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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. 😅

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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/

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The only setup that's truly "wrong" is one that you don't enjoy using and that doesn't get you the photos that you want. The primary camera of a friend of mine is a pinhole that she made herself from... I think it's a coffee can or a cocoa powder jar. The photos are low-resolution, dreamy, and perfect. My setup would be totally wrong for her, or you, but I quite like it! I was at Photostock a few years ago when David Burnett was the speaker - he is famously still shooting sporting events and major political events using either a speed graphic or converted Graflex SLR with an Aero Ektar. At that event, however, he was carrying the camera he uses most of the time - an A7c with a small Sony lens. Not a setup that I'd choose, but if it's good enough for one of the most famous living photographers, it's probably not "wrong." 😅 A number of the big name classic cinematographers/filmmakers favored lenses between 40-60mm or so FF equivalent. A lot of classic street photographers like 35-50mm because it's seen as immersive. But if you want an outsider perspective, your choice of a 70mm seems appropriate!

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Even better than that, I have the camera on a wrist strap and shoot with it at chest height like you describe, which means that when I'm walking / standing around the camera is barely visible, unlike a shoulder-strap where the strap and camera are front-and-centre all the time. Lots of other things come to mind.. If there are people standing around in clumps, stand right next to one of them. This way you'll sort-of become part of the group, so people walking by will just identify there's a group of people there and 'see' all of you as one thing and walk around you, and people looking around won't be drawn to you as much as if you're on your own against a clean backdrop - this is sort of like camo clothing where you are trying to obscure your silhouette. Pause a few seconds before showing the camera. If you walk up near someone and stop, they'll probably glance at you to see who you are, what you want, etc. If all they see is someone doing nothing (ie, not a threat or opportunity) they'll go back to what they're doing. Shoot people who are distracted and doing things. Most people who are distracted are just on their phones, but contrary to internet hype people do still do other things, and unless you're working on your doco series "People on their phones - Episode 27" its good to seek out these moments. Shoot through people / things. Be careful how you move and approach shots. I try and be very focused on things that are just becoming visible. As soon as you can see them, they can see you, so it's best to not get closer than you need to. The further you are away the more likely there is to be layers to shoot through too, so that's a bonus. People also have a sixth sense that someone is looking at them, even if you're looking "at them" on your camera screen, so although you can approach someone from the side or even from behind and they'll just turn and look right at you. I'm not sure how to navigate this, but I'm sure there's some way to influence it that I haven't worked out yet. This lady was facing directly away from me when I started filming and then turned suddenly a few seconds into the shot: The guy nearest me suddenly turned around to look at me, despite none of his friends noticing me beforehand: I know people do look around sometimes, but the timing is uncanny, so it's definitely a thing. The old trick of finding the backdrop and waiting for someone to come into shot is a good one too, which is what this shot was. It has the benefit that you're not coming into their environment, they're moving through yours. Any situation where you're shooting through layers has the potential for someone to come into shot too. I was shooting compositions using the bikes mirrors and then a lady came and parked her bike right in front of me. I'm pretty sure she knew I was there, but as I was already standing there when she arrived I wouldn't have triggered that 'a new person just arrived' reaction, and also as she arrived at the situation from somewhere else she was probably quite distracted as the whole situation was new and she was trying to park her bike too, so it's possible she was completely oblivious to my presence. Anyway, that's some further thoughts. There's a lot online about how to stealthily take street photos (e.g. Garry Winogrand pretending to fumble with his camera, etc), but much less about street videography where you have to essentially remain motionless for many seconds while rolling, plus you can't 'drive by' people and freeze them with a short shutter speed either. For one reason or other most of the street photography tricks don't really work. I'd imagine that @BTM_Pix would be deep down this rabbit hole..

"without drawing to much attention"-having the camera hanging on the neck strap about 1.1m above ground and therefore looking down at the fold out screen most of the public don't even know they are being filmed.It is also quite easy to do steady pans and tilts like this.