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Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
Proper smartphone apps are somewhat important, but you missed my point about getting a Black Magic instead. As far as I remember, they don't even make smartphone apps for their extremely popular cameras (I see some third-party ones in the app …

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Z-CAM E1 Camera 100 Mbps hack for 4K DCI (fw v0.31)
I actually looked around the older firmware before encryption and couldn't find anything resembling a key (which is not to say it doesn't exist). It may actually be in a part of the camera not changed by firmware (which would mean breakin…

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Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
What are you talking about? The E2 specifically targets the multi-camera market, both with the ethernet port/e2 controller software _and_ with the pixel-level master sync (which can apparently work with 36 cameras, judging by one of the setups they…

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Z-CAM E1 Camera 100 Mbps hack for 4K DCI (fw v0.31)
If you can find an older E2 firmware package, they didn't bother with any sort of encryption. You can just unzip it and look around. The newer ones use zip encryption - so it's not entirely unbreakable, but much more time-consuming if yo…

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Canon EOS Rebel SL3 aka 250D - another attempt to sell you M50 guts
Huge middle finger to that hot shoe. I guess not enough people are buying Canon's overpriced strobes...

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Sony A7s III, 4K 60p and FHD 240p, late and sligthly disfunctional Sony child
Will it also feature an integrated coffee maker and be able to float in the air if I don't have a tripod?

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Insta360 ONE X 360-degree 5.7K camera
Exactly! And just think how impressed the paying clients will be when you show up with a camera and say "I haven't ever tried this camera before! Let's see how it works for your shoot!"

Comment by eatstoomuchjam May 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
Oh yeah - those guys put some pictures in the group. Their underwater housing looks crazy impressive!

Comment by eatstoomuchjam May 2019 permalink
10-25mm F1.7 Panasonic Leica Micro Four Thirds Wide Zoom Lens
There's no IS on/off switch in the pictures. Even weirder, there's no AF on/off switch. Come on, Panasonic. $2500 and you can't even add an physical switch for AF (unless they are going the Olympus route and engaging MF by pulling…

Comment by eatstoomuchjam April 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E1 Camera 100 Mbps hack for 4K DCI (fw v0.31)
Z-Cam supported the crappy E1 (that most people bought for $200 and then whined about how it wasn't as good as more expensive cameras) (I was on the kickstarter and it was a $700 camera for me - which I hated, sold, and never have to worry abou…

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NAB 2019 Topic and Coverage
Looks like I'll be there for at least a bit on the last two days!

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2-S6, E2-F6 and E2-F8 Cinema Cameras
@pureaxis There is no 4k120p advertised on this camera and it's unlikely that the sensor supports it.

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Sony RX0 II Camera Topic
Right. The RX0 has more absolute resolution with stabilization enabled and supports clear image zoom. That's all great... though for most of the stuff where I want to use that style of camera (e.g. stuck to a car with a suction cup or attach…

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2-S6, E2-F6 and E2-F8 Cinema Cameras
I'm totally in for this one. Especially if the colors are close to the ones I get on my E2, it's going to look absolutely amazing... and 6kp48 internal recording for this price is really exciting.

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Sony RX0 II Camera Topic
@EspenB Yeah, I know about linear mode, but since I'm shooting 4K, it doesn't do me much good. And yeah, it would be nice if the mic input were included on the body, but at least the adapter is pretty small. Fingers crossed that someday,…

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Sony RX0 II Camera Topic
Although to be fair, you could also get a Hero 7 with a microphone adapter for substantially less (like 2/3 the cost) and get decent bitrate 4kp60 HEVC and much better in-camera EIS, but with disadvantage of a fisheye lens.

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18-36mm Thingify and other their pinhole lenses
I have the first two of their pinholes. They're decent and with acceptable build quality. The main issue with using a pinhole with digital is that even if you think your sensor is clean, you will discover quickly just how much dust is on it a…

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
@kurth Jason has already said that 95% of the code is shared between the E2 series cameras already. The camera runs Linux. A number of low-level things (wifi/ethernet/etc) are handled by the OS. The camera-specific stuff is handled by an executab…

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
I understand what I'm talking about just fine, thanks. I never said we need to support anybody. If the product is good, we should get it. If the product is crap, we should not. I hated the E1. I like the E2 a lot. If they come out with a …

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
@kurth Why would they need a completely different software (or hardware) team if the main difference between the cameras is the sensor? @Vitaliy_Kiselev Yes, I'm clearly the one of the two of us who doesn't ever actually seem to shoot any…

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
The latest word is that they are likely to ship multiple versions of the camera with different mounts. Makes sense since there's relatively minimal effort to do so. And the incorrect declaration on cameras was nothing more than choosing the w…

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
They are exploring S35 with M43 mount because a lot of people in the fb group preferred it to EF mount. It's been done before by JVC with a camcorder. I was on the side of EF mount thinking it might be FF, but that's less exciting with S…

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
@flash The ISO settings on the ZCam are even more off than a lot of other digital cameras - by at least a stop or two. Anything at ISO 800 is pretty much going to be like ISO 2000 on other cameras. Otherwise, since it uses the same sensor as the G…

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
@flash Are you joking? You must be joking. People keep saying there's nothing up with the E2, but if I search "Z-Cam E2" on youtube, there are a bunch of videos. That or search the fb group where there links to the yt videos and a …

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
The sensor in the E2C doesn't support 4kp60, I don't think, so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for any sort of upgrade for that. I'm not sure about 1080p120, though. I think that the FF camera isn't as likely to happen. …

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Hardware advice for laptop editing with DaVinci...
... and their fanboys have become as bad or worse than the Canon ones.

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
@theconformist Then you should probably try renting one and shooting for yourself. I'd say the same about "if you told me it was shot with an a7iii" about half of the movies in the cinema now, as well as about 98% of online videos.

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
@theconformist I'm not sure what would really "wow" you or anybody else when it comes to a camera like this one, especially when you use meaningless terms like "thick" to describe the type of image that you like. It makes a…

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
@theconformist That video is garbage and the authors blocked me from commenting on their channel because I posted a polite critique of it. They claim to be testing dynamic range across cameras, but their testing methodology includes Premiere scopes…

Comment by eatstoomuchjam March 2019 permalink
Z-CAM E2 camera is coming with 4K at 120fps
Z-Cam haven't been super forthcoming with how they're measuring DR to get to their claimed numbers. They're probably optimistic, just as pretty much every other vendor is optimistic. There are two higher DR modes (with tradeoffs) …

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