Emanuel

For anyone doing 3D modeling, animation, rendering, the M3 is a major
Update due to the new ray tracing acceleration.  
I decided against an M2 Studio to wait for next year’s M3 Studio:



PCs with a Nvidia GPU card were always faster than a Mac for rendering 3D animation, for the same reasons PCs are faster in gaming.
But now Neo Chan’s video demonstrates that his M3 laptop is roughly equal to his PC with a RTX4090 for 3D work. Here it was faster in rendering a Blender scene:



The point is, M3 is much faster than M2 for 3D work. For those who want to do 3D in OSX it looks like a game changer.

Art is conceit.
Cinema is a altered from reality by default.  Because of that, it's perfectly fine when some filmmakers decide for it to absolutely fail to be accurate in certain ways.
Flaws are beautiful.  They invoke an alternate reality.
Some filmmakers like 48 or 60fps.  So be it.  I like 24fps and a 360 degree shutter.  My preferences ain't wrong, they're simply mine.

And how many films followed the lead?
You were in the minority. Most people hated it and most theaters showed it in 24 fps because of complaints.

No.
60p = sports
30p = TV
24 = cinema
Sorry Tony, some things will never change. 

I didn't realise you had access to every camera.  I realise now that this makes every statement you make correct!
I'll learn my place eventually....

Where's the double like button?! ; ) oh God, how is it possible you to be me? ;- ) Isn't it? Yes, it is possible. Why? There's a name for: Windows by Microsoft. Two people in separate parts of the world having exactly the same feeling, ipsis verbis. Their achievement! These stupid professionals there think we live for them. They take the money from us for their daily job and put us to work on their behalf. We who have paid for it.

When I made the move from Windows to Mac, the primary reason I did that was I wanted to use a computer, but not have a part time job as a systems administrator, which is what Windows forces you to do in order to just use the computer.
I was stunned at the time how much time I used to have to spend on the computer not doing the things I wanted to do, but doing technical things to enable those things to be done.  TBH I'm over that, so while I'm perfectly capable of managing the IT of a medium sized business, I'd rather just use the computer for what I want to use it for, and not have to troubleshoot an array of file and network management infrastructure.

Standard M1 and the massive jump in processing was between the desktop and the M2.
I didn’t see much difference between the desktop and M1 for most things.
Possibly also differences in software being more streamlined?
I don’t know and am not really interested in techy things as in ‘how’, but rather just that it does. And my M2 does!

I think this is going to be even more disrupting as the new raspberry pi 5 is just announced. 
I figure that cinepi 3 based on pi 5 may do 8k raw on a s16/1-inch sensor, at about $500.  

And the new HLG 4K slow motion test: in HDR:
 

4K 60P Holiday Video at night (for all audiences):
Looks spectacular in HDR, when YouTube gets around to showing it. Looks good in SDR.
Nothing beats a gimbal for nighttime video with movement.

The neorealist filmmakers brought the cameras to the streets. There is a joke told about Rossellini when Ingrid Bergman wrote to him (they would form a family and a team later) that he asked "who is she?" : D Hollywood was made indoors and Italians wanted to shoot the real life with real people (not professional actors as much as possible, etc.). Light equipment all the way where the French took advantage from their aesthetics proposal. French New Wave filmmakers had all been fascinated by their precursors, those Italians who had left the artificial construction out of their creation. That focus on the true portrait of the real conveyed from there. The light setup, yes.
 
And the natural light source as exposure method too.
It is famous the story often told as anecdotal note about Rossellini when he would have submitted all the crew to wait for the sun exactly to match the sun movement in the middle of two buildings around noon...
 
In 2023, we celebrate 100 years of 16mm film introduced by Kodak. There are a lot of movie reels shot by amateurs since 20s of a century ago. I have a few of them, well, dozens or okay, hundreds LOL : ) in my private collection I am organising to say it more explicit as of now. Also trying to save those pictures with other professionals of same field. I am involved with a couple of labs. Part of my business today.
 
French New Wave shooters were kids, young cinephiles, film critics (Cahiers du Cinema their Bible) their Italian neorealists their parents.
While Italians brought Hollywood method to make films to the real life, FNW left the tripod.
The film language was not anymore something necessarily stable, stuck on a few rules determinated by the need to look like or adopt a professional look. The shots didn't have to be lovely and carefully on the spot. As the industry had been so severe to put limits.
Italians had opened the pandora box.
French said why not to take the option to disrupt the whole thing with an amateur 16mm format, besides already used professionally for news reels, as for instance?
And that's it!
Came from their obsession with the real which popped up after WWII in Italy. No more fake, as mantra. Seems Orson Welles (F for Fake ; ) would have said that Rossellini was not a real director but all Italians great actors! LOL : )
 
The influence of neorealism is beyond the technical side of this craft, not so far from their approach to the way the technology should be adopted though.
Here is a list of a few examples earned in the American cinema for example.
John Cassavetes, one of the most influential filmmakers of the History of this medium (here's another link which can help to render better understanding of the relevance of the contribution of these people who were able to shoot "on grainy 16mm film stock and set over one night" as BFI tells the story here on Faces and the American Cinematographer here for Shadows), has his part of this route for sure, not only the case of someone I am proud to have had the luck to have personally met and associated to my curriculum and work with, even today, Jonas Mekas.
Lars von Trier, also one of my dearest ones, did his course with his Dogma 95 movement when digital video had just arrived.
 
Gilles Deleuze, a French thinker I've studied for decades and praise a lot and one of the most important individuals of the XX century, is the philosophical expression of all this.

You might benefit from the Voice Isolation feature in Resolve.  I'm not sure if this is a paid feature or in free version, but it seems to work pretty well in some situations.
In general though, having something on the microphones to block them from wind is essential.  You can't side-step the laws of physics 🙂 
That's true of almost every camera.  The closest you get it right in-camera the better the output will be.

Just got around to watching this - interesting stuff.
One thing described as a key element to the French New Wave was the availability of affordable and portable 16mm film cameras, allowing the available-light, hand-held shooting style.  I see from wikipedia that the Italian Neorealism was a precursor to the FNW, with Italian Neorealism in full swing from ~1945-1955 and FNW not really getting started until the late 1950s.
I couldn't find any good timeline about when 16mm film became affordable - but I did note that wikipedia said "The format was used extensively during World War II, and there was a huge expansion of 16 mm professional filmmaking in the post-war years." so maybe the Italian Neorealism was the first movement to really benefit from this technological advancement?
I was also under the impression that the FNW was the innovative movement that took the new tech and developed new techniques that fully utilised it, but maybe that's not the case?

A dream come true of the Italian neorealism... think about it : X
To those who are used : D to complain on crappy YT entries, here's something... (Marty @PannySVHS, this time, starts with my beloved Rome found now right after when arrived to that earlier Lisbon clip of before ; )
 
 

Every single stacked sensor has reduced DR compared to their standard BSI counterpart, for example, X-H2s vs X-T4

FWIW, I found the 50Mbps HD from the GH3 to be far better than the GH4 with the same settings. In general, I found the GH4's HD modes to be very poor compared to its own 4K or the GH3's HD. 

Its secondary to its stills use and hence there isn't that much example footage from it, but the Q3 has 8K video.
Which is the expected nod to it arriving in an arguably overdue refresh of the S1 range in the not too distant future.
My guess is that is what this gathering is for rather than a GH7.
Unless its the bi-annual meeting of the Shocked Face Clickbaiters Association. 

LOL You look like a tough poster as you probably already know but in the end, you're one of the most valuable contributors with your real footage posted over these pages... You know something?
I'd like to see your tests as you've usually offered us every time there's a new one just arriving to the town.
Pity my subjective entries on this one don't incentivate you to go and bring us your street videography on low light shots BTW as usual coming from your NY walks.
Osmo Pocket 3 is also welcome, speaking of devil : )
As well, your thoughts on your findings to compare the most sainted trinity to my view nowadays:
Z8 (you already have) / Osmo Pocket 3 / Ace Pro :- )

I can't argue with subjective opinions, to which you are certainly entitled!

Not sure what you mean here but in my post I was just gently pointing out that you had posted a link to a FedEx package tracking page rather than a link to what I presume you meant to of some footage from an Ursa12K ?

5k? It's not even 6, never mind 8k 😜

Here's a BTS and sample footage of a music video shot on the Pro model...  
It shows some temporal NR ghosting in this footage (which admittedly is a bit of a torture test in this regard) but still worth noting (linked to timestamp):
 

They shot a parcel tracking web page in 12K ?
Thats some resolution overkill right there.

It's hipster heaven. Will look great sitting next to my wooden headphones!