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1 hour ago, kye said:
I must admit that I find judging image quality from other peoples images to be almost impossible as you're likely just seeing average images of the most incredible scenes
I may have dreamt this but either in Flickr itself or an external site that used it’s data, you were able to search by EXIF so you could look at the extremes of the lens range and in this case it would be to display all LX100 images at 24mm f1.8 and 70mm f2.8 which was a more informative way to do it.
People can fuck up the composition and the processing but even they struggle to overcome the physics.
1 hour ago, kye said:just buy the damned thing to understand what it's like to actually use!
Welcome to episode two of the series!
41 minutes ago, eatstoomuchjam said:Is that a moving 85% of the sensor? As in, does that allow turning on EIS without any additional crop?
Fixed.
The EIS is an additional crop as far as I can recall.
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So there are indeed some details in the video specs that will be of note to some.
Internal RecordingH.264/H.265/MOV/MPEG-4 AVC 4:2:0 8/10-Bit
5674 x 2988 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/48.00/50/59.94 fps (200 to 300 Mb/s)
5184 x 3888 up to 23.98/24.00/25/29.97 fps (200 Mb/s)
4352 x 3264 up to 47.95/50/59.94 fps (300 Mb/s)
4096 x 2160 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94/100/120 fps (100 to 300 Mb/s)
3840 x 2160 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94/100/120 fps (70 to 300 Mb/s)
1920 x 1080 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94/100/120/200/240 fps (16 to 200 Mb/s)
H.264 ALL-Intra/MPEG-4 AVC 4:2:2 10-Bit
4096 x 2160 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94 fps (400 to 600 Mb/s)
3840 x 2160 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94 fps (400 to 600 Mb/s)
1920 x 1080 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94/100/120 fps (200 to 400 Mb/s)Interesting to note that Panasonic have sidestepped the Micro HDMI bleating by just fucking it off altogether.
Although it was playback only on the original anyway.
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1 hour ago, MrSMW said:
so would probably hold on until 2027 and pay the massive premium to get the same thing with a red dot and a fancier box to put in the back of a cupboard.
The Leica variants of the Panasonic cameras like the RX100 always hold their value far, far better so the initial premium that you pay is offset somewhat when you sell it.
Join me next time for another episode of “Flimsy Justifications I Present To My Wife When Buying Cameras”.
1 hour ago, kye said:By the time you're playing MFT you're already doing lens math all the time
The good thing about a fixed lens camera is that you can just forget about all of that.
What you’ve got is what you’ve got.
1 hour ago, kye said:The other thing that might be relevant is that the GH7 actually has some small crop-factors too.
When the full spec for the L10 comes out then I would look for some devil in the detail regarding this as well in the video modes.
I saw something regarding it being 4.2.0 in some modes and 4.2.2 in others for example.
1 hour ago, kye said:would have a shallow enough DOF for some nice separation in many situations too.
I'm keen to see some numbers about how large it is.
Not sure about numbers but the Flickr pool for the LX100/ii should give you plenty of visuals to evaluate it.
As with most pools on Flickr for older cameras I’d recommend going back to closer to the end and working forward as the advent of faster internet has led to a proliferation of any old shit being uploaded.
People were a lot more selective ten years ago 😂
https://www.flickr.com/groups/dmc-lx100/pool/with/55214982443
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Does it still have the same caveat as the LX100 in having an MFT sensor but only having 85% of it exposed to the lens ?
The lens on the L10 being 10.9-34mm but being described as a 24-70mm equivalent does align with that 2.2x crop factor of the 85%.
Does it matter though ?
Not really, I really like my original LX100 and this addresses absolutely every one of its shortcomings including the OIS on the lens and the fixed screen let alone the internals.
As it should of course being twelve years after the launch of the original and at practically double the price.
I think Panasonic has jumped the shark so high with its MFT prices in recent years that they believe they can now position even a sub-MFT size product as a bargain and they are likely correct.
I think I’ll wait for the Leica badged version though as if I’m going to pay through the nose for it then I might as well go the whole hog.
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Unless of course they got me mixed up with Gerald Undone.
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I hope MPB have looked at this thread at some point because I’ve just had an email from them entitled “Was it just a phase?”.
I thought it was going to be something punny about phase detect AF and trying to alert me to their range of manual focus lenses or some such but no, it’s suggesting that photography must’ve just been a phase because I haven’t bought anything from THEM for a while.
Entitling the email “Is it because we have gone really quite expensive and frequently lose your mate’s cameras?” then I’d have agreed with them as that being the reason I haven’t bought anything from them for a while.
My “phase” of being a photographer which began a comfortable three decades before your company even existed remains intact MPB but I tell you what is now a phase and that’s ever buying anything from you, you cheeky patronising pricks.
When someone who has been a frequent customer since you began, you might want to look inward as to what might have caused their buying to fall off a cliff.
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That might be something positive that AI can do for creative people.
Get it acting like a promotional agent to get your work in front of people.
That aspect gives most artists the ick but AI doesn’t give a shit about anyone thinking it is a soulless wanker.
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On 4/16/2026 at 9:56 AM, BTM_Pix said:
But I’m going to London this weekend and you know what, I might well end up feeling saucy and doing a Wayne Campbell…
Well I came, I saw. I chickened out.
Bought a secondhand ZFc with a kit lens.
Effectively, I confidently walked in to get the 64 Strat in classic white with triple single coil pickups and a whammy bar…and walked out with a banjo.
Went from getting a forever camera to getting a foralittlewhile camera.
I had an FM2 when I was a kid and this drew me in as did the £450 price.
The Z8 will have to wait but…
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Hopes dashed for anyone hoping a bit more of a dynamic company might buy them and filter their products down to our level then.
This is possibly the driest takeover imaginable.
Riedel make Leica look like The Sex Pistols.
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10 hours ago, Aussie Ash said:
Their share price is up by 170 % compared to a nasty low in March so I think your theory is right ! Put on a show for the shareholders and speculators !!!
I think laying off 23% of it’s workforce has had a lot to do with the share price rising.
Those finance vampires love people losing their jobs.
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48 minutes ago, mercer said:
That is a pretty cool feature, even though my mind cannot grasp how the Techart is accomplishing it.
Very small mice are operating pulleys to physically move the lenses in and out of focus.
Hang on, it’s not mice it’s small motors.
50 minutes ago, mercer said:I had a quick look on BH and they only seem to have an EF to Z and a Leica M to Z... do they make an F to Z?
Nikon’s FTZ adapter takes care of the AF Nikkors and for manual focus ones you just use the M mount one with additional M to F adapter stacked.
And indeed the same for any other type such as C/Y and M42 etc that have M adapters.
The other Z mount adapter that you may or not be interested in is the MegaDap E mount adapter which opens up the world of small and affordable primes.
There is even a Fuji X to Z adapter which is obviously only for APS-C lenses but would come in handy if your additional down the line Z camera was the not at all shit Z50ii.
56 minutes ago, mercer said:how nice would it be to have your "forever camera?"
It would be a tacit admission that the end is nigh 😂 -
I would say that Z mount would be the way to go.
It can adapt everything you’ve got in your lens collection to be near native.
Not just your AF EF and F mount but with the TechArt you can have AF of all your manual lenses as well.
If you can stretch to a used Z8 then that would close the argument on every aspect and would be a - if not THE -forever camera.
I say this as someone who has still failed to buy one for the past three years despite it being THAT camera to me.
But I’m going to London this weekend and you know what, I might well end up feeling saucy and doing a Wayne Campbell…
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Region unlocking for the cheap Japanese versions would be welcome .
Not sure open memories tweak supports the newer models.
https://github.com/ma1co/OpenMemories-Tweak?tab=readme-ov-file
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2 hours ago, kye said:
I'd imagine that @BTM_Pix would be deep down this rabbit hole..
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I’m probably biased as both a Nikon Df user and someone who thinks these two are pricks but even so I wasn’t sure that my contempt towards these two could get any bigger but here we are.
They even went after the Leica CL.
Of course if any of the cameras on their list was released today they would be shilling the shit out of it.
Because that’s what they are, paid promoters of newness.
No new gear, no pay day.
Not exactly overflowing with content about great used alternatives that channel is it ?
And that tells you all you need to know about them as a serious resource.
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12 hours ago, fuzzynormal said:
I guess I just need to figure out a worthwhile story to tell with 1.5 minutes of film.
A time-lapse of the fuel price sign at your local filling station over the next month would be one for the ages.
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It sounds like an off-Road vacuum cleaner.
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My own tried and tested formula for determining if prices are getting out of hand is how much of an, erm, “rounding error” occurs when relaying the price I’ve paid for something to the wife.
When it comes to cameras, it would be a base level of 10%.
If I bought a new camera nowadays it would more likely be in the 20-25% area.
The area where my perception of price escalation is most piqued though is in the price of first party lenses as much as it is cameras.
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Every time I’m watching a YouTube video and they say “Let me know down below in the comments” I just think “Oh no you poor bastard”.
The problem is of course that they have to appeal to people to do that to get the algorithm to work for them and give their content a chance to get noticed.
YouTube actually make you open yourself up for trolling to even attempt to make yourself relevant in their “who gives a shit about quality?” mindset.
It’s exactly the same with the other clown and his blue tick programme being a deliberate incitement to gain money by hateposting, rage baiting and outright lying to farm replies for cash and cause division.
Absolute shithouse behaviour.
Particularly as it also seems to be an effective template to become US President.
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He will no doubt do some chicanery that feathers his own nest.
Some sort of bogus licensing where DJI have to pay for the use of one of the raft of Chinese held patents that his daughter mysteriously got granted there during his first term.
Of course, vanity will also dictate that they have to change the name from DJI to DJT for which they will also have to pay a licensing fee.
LUMIX L10 - announced
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Turns out I didn’t dream it.
https://www.shutterdial.com
However, what I did dream )or maybe they’ve removed the function) was that you could search by specific camera on addition to the focal length/aperture.