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FX30 is more than just a cinema-line camera for people who are used to shooting with it. ; ) Those damn Japanese menus are the only thing I’ve got against it. - EAG

Very true. And here's another one: At same time, I am buying all of them... Pocket 3, Osmo 360, Nano and Action 6 ; ) An all-star lineup ;- )

Right there ; ) There is the muse of the silver screen. And the persona. Under Carl Jung, the mask. Archetypes. :- )

I second that. They seem to wear out fast too. This summer when I briefly owned the S9, the rear dial just felt mushy and very easy to turn. I recently tried a Lumix S9 at a bestbuy that seemed to be in good condition; the rear dial felt better. And on a Lumix S9 FB group I've heard reports of the dials going bad and becoming less responsive. A major reason I went Panasonic G9II instead of S9 this time around. I also never really loved the Smallrig grip for the Panasonic S9; the grip felt lose half the time even when tightening. With all this being said, the S9 is still quite the value for the money. I think it smokes the Sony ZVE10II for example.

I think Clara Bow was the first to teach the camera things with her gaze. Especially desire. Free desire. Or was it defiant desire? I forget. 😉 Also, the camera has a bad memory because it keeps getting re-taught all those things by different people. But I suppose being enamored by others is normal. Celebrities exist for good reason. Cultural context mixed with a harmonizing charisma. Maybe it's not even the camera. The story and image of Mona Lisa is still around in our collective consciousness. The girl with the pearl earring. How about Adele Bloch? Or maybe if you'd rather consider the male rendered in a painting to think about ... well, again, the Mona Lisa ... ? Regardless, legend has it that Anna Whistler was a right old twat. Kicked a cat once and liked to slaughter chickens.

I love it’s size, it’s weight and it’s capability but as a pro tool, it is sorely lacking. I have used it as my primary video unit on a couple of occasions and the result has been great…mostly, - too many times I have jogged those dials etc though 😏 I would like to see a second gen, but for now/2026, I have relegated mine to back up/spare apart from one single use case (locked on to grooms face for bridal entrance…which seems a bit overkill to have a camera dedicated to and then packed away but 🤷‍♂️) and so it stays. For now.

Incredible pun ahah.

Hezekiah Northrup is somewhere in the background too. He's just hard to make out because the photo was taken just a few weeks after he invented Bokeh.

The 2 "cheapest feeling" cameras I've ever used (and there are many) are probably the Olympus e-p7 (which felt hollow) and the Panasonic S9. The S9's rear d-pad is simply ridiculous, feeling much more like a GX800 than anything remotely premium. It really needed proper front and back dials and go for buttons on the d-pad for a minimum. Also, give us similar buttons as on the other FF cameras. I would have also preferred a flip-up, not out screen.

Needs to be lockable on the next gen camera…if there is one. Plus more robust everything!

Yes, that's what I meant but failed to write properly. I actually have that camera too.

Now we are getting somewhere with I think just 3 suspects remaining… Top right, is clearly Louis Cyr, fake Canadian strongman from around the turn of the century before last. Great great grandsire of a more contemporary Canadian also with zero known photo or filmmaking skills who makes technical videos from a basement. Bottom left = Nikola Tesla, just back from the over-sized jacket store. Top left = Hitler’s favourite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl.

Nonetheless he said the videos were shot with a Ronin 4D which does not support "open gate" video recording; ergo, illustrating that it was not necessary and other camera characteristics were more important to the project than open gate. Nothing comes free; open gate at full resolution without line skipping would mean the sensor read time increases and so there would be more rolling shutter and possibly it might need more processing power to handle that data (or at least it would generate more heat). These may be appropriate compromises for some users. However, seriously one can ask whether all cameras need to have open gate or if it is sufficient that a few do, enough to satisfy this market. Short form videos are considered to be tiring to the brain are reduce the viewer's ability to concentrate and control themselves. I believe most of not all of the vertical videos belong to this class. For long form content video, I believe the horizontal format is much more suitable. Times square, huh? I recently checked hotel prices in NYC and they were in the $500+. I wonder where the tourists are coming from given these prices. I have stayed in Manhattan many times before but the prices were 1/4th of today's prices.

I think it might actually be Cam Maquis, who later became a leading part of the French Resistance movement. In the middle row I think I can see Hugo Knows Foto with his undershirt on which his wife has embroidered “I Shoot Daguerreotype“

Indeed.. outside her 60s iconic stardom she's better known here in France for her far-right politics and weird animal activism. Most people I know were rolling their eyes yesterday rather than lighting candles!

It’s a pity about the multiple convictions for inciting racial hatred.

Oh great; that means France will enter a state of 6 months mourning as they did when Jonny Halliday fell off his perch and even less will get done.

Now that you mention it, every time I log in to this place, somewhere in the background, I can hear ‘Midnight, The Stars And You’…

On the day that marked 130 years since cinema first breathed in a Paris screening room, same day, her image still breathes it out. Not just a star, but a force: the gaze that taught the camera desire, defiance, freedom. Long after movements fade and reels decay, Brigitte Bardot remains the archetype—beauty that unsettled, presence that rewrote the frame.

The weirdest bit is @Andrew - EOSHD in the center rear, similar to Jack Torrance in the old-timey photos from The Overlook...

My first thought was "I bet Rosco or Lee have something like that, but maybe not in the right size" and after a few minutes of searching, I found something from Rosco that's like that, but not in the right size. https://www.adorama.com/ro1081102024.html So there's hope, maybe that or searching for "graduated center filter gel" or similar would get you closer! Another thought would be to make something like the soft focus disc for an some types of large format soft focus lens - some examples here: https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?49632-Recommendation-for-Soft-Focus-lenses-for-4x5/page2 It wouldn't be exactly the same as varying the opacity of the film like in a gradient, but you could make an aperture that has a hard edge in the center with the edges around it perforated, but with the density of perforation decreasing toward the edges. It'd almost certainly introduce some interesting aberrations.

And this camera has the nice thick V-LOG image we know and love. Could decently shift WB in Davinci Resolve (using Chromatic Adaptation node) WHILE at 12,800 ISO and everything seemed clean to me. Panasonic really have made the end-game MFT cams with this and the Gh7. I love the body size. Yes its larger than say the older G85/gh5/gx85 gang. But it feels very compact with a small lens, yet i know if i put a big lens like the sigma 18-35 on here it would balance out. Seems very versatile.

Ended up spending a bit more and getting the Panasonic G9II! Found it for a good price. So far seems like the end-game camera for me. Only have done a few tests, but I kid you not ISO 12,800 is not awful on this thing and cleans up rather easily with some Temporal Noise Reduction in Davinci Resolve. Stabilization? Wonderful. E-stabilization high doesn't crop in that much, and it is rock solid. I love all the framerate and resolution options and open gate will be nice to have. And its so dang comfortable with MFT lenses. It came with a 12-60mm 3.5-5.6 lens; not a bad lens. It has a great range and has OIS so I get Dual IS. I will likely sell for the 12-38 2.8 though. But I think since this camera doesn't suck in lowlight, I can live with the 12-35 2.8 and save a lot of size and weight over the sigma 18-35. Build quality noticable step up from the Lumix S9. This camera is so good!!!

It could possibly be him, - they do look quite similar in black & white. The centre bottom dude is Cam Mackay’s great great great grandfather, Dances With Cameras. That one I am positive about. I think…

Hm, it seems to me rather like Jean-René douze-fps but I could be wrong!