ND64

So here is the deal:

15-stop dynamic range V-LOG (dynamic range enhancement mode on)

14+ stops dynamic range V-LOG (dynamic range enhancement mode off)

24M new sensor

Full frame 6K30p OG, 5.9K60p 17:9, 5.1K60p 3:2, 4.8K60p 4:3, 4K120p 16:9/17:9, FHD240p

APS-C 3.3K 120p 4:3, 4K120p 16:9/17:9, FHD240p

S&Q 6K 60fps, 4K 17:9 75fps, 4K 2.4:1 120fps, FHD 240fpsFF

120Hz 5.76 million dot EVF

779-point phase focus

Dual native ISO100/800

Five-axis image stabilization with 8 stops in the center and 7 stops in the periphery

1/8000s mechanical shutter

70fps continuous shooting with electronic shutter, 10fps mechanical shutter

1 hour ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

They just want to be able to control how and when the leaks come out.  Look how the trickle of leaks has inspired discussion on this forum

I don't know how forum discussions at speculation stage translates to more sales. I understand that it may generate some "oh maybe this is my dream camera" inner thoughts, but there will be also post nut clarity after real specs and performance revelation moment. I mean you need discussions AFTER the press release, not before. Because if the  new thing is not boring, people would discuss about it for months. 

Why this €25k fine doesn't work in mainland China? 99% of all the leaks are from China, and mostly by distributors, not by an independent journalist or a reviewer who wants to find the bugs and send feedback to the engineering team before the release. Can't they distinguish between friend and foe? 

In his world view globalism is good if it lets him have access to foreign real estate market, otherwise its evil.

The only way for them to remedy the Z6iii sensor's flickering is using a better noise reduction. Its too late for a hardware tweak. Meanwhile I hope this rumor of Sony Semi becoming independent entity is true. 

Chinese competition is getting serious so Japanese are trying to take advantage of their only weakness: fast, unconventional and complicated zooms. Its more about showing six pack muscles of expertise. The results are expensive niche lenses that you have to be rich rat in recession economy to buy, and gym rat to hold for more than 30 minutes. Of course "competition is good", but I'm afraid they run out of weird ideas in the not too distant future. 

Flagship smartphones are more sophisticated than any compact these days. Oppo Find X8 Ultra has four sensors. An 1 inch main camera, two portrait periscope cameras, one 3x and one 6x, and an ultra wide.

The 1 inch sensor has f/1.8 on it. Its equivalent to f/3.8 on APSC. 

The reason Germany became aggressive that led to WWII was this perception that they're going to be irrelevant in the new world. The same reason that Russia became so aggressive after Putin took control. Russia has nothing to offer to the world except oil and gas, and their reserve last only 20 years (assuming they didn't fucked up the wells due to sanctions). That's why they think they need new vassal states to survive. Pure imperial framework of thinking. And now at least half of Americans are thinking the same. They think they were an empire sometime in the past (which is a delusion. It never was), and now facing the danger of becoming irrelevant. Because in the new world, China makes anything (including rules and standards), does anything, changes anything. So in their view,  not only its justified to be aggressive towards China, but also towards the whole world that accepts China supremacy. And as happened many times before, the one who get aggressive towards almost everybody, caused by a panic, based on some delusions; will commit some suicidal acts. 

1 hour ago, Marcio Kabke Pinheiro said:

But if Nikon make a rangefinder

What is all about this demand for rangefinder we see everywhere? I'm just curious. What difference does it make, compared to Zf for example? 

38 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said:

The PYXIS amongst other products is made in China.

But tariffs apply at import point not at the retail. Its "import value" is not $5k. For example if Canon R5ii is $4k, Canon USA will take its profit from that, and then B&H. So the import value could be $3k (I don't know how much each middle man takes from MSRP, but I know its not insignificant). So 33% tariff should be applied to the $3k price, which makes it $4k, then add to that the distributer and retailer profit, which was $1k, and then it will be $5k for the customer. But if you apply that to the original retail price of $4k, it becomes $5330. So somebody other than the government pocket that extra $330. 

2 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

$1600 increase then

How they calculated that? Is it Made in China? 

1 hour ago, Ilkka Nissila said:

If the tariffs are actually implemented

Looks like its implemented. This is DJI pocket 3

My point is if we had faster SDs we could have 6k raw. Because 6k30p at 6:1 compression needs 1200mbs, which is way beyond V90 cards capability.

1 hour ago, mercer said:

If your'e going to add NR, then what's the point of a smoothed over raw file?

Its old school Japanese parentalism. But I think his assumption of line skipping and then NR is not accurate. Some kind of pixel binning is happening. Its not easy to downscaling 6k to 4k as half of 6k is only 3k، so conventional line skipping doesn't work in this case. 

4k raw wouldn't need line skipping and pixel binning and so much compression that look inferior to heavily compressed h.265 if SD Express wasn't such a flop of a standard.

5 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

If you voted for this and think it's a good idea you need your head examined

I don't know it's educational system issue or purely political issue, but it should be clear for anyone with IQ above the "retarded" territory that the whole purpose of the trade, (even since thousands of years ago), is provide the best goods available in the world at cheapest possible price for "our" people. So even from a nationalist point of view, if my people get the best goods very cheap, my country wins. With tariffs, my fellow citizens get worse goods (because of less competition) at higher prices! Its completely opposite of the purpose of the trade.

We're living in a timeline that Christians support billionaires who publicly despise the poor, and nationalists support the losing position for the nation. 

4 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

there's still 1 month before the $800 de minimis exemption ends

I thought the reason there is that exemption was that there wasn't the logistics to inspect every box, which I heard millions of them are coming to the US every year. So what's their plan for that logistical issue? 

1 hour ago, Evgeniy85 said:

all the sensor limitations apply. 

Like what limitation?

Once you have access to the RAW data, you should be able to make any magic sauce you want with that. If you can't, its your fault. In still photography world it was a known fact, untill fuji marketing team pretended its a revolution if its done in camera. 

19 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

How about a fat fucking cunt named Donald.

Would make a great soviet villain.

That would be "Krasnov" 🙂

But it would be a bold move in Trump era to have a heroine named James. 

1 hour ago, BTM_Pix said:

discussion about the PYXIS seems to indicate that there has been a lot of pausing about buying one

Some youtubers complained about its build quality. Early reviewers don't talk too much about these things anymore. 

9 hours ago, ac6000cw said:

Where is this sensor performance data coming from? It looks like you're quoting it from a website somewhere.

https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/RN_e.htm

After you selected the camera, click on the name above the chart, it opens the table

As you see in R5m2 all points are triangles, meaning noise reduction on RAW at all ISO settings. 

8 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

I don't know - whatever "read noise (e-)" and "saturation (e-)" are, they seem much better on the Panasonic at the same ISO value in general (except 400?) and especially at the lower ISO's, they seem much better - and DR seems better at every ISO as well.

"Does a bit better than a camera that many consider to be one of the industry leaders" is not nearly a condemnation that would lead me to say that Panasonic got it wrong.  😃

If the sensor is non stacked BSI, read noise should be lower. A7Rm5 read noise at base ISO is just 3.4e. So despite higher resolution (smaller pixels), has almost half stop better DR. 

Almost no DR advantage for being non stacked! I don't know it shows Panasonic got it wrong, or Nikon did a great job with its stacked design