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On 4/11/2018 at 5:13 PM, markr041 said:
You can now buy extra batteries and a charger direct from Z with free shipping and fast delivery at a reasonable price.
My question is actually off-topic, because I'm asking on the behalf of friends outside of Asia who want to shop on Taobao for other things, not necessarily the Z camera accessories.
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On 1/5/2018 at 5:34 PM, IronFilm said:
You can buy extra batteries/chargers from Taobao:
How do you guys ship stuff from Taobao outside of Asia?
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$1295 with a full copy of Resolve Studio. This is incredible pricing. If they can deliver, it's going to be a really neat camera.
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On 3/13/2018 at 2:53 AM, fuzzynormal said:
Is that right? I've not noticed a more discernible shallow DOF simply because I'm using a speedbooster. COC looks the same to me with or without a speedbooster...just adds more exposure and FOV. Which is certainly great... wait, are we agreeing on the same thing?
Ah, who cares.
I just want a FF cam with an 50 or 55mm fast lens for interviews.
Did you compare using the same lens with and without the speedbooster? If so then the DoF will be the same.
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No DPAF in 4K too. The only good feature not working with the feature that many people want!
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On 2/12/2018 at 10:10 AM, Yurolov said:
Just like Casey Nesitat left the GH5 for the Canon 6d Mark II
In this case, Canon gave him money and the camera.
3 hours ago, Andrew Benton said:I didn't say the GH5 was bad, it's just not as great for still photography, what is there not to understand in the listed issues I had with it?
My very first wedding I shot was with a T1i and although I got the job done with it there were drawbacks, I later got a 5DIII and it served all my photography needs perfectly. One can very well build a photography career from using a GH5, but it just didn't suite my personal needs in the event photography setting. I still got nearly 2000 usable photos, but I also had many missed shots, that's not acceptable to me.
But I still LOVE the GH5 for video, and that's what most other people talk about here, NOT about it's photography side, I was disappointed in the camera not living up to its potential as a true hybrid camera that can do both photography and video well (don't we all want the perfect hybrid). We're all free to use what we want, you can go ahead and use an iPhone for photo/video work and if you get the job done then great!I'm just curious how you managed to miss so many shots; my experience for situations using AF-S is that the Panasonics are very good. I used a GH3 for a couple of events (not my type of photography even) and it acquitted itself very well.
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Panasonic GX9
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38 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:Is the GX8 dead then? https://www.panasonic.com/uk/consumer/cameras-camcorders/lumix-g-compact-system-cameras/dmc-gx8m.html
The GX85 wasn't a replacement for the GX8 but a lower-end model.
Now the GX9 seems to be a replacement for both! Unless they do a GX10?
Bleah, I take back what I said earlier. Looks like Panasonic have no idea what they're doing with their product nomenclature.
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Can't help you there, but do be careful as Nikon is transitioning to E-type lenses, so make sure those are supported!
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Ooo, a reasonable discussion of this over here. It's hard to find one that doesn't involve mindless critic and studio bashing. Personally I was looking forward to watching it since fantasy cyberpunk is a genre very close to my heart. Some good comments in here and maybe I should watch it after all, even if it's not so good.
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10 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Surprise-camera-comeback-drives-Canon-earnings-rally
"In 2017, even as many abandoned hope for growth in such operations, the digital camera market rose for the first time in five years, aided by people's desire to shine on the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram. Healthy sales of mirrorless cameras propelled Canon to a 22% operating profit gain in a segment that had been on an uninterrupted decline. The surprise turnaround left supply nearly unable to catch up with demand at one point, and a major camera plant in Nagasaki Prefecture is still working to ramp up output."
I don't understand normies.
For every blogger like you Andrew, there're 10 sponsored by Canon. Who's going to be louder? As I've said before (and you know too) Canon only works with those who're positive about them as much as possible.
Here's a new example: In a completely unrelated site, someone was saying that the best camera for vlogging is a Canon 6D because some YouTuber recommended it. Turns out Canon has been sending 6Ds to high-profile YouTube vloggers to push the camera for that purpose. You can't deny marketing like that is effective.
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11 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:
15 stops dynamic range in raw video. Dual Pixel AF. Multi-aspect ratio sensor (1.86x crop in Cinema 4K). V-LOG built in as standard.
No stills camera does 15 stops, asking the GH6 to do that is a bit much.
11 hours ago, OliKMIA said:8K 120 fps in 10 bits HDR internally in ProRes or Cineform
15 stops of dynamic range
16 bits sensor
Super clean ISO 25,600
Better IBIS
DPAF
$999
Anything else?Book your clients for you.
3 hours ago, Trek of Joy said:With the Tokyo Olympics coming in 2020, seem like a GH6 is a given - along with other Panasonic cameras likely to get updated before that event. I'd imagine the G9 successor would drop as well since its their fast photo body. PADF seems like a given if you're going to be shooting sports, I'm really surprised we haven't seen a hybrid AF camera from Panasonic to this point since it'll take time to refine the algorithms in real world shooting conditions. They're really behind the curve compared to Canon and Sony and falling further behind with each new DFD release.
If you're referencing photo stills, the benchmark really is Nikon for sports AF. I haven't tried a D5, but the D500 is really amazing.
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9 hours ago, IronFilm said:
They will if it means Nikon has an overall stronger system that enables them to be #1 in mirrorless (and thus then #1 in the entire camera world in general in the future....).
If you look at Nikon's history, they don't have a mentality like it. NIH is very very strong with them.
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8 hours ago, Django said:
rumor mill has it Nikon is licensing Sigma to produce/adapt native Z-mount lenses.. a la Sony/Zeiss.
Find that hard to believe, it's like Zeiss asking Leica to do lenses for them. Nikon's conservative NIH culture won't let them do that.
7 hours ago, Don Kotlos said:I don't find it unlikely for sigma to be developing lenses for Nikon Z mount.
Sigma is planning on releasing several native E mount lenses as well. It would make sense to have a common lens design that is shared across mirrorless cameras with short flange distance. Same way DSLR series exist for 3 mount systems but they are practically the same lens.
This would be a golden opportunity for a lens company to enter a brand new mount system that will most definitely have very limited lens selection for the first couple of years, and it will be a good idea for Nikon as well to have plenty of choices for a new mount system.
Nikon IS a lens company, they're not going to share their lunch with Sigma.
4 hours ago, photographer-at-large said:Hoping lenses mount in clockwise direction,
and focus rings turn in industry standard direction
Nope, pretty sure that's not going to happen either.
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On 1/16/2018 at 5:37 AM, Andrew Reid said:
Well, I'm telling you it is. Panasonic told me directly!
Guess they are killing the mid-market line then.
23 hours ago, IronFilm said:43rumors has said this in the past, there is some logic to it, and I hope that is what Panasonic will do (as I'd like to see a G900!! ha).
But who knows, might need to watch the next couple of product releases to see if this follows this pattern. Or not.It probably is, but doesn't mean that they have to fill up the product matrix. That provides for 12 cameras but in this market we're going to see 4-5 at most. As it is we have the GH5, G9, G80, GX80 and GX900. That's five cameras, six if they do a GX9, which may not happen.
23 hours ago, webrunner5 said:Heck you ought to move up to a GH4 then. Night and day difference. The G7 was a damn big difference to my GH3. I never really liked my GH3.
I do mostly stills, the only real benefit would've been a nicer EVF. The few times I've done video the GH3's 1080p has managed to acquit itself fine. Any shortcomings were mostly down to me.
13 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:The pattern that doesn't exist?!
It does? I think it's quite clear. What's not clear is how Panasonic will fill the gaps. As I said it's not a great market so lines will come and go. I suspect they won't do a GX9 for example.
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9 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:
It has to have a good lens adapter to Canon
This is never going to happen. Nikon are an optics company at heart and they'll fold before letting their cameras officially use non-Nikon glass.
1 hour ago, Cinegain said:Really, if anyone comes out with a stills camera without sensor stabilization it will be a huge miss. Because that's one of the main advantages of mirrorless innovation right now over flagship DSLR capabilities. Worth so much for primes or allowing slower shutter times to expose the scene properly without compromising on depth of field or high ISO noise. Olympus had that bang on with the introduction of the OM-D E-M1 and Fujifilm and EOS-M really need to follow as well with their next release.
Errr, sensor stabilsation doesn't depend on the lack of a mirror. Pentax and Minolta both did it in the DSLRs.
This one I'm not sure. Nikon can be really conservative at times, but hopefully they'll see the usefulness of it, for both photographers and videographers, as well as a marketing point.
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19 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:
It is actually the G80's successor.
The zero in the G80 comes from a short-lived and idiotic naming scheme to identify out grey market imports. It's really a G8.
But they called it G80/G85 depending on region. The range though, goes all the way back to G1. And G6 was very similar product in relation to GH2. Same sensor, similar video features.
I really don't think it is, but we'll see. I'm thinking it's a split to another tier. So basically:
GH-series: Hybrid line
G-series: SLR-style line
GX-series: Soapbar-style line
Then you get the number of digits
1 digit: Top tier
2 digits: Middle tier
3 digits: Low-end tier
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4 hours ago, IronFilm said:
Yes, but obviously Nikon will treat their new system launch very very differently than any other year. (well, you'd better hope so!!)
"Buzz buzz buzz"
Thom Hogan has been going on about this for years! And I agree. Big oversight by Nikon.http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/buzz-buzz-dx-lenses-.html
http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/more-buzzing-about-missing.html
Don't really have confidence; I shot with Nikon for 15 years, so I've had first-hand frustration with lenses. Having tried the first GH1 and liking it I eventually made the move to Panasonic.
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18 hours ago, IronFilm said:
Why? We have almost nothing to compare to. It has been many many MANY years since Nikon launched a new lens system.
With one exception: Nikon 1, back in 2011.
Which saw four lenses at the initial launch:
https://***URL removed***/articles/9033467782/nikonlenses
Which is greater than the "minimum three" I expect their new mirrorless system to have. And I expect them to take this even more seriously than they took Nikon 1, thus it wouldn't surprise me if they launch with more lenses than Nikon 1 had initially.I meant product launches, not necessarily system launches.
Traditionally Nikon does what, 4-6 lenses a year? For a line that needs a mix of lenses I doubt Nikon will be able to launch the kind of line-up needed to keep both consumers and pros interested. We're looking at a kit zoom, a telephoto zoom and no more than 2 primes.
To really get off the ground running they need a trifecta of primes (20/50/105 for me, others have a different trio in mind) along with at least two pro grade zooms with the promise of a third. Along with said consumer zoom.
Also look at both the Nikon 1 and DX line, they've been awful in filling gaps for both of them, especially so considering DX should be their main moneymaker but they keep on expecting people to trade up to FX.
17 hours ago, Trek of Joy said:With the Z-mount or whatever it winds up being called - it would make sense to start with 3 primes and a zoom or two. And I think it'll definitely be FF, a new line with low margin bodies makes no sense. It would be nice if they did some combo of the 21/24/28/35/50/85 right off the bat. Make them all 1.8's, the uber 1.4 G's can come later. And a mirrorless version of the 24-120/4. A 70-200/4 would be a smart move too - that way you can get a relatively complete kit with a wide range right off the bat. Sony had the 28/2, 35/2.8, 55/1.8, 24-70 & 70-200/4 when the a7 was released. Plus that crappy plastic kit lens.
Also, publish a damn roadmap so early adopters can have a little sense of what's coming in the next year or so. Put a long tele, a few fast primes and the 2.8 zoom holy trinity of 14-24, 24-70, 70-200 on it.
P.S. Nikon should call the new mount 'MF' for mirrorless F mount. The tagline possibilities are limitless.
Chris
That's also a good start, but I don't quite have the confidence in Nikon that they'll be able to pull this off. DX languished for so long even before FX came, and this was during a crucial period of time when Canon were fighting to take back their market share from Nikon.
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1 hour ago, IronFilm said:
I would be absolutely SHOCKED if Nikon launched their big mirrorless gambit with only a single slow kit lens at launch! They'll probably have a line up of five or more lenses at launch, or at a minimum at least three lenses.
Won't count on it, look at Nikon's traditional launches.
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That's like saying a Nikon D850 is much nicer than a Sony RX100V; totally different areas of the market!
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2 hours ago, seku said:
I couldn't believe 12+ stops either in VLOG-L, but Samuel Bilodeau from Mystery Box (they did the official "Horizons" Panasonic HDR Short for the GH5s) states that you can use 14 stops under nearly all circumstances, with detail up to 16 stops (very noisy tho, but detail still there).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but ultimately this is in a processed format where the gamma and tone curve has already been applied right? Even in raw stills a modern m4/3 sensor does what, ~13 stops of usable DR at most. You can bring up the shadows even more I suppose to get 16 stops but it's going to be all noise.
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15 hours ago, Matthew Hartman said:
I say skip the Panasonic offerings altogether. "Wha" you say? Outrageous sir!
Because you know, and I know as soon as someone releases the same feature set with that coveted bigger sensor and better AF, (which the bar is low) everyone's going to be offloading their G-whatever on eBay like a distant memory, and thus the sickness of perpetual gear-acquisition rages on.
I have the sickness too. But I'm starting to ween myself from those shackles and it feels absolutely liberating. Instead, I'm reinvesting in my current setup and investing more time, energy and money into learning more about the filmmaking process outside the camera. I thought buying new gear would scratch some of that itch, but it does not. Yeah, the joy of holding something new is exciting, but the shelf life on this is very short.
I think once you're set in a system it's not so bad; I've been on the GH3 for over 4 years now and I'm just looking at the G9, which will be something that'll stay with me for another 4-5 years. Once you know what works for you, the sickness tends to fade away while you concentrate on getting the best from what you have. It takes time to learn your tools, so working on that instead of changing gear every 12 months is definitely better for you in the long run. I'd say it took me about 3-4 months to get a certain level of understanding of the raw files from the GH3, and that's nowhere near mastery levels, I feel.
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20 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:
However, has anybody else noticed the DRAMATIC pincushion distortion in the viewfinder... It's really not nice. Very distracting.
It's been said in quite a few places. I'll need to take a look.
This really isn't the G80's successor, as the number of digits implies. That'll be the G90. Since I still do mostly stills this might be a good idea for me. Hopefully the viewfinder isn't that bad; I've lived with the GH3's viewfinder for years now so this will be an upgrade regardless!
Why Do People Hate The Nikon Z6? What mirrorless to go with
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Late to this, but to answer the topic, I do think it's a lot of Sony fanboys trying to defend their "territory". The Z cameras are competent and with Nikon's ergonomics might be something I get if I have too much money to burn, which is probably never.
I get paid work for stills work with a GH3, so ultimately it's about client expectation management, as well as how comfortable you are with working with your tools.