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I've changed to a new adapter/speedbooster for my BMPCC4K! Yay!

I started with a knock-off-of-a-Metabones-knock-off, the PhotoDiox M43/EF Adapter/Focal Reducer. It would really degrade the sharpness of my Canon glass, to the point that I thought the lenses themselves were just rotten. It would also fit extremely loose in the BMPCC4K lens mount, with very visible wiggle room that would start heavily distorting the images.

Before I forked over $700 for a proper Metabones adapter, I decided I better try a more highly reviewed knock-off brand first. Which is how I found Viltrox's M43/EF AF adapter/focal reducer.

It tests so well! I'll probably throw together a side by side comparison eventually. The difference is night and day. Where PhotoDiox was blurry and grainy, the Viltrox is sharp and clear. It's also giving me another half step of light over the PhotoDiox capability, and I'm loving the difference.

I may actually be able to use my current lenses for some real project work after all! And with no $700 lost on a Metabones adapter, either. Compared to the BMPCC4K-specific Metabones speedbooster, the Viltrox has some softness issues when my aperture is open wide. But otherwise, I couldn't spot the difference if I tried.

Happy day.

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Shot this in Battle Creek Canyon today and thought it might make a nice cinemagraph. Loving the Pocket Cinema Camera, just need to find my way to some sharper lenses.

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Some of my favorite photos from 2019 and 2018. Canon Beach, OR, New York, NY, and Philadelphia, PA.

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I took these in Provo Canyon, just off the highway coming towards Provo from Heber. We were in the entryway to a vacation home development lot, actually. My nephew Chase came with me to learn about long exposure photography. The light was absolutely killer and the clouds were moving fast, so there was something dynamic happening nearly everywhere we looked.