Emanuel

Not to bring religion into it, but Jesus wept.
The column highlighted is in the classic Ionic style.
They need to stop teaching the classics at places such as Oxford, Cambridge or in architecture.
And knock down what remains of Ancient Greece.

I think you might need to seek professional help before you go shoot up a pizza restaurant (which doesn't even have a basement).
The AltCine people took their camera out and saw a neat-looking building and filmed it.  To demonstrate detail, they zoomed in on a thing that has diagonal and curved lines that show aliasing.
Please don't turn a camera discussion site into some bullshit about freemason conspiracy theories.

you should probably get in touch with the police about your concerns.  I'm sure they are competent enough to get it sorted.
I have no idea where that building is, but if i had of walked past it, i would have taken exactly the same photo because of the symmetry. I'd guess its close to where he works or on the way home  perhaps. Heck i have even been known to drive a couple hours to photograph wheat silo's on sunset.
We know diddly squat about its past, who owns it now or before and you want to break out the pitchfork and torches. 
my front door so you don't add me to the conspiracy list.

 

Just as an add-on to the topic: Feiyutech realsed a new Scorp Mini, with stronger motors (good) a detachable wireless back handle (kinda good - the remote function is interesting, but I have concerns about robustness) and an updated tracking model (better, but not as good as DJI's).

Performance look almost on par with the RS4 Mini, but much cheaper.
 
 

Not sure what the situation is with Sigma and the Z mount.
They do three of their fast compact APS-C primes in Z mount but not the zooms or full frame.
They do more in RF mount but, again, no full frame.
You could speculate that pressure from both their L mount partners and their sensor supplier keeps them out of supplying the big two with full frame lenses.
In the case of Nikon it’s a bit moot as with the Megadap you can just buy the e-mount versions anyway and have them as near as dammit native anyway.

Its not

Now thats, what you call vintage glass. 

Are you sure it was on May 25 and not sometime in the middle ages?  😛

Quick phone the police, Ai has stolen nona's broomstick !!

Having used both professionally, I'd go FX30 all day. The XS-20 is a fun photography camera, that does video pretty well too. It's just not quite up for pro level work in my opinion. The image is really good, the size is fun, and the color is pretty good too. It's kind of fiddly though, lacks a good selection of custom buttons, overheats a lot, struggles with autofocus a bit and has the SD card in the battery compartment, which is something I personally don't enjoy. 
While not being maybe "as fun" as the XS-20, the FX30 is more of a workhorse. Decent color, duel native ISOs, integrated Sony cinema features, solid autofocus, good cooling, easily riggable form factor and the list goes on. The major con is lack of a EVF, but I rarely use built in EVFs, so that doesn't bother me. 
Basically if I'm choosing a family camera for stills and some video, I'd go the XS-20. For professional video work, the FX30 is a much more reliable choice. 

"Best" is pretty subjective.
If autofocus is the main thing that you want, then Sony's is the industry leader, followed closely by Canon.  Fuji's has been mostly OK for me, but it definitely doesn't seem as magic as Sony/Canon.
Most of the other stuff is going to be a matter of personal opinion.  If you have a local camera shop and they sell both, your best bet is to go try both of them in person.
But both cameras are going to be completely usable for vlogging, interviews, event coverage, or whatever else you want to do.  They're both very nice and with much better specs than what a lot of us were using as high-end cameras 10 years ago.

Not cinematic enough.  I fixed it for you.  Now that's cinematic.

What are your most treasured pets (I mean cameras) that somehow buck the trend with the cutest personality. Personally, mine are...

And the X-Pro3 DURA with all that expensive titanium and unusual screen design.
Following closely behind...
Panasonic GM1 and the batshit crazy Sigma Quattro series, including the SD mirrorless.
What's yours?

If anyone wants to have some retro CCD fun then I have found a fun little bargain for you...
https://www.wexphotovideo.com/olympus-e-500-digital-slr-camera-body-used-3242908/
This is using the same Kodak CCD sensor tech as the M8, just a slightly smaller chip at 2x crop vs 1.5x.
The colours and grain are a thing of filmic beauty and it has the rather lovely Olympus colour science in JPEGs too.

No kidding? @Andrew Reid I love the colours people are getting from the M8 sensor.
Some classy classic read from a photoblog favorite of mine. Those colours in these shots, bw as well!
https://blog.mingthein.com/2012/07/12/revisiting-the-leica-m8-a-cheap-entry-into-digital-rangefinders/

Apparently the previous screen is no longer in production, which is why they've had to do this.

So an FX3 with a higher res screen.

Oh and can someone buy Lumix a 2025 calendar because it’s May 😱

Cleopatra should be taken as an influence to every movie produced after it came out.
If you're studying that era of photography it's obligatory, IMO.

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.

This firmware was released some time ago, and I already used a lot the 40mm zoom mode. Yes, there is almost no drop on image quality - only "problem" is that it only works in the Normal color profile, don't work with Log.

Did not tested the breathing compensation, but from the reviews that I saw, it works really well.

I think the solution is to have distribution channels independent of the USA. Create your own streaming platforms for content made regionally and also internationally (among movie-producing countries that don't go into trade wars with each other). This way the market becomes much more healthy and less dominated by a small number of current players that are very large. Of course I understand that funding can be an issue, but such platforms could gather public financing (either via subscriptions that are a bit larger than the big platforms' fees initially, or via government or intergovernmental support from tax money). The streaming costs that a platform incurs are dependent on the quantity of content  and if the focus is on quality, this shouldn't be a huge issue.
 

For a 20 second ad filled with 1 second or less shots this could work.
For a full-featured movie no. We are still a ways away from realism. The uncanny valley is brutal. And I'm talking purely about the visuals. The sound just comes through as very fake. So bad sound and mediocre visuals = AI fail.
On the bright side, it's really clear they used the movie Cleopatra (1963) for their AI teaching-learning. I actually wanted to see the old Hollywood mega production during one or two of those shots.

I don’t really agree with “if you can’t beat them, join them” attitude to stuff like this.
Being a right wing imbecile is very much on the rise but it doesn’t mean we should just fall into line with it.
AI should be used for taking away mundanity like doing the dishes and laundry from our lives to free us up to do the fun and creative stuff not steal that from us.
I’ve got admiration for whoever’s work was used to “train” this but only contempt for those who are facilitating and grifting on the blatant theft of original work.
Do you not see that these tools that you are espousing will only make that situation immeasurably worse ?
This will literally give these people the ability to say “yeah just make that last one again with a slight variation and set in a different location” and churn this shit out even faster and with waaayyyy more profitability than they do now ?