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6 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

I will never buy a new camera or pre-order one again.

Thanks to A7V the S1II is AU$1000 off in Oz, making it same price as R6III and few hundred dollar cheaper than A7V, so competition is good for us consumers, but yeah never get new camera on pre-order unless its likes X100VI for the profit ha.

RF lens have price for both High/Mid/Low atm so I m actually fine with it (haven't got RF L lens, but no need to), I just got the RF 45mm 1.2 recently, no other 3rd party do F1.2 at such low price.

Beside you loss some function with 3rd party like slightly worser AF, no Dynamic Active IS and limiting FPS for high speed shooting on some brand, and incompatible issues with new body or new firmware.

When I was with Sony the only 3rd party lens I got is tamron 28-200mm cause sony 24-240mm sucks, the rest of my len is G/GM lens.  The old Zeiss 24-70mm F4 is really showing the age vs newer zoom lens except the 28-70mm 2.8 lol.  Currently I use some Sigma lens on my S1II and there is a difference on AF tracking/hunting vs Panasonic lens, but at least I dont get limited to 15FPS or no Active IS..

9 hours ago, ND64 said:

Horrible line skipping in Full HD. Pleasing noise in Angle of View Priority mode. 

no H.265-based codec available in 4K in 25 fps and in Full HD.. I find the lack of 25P in Xavc-hs after 5 years is quite disturbing, I usually switch to xavc-s for 4K25p in 420 8bit 60Mbps which is bigger filesize and less flexible in post on machines that dont have fan like E10II and E1, on FX3/FX30 I just shoot 50P all the way.

R8 will have advantage for low light vs R7 being an FF camera, I did shoot R8 under summer sun in 4K in a beach and it was fine (more than 2hrs) but it does have temperature guage at slightly more than half way. Interior is fine for R8 as long you got those fan add on, my R8 hasnt shut down on me for overheating yet.

R7 on the other hand is a beast in terms of long form recording, I hardly see the temperature guage showing up unlike the R8 even in direct summer sun, paired with sigma 18-50mm 2.8 you have pretty killer combo (or 17-40 1.8 to give u the FF look)

On 11/14/2025 at 11:04 PM, Phil A said:

I remember when the vision for mirrorless cameras was that you could get lenses at the same performance at a smaller size... and now nearly everything that releases is a really big, technically ideal lens at a high price. I used to like lenses like the EF 50mm f/1.4 USM which were okish but had interesting rendering over the great but huge Sigma 50mm 1.4. Guess I'm just an old man yelling at clouds. 

The new Canon RF 45mm 1.2 should fit ur taste.. similar rendering as the old EF 50mm 1.2 but much lighter and abit smaller.

Matching Iphone colour to Arri... quite close!

https://www.redsharknews.com/adobe-premiere-pro-25.5?hs_amp=true

Finally, I was surprised with the massive man power at Adobe they couldn't make the transition themselves? With so many editing program offering transition build-in Premiere is really lacking until now.

Also Canon Cinema RAW light is finally hardware accelerated.. was it on software all these time? Might makes me want try raw for some shoots, it was kinda meh experience back then.

I feel like this is a supercharged version of Sigma Fp

Na never, they are format standard competitors

Nikon rumors have the image, that screen look quite big.

Not sure if this one have fan cause I didn't see any air vent

Recording 2 different ratio (1:1/16:9/9:16 etc) to 2 card... that is something new! 

I love how the rumor said dual cfexpress while leaked photo clearly show cfexpress and SD marking

15 minutes ago, Django said:

You mean you don't want IBIS? I have a feeling its going to be absent.

That zoom rocker is interesting too. Wonder if that will allow digital zoom a la Sony clear image zoom.

Time to revive that 18-135mm usm with power zoom add on.

With that thickness and lots of vent this one wont be overheating at all, Lumix really need to take a cue on it

36 minutes ago, ND64 said:

And nobody believes that with a microSD card. But it's completely ok to be Z30 with full frame sensor.

I think it could be directing vs ZV-E1 with with that microsd, if was seriously it need to be cfexpress card.

39 minutes ago, ND64 said:

There is no drawback to have IBIS and not using it. 

There is, car wobble, and thermal won't be as good as sensor sticking directly to thermal plate.

I wonder will the optional EVF work on the R50V too?

10 hours ago, MrSMW said:

 

The only thing I'm interested in currently is a new drone because my Mavic Air 2s is getting a bit old and flies a bit wonky due to err...a couple of collisions 🥴

 

There is DJI mini 5 coming up with 1 inch sensor and lidar built in..

Or get used Phantom 4 pro if u like to fly the old way 

If new DJI camera can wireless link to their mics it insta buy from me, especially if it can link up to 4 of them haha.

Hopefully it can shake up the camera industry long dominated by Japan... like how Samsung was back then.

Man I might have to pause jumping all in on Lumix with this one, especially if there is also APSC version coming soon.

C50 and maybe C30 (APSC version) will make my R5C and V1 more complete

7 hours ago, MrSMW said:

 

Handheld, I don't think I could go back to anything over 750g now and preferably under 500g.

 

The signs of growing old 😂 Totally feel you on that! Back then I was rocking C70 with 18-35mm 1.8 on gimball all day.

Now with S9 + 28-70+ RS3 mini it is lighter than C70 + 18-35 alone.

Speaking of colour science when we shoot indian weddings the Lumix looks more pleasing than Sony straight up... the ugly yellow really ruined it without colour grading.

When we do some livestream for Chinese (which is predominately Sony) they were shocked with the colour coming from Lumix cam, you know aisan really hate yellow on their already yellow skin.  They really prefer pale and magenta more which Canon is really good at, which lumix is kinda similarish in that regard.

This time last year I am all Sony.. FX3/FX30/E1.. sold them all and never regret. (well except the 4k60p crop but luckily my Canon can all do non crop 4K60p ha).

I m still deciding between S1RII or S1II at end of the year when wedding season start to ramp up in southern hemisphere, 2 of my friend is gonna get S1II so I kinda want to be a bit different to them.

Man all the recently released camera price have gone through the roof, I guess this will be the new norm

We have guys like that, buying the newest gear and sell in quite short time (like a month)

That 28-45mm is a very nice lens..

This guy was using the S1II but using the sigma 28-45mm 1.8 lens

14 hours ago, MrSMW said:

7.2k 30p Open Gate Vlog here we come...

Nice! If I didn't have R5C I was gonna go for S1RII as I do found one used in very good price.