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13 hours ago, androidlad said:

If it's true RAW then it's impossible to do 4K from 6K sensor without crop.

It's not impossible. Nikon and especially Canon are doing similar task for their sRAW for years, though the result is softer than native lower resolution image. The problem is it needs significant and constant CPU processing which Z6 is not designed for. 

I would pay $5k for the monitor if it was one of a kind display, but I'm pretty sure Korean and Taiwanese display makers will introduce a comparable or very close to be comparable one with 1/4 of the price in next 6 months.  

It was an odd announcement.. many things are not clear at all. They're definitely afraid of A7S3. 

13 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

The US has transitioned very successfully to a services based economy. I don't understand why so many Americans want the polluting labour intensive factories back and to plunder the land for massive amounts of raw material

Learn To Code, huh? Sorry to say that but IT DOESN'T WORK for everybody. 

Its not Trump's decision. It's a decision made by many people in the government, including democrats, to stop China breaking the "global industrial democracy" rules. Trump just loved to approve it. Its not about market domination (Obama sided with Apple in their fight with Samsung, and it didn't stop Samsung from gaining market share in the US), its not about lagging behind tech (Taiwan is already ahead of Intel), its about respecting the rules. Whatever they are.

12 hours ago, Video Hummus said:

if anything it raises the awareness of calibrating ones tv for the people who care enough to tackle the issue.

Its not just calibration. Many people watch these tv series on their phones and tablets. If they are OLED, their max brightness is very low (how many of total mobile viewers have Samsung flagships?), and if they are LCD, glowing blacks make the whole thing horribly flat at max brightness. And then we have compression issues. In dragon fighting scene, it was like watching a 9gag clip in its gif days! 

15 minutes ago, filipeG said:

A DP can have his own signature.

And we're supposed to "see" the damn signature. 

We're not watching a documentary. A movie about war in the dark, shouldn't be as dark as a real war in the dark. 

This market is so much smaller than what it was that it doesn't matter who is number 1 or 2 or 3 in sales anymore. 

5fps at 12bit is disappointing. 

8 hours ago, newfoundmass said:

 

I feel like I'm the old man yelling at the clouds, but this is all so very silly to me. What size 8K television (or hell, 4K television!) would I need to really be able to truly appreciate this, and other videos, shot at such a high resolution?

In near future your TV is not a device you mount to your wall. Your wall is TV. 

3 hours ago, androidlad said:

4K RGB 4:4:4 readout mode:

Good luck demosaicing this puzzle mess and get a clean 4k as full read out. 

Why not ProresRaw? Apple is asking too much money? 

I don't need RAW, but I like to see Nikon in full attack mode. I like to see what they gonna do in second generation of Z. 

If 8bit 1.5x crop is ok, Fuji's new XT30 is just here and its only $900. 

3 hours ago, Robert Collins said:

And to the extent it can say squeeze in 4k 60p recording why not make it a stand out feature of an A7iv

My gut feeling says the differentiator isn't just resolution and frame rate this time.. they will add XLR ports. 

13 hours ago, deezid said:

I really wish they abandon their postprocessing "tricks" and go back to no processing like they did with the A7sII.

It's a bit odd to ask camera makers "don't process it" instead of natural "process it better". They gonna charge north of $3000, so they better put a modern CPU in there. I think if my smartphone's Snapdragon had access to the data integrity high end full frame sensors deliver, would surely make a much better output. 

This business is unsustainable because of ridiculously high production costs, it doesn't matter which one of big names is supporting the ecosystem. 

60p is only external. So if you're Sony user, you better wait for A7S3. 

2 minutes ago, Robert Collins said:

I am yet to really understand what Panasonic will bring to FF mirrorless that isnt offered by Nikon, Canon and Sony especially given the big three already have substantial lens line-ups in one form or other (as well as pdaf).

I am just hoping it isnt 'hubris'...

I don't care it will sell or not.. I'm sure it will put pressure on big three, especially Sony, and that's the only thing matters. 

3 minutes ago, tellure said:

For us laypersons can you elaborate on what benefits this brings?  Does this get us per-pixel HDR?

You get lower DR at high ISO cause the amplification needed to increase the brightness of darker areas is too much for already bright areas. With this new pixel design, it could be possible to amplify only those pixels that need to be amplified. So you get near ISO 100 DR with very low noise at say ISO 12800.

Other than fabrication complexities, there is big problem in profiling the output, because it's not going to be linear, I guess. 

3 hours ago, kye said:

The US is still beating us though, but only because they're desperately trying to overcompensate for something..

Technically speaking, only indigenous Australians don't need to compensate for that thing. 

One ADC per pixel, with variable amplification. They're working on it. 

Yet another reason to think of media conglomerates as enemy of people. 

In Nikon related rumors never trust anyone other than Nikonrumors.com, and we haven't seen NR talk about Z5 or Z9. And it makes sense. 2019 for Nikon is a year to concentrate on delivering promised Z lenses, and refreshing DSLRs to send "don't worry" message to F mount loyalists.

Canon only needs to offer a full sensor readout 4k in M50 replacement, then Sony APS-C is done.