Challenges (Patreon)

Had a busy few days! 

Sunday did a Video shoot for Counterfeit Madison. Used my new Cinema rig - Black Magic Cinema 6K. HOLY FILE SIZES. From that camera alone was 600GB data. 

Monday was my Birthday so didn't do much, just finished downloading files from 4 cameras.  Started to wonder about data transfer rates though. Something wasn't right. 

Talked to a couple friends about it, and started investigating. I wont go too deep into the details, but due to haphazard USB Hub usage, my drives were not running near the speeds they are supposed to do. Late yesterday, started running tests of drive read and write speed, and changing Hubs and Cables. Turns out some of the cables themselves were bottlenecks, and I ended up going to bed at 7am this morning. Got up and finished testing and re wiring everything. Now, all my drives, internal, and externals are running at their rated speeds! Pretty stoked. Completely got rid of one hub in the process. 

Now the only thing I need to figure out is can I edit off an external Raid Drive, or reconfigure my internal SSDs to edit off of, and have raid 1 safety ( duplicate ). 

Getting there. It took those big ass files to bring shit to it's knees but glad to say I am past that for the most part. I had already been going thru Hard Drives pretty fast, but now with higher res video, gonna be even more. 

Cool things is, I don't need to shoot in 6K much, 4K will suffice, but It is frigging beautiful! 

Gonna put of a vid next few days shot with it in 2.7k and 120 fps slow motion. Something I am looking forward to doing more of. 

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I chose these photos to post because it was challenging shooting in mid day Sun. They say don't shoot between like 10-3 or so, for good measure, but that rule should be broken! Just gotta deal with the harsh contrast, high Sun angle and posing, and how well a model can handle the bright light. 

Erin at the lake few weeks ago. It was awesome. 

Sony a7iii/Tamron 28-75 2.8 lens.