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Yikes, glad I'm in the EU for once. Looks like the tables have turned, soon Americans will be flying in to Europe to purchase cameras lol. For RED importing components with tariffs should only mean a very minor impact on total price versus cameras like BMD manufactured in Asia. RED/Nikon is in a much better position to control costs and avoid drastic price jumps, unless Nikon shifts production overseas which I'd assume is something they wouldn't consider under the current situation.

"I'm getting too old for this shit. I'm only two weeks away from my retirement." I'm gonna be one of those craft people that refuses to use AI. Damn the consequences. This all sucks. As a documentarian, even something supposedly innocuous like audio transcribing is causing more inadvertent issues than it's solving. It's really getting in my way holistically -- although it "feels" like it's helping in the moment. It divorces me from the nuances and intimacy of the material. How can I be expected to make anything meaningful to the audience or to myself if I allow an algorithm to make crafting determinations, even the simplest ones? Tools are tools, but when the tools diminish rather than enhance? That's a recipe to being superficial. I don't think I want to be superficial. Unless I'm doing corporate bull shit for the pay day. But then, the corporations using AI can now (or soon) cut me out of that calculus anyway. Get off my lawn you damn machines.

It’s paid by the importer and then passed directly on to the consumer, though fixed costs such as handling and transport fees after the port of entry mean that the calculation isn’t always a straight addition to the current retail price as those costs don’t include any additional increase. The original $4995 is now $6595. If they’d added the whole 34% directly on (which is on top of an existing 20% by the way) then it would be $6693. The reason for it not being that much is that fixed costs such as US based handling and transportation charges do not carry the tariff.

But tariffs apply at import point not at the retail. Its "import value" is not $5k. For example if Canon R5ii is $4k, Canon USA will take its profit from that, and then B&H. So the import value could be $3k (I don't know how much each middle man takes from MSRP, but I know its not insignificant). So 33% tariff should be applied to the $3k price, which makes it $4k, then add to that the distributer and retailer profit, which was $1k, and then it will be $5k for the customer. But if you apply that to the original retail price of $4k, it becomes $5330. So somebody other than the government pocket that extra $330.

This situation is a shame, this orange man is writing a black page in the history of the humankind and people who have voted him no less. Ronald Reagan should be as much embarrassed with Republicans as John McCain when refused to even figure this guy "to visit" his dead body... tariffs and paranoid policies are proper of communist regimes, not the free world of a bygone age nowadays.

Wow It looks like every product on their site has a new, higher price in the U.S. Even Resolve! I wonder if folks that preordered already will have their price honored. B&H is still showing the original price.

How they calculated that? Is it Made in China?

This AI stuff is great, it saves so much time, creating subs, remixing music, mixing the audio, soon it prolly will match log footage from different camera's perfectly. And then you can creatively focus on the overall grade.

I don’t object to that ie, ‘stuff I was going to do anyway’ that just makes my life easier, all good. I already use it in fact in Lightroom, but it’s the wholesale image generation that I oppose.

I wonder that too but so far it seems to be over ten years without having needed to pay again. Apple makes their money off hardware so the software helps sell the hardware. (You could say too that about BM in a way.) The iOS version of Final Cut is a subscription. I don't know how that's doing. There are so many other NLEs for iOS out there that are a one time payment kind of thing that it's competing against, (including their own iMovie for iOS).

It doesn’t interest me either. I’d rather see out whatever remains of my career being ‘authentic’ and even if this means stopping a year or two short, then so be it. ”Look what I made!” What you mean is look at what AI made for you, but don’t kid yourself it was any talent that you had. It is almost certainly the future but I want no part of that future.

That's the specific reason, though, that they are that different. If BMD charge me $60 to upgrade to the latest major version every year and I am not interested in the new features that they added, I pay them $0. If they go to a subscription model and charge me $5/month, I pay them $60 every year and if they add new features that I don't care about, I still have to pay them $60 for it or I can't use the existing features that I need. Basically, a subscription model removes the impetus for innovation and for developing features that customers are interested in. Like if the new feature is "we added a stock footage catalog that you can also pay to access," I wouldn't want or care about that new feature. I haven't used stock footage before and don't expect to use it any time in the near future. So yeah, there's a world of difference between a subscription and an optional yearly cost for extra features (and this is more or less how Luminar have been doing things and I'm here for it)

How to make someone addicted to drugs: first I will gift you drugs and then when you can't do without them I will ask you for money. Another clear example of enshittification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification)

All I want to know is if the presentation has finished yet?

If you can wait 2-3 months after it ships, you'll find it barely used for that much or even a bit less. That's the nice thing with YouTube-popular cameras these days.

Had to listen to the livestream while on the road for work. Man oh man does Grant love his broadcast stuff. I drove my full nearly two hour trip before he even hinted at cameras lol. Anyways, the Pyxis 12K is super exciting to me. It makes sense that its price is exactly halfway between the Pyxis 6K and Cine 12K…. But $4500 USD would have felt worlds better to me haha.

It is the S5ii as far as I’m aware. I’ve pulled this from a demo of the new functionality and shows switchable contrast and phase detect in the UI. Full video is here Yeah I think it will become clearer what BM’s intentions actually are for the 12K when they are doing demos and interviews at the show itself.

Mmm…In terms of AF, it was only actually stated to be coming for the Cine 6K and then by extension, when that firmware is out of beta, for the PYXIS 6K. I’m wondering if a misguided conclusion has been leapt to here by me that it will come to the PYXIS 12K. The other two share the same Sony sensor and it’s one we know to have PDAF capabilities because it’s used in a number of other cameras. The 12K sensor though is all their own work so I don’t know if it actually does?

There’s dumb L mount adapters for most legacy mounts so just use electrical tape over the PYXIS end contacts to be on the safe side.

The US price has now been updated to incorporate the tariffs. A $1600 increase then. If I was in the US, I think I’d be holding off on that pre-order for a while until the presumably inevitable walk back.