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https://latam.connect.panasonic.com/mx/es/productos/lumix/lumix-s1iie
 

According to this it looks pretty interesting although I’m still not too clear on the difference between the models other than a white box.

I'd prefer a compact 24-60 over the 28-70 I have. I find those first 4mm much more useful than the last 10mm

Anyway, I'm interested in this. I think I'm ready for an S line with a dedicated video/photo button, top LCD and EVF and no crop.

The rumours are all over the place!!! Who knows what we’ll get. My same wishes apply. 6k 50 no crop, super 3 way lcd and top evf. Faster processing. Happy for a video centric camera but looking for under 3000€ and video/photo switch

On 1/27/2025 at 5:28 PM, Andrew Reid said:

It is ready.

Everyone who replied here so far, will get it free and I'll be sending you all a direct message and email this week.

Is that still on? I didn't receive an email?

8 hours ago, fuzzynormal said:

Some do it like this:

https://www.instagram.com/vanessahorabuena/reel/DFaxsz3IAjD/

Hope that helps give you some context.

Yeah, I don't think you'd see such blind faith in such complete bollocks here. Ever since I was a kid in the 80s I've always thought the glamour, the rock'n'roll, the blockbusters etc was always covering up a dark seething mess of ignorance, power and violence. It's a shame that my instinct was right. The amount of seemingly normal people warbling on about missions from god etc is scary. There seems like a huge disconnect from any reality and people just lap up what they are fed. 

Of course I realise that half of the US population is sane and probably very scared right now. I really hope they find a way to turn this all around asap without things getting worse.

7 hours ago, fuzzynormal said:

Nope.  Are you an American?  I feel anyone with a grasp of the culture here wouldn't be quite so obtuse.  Then again, weird times.

Fair enough. Who knows what will happen? But I always thought MAGA covered a whole range of people from hardcore nutjobs to others caught up in the moment who upon seeing the results of a MAGA world in reality, might not be so keen on it. Then what do I know? What does anyone know? 

56 minutes ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

Looks even worse from the inside, believe me.

But I wasn't talking generalized bloodshed - I was talking about martial law after massive protests against the use of the insurrection act to deploy the US military within our own borders.  Once the big protests start, it just takes a little bit of violence or property damage for a president (who has already defined Tesla dealership vandalism as domestic terrorism) to declare that there's a need to expand the use of the military to contain the unrest.

Yeah, it'll probably start with a police crack down but as BTM-Pix's photo shows there are many armed and dangerous, angry people. Hopefully it doesn't come to that and Republicans in congress etc start reigning in the power they have given Trump before it's too late. Trump literally couldn't give a shit about anything. He is living the narcissist's wet dream. I hope someone is helping him change his underwear every morning.

26 minutes ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

I guess the big question at this point is whether those same people are willing to accept martial law if it gets declared sometime in the next month, as people have pointed out that our glorious leader has been teeing up since the inauguration.

I do see bloodshed as a very possible outcome in the US, there is just so much craziness, so much anger, so many people are going to lose so much and people have guns...I'd imagine that at some point pretty soon the MAGA people will realise they have been swindled by the swindler in chief. The question is what will they do? What will Trump do if they turn on him? Doesn't look good from the outside.

18 hours ago, MrSMW said:

I just went out into my back garden and turned the lawn into a field of soy beans instead.

Someone has to feed those estimated 440 million piggies in China and I reckon I’m gonna get me a slice of that piggy pie.

Talking about animals and such like, I think the EU didn't quite get their survival kit right. I'm thinking 1 large dog, 1 angry goat, 3 chickens, loads of matches, a sharp knife and a cricket bat. Hopefully that should see us through the first few weeks after the apocalypse. I won't take a camera as there will probably be little use in documenting everything for no one to watch.

To add to the buy local theme, with food it’s quite easy in some countries but very difficult in others. Here in Spain we can grow stuff all year round, it’s a big empty space and food is relatively cheap and easy to source locally, even in a big city like Madrid. Try that in Scotland, Malta, Egypt, Pakistan or many other countries that rely on global trade to feed their population or provide variety in produce. And that’s just food, which is usually just grown in one place and shipped to another. It’s not like technology which has different parts that come from all over the world to be assembled somewhere and then shipped somewhere else. I have no idea how they are going to calculate how much something is “worth” with so much instability.

Not sure how this is going to affect Spain. What is true is that more expensive goods have increasingly held their value in the second hand market as more and more people can’t afford to replace them with new since Covid. I have a 17 year old Toyota Corolla that I bought for about 3500€ 3 years ago (great car by the way!). It’s got another 40,000km on it and it’s probably worth more now! The camera market is a bit different. 2nd hand cameras have been getting cheaper (apart from some “must have” internet phenomenon cameras) and I’d expect a flood of people selling off gear if the economy starts tanking and prices will initially go down then shoot up when people realise they can only afford second hand gear. Unless Asia dumps all their cameras here at a discount! 
Spain’s main exports to USA seem to be olive oil, wine and some other products. We could probably do with changing the vast areas dedicated to monocultures as sooner or later they will all be deserts but like everything, changing tack from one day to the next is going to be problematic. The real problem is that no one believes that Trump won’t change his mind again or once he has some beautiful deals, that he won’t turn the screw again.

7 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

More companies need to import stuff through the Heard and MacDonald Islands whilst the opportunity exists.

Oh wait, too late, that loophole of zero human, only penguin residents, has been closed.

I think importing through Russia might be your best bet.

Maybe they were going to launch it yesterday but realised the joke wouldn’t be very funny

Another 7???

Strange there is no more news or speculation about this. 🤷🏼

3 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

Have they thought of a new line because this one's getting old.

“We are very happy. We have sold a few cameras”

2 Lumix S5mk2 x2 for work. Often one on a tripod connected to sound filming for hours and the other doing B-roll, interviews and photos.

Both being the same makes editing easier and quicker.

Personally I’m all for my camera having a warship mode in these troubled times. It’s crazy, everyone is complaining about Panasonic’s lack of innovation yet they were the first to think about adding a warship mode (i hope it’s on the video/photo dial and keeps it’s settings when switching modes), and it seems they are thinking about ditching it because of some random Youtuber focus group or something.

P.S. I hope the warship mode doesn’t mean they are going to go back to the heavier models.

I like the S5 type bodies. They are comfortable and ergonomic. Personally I prefer the Lumix look to Canon and Sony (apart from the FX line). I’ve not used the A7RV just the A74 from that line. I prefer the S5mk2 but I’ve mainly used Lumix for years so that could be built in bias due to familiarity. I’d love to have the EVF and fancy LCD from the S1R2on the S5mk2. For me the only way these types of cameras are going to get better ergonomically is to have a rotating grip with controls like the Canon C100 had and a flip up EVF. 
As for a camera being fun or not, whilst I understand the feeling behind that, for me it’s irrelevant as I use them for work and work only. For “fun” stuff I’d prefer a small m43 or mobile or similar.

6 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

Personally, if I was Mr LUMIX, I’d offer 2 cameras at the same time and say, this one is the photo one and this one is the video one and both would be able to tread on each others toes a little, but would otherwise be clearly defined.

To reference my earlier post, I think that should have happened with the S5X. Along with the differences it has, it should have had 4k 50p FF and the pro 3-way LCD. 

Hmm, it looks like a good camera for a photo first video second pro. I'm the other way around. I really wish they had differentiated the S5X from the S5mk2 by having that 3-way LCD screen and 4k 50p with no crop. That would have made a lot of sense.

I've only seen over heating in 8K running non-stop for an hour. Has it appeared elsewhere? I'm not sure if there are other cameras that can even manage that?

8 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

Which in an about flip from everything I posted above, is something else I am also considering because there are a couple of ‘niche’ things I am thinking about bringing into my capture and edit that I cannot currently do, but this new boy would allow and all within one single system which has great appeal.

I would not flip one of my S5ii’s or my S9 for that ‘need’, but the S1Rii might just cover that off despite being a primary stills option for me…

 

If you can then being in one system makes sense. Each camera is a back up to the others and I'd imagine this will use the same batteries making everything easier to manage.

On 2/4/2025 at 7:11 PM, MrSMW said:

A. Because I already have it and can’t really sell it due to some ‘cosmetic issues’ and

18-50 sigma

What cosmetic issues? If you are looking to sell I might be interested if it works correctly!