I once tried to do that at night on pitstop which was on the way to Milford sound. Didn't pack the appropriate clothes and it was below zero lol. Need to stay out there due to long shutter. Too bad it was cloudy.

It was too cold then and I was concentrating on capturing videos more for the trip.
Edited the video within 2 days. Photos.... Most are still unedited.... And it has been 2 years hahahah

By the way guys,
Do you use any cloud storage to store/backup your photos?

Looking for a cloud backup solution with highspeed upload (not one cap at less than 10Mbps) and unlimited storage.

Thanks for the suggestion
I'm looking for an online cloud solution that mirrors my HDD and backs up everything on a regular basis.

I'm actually using the dropbox 1TB plan.
Useful when I need to transfer large files and have it stay there indefinitely. (Unlike we transfer)

I tried amazon cloud drive before, I think the upload speed is slower than dropbox on my side.

Thats a good solution...
I might just run a program to mirror the data I want to backup to this disk...

Thanks

Update : Just placed an order for a Western Digital My Cloud EX2 2-Bay NAS
Now to hunt for cheap WD RED drives....

I just hope the speed is good and the resource consumption isn't a lot.

This post has been edited by LegendLee: May 25 2016, 09:32 PM

Found a good deal online for the diskless one. (The most recently release ultra)
Rm 830 online from lazada without discount.
The 4TB one is more than double the diskless price.

I am not sure if I can do better for the NAS price wise... but for the WD RED drives, I think I can get a better price offline.

This post has been edited by LegendLee: May 25 2016, 10:37 PM

Finally got a working back up system on.

Using a Raid 1 configuration 4TB My Cloud EX2 Ultra connected to my router.
And the using carbon copy cloner to clone/synchronise all the photo/video files on my thunderbolt duo 4TB Raid 0 drive to the network drive.

Back up rate at over 90MB/s
Far faster than the 1-3 MB/s back up with dropbox and back blaze.

There are several versions of the gorillapod.
I'm using the SLR zoom with a Manfrotto ball head.
No issues with DSLR and larger primes.

4k video is disappointing
It's a 1.64x crop.
This means smaller fov and I believe the image quality will take a major hit too. (For lens that cannot resolve such a small pixel size)

Thinking of jumping ship to Sony.

This post has been edited by LegendLee: Aug 26 2016, 09:49 AM

A bit confusing.
Some articles like this state it as 1.64
https://m.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-5d...ressions-review

While others state as 1.74

Well. Both are unacceptable....

Because at the moment there are people with lots of canon glass who seek good 4K video with a 35mm full frame sensor without breaking the bank with the cinema or 1D series.
Many have already migrated to Sony because of this. Some are holding back because of the potential of 5D4.

This post has been edited by LegendLee: Sep 6 2016, 02:18 PM

30 mins limit.
Over heating.
Poor battery life.
Pixel binning.
All 4 of this is very difficult to avoid and dslr/mirror less video shooters have already gotten used to it even in the 1080P era.

30 mins limit is hardly an issue unless you are recording a really long event. In which case over heating will happen first. If however, you take non event videos- this isn't an issue at all.
Battery life can be solved simply by carrying more batteries.

As for pixel binning. Well, better that than a crop sensor.
I don't think they have a choice with pixel binning anyway unless the sensor itself is 4k.

It's frustrating that almost everything has 4K. Even mobile phones. Trust me, I understand it's a lot harder to implement that on a larger sensor... But it's still frustrating.
In a few years time, 4K will be the new 1080P

This post has been edited by LegendLee: Sep 6 2016, 04:00 PM

The sensor technology itself makes it cheaper to produce a 4k sensor for a phone. The demand is way higher too, so they can mass produce it at a very cheap price.

4K itself has a few advantage.
1. Gives you the ability to crop even if your output is 1080P. Even reduce camera shake.
2. Downscaling a 4k video will generally give you more details than a 1080P video. This depends on how (which algorithm) you downscale it, but it can be better than on camera 1080P.
3. Some screens are already in 4K. In a few years time, 4K will be the new 1080P.


As for Rolling shutter.
It's not that bad for some models and its alright for some genre. Global shutter however is quite an old technology even on cmos camera but it'll just be more expensive. That extra cost may not justify the loss in sales.

This post has been edited by LegendLee: Sep 6 2016, 05:28 PM

Well, to cinematographers/videographers.
That is a major factor.
Ever since the 5D2 days, videographers have been getting canon cameras just because of its video functionality.

To them and to me to a certain extend, we value the video functionality more than the rest. And we are a significant portion of the market that will buy a dslr simply for its video functionality. Canon have been losing profit, they cannot afford to give up on this market.

If you need high resolution 4k video on a 35mm sensor under USD 4k, there are simply not many choices at the moment.
Canon can defend all they want, saying its for photo and not video. Well, if the features we want is not included... We will leave.



This post has been edited by LegendLee: Sep 7 2016, 01:07 AM

Right now....
If there is a metabones option for canon 5D4 in 4k mode.... Then I might still consider.
Else the Sony camp is a lot more tempting.

The C500 had a major price drop recently. But it's still very expensive at nearly twice the price of the 5D4 while losing almost all photo capability of a dslr.....

Sent my 50L for service.
There is a back focus issue.
Got it back and checked... Problem persist.

As usual, they tried the stop down and it'll be find trick.
But lol. I didn't get that lens to use at f/4.

Knowing the notoriety of this lens with back focus.... I don't think they can fix it at all.

This post has been edited by LegendLee: Oct 19 2016, 07:47 PM

Update :
canon service centre manage to fix it.
After heading there twice, they've managed to get the focus back on track. Kudos to the service engineer whom I heard worked on it for several hours.
Total turn around time was 3 working days and cost less than rm200. I'm a cps member but I don't think this has anything to do with it.


I've been using this lens for over 3 years.
It got this bad when my friend dropped it. I believe I kinda know what happened. Some of the elements are shifted inside. This lens has very tight tolerance to correct aberrations. You get a shit lot of spherical aberration when it's misaligned and the same aberration will cause the lens to backfocus.

Just have to fix it the best they can. It's not an easy task, but we will see.
I'm using it for videos mainly so it's not that bad.
Just that now it has no resale value and the sharpness might be affected too.

This post has been edited by LegendLee: Oct 20 2016, 07:32 PM

Yeap.
Really happy with what they have done.
They don't charge for inspection too. I think Nikon does.

Definitely went the extra mile to fix it for me.

This post has been edited by LegendLee: Oct 22 2016, 09:49 AM

For regular servicing. Cps members get like 30% off I think.
However for AF adjustment, the price is the same.

This post has been edited by LegendLee: Oct 22 2016, 11:23 AM

Took a jump and got the 5Dmk4.
Reasoning :-
Too lazy to change systems. Lazy to sell off my lens when I still need to use them

Also, I won't be shooting 4K anytime soon.
Editing rig not built for it.

Right now I'll need to upgrade my Lightroom. My Lightroom 4 cannot read the raw files.
Certainly don't feel like paying a few hundred more after spending so much on the body....

This post has been edited by LegendLee: Dec 8 2016, 02:03 AM

Haven't really use it yet.
So far only notice shutter sound is different haha.

I'm sure the autofocus will be way better than My 5D2 /!: 6D. Missed a few shots due to the slow af speed.

Will install magic lantern and cinestyle today.

Still pissed that their video files is extremely large. 10x larger than the Sony a7r2.

Sincerely hope I don't regret this choice haha.
Certainly less excited when compared to the time I got my first dslr, 500D 7 years back and first FF 5D2 5 years back.

Expecting this camera to pay itself off in a few months time from the video projects I get.

This post has been edited by LegendLee: Dec 8 2016, 10:10 AM