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I strongly dislike the censorship Patreon has been doing lately in cutting off several prominent people just because Patreon doesn't like their views :-/ 

Ditto PayPal! Sigh. 

Yet I use PayPal a lot as my basic invoicing system. Need to start thinking about something else to use instead so that I stop supporting PayPal :-/ 
I originally developed my interest in filmmaking because I looked around and saw a terrible lack (or what little there was, it was of extremely poor standard!) of media supporting my viewpoints in my country. 

Heh, yet unfortunately all these years later... I'd done little to fix that myself?! As I developed a love of filmmaking in general for its own sake and been keeping busy on too many other non-political projects!!

Fingers crossed the D5600 successor doesn't have crop for 4K (and has focus peaking in 4K!). As I'm certainly not buying a D850! But a D5x00 series camera is one I can easily afford if I wish.

I guess a slim possibility that the D5600 successor might be so low end they'll keep the crop for 4K with that. 

But I feel 100% confident that all new cameras that are higher end than D5x00 series will no longer have a crop for 4K. :-) 

Good! Means all future Nikons won't have crop for 4K

Good news about finally having focus peaking too! (pity only in 1080.... firmware update??? Please!!)

My two favorite movies are documentaries (which you can view the full films for free online!!):

1) "Line of Sight".

As it gives a very small insight into the world of being a bike messenger (which I live and breath myself! It is what I do in between my freelance jobs as a sound recordist on set), that otherwise the normal average person just can not do. 
https://www.pinkbike.com/video/299661/
 
 
2) "Fat Head".
Because it exposes what nonsense the food pyramid is. And that eating fat is not as evil as everyone seems to think it is. (personally I've been living a Low Card High Fat diet since 2011! And will carry on so for the rest of my life). 
 
 
 

Fingers crossed the D5600 successor doesn't have crop for 4K (and has focus peaking in 4K!). As I'm certainly not buying a D850! But a D5x00 series camera is one I can easily afford if I wish.

I guess a slim possibility that the D5600 successor might be so low end they'll keep the crop for 4K with that. 

But I feel 100% confident that all new cameras that are higher end than D5x00 series will no longer have a crop for 4K. :-) 

Good! Means all future Nikons won't have crop for 4K

Good news about finally having focus peaking too! (pity only in 1080.... firmware update??? Please!!)

I use Vimeo, but its also in virtu signaling business, they even created a category for Resistance! 
This war is already shaping the environment for content makers. You can't pretend nothing is happening. 

I hate this kind of thing as much as anyone right of center, but I find Google's tracking/advertising/manipulation practices to be more concerning especially considering their political clout and market share. The online advertising market is a straight up duopoly right now between them and Facebook.
But unfortunately, they're king when it comes to many things on the internet.

Good! Means all future Nikons won't have crop for 4K

Good news about finally having focus peaking too! (pity only in 1080.... firmware update??? Please!!)

It's a great stills camera though, if I were looking at a FX camera, this would be it. Not a Sony, but this.
12 bit raw in video? Nope. 12 bit raw in stills? Definitely. In fact there should be a 14 bit option.

So a lot of people strangely seem to argue in defense of Panasonic! :-/

Yes that is obvious,  but it really isn't a reason why Panasonic had to go EF with the EVA1

Video cameras never need the long flange distance, as they don't ever use a mirror.
Exactly! Buy Nikon over Canon lenses.

A workaround for the display button is actually a modification...get a small clear silicone bumper (used kitchen cabinets)...any hardware store....cut out the center part, peel of the sticky protector and stick it over the display button...that makes depressing accidentally impossible yet you can still reach it with something small enough...I never change it from the display I prefer with the level horizon line...my sollution for the shutter angle is always looking in the LCD before rolling, but it is a PITA!

Exactly what I mean when I say a "locking MFT" mount!
Like the Sony FZ mount, or the new E mount on the FS7 mk2. 
 
A Panasonic EVA1 MFT would allow you to do all that, **and** give you the additional options of gaining a stop of light with a FF FoV with your lenses if using a focal reducer.
*And* let you use MFT lenses too, if you ever changed your mind and went down that path in the future (or sold your EVA1 MFT in the future to a MFT shooter then they could buy it from you).

Do you get a large chunk of your income from stills shooting? 
Then you need to at least own the likes of a Canon 5D mk3 / Nikon D750 / Nikon D500 / etc

However.... unless you are the rare 0.00000001% of pro sports photographers, do you do not NEED the 1D X mk2 for stills. 

So get a much cheaper DSLR for your stills on the side (or even skip it entirely and use your iPhone, if it is only for super casual personal use and you're very tight for money) and get an actual cinema camera instead (although I'm not a fan of the C200. Go for Panasonic EVA1 or Sony FS7 or URSA Mini Pro instead).

 

... Not to mention that Panasonic could customize the external housing of the smart adapters to follow the form of the camera, employing a extra reinforcement flange that bolts the adapter to the camera body.
 
Clueless EF shooters would mount (and electronically control) their lenses with no wobble... and they would be none the wiser that they were actually using an adapter!

Wish I could like this more than once! :-( 

If you only stick with what has gone before then Ford never would have made a Model T, and instead would have just made a "better" horse pulled carriage.
 
MFT is Panasonic's best selling mount. 

Sigma, Rokinon, Samyang, and Veydra MFT glass all covers S35.

You can have a locking MFT mount, just like the FS7 mk2 did for E mount.
See my point above about making carriages, rather than cars. It is easy to get mislead with market research if you don't really think about what you're doing. 

They probably went out and asked a bunch of ex C300 shooters what they wanted, rather than asking any up and coming GH5 owners who are moving up.
Flexibility is why! Want to go ultra light, small, and compact? Then bring along a few MFT lenses!
Want to use PL lenses? You can do that too!

Want to have a Vistavision field of view? You can do that too!
Want to use a speedbooster? You can do that too!
 
However... the Panasonic EVA1 EF can do NONE OF THAT! :-(
 
Don't mix up its popularity due to being a JVC camera vs being an innovative MFT/S35 camera. 

Being a JVC product it was always going to struggle for sales. Thus the question you have to ask, is if being MFT/S35 gain it more or less sales?

I feel undoubtedly JVC got more sales due to being a MFT/S35 camera!

Just look at how we are still talking about it years later in late 2017!! Clearly it made a notable impact, that wouldn't have happened to the same extent it if was just another EF camera. 

I'd LOVE that!

The base mount itself would not add any extra cost. Yes, the main mount that then gets sold with it on top of the base mount would then cost extra in this scenario, but how much would it really add to the cost?

At the moment third party adapters range from twenty bucks or so, up to a thousand dollars or so. But due to bundling it up, and vast economies of scales, they would cost much much less to produce in terms of how much it would add to the final price of an EVA1 MFT,

Wish I could like this more than once! :-( 

I hate it when I'm watching a tutorial or how-to and the actual how-to part is behind several minutes of pointless blabbing. 8 min video for something that could be explained in 30 seconds or a paragraph. That's the bane of limitless capture.

I can only speak to my own job of sports photography but I think they might struggle with a D6 or even a D5s. No one is really crying out for higher speed at this point and if they are the economics are so tough at the moment that there are still plenty of D4 and D4s being used that shows people aren't ready to spend on the D5. That's the problem with selling workhorse cameras, people will take you at your word when money is tight!
If this D850 is to be the last hurrah for the D8** line in a mirrored format then maybe there is something in it being called 850 rather than 820. If they are looking to go out with a bang and also keep sports and photo journalists in the fold then a halfway house between the 820 and a D5 would be very popular. Something just a bit less resolution but that had proper performance at 12800 would be enough for me to do what I don't want to do which is buy another mirrored camera!
There are plenty of D8** cameras used in sport (by me included) but they tend to disappear into the bag when the lights dim. In the wilderness years before the D500 came along, the D8** was effectively - due to how far you could crop in - the best pro APS-C DSLR that Nikon made and that's how we used it. If they can combine that with better low light performance then it won't be a difficult sell for people like me with battered cameras who are baulking at a D5 price ticket this late in the mirrored game.
Who knows, maybe if they're committed to NOT doing another mirrored D5 successor then they might say "fuck it let's just make the last high end DSLR we make also be the best DSLR we ever made".
If they're looking for legacy like they did with the F5 when digital was coming in then that's exactly what they should be doing. As it stands, their legacy from this era will be the D3. Which is no bad thing but it would be great if they bucked the trend and went for giving us everything they could in a product instead of holding back.
Dream on though eh?
It'll be a million mp, useless beyond ISO3200, 1080p with a 5x crop, and have a mirror slap that could be measured on the Richter scale. The only thing approaching IBIS it will have is the Irritable Bowel Syndrome it give you when you shit yourself at the £3.5K price tag.
 

I'm not sure who did this first. Panasonic did it with the GH5 but I have a vague memory of Fuji doing the same, but might be mistaken.
Its the newest thing I guess. Build the hype early and get people on forums and such to say what they want in it.
They get free pols, target groups, data, etc. A lot of money saved in market research.
And it might slow down the sales of for example the A9 since many like to "wait for the next model before deciding".
Pretty smart imo.
And kinda nice. I would love to get an official confirmation of a Fuji  X70s or a Ricoh GRiii as early as possible.

I know you didn't ask me... but I've been using this camera since December and love it. Since then I've had like 3 upgrades, which is a great sign. Obviously this 422 one is the best and you can really tell.
I also regularly use an FS5, and honestly, I prefer working with the JVC.