an agricultural area, then the government adds 90 days to your visa. Which probably works out great at the end they can go do all the touristy things they want to do like visit ayers rock and the great barrier reef while the government get it all back in fees, permits and fuel excises. Still good on them for living the dream. my brother recently bought the block next door, when it came up for sale. So he could be closer to his b̶r̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r parents. i suspect he's in for a surprise when payday comes as he's used to getting a builder's wages in the city. Years ago i grew 4 little piglets into bigger piglets. Those 4 little piggies did not go off to market.. i could buy a 400 kilo pallet of 2nd hand apples for $50 which made for cheap feed, however if you only fed them grain or pellets there is simply no profit in it. I also know for a fact, pigs will eat anything, literally anything.. which is why i'm not interested in buying either Chinese pig meet or US pig meat and i'm happy neither does the rest of australia even if trump does want to have a good cry about it lol

I suspect i got caught up in some of that " instability " last week when the aus dollar did a pretty good impression of that last ship scene from the titanic... I had decided to purchase the reaper software that allows one to make music on a computer. I had been evaluating it for 360 days +. I just picked a bad day to buy it lol. US $66 went to $113 Australian, that's a nasty unexpected jolt to the system. It also makes me question further purchases when the US $ becomes involved. I haven't bought anything out of the US for the last few years as postage from the US is just astronomical and i have happy enough to source items from japan mostly. From now on, i personally will be thinking quite hard about any further purchases from abroad and that's lose / lose situation for everyone, i guess. On the upside i did find two smc takumars in an old camera bag up in the shed today. Which did brighten up my day a little.

Ok in what must be in world record time. Both the card reader and the memory card arrived today. Honestly wasn't expecting them for another week or so. You know its almost impossible to extricate items from their plastic package without totally destroying that packaging... Lord i hope i don't need to send it back... Not used Kingston before, but from years ago i knew they made ram chips, thought i'd take a chance. I have used Ugreen before and had no issues with their products and it was the cheapest uh2 reader. I should probably download some kind of speed test program to see if i got my moneys worth. The sirui has been living on the e-m1 at the moment. I take both with me when i go out in the car, it sits on the front seat with a towel thrown over it. Hopefully no one works out there's $2000 worth of camera and lens just sitting there. I must be some kind of optimist as the amount of moisture that keeps falling from the sky is impressive. Theres a busker that sits out the front of the local supermarket some days. I'm guessing he has done some living as i think he'd make a suitable candidate for some black and white photography. He has a dog as well and i reckon i can squeeze everything into a photo with 24mm sirui. I then plan to steal, adopt, modify some ideas Mercer mentioned in the lens thread and see where that leads. Turns out i have crystal disk mark on the comp already. Formatted the card and a quick test gives me this. which is slightly better than advertised on the packaging. Thats with the ugreen card reader into a c port on the top of the computer. Its turning into a bit of a blog isnt it ? Next challenge is to shoot some video.

Do you really need a plot ? I have watched alot of stuff on netflix and i'm not so sure a plot is the main ingredient any more. Admittedly there's some good stuff on netlfix, but what the ratio of good to less than good is i'm not sure.

I have done some soldering recently, wonder if i could get a green card ? If i can smuggle in a steer for you guys it will be a win / win situation 😁

It won't be just the cameras, electronics. The first item on the news tonight was the story about trump adding 10% to the price of aussie cattle. You guys in the USA better start working on a vegan diet perhaps, as we have the worst drought in 20 years happening down in Victoria and in Queensland almost a third of the state is under water. Losses so far are around 100 000 cattle and sheep and that's just the animals that we are interested in counting. You can bet the price of beef is about to go up here and if it goes up for us it will affect you guys too and a tariff on top as well. I just hope you guys have really good accountants, as its not hard to imagine trump trying to divert some of those funds to a charitable cause, like himself.

I visited my brothers place today, took a few photos. His place is abit like Noah's ark after the flood. Cattle, sheep, a couple of types of chickens, jap quail and guinea fowl. Cuteness warning ahead, heres a couple of baby chickens and quail photos that i think turned out ok. Eventually they'll end up running around in the paddocks with the other chickens. At the moment their bite size portions for nearly everything...

Is that the same one that Btm_pix has shown on the lenses page? because i have to confess i got one too 🙄 Btm_pix You should probably add affiliate links...

A few firsts today... turning up my first wood vase. Done a few smaller things like wood pens. Really upping my gamesmanship with an old root ball. Pretty nerve racking spinning up an almost out of round root ball at 360 rpm. The plan is to turn it down some more then make a cone shape for it, and add some coloured resin. The resin is about $50 a litre here. Which is why i want to get most of the shape established before i add the resin. Cheap cost cutting measure i hope. Photo taken with the new to me, em1 mark iii and a sirui 24mm anamorphic. I have had the sirui for a little while. These are pretty much the first serious photos taken with camera and lens. Hopefully i have the stretch right. Straight out of camera apart from stretching it. I'm thinking i have a minimalist mindset as thats pretty much how i remember the photo. If i had to change the colour or anything else, it would have to be subtle. Thats how i'm approaching it, but what do you guys think ? We are looking down on the vase as its pretty cramped between the lathe and wall and with the minimum 600mm, 2 foot focus distance of the sirui, it necessitated that particular viewpoint. the tilting, swing out monitor does come in handy in this situation. Also i did order an uhs2 256gb card and a uhs2 reader off amazon, i did try B&h however they came in a bit dearer on the price and postage as well.

Awesome, thanks guys. I had forgotton about b&h, i have dealt with them before. Ill give them another look.

Yes i'm learning that. One of the next things i'd like to do is get a uhs type 2 card. I either hunt one down from a camera shop which entails a bit of a drive and a store mark up or i get one online. I have heard some horror stories about buying cards from ebay, so i'm loathe to go the route of cards off ebay. Not so sure about amazon however. Anyone have issues from buying uhs cards from amazon ? My comp has usb ports marked SS not sure what that equates too. Theres also a type c on the front and one type c on the back. From my online searches it seems best to use a type c port and run a uhs adapter to the c port for optimum performance. which sounds logical / reasonable. So a type 2 adapter is also on the list. I have less issues about a card reader from ebay. Also its been raining the last few days, so nothing productive from that side of things yet. I did however acquire a couple more rocks, first is under room light. second with uv light. uv light in one hand camera in other hand, not exactly ideal The frog is cnc machined and cost a lousy $6. Absolutely crazy what can be done these days. Some Brazilian stone from memory.

Since every type of movie has pretty much been done and dusted already, i guess the only thing left to do is make another remake but make it more life like, if thats the correct term. I presume the original would have been made for under ten year olds. This looks like it would appeal to 12- 13 year olds so just another grab for some dollars... I haven't been around the forum for long, however do i detect a note of satire in your text ? The hoodie looks a bit tattered to me, personally i'd go with, he's under dressed and she's overdressed. Which mirrors life anyway lol.