Emanuel

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/make-believers/mystery-romance-short-the-orange-of-daydreams
 
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Marty,
...the remark of Mike is the same of ours, just using his irony to let implicit the same friendly tone we are expecting from everyone here.

Straight from the set this weekend:

 

 

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/make-believers/mystery-romance-short-the-orange-of-daydreams
 
From the director of MAKE-BELIEVERS:
 
Any helpful hand is welcome, thanks for watching! :- )

Yeah, you've heard well but looks like people have no shown a single bit of love (yup, at least throughout this forum here) about their effort to satisfy all of our needs with light, sharp (even 8K, folks! : D) and really effective unique launch with consistent colour rendering, focus, let alone an inexpensive price range ; )
https://www.samyanglens.com/en/product/v-af.php
You can find a few interesting tests and alike on YT as usual ; ) but it's here among us where the sharing of your thoughts are particularly welcome :- )

 

Unfortunately.
It's not so different when I hear people saying they don't watch old movies because of their grainy aspect.
Or why people shoot B&W when the world is not made of colour blindness.
Or yet they can barely handle actors when not Hollywood stars.
And on and on.
To put the bar high is not so easy, to make it lower beats it ;- )

People should not attack whoever is. It's pointless.

Marty,
...the remark of Mike is the same of ours, just using his irony to let implicit the same friendly tone we are expecting from everyone here.

When it comes to the specific case of the Z8/Z9, the answer to the question of “who the hell needs all that resolution?”, the answer, quite simply, is the target market for them do.
These are cameras intended for photojournalists/sports photographers/wildlife photographers.
In the case of the latter two in particular, with f2.8 long lenses costing £20-30 per millimetre of focal length, the variable 2x digital zoom functionality pays for the camera itself.
If you are shooting a match then from your fixed position at one end of the field you will generally not have enough reach with a 400mm. Depending on the stadium you might actually be so far behind the goal line that even 600mm will struggle. As the distance is variable you end up having to bring 1.4x, 1.7x and 2x TCs whereas with the Z8/Z9 you can dial it in and not have to worry about losing stops of light, IQ and AF performance.
Cropping using the digital zoom on these much higher resolution Z8/Z9 sensors, even at 2x is still giving you the D5 resolution and giving you impossible lenses such as 70-400mm f2.8 and 400-800mm f2.8 for free.
Just that one aspect - which is standard operating procedure for the intended market rather than a niche outlier- is absolutely massive and justifies the bump in resolution.
When it comes to the video side - again for its intended market - the 8K video is also a big deal in terms of practical rather than spec wanking purposes.
Not only does it give sufficient resolution to enable the reframing to cut, say, a two person interview into a convincing multi-cam look without it falling apart (see the MEVO camera for almost getting this right) but it also addresses the issue of repurposing content for (whisper it quietly) vertical video at good resolution.
We may not like vertical video but it is now a fact of life for mobile journalists having to provide vertical versions and regular versions of content for online consumption and these two cameras are ideal for it.
It is also a growing fact of life for event filmers too and with the AI “revolution” seemingly coming for an awful lot of roles in the next few years, covering live events might be the last bastion for many people wanting to stay in the game.
I say all this of course as someone who ended up not buying either of them !
However, If I was still doing the work I used to then I wouldn’t have blinked as it is absolutely fantastic for that role as it is intended to be, for the reasons above and more.
But I don’t, so I didn’t.
A rare case of objectivity that is completely out of character and which I am blaming on the jet lag.

 

I guess if grouchy people didn't post on this forum there would be fewer posts to read. So it's a good thing, really.
Carry on!
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Amazing congrats!

Hey, great pictures there! 😍👌

The shooting starts this Sunday, June 11...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/make-believers/mystery-romance-short-the-orange-of-daydreams
 
From the director of MAKE-BELIEVERS:
 
Any helpful hand is welcome, thanks for watching! :- )

Enchanté! Good luck!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/make-believers/mystery-romance-short-the-orange-of-daydreams
 
From the director of MAKE-BELIEVERS:
 
Any helpful hand is welcome, thanks for watching! :- )

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/make-believers/mystery-romance-short-the-orange-of-daydreams
 
From the director of MAKE-BELIEVERS:
 
Any helpful hand is welcome, thanks for watching! :- )

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/make-believers/mystery-romance-short-the-orange-of-daydreams
 
From the director of MAKE-BELIEVERS:
 
Any helpful hand is welcome, thanks for watching! :- )

Even just thinking about 8K 60p makes my hard drives hurt!

Yeah, you've heard well but looks like people have no shown a single bit of love (yup, at least throughout this forum here) about their effort to satisfy all of our needs with light, sharp (even 8K, folks! : D) and really effective unique launch with consistent colour rendering, focus, let alone an inexpensive price range ; )
https://www.samyanglens.com/en/product/v-af.php
You can find a few interesting tests and alike on YT as usual ; ) but it's here among us where the sharing of your thoughts are particularly welcome :- )

 

Any takers?
https://www.zsystemuser.com/z-mount-lenses/nikkor-lenses/nikon-z-mount-lens-reviews/
Let's also not forget whether 3rd party lenses or those coming from F, Canon and E mount adapters.

I've actually been wondering on how much we can workaround and circumvent the overheating hassle with something like this:
https://www.zitay.net/ZITAY-CS-305-CFexpress-Type-B-to-SSD-Convertor-Card-Reader-Adapter-XQD-CFE-CFX-Replacer-Substitute-Nikon-Z6-Z7-D5-D6-D850-D500-PANASONIC-DC-S1-S1R-Canon-EOS-1DX-MarkIII-R5-C500-MarkII-p779221.html
Let alone set it with a more convenient temperature cutout from (auto) standard to high:

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Man, I am glad for you! This community deserves it too : ) Let's put those overheating tests on track!
I can't wait to see if that thing will help coupled to external powered battery?
https://www.zitay.net/ZITAY-CS-305-CFexpress-Type-B-to-SSD-Convertor-Card-Reader-Adapter-XQD-CFE-CFX-Replacer-Substitute-Nikon-Z6-Z7-D5-D6-D850-D500-PANASONIC-DC-S1-S1R-Canon-EOS-1DX-MarkIII-R5-C500-MarkII-p779221.html

I don't doubt it may happen as the best bang for the buck nowadays but I still want that 8K 60p power as my most perfect dream of hybrid camera today, though... LOL ;- )

You are too cool and kind! @Emanuel Though, I must admit, a certain cheek in tongue is always within your words, my poet friend. 🙂 
I did the shots quick and with a warm heart. Nothing wrong with that.;)
A 2.5K version up to 60p, with GX85 battery life and full HDMI would be my dream cam, seriously. Would´t need anything else.