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Had the 75mm Saturn with the S5II. With 6k25p open gate occasionally the footage looked awesome, but most of the times it looked like not in focus and crappy. All Panas have 1.5x desqueeze, and this Sirui is 1.6x so focusing was a bit of pain via S5II’s mediocre EVF, or my Saturn copy was just bad at focusing. In 4:3 3.3k50p mode it looked just bad and like out of focus all the time. Sold the Saturn, as frame graps from the 6k footage did not look as good as with spherical lenses. Miss the 2.4:1 AR though.

After two or three years of editing HDR out of S5, S5II and GH6 footage and then from GH7, Z6III and ZR I wouldn’t say they look the same. Panny’s footage can be tweaked to look almost similar than Z6III, but still it just doesn’t look as good to my eye. The ZR R3D NE also looks a bit different than NRaw, but it is debatable which one’s colors are better. In this same context Iphone 15 Pro Proress footage stands out, and not in a good way, when viewed on a big screen.

A Parrot would now be a more appropriate bird, since they are resorting to piracy... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/10/venezuela-oil-tanker-seizure/?itid=hp-mv-top-stories_top-table-main_p001_f001

FX3 ended up as both elixir and poison for Sony. It established E mount as go-to choice for professional video, and at the same time became the benchmark of "good enough". They will update it with a super fast sensor (either a 6k120 from 12k, or 5k240 from a 67MP sensor with dual gain HDR, both available next year), but that makes it a $5000 camera, then FX3 wins again with just being cheaper.

Like other picture profiles provided by Nikon, it would be way better at 50% intensity. But I don't think you can change that with these recipes. How can someone submit their recipes for Nikon Cloud? I like to see EOSHD in that list.

The Nikon samples seem to mirror my experience with Flexicolor. Tones mash together, it's tough to get it looking right on the more extreme kind of looks to say the least.

netflix could win, but they'll have to pony up twice as much cash as Ellison , it will be the person who gives trump, the most kickbacks in cash, that wins... and maybe a few "promises" about bringing more work back to america. That will really help sell it..

Has anyone tried the latest "recipes" https://imagingcloud.nikon.com/recipe/release?bookId=01HXDGH38PHJ0KZJHF2N7M8VMC They use Flexicolor so Z6 III, Zf, Z8 CineBias by RED CineBias-T - Cool Atmosphere by RED CineBias-C - Crisp Teal Contrast by RED CineBias-CC - Noir Vibes by RED CineBias WC - Grit & Glow by RED CineBias-TC - Green Edge Experimental by RED CineBiasOffset by RED CineBias Achromic by RED CineBias BleachBypass by RED I am curious as to what the fuck Green Edge is

The Alexa Mini in that video looks much better than the Zr in rec.709 The LOG modes are just a wide gamut colour space. Nearly all cameras look the same in rec 2020.

This is what the French all thought when Hitler turned up at the border. You're right about the small battles though... Not worth it is it? The big ones on the other hand... It has to be approved by shareholders, they've only decided at board level (at both Netflix and Warner) that they want the buyout to go ahead. Only the hostile takeover by Ellison will get the regulator seal of approval, stamped with the famous United States bald eagle emblem. What is it with the Eagle and these nazi countries?

Had a bit of time with the Sony FX2 today along with a Canon C50, same sensor as EOS R6 III but no IBIS or EVF, and it takes forever to switch photo / video mode. The FX2's viewfinder was chunkier than expected, it's massive and crisp, and articulated. I love it. The screen is so-so. The a7v has less rolling shutter, better screen and screen tilt method. But I do like the FX2, it's the only modern small CINEMA CAMERA that has the full photography feature-set. I just wish they'd put the a7v architecture in there, new sensor... I was told that apparently the Sony a7c II uses a different sensor to the a7 IV, it's tweaked, but didn't sell - so Sony had loads left over and hence needed a way to use them so FX2 was born. Sounds like a typical sales rep story to me so take that with a pinch of salt but it did come originally from a Sony employee. I am happy with the FX2's image, it's enough for me for just Cinema 24p. There's no denying the C50 and R6 III have a specs advantage with the 7K RAW but I just think it's complete overkill. Where is our footage being seen? IMAX screen? Phone more like, laptop if you're lucky. I'm not suggesting to go back to 1080p... lol. I just think 4K H.265 is fine. A lot of people are asking "who is FX2 for"? Well I guess it's for weird people like me who has always valued the hybrid convergence of stills and cinema. There's a nimbleness to it. No faffing, no huge weight, just as capable at photography.... It's the polar opposite of a Blackmagic Pyxis or Ursa. Yet the "it ain't selling" problem is really concerning... It's as if the market has gone a bit batty. All the stills people are buying the a7r V instead and all the video people hanker after an FX3. So the FX2 sat in-between the two suffers from that dreaded "middle" failure because people are unable to snap out of their binary thinking. In a way, the Nikon Zr because it doesn't have a mechanical shutter or EVF, and is lower resolution, in not pretending to be also a really good stills camera has made it appeal more for video. Also Nikon are undercutting Sony pretty deep on price at the moment. So not hard to see why that will further pummel the FX2's sales. Sony need to be careful. Their customer service is poor, the reliability is iffy (the firmware update problems in particular) and their pricing strategy is becoming Canon-like. At the same time meanwhile, Canon are putting top-level specs in a 6 series enthusiast body and getting aggressive on price with the R8, and Nikon is putting RED codecs in things that cost $2k... So in sales terms they may have peaked and might see a downturn. But I for one will be picking up a lovely FX2 if it ever drops below $2000 used.

I think people see politics these days as a form of show-biz entertainment soap opera drama, what a surprise they are going to get when the frogmen smash their door in next.

It's not time I need, EOSHD peaked in 2018. I need to break the strangulation of the gatekeepers, I could post an exclusive about Canon leaving the camera market on the front page or even aliens landing and nobody will fucking see it because the gatekeeping sites and social media influencers all have a major EOSHD grudge.

A bit of a stretch to go from developing an Alice in Wonderland app to accusing Tim Cook of being a pedo.

The new entry-rule is doubleplusgood. Giving five-year socmedia record to Borderforce is only goodthink. Right citizens with nothing to hide welcome full truthcheck, for it keeps out crimethink, facecrime, and all ungood elements. Freedom is Strength, and more watch means more freedom. The Party merely sees what all goodthinkers already show. Only unpersons fear oversight.

Providing a five-year social media history to border agents may become a pre-condition to entry as part of the rise of fascism in America. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dz0g2ykpeo

I sincerely hope they correct this very fast. From my use, I would not say it is as bad as people are saying, but until now the h265 from my Nikons has been very very good.

I always said how the Nikon colors were close to the Alexa one. I used to work as an on set photographer on movie shooting including Netflix in my country. And many times I had to match them to the Movie own colors that were mostly shots on Alexas. And they were damn close, as this test shows. I did not do video to video comparison, but Nikon colors have always been so good.

In a world where 1+1 no longer equals 2?

And even more than that, stories typically rely on characters almost always being portrayed as somewhat competent, even if they're nefarious. Which I always find amusing because we should all know that's one hell of a myth.

Same thing happened with Hitler. In the earlier years, because they wanted a piece of that action for themselves and a seat at the table. In later years, because the alternative was death. The latter may not be the case here, - instead you just lose your invitation to the big feast, but the former is almost certain. And I kind of get it, but then living in a dog eat dog world is nothing new. What is the answer? There isn’t one other than live your own life as best you can because we live in an increasingly weary and apathetic society and attempting to ‘do the right thing’ based on principle, usually leads to self-destruction. My mother is a crusader. Unfortunately she has forgotten her history lesson and fighting every tiny and often inconsequential battle has lead to her poor mental and physical health. I don’t say turn a blind eye, but rather don’t get into a fight you have zero chance of winning. Anyway, so the announcement I received a few days ago from Netflix was a bit premature then huh?!

I don’t agree that that it needs normal people in their millions to rise up, it needs the elites to turn on Trump… Military leaders, CEOs, celebrities. World leaders. Instead, 99% of them they have licked his ass and appeased him

Hi, just found this thread and am blown away by the results. I have this beast, I assume I can also do something similar? Also, is Alex still taking emails?

Just wanted to say that I love what you're doing here, Andrew. The truth is powerful. The more you speak your mind, and encourage others to, the more you benefit the world. And, ultimately, your site traffic. It just takes time. Keep being free!

Tim Cook has always been a mess, he's just been sufficiently hidden from public view; most of the time. Did you know that Steve Jobs hated Cook? Massive chunks of Steve Job's biography were censored by Walter Isaacson, after Job's death, to conceal this from the public. There's an investigative piece on it, here: https://vo.lc/The-Execution-of-Steve.html Cook is also a child-slaver. His is personally-evidenced knowingly using children to manufacture Apple products. Note that this is different from Apple's prior use of child slaves, because, until Tim Cook turned up, Apple had not been directly, knowingly, complicit. [Source: Business Insider] The real reason these Apple executives are jumping-ship, however, has nothing to do with technical problems at Apple. Instead, they are getting ahead of a much bigger scandal, which will likely sink the company. Here I quote from an article by a Guardian award-winning writer who was a journalist for both The Times and The Telegraph newspapers; and worked at BBC radio. The journalist knew Steve Jobs personally, and worked with him. This is from the article: "Tim Cook abuses children. This is well-documented. The extent to which he abuses children is to be determined by a court, and the process by which he will be brought to trial for his repeated abuse of children depends on your capacity — as the message on Steve Jobs' desk, pictured at the top of this page, reads — to "THINK". Your inclination will be to turn away." "Tim Cook has, bizarrely, never had any identifiable partner of any sort. Readers will note that this was also the case for notorious pedophile, Jimmy Savile. This is not of course, to draw any comparison whatsoever between Tim Cook and the notorious pedophile Savile. Any attempt at such a direct comparison would (as it was with Savile) be met with such violent legal repercussions from the child-slave-traders at Apple that nobody would dare write such a thing. Perhaps we should not even think it." "Many reporters, after Jimmy Savile was exposed, congratulated themselves on having kept silent for years out of fear of being sued, and all the children who were raped in the interim were also delighted at the reporters' cowardice. Weren't they?" "The problem is that the entire, disgusting edifice of Silicon Valley relies on our fear. What happens if we're not scared? What happens if we stop treating the child-slave-trader Tim Cook as royalty?" Source: The Execution of Steve, By Chris Stevens / Phoenix Kaspian, 16th January, 2024. Note that the journalist's article has been up for almost two years, undefeated by Apple's legal team. Apple is the richest company in the world. You do the math. Apple is cooked.