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I've been notified that things are running off the rails recently. Here's the deal: I broke my back, I'm in chronic pain, lots of other 2020 stuff to deal with, and frankly I just can't be bothered right now to go chasing down every moronic post by every self-righteous douchebag who thinks that...

And, just for the heck of it, here's my other bike, a little Benelli TNT135 (comparable to a Honda Grom). I've been working on converting it to a micro Adventure Bike. It's fun in its own way, but mainly in trying to get something to do something that it was never designed to do. Here's what...

I'm not much for selfies, and I don't have any clips of the bike in motion. But here are a few pics of the bike in front of some various landmarks (all located in Texas): This is Stonehenge and Easter Island, located in Ingram, TX. And this is from the OTHER Stonehenge in Texas, in Odessa...

Totally off topic, but -- seriously, I haven't seen this stuff available anywhere, not once, for months, not in stores, not online, not in Costco... Just For Men (the haircolor company) has a sister company called Williams, which started making 80% alcohol hand sanitizer gel and also wipes...

Anybody watching this? It's kind of interesting to see the evolution of broadcast TV during the virus. Last week was utterly unwatchable. Horrible home webcams for everything, no lighting, terrible echo. A thorough embarrassment. This week it's very different. Clearly they sent out memos...

2018 Harley Fat Bob.

Nobody knows. It will take as long as it takes. For a potential indicator, look at this chart that compares the progression of infection in the USA and compared to the progression of infection in Italy. If our infection rate continues to accelerate comparable to theirs, then expect it to...

This is the latest thing I am working on. Not much I can say beyond what's been officially released, but it's pretty cool and the campaign is now live so I thought I'd share it. Basically, we are sending some Galaxy S10s to the stratosphere, and uploading people's selfies to the S10 where it...

Some clarification that may or may not prove useful: as far as I know, Panasonic has NEVER SAID that you can use a LANC controller with the Panasonic CX350 or EVA1. The port is not identified as LANC on the camera, or anywhere in the owner's manual. Now, as a matter of fact, it does use LANC...

Panasonic just released a new firmware update for the CX350 that addresses a few things: https://eww.pass.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/support/content/download/EN/ep2main/soft/upgcx350_e.htm

I found that the prior picture I was thinking of was actually an AC90 vs UX90, so it's not relevant, so I re-shot this. This is the CX350 at wide angle, wide open f/2.8, vs the HPX250 at wide open, very wide angle, about f/1.7 or f/1.8. It's hard to tell exactly what it's at when it says OPEN...

Understood. I don't have a 270 on hand to test against. I have a 250, but as you know the leap from 250 to 270 was huge, so I don't think that would be all that relevant to your question... I seem to recall doing a DOF test between the 250 and the UX180, which would be a comparable 1" f/2.8 to...

Okay, follow-up on the ND filter testing. I took the same collection of synthetic fabric objects, and even found a couple more, outdoors under broad daylight, and shot in the P56K preset with ND 1/64 (the maximum ND filtration), then I changed the shutter speed up very high and took the ND...

Okay, I've tried a sample test for IR on the CX350, as compared to a DVX200 and an HPX250. There seems to be a little, but the problem is -- how do you know when you have an IR-polluting fabric? I don't know. I mean, I gathered up a bunch of synthetic black fabric objects, as well as some...

Here's the release notes on all the changes in 3.0. Ver. 3.00- New Features 1. Additional Recording Format 4K/UHD 59p/50p 420_10bit@200Mbps 4K/UHD 29p/25p/23p/24p 420_10bit@150Mbps HEVC 2. IP Live Control Please refer to our Website concerning the updates about...

This is the work in process...

This is mine: (not exactly; mine's the 114 version, but this was the nicest-looking marketing shot on Harley's site and other than the air cleaner it looks like mine used to).

Panasonic press release follows: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New ProRes RAW Recording Codecs Support RAW Recording in Panasonic AU-EVA1 and VariCam LT Cameras NEWARK, NJ (April 5, 2018) -- Panasonic announced today that the AU-EVA1 Compact S35 and the VariCam LT cinema cameras will have support...

DVXUser member James Demo ("bosindy") has been having some substantial festival success with his documentary film The Peacemaker, which I was proud to help support. For our LA members, it'll be playing this weekend starting Friday.

This is a guy who gets it. And it shows. Sample quotes: This applies to filmmaking just as much as it applies to anyone else. I've met so many who are so passionate about their 'dream' to be a filmmaker... but they suck. It's sad. They waste so much of their life chasing after something...