Andrew Reid

Not much wrong with the specs. One of the only 40 megapixel APS-C bodies. Same flagship sensor as X-H2, but much smaller, sexier body. IBIS and all the features of an X100 VI but with the benefit of X-mount. 6K 10bit LOG and 4K/60p. I think for £1299 it's a bit of a bargain. Especially in a world which is used to $2k micro four thirds cameras. Whether the average person will choose it over a £1799 EOS R6 Mark II is another matter though. As for the USD prices on new gear, these are irrelevant now and I'm going to start using the £ price as a basis for determining the true pricing of stuff.

I am thinking full frame sensor is pretty bad for telephoto work at such long focal lengths. You are carrying much heavier glass and cropping into the sensor, aka not making the most of full frame - so you'd be far better off with a Micro Four Thirds camera for that. I am confused with your need for a fully articulating selfie screen at 750mm too 🙂 The R5C has worse AF for video. What about R5 II? Might be worth a look. I'd be tempted to go original R5 and a different camera for your telephoto shots, with a high-res crop sensor.

£1299 in the UK. $1299 would be the original US pricing without Trump's madness. So the tariffs are adding $400 onto a $1299 camera body. All of it into the pockets of a fascist administration rather than a nice Japanese camera company, too. Ouch.

I considered the same dilemma myself a few months ago and it boiled down to this: My need for pro-video features = less, I am a purist when it comes to shooting moving images - no peaking, no zebra, no elaborate extras, no clutter on screen, I have very basic audio needs, far more need for a fast operating nimble camera that can switch quickly between the highest possible video specs and nicest possible ergonomics for stills, so for me the EOS R5 was a better deal than R5C, far less money used, it behaves in a more nimble way for smaller scale creative endeavour and filmmaking, with better AF and is a superior stills camera, the overheating aspect is much improved vs the launch, and the hardware was never really limited very much by raw thermals anyway - it was all silly firmware trickery. So I recently went R5, but the mount just doesn't do it for me. With the Nikon Z8 I can use many more adapters, many more of my existing lenses, far more comes off my shelf and is happy on the Z8, especially for stills. So it really boils down to lenses and whether you'd be happy with a normal R5, before considering the Z8 as a step up from that.

And the X-T50 was already a steep rise on the pricing of prior models, even DPReview called it out, which is very rare as they act like the third arm of camera PR agencies. Also with the X-E5 now being priced as an X-Pro... It means the X-Pro5 will have to be in the region of $2500. A lot for an APS-C camera. I think the pricing strategy is silly. I think it's heading for disaster actually. And the alarming thing is that Trump's tariffs which nobody in Europe voted for has fucked OUR prices as well. Like COVID it has accelerated already existing trends and price pressures. The entire Japanese camera industry is heading for a Leica-style niche of crazy prices. And it will all unravel for them in a big way, when further advanced smartphones arrive (even more capable than the 1" sensor high-end current models like Xiaomi 15 Ultra) and DJI + other Chinese enterprises begin to compete more directly in terms of product line. Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji could all be history in 10 years time.

On the one hand it's great, as it's the closest you can now get to an X100 VI with an X-mount. On the other hand, the price means far fewer people will be able to justify buying it, let alone any lenses for it which is the whole point of the system - to get both smartphone & X100 VI users to step into the very profitable X-mount ecosystem. Then again as cameras are only aimed at rich people these days, it's probably all moot.

Flexible Colour Picture Controls. I have been waiting a long time for this. A Z6 III feature, first the Zf got it, now the Z8. It's effectively a full grading suite on-camera, bringing in-camera colour profiles far ahead of what Nikon offered before. The latest NX Studio Software used to create profiles and export to camera. It is much more advanced than the Canon Picture Profile creator software too. As good as having real-time LUTs. Pixel Shift + Focus Shift at same time is also pretty mega. Like having a 200MP medium format camera for macro, close-ups and product shots.

People paying far less for it though right?

It's a shame about Vimeo, they have been an absolute clown show. But I think YouTube does the job well. The way to use it is to get premium, to nuke all the ads. Much better then.

Yet another example of why the US needs its internet connection cutting off.

Never mind just a thread, I'll make it a whole sub-forum. https://www.eoshd.com/comments/forum/38-gimbal-dji-drone-action-cameras/

EOSHD is about mirrorless cameras, as a forum, as a website. It isn't that I don't think extreme sports and drone operators aren't filmmakers. It's just that the gear doesn't belong here. You have to draw the line somewhere. Should we also be about how to train ponies?

The cinema-going behaviour of the public, definitely not Red letter media - one of my favourite channels. True movie-buffs and hilarious at it too.

Only at the right price!

America... The absolute state of your culture. It's sad. It's pathetic. Wake up soon from this nightmare cultural bonfire 🙂

A big part of me wishes Sony's a7 series would look a bit like this today.

The best one out of all those is the 28-200mm. Absolutely the best travel lens I have ever used. Really light too.

I will take a Sigma 17-40mm F1.8 for my Fuji X-Pro3 thank you.

And Trump has grabbed them all.

Feeling for you. Trump is an economic abomination. It's like a horse race, think of it of all the horses chomping at the bit to get out the gates to increase their profits and prices, but if only one or 2 horses bolt, consumers will shun them and buy the cheaper products... if all the horses bolt at once, what are consumers gonna do... feck all about it.

https://www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/julien-s-auctions-turner-classic-movies-present-the-david-lynch-collection?tagIds=108281 https://www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/1426320/david-lynch-hasselblad-sony-and-pentax-cameras-with-accessories https://www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/1426308/david-lynch-sony-a7r-and-a7s-cameras-with-sony-e-mount-and-lensbaby-lenses Interesting to see he had good taste in creative tools.

What's annoying for the rest of us that didn't vote for Trump and aren't even American is that you just know the camera manufacturers will use this is an excuse to raise prices in other regions as well, because they've been pushed into acting like a cartel by a madman with orange makeup. It's a bit like the world just getting over COVID and then some muppet in Russia gives us a war. The world was getting over a lot of supply chain and economic issues then the American public decided it would be a good idea to have a convict in charge of the government and go back to 1870s trade policies.

A burst of about 8fps?

An update on the US side of things: https://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2025/05/21/camera-prices-surge-amid-u.s.-tariff-hikes-companies-respond-with-delays Could be possible that camera companies will import greater quantities to Mexico and Canada.

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.