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Emanuel reacted to Andrew Reid in Panasonic Lumix S1R Mark II coming soon
That's why the sales and marketing guys all burn out.
They don't have that underlying passion or talent for art, cinema, photography...
They get a kick from the affiliate links, channel building, glossy presentation, studio sets and meeting other influencers so that they can social network, and build further influence.
That's where Gerald spends his time rather than getting a kick out of pointing his camera at stuff.
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Emanuel reacted to Tim Sewell in Released these days but it's not a new camera...
Interesting fact - everybody thought they did the billboard stuff with Ai, but in fact they had to do it frame by frame themselves. Nice bit of film making, in my always humble opinion.
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Emanuel reacted to Tim Sewell in Released these days but it's not a new camera...
I mean, she can stand up in a car, but she ain't Sydney Sweeney.
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Emanuel reacted to Tim Sewell in Released these days but it's not a new camera...
@Emanuel I also love my FX-30. It just came back from 2 months in the camera hospital (a whole other story) but I just love that thing. A beautiful sensor and lovely ergonomics. And so relatively cheap! The C100 of its days.
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Emanuel got a reaction from eatstoomuchjam in Why aren't camera companies making phones?
That Osmo Pocket 3 is one of the most interesting devices I've ever owned, practically with me for everywhere and always ready for a ride like a crazy bitch! : ) Don't quote me, just a bot! ;- )
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Emanuel reacted to eatstoomuchjam in Why aren't camera companies making phones?
DJI do make cameras, they don't just try. The Osmo Pocket 3 is, from what I've heard, one of the most popular cameras on the planet these days. The Ronin 4D is also pretty excellent and the "chicken head" camera is becoming a staple on productions, both from low budget scrubs like me to Hollywood films that will play in theaters nationwide.
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Emanuel reacted to Andrew Reid in Released these days but it's not a new camera...
Even a Viltrox lens looks good thanks to her!
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Emanuel reacted to gethin in Nikon z8 z9 shutter angle rage
I’m in the middle of overreacting to Nikon implementing something on my camera that I was using on a competitors 8 years ago and they have stuffed it. I know this shouldn’t be bothering me as much as it is. I really need to get out more. Nikon: the Microsoft of cameras 🤦
The fact you can only use shutter angle in manual mode. Why? Or at least let us set the minimum shutter angle in those modes ffs. Because otherwise the camera will happily shoot unusable 360degree shutter angle video in those modes.
(Please don’t post any variety of “real men only shoot manual”. For what I do shooting in aperture priority is essential. It lets me get shots that would be impossible unless I’d have another operator ramping exposure. I’m not shooting drama. It’s not controlled. I could do this on the gh5 ffs).
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Emanuel reacted to Andrew Reid in Nikon Z8 first impressions
I'd take 4k120 over 60p for slow-mo any day
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Emanuel reacted to BTM_Pix in Nikon Z8 first impressions
Though not as popular as Space Karen thought they were.
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Emanuel reacted to Andrew Reid in Nikon Z8 first impressions
My Nikon 28mm F1.4 AF-D will like that.
AFD still very popular in Germany.
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Emanuel reacted to Snowfun in Smartphone camera module with a 100mp 4/3 sensor
I’d rather have a phone inside the Sigma BF.
But I bought a RED Hydrogen so what do I know…
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Emanuel reacted to j_one in Panasonic Interview
ProRes Raw/BRAW is what probably bypasses most of the rubbish processing, artifacts etc as with S5ii
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Emanuel reacted to Andrew Reid in Why aren't camera companies making phones?
Just seems like a massive chance to make money to me.
The smartphone market has peaked, and the high-end phones succeeded in selling at $1000+ by differentiating themselves mainly on the camera specs.
Now all the flagship phones are pretty much similar, not much innovation and Apple especially under Tim Trump have not come up with a new idea for ages.
It strikes me that if the camera is the most important thing about a phone, it should be a sign that maybe Canon, Nikon, Fuji are missing out on some hefty demand.
Canon should have a Powershot branded phone running latest CPU and Android, 1" sensor and a ton of features from their serious cameras on it, plus Canon's colour science and picture styles, which leave the Chinese phone manufacturers for dead.
Fuji should also do a similar thing, one with more style and imagination than whatever iterative shit Tim Woke But Trump is flogging year in year out. (Japan used to the lead the high-end phone market before Apple came along).
Sigma as well, aiming for a more Apple-like high-end product with amazing build quality.
So far camera companies in the smartphone market has been a branding exercise.
Leica with Huawei and more recently Xiaomi, but the actual hardware is all China.
Sony are the only camera company to have their Alpha features and software on a mainstream Android phone... Xperia 1 & 5 series.
But in typical Sony fashion these are general purpose daily driver phones that try to do a Samsung, rather than really pushing the camera forward into a new realm or the smartphone onwards into a new concept. In fact they have on recent flagships given up trying to be different at all and just gone full on samey.
Panasonic you may remember gave us the CM1. This had the right idea as far as software features and sensor size goes... Terrible implementation in terms of naff build quality, a screen that would scratch if you so much as sneezed at it, and a slow lens with even slower autofocus.
Nowadays the thin optics on a phone like the Xiaomi 14 series are capable of amazing things, like the really close-focus telephoto lens they offer on the higher-end models, and the very fast wide angle lenses that are super thin but cover a 1" sensor.
But if they really wanted to be brave they would come up with a camera-first, phone second product.
And that's where Fuji, Canon and the rest could really make something special.
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Emanuel got a reaction from Davide DB in Panasonic Lumix S1R Mark II coming soon
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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Emanuel reacted to Andrew Reid in Panasonic Interview
It's the only way to stand up against a fascist dictatorship, you can't do it like the democrats with their little slogans and signs, and Micro Four Thirds cameras... You have to have a warship, and a big bazooka on the front.
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Emanuel reacted to Ninpo33 in Best value 4K mirrorless camera under £1000, let's rank them
Another vote for the S5. I got mine used from Japan for $535 and it looks like new. They gave that camera a new life with the later updates too… I have mine as a B camera with a Ninja V+ on it because that last big update gave it raw 6k, 4k s35 and 3.5k anamorphic raw. So with the S9 you get all the latest lumix has to offer but the S5 makes a really sweet B and C cam now. And that sensor has such a nice look to it compared to the over sharpened S5ii. It’s not a big deal but I feel like it looks a little closer to the S1H. My only gripe is that they never really figured out how to do L-Mount speed boosters for Panasonic cameras. I emailed metabones 3 or 4 times and they never gave me a reason. I have been told there isn’t enough room but some of the other shorter flange distances work so who knows… luckily at this point we’re finally at FF 60p with no crop moving forward. I do however have the Kipon Focal reducer to adapt the Mamiya 645 lenses to the S5 so that’s been fun. Since AF isn’t the best I doubled down on vintage, manual glass.
Second I would say the small bit mighty Fujifilm X-M5 at $800.
Like a baby X-H2s with quite the list of video record options. Ranked 8th best in DR tests by Cine D. And quite the image with 6.2k open gate and 60p/120p 4k. Rolling shutter can be a little bad in the open gate modes but there are some other faster options to choose from if that’s your priority. Also, the Raw output (6.2k 3:2 and 5.2k 60p) is unexpected in such a tiny and cheap camera. Just have to get a locking cable bracket because it’s micro HDMI. No IBIS so makes for a good drone cam or car mount/action cam and matches perfectly with the X-H2s. Fast data rate speeds and 4.2.2 color with F-Log options.
lens tangent: I have been using it with the little Blazar Nero 1.5x adapter for Anamorphic 6k and love the results. The Blazar is a little wild at full frame but for APS-C it looses the funky edges and looks a lot cleaner. Plus you can add it to your lens of choice and have fun with it. I’m adapting some 60’s Japanese rangefinder lenses to M mount and they pair really well with the Blazar.
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Emanuel reacted to MrSMW in Sigma Bf (Beautiful Foolishness) Unibody Full Frame Camera
I can make a case for both such as say; single body with 24-70 vs two bodies, one on each hip, with say a 28 and an 85.
It's certainly more convenient to zoom, but it does mean a larger and heavier unit in your hands which over a typical 12-15 hour day, adds up and just isn't as enjoyable at any point throughout the day.
It's really when we get about 100mm that zooms tend to make more sense to me because we tend to have 85/90/105 and OK 135, but there isn't really much in prime land above 100'ish' compared with below.
At this point in time, I am in the 'one & done' camp, but that does require 3 lens changes albeit, not regularly.
Possibly, but right now I'd pick the S9 for video based on current spec and let's not forget the twist & tilt rear LCD.
I doubt even that would work my friend 😘
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Emanuel reacted to kye in Greatest time savers on video shoots
Understand the genre you are making, what works in the edit and what doesn't.
Most discussion of camera features is just noise coming from people that don't know what matters to them and what doesn't.
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Emanuel reacted to MrSMW in Panasonic Lumix S1R Mark II coming soon
I think certainly for stills, at least at ‘ordinary’ viewing levels which for 99.9999999999999% of all viewing these days is on a device and mainly a phone…and with compressed images at that!
The artist/craftsman in me still and always will fight back against that even if I am the only one that sees or even knows about it.
It’s one of the reasons I am chasing more megapixels. It’s not because I think it improves the image in any way as such, but because I can crop ever harder with a lower loss of quality which means I can use smaller and lighter kit which has so many benefits including enjoyment.
Tech for tech sake no. If it’s just data on a spreadsheet, who gives a shit, but when that tech relates to real world quality of life…
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Emanuel reacted to Marcio Kabke Pinheiro in Panasonic Lumix S1R Mark II coming soon
Eu entendo você em qualquer um dos idiomas, @Emanuel 😁
(just a joke to my fellow "languager" here) 😉
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Emanuel reacted to wolf33d in Panasonic Lumix S1R Mark II coming soon
Well I have been around, but this website is a bit dead, @Andrew Reid isn’t posting anymore. I agree with his panasonic post. The era of 5DII and Magic lantern and GH4s etc used to be fun. Now not so much.
Also, as everybody here knows, I spent most of my time out here on this forum complaining for years that it was unbelievable we had good phase detect AF in one body, good IBIS in another, good 4K in another, 4K120P in another, great full frame stills in another, but nobody would release a camera with all that. Well Canon did it with the R5 5 years ago. I bought it, and stopped complaining lol. So I haven’t much to say.
Oh actually I do have something to complain about. I am a lot into landscape drone photography/video now. For years, I have been waiting for the combination of vertical shooting (DJI Mini) with high quality (DJI Mavic PRO). Can’t believe I have to carry multiple drones.
Fortunately DJI listened to me and is releasing the Mavic Pro 4 next month, with excellent IQ as always for the pro line and finally, yes finally vertical shooting. Jesus they took their time…
That one is an instant buy! As for my R5, I am happy with it. The R5II is a joke for me, not too much reason to upgrade. Any new camera that is being released recently is not really better than the R5 so nothing to get excited about.
Well, the R5 II is not as much of a joke as the new Sony A1 II though. Those guys managed to release the exact same camera years later for $6500 haha
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Emanuel got a reaction from wolf33d in Panasonic Lumix S1R Mark II coming soon
Really? ; ) The answer, my friend, is blowing in your own, is blowing in your own post... LOL BTW, where have you been? You as a few others over here are truly missed : )
Ah and €2762 to $4K is the difference (huge gap for 50% more BTW) enough to make me pull the trigger, you know?
People have a budget, mine in mid-2020 decade is up to $500 for mini sensor size cams, perhaps other than iPhone but the fact is that I haven't bought one yet ; )
$1000-$1500 for a workhorse camera and about $2500 for a premium device.
Other than that, they don't have my money in their pocket/bank account. I bought a 12K Ursa Mini Pro like new for $3K, so you see... ;- )
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Emanuel got a reaction from John Matthews in Panasonic Lumix S1R Mark II coming soon
More than making sense... It's like the refrigerator POV shots... Hitchcock once called it the cow's perspective when Truffaut asked him why there were no establishing shots for the trains with his movies...
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Emanuel reacted to ND64 in Panasonic Interview
In China launch event there was this slide that says 5 new companies joining the L mount
DJI, Blackmagicdesign, Samyang, Astro, disclosed before. The 5th can be Viltrox.