Tim Sewell

Over the last couple of weeks there have been several AI-generated videos on YouTube giving full descriptions of the Sony FX3 Mk 2, a camera which hasn't even been announced. They all feature the same old footage of people shooting with FX3s, with an AI voiceover confidently listing the specs of this new camera. It's just slop, but it gets views.

To be fair to Bloom, he didn't want to do that but has had to pretty much retire from pro work due to his back injury.

All I'll say is that I was doing weddings when the first digicam wave came along, coinciding with an economic downturn and the market turned to shit. Then it picked up because it turns out a load of pissed people with digicams couldn't provide the 'once-in-a-lifetime' quality of photography couples wanted to keep - perhaps for the rest of their lives. Smartphone camera revolution - same thing and then another quality-biased correction. At the moment everyone across Europe is feeling broke. I think it's in part PTSD from the pandemic. I would still, if advising a young person wanting to make a living from photography, tell them to get a solid little wedding business going and build from that, because it's cyclical and it will come back.

Watching this again. Great cinematography, great acting, completely fucing nuts. (good antidote to the current unfortunateness with which Joaquin is currently associated).

The BBC has made its sound effects archive openly available online: https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk

Wouldn't a colour space transform be the better approach? LUTs (unless really well made technical ones) tend to reduce dynamic range.

"Where do you sell/buy gear in Europe?" I dangle it in front of @Andrew Reid!

Try MPB? You won't get as much as in a private sale, but you'll definitely get it! https://www.mpb.com/en-uk

Nice colours there, @ac6000cw! I wonder how a run through Topaz upscaling would look.

Potato Jet just about managed to get it in his cargo pants pocket. It looks like fun, but the image and camera control is meh. Very much a consumer item. Although I think a larger version with the sam - frankly rather amazing - autonomous capabilities could be very interesting for one-man docos etc.

I found it unusably soft - sent it back to MPB actually.

100% (but don't tell MrsSMW I said that).

Happy Days Are Here Again!

Yeah, but even if it only sells for the opening bid, I'll have made my money back on it!

Hi, UK-based EOSHDers. I have a bunch of stuff up on eBay (with more, especially LED lights coming next week). https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item=145941180961&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l161211&_ssn=ti_sewel