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I usually have to watch 9 YouTube videos to get the information I could read in a single paragraph on a blog post... Always remember that the message is the medium. Certain people are good at certain mediums, and some people suit other ones. I prefer to write and shoot. I don't enjoy presenting. So this is a fundamental choice to make if you want to set out on a YouTube adventure. You may be better putting your talents into a written blog instead. The big reason people like Peter McKinnon and Philip Bloom suit YouTube and have made it successfully in that medium, is that they are both big on presentation and charisma. If you add that to the lusted after skills they seem to demonstrate and their glitzy lifestyles with thousands upon thousands of dollars of gear, then you start to see how there is a strong element of showbiz to it all, which allows them to take over so much airtime. The truth is that this is an unrealistic job for 99.9% of the population. Thankfully there are far more paths than just this to getting noticed as a filmmaker.
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Damn those privileged people not wanting to live in Nigeria.
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Interesting... Of course, Innovative products turn into mature ones... But then this ignores all the fringe stuff and steady evolution going on. One day the mould will be broken again. The amazing things about mirrorless cameras is that they are still taking leaps in a very mature market. They are all so different.
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Dropping him justifies the hatred, and adds the weight of a famous company behind a barmy army, whose PC philistine views the media seems to love so much. Witch hunt, huh?
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Yes my crime was to use the camera. It arrived the day before my flight to Italy, so I had no time to sort out a replacement. At the track in Monza, I used the Pocket 6K for a few shots before the power went kaput at 50% battery meter every 30 seconds. So the next day, I persevered and wanted to try out the slow-mo, but it crashed with a black screen every time I tried. Lost a lot of material. Shot the rest of the time with different camera. So feeling pissed off on the way back from Italy to IBC in Amsterdam, I decided to take my camera to Blackmagic at the show and ask what was going on. I was insulted, fobbed off, patronised, belittled and offered no solution. The next week after a month long trip I finally arrived in Berlin and contacted the dealer to return it. They did the usual quibbling, before partially refunding me after they received the camera back in the state I received it brand-new... Scuffed and used looking, but I may add just to be clear I didn't add to it... Not during my troubled and brief use of the camera at the Grand Prix nor at IBC. No more damage that was already there from the shrink wrap. EOSHD is not a purely unfeeling, fact based endeavour for me, I'm afraid feelings and emotion do come into it. When a company puts out shoddy quality control and fobs me off or insults me, it doesn't make me want to help further the online Blackmagic community for them or put work into Blackmagic related content. I have news for you. I am biased. My strong advise to Blackmagic users is seriously to look at the alternatives and get off the hype train. Canon 1D C used has a more cinematic image than both the Pocket cameras and is as low as £1599 / $1900 now X-T3, and all the new mirrorless cameras. etc. If you enjoy your Blackmagic don't let my experiences stop you... But let they be a lesson for Blackmagic to improve their lot.
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What's the best price you've seen one used?
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My question for the Blackmagic apologists is this... https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=97337 Are the issues reported here acceptable for a new camera straight out of the packaging? And when mine arrived with a deep gouge in the lens mount under the lens cap, they claimed it was due to rough handling by DHL in Germany... *** "My name is Callum Mclay and I am the head of Technical Supportfor Blackmagic Design in Europe, Middle East and Africa. I was sorry to hear about the condition of your camera out of the box. We always recommend reporting any unexpected behaviour to our Support team as soon as possible so that there is a record of it occurring and so that we can do our best to address it for you. This might be why the reseller was unable to accept that the condition of the camera was out of the box, as an amount of time had passed between receiving the product and reporting the condition to them, and because the product had been in use as detailed on your website. We had seen a very small number of cameras arrive with customers with minor cosmetic damage. We identified the cause of this as extreme rough handling conditions with couriers. These conditions went beyond our own extensive packaging testing, where there became a possibility that the product could have moved inside the packaging and been damaged." *** 😂 It takes the piss doesn't it? No? How do you get damage like this from a camera moving around inside protective packaging? A) the packaging is completely inadequate. or B) it's a cover up. Buy a Z-Cam instead and support a company that actually cares about the customer.
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Ah that makes it ok then! Poor little small Blackmagic fighting the evil Japanese giants and their new unused cameras! Blackmagic have had since 2012 and millions of dollars in R&D simply to ship cameras without debris on the sensor and permanent scuffs on the bodies, and they haven't managed it. What does it say about management standards and oversight if they feel this is ok? What does it say about the attitude towards customers, they think we will just suck it up because 2700 euros is "cheap"? A classic misconception. David vs Goliath is no excuse for shitty behaviour. These were the first batch of 6K cameras, straight from the factory. Mine crashed 9 times out of 10 at the Italian Grand Prix. Eventually had to bag it and use something else. Of course this is all my fault and nothing to do with Blackmagic shipping rushed out incomplete hardware and firmware. And if they did, their fanboys would excuse it! Because they are the good little guy fighting the big money suits! LOL. Such nonsense people believe. Get real. The 1.2 million views should mean something because to most companies, customers mean something to the people running them. Sigma is a good example, they really do care about their customers which is why their CEO was mingling with users at the Sigma stand at IBC, and checking out the competition without a single person with him in an entourage. To the management and marketing at Blackmagic you don't mean anything, you are literally just a potential sale or a non-sale. There are good people working at Blackmagic too but the shit they let fly is unreal.
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Exactly. Fuji are wrong. The whole thing is a travesty. They are dragging his name through the internet outrage machine, too scared to defend him in case they lose a few camera sales. If they really stood up for artists, rather than abusing them for profit, Fuji would defend him. As usual it tells us far more about Fuji's marketing men than it does about Suzuki's supposed "predatory" behaviour. Again we see, sadly someone (@barefoot_dp) stating the obvious and because they consider it normal, it is somehow justified. Sure, companies can do whatever they like for profit. That's not news. Is it right? If they perceive edgy art to be a PR gaff all of a sudden is it ok to chuck one of your best known Japanese street photographers under a bus? When will you people get it, christ fucking wept. In reality is not a kill-switch controlled by the company at their advantage, it is a reactionary hysterical kill switch controlled by a few outraged idiots on the internet. Companies need to get a fucking GRIP IMO.
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A lot of modern get rich quick schemes centre on content creation and YouTube. Snake oil, the lot of it. There is only one general rule and that is the relevance and quality of the content. You are right there are a ton of variables too. You can put out absolute shit and see it rocket in popularity - look at all the clickbait out there - but these channels are fads, 15 minutes of fame, and don't sustain a career for 10+ years.
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The real challenge is longevity and to avoid being jaded by your own content and subjects, honestly that is a big challenge after a few years, as is burnout, because YouTube (and blogs) all have a relentless pace, it never ends and takes over your every waking thought. It's easy to turn off from a normal 9-5 job but not if you are a YouTuber. If you can keep the hit videos and passion flowing for 10 years without a break, that is honestly a miracle and almost never happens. I sometimes tune out of the camera world completely and stop blogging on EOSHD for months. This isn't because I've lost interest or no longer want to talk to people I know and like, sometimes it is as simple as wanting to do something else, not having anything to shoot, but then coming back refreshed with new ideas. Well done @DaveAltizer with how the YouTube channel is working out for you, it's great. And we should do the podcast soon as well, when I am back more regularly in world of cameras.
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Hysterical, just a bit. "Predator"... There's nothing to suggest he photographs non-threatening subjects and if he is eventually unlucky enough to encounter somebody who is prepared to violently physically attack a photographer because he briefly invaded his personal space it speaks more about their values than his quite frankly. "Scary"... I don't think it's scary having your picture taken. Surprising maybe. "Victims"... For me it would be a privilege to be in a piece of art. They're not victims. Some of the people may even be looked back on in many years time as famed examples of life in this era of history, like the famous subjects in Henri Cartier Bresson's shots. Not everything has to be safe and not every space a safe space for your individual rule. If people tried to understand one-another's actions better, shared the streets and weren't so insufferably selfish and sensitive, street photography wouldn't be seen as the borderline criminal offence it is today. It's a huge loss to us as filmmakers and photographers.
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Maybe RAF camera can do something? Very good quality and good prices too.
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Canon and Blackmagic have the most cinematic image quality out there for the price. Yet there is always something to spoil it. With the 1D C, we had that ridiculous $12,000 pricing and for so long they paid lip service to EOSHD users and readers with crippled DSLR video at the "real" market prices, so what use is that colour science, that beautiful creamy C-LOG, if for the past 8 years we've been fobbed off with cropping, rubbish ergonomics, low-end mirrorless cameras that don't move the market forward, and so on. So it makes sense that there are multiple whistleblowers on Canon's organisational failings. What I am saying is, if used constructively, critics and whistleblowers are the best thing to ever happen to a failing company. Blackmagic... Another damn sexy image, mind-blowing pricing, truly great touch screen menus, but tell me what this means exactly when their head of PR is having a blood vessel bursting argument with me at IBC 2019 because I dared to pull them up on a few bugs and poor quality control relating to the 6K which I just put down 2700 euros for. The arrogance is seriously off putting at a lot of these companies. He really gave it to me in the neck, saying I was an amateur who didn't use the right tool for the job. Patrick Hussey, is the guy (based in the UK). Head of marketing and communications for all of EMEA. I should publish the whole conversation verbatim, you'll be shocked at the vitriol. Afterwards in a fire-fighting attempt their head of technical support fobbed me off with a load of old bollocks about the courier damaging the camera mount through a pristine box and lens cap... and no they wouldn't refund a penny. The dealer ended up refunding me partially for the Pocket 6K when I returned it so I lost money. These people honestly do treat us for fools,. If you haven't experienced it yourself, you're one of the lucky ones and you probably won't be so lucky with the next camera. It makes it hard to recommend either of the two company's products, no matter how interesting they are from a filmmaking perspective. I'd encourage more staff and whistleblowers to step forward with their mistreatment... and customers too.
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Is this the larger 49mm medium format CCD, or 44mm?
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The ultimate sell everything camera, and stick a Canon FD adapter on it. 85mm F1.2L is very nice on medium format
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Curious enough to look and observe people... While all around him, they look inwards at their own feelings and personal privileges. He gets my vote. And fuck the people who want to introduce a legal aspect or red-tape to an art as important as photography.
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How much is the GFX 100 in Japan?
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It's almost as if you feel the need to excuse it, as if it being normal makes it ok to run a shitty organisation that could be far better if the ethics and management were improved upon. Canon and Blackmagic have been the biggest disappointments for me both in terms of how they treat staff (and myself included even though I don't work for them) and their products.
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We had lens rehousing, now we need camera rehousing. Let's see a Chinese company take the inside out of the Pocket 6K and put it all in a different body... Adding the hinge to the screen, don't forget.
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The H has less moire and almost as much detail as a 60MP full frame CMOS... Not that I really need it, but wow. Sigma Quattro SD H. View full screen version - click image and use left/right cursor keys A7R IV (view full screen version)
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If anyone reading this has access to a CNC garage of some kind in Berlin let me know, I will ask them nicely to make a prototype. I used to know ReWo with one, who occasionally did stuff on request for free to see if it would work. Unfortunately they don't have it any more.