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  1. Even so, that would be a MAJOR announcement. I look forward to the next generation of the RED Komodo having not just a Z Mount, but also being priced the same as Nikon Z7 What about making them for PL Mount???
  2. Panasonic does tend to implement and do video a bit better in their versions of the cameras than Leica's
  3. Over on Nikon Rumors, a commentator posted this summary: http://disq.us/p/2y0773n Doubt it, that would be a big waste of the $$$$ they spent to buy RED.
  4. What reassurances would you be needing? I'm not a RED user myself these days (although back when I was still more seriously aspiring to be a DP, I was the DP a fair few times with a RED camera), but if I was then I'd be seeing this as good news. Because now you've got a small niche player having the backing and support of a major global company. (well, by camera manufacturer standards) Hopefully some of Nikon's reliability and customer service abilities will rub off onto RED itself? Maybe Nikon's huge manufacturing capabilities will also lead to lower prices for future REDs? Maybe we'll see a sub US$4K Komodo?
  5. Gee, I hope you never discover what the sports bureaucracy in other sports get up to.... Name a Top 10 finisher (not just in the TdF but any Grand Tour, or heck, even any of the Classics) from that era who you're certain wasn't ever taking drugs? I feel as a fan to be stressing and worrying over who was or wasn't is a futile exercise. Just enjoy the racing for what it is. (and got to admit, the racing during that era was a lot better!) I never said that. Oh sure, and Γ“scar Pereiro has never had any doping allegation scandals around him! /s πŸ˜…πŸ˜‚πŸ€£ If you fully believe he's totally clean then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell πŸ˜‰ This proves the point about how totally different Lance Armstrong has been treated, as a scapegoat and a punching bag for the entire world's media (not just cycling media) to beat up upon. (just to be clear btw, I'm no great fan of Lance Armstrong specifically! In fact his existence kinda annoyed me back then, as Armstrong prevented my favorite rider from winning any more TdF titles!! If not for Lance, then I think he'd have gone on to win even more titles than Lance did. Oh well) (also just to be clear: yes, what he did is wrong. It's wrong to dope. But when you consider the broader context, I find it impossible to get as super hyped up furiously mad about it as so many others seem to be. It's merely disappointing, not some kind of greatest scandal since Watergate)
  6. What high profile professional sport does not have drug taking? The only reason cycling gets so much flack is because they're a hell of a lot more transparently open about it & the media actually talks about it. Which it would be good if other sports & the media did this too! Had more open transparency and discussion. (for instance, have you ever heard of Mohamed Katir? Or the Chinese female distance runners of the 1990s?) Which is what the sport of cycling is. (especially in that era) You're proving my point here. You can't give out all the wins to anybody else but Lance Armstrong, thus it is utterly farcical to remove it from him when you've got no remotely good options whatsoever to replace him with.
  7. @Dave Maze (David Altizer) just posted about the Nikon purchase of RED:
  8. As a hard core fan of cycling racing for many years, I'm quite lukewarm over this, don't really care. If you somehow believe Lance Armstrong doesn't deserve the wins, then who does? 2nd place? No. 3rd place? No. 2nd place? No. 4th place? No. 5th place? No. 6th place? No. etc etc etc It indisputable that USA Postal during that era was the king at the sport of cycling (well, at least the #1 when it came to TdF wins, which to the casual external viewer is all that seems to matter. Even though the sport of cycling is so so so much more). Just like Red Bull is right now for F1.
  9. RED will probably make a competitor to BURANO, even if only tangentially so. (such as an updated RED V-RAPTOR) And RED is now part of Nikon, thus it would be Nikon making it. What does that have to do with RED??? (I can't watch that video due to copyright)
  10. Panasonic 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 is only 790grams (sub $1K to buy too!). But I presume that lens is too slow for you?
  11. At least Nikon gets recognized as part of the "Canikon duopoly" (although in the mature mirrorless era, Sony has broken that duopoly). But I agree, it seems Nikon got seen as the forgotten poorer stepchild in that duopoly. Even though Nikon has produced so very many ground breaking / top tier stills cameras themselves, such as the Nikon D700 / D3 / D800 / D750 / D500 / etc Good point. Nikon has got a bit of an old fuddy duddy branding of stereotype cameraman photographers. So maybe a little bit of the bold brash youthful branding of RED mixed in could be "a good thing"?
  12. Hopefully both of these happen. Z6mk2 gets a RedCode firmware update, and Nikon mirrorless does things like taking TC more seriously. Meanwhile RED cinema cameras get better pricing / LCD screens / weatherproofing / Z Mount / EVFs / etc Yes please! But especially "a Nikon FX6" (or FX60???) ARRI lights with Canon branding! πŸ˜… True, but RED is very much playing second fiddle to ARRI. They're waaaay behind these days. Heck, RED is playing second fiddle to even Sony in the cinema market! Hmmm... don't count on that, don't now assume anything ever about Nikon! How sure can you really be that Nikon won't make non-black cameras, perhaps even a RED colored camera:
  13. Yup, even just a cheap Panasonic GH4 shooting a wide angle can be better than nothing to cut to if you hit a technical hiccup for a couple of seconds / minutes with your main camera. (edit: or in this case, your A6600, which I just saw you mention) Another approach is just to shoot afterwards a bunch of random generic B Roll with your main camera, that you can throw into the edit to patch up any holes with. Good reason to get a cardellini and other such clamps. Ah, you got a Sony FS7 just as "a hobby camera"? Amazing, shows how cheap and affordable this older pro Sony camera is getting.
  14. Yes, and a year ago that was a major issue for AI photos. But today it's trending down towards becoming more of a non-issue for AI photos. We'll see the same happen soon for AI video as well.
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