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You can extract pure Copium element under SAR comment section. How these people forget Canon owns 50% of the market? Of course they can and will make competitive camera.

Serious landscape shooters don't need IBIS, but they improved it to 10 stop! Landscape shooters always shoot raw, but they added HDR Jpeg! Studio shooters shoot in controlled lighting environment, but they added LIDAR that helps in a random dark street! All the improvements, and even pricing, are in the direction of making MF mainstream, not serving the niche, yet it doesn't video, which is the key to become mainstream.

Are you sure?

With the new firmware update released today, view assist now uses RED Technical lut.

I think that NR was a unavoidable side effect of the algorithm they used to combine the two images. Right, after ISO 800 (6400 in log profile), there is practically no difference, because both are at their High Gain territory. DR boost only works at Low Gain ISO.

Its in DR boost mode that for whatever reason Nikon didn't use. Slop based DR is irrelevant as it doesn't represent the "engineering dynamic range" of the sensor, which is at 1:1 signal ratio. Here is max DR of S1ii in still mode, that uses the DR boost mode. Its 14.5. Ignore ISO 80/63/50. They are fake. And here is Z6iii Its 12.7. So there is 1.8 stop difference.

When you see even the Germans hire more bean counters than engineers to survive in a China dominated market, you know its bad. Everybody is pursuing easy money, all under umbrella of legal system. From subscriptions to patent trolling to copyright harassment.

But Redcode is 16 bit. Overkill for a sensor with 12 stop of DR. And I'm not sure Expeed 7 can handle that.

They didn't use the full potential of that sensor in Z6iii. It can output two images per frame, one at first base ISO and one at second base ISO. Then the processor can combine them to achieve near 14 stop of DR. But as its 2x data, it takes longer to read out, hence the slow read out of S1ii when DR Boost is ON. Either Nikon's Expeed processor isn't capable enough for that task, or they didn't find that rolling shutter effect acceptable, or its a feature that needs premium license they didn't bother to pay.

So the date is Sep 10th. Still the only leaked info is Z6III sensor and large screen, nothing more. Whoever is under NDA is as tight lipped as Nikon intended.

I found this Japanese guy flexible picture profiles very pleasing. Give it a try Andrew: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/chk03x3iovaj1ewa3h6ki/ANk2wDtpX3R7ua0lv6C6LM4

Its been a standard practice in telecom industry for decades. You want to provide service to 2x wireless users? You need to upgrade your license: X dollars. But that works pretty well for them because its an enterprise world and the hardware they're selling is not something you could buy an alternative from Amazon. Arri is selling a device that is surrounded by rapidly approaching sharks that already ate its lunch in commercials, music videos, and documentary segments of the market. And I don't buy this cliche of "but studios afford that". Did you see what they used for f1 movie? Studios have a lot of money to spend, but they're not stupid.

The most annoying thing about Justin talking about anything is his tendency to express a point with 8 different senstences. I can easily summarize his ten minutes video into 30 seconds video.

Body only is 10,000 yuan in China. Its expensive for these specs, unless the target market don't give a f about specs, which apparently Fuji believes is the case.

Now its even a better camera

Its not

No Z for now. Sigma is not much interested to work with Nikon, for whatever reason.

He doesn't want to ruin his relationship with the brands to the point they don't send him the new cameras twice as good as previous gen.

I also don't buy this argument that if someone released a camera twice as good as what we have, we still don't need it! If thats the case, then what the hell are you doing in this competitive environment? When every teenager has a camera in his pocket capable of shooting 4k log video, you need better gears to up your game. Gear is not everything, obviously, but you're in a competition and you need to grab everything you can to be always one step ahead of the crowd, and soon ahead of the AI.

I guess their original intention was matching A7iv price but had to release it with baked in tariff inflation.

They released the video 1.5 hours sooner than Sony's own scheduled video.

"Canon doesn't want you to know about this camera" "This camera changes everything" "Why I sold all my gears to get this camera" "Why Hollywood loves cropped 4k"

Was it necessary to make the EVF so long? Its like a camcorder from 90s.

Congratulations to Kasey for having another case for black and white meating with Japanese boss