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7 hours ago, PannySVHS said:
@IronFilmDavid, from the other side of the world, did you check out a Leica M to FZ adapter
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.
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19 minutes ago, MrSMW said:
For the original one?
Their second edition: https://rode.com/en/microphones/wireless/wirelessgoii
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2 hours ago, MrSMW said:
I already know what I am doing if something from L Mount does not appear within the next 3-6 months max and I think if I was still a pure photographer, I would go (or already have gone) digital medium format.
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?
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1 hour ago, MrSMW said:
But seriously, compared with the original
For sure, this one is a big improvement from what Rode had before
1 hour ago, MrSMW said:Being able to mic 2 people or points instead of 1.
They already had a dual receiver for the Rode Go
1 hour ago, MrSMW said:Locking mech as I HAVE had folks pull out lav mic cables, you know; weddings and alcohol…
Absolutely, they should never have released it without a locking connector in the first place!! This is the #1 key feature here
1 hour ago, MrSMW said:The floaty bit. Just in case the talent can’t swim.
😅🤣😂
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13 hours ago, MrSMW said:
That’s good because I clicked the link to the Sony jobbies and my wallet cleared it’s throat in such a manner, I got the message immediately 😉
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
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2 hours ago, Anaconda_ said:
Why do you say that?
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)
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On 8/29/2023 at 7:46 PM, Anaconda_ said:
you can essentially jam a device like Tentaclesync or Deity TC1 with the Rode's timecode
I wouldn't ever want to treat Rode TC as my Master. It should be able to receive TC.
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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.
On 8/23/2023 at 10:22 AM, Eric Calabros said:Sony is too proud to accept any other audio brand superiority over itself.
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)
On 8/28/2023 at 9:12 PM, Anaconda_ said:Skip to 7:30
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".
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On 8/15/2023 at 8:41 PM, BTM_Pix said:
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:
8 hours ago, mkabi said:Funny thing about this…
It was harder to shoot and edit a movie in this day; forget about the price of equipment too.
Even harder to shoot a “good” movie, forget about an “amazing” movie… with amazing characters and scenes…
But, once it was said and done… it was easy to sell… there was always a major buyer/distributor.
Fast forward to today… easy to shoot and edit, hell you can do it all on your phone… you can do it well too… it might take some time to write the script, storyboard and even find decent actors - go to a drama school and take your chances with auditions etc…. Nonetheless the price of admission is super low… again you can do it all on your phone.
However!!! You will have a hard time selling it.
Classic example from Economics.
High barrier to entry = lowered supply = more relative demand (i.e. easier to sell)
Vs now, which is the opposite!
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On 8/16/2023 at 3:57 PM, ntblowz said:
$60 an hour for fruit picker during the lockdown, that was good money 😆
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)
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On 8/13/2023 at 9:08 AM, newfoundmass said:
Maybe you weren't around back then, but there was a time when everyone loathed the 30 minute record limit imposed on these cameras.
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
10 hours ago, kye said:Meanwhile, in industries that don't seem glamorous, there are skills shortages and prices are going up (or quality goes down)...
Go become a rubbish collector! Least glamorous career
I really don't like that Software Engineering has become "glamorous". Damn you TikTokers!
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On 8/11/2023 at 1:28 PM, TomTheDP said:
Less people buying cameras now doesn't help either. Not everyone needs DSLR when a phone does such a good job.
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.
On 8/11/2023 at 3:14 PM, Ty Harper said:We just started going to the record store less and less as it became clearer and clearer that Serato had disrupted the vinyl-spinning era and deejaying as we knew it. Then Serato started added more features that rendered the skill sets deejays had spent their entire careers honing (like beat-matching, beat juggling, transitioning to acapellas etc, etc) and coveting, completely irrelevant.
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.
1 hour ago, kye said:QuoteHere are some heart wrenching statistics. 33% of high school graduates never read another book the rest of their lives and 42% of college grads never read another book after college. 70% of US adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years and 80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year.
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
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9 hours ago, PannySVHS said:
such as the FS7.
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.
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6 hours ago, Matt Kieley said:
Can this thread become dedicated to any older Sony camera? After 12 years of shooting with mirrorless cameras, DSLRs, and Blackmagic Pocket/Micro cams, I finally got a proper "camcorder" or "cinema camera" or whatever you want to call it. I got a camera I had my eye on for the past four years that finally popped up on mbp for $999 so I had to have it. The Sony FS5!
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)
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1 hour ago, Django said:
..the real problem with these is going to be the severe overheating. A7IV already overheats in a full size Alpha body, these will toast faster than white bread.
Best then for peoples who are primarily stills and/or never shoots anything longer than snippets for TikTok/Snapchat
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On 8/8/2023 at 2:36 AM, Marcio Kabke Pinheiro said:
And as @MrSMWsaid, there is a ‘you don’t need anything new’ mantra - which, specially for stills, is very true. Video is still being improved, but for stills the only tangible upgrade was in the AF section.
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!
On 8/8/2023 at 2:57 AM, John Matthews said:Something that I've noticed is that Chat GPT seems to give efficient and relevant answers to almost any subject, including cameras.
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
On 8/8/2023 at 2:57 AM, John Matthews said:It's straight to the point, no BS, no political stuff, no opinions, etc.
Eh, they do show some political bias.
On 8/8/2023 at 5:59 PM, John Matthews said:but ChatGPT kept making mathematical mistakes. I
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
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On 8/5/2023 at 11:08 AM, Eric Calabros said:
1- the rate of decline in engagement in all of the photo/video forums and websites is depressing. Even comment sections are mini ghost towns compared to same place ten years ago. Maybe social media is stealing a lot of that free time usually spent on traditional web in the past.
Facebook Groups have unfortunately replaced a lot of the usage which were webforums before.
On 8/5/2023 at 11:08 AM, Eric Calabros said:Telling people they don't need and shouldn't buy new released products is a norm in our corner of internet fora!
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.
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Tilta makes cooling fans too.
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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?
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On 7/29/2023 at 2:19 PM, KnightsFan said:
The other point I'll make is that I don't think anyone should worry about GPT-4. It's very competent at writing code, but as a software engineer, I am confident that the current generation of AI tools cannot do my job. However, I am worried about what GPT-5, or GPT-10, or GPT-20 will do. I see a lot of articles--not necessarily Andrew's--that confidently say AI won't replace X because it's not good enough. It's like looking at a baby and saying, "that child can't even talk! It will never replace me as a news anchor." We must assume that AI will continue to improve exponentially at every task, for the foreseeable future.
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
On 7/29/2023 at 2:19 PM, KnightsFan said:I think that only a very small fraction of moviegoers care at all about who made the content. This sounds like an argument made in favor of practical effects over CGI, and we all know which side won that. People like you and I might love the practical effects in Oppenheimer simply for being practical, but the big CGI franchises crank out multiple films each year worth billions of dollars. If your argument is that the people driving the entertainment market will pay more for carefully crafted art than generic, by the numbers stories and effects, I can't disagree more.
I agree with your disagreeing.
On 7/29/2023 at 2:19 PM, KnightsFan said:Groot, Rocket Raccoon, and Shrek sell films and merchandise based off face and name recognition. What percent of fans do you think know who voiced them? 50%, ie 100 million+ people? How many can name a single animator for those characters? What about Master Chief from Halo (originally a one dimensional character literally from Microsoft), how many people can tell you who wrote, voiced, or animated any of the Bungie Halo games? In fact, most Halo fans feel more connected to the original Bungie character than the one from the Halo TV series, despite having a much more prominent actor portrayal.
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.
On 7/29/2023 at 2:19 PM, KnightsFan said:My final point is not specifically about AI. I live in an area of the US where, decades ago, everyone worked in good paying textile mill jobs. Then the US outsourced textile production overseas and everyone lost their jobs. The US and my state economies are larger than ever. Jobs were created in other sectors, and we have a booming tech sector--but very few laid off, middle aged textile workers retrained and started a new successful career. It's plausible that a lot of new, unknown jobs will spring up thanks to AI, but it's also plausible that "photography" shrinks in the same way that textiles did.
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.
On 7/29/2023 at 4:21 PM, kye said:There are also other things to take into consideration as well. Fans are very interested in knowing as much as possible about their idols, but idols are real people and have human psychological needs and limitations, but virtual idols will not. The virtual idols that share their entire lives with their fans will be even more relatable than the human stars that need privacy and get frustrated and yell at paparazzi etc. These virtual idols will be able to be PR-perfect in all the right ways (i.e. just human enough to be relatable but not so human that they accidentally offend people).
There is already a huge market for personalised messages from stars, virtual idols will be able to create these in virtually infinite amounts. Virtual stars will be able to perform at simultaneous concerts, make public appearances wherever and whenever is optimal, etc.
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.
On 7/29/2023 at 4:21 PM, kye said:"Computers in the future may weigh less than 1.5 tons.” - Popular Mechanics magazine, 1949.
"I think there is a world market for about five computers." ~ IBM's president, Thomas J Watson (said in the early 1940's)
8 hours ago, KnightsFan said:The problem with any effort to stop technology is that it won't work in the long run. Right now, there are only a handful of companies that have the computing power to run an LLM like ChatGPT
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.
9 hours ago, KnightsFan said:so it's somewhat feasible to control. But once the technology can run on your home PC, there is no amount of legislation or unionization that can control its use.
Too late, that genie left the bottle long ago.
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There has just been leaked the upcoming release schedule for their slate of movies:
I've heard that von Neumann will be 7hrs long.
- ntblowz and hyalinejim
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8 hours ago, Evgeniy85 said:
I don't think so.
It was hard to follow because there were a lot of characters, and it was cutting between different timelines, which made it hard to follow. I was expecting a different movie.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.
Sony SCL-Z18X140 and Sony PMW-F3 dilemma
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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.