Emanuel

That general blackout of a couple of days ago reaching two-digit millions of people for half a day was creepy enough to say the least... First time ever in half of a century of life. We are nothing without modern life or too little. Looked to be part of a movie. Don't want to know what genre is. EAG :- )

Published by Canon (JP 2025-040484) a month ago... «To provide a compact imaging optical system that’s wide and fast.» The prototype coming (or is it mere proof of concept for patent purposes?) would be for a 24mm f/0.7 from those white papers announcing they have worked out «a long-standing challenge in lens design» but according to Canon rumors, any RF f/1.0 lens is then just arriving around the corner, very likely.

@Photolari Somos el medio de referencia en español sobre fotografía y vídeo. Desde 2016 enfadando a los fanboys de todas las marcas. No vendemos cursos... «(...) Since 2016, annoying the fanboys from every brand. We don't sell course programs.» Funny to say the least ;- )

Seems not... Iberian (Portugal & Spain) sources look like to go ahead on this stuff, for some reason this Portuguese can confirm at 1st hand in this forum now, here is the price: https://x.com/Photolari/status/1915379454601253011 https://fotok.es/objetivos-samyang/af-samyang-14-24-mm-f28-fe https://www.estudiopt.pt/camaras/lentes/mirrorless/zoom/samyang-af-14-24mm-f-2-8-sony-e/ I guess this one will arrive at my end at least to couple my FX30... https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1881813-REG/sigma_887975_16_300mm_f_3_5_6_7_dc_os.html/specs Looks like a decent price for a daylight lens (love zooms, by the way ; ) What such a 24-450mm 615 g workhorse! You take this and this one early morning when you go to the street and you don't need much more up to your arrival back home (well, let's not forget Clear Image Zoom + active IBIS and 4K120fps on FX30 to help to make it real all this when a prime becomes a few ones in your hands... ; )

Just waiting for the price of this AF 14-24mm f/2.8 beauty... https://www.lksamyang.com/en/product/product-view.php Who else?

To me this is the only advantage I see with the introduction of the 2025 model and is not little, even though the room to improve in future versions with a larger sensor size when will come... Brandon Li's entry: And this is the other reviewer I'd rather recommend for everything 360º related (which brings some other 10-bit contender to the equation and is a 2024 model instead) -- apples to oranges but not exactly a minor upgrade which each year devices actually are, driving your pocket just lighter. Buy wise/informed.

«seems that Inst360 plans to install a larger 1/1.28-inch camera sensor with up to 133% better light performance» https://www.notebookcheck.net/Insta360-X5-New-leaks-reveal-pricing-specs-and-early-camera-performance-ahead-of-schedule.1002234.0.html

In fact, ProRes stands side by side with Resolve... Horses for courses. As many fields in a same industry or industries of similar craft or technology realm. Their subscription model is not friendly nor up to date when we are in 2025 IMHO...

Hence my disclaimer up there on those 'clients' and word written in italics... 3rd business parties, co-workers, other professionals who have not adopted it yet, industry standards to require the hassle and yes, time, which and where a new standard can be not handy indeed. My point? That's a format to tend to end as rule of living. And mostly not necessarily part of everyone's life/work. No solution fits everything, pretty on the spot no less :- )

2025 model is arriving... this April 22. Updated X series version. A few people say it is the last one of this design. Both their teaser and this beta tester hint that we'll have an interchangeable/swappable lens camera this time...

Well... oh clients, other professionals in the same business/craft? ; ) @CaptainHook (https://www.eoshd.com/comments/profile/34137-captainhook/) is not here anymore, maybe this helps without such need for a call ;- ) https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?p=620814&sid=6daba22ef40403a68f15e835f55d4556#p620814 Anyway TBH, hard to tell how anyone can be indifferent to Resolve nowadays...

What's wrong with braw?! : ) 'cause your fav NLE doesn't support it yet? Otherwise, it's beyond me, like to say I need two domestic partners because to stay with just one of them is to end too limited... LOL :- ) Apples to oranges to my view IMHO.

Blackmagic Design, an Australia-based digital cinematography camera company, was gearing up to start making products in the United States before the Trump administration blew a tariff-shaped hole in its plans. Now, not only is Blackmagic having to increase prices in the US to mitigate some of the levies on imported goods, but those same tariffs are also making it difficult to justify opening a US production line. “We were planning to build a new factory in Dallas, Texas, to streamline our supply chain and allow us to work more directly with US semiconductor companies,” Blackmagic Design spokesperson Patrick Hussey told The Verge. The introduction and ever-shifting confusion around President Donald Trump’s blanket global tariffs have since complicated things according to Hussey, because while the semiconductor parts and PCBs used in Blackmagic’s cameras are sourced from US companies, those companies are importing them from overseas. “If we proceed with the US factory, we’d incur tariffs on those parts, increasing costs and negating the savings we anticipated,” said Hussey. It’s a no-win situation that many other businesses in and outside of the US are facing if they deal with global suppliers. While Trump has brazenly declared that tariffs will incentivize companies to bring manufacturing to the US to remain competitive, if these manufacturers use foreign equipment or materials in their supply chain, they may — directly or indirectly — still get hit with hefty import fees. (That’s leaving aside the cost of doing business when the fees change dramatically from day to day.) A supply chain survey conducted by CNBC found that 61 percent of respondents from unspecified businesses would be financially better off moving from high-tariff countries to lower-tariffed countries instead of the US, and 81 percent said if they did relocate to the US, they would automate production instead of hiring human workers, failing to deliver the manufacturing jobs Trump promised. 61 percent of the companies also warned they would raise prices for products coming in under the new tariff rates. Blackmagic Design customers have already noticed a price hike has been applied to all products sold in the US, with the new Pyxis 12K briefly listed at $6,600 after initially being marketed at $5,000. This has since fallen to $5,500 after Blackmagic announced it had moved Pyxis production to lessen the tariff impact, but prices in every country besides the US have remained completely unscathed. “Due to new government tariffs, price increases in the US have been unavoidable,” said Hussey. “That said, we operate factories in several countries, so production of some product lines has been relocated to reduce the impact on our customers.” Hussey told The Verge that Blackmagic is now planning to “wait a few months” to see if the supply chain for the components it needs will move to the US. “If it does, we could still achieve the supply chain benefits we were aiming for.” The Trump Administration added “smartphones, computers, and other electronics” to its list of tariff exemptions last week — a list with no clear carveout for cameras or camera-specific manufacturing equipment — but then swiftly warned that companies shouldn’t get comfy. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said these are not “a permanent sort of exemption,” and that these goods will be hit with the same unspecified tariff rules that Trump is expected to apply to the semiconductor industry in “a month or two.” https://www.theverge.com/news/649225/blackmagic-design-trump-us-tariffs-price-hike

Yes indeed, but mainstream politicians also have their dosis to blame. When they don't do their job, opportunists or radical ones easily pop up... Ideology can be dangerous but no less, ineptitude or lack of competence. André Ventura is very talented as I had the chance to change ideas with Francisco Louçã a week ago... This left-wing politician even agreed with me. We who love a free society we are in big trouble to say the least TBH. Here is his opinion aired on national TV on XIX century Trump's tariffs next day of our long conversation me and him in person of about one hour or so the day before... Louçã is also a reputable economics professor at the university, he explains how these nonsense tariffs have no logic at all... in Portuguese though to those who know the language, you can follow his interesting criticism, pity that White House economists are dumb or too subservient, to not call it 'moron' and 'dumber than a sack of bricks' as even Musk did. Louçã refers how USD is falling despite what could be expected from: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1032490332104272 Former London-based and City University London graduate Catarina Castro (and talented right-wing economist no less) is there too and tries to contradict him but ends to fail the argument that Trump's plan is the dollar down because of the debt. It's just pure markets' fear, folks! And that's actually scaring... When inflation and uncertainty enter the things cannot end well for no one. The orange man is placing that on hold for 90 days for some reason and Musk has called Peter Navarro of those significant gross names definitely not for no reason...

No shrinks to see in the States? : ) I don't realize how people don't get all this is insanity at best or worst ; ) Before, people were smarter when their king was crazy, they were used to put the guy off, now the majority elects the wildest... So, this is not only a problem of one sole guy : P I consider myself half liberal half conservative no less, but as even Pope Francis said, Kamala with her pro choice policy had been much safer no matter what we think about the woke agenda -- what such a stratagedy! Even with no particular end result in mind... Definitely much mooooore healthy than a basis who has no clue what actually is going on in this same planet ready for extinction nowadays. Let's not forget the climate change, ok? March was the warmest month ever in Europe as far as records hint. Guess it's never late or enough to recall this one once again when art is far to be distant from reality... The society is sick as whole. The same. The situation now seems a way worse than in that January 6... Never thought to have to arrive here. Humankind is hard to learn... North Americans from Washington DC rule, the new Romans as someone called them, as our species flagship, follow. What expects us all yet?