Emanuel

From robot vacuum cleaners universe... go figure!

10-bit 1/1.3" 8K/4K 120fps on the smallest form factor nowadays... à la DJI Osmo Nano older brother:

https://leaptic.dreametech.com/

6 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

What is this?  A LAPTOP FOR ANTS?

You said mini laptop?

On 6/13/2024 at 3:08 PM, eatstoomuchjam said:

As I said before, Oculink is soon to come on laptops.  GPD already have it on some of their mini laptops.

Here is one under €1000 mark.

On 1/9/2026 at 6:38 PM, eatstoomuchjam said:

Then you'd probably like DSMC3.  Standard batteries, standard CF Express cards, etc.

If the CFE card isn't on the compatibility list, you'll get a warning, but then the camera will let you try to record whatever quality you want.

2021? More than a decade later. Well, too late for me then... :- )

On 1/6/2026 at 1:31 AM, Video Hummus said:

I ordered an Action 6 a month ago and its backordered still. Something definitely going on here.

They’ll arrive at my Danish supplier by mid-January (next week for the adventure combo) and the end of the month (for the standard combo).

That said, DJI deserves credit for cross-generation battery compatibility when not between distinct models such as the Action series and the new 360. It saves money, reduces clutter, and it’s a real factor in choices like Osmo 360 vs X5 and Action 6 vs Ace Pro 2/1 (all of them are great devices BTW). Let alone the single piece Osmo Pocket series is.

I was into RED for a while, but the proprietary stuff eventually made me step back.

- EAG

Yes, Andrew’s spot-on, and he’s still at it.

On 12/26/2025 at 10:39 AM, kye said:

The iPhone 17 Pro selfie camera has a square sensor, and when using the default camera app there's a button that swaps between it recording a 9:16 video and a 16:9 video.

I don't know if you'd rate it as a "real" camera or not though!

Ignore it today, it's stuck in the past.

E. :- )

FX30 is more than just a cinema-line camera for people who are used to shooting with it.

Those damn, counter-intuitive Japanese menus — so shooting-unfriendly (a PITA, and truly a shame; these guys have no notion of photography/filmmaking at all) — are the only thing I’ve got against it, and the only gripe I’ve ever collected.

- EAG

Very true. And here's another one:

At same time, I am buying all of them... Pocket 3, Osmo 360, Nano and Action 6 ; ) An all-star lineup ;- )

Right there ; ) There is the muse of the silver screen.

And the persona.

Under Carl Jung, the mask.

Archetypes.

:- )

On the day that marked 130 years since cinema first breathed in a Paris screening room, same day, her image still breathes it out.

Not just a star, but a force: the gaze that taught the camera desire, defiance, freedom.

Long after movements fade and reels decay, Brigitte Bardot remains the archetype—beauty that unsettled, presence that rewrote the frame.

The Sigma BF, from what I’ve seen so far, looks like a design-first camera that deliberately embraces limitations and a very specific tactile shooting experience. If your baseline is “fast, familiar, efficient, and feature-complete,” then yes, it can easily feel like a compromise for the money. But cameras built around constraints are often the ones people actually end up using, because they push you into a different pace and a different kind of attention. Calling it “bad” is basically mixing up “not optimized for my workflow” with “objectively worthless.”

Same story with the Fuji X-Half. If it really ships as JPEG-only and is clearly marketed as a “fun,” frictionless camera, then the fair comparison is less “serious camera vs serious camera” and more “intentional point-and-shoot experience vs phone.” In that context, price becomes the whole argument: a fun toy is fine; an expensive fun toy is where people split. And wanting RAW isn’t necessarily pixel-peeping. It’s about long-term ownership, personal rendering, and not being locked into a single pipeline. Fuji could improve the proposition a lot with a smart firmware strategy (RAW/DNG, better HEIF options, more flexible output) without changing what the camera is supposed to be.

Sad, sad, sad.

RIP.

Who can forget when the Bunkers first met his character, the progressive Michael “Mike” Stivic — the liberal, college-educated son-in-law nicknamed “Meathead” by his conservative father-in-law, another towering character, Archie Bunker — back when he was still an actor, before his filmmaking career?

Legends from my coming-of-age years... echoed by many others, whether reading this or not, far beyond these pages.

- EAG

On 11/23/2025 at 9:51 PM, Danyyyel said:

For now as a Nikon shooter, I am more inclined to shoot NRAW and do the renaming trick to R3D, than to shoot R3D as I am finding that the Nraw has more DR than the R3D and you can shoot the normal version that takes only about 370 mbs for 24 fps in 4k and 700 mbs for 6k. This is a little test of conversion of Nev to R3D. You have NEV (Nikon RAw), NEV but using the RED lut, Then the Nev to R3D renaming and finally the REDraw file. then  So I need to make a little bit more test, with skin tones etc, but they are quite close to me, even more so that even between the different red cameras like the Raptor and Komodo, their is some color difference. The yellow are a little bit more saturated and the image is a little more toward yellow in the Nikon ZR redraw R3D files. On side by side test the ZR was the more yellowish of the red camera. So it might balance out in the end. 

I see fair differences between them you've actually pointed out. Far to even be similar once converted unless when native perhaps, to my eyes :- )

16 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

I just think it's a form of culture rot and US cinema will go down with the ship. The west is in decline and it's time for China to take over at the top of the world order, and that includes cinema. Better start learning Mandarin.

Quote it : ) Unfortunately, a truth of nowadays. Well stated :- )

This camera is OOAK. Period.

- E.

You can do it sit from your desk instead, via another app. Side by side your fav capture device with much better autofocus, charging your batteries at the same time. That's what I have to say.

Disclaimer (for note): Nothing against AI.

On the contrary, just not everywhere.

It may happen to end profitable, for sure but still stands as silly.

(and annoying as hell!)

And counterproductive.

Any extreme overheating is a deal breaker. At least to me. As happened with any of the previous mobile "prescriptions" released before by Android side (Android user here, as of now BTW).

Let alone MotionCam workflow (and reliability*!) so far... A true PITA (a 1/3 to 50% more expensive).

* dropped frames... (as usual as it goes) depending on variables such as CPU, hot balance under several and distinct shooting conditions... c'mon!

And I do NOT even mention broadcast compliance.

Open gate...

Hey guys... Justine, you read it well. Simply speechless... : P

When we arrive to this point (comparative HERE in Portuguese, against the best pocket cam till iPhone 17 Pro lands) we set up the whole competition today, late 2025 at least.

For some reason there are rumours DJI will launch this 4Q 2025 the new Osmo Pocket 4...

It is the pipeline, of course... :- )

On 10/11/2025 at 6:16 AM, eatstoomuchjam said:

At least for the 16 Pro, there are Magsafe threaded filter adapters.  I have one that takes a 67mm filter (or is it 58?).  The only real bummer is that it can't go on with my phone in the standard Apple case so I have to pop the phone out to use it.  Mine cost $20 or so IIRC.  Maybe something like that exists for the 17 as well?

As for instance? :- )

On 10/11/2025 at 4:18 AM, kye said:

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I've seen a few 1.5x adapters, which would make the 24 / 28 / 35 / 48mm normal camera into a 16 / 19 / 23 / 32mm camera.  The other camera would go from being 100 / 200mm to 67 / 133mm.  
Perhaps the best combinations in that bunch would be the 32mm, and 67mm ones, perhaps with the 23mm (or 19mm) as very wide options for specific situations.

Any tips for the brands you've seen? :- )

Seems there's something new to arrive (from t)here:

NDA is leaked here (for more details there and over there). This November, they say. (Actually, not totally exempt from pure nonsense, oh boy!)

It would be nice @MILCs side too! ;- )