Emanuel

It's a lovely piece for enthusiasts of this craft! Glad to see it coming... :- )

Always entertaining to read your posts... : ) in the most unusual thread about something as distinct as these ramblings on camera business practices ;- )

Retro love is always welcome I guess, here for sure, unfortunately more than elsewhere. Fortunate ones we can consider ourselves. The difference of this place here to others is unveiling an invisible business set of decisions on camera manufacturing nobody seems or shows to care about out there.

I understand the criticism of Andrew but rather true, kye : ) your voice, Andrew, is more prominent than any of us can estimate. And as you wrote, this format is much more important than people tend to see. Well observed. So, I don't exactly see it as a negative remark. I guess Andrew is more disappointed with this specific camera release sorta glass half empty throughout their camera line and the way the management pursued by them along these years since the GH3 introduction, as exclusive responsibility of those who launched it, than anything else as far as this format concerns though. Or am I wrong on this idea of mine?

What's wrong with the resolution right there? I don't understand... Really. :- )

Looks like pretty neat :- )

I am a bit lost here... What lack of high resolution you find there? Softness is not absence of resolution at all! :- )

Just sold a new unit of the new iPhone ; )

It's huge this one as app, really, my fav filmmaking user interface by the way... - EAG :- )

In fact, they had to solve that bloody thing already mentioned up there which put everything or almost to invariably look like coming from a smartphone... : X

Indeed, a game changer: https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/12/iphone-15-pro-supports-10gbps-usb-3-speeds-the-first-for-an-iphone/

Who needs titanium?... Have oversharpening artifacts under control and I am in.

There are better acquisition devices IQ-wise out there :- )

Indeed. I completely understand you. This is one of my wishes for coming one of next Christmas... : D

Correct. But glass is still what I love going along this format. No other one matches the most affordable and smallest variety of glass options we can find. Let alone from slow to fastest ones. Always light and convenient. It's a hell of a format. Everything or almost, even PL mount, LOMOs, anamorphics and so on, fits there. Therefore, FF look too ;- )

I am very happy with these news. Has anyone here used the SIRUI MFT anamorphics*? Now try to find something more affordable but for same results... EAG :- ) * Disclaimer: I have the full set.

P4K

OK. And glass?

Dunno but nothing beats these guys now coupled to PDAF IMHO... : P Well, only Blackmagic user/filmmaker camera interface to my book ; ) Reason why P4K is still one of my favs but that's a whole distinct speech TBH, right.

I see MFT as 'THE' format by its own. It's 8mm/S8/16mm/S16/35mm/S35 in a whole package... FF look is always possible to achieve with the right glass... ...but you have no such a versatile set of different glass and price range -- no less important, elsewhere as happens going on along this route. Shows this/'the' format is alive, so how couldn't I like it? All POWER (with capital letters) on it! Love for the format, - EAG

WOW

PS: Out of curiosity (a mere happy coincidence my Chaplin reference BTW, I had no idea about the exact date before to post and check now), the shooting of THE GREAT DICTATOR began precisely 84 years ago... same September 9 and it wasn't more of a "new" GoPro Hero yearly release. "Shooting of the film started on September 9th 1939, eight days after the Nazis had invaded Poland." source: https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/2016/the-great-dictator-or-when-chaplin-makes-a-fool-of-hitler/

Or should I have used 'began' other than twice the word typed "started"...? ; ) LOL EAG :- )

I think we have to refrain our criticism as geekers when we are mainly filmmakers, I guess. What's more important? A newer gadget to play? Or having merely recording times duplicated on a GoPro Hero11 Mark II? : P Does new technology advances mean anything when we have the same tools already good enough for making pictures? No excuse for inertia, lack of talent/ideas but as filmmakers instead IMHO. Pops to mind now Chaplin's dilemma when talkies led him to upcycle the little tramp... Shooting started in September 1939 but project started in 1938...