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I watched the video and it was, as I expected, a lot of him whining about things where he was accurately called out.  He made some wishy-washy comments about how he talked about the RS early and often because of this and that, but I'd be willing to bet that if I had the attention span to go back and rewatch his video on any Sony camera with high RS (at least equal to the S1R II, and probably in 4K because... Sony), it'd probably be mentioned only briefly and about 3/4 the way through an otherwise glowing video.
He also threw in digs about overheating which is completely nonsensical, but he said would be a deal-breaker for him.  Fair enough, of course, but overheating after more than 1 hour in the camera's most taxing mode and not at all in most modes is just not a big thing for most people.  Poor battery life?  Sure, that's somewhat valid, but easily solved by...  buying a couple more batteries or just plugging the damn thing in, either to mains or a v-mount... or to a USB PD power bank for that matter.
He also completely misrepresents the comments people make about him not being a filmmaker.  It's totally fine for him to make an objective video where he talks about the specs of a camera.  One doesn't have to be a filmmaker for that.  On the other hand, the attention he pays to minutia and how much he harps on various things that are not that important to a filmmaker are relevant to the discussion.  Any of his preferences/suggestions come from the point of view of a person who leaves a studio permanently set up and, for the most part, stands by a desk and talks into a stationary camera.
I'm not a wedding videographer and as such, if someone came to me asking for the best gear to use if they wanted to get into it, I'd probably refer them to MrSMW and/or some local friends who do that instead of posing as the expert.  I'm not a commercial filmmaker either - so if someone wanted advice on the best stuff for corporate talking heads videos and the current fashion trends related to it, I'd send them off to a friend who does that stuff.
Even for the things I do shoot, if people ask me for info on the camera to buy, the answers have a lot of "well, it depends," "opinions vary," and "basically every mirrorless or cine camera released in the last 5 years will probably work just fine for you."  After all... they're all pretty damn good now.  If only that guy had released the Fran, I could have at least one camera to tell people not to buy.  Maybe the Bosma 8K sucks?  I remember seeing that it's actually for sale in some places, but I've never heard of anybody actually using one.

Exactly…!!!
Whether he likes it or not, he’s become a YouTube personality everyone trusts and goes to for “scientific results” and there are a lot of people that misconstrue his results. With the S1Rii all he had to do was say something like, “rolling shutter isn’t great, about the same as the other LUMIX cameras, turning DRE off will help a lot. This is a common trait of high res sensors like the A7RV and the SL3 so 8k readout speeds will be slow”
A line like that would have literally saved so many stupid comments and made this thing much less of an issue. He’s trying to blame LUMIX fan boys for people complaining when he really needs to check his ego and learn how to take constructive criticism. 

If Blazer come in L mount that would be really nice
One downside when using anamorphic desqueeze in Sony, you lose both AF and IBIS. But on Panasonic you still get AF and Anamorphic specific IBIS
I m not a fan of that hex bokeh from the 40mm either, luckliy they fixed it with the 20mm which shows oval bokeh.
 

Get yourself a gear cart! 

Doesn't have to be a fancy industry standard Inovativ film cart.

Doesn't even have to be a little lightweight Rock-n-Roller cart on the cheap. 

Just simply one of these garden trolleys (you can even get fold up versions!) that are as cheap as dirt could do the trick for you! They can be total game changers when it comes to carting your gear around shoots, and making your life easier, with the time you save. 

Get yourself a gear cart! 

Doesn't have to be a fancy industry standard Inovativ film cart.

Doesn't even have to be a little lightweight Rock-n-Roller cart on the cheap. 

Just simply one of these garden trolleys (you can even get fold up versions!) that are as cheap as dirt could do the trick for you! They can be total game changers when it comes to carting your gear around shoots, and making your life easier, with the time you save. 

Get yourself a gear cart! 

Doesn't have to be a fancy industry standard Inovativ film cart.

Doesn't even have to be a little lightweight Rock-n-Roller cart on the cheap. 

Just simply one of these garden trolleys (you can even get fold up versions!) that are as cheap as dirt could do the trick for you! They can be total game changers when it comes to carting your gear around shoots, and making your life easier, with the time you save. 

Get yourself a gear cart! 

Doesn't have to be a fancy industry standard Inovativ film cart.

Doesn't even have to be a little lightweight Rock-n-Roller cart on the cheap. 

Just simply one of these garden trolleys (you can even get fold up versions!) that are as cheap as dirt could do the trick for you! They can be total game changers when it comes to carting your gear around shoots, and making your life easier, with the time you save. 

I really don't think there's a better camera under $1,000 than the Lumix S5. 24mp for photos is enough for me most of the time, and the footage is really, really nice, some of the best I've ever worked with. It's capabilities are pretty much unmatched for the price. 
I'd also add the GH5 and G9 as really great values. You can get the GH5 for around $600 and if you know what you're doing you can still get great images from it. The GH6 is also under $1,000; that's a lot of pro features for a camera under $1000 and is only a few years old!
 
I've heard it's better than the S5ii X and I think the S5ii X's AF is very good.

I think certainly for stills, at least at ‘ordinary’ viewing levels which for 99.9999999999999% of all viewing these days is on a device and mainly a phone…and with compressed images at that!
The artist/craftsman in me still and always will fight back against that even if I am the only one that sees or even knows about it.
It’s one of the reasons I am chasing more megapixels. It’s not because I think it improves the image in any way as such, but because I can crop ever harder with a lower loss of quality which means I can use smaller and lighter kit which has so many benefits including enjoyment.
Tech for tech sake no. If it’s just data on a spreadsheet, who gives a shit, but when that tech relates to real world quality of life…

1) good directors who actually know what they want and are flexible if whatever they want is outside the scope.
2) as many good crew members as you want who are better at the technical minutae than you.
3) realistic planning and budgetting from production

Exactly! 
Video peformance is harder to max out (to the point at which we reach "the plateau"). No surprise there, as doing video with 24fps (or 30fps, or even 60fps) is a lot harder to achieve than stills with perhaps 1fps (or even say 5fps, for comparison the famous Nikon D800 could only do 4 frames per second). 
But eventually technology improves, and now we're seeing video performance also entering "the plateau" (arguably we're already well into it). 
  
I agree, what a LLM such as ChatGPT can do now for language translation is many lightyears ahead of what say Google Translate could do even just a few short years ago.  Especially when it comes to picking up nuances of tone, cultural differences, slang, and other tricky translation issues, then a LLM is a zillion times better than old school translation tools were. 
  
Doesn't the DJI Mini 4 Pro and DJI Air 3S shoot vertical video already? 
 

It was the $1500 fire sale on the Cine 6K. Picked that up plus an S5iix and S5ii. I got three great cameras for less than $4500. I’d been teetering on switching back to Panasonic, and I’ve always loved Blackmagic, so the stars aligned to make the switch back from Sony economical. 

Video performance is so close to its peak that people run out of things to whine about, splitting hair on frantic panoramic movements that no one will ever shoot in real life.

D800 and Pentax K-1
Best stills image quality from 10 years ago
I agree there's been a plateau.
The main difference between 2015 and 2025 if we're talking stills is that the GFX 100 II now exists.
100mp, and larger than full frame. That's quite a good advance.
In video the progress has been much more noticeable due to the speed and less heat of modern CPUs and sensors.

Whatever the personal preference on the shots, part of the question for me would be whether that's a capture-time decision or a decision to be made in the edit/color grade.  I tend to favor the latter.  Best to capture a flexible "negative" that can be manipulated after the fact.
As an example, I recently shot and then colored a short film with someone else doing the editing.  The editor complained after my first color pass that it was too contrasty and dark.  The scene is a tense scene in a hallway with a man in military gear guarding the rear while his comrades rush off.  The light in the hallway is flickering and supposed to be faulty.  For me, bringing the levels down and crushing the shadows (and yes, losing detail!) was absolutely the right call.  The darkness and contrast help to convey the tense feeling of the scene... and flickering lights tend not to be strong!
Anyway, thankfully the director/producer liked the darkness so we went with it...  but the washed-out look seems really fashionable these days (and I'm not all that here for it).

Another comparison between a high dynamic range scene in 2049 vs similar shot from the original...

I personally think the HDR 2049 scene looks too peaceful and clinical, milky, hazy.
Whereas the high contrast in the old film looks far more dramatic and in keeping with the brutality of that dystopian world.

I still think that ETTR and trying to max out dynamic range leads to a worse overall look.
It is one of the reason people complain about the colours on CMOS sensors and the flat tonality.
The cinema look even in uncontrolled light is to prioritise what part of the shot is the most important.
I really like my contrast

Take the original Blade Runner for example, there would be no benefit in bringing up the shadows in this shot.
The silhouette of the figure and the walkway is what the shot is about.
So here 7 stops better than 14.

In this one even though it's film the neon is blown out.
There would be no benefit having an Alexa 35 here because if the neon mess behind him was bright colours and details it would be distracting us from the main subject.

It is also supposed to look bright... because lights are... erm... bright
Like the sun is bright.
Today I don't know why people want to make lights look dark and shadows look bright, it makes no sense.

What I appreciate about it (quite a lot, actually) is that I rarely work in controlled lighting environments. While I'm not exposing for it, I regulalry do need to work shadows three stops or a bit more. The S1 has been strong for me in this regard and I'm intrigued that this camera might be even better rather than penalized for its higher resolution, which is what I was expecting. 
One still from a recent project that is eblematic of the environments I'm often in. This project had both stills and video as deliverables.

And in some context - main take away from the video is that if you are focussed on a compelling subject, rolling shutter is not what people are paying attention to: 
 

Forgive me because I've been terribly sick and am just waking up, but the rolling shutter only seemed really noticeable when dynamic range was on. For everything else it looked fine.

It still boggles my mind how youtubers don't understand for RS comparison you should put the two footages above eachother, not place them horizontally. 

Maybe you can use memes instead, I put a GIF button in.

This might sound ironic but I think if he used AI (ChatGPT) to translate for him, it will most likely be near flawless, which is to opposite point I think he's trying to make. I have used it extensively and it rarely makes mistakes. Also, you learn quite a bit from doing it too. Now, I rarely make mistakes when I write in French. AI is exceptionally good with their language models.

I love Emanuel because even though i can't understand 70% of what he says, I can tell from what I do understand and how long his posts are that they are pretty thoughtful. Haha
 
My friend, maybe speak in your native language? That might help, I think we can translate it can't we? Maybe that's an option we can add of this forum? 

I would not be able to tell even if you did my friend. 
 
Honest question for you, all jokes aside. Do you use a translation app before posting? Whatever your process is for posting in English, it isn’t working out so good. I would like to understand what you are saying but I feel that less then 10% of your thoughts are making it across to the other side here.