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Easily doable even with the Z mount, but I doubt Nikon goes so big. So far, nobody among Japanese camera makers have implemeted 5 inch display into their morrorless bodies. Its like a taboo over there. Maybe because they think it ruins the ergonomics of the body.

Thom Hogan: "Nowhere in Panasonic's press releases or marketing information I've seen so far do they actually seem to know how to market their six different 24mp cameras (S1II, S1IIE, S5II, S5IIX, S9, and BS1H). In the S1IIE features list the sensor is listed as "inspired by the performance characteristics of the Lumix S5II," which tells you nothing. Those of us in the press these days are dealing with AI driven press releases, but I'm failing to even see the I in Panasonic's. Nothing tells me which 24mp camera to buy, let alone why I should buy it instead of Canon's, Nikon's, or Sony's. This feels like "stuff the channel and see if it sells" product management, not clear, user centric marketing."

from Nikon Rumors: Brick-shaped, video-oriented design, without pentaprism and EVF – a combination of the current RED models design, the Sony FX3, and the Nikon Z30 Many features and tech from RED will be incorporated inside (not a new RED camera with Z-mount – we already got that) Z6 III sensor inside Very large LCD screen The official announcement is expected later this year, most likely in the third or fourth quarter of 2025 I don't know what Frankenstein of a brick body would be the combination of RED/FX3/Z30, but "very large" LCD gives hope its a bit different from whats already available in the market.

So what will the price of FX3II? $5000?

Here is the summary: give Panasonic engineers a random sensor, and they give you the most video featured camera around that sensor that you could imagine. The problem is 1. Nobody gives them the state of the art sensor (or they don't like to pay high price) 2. They're asked to repeat themselves for similar sensor/bodies with overlapping customer target. 3. What they do is attractive for niche part of the hybrid market and not enough to absorb new customers. 4. "Similar offering to big three but at cheaper price" could kick the can down the road for a while, but even that strategy is no more with these prices. 5. When a market is saturated, and there are big players in that saturated market, the only way to survive is to be bold and different. Just like what Chinese discovered in the lens market, and so we're seeing 15mm macro!

Thats exactly what he wanted.

Nikon now can do the funniest firmware update in history of hybrid mirrorless industry.

Price will be probably lower. This $3500 is likely post-crazy-tariffs calculation and they would revise that, given the newly released tariff numbers.

Its amazing that this situation doesn't change a bit with every new product announcement.

If its Z6iii's sensor, why they use these weird crop modes?

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

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.

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?

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.

How they calculated that? Is it Made in China?

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.

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.