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wishlist for next firmware
I wish it could be possible to have a longer time-definable “shot transition” and that this function could be added to “interval recording”
EX3, Nikon Adaptimax with various lenses, Acuter Merlin mount, MBP17″2.93GHz, FCS2, Media100, BtcSP, DVcam
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Without trying to be funny, I’m curious as to why anyone who isn’t shooting material that might be going out live somehow would want to insert transitions ‘on camera’ rather than in post.
It seems to me a waste of the camera’s resources but I’m more than ready to learn why the manufacturers still provide this facility.
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I think the top item on my wish list would be (up to) 2.5 stops of under-exposure in the TLCS level menu.
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Hello Andy, do you actually own an EX1/3?
Are you familiar with the operations of this camera?
Do you know that the transition of this camera from A to B (or viceversa) can change between 2 different positions of: focus, aperture, WB, shutter, zoom, etc, over time?
Without trying to be funny, can you explain me how you do this in post?!EX3, Nikon Adaptimax with various lenses, Acuter Merlin mount, MBP17″2.93GHz, FCS2, Media100, BtcSP, DVcam
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Hmmm . . . Not sure how to say this, Bruno . . .
I’ve had an EX1 for nearly two years and added an EX1R last Friday to give me more camera angles (and for its superb features).
I’ve shot hundreds of hours of footage on the EX1 and was totally unaware of the shot transition functions you mentioned.
How stupid of me. If I’d bothered to read the manual properly, instead of assuming the transitions were the same as on the Z1 (fade-in, fade-out etc) I could have made good use of them.
Not just getting old, I think I must be getting narrow minded too.
Anyway, thanks for enlightening me – I think I’ll go and read the manual now.
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Andy,
That’s what all (or some) of those cute membrane switches under the handle are for:)
– Don
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Durn it . . . I thought they were Sony’s little joke – making the the Bars blot out your subject randomly, or the Screen Info disappear (almost irretrievably) just when you most needed it.
Either way, on the EX1, I usually avoided them like the plague.
Keep this info coming, it’s as though I’m discovering a whole new world!
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technology is marvelous, I use this functions sometimes to complement computerized motion control with a Merlin mount and Papywizard software, now, doing time-lapse, of course time-span is totally different; if the values of this functions would be extended, we would be able to do very complex things indeed
EX3, Nikon Adaptimax with various lenses, Acuter Merlin mount, MBP17″2.93GHz, FCS2, Media100, BtcSP, DVcam
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I’m with Andy on the infuriating way information on the screen can disappear when you mistakenly press one of those wretched little pads under the handle, although I believe that the EX1 R has made them a bit harder to press accidentally.
On the original thread subject I have to say that much though it may interest some people to be able to pull focus and exposure automatically, the time it takes to set the function up would negate its use for me shooting documentary in the field. If I want to pull focus it’s perfectly feasible to do it manually as we always did before all the ‘smoke & mirrors’.
Michael Slowe
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The EX1 R is an improvement in this respect but in the six days I’ve had the camera, I’ve still managed to bring up the bars by accident (just once).
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Another item high on my wish list for the next firmware is the ability to record Audio Only.
Surely this would cost very little to incorporate into the menu – but it would save oodles of SxS (and hard drive) space on those occasions when we record voice-overs or ambient sound.
Anyone who keeps their BPAV files will be familiar with the frustration of downloading and archiving these huge files in which only the audio is required.
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