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So it wasn't Dji making a L mount camera after all?

I think it looks chonky because its a power zoom APSC lens.

They could make the lens faster without making the body bigger. I'd like to have a soft corner f/2.8 that jumps in sharpness at f/4, than having no f/2.8 at all.

NR is not an issue. It's a strategy to satisfy that part of the market that is obsessed with noise, with the price of making others who prefer data integrity angry; and apparently that sounds reasonable compromise for some camera companies. However, I don't know what's going on with DPR's studio shot that even at base ISO, there is noticeable difference in resolution (not sharpness) compared to similar sensors:

Panasonic uses NR on still RAW in a still oriented camera, let alone video. Reviewers bash Nikon for its h.265 implementation that doesn't allow to disable NR, but say nothing when Canon/Panasonic doesn't allow to disable it on RAW!

Sony giving its most expensive sensor for half the price? I doubt that.

6k is always better than 4k. But Z6 III achilles heel is lowish DR.

Apparently they're working on it, with Z6iii senaor tho https://nikonrumors.com/2025/03/13/new-nikon-z-video-oriented-camera-rumored-to-be-announced-later-this-year-similar-to-the-sony-fx3.aspx/

There is also this short film festival: https://www.festivalnikon.fr/en Many of submitted works are very creative. Edit is professional, color grading as cinematic as it gets: https://youtube.com/@nikonfilmfest So many talented people are out there, and I wonder why we don't see them in this forum? I want to hear their BTS stories.

There is 5 companies that use Sony full frame sensors: Sony (both still and cinema), Nikon, Panasonic, Leica, and now Sigma. Also some variants of the sensors these companies use are available for cctv and machine vision. That volume of production lowered the price. That's not case with MF.

I mean even iPhone could achieve 12 stops! with NR.

Its more like an engineering horse race and some people love to bet. Of course exposure mistakes happen, but nobody should make a 5 stops mistake.

So CinedD published their new lab test and in imatest there is not a noticeable difference between Z9/Z8 and R5ii 5 stop under with NR shows different color cast But AF striping noise is visible in Canon image, even after NR

So despite super35 being better choice for documentaries, they go full frame because they use convenient zoom lenses that are slow, and need the low light performance of low res full frame sensors, and only Sony offers that in several form factors. Did I get it right?

Would die long ago if marketplace wasn't added to the platform. Zuck is idiot, but his team is clever at resurrection of zombie services. Reddit is another example of how people get used to live in terrible places. Its ocean of high value information/experiences/stories, but it needs high mental capacity to explore. Its cascading comment section is unbearable. Garbage/bot volume is insanely high. We need more smaller, neat, well administered forums; and less public squares.

Nikon's zealousness in keeping backward compatibility for lenses made their early efforts for DSLR video almost fruitless and hurt them badly in market share. Canon's fully electronic EF lenses, on the other hand, made the DSLR video "useable" for the first time. Nikon's engineers were always ahead of competition in increasing the data bandwidth; the reason they managed to make D90, but the overall performance of a camera is dependent on many things, and bandwidth is only one of them. They're still amazing in bandwidth, as they introduced 8k60p raw with no serious overheating issue, and now they're not handicapped by ancient mount system. Every Japanese camera maker had a modernizing issue somewhere in the last decade. Nikon with modern lens, Canon with modern sensor, Sony with modern codec/storage media, Panasonic with modern AF. But there is one that all of them are equally incapable of: modernizing the menu and UI.

I want them to make a FX3 killer with low noise 5k sensor, 120fps, active cooling, and RED codec/log. But they won't. They're much smaller a company than Sony, and have to spend the limited R&D budget on upgrading the current line up. And they have to ramp up their glass business too; they have much work to do: filling the gaps in still lenses, and develop cine lenses (they got curiosity from cinema community, now they need their attention).

Is this a Z-mount Komodo with a Sony E-mount adapter? LOL! Yes, second camera from the left. 2:00

In Nikon's CP+ booth they had RED with Sony lens on it. They're now officially endorsing that.

The thing about smartphone industry is that the hardware and production is the easy part these days. The hard part is making deal with operators, and they work like cartels. And its too late anyway. The market is so saturated and competitive that even Chinese brands with thin profit margin are struggling to attract new customers. This new approach of magnetic m4/3 lens is sign of that. For 99% of people picture quality of flagships is so "good enough" that they see no reason to upgrade, and AI is not much a differentiator. So Chinese are attacking the niche areas of the market.

The C30 mode, which is 30fps burst for still, is limited to jpeg and HLG is not available. It can be a hint that open gate video with log profile is beyond sensor/CPU capabilities.

With all the firmware updates its different camera than what it was at release date

Democratization of videography introduced a group of people to the community who do. The expectations of a TikToker from a dedicated camera is obviously different than mine.

A comparison between Resolve and redcinex in handling of nraw would be great. Resolve has blue channel clipping issue, tho there are some half solutions for that, and redcinex support is still beta and has a bug as shows color noise in clipped highlights.

Once a fashion photographer told me, in a humorous way, that why he doesnt need high DR. The scene was a hotel room and half naked model was lying on the bed. He wanted the window, that has a view to a historical building, to be completely blown out, because "the facade of that damn building is sexier than my model". It was interesting to me that how much they're obsessed with viewer attention heat map in their frame, like they even plan for the eye movements.