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Was/is "one of" my dream lenses. As I'd love to have used it with my Sony PMW-F3 for general doco / R&G / event coverage. And compared to what it originally cost, then $1Kis "cheap"(ish). But.... the only other cameras you can use it on is the F5/F55. Nothing. Else. And there will never be another camera you can use it on. The F55 is the end of the road, there will never ever be a better camera you could put that lens on. Ever. In the medium term this lens is going to trend down in value to a big fat ZERO. So I'd look at this way: Are you a working professional? Will you have at least 20 working days over the next few years (whatever the working lifespan is of your FZ Mount camera) where you'll get at least $50 of benefit from using this lens? (be it due to working faster/effeciently, or just a more painless day for you, or due to charging a higher rate, or however you define "value) Using 20days times $50 = $1K as the math here, but you could structure it differently, say 50days x $20, or 10days x $100 If you can make the math here work for you, then buy it. Otherwise, don't. No.

I never did! Am tempted by it now or then, as it's the closest way you could get "mirrorless" (well, they're not, but kinda-ish) lenses used on the F5/F3, and not just merely DSLR or PL lenses. (or the very rare, one FZ lens that exists) As it sucks you can't use mirrorless lens on both your Sony FX/FS series cameras and F3/F5/F55 cameras. But something like a set of TTArtisan, Voigtlander, Mitakon, or Zeiss ZM lenses in M Mount would be a choice set you could easily switch back and forth from a mixture of old or new Sony cameras. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Rangefinder-Camera-Lenses/ci/8423/N/4288584243?sort=PRICE_LOW_TO_HIGH&filters=fct_mount-type_1345%3Aleica-m-mount

Their second edition: https://rode.com/en/microphones/wireless/wirelessgoii

Hopefully these come out soon enough for you: https://www.l-rumors.com/panasonic-says-new-entry-and-very-high-end-l-mount-cameras-will-be-coming-and-the-new-telephoto-zoom-will-be-very-compact/

The more of these "affordable" (in name only..) medium format digital cameras that get released, then the closer a secondhand Pentax 645D comes to becoming truly affordable enough for me to buy on a whim! So that I can finally use my saved up Pentax 645 & 65 glass on it. (for now, one and half grand USD is the cheapest 645D on ebay 😕 ) Bring them on I say! Fujifilm GFX1000 when?

For sure, this one is a big improvement from what Rode had before They already had a dual receiver for the Rode Go Absolutely, they should never have released it without a locking connector in the first place!! This is the #1 key feature here 😅🤣😂

HA! Sony DWX is one of the cheaper pro series of wireless, in fact if you want ones with remote control abilities they're the cheapest. (although, all the pro brands are fairly close-ish in price together, Lectrosonics/Wisyscom/Shure/Zaxcom/etc are all similar-ish in cost to Sony DWX) Of course, Sony also has their cheap prosumer wireless, that's priced almost identical to the Sennheiser G4 wireless: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?q=sony uwp-d21&sort=PRICE_LOW_TO_HIGH

You. Can't. Jam. It. Unthinkable levels of incredible stupidity. Mind boggling that they thought to leave this out. (maybe they'll fix this with a firmware update?? Maybe, I hope so, they'd better)

I wouldn't ever want to treat Rode TC as my Master. It should be able to receive TC.

Am glad that Rode has finally fixed one of the many major issues with their Rode Go wireless: The lack of a locking connector for their lav mics! Finally at last they're using a locking 3.5mm connector. Was a terrible oversight to not have this since Day 1. Indeed, Sony already makes arguably the very best audio wireless at both the prosumer level (Sony UWP-D) and at the pro level (Sony DWX Digital Wireless) In summary: They're basically kinda "faking TC". And they're going about this in a dumb way so it's incompatible with usual ways of using timecode on film sets, and you can't even work it together with multiple extra sets of Rode Go Pros. Big fail. However.... if you're just running your Rode Go Pro into your mirrorless/DSLR with only the couple of transmitters you get in a single set, then sure, this works perfectly fine enough as intended. Which covers the needs for 95% of Rode's target markets. So Rode doesn't care about these issues, it's "not their problem".

Watched a bunch of these ages ago, quite fascinating! But of course very broadcast focused. Wish they'd done the same for filmmaking too. Of course I checked out the ones on sound: Classic example from Economics. High barrier to entry = lowered supply = more relative demand (i.e. easier to sell) Vs now, which is the opposite!

I've done fruit picking for a hot second way back ages ago during a summer break when I was a uni student, you'll need to pay me more than $60/hr to go back to do that again!! (also, "$60/hour" is a bit of a lie... unless you're skilled and very fast at it, then you won't earn that much! While if you can't and you struggle, you could find yourself earning less than minimum wage)

Some cameras had even shorter limits, just 20 minutes, or 15 minutes, or even just 10 minutes! The first ever HDSLR, the Nikon D90 (and the one I started out with), had a recording limit of just 5 minutes!!! Quite frustrating Go become a rubbish collector! Least glamorous career I really don't like that Software Engineering has become "glamorous". Damn you TikTokers!

Also no need to buy a new camera every year when your Nikon D7100 DSLR (or Sony a6000 mirorless) from years ago still takes stellar pictures. A kiwi company btw! One of my friends founded Serato, I remember going out for drinks with him say 15+ yrs ago, and when we're in a club he'd have a nosy to see what the DJs were using, seeing if they're using Serato or not He also dabbles in acting a little bit (as he's kinda semi retired now), I worked on a film with him a few years ago. Curious how many of those books being read are nonfiction, I bet the stats are even more depressing when it comes to people educating themselves from books

FS7 has a newer/different sensor to the FS700/FS5. The FS7 has shares the same sensor as the Sony PMW-F5, as they're both broadly similar the same.

Nice deal! Yeah they're shockingly cheap these days. (and even a FS7/F5 isn't much more on eBay now) In my opinion the FS5 is basically an updated FS700 with better ergonomics (to be fair, it couldn't be much worse than the FS700!) that adds internal 1080 10bit (or 4K 8bit internally). But otherwise, the FS700 and FS5 are more similar than different. (same old sensor for instance)

Best then for peoples who are primarily stills and/or never shoots anything longer than snippets for TikTok/Snapchat

Video however is rapidly getting to the point where photo gear is at, when there is no noticeable major improvement from one generation to the next. I'd even arguably say we're already there! Sadly their training data doesn't include facebook groups, or telegram, etc Makes me worry for the future? As there will be less and less content on "the open web" for LLMs to train on Eh, they do show some political bias. GPT4 is far far far better at math/logic than GPT3 (and using the Wolfram plugin is a big leap forward again). One of the many reasons to pay for ChatGPT Plus

Facebook Groups have unfortunately replaced a lot of the usage which were webforums before. Stuff is so good these days already, that is why. Take a look for instance at prosumer (or upper level consumer level) grade Nikon DSRLs, from the early 2000's to the mid 2010's then arguably every release was a "must upgrade" camera release for anybody who was semi serious about their photography. Nikon D70 (6MP) to D80 (10MP! Along with a bigger screen, etc) to D90 (CMOS sensor, much better lowlight! Also first ever DSLR with HD video. Lots of other features too, such as 50% faster FPS) to D7000 (16MP! Along with heaps more new features such as dual SD cards, FHD, more FPS, deeper buffer, live view, way more focus points, etc) to D7100 (24MP!! Along with the usual heaps more improvements in lots of other areas) But now, how exciting was the D7100 to D7200 release? Or the D7500 release? (especially if you don't care about 4K) Many D7100 owners wouldn't find it to be a worthwhile upgrade. This was just a closer quick look at one particular series of models over the years, but the same thing has been true with all sorts of other camera releases. That's another reason why the excitement levels and the amount of chatter on webforums is not the same today as it was a decade ago.

Tilta makes cooling fans too.

What are people's favorite settings when you're not using s-log, when you're shooting something live with your Sony F3, or you're handing over files that you know will not have a fancy competent editor but will just be merely trimmed and maybe a couple of simple cuts in the edit but nothing else?

Indeed, just look at the leap forwards in improvement from GPT2 to GPT3 Or each generation from Midjourney V1 vs V2 vs V3 vs V4 vs vV5 (and those 5 generations only took a single year to happen!!!). https://aituts.com/midjourney-versions/ We might laugh at the efforts of generative AI video right now, but they're no worse than Midjourney V1 was.... Perhaps 50/50 odds we'll have the Midjourney V5 equivalent for video by 2028: https://manifold.markets/ScottAlexander/in-2028-will-an-ai-be-able-to-gener Or maybe even higher odds than that... https://manifold.markets/firstuserhere/will-we-have-end-to-end-ai-generate-12f2be941361 https://manifold.markets/firstuserhere/will-we-have-end-to-end-ai-generate-de41c9309e38 I agree with your disagreeing. That's a good analogy! And if it is carefully/appropriately managed, you can even have a change in voice actor who is doing these characters, and almost none of the fans will notice or care. Another good analogy. It is indeed very likely, I feel, that the country as a whole will be massively better off and wealthier thanks to AI. But... there will also be huge numbers of individuals (such as those middle aged textile workers) who will be a lot worse off. We'll be able to have super niche "micro celebrity AI avatars" At the moment, celebrities need a certain amount of broad appeal. As you said, they need to avoid offending their fans. So end up appealing to the common denominator, because what might appeal to one section of the fan base could drive away other fans who get offended by it. But once you're freed from the physical constraints, then an "AI celebrity" could cater to any and all of these micro niche fanbases. "I think there is a world market for about five computers." ~ IBM's president, Thomas J Watson (said in the early 1940's) Nah, my Raspberry Pi can run a LLM. (ok, only a baby-ChatGPT that's quite cut down, and somewhat crippled. But even if I want to run a LLM that's quite close to the power of GPT3, that only costs me much much less than a $1/hr, in fact, more like a handful of cents per hour. It is cheap to run a LLM) It's predicted as highly like that even GPT4 can be run on consumer grade hardware by next year: https://manifold.markets/LarsDoucet/will-a-gpt4equivalent-model-be-able What you're thinking about, is the costs to train GPT4 from scratch. That's VERY EXPENSIVE! But still, it isn't quite as bad as you think. If a government wanted to do it, then absolutely any government in the OCED could do this, they could do it ten times over. Likewise, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of companies in the world which could train the next GPT4 if they wanted to. (GPT4 would've cost roughly the same order of magnitude as $100M in costs, waaaay out of reach for you and me, but easily within reach of many many other organizations) But they won't, because the costs to train their own GPT4 vs the profits they could make (as AI is quickly becoming a very competitive space!) just isn't worth it. The good news though, is that costs for training are dropping drastically fast! Look at this prediction, it is highly likely that before 2030 it will cost under $10K to train from scratch a GPT3 quality LLM (i.e. any keen hobbyist can do it themselves!): https://manifold.markets/Gigacasting/will-a-gpt3-quality-model-be-traine And that's yet another reason why there are not hundreds of other companies training their own GPT4, why put that risk into it if you're not already an industry leader in this? When your $100M+ investment could quickly within a few short years be worth next to nothing. You need a solid business plan to recoup your costs fast. OpenAI can do that, because they're massively funded with Microsoft's backing, and they have a first mover advantage. Too late, that genie left the bottle long ago.

Wow, I didn't think it was possible to sink any lower with trashy reality tv? O ye of little faith! What new fresh horrors is this, deep fake AI merged with the worst aspects of "reality" tv? Yes, yes it is

There has just been leaked the upcoming release schedule for their slate of movies: I've heard that von Neumann will be 7hrs long.

That is where having a Physics degree will benefit me 😉 As expect it would be lot easier for me to follow along, as I already know the various timelines, and I already know nearly all the main characters involved in this. Because it's based on physics history, The Manhattan Project after all was one of the biggest ever physics projects ever! (if you ignore space related stuff, as their costs are obscene, then The Manhattan Project is I think still the most expensive ever! Although, with the projected costs for ITER, then it might be higher in the end by the time it is finished) So anybody with a bit of interest in Physics, and has studied Physics, would be very familiar with The Manhattan Project.