[Ben Low]

Per Scaffidi,

Thank you again. I tried your suggestion. It works fine. This will be helpful because I’m shooting a lock down situation – where I can’t easily access the camera; so having two SDcards WITH the Quick Switch setups on them is most helpful, and allows me to copy the Quick Switch setups to ALL the SD cards before the shoot.

Very much appreciated,

Ben

[Ben Low]

Hi James,

I couldn’t find any. So got the Panasonic AJ-WM50P from B&H. It works, and fairly well. To note, it works like Wi Fi works. You don’t want to get too far from the camera, or have any walls in between. When your iPhone auto-closes you lose your signal, and need to reboot the WiFi connection. It’s a 10-30 second process on average — tricky if you’re trying to catch a specific moment racing by. I’m going to look and see if there is a way to force the iPhone to stay on.

The EVA ROP app is good, allows a lot of control … including, if you use the Quick Switch function, the ability to completely reset the camera (frame rate, codec etc.) with two taps on the app.

Finding out HOW to set up the Quick Switch function is not easy. If you decide to go that way I made up a small instruction sheet for a buddy. I could post it here I think, if you were to ask for it. It’s confusing in the manual … which doesn’t even have the phrase Quick Switch in it, so you can’t even do a search. And I’m not sure I figured out how to do it from the manual, or from half a dozen different places all cobbled together.

All the best, Ben

[Ben Low]

Thank you kindly Per Scaffidi,

Duh. I should have thought of that. Perhaps I didn’t because when I was first working with the camera it seemed imperative that one had to format the card in the camera … it wouldn’t fire up when no formatted afresh in the camera. And somehow I just never thought to test that, by formatting the card, then copying the data files over from the computer, then plugging the card back in the camera. I’m going to try it after breakfast this morning. It is a solution. I would complain, but Panasonic is making some pretty remarkable cameras these days. I’ve been shooting a number of films with the GH5 and am in awe of how well it is designed. The EVA1 is an experiment. A little bit of an oddball … wonderful camera … and yet why not use the GH5 LCD screen (which I use all the time in the outdoors just fine) with its remarkable sensitivity. Mmm. And why not the 5 axis stabilizer? I’m often able to shoot long shots on the fly that look as if they were Steadycammed (with the GH5’s combo of camera and lens stabilizers). I can’t get anything as nearly stable on the EVA, for which I added the Zacuto viewer. I keep thinking of the Sony EX3, which had a wonderful view system built in, incredibly easy to work with. Could be all about perceived value and the current fascination with loading on dangling gear. Thank you again Per Scaffidi. I will report back once I’ve tried your solution. All the best, Ben