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Fro Knows Photo - NEW SONY FX1 MADE ME SHIT MYSELF Gerald Undone - SONY FX1 is a bedwetting moment Philip Bloom - FX1 CURED MY LOVE OF CATS Jordan Drake - I JIZZED MY PANTS BECAUSE OF SONY Camera Conspiracies - SONY FX1 ABSOLUTELY CRAP VLOGGING CAMERA Camera Labs - SONY FX1 has been released and it shoots video Tony and Chelsea Northrup -

The new Black Mirror episode is a real banger... ...in which Philip Bloom goes all the way to the White House and starts making up the laws of the land, a new Constitution. Law number 1... ALL media is given a platform based on promotional effectiveness and loyalty to the CAT KINGDOM. Those media not interested in cats, are de-platformed and uninvited from Sony camera launches. Law number 2... Universities watch out... Cat Zionism is about. Or should that be Meowism. Any pro-pussians and anyone who doesn't worship white fur is deported to a columbian jail. Law number 3... Lawyers and judges are to be superseded by weekly episodes of the Supreme Apprentice, where 6 cats around a table ultimately get to settle all arguments big or small with the flick of a tail. Law number 4... Japanese cameras are banned, all cameras must have pet detection and be made in Texas. Law Number 5... All China cats and European cats get out. The CAT KINGDOM is only for AMERICAN AND BRITISH PUSSY.

To virtue signal that he isn’t a gear pimping shill, he’s declining to review a camera that he doesn’t rate ? Surely the best way of doing that would be to do a review and actually state that he doesn’t rate it IN THE FUCKING REVIEW. You know, like someone who actually reviews gear rather than just blindly promotes it would do. Another twat in a hat.

https://www.wexphotovideo.com/panasonic-lumix-s9-digital-camera-body-with-20-60mm-f3-5-5-6-lens-black-3170471/ £800 off. Which makes it £999 with the 20-60mm kit lens. The body only is down to as little as £750 open box mint used. Down from the RRP of a few months ago £1600. One can only assume they are having massive problems shifting them. Which is a pity because the S9 is a fun little beast.

If this camera had come with internal electronic ND and global shutter then this entire forum would be up and on their way to the underwear drawer walking like that Honda robot.

Comparison is the thief of joy when it comes to creative tools. Most cameras these days are a victim of comparison. If we all stop comparing the choices, life becomes much more simple. Buy what you can afford and be happy 🙂

He doesn't want to ruin his relationship with the brands to the point they don't send him the new cameras twice as good as previous gen.

This does seem to be the case and I am not sure exactly why… It could be they do have a really good spec and are one of the best tools (at least on the camera side of things) for the job, but then your average YouTube reviewer doesn’t need that beyond a point as very few of them seem to be full-time industry, but instead full-time YouTubers and as such, do not need half of what these cameras have. Sony have been somewhat slack recently by comparison and their cameras have been lacking in a few areas spec-wise, possibly artificially crippled to preserve the more pricey stuff. I have always thought Lumix’s marketing to be more than a bit shite, but maybe they are craftier than we thought and have been playing a longer game of getting influencers slowly but steadily to their cause over the last few releases… Until fairly recently, you had to already be in the Lumix club before being invited to a launch but now it seems that is not the case. Fair play to them, I’d like to see them do well. Every camera launch these days plus other pieces of kit such as lenses, seem to have as many detractors as they do fans and this is to be expected for various reasons. Not every piece of kit is for everybody and this FX2 is clearly a competent hybrid rather than a dedicated video or stills camera so unless ‘hybrid creation’ is your thing, this camera will be of limited interest. Same as if a 1.5kg f2 medium to long zoom is not something you need or want, it does not make it shit. I still haven’t watched a single FX2 review yet so maybe should but just based on a few spec details I think I understand who it’s for. Is it groundbreaking? Nope. Very little is these days. Could it have been better? Possibly rather than probably plus yes definitely, but then it would have cost more. Should it have internal ND? Probably not because there would be so much criticism of this ‘old’ sensor etc. I am not 100% convinced at this time but to me and for my needs, it seems a pretty decent thing…

It's interesting to me that there are a growing number of YouTubers switching to Lumix. Armando has been a long time Sony shooter, he even references people calling him a Sony fan boy, but here he bashes the camera (which he hasn't used), has generally unflattering things to say about Sony, and mentions that he has switched to Lumix. He also teases that they've got some exciting things down the pipeline. Now, all of this should be taken with a grain of salt. But it's an interesting development.

Quick phone the police, Ai has stolen nona's broomstick !!

One of the reasons I don't blog as frequently or review stuff any more is that I have literally zero interest in spending $3k on a new camera every few months, and there's this strange urge by camera companies to inflate prices at the same time as going backwards in specs from the Sony a1 which is now nearly 4 years old. I fear it will be the same with the FX2, where I pick one up to try it once and then feel absolutely zero creative need for it. Same with the new Panasonics too. And at the same time, my interest in plain old photography is probably stronger than in video now, and what the Xiaomi 14 Ultra was able to do on that side had me thinking that even enthusiast level cameras for photography are on the way out. When are we going to see some real innovation from Japan?

Nope. About as relevant to me as rolling shutter! I’m a locked off kind of guy and I do not pan, tilt, or practice the wobbling jelly approach AKA ‘The Handheld Look’. My super lightweight freestanding monopod is one of the best and essential pieces of kit I own. If only I had not left it at a chateau 750km away a couple of weeks back 🙈 Fortunately I am back there in a few weeks and it’s slightly older, bigger and heavier sibling is pulling mono duty until then!

I guess their original intention was matching A7iv price but had to release it with baked in tariff inflation.

"Canon doesn't want you to know about this camera" "This camera changes everything" "Why I sold all my gears to get this camera" "Why Hollywood loves cropped 4k"

Now thats, what you call vintage glass.

Are you sure it was on May 25 and not sometime in the middle ages? 😛

The thing with Fuji is they don't want their fixed lens cameras to be TOO successful as it means lower lens sales. The X100 popularity from around the V model onwards, caught them off guard. So they didn't make very many on purpose, which further inflated prices, and they want everyone to be buying XF and GF mount lenses instead. That's why the X-Half lens is such a pathetic piece of shit. And why it doesn't have a RAW mode. It's meant to be a toy.