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Emanuel

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    Emanuel reacted to Evgeniy85 in Sony New Camera Launch - 29th March 2023   
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    Emanuel reacted to Django in Blackmagic Update - 14th September 2023 19:00 CET   
    6K Open Gate handheld :
    FF BRAW looking great in this footage!
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    Emanuel got a reaction from kye in Blackmagic Update - 14th September 2023 19:00 CET   
    What a camera! WOW Looks like paintings! To me, these Blackmagic guys have delivered Jannard's promise, their offer is INCREDIBLE, so just my kudos to them! :- )
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    Emanuel got a reaction from PannySVHS in Blackmagic Update - 14th September 2023 19:00 CET   
    What a camera! WOW Looks like paintings! To me, these Blackmagic guys have delivered Jannard's promise, their offer is INCREDIBLE, so just my kudos to them! :- )
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    Emanuel got a reaction from Katrikura in DJI Pocket 3?   
    4K 120fps on 1" sensor size going with such inconspicuous form factor is incredibly sweet... I am in love again! :- *
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    Emanuel got a reaction from sanveer in DJI Pocket 3?   
    4K 120fps on 1" sensor size going with such inconspicuous form factor is incredibly sweet... I am in love again! :- *
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    Emanuel reacted to kye in Blackmagic Update - 14th September 2023 19:00 CET   
    I've seen quite a few videos from the BMCC6K now, and they all seem to shoot and edit in 3:2, which I find quite strange....   CAN doesn't mean SHOULD!
    This one is an 8K YT upload:
     
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    Emanuel reacted to androidlad in DJI Pocket 3?   
    I can confirm it uses Sony Semicon IMX989 sensor.
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    Emanuel reacted to kye in DJI Pocket 3?   
    Not unless you're shooting long record times and we all know what that means.....   booooooooooring films!!
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    Emanuel reacted to ntblowz in DJI Pocket 3?   
    Will it overheat in 4k120?
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    Emanuel reacted to Amazeballs in DJI Pocket 3?   
    Finally! Lets hope you can turn sharpening and noise reduction all they way off! 
    I also wounder what 1 inch sensor are they using? Is it imx989? 4k120 in such a small body over 1inch sensor would be a challenge. 
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    Emanuel reacted to gt3rs in GoPro Hero12   
    Of course, I don’t judge the quality (hw, sw and video) from their stock price 🙂. But they are under enormous pressure to survive, it is not like being a private company. They did many miss steps so now they seem to be ripping off customers to try to stay afloat. Btw I was a GPRO stockholder.
    My first Gopro was Hero 2 and went up Hero 10. In parallel I started using insta360 cameras and now I’m Gopro free 😊 although I use sometime some of my customer’s ones as backup cameras.
    I filmed in harsh situations so my experience could be different than others.
    I have mounted on Rally Cars in Lapland and Africa, on wings of Military Jet, on desert's Buggy, Alaska Heliskiing, MTB etc..

    The number of freezes, overheats, battery draining (enduro battery was made because the standard one was basically useless in winter conditions...wtf) that I had it was just so frustrating.
    Gopro Hero Max is so old that is insane that they still sell it and the software is ridiculously bad compared to the insta360 one.

    Gopro Mini, Session etc they still don’t know what to do… seems a trial and error approach
    Gopro 10 was probably the buggiest camera that I had from all the camera that I have owned. Just do a google search for freezes, overheats, battery drain... and you will see that I'm not the only one.
    And let’s not talk about their subscription model that they try to “lock you in” with hw discount hoping that you will not cancel a pretty useless subscription.
    I was a big gopro fan, but they failed so many times on me that I don’t trust them anymore.

    The 12 should have been a FW fix of the 11.. but as quoted company you need to bring more revenue and is a declining market too as form many a phone is a better solution than a gopro.












     
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    Emanuel reacted to markr041 in GoPro Hero12   
    That's great stuff, and we can see why you had some frustrating experiences. But you could read the history as GoPro responding to issues: eg, create the Enduro battery precisely to improve battery life in the cold, overcome the heat and battery life issues of the highest resolutions and frame rates, improve the responsiveness of the lcd to touch, add 10 bit color, provide log gammas, add full-sensor framing (8:7), up resolution, improve stabilization, make performance more reliable. And all the while keeping the same form factor and robustness and price. No to mention GoPro Labs innovations and the the use of QR codes.
    Having failures is a symptom of innovation. There are really still no competitors (leaving aside 360 for now) that are not just trying to match, unsuccessfully, Hero's. No real innovation by anyone else.
    And, we should keep complaining, because GoPro evidently responds!
     
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    Emanuel reacted to markr041 in GoPro Hero12   
    Are we judging cameras by manufacturers stock prices now? 🙂
    I have been shooting with GoPro's since the Hero 4 (including 3D!). GoPro has indeed from model to model made substantial improvements while essentially keeping the same form factor and price. That is the history. The 4's, for example, overheated but did not have thermal protection so that they did not turn off (and thus you got images that bloomed), each successive model had an issue. But also new capabilities.
    I agree the 12 is a very, very, very trivial improvement on the 11, especially if you use Labs firmware - amazing capabilities. GoPro software is irrelevant (and they mostly have dropped whatever they had)- but who needs it who is serious about editing? Subscriptions do give you discounts on new cameras, so it does cheapen the hardware upgrades non-trivially. If you subscribe, sell the Hero 11, you can probably pay a net of $150 for a new Hero 12. Yes, that's a lot for a "firmware" upgrade, but you do get an added and fresh battery and a new warranty (including the subscription insurance)!
    Is it fair to say the 12 has the least "bugs"? And, if it has some, what exactly are they? I have shot loads of Hero 12 video at 5.3K 60p - the most extreme and taxing mode, at 180 Mbps, with 10bit color and the full color gamut and log gamma. And 4K 120p too. I have not encountered a single problem. What am I missing? should I worry about something? Let us all know. I have a shoot coming up.
     
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    Emanuel reacted to SRV1981 in iPhone 15 Camera Update - Released   
    Well tone mapping vs logging. All look pretty good and for non-paid work I’d be happy with any of it. So will my wallet 😂 
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    Emanuel reacted to MrSMW in SJCAM SJ20 Dual Lens Action Camera to be Released Soon...   
    Powerman, Powerwoman, Powerthey, it matters not, their marketing attempt is worse than Lumix’s.
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    Emanuel reacted to kye in iPhone 15 Camera Update - Released   
    That's one of the best yet - until the DR was just overwhelmed of course.  Nice find!
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    Emanuel reacted to kye in iPhone 15 Camera Update - Released   
    @gt3rs - what do you think of the above video from @SRV1981 with the diffusion filter?
    I thought the images looked pretty good with fine skin-tones (up until the DR of the camera failed and it went bizarrely saturated and then clipped).  The model has impeccable skin though, so it's hard to tell as there didn't seem to be fine chroma detail in her face.
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    Emanuel reacted to SRV1981 in iPhone 15 Camera Update - Released   
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    Emanuel reacted to MrSMW in SJCAM SJ20 Dual Lens Action Camera to be Released Soon...   
    Remove a single letter from sJcam and spell a new word.
    🤔
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    Emanuel reacted to BTM_Pix in SJCAM SJ20 Dual Lens Action Camera to be Released Soon...   
    Call me cynical but …

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    Emanuel reacted to kye in Take the red pill...   
    I recently asked for book recommendations to learn about human vision and was given a link to a free PDF.
    It is incredible.
    I'm only a quarter of the way through, but I'm absolutely blown away.  The human vision system looks like it was designed by committee and then re-imagined by Dali and Picasso, while on drugs.  It is a wonder we can see anything at all!
    Did you know that the rods and cones (which detect light) are BEHIND a bunch of nerves and nerve cells and blood vessels, so the light has to go through a bunch of crap before you even sense it?   
    The book is actually a mix of how the human vision system works and also what we have done with the tech to try and align to it, so it's a nice blend of biology and tech.  It's also very readable and tries to be as non-technical as possible.  This is a rare find compared to other books that are hugely tech heavy.
    Take the red pill with me...  download it here: https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/support/documents/colourbook/colourbook.php (download it by clicking on the box next to the file size).
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    Emanuel reacted to kye in iPhone 15 Camera Update - Released   
    Well, it is a telephone, after all....
    Considering how bad the 14 was compared to this, if they keep going the 17 will be like a MILC, the 18 a cinema camera, and the 20 an Alexa!
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    Emanuel reacted to Davide DB in GoPro Hero12   
    Regardless of Petapixel, what's your feedback?
    GP11 submerged in a 10°C water (so no overheating problems) lasts about 1h filming continuously at 4K@50p
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    Emanuel got a reaction from fuzzynormal in Tracy Choi... a promising film talent   
    I've worked with a film director Chinese-Portuguese from Macau I simply find unique, even though to come to my mind another one from past also 'cause the way they work with female characters:
    https://wolffianclassicmoviesdigest.wordpress.com/2019/07/07/george-cukors-way-with-women/
     
    I invite everyone of you to pay attention to her career... here is her most recent motion picture released in China these days (September 28, 2023), more specifically Hong Kong production -- where she got her master's degree after graduated from Taiwan:
     
    Her debut as director is this one:
    https://www.cgiii.com/trailers/item/sisterhood
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