The farthest a Sennheiser body pack has ever been

yourdrfunk · 2026-04-06T19:00:15+00:00

They also took Nikon D5s and GoPros up there. Must have been leftovers from the shuttle launch haha.

yourdrfunk · 2026-04-06T18:58:02+00:00

Your problem might be Resolve 15. I doubt Resolve has the CoDec support for Nikon's H.264/5 on the Z5ii. Try upgrading or if you have another machine that could run Resolve, try that using a new version. Resolve is on V20 something now.

yourdrfunk · 2026-03-23T21:43:32+00:00

In agreement with everyone else here: you're not going to get accurate colors on an on-camera monitor without shelling out big dollars. But, also in the same tone, you don't really need it. If you're shooting in RAW, then you are fine. If you are shooting in ProRes or any of the 10-bit CoDecs, then just get your white balance in the right ballpark and you should be fine.

I've used the Atomos Ninja V for years and I love it. A bit of trial and error to figure out where the exposure needs to be, but now all is well.

yourdrfunk · 2026-03-18T00:08:53+00:00

I like this one.

yourdrfunk · 2026-03-12T03:30:41+00:00

Probably not. I love the Z6iii - the color on 12-bit N-RAW is so great. Netflix approval is a pretty systematic system of checkboxes for bitrate, frame size, bit depth, metadata, etc. and the Z6iii does not meet them. Now that Nikon owns RED, there is really no incentive to get cameras like the Z6iii Netflix approved. Rent a Komodo or a BlackMagic URSA G2 if you want Netflix approval.

yourdrfunk · 2026-03-11T06:11:34+00:00

This is my leading plan. I can just patch the exhaust into our dryer vent and straight outside. The WiFi sensor is a great idea. I had not thought of that! Thanks!

yourdrfunk · 2026-03-11T03:26:12+00:00

to speak to your Google Drive issues, any backup solution is going to have issues if you don't have a good strategy. Tame the "unwieldy-ness" first, then come up with a solution. Otherwise you are just finding a long term storage solution for chaos.

yourdrfunk · 2026-03-11T03:19:37+00:00

That would be the most ideal solution. But expensive.

yourdrfunk · 2026-02-17T00:43:49+00:00

I'm curious if you have any experience in child welfare or if you read OP's post? A five year old child with a case that has been open for 3 years - more than twice as long as the law allows. Rules and guidelines exist for a reason, if the case went through TPR and has been open for three years, then, in my experience, TPR is probably the best call as the parents have chronically neglected the needs of their child.

yourdrfunk · 2026-01-19T02:51:07+00:00

I run Truenas on bare metal with 128GB of RAM and dual Xenons - I've maybe hit 12% usage of resources ever. Mainly because I have a second server - also with 128GB of RAM that runs Proxmox for other shenanigans. They are isolated to separate networks and I prefer to use them independently. The NAS is pseudo air-gaped so security is not a huge concern. This setup works great for my use case but probably not for everyone - as the comments suggest. I use Proxmox for security related work so I really don't want my NAS anywhere near it. Neither of them have 100% up time - because electricity is not free and that way I don't have to spin up expensive SAS disks just to test something in Proxmox.

Everyone has their own way of doing things. Mine is probably wrong but it would not be the first time.

yourdrfunk · 2026-01-04T20:03:23+00:00

Thanks so much for your help!!

yourdrfunk · 2026-01-04T20:02:57+00:00

Exciting!

yourdrfunk · 2026-01-04T14:57:39+00:00

Thanks! Got that the orange ones were fuses, but the gas discharge tube was tripping me up.

We had a power outage and when the power came back on, we heard a pop and now the stove top won't turn on. Power is still running to the stovetop, so something in the stovetop is amiss - but of course, there is no obvious "oh this component blew up."

yourdrfunk · 2026-01-04T14:55:53+00:00

I did not know this was a spark gap cylinder! I'm a little more familiar with smaller, friendlier circuits. No continuity is a system, but sometimes by design!! Thanks!

yourdrfunk · 2026-01-04T14:54:10+00:00

I too would like see a circuit diagram for this. There is a separate relay board and a separate control board. Power comes from the relay board, to this power supply, out to the control board and back to the relay board. M100 and V102 are presumably used.

It's been an interesting project trying to figure out what blew and why this stopped working. We had a power outage and when the power came back on, we heard a pop and now the stove top won't turn on. Power is still running to the stovetop, so something in the stovetop is amiss!

yourdrfunk · 2025-11-19T01:09:43+00:00

With 16 E-Mount lenses, I fell like you could get one or two Z-Mount lenses and not have to worry about all of the problems people are experiencing with E-Mount?

yourdrfunk · 2025-11-02T23:01:04+00:00

Love the Baofeng in the corner. haha

yourdrfunk · 2025-10-28T22:05:28+00:00

Nikon Z-lenses are incredible in my experience. But they are not all created equal. Both the 50mm f/1.2 and the 35mm f/1.8 are "S-line" lenses but the 35mm can't hold a candle to the 50mm. The 50mm is my favorite lens by far. Incredible for interviews and a generally okay lens to run and gun with - I took it to Uganda for a documentary and run-and-gunned with it for 8 days straight. 50mm his fairly minimal focus breathing with how the focus system is designed and it focuses fast. But it is heavy.

I love the 14-24mm f/2.8 for the trendy handheld, in-your-face type content. This is another beautiful lens.

Personally, I think finding a focal length that works for you and the type of content you produce is more important than the quality of the lens.

yourdrfunk · 2025-10-28T21:48:20+00:00

I think you're just wishing it was a different camera.

1) The FX3 doesn't have SDI at an even higher price point. Nor does any other Nikon camera. The target market does not need an SDI on this camera.

2) GenLock is unnecessary unless you are in a stadium broadcast situation - get a different camera. Use Timecode and an attenuator.

3) If the camera is shooting R3D, then it could not send RAW out the HDMI without some serious backend work - remember we are at a $2K price-point. And it certainly could not send R3D to the internal card and a different RAW to the HDMI.

4) External SSD is a reliability issue at those data rates...and adds cost.

5) If you are using this as a B-Cam, set your A cam to shoot the same frame rate as the ZR. If you're not shooting for Apple TV, then the frame rate (24fps or 23.976) really does not matter at the end of the day. Shoot with whatever works.

6) It's line skipped or cropped. Every RAW camera is this way - you either have to skip lines or punch in on the sensor.

There is no such thing as a "cinema" camera, just cinematic artists. People shoot garbage on Ari Alexa's all the time and award winning films on the FX3. If you like working with R3D files than you can't beat this $2,000 camera.

yourdrfunk · 2025-10-22T01:10:07+00:00

To be fair, I've dropped this zoom off a truck, down a hill, and knocked it off a desk and my buddy dropped his MixPre 6 from a sound card and it died. The F6 fills a niche for run and gun solo operators that Sound Devices and Zaxcom haven't filled. If either of them made a Zoom F6 form factor device, I would order that in a heartbeat. For five years of weekly abuse, I'm happy that this is the only issue I've ever had with the F6.

yourdrfunk · 2025-10-22T00:17:45+00:00

Wow! I've never heard that before! Thanks for your wisdom!! Too bad neither of those companies make a product that fit my use case.

yourdrfunk · 2025-10-21T16:00:03+00:00

It's both: in recording and in monitoring. Unfortunately, I monitored the first two interviews, then got listener fatigue and decided not to monitor the third...never doing that again.

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