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On 5/2/2025 at 7:38 AM, Emanuel said:

For more INFO

This firmware was released some time ago, and I already used a lot the 40mm zoom mode. Yes, there is almost no drop on image quality - only "problem" is that it only works in the Normal color profile, don't work with Log.

Did not tested the breathing compensation, but from the reviews that I saw, it works really well.

And about Europe...it is not so far away from the USA insanity as it might appear.

The Le Pens got very close to govern France. The far-right is making inroads on Germany. @Emanuelcould talk about the Andre's Ventura "Chega" party on Portugal. Orbán is already in charge on Hungary, as Erdogan in Turkey. Millei (an idiot as crazy as Trump, or worse) is in charge of Argentina - with 55% below the poverty line. And I already talked about Brazil.

The far-right is a world cancer now.

13 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

And Brazil has stricter and better laws about hate speech and false reporting than the US - the reason that Twitter and Starlink were recently shut off in the country for a while.  It's even worse here where that's not even a thing.

Speaking as someone from the US, this is more true than I'd like it to be.

Kinda.

Twitter was closed for some time here because the Baby Spreader owner dismissed the local Twitter legal representatives, and by local laws, no enterprisde here could work with a legal representative. Nothing to do with fake news.

Starlink was not cancelled - the Superme Court here blocked Starlink's local assets to pay the fines that Twitter took for (in this case, yes) not giving the law data from some users involved in nazi stuff (including some kids that performes school shootings). The fines were paid and their assets were returned.

Twitter is not much of a problem here - the fake news trends are made there, but the spreading is done using Whatsapp and Telegram groups - closed groups, which cannot be accessed by the law if the owner of the site does not allow to.

DJI Pocket 3 in B&H went from $519 to $619.

1 hour ago, ND64 said:

What is all about this demand for rangefinder we see everywhere? I'm just curious. What difference does it make, compared to Zf for example? 

Others, I don't know. Nostalgia, probably.

For me, it is because I like to shoot on streets, when travelling (and where anything "DSLR-like" gets a lot of attention and make everyone around unconfortable), and like to shoot in concerts (rangefinder-like cameras atracts no attention to security, SLR-like cameras are banned).

Shoot a lot of concerts and travelled a lot in my m4/3 days, nobady ever cared about the GX7, GX85 and GX9 that I had (only once one approached to see my GX7 thinking it was a film camera). Only m4/3 camera that was barred on security in a concert was...a GH2 (because looks like a DSLR).

My current X-S20 is kinda discreet, but sometime people bother a little when see a EVF hump.

For much less Aaron Swartz was so prosecuted that took his own life.

On 4/3/2025 at 5:34 PM, mercer said:

Was excited to hear about the internal raw recording in the Z5ii and then a little less excited when I watched the Gerald Undone video... and then when he started showing real world footage, he was literally wearing a Sony Alpha jacket while recording a Nikon review... why are these competing companies sending him these cameras?

That said, the review was fine, raw implementation in an IBIS body, with decent AF, at this price has been a dream of mine, but it seems like there are so many gotchas that I am left bewildered why these companies even use raw? If your'e going to add NR, then what's the point of a smoothed over raw file? I shoot raw because I prefer the gritty textures that feel like you could reach into the frame and touch it.

I said in the Komodo price drop thread that I wouldn't be a customer, but at the current price, maybe I'd be better off saving up for a Komodo. Theoretically, that camera could provide a viable image for the next 5-10 years for me.

And with all that said, it is still exciting to see raw video to an internal SD, with these features, at this price point. When I read this post, I had already thought about posting my FP up for sale and preorder the Nikon, now I'll wait to see how it does with more serious shooters in the coming weeks/months.

The FP lives to see another day.

Internal RAW probably was just for bragging rights, but yeah, it could backfire.

For a entry level camera, it would be perfectly acceptable to have external RAW option (which it has, with full quality) - if you are saving money in a camera, probably would not have a beast computer to handle external files.

But if Nikon make a rangefinder version of this one (or if the ZF had the same size), I would probably jump ship to Nikon. 

On 4/3/2025 at 7:33 AM, Andrew Reid said:

Anyone still under the magic spell of nationalism thinking Trump is so great is about to get a massive fucking wake up call when they look at their bank account.

Nope, they won´t. If social media does not become regulated and co-reponsible for the content they publish, they won't.

He had our Trump here in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. He blocked the Covid vaccines for months - Pfizer offered their vaccines for a very low price as soon as it was approved, because they wanted to use Brazil as an example. They sent 101 emails (yep) for all the authorities, NONE had an answer. A congressional investigation after discovered that it was blocked because some of their allies were trying to put some intermediates on vaccines to profit around US$1 per dose.

More than 700.000 people died in Brazil because of Covid. A father of a friend and a grandmother of another friend between them, both very healthy, more than 5 months after the Pfizer offer. They probably be alive today.

Bolsonaro even tried a coup - in the election day, he sent the federal road police to make blockades "for safety" - but only in places that he was in a major advantage, to try to block people to get to local vote places. In Jan 8th 2023, they incited people to broke into all the major institutions, a version of the USA's Jan 6th; but here it was like the White House, The Capitol and the Supreme Court were invaded and destroyed. It was a plan to force the new president to call the military forces - than the militaries would depose the new government.

With some luck, the riot was dissolved, a investigation was opened, an a lot of coup plans were discovered - as with Trump, their allies and dumbfucks lunatics, and coup plans were found handwritten over their desks...plans that included killing the current president, the vice-president and one Supreme Court judge. They tried to explode a gasoline truck in front of the Brasilia airport in the Christmas Eve, since it was full of people.

They are prosecuted now, and probably will go to jail (in factm, probably Bolsonaro will fly to Argentina or USA to not be arrested).

And even with all this, around 35 to 38% of the population would vote for him.

Because a majority of Brazil's population are permanently addicted to social media. Almost all of these 38% reads nothing else than far-right channels in Whatsapp and Telegram - they are bombarded so much by fake news that they believe in no one more than these info. Like Q'Anon guys.

I have relatives, that were (and in a good part stills) some of the most honest and caring people that I know, and they firmly believe than now we live in a dictartorship that only Bolsonaro could destroy. That China will invade Brazil through Uruguay. That Bill Gates patented the Covid virus. All bombarded by social media.

If I put a video with some copywrighted music in Youtube, in less than a minute I receive a warning. A FUCKING MUSIC - much more hard to pinpoint than words or images. Don't try to convince me that they cannot spot fake news on the fly.

But they will not be accountable. And the consequences will be VERY bad - because USA will be hit with a massive reccession, but the far right will say that other countries, or the immigrants, or ANYHTING stupid are the real culprits, and these people will believe.

And I see no easy outcome for this.

On 3/20/2025 at 2:23 PM, mercer said:

That gimbal is pretty cool. The right kinda price too. Do you have it? Have you used the follow focus? 

Not much - in fact I've playing with camera so much less, and I've bought a DJI Pocket 3 (that is more than enough for 80% of the moving shots in my case) that I will probably sell it.

I have the first version. Before only had the orignal Crane M (never got along with it) and a Feiyu A1000 (good, had an amazing feature that was axed in the folowwing Feiyu gimbals, you move the camera by and to point A and point B, and when pressing the trigger the gimbal repeats the movement in a programmable duration).

Stab is good, but sometimes I think that it have a "center" problem - moving to a direction, come back to the original position, never got the gimbal pointed exactly in the same stop; but since I have this issue in ALL gimbals, probably is an operation error.

I love the form factor with two handles, better grip in normal positions and is a breeze to get low angle shots. WOuld never come back to a single handle one.

Never used the follow focus, but it could probably the factor that make me keep it - just to use older lenses.

The second version have a AI tracker, which could be useful (not for me).

Take a look at the Scorp Minis, I have the first version.

Feiyutech have a neat wireless follow focus that could be used with it.

On 3/19/2025 at 6:45 AM, Andrew Reid said:

Thoughts on the best fun-factor cameras, I am thinking Fuji X-Pro 3, Sigma Fp, all the things that doesn't try to look like an EOS R5, but feels and looks a bit different. Niche artistic tools. I think I would rank my favourites as follows but pretty sure I have forgotten some...

1. Sony RX1R II... The smallest ever full frame camera and that ingenious pop-up EVF

2. Fuji X-Pro3... Fuji's prettiest camera, with the most film-camera-like shooting experience

3. Sigma BF... It's the Fp concept turned up to 11

4. Hasselblad HV... The crazy Sony collaboration which came up with this 10k a99. It's lovely though. Got mine on eBay.

5. GFX 100 with full frame lenses... Pure art every time.

I would like for there next to be a digital version of a Contax T2 in same style of body, same size, retractable fast prime lens, also would like a digital Nikon S series rangefinder camera and an X-Pro4 that finally launches Fuji's full frame range (I can but dream).

Mine is a Fujifilm S5Pro.

Got one some years ago (already kinda hyped) for around US$60 - VERY battered, shutter with 160k, but...working perfectly.

When the light is good, the colors are unmatched. Skintones miles better than the current Fujis. That SuperCCD SR Pro really deserves the hype.

On 3/17/2025 at 7:54 AM, Ninpo33 said:

I figured it might go the way of the X100V. Sales paused on the tiny but mighty X-M5 for now. Wonder if I should flip mine on the black market for big $$$$$$
 

https://fujiaddict.com/2025/03/14/fujifilm-x-m5-sales-paused-overseas/amp/

Thom Hogan said something about camera shortages that makes a lot of sense - it is a sensor supply problem.

The sensor manufacturers (Sony and the rest) are sweating to supply the demand - not so much for camera sensors, but for smartphone ones. Cameras sensor are made in somewhat older node processes, and, contrary to commen belief, these legacy nodes (aka transistor size) have much more demand than the cutting edge ones, and is hard to order new processing machines.

Hence, when you plan to launch a camera with some sensor, you estimate how many you will want, based in projections, and order X sensor in a batch. You get these sensors in time, but if you want ANOTHER batch, you will go to the back of the queue.

Since until recently the camera seles were down, and these orden are made WAY in advance, I guess that almost everyone order a smaller batch than needed.

On 3/15/2025 at 9:08 AM, ita149 said:

Like in the Manny Ortiz's review, the S1RII seems really noisier than the last Sony cameras for stills. It's interesting because most ambassadors said the noise is very low in video.

Manny just released a video saying that he made a mistake about the noise is stiils.

According to him, he made the comparison opening all the files in Lightroom - he found surprising that Adobe have compatibility on day one with the new camera. But Panasonic told them after that Adobe jumped the gun and the drivers were not optimized yet - and that he should compare in Capture One, because in C1 they worked together and the drivers were right.

After he opened the files from Panasonic in C1, the noise problem was gone, and the files from the three cameras, bar from color differences, were "indistinguishable". In fact, what cought his attention is that the files from all the cameras were much better (color, details, rendering) in C1 than in Lightroom...
 

On 3/10/2025 at 3:36 AM, MrSMW said:

It should have been LUMIX and just LUMIX from the start.

It keeps circling back to the same broad topic; branding and marketing.

I think the opposite. Panasonic was a very known brand in the VHS times - their camcorders were some of the best, their VHS recorders sold millions of units. Could not be recognized as a stills camera company, but as a video brand, was on pair with Sony (at least here in South America).

Lumix appeared with their point & shoot cameras. Is like Sony changing their logo in front of the cameras to "Cybershot" instead of Sony.

Every non-camera person that ever saw me with a Lumix always ask "what brand is this, never heard", I say "It's made by Panasonic" and immediately people make a face of "oh, THIS i know".

49 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

How about the X-T5? Secondhand they're coming in and just under  £1000

Better a secondhand X-S20, then.

Much faster sensor (the no crop 4k in the X-T5 is not oversampled, and the "4k HQ" oversampled mode have a 1.23 crop), no crop 6k open gate, "better" AF (the Fuji AF problems are more evident in the 40mp bodies)

16 hours ago, Emanuel said:

I wish it would help. Language issues or comprehending each other is much beyond the use of idioms. Unfortunately.

Eu entendo você em qualquer um dos idiomas, @Emanuel 😁

(just a joke to my fellow "languager" here) 😉

Just imagining pairing it with a silver version of this:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1856221-REG/viltrox_af2845e_af_28_f_4_5_fe.html

(and since Viltrox is trying to go into the L Mount alliance...)

https://petapixel.com/2025/03/02/xiaomi-wants-to-make-modular-magnetic-lenses-for-its-phones/

There is a curious thing: it is a 4/3 sensor with 100mp - but binned in 4x4 pixel, which results in 25mp images.

Same resolution of the sensor that (only) Panasonic is using. Is it the same sensor?

1 hour ago, MrSMW said:

I thought Elon had a rocket?

But then again, he couldn’t get that up could he…

Will not even mention the bald guy that made a rocket looking like a giant dildo...

Christopher Frost spent some days with one and shows a somewhat detailed navigation through the interface.
 

1 hour ago, ac6000cw said:

I had a play with an OM-3 a few days ago.

I found it uncomfortable to hold, mostly because there's no grip  and some of my fingers ended up resting/rubbing on the front dial. With the 12-40mm F2.8 lens on it, the lack of grip etc. for my right hand meant far more of the weight had to be supported by my left hand and arm which got uncomfortable after a while. Also the 'record' button is very close to the nearest dial, so my finger was rubbing against the knurled edge of the dial every time I pressed it.

It's too much of a compromise of style over ergonomics for me to be interested. Honestly I think the internals of the OM-1 in an OM-5/E-M5 iii style body would be a more attractive and usable camera, even if the overall size had to increase a bit over those.

But nowadays you have to feed the "pure photography" zealots - in fact since the days of the Nikon Df. 

If OM had put a bigger grip, would be a wave of hate saying that they ruined a beautiful heritage of how a camera should look. These guys would put a photo of the camera with a Zuiko 50mm f/1.4 Chromenose adapted to it to show how they are invested by the gods of photography.

And then put an external grip when they really go out to shoot.

It is like that idiotic LCD in the X-Pro 3, all praises on how it make they "to focus on the composition, instead of chimping" (like if this was the problem, you could just turn off the LCD or chang it to show just the camera setting in EVERY camera). And BY COINCIDENCE was a camera that had an insane hate of flat LCD cables problems - maybe I guess because in real world the zealots are...opening the fking LCD all the time to chimp ?

Photo world nowadays have a problem of small dick syndrome that put Elon Musk to shame.

20 hours ago, MrSMW said:

And menus, - no one really likes anyone else's menus and he's a Canon/Sony boi so...

Indeed - the most cameras that I had in life were Panasonics and for me is by far the most intuitive, as the ergos.

1 hour ago, MrSMW said:

Shutter sound passes the test, but it seems that detail and DR plus latitude are below the A7RV, though more at a pixel peeping level than real world.

It’s still a pass for me for 2025.

The Lumix have some special modes for DR, maybe it needs some time to figure it out - even Manny will use it more before a final result.

5 hours ago, MrSMW said:

Shutter feel and sound still unknown.

See the Manny Ortiz review, he loved he shutter sound, heheheh

About sensors...I guess that some brands could develop, or financially pay the development, of some Sony sensors, splitting the costs between the brand and Sony Semiconductor by alowing the sensor (or some variation based on the same "foundation") to be sold to some brands after some time.

This was VERY evident with the Sony APS-C 26mp sensor. Sony kept the old 24mp sensor with that horrible rolling shutter for ages in their A6xxx line, and Fujifilm had a 26mp much faster sensor made by Sony. After some years...presto, Sony used a Bayer version with some updates in their A6700 and FX30.

The stacked Nikon Z9/Z9 sensor probably is the same case - developed or codeveloped by Nikon, be exclusive for some time, could be available down the line (and maybe Panasonic is waiting for it for a stacked sensor version of this new camera).

Maybe even the "mysterious" supplier of the 25mp m4/3 sensor of the G9 II / GH7 is Sony too - but Panasonic have an exclusivity clause for it for some time, and that's why OM had to go to the stacked 20mp sensor (and, in reverse, this 20mp stacked is exclusive to OM for some time).