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Invented is a real stretch there. As soon as VR headsets were a thing, it was obvious that people would eventually want to do it live. Adding multiple cameras into the mix, with the associated awful jarring jumps between places, is hardly a revolution. Plus there's the dystopia of standing amidst the futbol players after a goal is scored celebrating with them... only to a second later be standing in the midst of an immersive ad for erectile dysfunction pills. That's fine, but for me as a filmmaker, I really just don't give even a nugget of a shit about any of that stuff. I would have really wanted some sort of bridge between the $5,000 and up gear with their fantastic RGBW sensors and the $3,500 and below gear which mostly uses 5+ year-old Sony sensors (such as the Pyxis 6K which uses an IMX410 from 2018, old enough to be in grade school). IMX410 is a great sensor, but as Andrew pointed out, I can go buy a cheaper Fuji with a newer/better sensor. An X-H2s costs less and has half the readout time and better dynamic range - and with the money saved, I can add raw and a second monitor with a Video Assist 12G. Bonus: the video assist won't be locked in place awkwardly on the side of the goddamn camera.

Pros in 2026...

Ah just installed dr21, looks like rw2 is not supported yet. Bummer but it will prolly be fixed in the next update.

I don't care about any of that, just want a new Pocket cam

They invented, solved the problems of and instantly became a leader in a whole new industry. Live, multi-cam immersive production. That's the closest thing to teleportation you can get without the risks of becoming half man half fly. Imagine BBC's yearly Glastonbury coverage being shot and broadcast live with this immersive workflow. You'll have the whole festival in your living room, with clean toilets just through the door. Arri and RED have film, Panasonic and Sony have indie and YouTube, Blackmagic stands alone on the forefront of a sci-fi world where the competition aren't even looking.

Yes, indeed. Andrew is right. EU has paid a lot, straight to the schools and into their reps' pockets. Millions so to speak. Or literally to be more direct: Only from RRP in Portugal, a €2-billion program. Yes, a 10-digit figure! The numbers speak volumes... And as of last month of February, a mere half, yet : X

Do they assemble them in-house? I assumed they'd just outsource a lot of that stuff to someone like FoxConn, if not FoxConn themselves. If they're running with only 600 total employees, I'd guess that the layoffs were in engineering, sales, support, etc, probably with a bit of middle management thrown under the bus with them. After all, it's almost never the executives, they've already proven their value by fucking up the strategy and driving the company into the ground. Better give them a retention bonus so they don't take all that competence somewhere else. 😅

here you go 🙂

Perhaps this new gp3 is designed better, requires less assembly from humans and with all the normal things companies do to save money getting rid of paying salaries is always a winner... Besides they can always rehire them at the same rate or reduced rate at a later date. Considering we are up to a gopro13 now, I'm not exactly holding my breath in anticipation, I know its an action camera but we have had 13 of em now... I guess it helps keeps the influencers busy. Honestly I'm a bit jaded with it all. With a 5-nanometer System-on-a-Chip and an innovative GP3 processor is a specialized AI Neural Processor Unit, i wonder if we have more control or less ? Admittedly the images are nice. I think I'll wait for the bird to hatch to see if we end up with a bin chicken or an eagle.

The reason Blackmagic are out of the consumer / prosumer market now, is that the Japanese cameras are too good and too cheap. Blackmagic can't compete with an X-H2 shooting ProRes 422 8K for under $1500. Also the profit margins in the broadcast stuff is massive. It's funny isn't it, how the industry has pivoted back to where everything was before 2010, pre DSLR! The only thing missing now are new small chip ENG shoulder cams! Then we can truly party like it's 2008!

If you'd like to spend about 2 hours learning about a bunch of expensive, high-end broadcast gear, the latest Blackmagic NAB update was made for you! BEHOLD million bazillion port VIDEO SWITCHING DEVICES STARE IN AWE at a first-party mount to use 2/3" camera lenses on your FULL FRAME CINEMA CAMERA GASP WITH AMAZEMENT as instead of making the smaller, cheaper media module reader that everybody wants, they make one BIGGER AND MORE EXPENSIVE! YOU MAY HAVE PAID FOR THE WHOLE SEAT, BUT YOU WILL ONLY NEED THE EDGE ------------- Resolve 21 looks nice. Otherwise, 0 new consumer products. Every single thing that they announced today was for broadcast and specifically seemed targeted at sports broadcasters, the only people who are trying to multiplex 50+ 4K+ input streams to 50+ output devices all at the same time. I suspect that rampocalypse pricing for components has basically obliterated profit margins on any consumer gear that Petty was going to announce. Maybe in 3-6 months, we'll get an out-of-cycle product release livestream.

Less with the YouTube spam dude.

It's not exactly confidence-inspiring when you lay off about 1/4 of your workforce right before announcing the killer new product. It seems like either GP3 isn't going to be in any shipping products for a while or GP doesn't think it will be a huge seller. Otherwise, why go to the bother of laying off a bunch of people and paying severance, only to rehire them in a few months when the new product is selling like crazy? https://www.cined.com/gopro-to-cut-23-of-its-workforce-ahead-of-gp3-camera-launch-at-nab/

genuinely someone should just create an archive database for the old panasonic hardware firmware hacks

Did you watch the 90 second demo ? still early days and beta testing bug squashing.A guy in Melbourne has installed it & will be doing a review soon ,I don't own a ZR.The developer says he hopes to put this on the App store when fully functional and stable.Nikon should be putting more effort into these sorts of developments !!! more at reddit

Anything like Foolcontrol for RED? I know you like posting links but sometimes commentary or, at least, comment would be appreciated!

don't draw attention to the camera !

Yeah, just casually looking at flange distance, I was, like, "How's that work?" But those of us poors do hope that there are ways to outflank expenses, regardless of our ignorance. After all, the image of the Arriflex camera with a Nikon mount conversion is cool, as my go to lens is an old Nikkor 50mm that I put on my m43 gear all the time. Still, the more this 2C sits on the shelf and I look at it, the more I'm keen to really take a run at shooting a reel. Now, just have to write a worthwhile idea... And, in a neat wrinkle, I could use one of the oldest cameras with the newest film stock: https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/product/camera-films/verita-200d-5206-7206/

Adam Savage's Arriflex 35mm camera motors

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