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As with the fair use copyright strikes there needs to be a layer of legal protection for the smaller guy who doesn't have access to lawyers. Before the lawyers get involved, a judge should be able to quickly throw out spurious BS cases.

I think more than ever there is a power struggle between the law and corporations, we'd do well to keep an eye on that - since most of the normal rules which keep companies in check like product and competition are becoming less of a factor. We have quite a few duopolies, even monopolies in many markets and in many countries. What the corporate bastards have also realised, is that since the pandemic they are able to act like a cartel with patterns of cartel-like behaviour like all of them raising prices in unison and creating exclusivity of market share for themselves, and also making the consumer increasingly dependant on tech as a service... Less of a product, more of an app or a cloud based service. The pandemic accelerated all of this. And that of course is where all the recent subscription bullshit comes in. But of the two quite different topics raised in this thread... I am way more worried about the abuse of the legal system to stifle journalism. The companies in question are Nvidia and Universal Records. I suggest to think twice before handing them your hard earned.

No the burden is not on me. I am not the one writing endlessly long blog posts full of hearsay “facts” without sources. I could write ten pages about you, insinuating all sorts of things, not unlike Andrew Reid’s chatgpt test about himself, and ask you to prove me wrong. I know for a fact Tesla has no subscription that unlocks a bigger battery capacity, so that alone is bullshit. That exact attitude of reposting bullshit, and laying burden of proof with the disagreer is part of the bullshittification of the internet.Apparently you are part of the problem.

Ok, I thought that softer images, tend to decrease moire because it lowers frequencies.

I mean the aim is not to use those 4-5 last stops and put them back at the base exposure, but it tells you that a 3 stop underexposure is still good, meaning your noise floor would still be much better than a camera that would be stuck at 2. Somebody else who likes to do technical test on Nikon cameras has an interesting test between the two, because he was intrigued how could the z6iii that was so criticized for the DR, while the S1ii got so much praise while using the same sensor. For me without the DR boost, the S1ii is still reaching 9 vs about 7 stops of latitude in the case of the Z6iii. The only difference for me is the 9 vs 12 ms for the sensor readout. And I hope Nikon give us, at least the S1ii DR. I already se a z9 which has 14ms sensor readout, so 12 ms is good for me. https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4812023 link to the comparison

I love this thread. Keep em coming. If only the Canon FD 35 105 was not prone to gnarly focussing after several years of use due to ball bearings covered with desolving rubber. There is a very compact 38 to 100mm F3.5 under the Hanimex label, which I really like using for personal filming. Mine has a FD mount. I used to have a video uploaded showing this lens in action, which I shared here before. Vimeo deleted it along with 60 other videos when I canceled my plus account, because they deleted all groups and destroyed the whole community. I really need to read into Nikon glass. All these different versions leave me puzzled.:) @mercer

It worked in all the terminator documentaries !! No crappy steel sports car but i do have a crappy steel suv. Nearing 60, i'll take the comfortable outlander. The DeLorean looks a bit cramped.

trump is going hard on australia at the moment. On friday the new tariffs comes into affect. i grabbed some texts from online that seem relevant. Some of it might be a couple of months old by now. Australia Post will temporarily partially halt sending parcels to the US ahead of the Trump administration’s changes to tariffs on imports. As of Tuesday, businesses will no longer be able to send postal goods to the United States and Puerto Rico until further notice. Those using Business Contract and My Post Business will be most affected, but gifts under $US100 ($A154), letters and documents will not be affected. The move is in response to US President Donald Trump’s changes to customs and import tariff rules that will take effect on Friday. The US government will suspend the de minimis exemption, which currently allows parcels valued $US800 or less to come into the country duty free. Parcels above this value will now require a pre-payment of tariffs prior to the item’s arrival in the US. Australia Post executive general manager of parcel, post and e-commerce services Gary Starr said the company was “disappointed” to have to implement the suspension. However, due to the complex and rapidly evolving situation, a temporary partial suspension has been necessary to allow us to develop and implement a workable solution for our customers,” he said. I suspect aus post is trying to minimize the amount of lost money/ products, as if the US seizes them, good luck getting anything back. The second thing is australia is dead set on limiting under age minors on social networks. We know that social media can be a weapon for bullies, a platform for peer pressure, a driver of anxiety, a vehicle for scammers. And worst of all, a tool for online predators, Australia’s parliament has passed a world-first law banning social media for children under 16, putting tech companies on notice to tighten security before a cut-off date that’s yet to be set. The bill passed the lower house on Wednesday – 102 votes to 13 – before progressing to the Senate. A poll by YouGov conducted this month showed that 77% of Australians support the under-16 ban. The survey was conducted in the second half of this month and sought the views of 1,515 people with a margin of error of 3.2%. The Senate approved the social media ban late on Thursday, the last sitting day of the year, following months of intense public debate and a rushed parliamentary process that saw the bill introduced, debated and passed within a week. Under the new law, tech companies must take “reasonable steps” to prevent under-age users from accessing social media services or face fines of nearly 50 million Australian dollars ($32 million). It’s the world’s toughest response yet to a problem that has seen other countries impose restrictions but not hold companies accountable for breaches of a nationwide ban. The ban is expected to apply to Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and X, but that list could expand. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese praised the new law on Friday, saying it sent a message to parents that “we’ve got your back.” “Platforms now have a social responsibility to ensure the safety of our kids is a priority for them,” he said. Elon Musk, said in its submission to the inquiry that the platform was “not widely used by minors” but expressed concern about the law’s impact on their freedom of expression. Pretty sure he actually meant he's more scared of his company actually being made accountable for something and the loss of a bunch of impressionable kids probably hurts too..

Of course I tried filtration, but as we know filters have no impact on wave interference.

Back in 1985, I saw a documentary about a guy who was able to travel back in time in a crappy steel sportscar with only 410 megawatts more than that. Maybe that guy could go back in time and stop AI before it even started!

I'm obviously not going to go and manually look up every single fact in that post and provide a citation for it. That's absurd. You said So now the burden is on you. Prove that bullshit wrong. It's apparently easy.

I really do not have any love for Elmo, but there is no way everything you read on that blog post is true. If you have proof otherwise, except that we both have a profound contempt for Elmo, be my guest. In the EU they would be open to a flood of lawsuits, both by users and control organisms. THIS is a big part of the enshittification, the abundance of misinformation by people on the internet that have not gone completely bonkers like most have, but still fall prey to a lack of objective source and fact checking. Mainly because they have a profound dislike for something/someone, thus the things happening or being reported must be true. eg. The Meidas network, I was a fan, but sorry, they are FAR from objective by now, and way too emotional. It comes across as fake instantly, even if I have sympathy for them. but the OP was on a completely other matter. It had nothing to do with misinformation, but everything with abuse of legal power by the big guys. That is the point I wanted to make. Every time as sane person makes an incorrect statement online, it adds to the problem.

I'd seen quite a lot of the info in that post previously as I follow Ed Neidermeyer on BlueSky, who has spent the last 10 years writing about Musk's various crimes. But the bit at the end about newly-tariffed countries no longer having much need to emulate DMCA laws with regard to reverse engineering might just have some bearing on why Trump is suddenly threatening other countries that enact laws to regulate or tax US Big Tech companies.

I also feel, a hundred foot tall version of Ana de Armas is an acceptable use of ai...😉 Speaking of power consumption. When the new / reconditioned or whatever you want to call it nuclear reactor comes online at thee mile island in the next year or two, all of its power is sold to microsoft to power its data servers / Ai. Thats 800 megawatts a year for twenty years, Ai is surely is one hungry little bugger.

Someone loves Eeeeelllllooooonnnnnnn. If you stan him enough online, maybe he'll be your friend and give you a billion of his dollars. Keep it up!

To me CineD’s latitude tests seem a bit over the top, as the last 4 and 5 stops under with heavy NR look many times quite bad already. With Z6iii ETTR is the key, it’s IQ and highlight roll off looks way better than with S5ii when you pull down exposure in post. Sure S1ii DR looks a bit better than Z6iii in paper, but for that you need to use always Prores Raw, which is more Gbps than N-Raw High and over double than N-Raw Normal. Just funny, to get S5 and S1H IQ without baked in NR and sharpening out of newest Pannys the data rate is 13-20x more than what it used to be with old H.265. At least you have options. Hope this ZR fixes Z6iii’s view assist, or adds option to load own view LUTs into camera.

One of the main problems is people reposting bullshit that is easy to prove wrong.

I have personally stopped looking at the DR test from imatest and charts in general including CineD, but only at the Latitude test. Since some companies starting with Canon, started baking Noise reduction in their RAW, it just tricked the system. I prefer by far the latitude test, as it is just real life one. You can clearly see, how much you can get back from over exposure and underexposure. Unfortunately CineD doesn't have a full test of the z6iii, but I have seen other test online and it was like 3 above and 4 below. So you are getting around 7-7.5 at best stops of latitude, which within a lot of FF cameras which mostly were between 7 and 8 stops of exposure latitude. But looking at the S1ii, the exposure latitude is at 5 above and 4 below in the normal mode!!! Already 9 stops of Exp Lat, which puts it very high, at a Red Raptor level of Latitude!!! And when you go in the DR boost mode, you reach a solid 10 stop of latitude, which is as good as the Arri Alexa LF !!!! https://www.cined.com/panasonic-lumix-s1ii-lab-test-part-2-dynamic-range-and-latitude-using-prores-raw-5-8k-with-dr-boost-on/ but now the rolling shutter is at 27ms. One important thing to take into consideration is that in normal mode the S1ii sensor is at 12 Ms, and the z6iii at 9Ms. It seems Nikon went for speed, which tends to create more heat and noise. Now, for me, I hope Nikon give us choices. I prefer two additional stops of DR and a sensor read speed of 12 ms with 10 stops, than 9 ms and 7 stops. If they can give me both, great. If they can even give the 27ms 10 stops of latitude mode, even better. I prefer choice, where I can make my own decisions. I don't know if it is me, it is as if Nikon didn't get out the full potential from this chip, and Pana got more time and did their own teaks. Sincerely, if they only did the normal mode at 12 ms and got 9 stop of latitude in the z6iii, rather than all the criticism they got from z6iii DR, the camera would have got a ton of praise.

You never tried to use some soft mist filter that might blur the image, just that little bit that it would remove those moirer.

As someone who bought the Z6iii twice and returned it twice I really hope the Zr has a strong OLPF. I loved almost everything about the z6iii but the excessive moiré killed it for me.

Yes, this is also a symptom of late-stage unrestrained capitalism when there is no longer a lot of competition in the market, but instead there are a handful of well-established/entrenched players who can gamble with losing some sales in the short term. Don't buy a VW this time around because they added a stupid subscription? They'll be in the running next time after all the others add shitty subscriptions too. The same applies to stuff like car vendors trying to move away from supporting Carplay/Android Auto because they really want to sell you subscriptions to connected features in the car, despite that you already have all of those things paid for in your phone already.

I don’t see an end to AI either, - the complete opposite and it will take over huge chunks of all kinds of things with one person taking what was previously the jobs of perhaps dozens of people. I think it’s an unstoppable monster because when it comes down to it, what is right or good or any other factor, just gets swatted aside increasingly when it comes to both corporate and personal greed/entitlement. I’m looking forward to 100ft Ana de Armas with blue hair on neighbouring apartment blocks. I live in a cottage in the woods, but I live in hope…

No they don’t as such…but Sigma do and Leica have a 135 f2 APO in the works, but the price of that will make the Plena seem ‘cheap’. Just a couple of years ago, I thought the weak link in L Mount was the lenses and whilst I think there are a couple of holes still, I’ve gone round in a big circle and ended up with a set of f1.8 primes, the; 18,35,50 and 85 and with the addition of a 28-70 and a 70-200, over 4 bodies, I’ve got all bases covered for my needs, video and stills. For sure. I wrestled with all kinds of combos of brands, bodies, lenses and each time I thought I’d found my best set up, I found flaws if not outright issues. In the end, I decided to just go back to basics and creativity has shot up as a result. As has logistics, workflow and a load of other basics. I have no further needs and instead, only wishes and intentions and none of those are kit related.

Indeed, but when the reality is the majority won’t do anything, except perhaps grumble on social media, the outcome is inevitable and it soon becomes the norm. I still need to look at how I can get out of the Adobe model, but 2 things stop me: 1. Big discount due to someone I know and 2. Not so much laziness, but rather it bores me to tears having to learn an entire new workflow that would have to replace multiple pieces of software I have used for over a decade. Most don’t have the luxury of 1. so makes 2. even harder. But ultimately, unless a greater majority or even simply a significant number that can cause a serious dent, act, then companies will exploit that.

I'm not convinced that the lower end will "get bored" of their slop, but if ai generation can be priced to include legal training material, power consumption, and carbon cleanup, then we might be able to price some of it out of existence.