Has your brother looked into the Sigma Art 24-70? My Buddy Jim Koepnick is a Sigma rep and can't say enough about their quality. I think the Sigma version is considerably less than the OEM 24-70. I am typically an OEM shooter, but I just sent Jim a not to get his opinion on Sigma's 14MM Art and their 105 1.8 Art lenses.
I'll tell you what, I could not be more pleased with CPS. My 800mm went out yesterday, just got an email from them suggesting I replace the ring and rubber protective ring at the front of the lens. Heavy as that lens is, those parts get set on the ground often and tend to wear. Because I always approve repairs under $500 when I ship anything to them, they have already accomplished the tweak and are overnighting the lens back to me. I shipped the 800mm to them next morning Fed Ex, that easily would have been $100 each way and the cost of the repair with my discount was under $300, plus cleaning it and returning it to factory specs. Given the value of that lens, that's pretty remarkable.
msalvetti wrote:
Jim, what are you using to edit that RYLO footage?
Recall my decision to go ahead and pick up a new GoPro Hero7 Black. Nice little camera. Software, not so much. The new GoPro Quik software that replaced Studio is useless. Seems all it's good for is adding soundtracks, clipping out pieces, and posting to social media. That is when it works, and I don't think that is often. The ability to adjust white balance, color, and crop is gone.
Will Photoshop CC do that? Hoping I don't have to buy Adobe Premier Pro, but I could live with having to spend $100 for Premier Elements if I have to.
Yes, you can use Photoshop CC to edit videos. I'm not a big video guy, but I have been using PS CC for some of my GoPro and drone video. Had to do some Youtube searches to figure things out.
Been a while since I checked this thread. Took me a while to read through since the last time I was here. A week and half a go I was invited to go to the Historic Sportscar Race in Sebring. The past couple of years they have been bringing in historic aircraft as well to sit where the starting gird lines up. Pretty cool photo op. My buddy owns the BT-15.
Wow!! Just noticed that my post here on MA2A(Dec 8) was removed and replaced on its own post. Did I offend someone with Santa in a Bi-plane and wishing everyone a Happy Holiday
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
Wow!! Just noticed that my post here on MA2A(Dec 8) was removed and replaced on its own post. Did I offend someone with Santa in a Bi-plane and wishing everyone a Happy Holiday
Dan
A pretty rotten thing to do!!!!
CS
Now they just need to hire people who aren't going to "California" this great state!
Yeah...but I see they are building on the west side @ show center....if you think the JP penny building looks funny in the back ground just think what a white wall with a big smiley face on it 's gonna do to airshow pics
Oh Yeah Zane....................my first reaction was to positive economic news, but now I'm with you I'm going to think positively for now and believe that there just might be a great west to east vantage point that I can wrangle over there, but don't tell anybody................. "I know a guy........."
On the video front, Sachtler/Vinton has come out with a great new set of sticks that will make my life a little easier, spending upon what I'm shooting..............
The Sachtler case for them arrived today, sticks next week.
Just ordered some new hard drives for my OWC 5 Bay Raid array, 14TB Iron Wolf units. Backblaze rates them at 2.5 MTBF. I've been scratching my head trying to figure out the best archiving strategy heading into 2019. I'm going to standardize with the OWC Thunderbay 5 units. They are Thunderbolt 3 interface and incorporate Softraid technology, which hasn't caused me the slightest problem in over 5 years. These new drives are a little pricey, like all new drives tend to be, but the reliability and capacity make them worth it I believe. Bumping the Thunderbay 5 to 70TB capacity which in Raid 5 allows a usable storage capacity of 56TB.
Well, my mounting solution saga continues....I've now got RRS involved in trying to come up with an elegant solution to what I'm trying to accomplish, in the mean time I took an adventure in 3D printing with our own resident lady Jo and tried to design a plate to go from the current mount to the bottom of a camcorder with relative ease...The prototype has been made (again thanks to lady Jo) and is on its way to me...here's a sneak peak of what I've got designed. Not bad for a first foray into 3d modelling I thought. Bottom parts match the contours of the current bracket (in theory), and top is 100mm X 40mm, or the size of a usual wimberly plate. Carved my logo into the side of it because I'm a bit of a geek like that. Based on how the prototype works out my plan is to try getting it CNC machined out of aluminum and anodized blue...because I'm a big geek like that...lol:
