Andrew Reid

Funnily enough this EXACT one was sitting staring at me from a Berlin flea market table today for 40 euros. So of course I couldn't resist and have yet another 90s Mini Dv camera to play with. Must have been one of the smaller 3 chip cameras of the era? It's nice and compact. The later one in 2005 I used to have is the Panasonic GS400. That was the peak of the Panasonic prosumer MiniDV cams for me. Very nice screen and lens on that, and it's 3CCD.

Well said.

Sorry but this doesn't explain why the longer form written journalism is going away. The tech market that Andandtech covers might be mature but it's still absolutely huge in terms of interest and enthusiasts, and there's a wealth of discovery to be done, debate and bait online devoted to GPUs, gaming, and such like. LinusTechTips on YouTube is huge, one of the highest subscriber counts anywhere. This is all the fault of phones, you can't READ a phone like you can a magazine due to the small screen, it's just not very nice to read long stuff on a phone and you're much better off sitting at a desk instead with a laptop. You'll be surprised how many people use their phone as a laptop or desktop replacement now. Also it is far too easy for social media and clickbait aggregators / rumors sites to hoover up other site's content and act as a link farm or highlights reel without attribution. And that is how people now digest the content. In the days when the camera rumors sites were interested in EOSHD blog posts, their link-through to the source was of no real benefit to me - they got all the views, and I had virtually nothing out of it. Andandtech could go on publishing deep dives on Apple's architecture and such like but 90% of the delivery of this would be done by aggregators, reddit, Facebook, etc. So the internet is truly broken with social media and it will soon die, or become too financially unrewarding to bother working with.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell Very sad to see the news of Anandtech stopping. Canary in the coal mine or what? If this can happen to a PC / tech website which is part of a thriving market compared to DPReview, then it can happen to ALL quality journalism on the world wide web. Anandtech is owned by Future PLC, they are the British company behind some of the earliest mainstream tech journalism in the UK such as the PC and Atari magazines on shelves in the 80s and 90s. In a nut shell smartphones are killing long form written content completely and the internet is going away as we know it. It is turning into cable TV or sensationalised clickbait tabloid news. Just look at the camera rumors sites and YouTube. A big shame if you ask me and it would be great to know what to do to preserve the written word, written journalism and written knowledge outside of just books, if the internet is no longer the right medium for it. Time for an internet 1.0... That can only be accessed via a desktop or laptop? The problem with phones is that you just don't have the large enough screen space to do anything useful, content wise. It lends itself only to scrolling and short captions, or photos and video.

S1R II and S1H II are in doubt as originals didn't sell. S1 II is also problematic as the S5 II has taken over as the mid-range / entry level FF model... Not the S9 so much as that is a different form factor type and has no EVF. Various Pana cameras of late have been impacted by severe cost cutting. The S9 feels hollow and cheap, because it is. And it has a very old sensor in it. The G9 II malarky with the same case as S5 II was a pity. The GH7 in EXACT same casing as the previous GH camera... Although the GH3 and GH4 were very similar, it does show Panasonic cutting back. Leica SL3 coming out before the new Panasonic cameras is also a sign that things aren't well. I hope they prove me wrong.

Lovely subject and rustic colours, all cuts together well and is nice and abstract. Yeah it doesn't have a true 24p or progressive scan sensor mode... But it will always have a use. Another paint brush on the canvas. And the form factor is very interesting... Why the mirrorless hybrid cameras have not got out of their stuck-in-a-mini-DSLR-all-the-same-shape rut yet I have no idea.

The lens on this thing is bonkers, most of the shots come out looking like they are shot on at least an APS-C sensor. The FZ1000 had been going for under 400 euros in recent months but I got lucky and found one for 150 at Foto-Meyer in Berlin. I don't remember the lens ever being this good. The close-focus ability is nuts. The contrast at the long end is very nice for a 25-400mm, it is very crispy for such a ridiculous zoom and it is really quick to AF. The whole thing is more ergonomic and snappier to use than Sony's RX10 series too. The 4K is a crop, that's the only flaw. Sony didn't let them use the later stacked 1" sensor so it has the older version. It was a bargain at 900 euros 10 years ago and I think it is one of those shot-getters that has really stood the test of time, so a mega thumbs-up at 150-400 in 2024 from me. The original review: https://www.eoshd.com/review/panasonic-fz1000-review-bargain-4k-super-zoom/

Panasonic GH7 sensor = On-semi? (ARRI Alexa 35 = On-semi) Perhaps there's a move to On-semi away from Sony for the full frame cameras. That's the good excuse for the delay. The bad excuse for the delay is that they ain't coming at all... But until the white smoke rises from the Tuscany villa, who am I to say? 🙂

7-ish years BEFORE the DVX100 came the DX1, a little gem from Panasonic in 1996! The form factor is pretty nifty - it has a director's viewfinder thing going on. Known as NV-DX1 or EZ1 Digital 6 camera depending on region, this was Panasonic's first prosumer MiniDV camcorder which was I think up against the Sony VX series cameras like the VX1 and later VX1000. It has a very large articulated viewfinder and being a 3CCD camera, pretty nice colours. Amazingly the tape mech still seems to work without a hitch. Picked it up in Berlin yesterday so will be fun to do some shoots to see how it compares to some of the later MiniDV cams.

Hello. Which version of EOS Utility are you using?

If you throw in Gwen as well I might consider it 🙂

I just remembered they might hate us less than thought...

In Berlin I've been trying to find a DVX100 for a while and actually they are pretty rare now. There's also the TRV 900 Sony handycam which has a certain appeal with a nice Zeiss on the front. The VX1000 and VX2000 I am also looking for, but some of the prices have recognised the current inflationary conditions of 20%, plus VAT, plus Instagram tax, plus seller remorse, plus Sony Handytax, plus tips https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/sony-dcr-vx1000-e-minidv/2796362065-245-3433 There is however a TRV 900 for 100 bucks at a local junk shop... with a C31 error. This error was famous as it was apparently fixable by "giving the camera a good smack". So if I can get the shop owner out of earshot for a few seconds somehow so I can whack the shit out of his camera I might be in luck? Maybe he needs a bit of DIY and a few window frame nails doing anyway?

Looks like it's time for you to do some discrete street shooting with DVX100 down market street to Piccadilly then! Would seamlessly blend in! Plus if anyone has a problem it does double duty as a baseball bat

FS5 with that elusive electronic ND filter even more so. I can't believe that hasn't made its way into many, many more cameras yet. The conclusion is indeed that Sony and Panasonic hate us.

What a gem Your next shoot... (23:33 if it doesn't queue at right spot)

Yes I agree with that, but this is the current traditional way of looking at image generation as a raw product of sensor and lens. In the future, the sensor and lens will be merely there to set the template to embellish from. They will capture the reality - with a deep DOF and a lot of detail, in a clinical form - and the "final render"will be done with software. Would you like a Noctilux at F1.0? Tap it Of course this opens up the hellscape of lenses being seen as subscriptions and online services. But I wouldn't design it like this - I would have them all built in as a one-time purchase with the hardware, with subsequent style transfers added in firmware updates throughout the life of the camera. EF? Sure, not RF though - which is what you need for the optimal performance on a current Canon mirrorless system. Then the cost goes up very significantly. And so does the weight. With my camera design, all of that is irrelevant and the annoying need to remove a prime and attach a zoom during a shoot, also dies a death. You're talking about today's market, yes? I'm pointing to what the next market should be. That is if any of the manufacturers are brave enough to start... Which currently, they are not. It will take someone with far less skin in the existing game to come along to get the ball rolling.

Love them. Not enough good ones around for full frame though.

The Light camera was a good example of the concept done badly. It needs to be done in such a way that the traditional camera experience, with viewfinder and camera menus (NOT ANDROID) is preserved entirely. All that changes outwardly is that the full frame sensor becomes 3 small ones with 3 modules (12mm, 24mm, 85mm), and AI does the rest. No more lenses. It would look like a normal Sony a1 with a pancake lens on the front.

Isn't it time we saw the writing on the wall and got rid of our trad. optics and full frame sensors? https://www.eoshd.com/news/the-future-of-cameras-is-not-full-frame/ I really do believe it is outdated. It isn't needed to have such a large sensor or physically heavy big lenses any more. The physical side of the camera and the advanced controls need to stay. So how about we merge mirrorless with the smartphone camera world, at a very high level? And we are the perfect people for the camera industry to consult on this... Come on Japan let's work together and make it happen.

Add it to the bag with the EVF... You know you want it!

I still have my S1H and am always pleasantly surprised by how well the image holds up vs the latest and greatest stuff (Z9, A1, etc.) i.e. it has a better image entirely... especially in low light... Just not the same super fast sensor readout. I think the OLPF helps give it a more natural look too. Definitely an internal ND is needed and phase-detect AF in the S1H Mark II, but I hope to see eND not a mechanical one. FS5 is how long ago now?! Call me insane but I'd like to see a "True RAW" 2.8K Cinema DNG full frame mode with option for light 3:1 compression, without that smooth processed look of ProRes RAW. Today's RAW codecs look too similar to H.265.... Or maybe HEVC has improved a lot?! It would be nice to get the size and weight down to Sony a1 level. Stacked sensor for that nice 4K/120fps... maybe 2.8K at 240fps? Not too bothered about 8K... I am sure Pana are in a dilemma about that too.

Get it, really is a fun little beast with an image that is truly unprocessed sensor RAW in the cinema sense, not the faux-RAW that's taken over. If you can find an Fp-L that's even better... same 60mp sensor as a Leica SL3 or A7R V for quarter of the price. It's capable of some nice oversampling whereas the original Fp pixel bins. And has phase-detect AF.

The S1H still has a better image though. Especially in low light. The overheating issues are not the big problem this time, rather the price and lens mount is.

Panasonic have their own Super 35mm 6K sensor but it's not the organic one. https://na.industrial.panasonic.com/products/sensors/optical-photoelectric-sensors/lineup/image-sensors/series/71626/model/76817 They also manufactured the GH1/GH2 chip I believe before moving to Sony with the GH3. Now Sony's manufacturing capabilities are so far ahead that it doesn't really make sense not to use their manufacturing process, and you can still design your own chip and spec it to a high degree. With the sensor in the Alexa 35 being made by Onsemi, exceeding the spec of the proposed Panasonic organic sensor, it would make more sense to work with Omsemi if they were not to go Sony like everyone else, rather than continue to develop their own totally different tech. I could be wrong - let's see.