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Oh shit, I have too many cameras.

50 minutes ago, Andrew - EOSHD said:

The files aren't as chunky and colour science not as good as Canon.

Yeah the file sizes are def an issue. Colour science is debatable.

Nikon zr should be at 1 IQ wise.

for pHotography def not. Use flash, so MUCH MORE power in a smaller body. For video its ok, but I would go for something more with an bowens s mount (so you can easy use softboxes, fresnells, spotlights,...)

3 hours ago, ND64 said:

And now the ZRc:

Fourth quarter of 2026 is too late, or something lost in translation. Z30/Z50II sensor at that point is lame. No IBIS is shame, and 4k60 with crop on APSC is unacceptable. But why its not Z30II? Doesn't make sense.

End of 2026? Djeez, even released today it would be underwelming.

6 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

There have been numerous stories over the years, apocryphal maybe, but they were coming out even when the media loved Muskrat... anyway, the stories were frequently about how employees of companies like SpaceX believed him to be an absolute idiot and upper management believed that their main role with him was to block him from getting in the way.

One of the most famous stories was about some fuel tank that was fracturing in flight.  The engineers had some ideas, but Muskrat came up with some idea to put a layer of fast-set glue/resin on the outside that would stay liquid - and when the cracks started to appear in the tank, the adhesive would leak out and set, automatically healing the crack.  All of the best engineers in the company said that the idea could not possibly work and explained why it couldn't.  Yet, Muskrat insisted on an all hands on deck and everybody worked non-stop with the vessel and the resin until...  Muskrat finally acknowledged that the idea couldn't possibly work.

It sort of fits with a man who has basically failed upward for most of his life - such as how he got fired as CEO of PayPal after nearly running the company into bankruptcy with his bad ideas, but still owning a bunch of stock so that when Thiel transformed it to a profitable company and sold it to eBay, Muskrat came out with billions.

Would SpaceX exist without him?  No.  Would Starlink exist without SpaceX?  Also no.  Did he invent Starlink?  Also no.

Would Neuralink exist without him?  No, and who cares?  It's a good accessibility play for people who can't otherwise operate a computer, but for the rest of us, do you know anybody who is loudly complaining that they don't have some shitty device in their head that will ultimately be used to shovel ads directly into their brain?  Do you spend every day glaring at your computer wishing that your brain could directly control it?

For Tesla, he didn't invent it at all.  Outside of having a strong first mover advantage in terms of modern electric cars, they aren't very good.  Quality control has always been lacking.  Muskrat decides that for full self driving, they don't need industry-standard tools like proximity sensors, but instead they'll rely only on cameras.  He did, apparently, invent the truck that looks like a small child drew it and which is almost universally reviled.  So yay.

Otherwise, what has Muskrat invented?  Hyperloop - the dumbest mass transit invention in the history of humanity?  12 years later, there isn't a single operating hyperloop that you can go ride.  And it turns out that vactrain concepts had existed for years before he "invented" that too.  So...  has he had a single novel idea in his entire history?  Or is his "genius" really just in ways to exploit existing wealth to extract more money, mostly from the government?

A lot of this criticism assumes that value only comes from personally inventing things or never having bad ideas. That’s not how execution works.

Ideas are cheap. Execution is what matters.

Plenty of people had ideas about reusable rockets, EVs, satellite internet, or brain–computer interfaces long before Musk. What almost no one managed to do was turn those ideas into working, scaled systems in industries where startups usually fail.

SpaceX didn’t win because Musk designs fuel tanks. It won because it executed faster and cheaper than legacy aerospace giants with decades of experience. Tesla didn’t invent EVs, but it forced the entire auto industry to electrify years earlier than planned. Starlink is the largest satellite constellation ever deployed, providing connectivity where no real alternative existed.

Yes, he has bad ideas. Every aggressive executor does. The difference is that his companies survive them and still outperform competitors.

You don’t have to like Musk — but dismissing his role because he isn’t the inventor misses what execution actually means.

50 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

Elon Musk did not invent SpaceX alone.
He stood on:

NASA contracts

public research

global supply chains

skilled labor pools created by public education

Not to mention striking it lucky with PayPal and the sellout to eBay for billions.

Yet it would not exist without him.

13 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

To everyone I offended this year... work on yourself so I don't have to do it again next year.

If after all you have seen, you still drink the Elon koolaid you deserve all the personal attacks coming to you.

I have absolutely zero respect for your opinions or your feelings on the matter.

It is entirely your responsibility that you feel insulted by what I said above even though it was objective fact and not at all personal.

Elon is not a rocket scientist. He's a fucking twat face, alleged Nazi drug addict.

I suppose you think his little fascist bromance with Trump was furthering the future of Planet Earth as well?

Thanks for the very open-minded and respectful exchange.

11 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

Really I didnt know that

It was him was it? Have you ever considered it might instead be the thousands of employees of these companies backed by billions in venture capitalist funds and government NASA contracts.

Also as far as "the world" and "the future" goes, they haven't moved the needle that far.

SpaceX is just a private NASA contractor and they haven't even gone to the moon.

Tesla is a failing car company, completely outgunned by China.

Starlink consists of some satellites that ruin photos of the sky.

And Neural link is an allegedly deeply immoral pig experiment.

No. Critical thinking, and criticism is not the issue.

Gullible bastards are.

This reply feels unnecessarily hostile. We can disagree about Musk or his companies without resorting to personal attacks. I was simply sharing a perspective.

19 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

Everyone took the old style of politics for granted - we have never much liked the culture of it in the first place anyway, but as a result - it's even worse now.

Well honestly I am not sure the old style of politics was even better. Before social media, there was TV and newspapers (there still is). And the story was very onesided. Allthough they claim to be impartial, they were/are def not. And classic media was more easy to control.  (yet also easy to pay ads for social media..)

For example, I read an article about Elon Musk gets 96% more negative media coverage (not sure who wrote it or funded the research, but in my experience it def feels true). The man is a wacko, sure, but he is def the n1 executing entrepreneur who pushing the world towards the future. (spacex, tesla, starlink, x, neuralink, ...)
The media criticizes every step he does and reposts it daily. Yet he saves 2 astronauts, and its almost crickets everywhere unless you are looking for that specific news. Offcourse bashing/hatefull posts get more attention over positive news, and that might also have an big part of the (human) problem.  

On 12/10/2025 at 8:37 PM, Andrew Reid said:

Providing a five-year social media history to border agents may become a pre-condition to entry as part of the rise of fascism in America.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dz0g2ykpeo

Crazy times, the UK lately has also been batshit crazy, now europe wants to introduce digital euro. Some politicians in Belgium wanted to approve an AI that scans all bank accounts of citizens to find frauds... 

I can't understand who finds this a good idea??

I wonder when the first comparison video's will turn up. Would love to see some side by sides. Not sure why there are 30 video reviews out there from people just talking about the camera without comparing it to other camera's. Specs on paper is one thing. but I want see comparision against other camera's (IQ, (crop or no crop), AF, stabilisation,...)
Still think the nikon zr got the rest beat IQ wise. But would love to see it perform against the R6III, nikon zr and the panasonic s1II. 

2 hours ago, hoodlum said:

Apparently, the A7V AF is struggling with 3rd party lenses.  When Sony was asked about the issue, their response as “We do no guarantee compatibility”.  Maybe Sony has dumbed down the AF for the 3rd party lenses.  Something to watch.  
 

 

Don't all sony cameras do this? 

I seem to be missing why this camera is so amazing, sure good update from the A7IV, but nothing groundbreaking. Or does anything to blow the competition out of the water.

Sell so did blackmagic. And the image from that camera is pretty amazing. Allthough I will never have an need anything above 4k.

Yeah I hope canon, sony or panasonic would just buy up ARRI just for its patents. Like Nikon did with RED (the nikon ZR looks amazing). If somebody would buy up ARRI and trickle down their patents in a 2K body they would own the filmmaker space and these camera's would fly off the shelves. (Event video etc might be a different game, where fast AF is more important, but heck these big 3 companies already have decent enough AF today as is). 

But sadly also a sign that the old ways of working is done for. AI will eat lunches, social media has killed traditional video jobs (artfull and skillfull). watching TV has declined, watching slop filmed with an iphone with crazy transitions and bad lighting has become the norm. (as it feels more real to the consumers, and I get that, but also sad to see jobs, careers and also art plummet). Even the actual movies that are being release over the last 15 yeras have been disneyfied. (cute animal, jokes, woke characters, ...) Not sure if anyone watched the new predator movie. The beginning of the film was great, and the ending was great, but man the middle part with bud, woke synthetics and the friendship arc just sucked. 

2 hours ago, Django said:

Yeah good move approaching indie RED shooters rather than your usual hybrid / YT influencer.

Great review with strong footage. More I think of it, ZR is the perfect travel cam, street shooter. 

Not for weddings/event videos you think? Looking for a faster setup. 

Yeah they should price the s1ii in the nikon zr ballpark. Or even less.. 

Now the canon r6 iii also seems pretty nice and even that camera is cheaper then the s1ii.. 

Nikon and canon are much more known and if the camera's somewhat similar people are choosing canon or nikon, just for the name alone.

On 11/7/2025 at 7:09 AM, Kino said:

R63 is looking good here in terms of colors and texture. It is not going to set any records for DR, but it has a nice filmic noise pattern and the DR is perfectly fine for its class. It would be a great camera to carry around town, especially if you are already in the Canon system:

 

 

These look really good. Looking forward to the comparison video's of the nikon zr, canon r6iii, panadonic s1ii and I guess still the sony a7siii.

(Would get the s1ii for the ibis, nikon zr for the monitor and IQ(but fear the datarates), hope the r6iii has similar IQ as the zr and good ibis, and the a7siii/fx3 is still somewhat industry standard which has benefits like lots of good luts available). + I still own a bunch of EF glass which really works well on panasonic. (Adapting it to sony kinda sucked back in the day, nikon not sure, canon should be pretty flawless I guess)

12 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

Ticking along but still here after 25 years comprising approx the first 10 as a photographer and the last 15 as a hybrid shooter in the wedding industry.

5 more years to go and then I will be packing it in out of choice.

In the meantime, just have to make sure I keep my head above water and not overly concerned in that regard as neither AI nor the wannabes can do what I do. Yet, as far as AI goes anyway...

Seen a lot of changes but no real challenges as such and for whatever reason, I just seem to have been in a place where I can just tick along and by 'tick along', I don't mean cruise, because I am always working at it and on it. Rather I just don't feel the need to follow every trend and possibly because of that, why I have remained pretty constant whilst I have seen so many come and go.

Wedding seems like of one the safe plays right now. People who want to get married still want actual photo/video.

Hi,

So how is your business going this year? I feel overall companies are spending less. Not too many jobs out there I feel. It feels like 2008 over here.

Not sure how you guys are doing, where, how, what.

Thanks,

Hi, yesterday panasonic finally released the firmware uodate and lumix flow update for the s5ii. I really like the app. Setup time is also fast.

As this might replace my shinobi ii for travel purposes. Allthough I need to test how long batterylife of my smartphone is while using lumix flow. Not sure if there are any other drawbacks.

But apps like these could give external monitor brands a hard time. Or at least in the consumer section.

Cheers

Could be just me, but these videos look better then the lumix launch video's.

What are the datarates with h265 vs nraw?

7 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said:

I went into an actual camera shop (remember those?) yesterday and had a chat about the ZR.

It is a branch of a reasonably sized chain of stores and I was asking them about if I ordered one would I have a chance of being in the first batch of their deliveries.

They had a check on their system and told me how many they had on order and was a bit surprised how few it was (less than double figures) and even more surprised to find out that that figure wasn’t just for their branch but the whole group.

Considering that they had pretty much the whole Nikon range on display, it wasn’t even like they aren’t a limited stockist of the brand.

So I said, “Oh right, with that few coming I suppose I’d have no chance of getting one for a few batches?”

Tap, tap, tap…

”No you’ll be fine as we haven’t got anyone who has pre-ordered one”

”In this branch?”

”No, the whole group”.

I was quite taken aback and asked why that was.

They said that the general consensus with customers and staff was that it was just a bit of a niche product and of the customers that were interested were all talking about the data rate putting them off.

What they also said is that they had had a resurgence of interest in the Z6iii since the ZR was announced.

It all likely means little in the overall scheme of things as this is just one retail group but it’s interesting to me how there can be such a gulf in the interest in a product and the reality of people actually buying it.

I think that data rate thing is going to be a thing though.

Have not read up with the datarates. What is up with the datarates?