BTM_Pix

Its like everything else in that its breakable depending on circumstances. I've broken far tougher cameras than the Pocket, including multiple Nikon D4 and D3 bodies which were built for very heavy duty wear and tear but not for bouncing off concrete. So it happens and all you can do is mitigate it. The clamp is the obvious step but also the cable in that if you use a right angled one then you can reduce the outside span of cable that it can then get snagged on. Another mitigation is to use a right angle adapter and plug the monitor cable into that so if something happens then you are likely to damage the end that goes to the monitor instead of the camera port and can then replace the adapter. Its interesting that people wring their hands about the camera port yet the input port on something like the Ninja V is equally vulnerable irrespective of it being full size HDMI. SDI is the answer but I can assure you that they can get sheared off as well in the wrong circumstances. At this particular moment, though, I'd be far more concerned about trying to get hold of media to use in the OG Pocket than its HDMI port.

Samsung did it many years ago with their compact cameras. Its interesting looking back on it now whether they were partly using this as a way of gauging which way consumer photography would go. And if it was, the results told them that the better way to travel was to close the camera division 🙂 Zeiss did have a more recent attempt at doing the same wth the ZX1 but it absolutely tanked and was quietly discontinued. Its all in there for them to enable it and of course bluetooth would make it easy for the voice comms element of it. I used to use both the EyeFi and the Toshiba FlashAir cards to auto background transfer images to my phone for semi-immediate posting to social media and if its only for jpegs then bluetooth is perfectly fine for that too. As with the Samsung and the Zeiss though, neither of those products are still available so when it comes to bridging real cameras to the modern world then maybe they want us old farts to stay in our lane !

For all the same reasons that @MrSMW outlined in his post above, it would have to be radically different. And for the same reasons listed in your post, it isn’t so it hasn’t. When you combine the both then it’s arguable it never will for me personally but that doesn’t mean it won’t for millions of other people. As I said in the post, it is clearly a leap forward against other iPhones but not a great a leap forward within cameras as a whole to make me think this is the way for me. There is a scene in Peep Show - and I’ve used this analogy before about phone cameras - but it still sums up my perspective about them… Jeremy is on a date in a restaurant and tastes some expensive wine and says : “Wow, this wine tastes amazing. I mean, obviously it's not really delicious like hot chocolate or coke, but for wine... brilliant." None of that stops me being interested in other people’s uses with them though. I’m trying to see through the hype about the 15 Pro Max to learn about how many people are actually now using them in a serious enough manner to be interested in a product that I may or may not have developed for it 😉

It’s not about iPhone log per se it’s just that I thus far haven’t seen anything from a phone that would persuade me to use one over a real camera. Outside of convenience that is but that’s not the be all and end all for me even though I am inherently a lazy bastard. That’s not what I said at all. I was asking the question of other people who DO own an iPhone 15 who previously carried a compact camera and using the RX100 as an example of one.

For mobile video as in literally video on mobile phones or just mobile video as in a compact setup ? If its the former then I've no real opinions as I don't use my iPhone for anything other than non-photo/video things aside from the odd snapshot. If its the latter then per my point about matching what, to me at least, is the average looking image in that particular video then for the same price as the 15 Pro Max we could probably be here all day listing options. I've seen other videos where it has been exploited better but I don't see anything in and of itself which supports it being anything other than a step forward for iPhone filming. Phone cameras have always left me cold (particularly in terms of the price of these high end iPhones) but I did have a weather eye out for this one as it might have been the one to change that. I realise I might be in a minority here but thus far it hasn't moved the needle that much for me. I'm curious to know how many people on here have one of these yet and if it has changed anything for them in terms of being a camera replacement other than it just being a better camera than their previous one. For example, has anyone who always used, say, an LX100 or an RX100 etc as a compact camera now completely dropped those and only use the 15 Pro Max ?

On the whole, I thought that was really lacklustre to be honest and I'd say that, quite appropriately, he phoned that one in. Ironically, that made it quite informative set against the slew of shock faced "OMG I can't believe I shot this cinematic masterpiece on a phone" videos on YouTube where a lot of production work has gone clearly in to them as this shows what you get out of one shooting in a more casual can't be arsed sort of manner. I can think of far cheaper cameras than the £1299 the base model costs in the UK with which to get similarly meh results with that approach. It hasn't stopped the vast majority of commenters on it saying not only is the emperor not naked but he is wearing the finest of hand woven garments though, so I'm guessing they're seeing something different to me. Filters seem to be this year's LUT packs don't they and this felt more about them than the camera.

I use this SmallRig half cage on mine which has a basic but effective HDMI clamp.

I think the Accsoon Seemo might cover a multitude of sins as it gives you all the monitoring facilities without having as much bulk as a Ninja etc as it uses your iPhone. With the OG Pocket, the big advantage is that you can deploy it or not on a per needs basis as with it being your phone you are already carrying it with you so the only extra bulk you would be carrying is the unit itself which is basically the size of a phone holder (plus battery). They are around £130 so not a particular bank breaker either. https://accsoon.com/accsoon-seemo/

Indeed. "retired" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that statement. He "retired" in much the same way as Boris Johnson did.

And....here comes the return of Jeromy Young as MD and CEO. https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/ATOMOS-LIMITED-50061253/news/Atomos-Limited-Announces-Board-Changes-45676557/

Which is why I used the word era. Of course it won't be in perpetuity.

It records everything internally to an ide drive which everyone swaps out with a €10 adapter to record onto compact flash cards instead.

Its a 24bit 18 track recorder and each track has 16 virtual nondestructive sub tracks for alternative takes. 28 channel fully automated digital mixer, per channel effects, global effects, mastering suite function with CD burning (which shows its age!) or disk metering. Its a traditional recording studio in a box with the advantage of modern features such as copying and pasting etc so if its audio you're after then theres nothing it can't do really. Again, its the dedicated nature of it that appeals which means its fast as fuck to operate. Obviously Zoom do newer versions but they are fiddlier, lack a lot of ins/outs for aux sends, have no digital in/outs and most importantly for me lack MIDI timecode sync to use it with sequencers. Also, none of them are as affordable as this one as It only cost me €150 ! Its a complete relic really (I got my original one over 25 years ago) but for the needs I have nothing comes close to it as a standalone product. I'd say it has a reassuring heft to it at 7KG ! Size wise it isn't huge at 55 x 35 x 10 cm but it being a decent size is appropriate to the ease of use.

Although its now discontinued, the camera that still annoys me at holding its value secondhand is the Canon XC10/15. It should be like £150-200 now but it most certainly isn't.

There is an argument that good lens that vignettes are contradictions in terms but I know what you mean ! You'll hate me for pointing you in this direction but based on stuff I've seen from @Andrew Reid , the "slightly bigger than full frame" of the GFX100 yields some really pleasant results vignette wise when using old SLR lenses on it. Sledgehammer to crack a nut though obviously.

On so many threads, I have to resist the temptation to just say "we should all just buy an FZ2000/2500 and get on with it" but its never far from my thoughts ! Again, its one of those where if they incorporated a couple of things like 10bit and PDAF into a newer version it might get a wider audience. Not bothered about the IBIS because the hybrid stabilisation in it is pretty great.

With the amount of dubious code that will be AI generated it will be a golden era for software testers to avoid, erm, "sub-optimal outcomes".

Nah, I'm thinking actual camcorder so a full on replacement with the fixed lens but with all the new stuff from the G9ii, PDAF,10 bit internal 4:2:2, ProRes. Even IBIS now that Sony have broken the seal by putting it on the Vic Reeves camera. My reasoning for a camcorder is that - as evidenced by the amount of angst and hand writing on here over trying to make decisions - having a pick it up and go unit would actually be a godsend. Paralysis by analysis is a real thing. Plus, in view of event work evidently being the last holdout against the "AI revolution" taking away work opportunities for video shooters, camcorders with the sort of image quality on offer will arguably be the most appropriate tool.

The world needs an interesting larger sensor camcorder IMHO so a new version of the DVX200 with the internals of the G9ii would be a good cross division collaboration.

For older readers who used to buy Viz, the poster in question is pretty much the spiritual successor to this fella.

It was until they got into serial numbers, date of production and defining what the "early 70s" actually meant as in a show that came out in September 74 had already had 37% of the 70s behind it so couldn't count. No, really. I am printing this out for the next time my wife says I waste too much time on the internet. Wait until a Welsh speaker goes on there and tells him the translation they use for cappuccino . It will blow his mind.

I had the chance to get one about four or five years ago for a reasonable price but went the poor man's route with a 2nd hand A7Rii and Samyang 35mm f2.8 thinking I was being smart because, hey, video and interchangeable lenses and its cheaper. Yeah, that was a bad call really as particularly now I'd have welcomed the simplicity of the RX1rII for everyday use. And as you say its held its value !

Yes that would be a good niche for them. I had high hopes for them to be coming up with innovative stuff but from what they've offered so far it feels more like a management buyout/sweat the brand name affair. I think the latter was kind of expected so its a great pity really that it currently looks like that is the reality. Sigma have the background in making fixed lens APS-C compacts with f2.8 lenses in the original DP series (before they went weird with the design of the latter ones!) so even not withstanding them using Merrill they could make a very nice CMOS based fixed lens APS-C camera with good video facilities in it and an even faster lens now. They've been very quiet for a while so you never know.

The big issue a while back was people making their first post to ask a benign question so it got through the initial moderation and then editing their post a couple of days later to insert a link to some spam nonsense. They then invariably replied to their own post with "Thanks everyone, I've found the solution" whilst inserting more spam links into that. When the edit was removed we then had a series of "Please advise me which camera to get" posts from first time posters who then disappeared never to return. The reason they never returned is they couldn't edit their posts to put the spam link in. These threads wasted a lot of good intentioned advice from regular posters. On balance, I think preventing that kind of stuff (which was rife at one point) is worth not having an edit function for, particularly as we have had some absolutely mind numbing pedantry on here of late which would be made worse if people who want to argue a point into the ground could go back and edit their bullshit in order to remove an assertion that was proved wrong. Incidentally, I saw a thread on Gearspace recently about the use of the MiniMoog in TV scoring in the early 70s and I would swear that at least one poster involved in it must be on here under different names.

Yes, I use an AFX focusing system* on mine for AF-C of native and adapted electronic lenses and motor control of manual focus ones (both on BM or other cameras). The removal/inactivation of BLE in this new camera means that such control will not be possible for native and adapted lenses and will be motor only. Which is a bit silly really as if I can control a Sigma 18-35mm electronically, why would I want to have to then strap a follow focus ring on to it and bulk up the rig with a motor. * Well, technically speaking I suppose you could say its a 3rd party device for other people who use them but its a 1st party device when I'm using one as I created it.