Emanuel

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The previous comparing with this one is pure crap.
:- )

The GoPro one in Seoul is very impressive....  I'm guessing they must be doing super-duper processing of the image.  Still, for the form factor it looks like a great result.
I'd be curious to see how the low-light is compared with previous normal GoPros.  Some time ago I made the case that an action camera is the perfect vlogging camera, as it's the size of a pair of wireless earbuds but is mostly without the issues that continue to plague the "vlogging" cameras that aren't wide enough / crop for stabilisation / etc.  If I was a vlogger I'd be using one of these 8K action cameras for sure, using the wide for talking head stuff and cropping in for more normal FOVs.  No-one on YT can tell if you edit a 1080p and upscale to 4K on export, so a 2K crop from an 8K sensor gives a pretty useful FOV, assuming the readout isn't terrible.

Not only small, two additional no-brainers to my book anyway -- people say this time GoPro has something or two really new:
 

To be fair, their own product page for the S9 certainly says otherwise though.
It’s all about the casual shooter.
Particularly the crossed out edit graphic.
I don’t disagree that it does a lot more but that’s what they’re aiming at based on their own marketing.
Which is another aspect of the bundled launch in not having the right lenses or the right type of “reviewers” there.
They hedged their bets and it all just looked very confused.
Plus, the S5ii 😉

 
https://www.panasonic.com/uk/consumer/cameras-camcorders/lumix-mirrorless-cameras/lumix-s-full-frame-cameras/dc-s9.html

If I'm honest, this Fuji announcement has pissed me off a bit with Panasonic. Frankly, the price and value tread deeply into the core of M43. Having Panasonic basically refuse to make anything and allowing Fuji to own the market says volumes about the current state of Panasonic. Let’s be clear: they’ve come out with ONE value proposition in the past year, and it was for pros (S5II/X). We’ve been begging for a newer M43 camera like the GM5 or GX9, and Panasonic continues to ignore us, despite having an ecosystem for those cameras. To add insult to injury, they come out with an overpriced S9, effectively moving the amateur price point to $1500. Oh, and by the way, we have a new BS 'lens' for you—a manual focus 26mm fixed f/8! What the hell? Now we have Fuji putting the amateur price point back to where it should be—$800. It’s time to lower the price of the S9, announce a new GX9-type camera, or say goodbye to that market.

The Fuji X-M5 looks pretty exciting, especially for the price. The open gate sensor is a big plus for anamorphic shooters.  The lack of in body stabilization is an issue. As for autofocus, Fuji’s “AI-driven” system sounds promising, but I’m waiting to see how it performs in real-world scenarios before getting too excited.
I’ve got my own thoughts on how it compares to something like the Panasonic S9, especially when it comes to autofocus and video. But what y’all really think? On another note those film simulations look good for quick work. 

While I really dislike the film simulation dial (I shoot raw so it's wasted), I absolutely love the fact that Fujifilm put a joystick on every camera. I will never ever buy a camera (especially for photography) without a joystick for focus point selection. With most brands, you have to buy the upper-mid / high-end models to get a joystick as focus point selector.

My understanding was that Brandon literally helped make the genre with (what I like to call) "washing machine travel films" like Hong Kong Strong that are like you rolled and spun a camera through a city and then cut it with only match-cuts - they trigger my motion sickness pretty strongly and I literally can't watch them.
However, people loved it and he got a bunch of TV appearances out of it:
As previously said in the thread, he can make any camera from the last decade shine, and he has, and it's skill.  All true.
What no-one else has said though, is that videos like this are film shoots.  They're not holidays, or someone filming while traveling (even slow travel).. These videos are researched, storyboarded, scheduled, and then shot on location with a cast (him and his GF, but often he recruits locals and will direct them like he's shooting a narrative) and crew (IIRC he's mentioned hiring people to fix, drive, translate, liaise, etc).  This is no secret, and his free BTS content shows this openly.
I think he sits in a fascinating space that I don't see a lot of professionals operating in.  He shoots uncontrolled (and uncontrollable) situations, like markets and crowded public places, does so with talent and a shot list, but does so shooting relatively low-impact.  
People shooting a travel doc will be shooting with talent in markets and in the streets but will have huge shoulder-rigs and will build up a little crowd of people who are just staring at the shoot and have to be choralled to keep them out of frame.
People shooting relatively incognito in a crowd are mostly doing it without talent or a plan or shot-list.  
Not a lot of people sit between those two scenarios, and even less will tell you how to go about doing it.
I've paid a lot of attention to his BTS segments (which are excellent if you want to make videos like this) but as someone who travels for the enjoyment of it and shoots along the way, I can tell you that there is very little overlap between shooting while you travel and producing and shooting and editing a travel film.  
I put myself on the email list for when he launched his course, and when it was released it was pretty pricey.  Probably good value as he obviously knows what he's doing, but too much for me considering the differences of our methods.
Maybe it's an aesthetic thing, but his work looks dated to me now, including the Oppo piece.  I understand why he still shoots these things like this, because he's appeared on quite a number of videos like this that are posted on the manufacturers channel, rather than his own channel, so it's obviously how he keeps the lights on.  

I originally read the title as “This Guy Makes Any Camera Shite” and thought my cloud account had been hacked.
I enjoy watching Brandon Li’s stuff, particularly the self shooting ones. Self shooting as in shooting on your own as though someone else is shooting rather than self shooting in the vlogging context.
Tripods basically.

The secret sauce is skill.  
As someone that used to make my living doing travel videography decades ago, this Brandon guy has really honed the judgement it takes to get the shots.  There's so much going on out there in the environment and he's able to omit it, control it, and/or shape it into something impressive.  It's really quite a thing to do.
He could make any camera in manufactured in the last 15 years look similar to this.  In fact, he has.
This guy is a cinematographer that really knows how to chase the light, compose a shot, and also create advantageous serendipity.  Which might sound like a paradox, but it really isn't.  
But, yes, images like this sell cameras.  Okay, buy the camera if you'd like and start the path to making an edit like this.  You can't buy his boots-on-the-ground experience though.  He's casual about it all during his "how-to" segment, but it really is the biggest factor here.

I'd like a dollar for every time he says oppo find...  I believe the more youtube camera reviews i watch, the more cynical i become and the cynical part maybe exponential... 
i did like the intro, for a guy who lives in the country, its nice to see some travel footage. Although the title,  travel film could be "code"  for you, secretly need a new 8k  camera phone. That in turn would probably necessitate a new tv, new computer, and maybe some other peripherals. So for me, probably not going to happen.  Perhaps this new oppo is amazing, and good on them if it is. Personally i cant take a camera phone seriously if it doesn't have a lens cover. Every single lens i have bought except a couple of 2nd hand lens from japan have had lens covers. If  smart phone manufactures cant put a plastic lens cover on it then their not taking their product seriously.
During the into did think to myself one could  do a similar thing with a gimbal and any phone camera or perhaps even an action camera.  Sure enough a gimbal seems to be the secret sauce, oh and add 8k of course and the occasional hand held shot for added realism.  I shouldn't knock the guy, at least he's out and about doing stuff, while i'm content to simply watch it, in my comfortable desk chair..  It was nice of oppo to send him the phone to vlog with, after that my mind boggles at the boat trips, plane trips, bike hire, and i'm thinking at this point his his business financials must be going backwards. 🙃 I did learn a few things from the behind the scenes part, so thanks for that .
PS. Somebody should probably tell the dude,  that you ride bikes,  you don't drive them. It sounds kinda lame to anyone that does actually ride one.
 

Oh, you have met some of my family then?

Oops

So there are indeed some details in the video specs that will be of note to some.
Internal RecordingH.264/H.265/MOV/MPEG-4 AVC 4:2:0 8/10-Bit
5674 x 2988 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/48.00/50/59.94 fps (200 to 300 Mb/s)
5184 x 3888 up to 23.98/24.00/25/29.97 fps (200 Mb/s)
4352 x 3264 up to 47.95/50/59.94 fps (300 Mb/s)
4096 x 2160 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94/100/120 fps (100 to 300 Mb/s)
3840 x 2160 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94/100/120 fps (70 to 300 Mb/s)
1920 x 1080 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94/100/120/200/240 fps (16 to 200 Mb/s)
H.264 ALL-Intra/MPEG-4 AVC 4:2:2 10-Bit
4096 x 2160 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94 fps (400 to 600 Mb/s)
3840 x 2160 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94 fps (400 to 600 Mb/s)
1920 x 1080 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94/100/120 fps (200 to 400 Mb/s)
Interesting to note that Panasonic have sidestepped the Micro HDMI bleating by just fucking it off altogether.
Although it was playback only on the original anyway.

Well, they just launched the Canon R6V, so I hope Panasonic enjoyed their 20 hours of PR!

This looked and sounded really good until they said there was no IBIS. I suppose this makes sense as they emphasized this is targeted for photographers, but I do hope they release a video focused model that includes IBIS because I would love a genuinely pocketable video camera like this. 

Simply unique :- )

The video was an improvisation test focused on capturing the human face using my modded phone. It wasn’t a planned shoot, just a quick experiment to see how the device performs in real conditions. Unfortunately, many clips were deleted because I didn’t have a tripod and was holding the phone by hand, which made some recordings unstable or unusable.

Ok I'm more interested, now that its got a mft mount. I feel that alone will elevate the litle gopro to next level for a lot of people.  The open gate mode sounds interesting and i would like to pair that with my 24mm sirui anamorphic. No idea how that would turn out but it does sound interesting and then there's 3 other mft lens i own and a whole bunch of vintage glass to play with as well. 
Looks like gopro have a whole range of accessories to buy as well, tailored to fit, for that integrated look. Cant blame them for that i guess and it kinda cuts out the others from getting a slice of the pie...  
 I like the concept so far.. still unsure about the photo and video file types. Apart from saying its 10 bit, there's not much to go on. I just hope theres some flexibility built in and the ai doesn't just burn a lut in 🙄.  Abit pessimistic i know, but i'm not a fan of the default settings from gopro for things like sharpness and saturation. So i'm still not preordering. I'll wait for some initial reviews, and then hopefully wait for some more before i do anything rash...

This is why, for me, there are two likely ways to use it:
1) My small bag full of C-mount and D-mount lenses and possibly attach it to the smallest 5" monitor that I have (which is quite small)
2) Throw it in my bag where it takes up almost no space and attach it to the back of existing short telephoto lenses which now function like long telephoto lenses

There's a realisation I keep hitting in my setups, despite me trying to keep a small kit.  It goes like this:
Start with a small camera body Think about the lenses I'd use with it for that project Think about the shooting style and approach and think about extra rigging and accessories that would require
----<realisation occurs>---- If the setup is going to be that big - why not use a larger body with better features / quality I'm having that realisation with this GoPro.
Not that there's a ton of small bodies with 10-bit recording, which we've all complained about at great length, but just having a camera body with more than 3 buttons and a screen that is larger than a postage stamp etc is actually quite useful.

Matt, that half-cropped head makes it even funnier.
@kye great post! ; )
:- )

I heard this recently and think it's pretty interesting.  I'm not sure if it's the best definition I've read, but it's more practical than other ones, so is useful from that perspective.
“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
- Saint Francis of Assisi
I'm 100% for not gatekeeping.  Even from a practical perspective, saying someone/something is or isn't 'art' doesn't mean anything, and people who like to be critical are really just telling us about themselves, not the thing they're talking about.