nickjohnson wrote:
Well OK. Now I know why you don't do food (well the photography bit) Whilst the Commander in Chief was out I managed to sneak the cake out of it's "maturing" blanket (brandy feeding for the use of). Here it is - along with it's bottle buddy.
Right you are Nick! "No food, no fashion, no weddings..........!" My standard quip when I'm asked what types of photography I do. Nothing against food, but you have to have a kitchen/studio and a full time stylist, no fashion...., suffice it to say I do not possess the necessary perspective, and no weddings, well that doesn't even require an explanation.
Nick - if I had any business offering opinions in this august venue, I'd say that it is indeed rubbish. In my opinion... (no offense - the comment concerns the image, not the creator of it).
Kind of the feeling I get when my TCAD calls out "Traffic!! Zero miles/your altitude!" A guy could ruin a good seat cushion in those situations.........
Well here it is! Just put the finishing touches on it this morning and it's ready for coating. The addition of a fluid head panning arm with all of the camera controls built into an adjustable custom grip, and the Odyssey 7Q+ monitor/recorder complete the unit. The way you see it, the system is capable of 4K RAW capture at 60fps, 2K Raw at up to 240fps super slo-mo, and or a host of Apple Pro-Res 4:2:2 10-Bit codecs and frame rates. The Odyssey, configured as I have it contains two 1TB SSD drives that can be swapped out as they fill up. 2TB will give me about 18 minutes of 4K RAW capture at 60fps, so it eats gigabytes at a startling rate. I'm so anxious to get it in the air!
That's a heck of a rig. I thought you were using one of the Atomos recorders? I'm hoping Blackmagic Design will have a Black Friday discount on their Video Assist 4K units. I'm going to pair it with my E-M1mk2 and try my hand at some green screen work recorded via HDMI at 10bit 4:2:2 ProPres.
Thanks Erich, a lot of thought has gone into it for sure. I pre-ordered a Shogun a couple of years ago and was really disappointed from the moment it arrived, poor quality, limited functionality with a promise of firmware updates, ridiculously short battery life. I was almost happy when the power button stuck in the housing the second day I had it. Atomos was being hit with so many complaints on Facebook that they disabled comments on their page, it was bad. Fortunately B&H did what they always do and the return was quick and painless. I've actually researched the new Shogun but the Odyssey 7Q+ is considerably more capable and they fulfill their promises on a pretty timely basis. The Odyssey was pricey, especially with the paid 4K RAW upgrade at $995, but it's a tremendously functional monitor recorder when paired with the FS7. Memory was pretty expensive at the time too, I think the 1TB SSD units were close to 800 bucks a piece. All of that has come down a bit.
I watched a marketing video on the Black Magic unit and it looks good, but if I understood it correctly, it won't record 4K and has limited codecs and frame rates, seems to be a reasonably priced monitor/recorder though.
There are 2 versions of the BM Video Asssit, the 5" one does HD and the 7" is the 4K version that records direct to all the ProRes variations. It should be clean enough to pull decent keys to use the footage in Fusion for compositing.
On the scale of 1-100 on the pucker factor scale, try 10,000
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Kind of the feeling I get when my TCAD calls out "Traffic!! Zero miles/your altitude!" A guy could ruin a good seat cushion in those situations.........
I had a rare chance to get out with my Hasselblad and burn some Portra and FP4+. Nothing spectacular, but fun to exercise the equipment. A handful of results...
