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If you got that on the day of launch then you really are an old git How did you get your camera announcement press releases in those days Grandad?

There is a specific new fangled term for cameras that do 24 fps with an electronic shutter though. "Video Cameras" I think it is what they refer to them as Joking aside, thats actually the broader point here as stills extraction will eventually prevail in all of those disciplines and sport will probably be the first to fall entirely. To bring it back to the topic of the thread, cameras with 8K capture will accelerate that.

The front page is a decent resource for press release aggregation so its useful for that. I do fear for the safety of the poor souls who have to share their lives and homes with the circa 90% of commenters who lose their shit whenever a story about Leica is featured.

Speaking as one of those pros, I have to say that this particular niche market will collapse in its entirety before Sony gain any significant foothold in it due to a combination of video frame extraction, rights issues and brand image control. The burst mode is a red herring if its using electronic shutter due to the environments its being used in and even if they got it above the 12/14fps of the D5 and EOS 1DXii with the mechanical shutter its not going to be anything more than fiddling around the margins. I have absolutely no idea why Sony came to what is a dying market in the first place and then approached it in such a half arsed fashion when they did. Its not far off 2 years since the a9 release and there wasn't much latitude for a gradual roll out of the eco system around it even when it was released let alone now after all this time. I can see why those such as the Northrups who don't do this for a living can look at an a9 and come to the conclusion it has everything a professional sports photographer would need and that it will surely be adopted because it does slightly more here and there but its too simplistic a viewpoint that honestly betrays a lack of understanding of the speciality. One could even say it lacks nuance.

I think once you accept that DPReview an Amazon owned company, which basically makes it an Amazon message board masquerading as a legitimate user driven community, then you should just let stuff like that wash over you. By contributing any expertise or insight to those forums then you are effectively just helping build and add credibility to a stealth advertising platform for Amazon (for free!) which they will always ultimately exert control over in the way that fits in with their agenda of selling gear. Thats why in your situation they turn a blind eye to people being attacked rather than the camera. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, the fact that the 64/24 year old filmmaker/dentist/banged to rights scam artist is one of their respected contributors should be enough reason for people to ask themselves if they wan't to belong to a club that would have someone like that as a member.

As I say, specs don't always translate into something breaking into the market when it comes to working professionals, particularly one thats dominated by two systems. And 'systems' is the key word there as Nikon and Canon have not only the equipment range (including the boring stuff to do with image transmission) but also the infrastructure with service centres and on site event support to keep it all working. Incidentally, when you use the mechanical shutter on the a9 (which you would do to minimise the banding with the ES from pitchside LED ad boards) then the a9 is a rather less than stellar 5fps. With all due respect to the Northrups, I think they have some ideas about what a professional sports photographer needs and does without much if any practical experience of ever actually having done it. For one thing they look far too healthy, wealthy and happy to have done it

If the details of that are in their official press release then it must be in a white font. A small one. On a white background Seems some of those features are only coming in the summer v6.0 as well rather than the more immediate v5.0 https://www.nbc-2.com/story/39794865/sony-announces-9-camera-upgrade-through-major-firmware-updates Fair play to them for adding more functionality though. I presume its only Theresa May levels of myopic stubborness that stops them accepting its barely made a dent in the market they wanted it to but that it could still have legs as a bit of a hybrid powerhouse.

Get off the fence and tell us what you really think of it Was looking at the list of updates they announced in the new firmware for the a9 thinking "surely somewhere in that long list they'll have finally added picture profiles...." Nope.

Well I did actually shoot an international match with the Leica SL a few months ago but that's another story! To be brutually honest, nothing has come along in the mirrorless realm from any of the manufacturers (including Nikon and Canon themselves) that has come close to usurping mirrored versions for sport at that level anyway so in that respect it won't be much different. For all the specs of these cameras, you know full well that I'm still going to beat that drum and say it none of it translates into them breaking that stranglehold at the sharp end. The long lens issue is an unknown until Sigma produce their roadmap as I would expect it to be them rather than Panasonic that would service that end. They have a serious back catalogue to work from though and one thing that isn't talked about much is that they have always had to reverse engineer and make tweaks to get them to work with other cameras so it will be interesting to see how much performance boost they can get when they are involved from the ground up. Having said that, I have an SD Quattro with a 30mm ART that is entirely their design from end to end and the AF on it is absolutely shit so probably not

I'm still hopeful they can work together to add ProRes RAW to my original one as one last firmware hurrah. I'd buy the Ninja V in a heartbeat, not least to gain an actual viable monitoring capability !

There is some interesting bits of information contained within the (lengthy) share offer prospectus for Atomos from a few months ago. Aside from them licensing an SoC to JVC for upcoming video cameras (which may mean hello LS300 MKii ?), four new products for 2019 described as 'next generation' and some interesting data about how big the market is for external recorders, which is bigger than I thought. One other thing, though, which crops up several times throughout the prospectus as a risk factor is a dispute with RED. Elsewhere in the document it states that RED are in the same dispute with another party and, whilst it might not necessarily mean its to do with ProRes RAW and REDCODE it does seem a coincidence that the date of the dispute coincides with the announcement from NAB. Hopefully it will get resolved and if it is about ProRes RAW that it won't put the brakes on the development of it and expanding it to other camera brands and models. Full document here http://downloads.atomos.com/investor/IPO Prospectus.pdf

I have Panasonic's current full frame camera (the one with the expensive German overcoat) and I've got to say that based on my experiences with that and then adding in the four years subsequent development that they will have had by the time the new one is released that they will do just fine with it as a pure photo camera. The drawback of the current one is the limited range of lenses and the eye watering price of them. Both of those aspects will be addressed by the alliance between Panasonic, Leica and Sigma. What they will actually be offering with this camera is a mark II version of the Leica SL at less than half the price with a vastly expanded and cheaper lens line up. When viewed like that, even taking off the premium cost factor of adding the red dot, it is a competitive offering. If nothing else they will shift a bunch of lenses to owners of their existing full frame camera

Most of the 8K TV's I saw on demo in stores in Japan were Sharp ones so them being first with something a consumer can create their own content in 8K with doesn't surprise me. But I have to say I'm surprised at it being in this form factor of being an interchangeable lens camera as I thought it would be much more in the realm of a Sony RX10/Panasonic FZ2000 type of camera if not even a traditional camcorder format like a Sony NX80/AX700. Whilst the price seems very high for it to be a "consumer" product, its actually far less in relative terms versus the cost of the screen its intended to provide content for than it was for those early adopters who wanted to do the same for HD and 4K. And its certainly cheaper than Sharp's other 8K camcorder.

I hadn't but I've just watched it on YouTube They used to scare the shit out of me as a kid. My Dad preyed on this to keep me from playing in the electricity sub station (it was the 70s, we had a different benchmark for danger back then) by saying the loud buzzing noise coming out of it was from the daleks that lived in there.

Nah, you only need a flight of stairs.

Sounds like some really fucked up hidden mode you've discovered on the Alexa there.

Fuji used to make very handsome cine cameras. If they did move back into dedicated motion cameras, carried on their retro styling cues of the stills range and put the X-T3 internals in this then I suspect many people would wet their pants. I'd be one of them

In the UK, he went from being the editor of the right wing News Of The World tabloid to being the editor of the left wing Daily Mirror tabloid. And as far as I can tell he is simultaneously and equally loathed by both left and right. He truly is Schrodinger's Twat.

I picked a copy of this magazine up at the airport when I was back on the Island this week, primarily because it featured an interesting piece with Jihua Zheng, the co-owner of Kinefinity. As a gentleman of a certain age (and increasingly uncertain age due to my expiring memory) I have to say its very reassuring to pick up an actual paper publication to read equipment reviews and editorial content. Its also reassuring after all the "are they or aren't they being paid for this?" doubts about YouTube reviews in particular to see real unambiguous adverts on a page so you know exactly where the money is coming from. Ditto that what little advertorial content there is in it being clearly labelled across the page as being so. Also, because it isn't created on the hoof on the back of press junkets or off re-cycled press releases it has a bit more diverse content too rather than just feeding the hype of whatever is the flavour of the month. Or flavour of the second in a lot of cases. For me at least, it provides if not a complete alternative then certainly an interesting addition to the deluge of online stuff. And its a far easier medium to consume when you are on a plane and don't have wifi as well Hopefully it will get the support it needs to grow further https://www.promoviemaker.net/index.php/current-issues

It really does take a special type of reactionary dickhead to consider a vegan sausage roll as an act of political correctness. And then to articulate that thought out loud.

Yes. It will be published on the 27th. Of this month. And this year I'll put a bit of an update here later in the week with a couple of pictures and a final run list of its functionality.

No need to waste the metal as he can be apparently be brought down by meat substitute alone. After helping whip up a national frenzy after a bakery chain released a vegan version of its sausage roll (like we don't already have enough pressing matters in the UK to dominate public debate) he decided to really show his moral outrage and disgust by eating one on his TV show. After spitting it out (yes on live TV) he is now claiming it is responsible for him being hospitalised. A part of me is hoping that the bakery in question had actually sneakily obtained his DNA (possibly from a bile soaked microphone used during one of his whiney rants) and identified a way to attack his gastrointestinal system to see if they could make actual shit rather than the usual metaphorical shit pour out of his mouth. Many countries come up with creative ways to surrepticiously remove enemies of the state but I suppose it does still speak to a certain type of Britishness to attempt to do it via the medium of baked goods.

I suppose that's the issue when it comes to disagreements about music when you have so many guns around. To paraphrase a British comedian on the issue.... You sent us Elvis Presley and we took him to our hearts, we sent you John Lennon and you shot him. Speaking of comedians, I think Chris Rock had a great idea to enable people to still own guns but reduce the number of "heat of the moment" murders by charging $5000 each for the bullets on the basis that you would really have to be mad at someone to waste $5000 on them

The crux of it is that people were given an opportunity to give a simpllistic answer to a very complex question. Irrespective of the flat out lies, they were asked if they wanted to sit on a chair without being told it was an electric one. For such an enormous change to have been actioned, the threshold should have been set at a much higher level than 50.1% For anyone outside the UK, the impact of this vote might not seem as seismic as they are being portrayed but the underlying factors that caused it should scare the shit out of you. The targeting and manipulation of voters through social and traditional media sounds like something out of a conspiracy thriller but was frighteningly real and comparitively frighteningly cheap. Anyway, time for a break for me.

35% of the total electorate voted to leave of the 72% that voted, so its the 28% that didn't actually go and vote that have got what they deserved. I'm not actually sure what Britain or being British actually even means anymore let alone what the difference between the two may or may not be. The only thing that it seems unites everyone is the feeking of division. Pretty ironic really.