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By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 29, 2020

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DPRTV: Pre-Amp Shootout Fujifilm X-T3/X-T4, Sony a7III, Panasonic S1H, Olympus E-M1 Mark III, Nikon Z6, and Canon ES-1D Mark III

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 28, 2020

DPRTV did a Microphone pre-amp Shootout with a Fujifilm X-T3 (X-T4 has the same preamp), Sony a7III, Panasonic S1H, Olympus E-M1 Mark III, Nikon Z6, and Canon ES-1D Mark III. Below you can see a summary and the results or you can watch the video above.

Pre-amps amplify things before they are recorded
Just about everything needs to be brought up to a level that it can be heard in your software or camera
Good preamps have a high signal with a low amount of noise
Bad preamps have noise that gets mixed into the signal
Your preamp is the celling of quality you’re going to hear so a bad preamp with a good mic will be limited and you might hear a lot, but there will be noise mixed in.
A good preamp with a bad mic will let you hear everything the mic can capture, but it won’t fully utilize the preamp
mediocre preamps and below also add hiss

Proper audio levels

Canon ES-1D Mark III was fantastic
Fujifilm X-T3/X-T4 was really good
Nikon Z6 was solid
Olympus E-M1 Mark III was middling
Panasonic S1H favorite
Sony a7III sounded bad with lots of hiss and noise

Low audio levels out of the mic -20db below ideal

Each camera had more noise
Canon ES-1D Mark III had a digital not consistent noise
Fujifilm X-T3/X-T4 running water sound with a high-level whine
Nikon Z6 running water sound
Olympus E-M1 Mark III running water sound
Panasonic S1H running water sound
Sony a7III was really really really bad it boosted the bad sound

High audio levels out of the mic +10db above ideal

One thing that helps hot signals is a limiter, attenuator, or compressor to take a hot signal and dampen it down
Canon ES-1D Mark III did a great job and it sounded natural with the limiter
Fujifilm X-T3/X-T4 was a little crunchy and the limiter affected the audio
Nikon Z6 was a lot like the Canon
Olympus E-M1 Mark III was not as bad as the Fujifilm, but not as good as the Canon and Nikon
Panasonic S1H limiter didn’t sound right
Sony a7III still sounds like hot garbage

Rankings

Canon ES-1D Mark III – Didn’t expect it to sound this good
Nikon Z6 and Panasonic S1H (tie) – Both have issues, but not bad
Fujifilm X-T3/X-T4 – good sounding camera
Olympus E-M1 Mark III – not as good as the rest of the cameras
Sony a7III – unbelievable amount of noise

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Lensbaby Velvet 28mm f/2.5

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 27, 2020

Lensbaby’s unreleased lens “Velvet 28” is showing up over seas on retailors sites and Nokishita noticed the listing. The Lensbaby Velvet 28mm f/2.5 will be available for Canon EF, Canon RF, Nikon F, Nikon Z, Sony E, Fujifilm X and MFT cameras.

Lensbaby Velvet 28 for Canon EF is a 28mm, f/2.5 all-metal, hand-crafted art lens that captures tack-sharp detail beneath a layer of radiant glow. Velvet 28 also features exceptional 1:2 macro capabilities with a close focus distance of 2” from the front of the lens. Built with landscape, adventure, travel, and street photographers & videographers in mind, the Velvet 28 offers Lensbaby’s popular variable glow effects at a wide 28mm focal length.

Lensbaby’s Velvet effect lenses add an ethereal mood to scenes. This unique, in-camera creative effect elevates imagery with depth, dimension and soulful expression. The Velvet 28’s close-focus capabilities, combined with effects varying from impressionistic at bright apertures to just a touch of velvety smoothness at darker apertures, provides a set of visual tools that will help creative shooters expand their vision of the world. One of Velvet 28’s key features is its 1:2 macro capability.

It is an ideal in-camera effects lens for photographers & videographers who like to shoot wide, while also offering the versatility to capture closer details. The lens allows image makers to move seamlessly from shooting street scenes or capturing landscape, adventure & travel images to capturing details such as a subject’s clothing or wildflower blooms and butterflies in an alpine meadow.

Features:

28mm Focal Length
1:2 Macro Magnification Ratio
Aperture Range: f/25 – f/22
67mm Filter Threads
Manual Focus

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Astrophotography Coronavirus (COVID-19) Quarantine Photography Project Follow Up

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 27, 2020

I have been shooting Astrophotography for a while now and I always like to try new things so I picked up the Venus Optics Laowa Magic Format Converter MFC (Nikon F to Fujifilm G) for my Fujifilm GFX100 and the Venus Optics Laowa 12mm f/2.8 Zero-D and Samyang 24mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC Wide-Angle for Nikon F Mount to use during the Quarantine as the ultimate social distancing. Both lenses worked well, but I decided to focus on the Venus Optics Laowa 12mm f/2.8 Zero-D for now.

Shooting Astrophotography on the GFX100 is a bit tricky because the high megapixel count can make it difficult to get pinpoint stars when shooting the Milkyway. If you use calculators like photo pills they will inform you that with a 12mm f/2.8 lens you can shoot for 53s if you use the classic 500 Rule, but if you go by the NPF rule that takes into account the megapixels of your camera you can only expose for 16.76s on the GFX100. If you use the GFX50S/GFX50R the NPF Rule is 20.34s, which is more reasonable.

The reason this is important is that to get a good exposure that I could work with I had to shoot wide open for 30 seconds at 6400ISO, which did allow for some streaking when zoomed in, but it looks good zoomed out. I hope to squeeze in one or two more nights during the Quarantine, but I am very happy with the Venus Optics Laowa Magic Format Converter MFC (Nikon F to Fujifilm G) so far. It makes the GFX100 a much better camera for astrophotography than it could be with any of its native lenses.

Initially, I was a bit disappointed with my results and I wished I brought more useful lighting to expose the surroundings better with light painting, but I found that using Capture One with Luminar 4 gave me some good results that I am sharing below. I worked the foreground elements in Capture One and then exported the file as a 16-bit TIFF file to open in Luminar 4. In Luminar 4 I used their superior masking tool to apply edits to the sky, which made the Milky Way pop more than Capture One could.

I can’t say I’m a fan of Caputre One, but it is growing on me for some purposes, but Luminar 4 never fails to impress. I’m trying to learn some new editors in-depth during the Quarantine so if you want to see some comparison results make sure to follow me on Instagram because I’m starting to reprocess some of my favorites photos with new editors and posting the results. At this point, I would probably move to a more Luminar centric workflow if the app was more logically organized for me, but the same is true of Capture One. I hope they both continue to grow on me as I learn them better, but both do a better job processing Fujifilm files than Lightroom in my experience.

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Information of Avigan Tablet in Relation to COVID-19

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 27, 2020

We have been reporting about Avigan for a while now 1, 2, 3, 4 now Fujifilm has released more information about their Avigan Tablet in Relation to Covid-19 that you can read about below.

Information of Avigan Tablet in Relation to Covid-19
FUJIFILM Corporation delivers correct information regarding the Avigan Tablet developed by FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical Co., Ltd.

The Avigan Tablet was approved for manufacture and sale in Japan in 2014 as an influenza antiviral drug. The drug is to be considered for use only when there is an outbreak of novel or re-emerging influenza virus infections in which other influenza antiviral drugs are either not effective or insufficiently effective, and the Japanese government decides to use the drug as a countermeasure against such influenza viruses. Thus, while the Japanese government has a certain stockpile of the drug, the drug has never been distributed in the market and is not available at hospitals and pharmacies in Japan or overseas.

Favipiravir, the active pharmaceutical ingredient of the Avigan Tablet, has a mechanism that prevents the propagation of viruses. The drug may potentially have an antiviral effect on the novel coronavirus which is classified into the same type (single-stranded RNA virus) of influenza virus. However, at this stage, clinical application of the Avigan Tablet to the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is under study and preparation in order to obtain clear evidence of the drug’s efficacy and safety on the novel coronavirus.

The Avigan Tablet has not been approved for marketing in any countries other than Japan. If the government or regulatory authorities in the countries decides the use of the drug, Fujifilm group intends to cooperate sincerely with the supply of the drug to such countries in consultation and coordination with the Japanese government.

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Fujinon XF300mm f/4 and 500mm f/5.6 With DOE Coming: Updated

By Louis Ferreira | Published: March 26, 2020

A reader sent in a patent Fujifilm filled for a 300mm f/4 and 500mm f/5.6 with a Diffractive optical element (DOE) for APS-C sensor mirrorless cameras. I have the link to the patent, but it is being withheld to prevent copying and I will add it after the inevitable copy without linking. Copied 30 min later here is the patient.