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Oh I bought two lenses too as soon as the paralysis wore off 😂
They were easy though as I needed two more servo zoom MFT lenses for a project and the herd is thin when it comes to those.
I *think* there are only four (two each by Panasonic and Olympus) so I now have the full set.

Not a Black Friday deal but a deal none the less: i needed a wireless mic system but refuse to buy one of those ones with non-replaceable batteries, so decided to see how much the old Rodelink Filmmaker Kits were going for on ebay...
I bought one from a reputable seller that is listed as in "excellent" condition for $25 with free shipping. I bid, thinking it would probably get higher than that but nope, I won it for $25 and it'll arrive Friday. I'm quite happy! 

Just made use of it with a bottle of Boss Bottled Absolu for £57. Bargain.

Maybe a lot of the reviewers are just thankful to do an easy review so close to the holidays.  No need to do much work reviewing the camera when it's basically just like the last one.

"The last one was just fine and this one, being basically the same...  is also just fine."

No, AF is not supported at all. There is a Sony adapter for A mount lenses to E mount bodies but it’s only for photos and has no video functions unfortunately. 
 
I shoot video/films and rarely use autofocus so for me adapting lenses is all about the image IQ first and I can usually live with other issues. Most likely I will end up getting the whole set rehoused in the future to PL or LPL anyway. 

My favorite right now has to be Sony. After years of squeaking by with old cameras from several different brands, with odd adapters and cheap lenses, we finally invested in a complete Sony package this year. Overall just a really solid offering when it comes to cameras, image and feature wise. The FX6 is the best documentary camera hands down IMO. E-ND, 4k120, 4 channels of audio, good ergonomics etc. 
We're pairing that with a couple of FX30s for studio work, solid image and great for static use. And an A7R IV, which has been an awesome camera for some light video combined with photography use. The really nice thing is we can use all of the above mentioned cameras in a multicam shoot if we want, and they will match decently in post. 

Honorable mention to DJI - because they are thinking kinda outside the box. And choose to grow in unexplored markets.

They started with drones, and snowballed the market - except in some niche sectors, they crushed everyone else.

Second marlet tried was cine, with the DJI Ronin 4D - which I think is the most innovative camera of the decade. A lot of completely new stuff there - the LIDAR Af with the depth map for manual focus, the wheel control, the 4 axis gimbal. Not so great in ergo, but was an amazing achievement. This path they not suceed, but was a ambitious 1st try.

And the Osmo Pocket 3 - almost everyone that tries it falls in love (including me). Amazingly easy to operate (my wife is using it to make social media videos for her clients, she knows NOTHING about filming, and the videos come out very good), very good stabilization, and the image quality is like 80% of my X-S20. The only camera that I ever used in auto ISO - its metering is VERY good. And in a very unusual and compact form factor, a REAL pocket cam. 

There are rumors that they will enter the traditional camera market - I have my doubts, since all the markets already established that they entered they have no (the Ronin 4D) or ok success (action cams and gimbals). They rise on unexplored paths - and I guess that if they make a camera, would be breaking some molds.

(albeit I suspect that the 1st breaking mold camera should be - or MUST be, to be a success - the 1 inch "half-frame" Fuji)

I'm certainly loving my FX30. So easy to use and get good results from.

Yeah, I’m always surprised more people aren’t as excited about the X-H2s as I am. I know there’s a bias against Super 35 still but the huge popularity of the FX30 shows me it’s not all Full Frame these days. 
 
For anamorphic shooting the 6.2k open gate is awesome. And ProRes? Amazing deal for $1,500 used right now. 
I’m looking at the specs of the new Fuji X-m5 and thinking it will make a great B or C camera to the X-H2s. My ideal traveling doc setup is going to be
GFX 100ii - Stills and static video shots 
X-H2s - Action and gimbal, handheld. 
X-M5 - C cam third angle, street cam. 
 
I picked up a number of older Minolta AF lenses this year for really cheap and metabones makes a MAF to Fuji X speedbooster for them. Having the full set of lenses for peanuts including a lot of fast f/1.4 lenses is going to be fun to play with. 
 

Next Monday I will be buying my final camera* and it will be from the same brand that I have bought in every one of the last five decades.
Nikon.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*insert your own rolling eyes gif here

You are right! : )
As much brand agnostic (actually quoted by @Danilo Del Tufo with that slogan a couple of decades ago : D) as @Django!
Another reason more to mention manufacturers instead since it is a way to celebrate a manufacturer cares about building it up ; ) The idea came from someone else @IronFilm mention both of them I also praise ATM.
A manufacturer is much distinct from a brand BTW ;- )

It's honestly what makes me the most excited about new camera releases these days, it helps push down the prices of the older secondhand models. Bring on the Nikon Z6 mk4 & mk5! (and a Nikon Z60 pretty please!!)
Will make the Nikon D750 and D500 that much more affordable on eBay

Nope, but…
Well I am interested in it and was aware it was coming and for me, it is another lens that I am VERY interested in except for one fact, it’s a bit expensive 🤔
Until 2024 came along, for my needs, lenses have always been the Achilles Heel for me and I have both wanted and needed fast do it all lenses.
At the end of 2023, the ‘best’ option I had in L Mount was the Leica 24-90 f2.8-4 which was; big, heavy, variable aperture and not especially fast for indoor / low-light work.
Since then, all under 1kg/2lbs, we have had; Sigma 28-45mm f1.8, Sigma 28-105mm f2.8 and now this new Sony.
My system has been L Mount for photo & video for 2 years with Sony coming in this year for stills.
Nikon is coming back for 2025 for me as a hybrid option, as in can shoot stills alongside my main Sony (A7RV) cam, plus video alongside my Lumix.
But, as I am down to just 1 camera and 1 lens for L Mount and STILL no sign of any S2H or S2R, I have decided to throw my lot in with Sony & Nikon for 2025 and onwards.
Why?
Lenses. 
More specifically because I can lens share across both Sony and Nikon bodies with any e Mount lenses including if I fancied it, putting this new 28-70 f2 on any Nikon Z body.
Except I won’t because for one single fact and that is whilst any e Mount lens can be adapted with near native AF and IBIS on any Nikon Z body, you do not get the in camera corrections that you get with using native lenses on Sony bodies, so I am somewhat wary of using e Mount lenses on Nikon bodies.
More for stills than video, but a couple of tests required on that department before fully committing…
But back to this lens specifically…
Faced with a choice of Sigma 28-45mm f1.8 for indoor and low-light work plus Sigma 28-105mm f2.8 for outdoor, for the SAME cost as this new 28-70, this new 28-70 does not make financial sense to me.
It’s a stunning lens in isolation and if you do not need longer than 70mm, possibly great, but as above, I can’t see how it could work for me with this pairing of Sigma lenses which cover FAR more bases for the same total cost.
The camera doesn’t interest me. The S5ii does all I need and the Z6iii, most likely my main video unit for 2025, arguably even more and providing it can work with the Tamron 28-75 f2.8 which I am going to test on my Zf, will almost certainly be my video A cam.
Actually, I have tested that combo for stills over several weddings earlier this year and for stills, worked very well other than the odd vertical distortion that was a bit of a PITA to fix in post, but for video should be OK.
Mostly I am happy to see these new fast zooms which were but a dream only one year ago.

Obviously is a lens that exists to compete against Canon's 28-70mm f2
Are Panasonic and Nikon going to bring out their own versions of this next as well??
Is this lens going to make @MrSMW once again rethink his wedding filmming / photography setup? (or no? Too heavy?)
Is going to have a RRP of US$2898, and will be shipping this Decemeber. 
You can see here what the lens looks like on a FX3, not too badly sized:

Sony also announced a new Second-Generation Flagship flagship camera, the Sony Alpha 1 II
Also will be shipping in December, and is priced at US$6,499 
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1861705-REG/sony_a1_ii_mirrorless_camera.html 
 
Key Features:

From a videographer's perspective, not really a huge upgrade from the mk1? 

But when Nikon keeps an old sensor in a sub $1000 APSC body and upgrade everything else, the internet says "what a bummer". When Sony does the same, in a $6500 body, YouTubers call it "mind blowing", "perfect flagship". If Canon does the same its called "corporate greed", but when it comes to Sony its called "strategy".
It also debunks the old stupid notion, again, that Sony Semi keeps the best and state of the art sensor for Sony Imaging! Sony Semi can't send the best when Sony Imaging says "We don't want the best, cause its high development price lower our profit margin, thanks". So Sony users are stuck with 8k30p, and non downsampled 4k, for the next two years, while users of the other Sony Semi customer have 8k60p and downsampled 4k60. 

Obviously is a lens that exists to compete against Canon's 28-70mm f2
Are Panasonic and Nikon going to bring out their own versions of this next as well??
Is this lens going to make @MrSMW once again rethink his wedding filmming / photography setup? (or no? Too heavy?)
Is going to have a RRP of US$2898, and will be shipping this Decemeber. 
You can see here what the lens looks like on a FX3, not too badly sized:

Sony also announced a new Second-Generation Flagship flagship camera, the Sony Alpha 1 II
Also will be shipping in December, and is priced at US$6,499 
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1861705-REG/sony_a1_ii_mirrorless_camera.html 
 
Key Features:

From a videographer's perspective, not really a huge upgrade from the mk1? 

Not exactly Black Friday but the service I use to buy cheap used gear in Japan has a bunch of 10% off coupons that work in their auction sites. 
 
https://buyee.jp/yahoo/auction
Just scored a very nice lumix S5 for $550 including FedX shipping to the U.S. with a coupon. 
 
 

"The data shows Democrats taking a sharp turn leftward on social issues over the past decade. This has distanced them from the median voter. Notably, the shift began in 2016. This suggests that Trump’s election radicalised the left, not the right."
https://www.ft.com/content/73a1836d-0faa-4c84-b973-554e2ca3a227

The data does indeed show there has been a clear swing to the extreme left (but it happened even earlier than 2016), thus why I said that.
It's now the Republicans who are closer to Democrats of the past (such as the era of Bill Clinton) than modern Democrats of 2024 are, who have abandoned what the Democrat Party used to be, leaving that ground instead to only Republicans to claim. 
If Democrats want to win elections again, they should look to reclaim this lost ground they've given away to the Republicans. But it might be a multiyear process to regain the trust of voters (as it's been a decade plus long swing away from the median voters the Democrat Party has been doing, you can't change that overnight), otherwise voters will just suspect politicians are doing what they usually do to voters: lying to them. (take for instance Kamala Harris suddenly trying to be "tough on the border" in the final weeks of the campaign, come on man, nobody is taking her seriously over that! It's just pure political spin, and not what she truly believes, in fact her doing that out of desperation just made her look even less authentic)

 

Let's not forget that many of these most prominent people who were on the other side to Kamala Harris and the Democrat Machine were people who had for most of their lives been Democrats (or at the very least liberal / Democrat leaning / voting), until that is the Democrats lurched to the extreme left, and left them behind: Joe Rogan, Tim Pool, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , Donald Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald, Elon Musk, Dave Rubin, etc
For all of these people to have called them "conservatives or right wingers" would have been flat out wrong for most of their lives. 
https://theconversation.com/the-intellectual-dark-web-just-won-the-election-meet-the-coalition-of-joe-rogan-rfk-jr-tulsi-gabbard-and-elon-musk-243380 
The Dow Jones is still up a massive two thousand points since the election (nearly five percent)
Let's not forget that democracy was also an issue too, and on this point the exit polling showed that Trump was beating Harris as the better candidate for people who cared about democracy:

Honestly this shouldn't be too surprising when you look at how the Biden Administration behaved over the last four years, and when you consider the palace coup which took place to put in place Kamala Harris, and how the Democrat Machine just totally ignored the will of their own voters in mattering in the process. 
Exit polls are much more accurate than polling done prior to an election, which is why I was referring to that in my prior comment. 
 
People forget how unusual it was what Trump did! He was the first president since Jimmy Carter to not start a new war! Hopefully the next four years will in this particular matter, be the same as his first term of presidency.
USA has been so eager to jump into new wars for so long, hopefully this is another trend that Trump can break, and maybe even end. Perhaps if after Trump's presidency if we can get elected someone such as say Tulsi Gabbard perhaps, then we could see another four years then eight year added on top of there being "no new wars". And we could see created a new normal, of USA not going to war every other second. 
A lack of new wars would also go a long way towards drying up new funding towards the military industrial complex.
THIS. USA has gravely depleted its weapon stocks. USA needs to immediately stop sending hundreds of billions of arms to Ukraine, as all it is accomplishing at the moment is: 1) needlessly perpetuating yet more deaths of Ukrainian men (they truly are trying to take literally the saying "until the last Ukrainian", this is going to be a demographic disaster for post war Ukraine) & 2) running dry USA's own stocks which is putting at risk USA's own security should they need it for themselves.
Although in the long run, the better approach is to onshore more of USA's critically strategic manufacturing. Which has been part of both this administration's plan, and a very major part of the incoming administration's plan as well. 
The terribly botched withdrawal from Afghanistan happened under the Biden Presidency.
How much of that was due to "outsourcing security to the USA" vs being due to: 1) having a collective living memory of the recent horrors of WW1 & WW2, with zero desire whatsoever to repeat that under any circumstance 2) having ever close economic ties with each other now within Europe than ever before (the more you're trading with a country, the less likely you wish to go to war and ruin all that prosperity)
Unfortunately true, because no matter who the people elect to represet them in Washington DC, its "the establishment" (the unelected bureaucrats) who hold all the cards. 
NATO primarily existed to oppose the USSR, and the moment The Cold War ended then NATO itself should also have been wound down and abolished. 
But unfortunately many people (such as the John Boltons, Victoria Nulands, and Dick Cheneys of the world) liked The Cold War, and wished that it never ended. And thus did everything in their powers to try and perpetuate The Cold War, to justify their existence and to keep the dollars $$$ rolling into the military industrial complex.
In fact in their wet dreams they don't just want the old Cold War to carry on as a forever war, but they're even happy to see a hot war. 
And in Ukraine they're seeing those wishes play out as they wanted. 
 

It is pretty easy to spot the bias in MSM if you still have your critical faculties about you. I haven’t read newspapers or watched TV since early 2000’s. So now when I ocassionally see coverage  with my arguably obsolete frame of what objective reporting should be I can point out factual error, bias, and vested interests in seconds.
 
But much like in advertisement the repetitive nature of installing fear and sowing divisiveness takes a hold when tuning in to it daily I’m sure.  Glad most of the American people are seeing they have been fed bullshit this cycle. Talking to 50+ Uber drivers when I was over in the USA in 2017 after Trump won  it struck me people just want to live their lives and have more in common than not on both sides of the aisle.
 
Could in general not care less about which side wins as party positions have drastically shifted through the years.   I’m a one issue pro bitcoin voter so I’d have voted Trump this time.  And Dems will undoubtedly co-opt bitcoin in 4 years like nothing happened if it brings them to power again. Really curious to see what the UK stance will be towards Trumps policies.  Pro bitcoin will keep London relevant as a financial center and move them further away from doomed  centralizing hungry Europe - we’ll see.  
 
On a personal note as  Dutch citizen facing new capital gains tax regulations and an exit tax possibly within 2 years I’m actively planning to emigrate the continent altogether. F that - sure as hell won’t be  held financially hostage by my country of birth. I am voting with my feet 🦶

Just because the majority of voting Americas voted for Trump, does not make them conservatives or right wingers. Many of them simply voted against Harris, just as people voted against Trump in 2020.
Picking the lesser of two evils is what it comes down to in American politics today and not some type of ideological victory as the media would have you believe.
So when I encounter liberals - I happen to rent a room from one. When we actually talk about the issues, it turns out we have more in common as Americans than the media would have us believe.  All these labels do is divide people...
I'm pretty sure the hierarchy of needs is something like shelter, food, and sex rather than "believe what I believe or we can't work together to help each other get our common needs meet"...
Ironically every day has now become "be kind to a liberal day" because the media completely lied to their base about the election forecast - no wonder people for Harris are upset about the election results - same thing happened on 2016. 
The situation is not people vs people - it is divide and profit by the media - it makes sick the brain washing the has taken over society.
People are people and may the best film maker win regards of how they voted in an election, or what race or gender or creed they are.
The facts is, it is the people against the media rather liberals against conservatives - what a deception - I happen to like pulp fiction and tropic thunder... great cinema is great cinema and great comedy is great comedy no matter who makes it and who is offends...
The price of freedom is me allowing other's to express ideas that I don't agree with and other's allowing me to express ideas they don't agree with... hopefully the first amendment is practiced on this forum. ; )

Yup, NZ is a must : ) In my heart since 2015 at least...
 
 

It looks promising! Everything looks sensibly laid out, more or less. I'd be extremely surprised if Fuji doesn't intend to follow up with a S35 version if this sells well.
On a side note, the number of people on various sites who said "I would buy x camera if they put it in a cinema body!" and now turn around and say "it's just a lazily rehoused x camera" is truly mind boggling.

Cined's interview with Fuji that I posted above pretty much confirms that the Eterna camera is "basically the same" as the GFX 100 II in terms of capability.  So I don't think it's even safe to say that the RS improvement is "likely."  It's possible, but I wouldn't bank on it.
It's believed by just about everybody that the GFX 100 II continues to use an IMX 461, given the complete lack of meaningful change in photo capabilities and the fact that Sony doesn't have any newer sensor available.  It's not clear whether it's been tweaked by Sony or whether Fuji is using some other trickery (such as using an 11-bit readout instead of 12-bit) to achieve the increased frame rates.
Anyway, the point isn't what it's safe to assume about this camera, but that is a nice attempt to reframe the argument so that you'll be right.  The point is that the readout modes chart in the sensor data sheet doesn't give the entire picture about the capabilities of the sensor and nothing in that datasheet or elsewhere specifically excludes the possibility of overclocking.  You know, the argument that you were actually trying to make and failed at.

..or Gareth Edwrds who shot the Creator on an FX3. But I agree the cinema world is super conservative with ARRI sitting firmly on top. TV, docu & indie is a more crowded market but there are big players: RED, BM, Canon C & Sony FX. I'm not sure who the target of this Fuji Eterna will be, its gotta be super niche. It's kind of the camera nobody asked for. Medium format sounds great but if you're going to have poor rolling shutter with razor thin DoF plus huge lenses, I don't see many applications where this would warrant such an investment.
I've said this a while ago, but my dream for Fuji is that they revive their old school Fujica system with hand grip a la Bolex. Modernise it with pro I/O and an EVF/flip screen but keep the form factor and essence. Place the XH2S sensor with built-in cooling and an E-ND. It could even be vertical sensor default and it would switch if you rotate 90 degrees. That might make people cringe but the camera would be a hit in wide segments (think X100 craze). And if anyone can go quirky/retro/legacy its Fuji X: