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  1. Even so, that would be a MAJOR announcement. I look forward to the next generation of the RED Komodo having not just a Z Mount, but also being priced the same as Nikon Z7 What about making them for PL Mount???
  2. Panasonic does tend to implement and do video a bit better in their versions of the cameras than Leica's
  3. Over on Nikon Rumors, a commentator posted this summary: http://disq.us/p/2y0773n Doubt it, that would be a big waste of the $$$$ they spent to buy RED.
  4. What reassurances would you be needing? I'm not a RED user myself these days (although back when I was still more seriously aspiring to be a DP, I was the DP a fair few times with a RED camera), but if I was then I'd be seeing this as good news. Because now you've got a small niche player having the backing and support of a major global company. (well, by camera manufacturer standards) Hopefully some of Nikon's reliability and customer service abilities will rub off onto RED itself? Maybe Nikon's huge manufacturing capabilities will also lead to lower prices for future REDs? Maybe we'll see a sub US$4K Komodo?
  5. Gee, I hope you never discover what the sports bureaucracy in other sports get up to.... Name a Top 10 finisher (not just in the TdF but any Grand Tour, or heck, even any of the Classics) from that era who you're certain wasn't ever taking drugs? I feel as a fan to be stressing and worrying over who was or wasn't is a futile exercise. Just enjoy the racing for what it is. (and got to admit, the racing during that era was a lot better!) I never said that. Oh sure, and Γ“scar Pereiro has never had any doping allegation scandals around him! /s πŸ˜…πŸ˜‚πŸ€£ If you fully believe he's totally clean then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell πŸ˜‰ This proves the point about how totally different Lance Armstrong has been treated, as a scapegoat and a punching bag for the entire world's media (not just cycling media) to beat up upon. (just to be clear btw, I'm no great fan of Lance Armstrong specifically! In fact his existence kinda annoyed me back then, as Armstrong prevented my favorite rider from winning any more TdF titles!! If not for Lance, then I think he'd have gone on to win even more titles than Lance did. Oh well) (also just to be clear: yes, what he did is wrong. It's wrong to dope. But when you consider the broader context, I find it impossible to get as super hyped up furiously mad about it as so many others seem to be. It's merely disappointing, not some kind of greatest scandal since Watergate)
  6. What high profile professional sport does not have drug taking? The only reason cycling gets so much flack is because they're a hell of a lot more transparently open about it & the media actually talks about it. Which it would be good if other sports & the media did this too! Had more open transparency and discussion. (for instance, have you ever heard of Mohamed Katir? Or the Chinese female distance runners of the 1990s?) Which is what the sport of cycling is. (especially in that era) You're proving my point here. You can't give out all the wins to anybody else but Lance Armstrong, thus it is utterly farcical to remove it from him when you've got no remotely good options whatsoever to replace him with.
  7. @Dave Maze (David Altizer) just posted about the Nikon purchase of RED:
  8. As a hard core fan of cycling racing for many years, I'm quite lukewarm over this, don't really care. If you somehow believe Lance Armstrong doesn't deserve the wins, then who does? 2nd place? No. 3rd place? No. 2nd place? No. 4th place? No. 5th place? No. 6th place? No. etc etc etc It indisputable that USA Postal during that era was the king at the sport of cycling (well, at least the #1 when it came to TdF wins, which to the casual external viewer is all that seems to matter. Even though the sport of cycling is so so so much more). Just like Red Bull is right now for F1.
  9. RED will probably make a competitor to BURANO, even if only tangentially so. (such as an updated RED V-RAPTOR) And RED is now part of Nikon, thus it would be Nikon making it. What does that have to do with RED??? (I can't watch that video due to copyright)
  10. Panasonic 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 is only 790grams (sub $1K to buy too!). But I presume that lens is too slow for you?
  11. At least Nikon gets recognized as part of the "Canikon duopoly" (although in the mature mirrorless era, Sony has broken that duopoly). But I agree, it seems Nikon got seen as the forgotten poorer stepchild in that duopoly. Even though Nikon has produced so very many ground breaking / top tier stills cameras themselves, such as the Nikon D700 / D3 / D800 / D750 / D500 / etc Good point. Nikon has got a bit of an old fuddy duddy branding of stereotype cameraman photographers. So maybe a little bit of the bold brash youthful branding of RED mixed in could be "a good thing"?
  12. Hopefully both of these happen. Z6mk2 gets a RedCode firmware update, and Nikon mirrorless does things like taking TC more seriously. Meanwhile RED cinema cameras get better pricing / LCD screens / weatherproofing / Z Mount / EVFs / etc Yes please! But especially "a Nikon FX6" (or FX60???) ARRI lights with Canon branding! πŸ˜… True, but RED is very much playing second fiddle to ARRI. They're waaaay behind these days. Heck, RED is playing second fiddle to even Sony in the cinema market! Hmmm... don't count on that, don't now assume anything ever about Nikon! How sure can you really be that Nikon won't make non-black cameras, perhaps even a RED colored camera:
  13. Yup, even just a cheap Panasonic GH4 shooting a wide angle can be better than nothing to cut to if you hit a technical hiccup for a couple of seconds / minutes with your main camera. (edit: or in this case, your A6600, which I just saw you mention) Another approach is just to shoot afterwards a bunch of random generic B Roll with your main camera, that you can throw into the edit to patch up any holes with. Good reason to get a cardellini and other such clamps. Ah, you got a Sony FS7 just as "a hobby camera"? Amazing, shows how cheap and affordable this older pro Sony camera is getting.
  14. Yes, and a year ago that was a major issue for AI photos. But today it's trending down towards becoming more of a non-issue for AI photos. We'll see the same happen soon for AI video as well.
  15. Not really, RED never ever owned their own fabs after all. Nikon will still be going to Sony to make their sensors (or maybe one of the very few other options, such as Tower Semiconductor, or rather their sub brand "TowerJazz" that most of us are more commonly aware of) Blackmagic is so much more than just their cameras, they won't be selling to Panasonic. And BMD was always the lower cost competitor, I think they've still got their niche against RED/Nikon. This has been the BIGGEST issue with Nikon in the past for serious users. (ditto Panasonic & Fujifilm too I'm afraid) If I start out with say a Nikon D5200 (and amazing starter camera for its time!!) where do I go afterwards? Nikon D500, and then perhaps a D5?? But then what? There is nothing pro grade I can move onto as a videographer / DoP. Same was true later on with say the Nikon Z30 => Z6mk2 => Z8 pipeline. Nothing suitable for the professional user. Ditto Panasonic, you might go Panasonic G6 => GH5, but then what? Or S5 => S1H, then what??? Ditto Fujifilm, X-T30 II => X-2HS, then what??? While Sony had very clear progression lines, you could for instance go: Sony a6000 => a7mk2 => a7Smk3 => FX6 => VENICE Or Canon, with T2i => 70D => 5Dmk3 => C100mk2 => C300mk2 The lack of this always made it very hard to seriously recommend Nikon/Panasonic/Fujifilm to newbies with lofty ambitious of rapid progression. I definitely think they'll keep the branding of "RedCode" and the decade plus of mind share that has been building up. These days, if they do it (which I'm expecting now), it would definitely be Z Mount and not F Mount. Plus there is the collapse in traditional media, and the collapse in advertising dollars. Just in the past week or so there has been major developments in New Zealand with major TV shows being shut down (one has been running since 1977!!) and entire news operations being shut down. (Newshub is gone, which is TV3's news)
  16. I look forward to the next RED Komodo having a Nikon Z Mount I can see raw coming to all Nikon cameras now. (ok, maybe not the very low end stuff like the Nikon Z30) Wow, even at the age of 74 he's still creating new businesses. PLEASE have the Nikon Z8C have built in NDs! πŸ˜…πŸ€£πŸ˜πŸ˜Ž Why? I'd imagine for at least the next few years they'll keep the RED branding on their cinema cameras while adding subtle Nikon / Nikkor references (such as the lens mount). Agreed! And RED was under a LOT of pressure from the high end and low end, I guess it made sense to the owners to exit and cash in on their profits High End = RED is no longer unique when it comes to: 1) cameras suitable for gimbals or other small form factor needs, as the ARRI Mini exists (or even VENICE Rialto etc) 2) RED isn't unique with high resolution, 4K is the norm 3) RED isn't unique with slow motion, lots can do 120fps or even 240fps + Low End = the Sony FX3 / FX6 / Blackmagic Cinema Camera / Panasonic S5mk2 / Fujifilm X-H2 / ZCam / Kinefinity / etc are all getting to be pretty damn good now and users will go for these when they need an affordable budget option. Unlike in the past when RED was "the budget option" (because shooting on a RED ONE / RED Epic was waaay cheaper than shooting on S35 film, or even an ARRI ALEXA) Nikon must be quite profitable if they can afford a purchase of the scale that RED is. Same!
  17. It's no big secret that many Leica cameras are just rebadged Panasonic cameras. So is this new Leica 60MP L Mount a camera a big hint at what the future S1R mk2 could be?
  18. When I saw the news yesterday of Nikon buying RED I thought this was just some kind of early April Fool's Prank. But then as I saw more and more people reporting this I clicked that it is real! Wow. I initially got into photography (& thus later on into filmmaking too) via Nikon. So this is exciting news for me! It has been very underappreciated the massive contributions Nikon has made to filmmaking (such as the first ever HDSLR, the Nikon D90. Or the first ever non-cine DSLRs to do 4K, the Nikon D5 & D500. Or the first ever mirrorless to do raw output, the Nikon Z6), so I look forward to what Nikon can do now they've acquired RED. What will Nikon's answer to the Sony FX6 or Sony BURANO look like?
  19. It's all over for YouTube camera reviewers:
  20. Personally, I'd be going for a Sony RX0mk2 for that big 1" sensor. And slog compatibility with other Sony cameras. But that might not be the same priorities you seek.
  21. Oh I see, you're not targeting specifically French weddings? But English speakers doing a wedding in France???? I see! Maybe only run workshops in the USA? πŸ˜›
  22. A "cinema camera" with a permanently fixed prime lens πŸ˜•
  23. Weekly?? What are they losing their jobs because of Yikes, I thought you meant that. But damn, if volume is only a fifth of what it used to be even in the mecca of filmmaking, then that's a worrying factor about the industry as a whole indeed! Although yeah, LA/Hollywood isn't the dominant #1 place like it used to be, with the second tier (NYC, Atlanta, or even Europe etc) having more of the pie than they used to a few decades ago.
  24. Tom Antos just put out a video about Sora: AI photos have already got good enough, that it is no longer a useful method to count their fingers. Any good AI photos will always be sensibly 5 fingers each now. It's funny how a decade ago we thought AI would take over all the boring drudgery in jobs that humans do, and we'd be left free to have fun fulfilling lives chasing our creative passions. Ummm... seems that AI is taking the opposite approach! AI is coming after the creative jobs first. Getting cover with sh*t as a Plumber, or crawling in dirt under houses as an Electrician, that's the jobs that AI is leaving for us to do! I'd say we're almost there already. If not already there! As in it's all technically possible right now, what's needed next is simply it to be more polished and an easier workflow. Personally, I think I need to take more seriously my former IT career, and revive it back from the grave it has been sleeping in all these years. As I need a solid "Plan B" should demand for Production Sound Mixing slump to a mere small fraction of the need for it today. I can see the "team" being even further reduced. You don't need a Senior and a Host. One of them is enough! Four pages of discussion in this thread is a rather small amount of "obsession", when you consider how much obsession we can do over some minor new gear release that takes our fancy. And there is no doubt whatsoever that AI is going to have a bigger impact upon all of our jobs than any new camera announcement will have this year. If anything, we're proportionally speaking not discussing this enough. Tyler Perry (a media billionaire, a megastar in the media industry) disagrees with you. Putting on hold an $800M studio expansion (sure, there are other factors too. But "AI" is the headline reason): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/tyler-perry-ai-alarm-1235833276/ If AI is going to be implemented everywhere in our lives (films/microwave/car/sports/music/etc), then who do you think is going to be doing that work to implement it. The IT people.
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