Marcio Kabke Pinheiro

Got one some time ago for around 280 euros in today's exchange. Of course with some problems, but all far from deal breakers. - The back LCD have some coating delamination, but only visible when it is turned off. Turned on, zero problems - id just a cosmetic issue. - The EVF have a little "fogging", looks like the camera is using a black mist filter. But the stills and video ouput are perfect, hence for framing and exposure evaluation, is a no problem. - There is a dust spot on the sensor. It is a very "glued" one - tried to dislodge it with a variety of methods, but with no sucess. Only appear with very close apertures in stills, and in video with some directional light. Planning to clean the sensor myself - iFixit have a complete and detailed disassembly guide, and I guess that the sensor could be removed without removing the lens assembly like in their guide. Biggest trouble - to realign the sensor again after removing, the sensor assembly is mounted with screws + springs. Common method is to mark the screws positions, tight them to the end and count the number of rotations befor removing; my plan is to use this method in conjuction with a precision digital depth meter (already bought one), to measure the depth between the lens assembly and the sensor backplate around the screws. Using the two methods together, I guess that I could mount it again with good precision. The images looks like that have a bit of "halation" - much less than the EVF one. Since the camera came from a beach city, my take is that some of the sea moisture entered the EVF and on the sensor surface, one more reason to clean the sensor. But even in the current state, was weel worth the price. Is my live concert camera - since security generally have rules agains "cameras that change lenses", this one they cannot do nothing against. Stils are very good with a bit of sharpening post. Video have the greener cast of the GH4 pipeline era, but is good enough, and filming in Cinelike-D with a good LUT have a solid quality. Love the ergos - I was "raised" with Panasonic cameras, and their ergos / interface are second nature for me. The camera feels a bit hollow, though. One particular thing (that I don't know if it another issue from my unit) - the external mic input is VERY hot. With the external mike that I use on all my cameras (a Andycine M1), the level explodes even when turned down to a minimum. Will buy an attenuator cable (in fact, a headphone volume controller) to lower the input signal. The internal mikes were bad as the last Panasonic ones are - since it had two big grilles, I expected that were good ones like the GH2 had, but...not. Like it a lot - my old M43s cameras had a a bit better IQ, and the X-S20 have a much better IQ, but for the praticality (and in most cases, being allowed into venues) and the current prices, was a very good aquisition.

Smartphones made it worse, but people nowadays simply don't READ. Nothing. Never. In any form. Is all video and podcasts - generally speed up by 1.5x times. And Anantech (which is probably one of the sites that I've visited most in my life) had another problem - since the Anand's departure, it became excessively technical. It always was the most technical site, but Anand had talent to make a deeply technical review be pleasent to read. In the last years, the writing there became ONLY technical, to a point that a person that like that kind of review unpleasant to read. (and to find a hardware test dedicated to filming software is almost impossíble - the closest is the Puget tests, which are very limited. And there goes a bunch of people spending a bunch in a top Ryzen config with a beastie RTX card only to discover that it could not decode 10bit 4:2:2 on hardware)

Caleb Pike (aka DSLR VIdeo Shooter) started a new business (in fact, it is his main business now) of making these "cube like" attacment for mirroless cameras. The Sony ones are cool, even have space for small fans to prevent overheating.

There is a software problem. Android is too heavy for a camera operating system, except if somene makes a VERY lightweight and specialized fork - and I guess that for use the original Android apps, would be not lightweight enough. Maybe someone should give Tizen another look - just for the interface part. About apps, there should be a basic editor on camera, and social media posting would be much better be done by some kind of server that receives the pictures with login credentials and post it on social media; but nowadays almost all social media don't have anymore exernal APIs (because ads). Pixii is doing very interesting things with Linux in their cameras, but is far from smartphones.

I guess we still have the mistery about how makes the 25mp sensor of the GH6/7 and G9Mk II? In the launch, Panasonic hinted that it was supplied by a "unusual party", if I remember correctly.

I'm in the verge of a computer upgrade (forced to update to Windows 11 before the end of 2025, because MS will pull the lug on Windows 10 support), and since my X-S20 records on H.265 10-bit 4:2:2, I've searching about this decoding issues on timeline. Bottom line: Puget Systems have a chart that is constant updated, showing what codecs are hardware decoded (encoding is another story). H265 10-bit 4:2:2 are currently ONLY supported by Intel CPUs using QuickSync (which means that you have to choose a CPU with integrated GPU, even if you will use a external GPU). https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/what-h-264-and-h-265-hardware-decoding-is-supported-in-davinci-resolve-studio-2122/ Worse: I've been trying for weeks to discover which codecs are HW decoded by the newer Snapdragon CPUs, and even in Qualconn pages I could no get this info.

Maybe the AI is a Sony fanboy.

With Fro's hair, the camera is ALWAYS on a shade. 🙂 One (not very elegant solution) is using some 3rd party fan. I had the 1st version of the Ulanzi one and tested in a torture test in my X-S20 (35 degrees Celsius, 12 o clock, camera under full sun) - without the fan the camera overheated after around 25 minutes, with the fan it lasted until the battery died. The newer version uses a srping to attach in the camera back, much better than the suction cups of the 1st one. Smallrig launched external fan these days too. Kinda clunky solutions, but if you are cash strapped, it works (here in Brazil cameras costs A LOT more, and the 1st ZV-E10 was a huge seller).

Got a Neewer kit, looks like they are ok. The filter should be very low profile, if not the gimbal would not turn the head to storage properly (the DJI ones AFAIK have this problem).

The most of the look is given by the black mist filter - people love to use very heavy "misting" with this camera. Personally, I thnk that it gives too much "halation" in the highlights, look like a very detailed scene of the 1st Unreal game. 🙂 A weaker one could take away a good bit of the "digital edges" of the image (which is desirable, Pocket 3 image is VERY sharp, even with the sharpness all turned down) without looking as a meth trip.

I guess that @Dave Maze now could confirm it. 🙂

Calm down, looks like that the hooker thing is not used anymore. 😄

Or a card slot in the XLR unit?

Yep, it is coming - not surprising giving the latest news. https://www.43rumors.com/confirmed-panasonic-will-announce-the-new-lumix-gh7-on-june-5/ "Unconfirmed" specs: Most features of the Lumix G9II internal RAW new 32bit float recording methods via a new XLR unit has large fan Lumix LAB app support in Stock in July

"Chimp Empires" should be a documentary about Fujifilm X-Pro 3 users - the ones that raved about the stupid back LCD that brought back "real photography" and after made a class action suit against Fujifilm for the LCD ribbon cables being broken (because, of course, in real life, not making online dick measuring, the open the fking LCD all the time to chimp the photos).