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hey there, Adelaide is "nearby" and is the largest city in the state ( and the fifth-most populous city in Australia). Merely a couple of thousand kilometers away (closer to Perth than we in Auckland are to Sydney!)

Yeah the premium buyers are not price sensitive enough to care, they'll just get something in between a RED Komodo for $6K at the very low end through to a secondhand ARRI ALEXA Mini for $20K at the other end (or even nicer, such as an ARRI 35). btw, isn't it crazy how cheap the Mini is these days?? While the low end budget buyers are just going to go instead with ZCam E2 series / Panasonic BGH1 / BS1H / BMD Micro Camera / RED Komodo, for similar or much much less cost. (or low end budget buyers might even just simply say "screw it", and not care about the box format, and will get instead a P4K / S5mk2 / FX30 / etc) Documentary shoots are rarely shooting with a "box style camera". Unless it's a high end doco, then they're using an ARRI Mini (or ARRI 35 now). Or if they're needing high frame rates, so they use a RED. But even that's less common, now that Sony etc (heck, even Canon!) can do good slow motion on their cameras.

Stumbled across this feature film which came out quite recently that was shot entirely with the Panasonic G7! Tease trailer: Trailer:

I asked him about pricing and he said: https://www.reddit.com/r/NexusCameras/comments/194mnf3/comment/ki389b9/?context=3

Komodo-X is a $10K camera just for the barebones brain. (although year the OG Komodo is a few thousand cheaper). The RED Tax still exists, it's just not as hefty as it used to be.

It's a tricky life freelancing, where just one or two little things going the other way can make or break a year.

Yeah you can easily enough get a RED Komodo for $5K secondhand (even less by the time the Nexus G1 finally is available!). But personally I'd rather not pay the RED tax and instead have a Panasonic BS1H or ZCam E2-S6 for half the cost.

Any guesses whatsoever at pricing for the Nexus G1?? It surely wouldn't be at Komodo pricing levels!! 😮 But I bet a Z CAM E2-S6 would be a better buy (only US$2.2K)

Hasn't even been announced yet. But probably the same price as the Z6 and Z6 II was before it? Or maybe up to a couple of hundred dollars higher. (damn inflation...)

ohhhh... I'd never even considered this! But I've got tonnes of MFT lenses, and a Fujfilm X-A3 I use for casual photography.

That's from an old sensor too! And "only" FHD. Recording FHD 8bit 420 from a GH6 today (maybe you've got severe budget issues when it comes to storage space and/or a potato as an editing PC) would look waaay better than the GH2 does.

Even I have nightmares about that happening! Under certain circumstances then Fortran is faster than C

That's dumb... that's the identical article to which @kye linked to. Don't understand why ymcinema changed the URL

I still utterly irrationally want a Panasonic Varicam LT. (they can be got for maybe US$3.5K on eBay) And to buy half a dozen Panasonic BS1H box cameras to make 360VR with! They've had a huge price drop, down to US$2.5K brand new (same price as a new S1H! Which itself has got a big price drop): https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1664826-REG/panasonic_dc_bs1h_lumix_bs1h_full_frame_box_style.html

Love it! That's my jam. lol! Don't blame PTSD from then as reasons not to use Fortran today 😛 Wow, our posts are bringing out all the older times from the woodworks! 😮 Punch cards... I thank my lucky stars I never had to do that. (although I did have one Physics lab, stretched out over multiple 3hr sessions, where I was literally flipping switches so as to enter in my program I'd written in binary to then run it on their hardware) Anyway, Fortran of today in 2024 is very different to the Fortran you'd have used back then! 🙂 Fortran is even a Top 20 language, in terms of popularity in the world (currently at this moment it's ranked #12): https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ That was basically me too! My family didn't own a computer, or even a TV.

Yeah it is rough for us living down under, no matter if in Oz or NZ. The taxes and extreme shipping costs.

On the topic of 2.5K, I saw a crazy cheap BMCC 2.5K MFT for just US$300 on eBay today but the shipping costs are obscene 😞

That is exactly what I did as well, except mine was a full size cage from Camtree. I never had to worry about the HDMI port ever! It's confirmed that Jeromy Young is from the West Island of New Zealand.

I wish I used to code in COBOL! (or heck, Fortran) But sadly it's something far worse... FoxPro (both FoxPro 2.6 and Visual FoxPro). Well, FoxPro is definitely a much "better" language than COBOL. But I'd say its market value in terms of employability is drastically lower.

I've been seeing a surprising number (i.e. more than zero, which is the usual amount) of Aaton Cantar X3 (or Cantar Mini ) recorders being listed in recent months, the temptation is terribly real and hard. (it helps though not having the $$$$ for them! ha) It shouldn't be you'd presume Doesn't it have an aggressive crop too? My Sumsung NX300 has that as well! 😄 But I haven't shot anything 3D with it 😞

That's surprisingly cheap! Let us know how it sounds please, am curious if it is very noisy.

I think the demand for Juniors/Interns in that field is probably going to soon drop off a cliff, but I think the demand for Senior Software Developers will remain strong for years to come

Yeah the GH1 was groundbreaking itself, as were the ones after it, the GH4 and even GH5. But the competition is so hot now, GH7 needs something "big" in it. And 8K or raw won't do it. Internal NDs are what we need! (and/or SDI out.... please??)

If they're going to release a "DX300", then they should make it with a MFT mount. But if they're going to release a new pro video camera with a mirrorless mount, then it would more likely be an "EVA2" with a L Mount Not possible at all while they don't support timecode 😞 True, but there is also a huge class of productions which are not for Netflix but have very similar needs/expectations.

Steadicam is the "traditional" alternative to a gimbal. (although, they're both slightly different types of tools, and not exact replacements for each other!) However due to the massively lower costs of a gimbal (both the equipment and the operator), then I do see gimbals being used instead quite often. I agree, even a 15minute edit length would be a huge improvement over the only five minutes or so we have now (it's a little longer than 1 minute? But not by much). Although I personally feel perhaps an hour or three would be the sweet spot. As that's still waaaaay under the typical time period for when those spammy bots would be posting then returning back to add sneaky links in the edit. I'm on gearspace too! But I'm very easy to figure out, I keep the same username over there as well 🙂