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Speaking of EOS M, Zeek says they have a new build out that is pretty dope.

I would not trust Lecia for the image pipeline over Sigma. As of late the only thing Lecia seems to be good at is skinning Alligators and hanging it on their camera bodies, at as rather high inflated price I might add. 

I don't see any rise in my Levi's anymore about Leica, well at my age not happening anyways. Hardy an innovator in the world these days.  Sigma, Sony and Fuji MF come to mind to me anymore. Panasonic is up there also, Leica ehh not so much. They were the cats ass years ago. Now I don't think even dentists are buying them. Collectors that never even take the plastic of the carton are their target now.

That is all the world needs is a $6000.00 Leica Sigma FP-L. Lord didn't we have enough of the Panasonic knockoffs for 3 times the price.

Wow they are a really nice camera. Big boy toy now. Grats.

In 55 years, that $1,355,000.00 will be worth about 50 dollars so you are wasting your time, and you will probably be dead then from drinking that cheap ass coffee, especially the way he makes it. Pass, Pass, Pass.

Ahh come on the DSR5P - $3,189, you probably spend that much money a year on coffee. 😬

I would stack constant NDs before I would do a Vari. They make the small add on holders now. Good constant ones are not cheap though. But if handled right they last forever.

Yes, I would agree with you, interesting.

I find the normal jpegs on the 1DC pretty laid back, not a lot of the normal Canon Punch to them. The Raws have plenty of meat in them though.

Wow I doubt any vari ND is going to be any good doing 12 stops, Yikes. I would have to go with a different Aperture.

Well, the 1DC has C Log neither the 1DX nor the 1DX II had C log. Only the Canon 5D mk IV had C log at the time. Not sure about the normal CS. I have had nearly all the 1D series cameras, 1DC as of now and I notice no difference in them other than the headphone jack like you stated.

I can tell you the newer iPhones Don't blow out the sky, they are damn near perfect all the time. The computational math in them and AI is scary good these days.

You are not alone. Yikes also when I think about it.

I don't really think people anymore are using real cameras to take any pictures of anyone. They are using their Smartphone. Sure in India they are using older stuff. And I can guarantee that if you take your camera and they take their cellphone and you each walk around town and take 50 pictures each the cellphone pictures will come out looking better 90% of the time and your camera will be correct 60% of the time or less.  

Smartphones now just work and work an amazing amount of the time looking damn near perfect for the average person. Real cameras are still back in the Stoneage compared to the AI in phones. Sure, they are not going to look like a Fuji GFX 100 shot with great skill and patience, but that is the advantage of the phones you don't have to have skill and patience to get what we used to call "keepers".

A couple more advances in Smartphones, mostly on the lens side of it, zoom particularly, and it is game over for any camera to be honest that we can afford. Hell, I can't out do my smartphone now even with my 1DC for normal stuff. If I had to get a shot, going to a friends' wedding I am taking the Phone lol. Now I am not talking about being the main photographer here, but I bet the main photog wishes he or she could be OK using a Smartphone for a lot of the stuff.

I think he is talking about the end user. I can't remember any TV show that I said to myself they need to fire the DP or the Director. And I am sure not all of them had 15 stops of DR even to start with. So, I bet the average person doesn't have a clue if it is lit right, aimed at a window or what. It is all about the story anyway. If it isn't something you like, you turn the channel, simple as that.

I never owned a GX85 but yeah, the footage out of them looks great. The GH2 was not so hot OOC, well it was at the time, but the hacks are what made it memorable, even today.

The more DR the better but depending on the scene even 8 or 9 is adequate. Supposedly we can see up to 16 stops with our own eyes. To get that you are going to have to have a 14, 16 bit camera to do that. Most upper tier still cameras have that much DR, no cheap option out there as of yet for the video side. Arri, Red territory. 

4 hours ago, PannySVHS said:

Still cracking me up big time! 🙂 You still have not told us how many great deals you made with best of concious:)

Well I am the person that is usually the one that is selling it for half what I paid for it 1 week later. Someone has to be the dumb ass for there to be a great deal.

And I thought I was crazy. Game of Ping Pong going on. 😮 I can't answer his question. Never owned one.

https://www.cined.com/blackmagic-design-hyperdeck-shuttle-hd-and-extreme-4k-hdr-announced/

Well, the manufactures are not going to stop, so I guess the sky is the limit on resolution and features. Not a bad thing overall but it is the slippery slope of never really learning the camera you have.

But you make a living doing this so you need all the help you can get, and a newer camera is probably going to make your life easier. Cameras seem to hold their value pretty well and the newer ones keep getting cheaper. 

Well, if the photographer had skill, he would not have put the sun in the background lol. But sure, I see your point. Like I said you have to know your equipment and I am afraid we change cameras so often, me also, that we never get to really know how to utilize their strengths and overcome their weakness.

In the days of film cameras, we kept the same one for years and years. We could operate them in our sleep. It led to better results than we probably do even now with better equipment. Switching brands doesn't help much either.

Do you really think the GH6 is going to look any better, or even as good as this GH2 video? Interesting isn't it how we really haven't gotten better output..

Sure the people on here making a living doing this stuff want and need the latest. And I am not knocking anyone that wants to buy new stuff, who doesn't. But new in this video game is not always the best overall image for what we really are looking for at the  hobby level. Horses for Courses I guess.

A lot of stuff I see on the web anymore could have been done with a new iPhone with a lot of skill involved. The gap is getting narrow for normal stuff.

Look at Casey Neistat one of the most successful people ever on YouTube, he could afford any camera there was and he used a Canon 80D most all the time. He had talent, came up with crazy great ideas on shots. The footage looked great. He didn't need a Red or an Arri. He was good and knew how to use what he had.

The latest camera is not going to make any one of us really better, skill, talent, understanding every ounce your camera has, desire do that.