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Put a lady's stocking on the mount of the lens to soften the image, maybe?

Well, that's something. It's clear that key and fill lights are the main differences between all the high-quality movies you mentioned and your samples. Hours upon hours go into the cinema aestehtic so it will be very hard to replicate via YT without the proper means. Add some very good actors and the bar stands incredibly high. Ever shot with older tape-based digital cams? Maybe you'll get some better results with a different media altogether. Newer sensors are just too clean.

Thanks for the detailed answer. You're right, only the more advanced videocameras will allow to you record at different fps, either higher or lower than 24fps (8, 12, 18, for example). Not sure about your GH7, though. But as you mentioned, you can play around with a lower shutter speed to break the 180º rule. Try 40 or 30 instead of the usual 48 or 50 and see what happens. Can't lose anything for trying, right? I don't mean to be rude, but it's hard to make innanimate objects feel "cinematic". We'd get a much better feel of the cinematic vs. video aesthetic you mention by recording human movement.

DP Reviews image tests on the new RX1 Mark III just came out. The lens is incredibly soft. Too many MPXs on that sensor for a 10 year-old lens.

Still too clean for me. Dod you record at 24fps? Maybe try lower at 20-21fps to give a more filmic cadence?

Yep, still useless. AI has no feelings. No promp-master can make AI distinctly his own. The output will always be an interpretation of something synthetic devised by the AI being used. I'm not talking about shooting your own material and enhancing it with AI. That's a different thing altogether. No. I'm talking about movies made 100% prompt after prompt. No wonder the current examples of these prompt-driven "films" always put the AI tool used before the author. It's what ppl want to know. "What tool did you use?". "What prompts did you input?". It's never the author. Always the tool.

Ahhhh, resist, resist friend LOL The DF actually used Nikon's D4 sensor. Seems it was very very solid. Those D4 models still go for huge money used.

I think they saw the high prices the previous RX1 models go for after 10 or more years. As for a electronic tech goes, the RX1 line has held up like no other tech out there, maybe only surpassed by the Digital Bolex videocam and the Fujifil X100 line in this regard. Other than those two outliers, I can't find any other old or very old digital cameras that still garner such high prices relative to their age. So Sony saw that and the recent compact camera fad and thought that they were leaving a ton of cash on the table.

Just out of curiosity, did you by any chance ever shoot with the older Nikon DF? Seems it was a banger for stills.

Yes, even though electronic music has been around for decades ppl still play guitars, flutes and bang drums like they have done for 50,000 years or more. Think of all the mediocre electronica outfits out there vs the ones who get it right. Objectively, even a mediocre guitarists is better than a mediocre electronica artist just bc the way he expresses his artistic intention. The exact same thing will happen with AI. Of all the trillions of Terabytes done with this tech only 0.1% will rise to the surface and have any merit.

Nice! What type of underwater housing are you using for your GH5s? That looks really beautiful.

I agree 100%, it is technically perfect for a beginner to grow into the system, both in photo and video terms. Now about the AI stuff I don't know. I have my reservations for it as a tool for human expression. As of this moment there is a stark difference between going out into the world and shooting with your own hands and eyes and soul vs. prompting lines into a machine.

Different technologies. Just wait a few years for Gen Alpha to discover old used DSLRs are almost indestructible and take even better pictures than newer more expensive MILCs and phones that break more frequently. The R50 in its different itinrations is cute, but it will never outlast a 5D. Does if offer better video quality? Yes, but only if you know what you're doing from the get go and that knowledge is becoming scarcer every day.

How much is the X100V and X100VI over there? This new model is clearly geared towards a different market in large part bc it does not have the killer hybrid OVF/EVF of the more luxurious X100 line. I have my reservations if there really is a market for a X100 sans the hybrid viewfinder. For me, it's the #1 reason I still use my now ancient OG X100.

That's a solid and bulky choice. It won't overheat any time soon! Now it's by far the most complicated Canon camera I have ever used. For me, the menus were too much. You really need to know what you're doing or you'll get lost with all the menu/button combinatios. Have fun!