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That’ll be a €25K fine for L-Mount Rumours for leaking it to the Vatican the other day then.

And the prices will be doing a Status Quo as well. Unless you are in America of course.

I don’t really agree with “if you can’t beat them, join them” attitude to stuff like this. Being a right wing imbecile is very much on the rise but it doesn’t mean we should just fall into line with it. AI should be used for taking away mundanity like doing the dishes and laundry from our lives to free us up to do the fun and creative stuff not steal that from us. I’ve got admiration for whoever’s work was used to “train” this but only contempt for those who are facilitating and grifting on the blatant theft of original work. Do you not see that these tools that you are espousing will only make that situation immeasurably worse ? This will literally give these people the ability to say “yeah just make that last one again with a slight variation and set in a different location” and churn this shit out even faster and with waaayyyy more profitability than they do now ?

Does this mean that those specialist art films his wife made back in the old country will now have a 100% tariff ?

My favourite AI outcome would be for it to fuck right off.

Oddly enough, I actually had a dream last night that I had a Nikon Zf. Based on its excellent performance in that dream, I can concur with @MrSMW that it is a great camera. Then this morning I got an alert that the Zf has been reduced to £1400 on Amazon. This might be a sign. Possibly a sign not to eat cheese before bed as I’ve never had such a vivid dream about a camera before. Particularly not one where I was shooting an intimate portrait of the Loch Ness Monster with it.

Further north and more nuclear power station adjacent. Or further west if the S you are thinking of is somewhere on the east coast.

It will be available in any colour you like as long as its brown.

Well you can but I'd only spend it on cameras and lenses as well. I've got all four of the MFT PZ lenses (2 Panasonic and 2 Olympus) and they are lurking somewhere around where I am at the moment. If I can dig them out and get some time next week, I can put them on a P4K and do some quick shots for you if you are keen. Won't be anything fancy, it will just be a couple of locked off shots of a Northern seaside town well past its mid-20th century pomp but it'll all be at f5.6 😉

I did a post about it a while back on the OG Pocket where it’s kind of accidentally par focal at f5.6 but maybe on a native Panasonic body it might be properly corrected ? I did a video of it on the P4K to illustrate the functionality of the BM controller app that I wrote and it was so so with that as you can see when it shows the servo zoom function . If you’re looking for a cheap 12-32 then the Panasonic f3.5-5.6 kit lens one is limited functionality wise (no manual focus or aperture) but has OS and is absolutely tiny. I did some stuff (again with the OG Pocket) here. And it also has a companion lens in the same vein in the 35-100mm f4-5.6 to make a tiny two lens kit with a great range.

Thats a really nice find. The lack of power requirement and small form factor makes it ideal for cameras like the S9 etc and the BM cameras like the Micro but also for the Pocket4K. It doesn't really have to be the absolute pinnacle with all the bells and whistles as a lot of the time with something EVF less like the S9 etc as you just need it as an add on for when shooting outdoors. I'm surprised someone hasn't been buying these, slapping their own logo on and selling them on for twice the price. CineFran would've done exactly that if he hadn't moved on to barefaced retro console emulation scamming.

It’s unfortunate that AI has such a weird issue generating hands as it would be ideal for the camera to also create something that looked more natural when it is doing the selfie stick removal. Aa it stands everyone is walking round in these videos looking like a 1970s Action Man with the gripping hands. Its an impressive camera though all the same.

Surely the gymfluencers will be flocking to the S1Rii after that recent magnum opus ?

It won’t be a subscription and what upgrade fees do appear in the future will be modest.

Well with one country being run by a tit and the other country selling so much tat, it is quite apt that these tit for tat exchanges will go on for quite a while yet.

There are legion scenes in The Thick Of It where they absolutely nailed the Tory party but this one reigns supreme.

Sorry @eatstoomuchjam I can see how I’ve muddied the waters there as I was just illustrating how components of a system would attract different rates. The Ursa Cine 12K and its media module would’ve been a great example of that if it was “Chinese” enough to get hit and as BM didn’t hike the price to reflect that then I’m guessing it isn’t. But it might be later on today when the next random move happens. And then rescinded the next day etc etc

When BM announced the PYXIS price hike, it was an increase in price that was in line with it being manufactured in China. So they themselves must have considered it would be hit. Subsequently, it now isn’t in line with that even though the tariffs remain on China so logically (ironic to have logic mentioned in this nonsensical trade war) BM have subsequently changed where it will be made as they do have manufacturing in several countries. The “substantial transformation” aspect of the rules of origin calculation also give a pathway for mitigating tariff impact as I said the other day by them separating the hardware and the software of their cameras as they are just a box of cheap bits without the software. Clearly by no longer having the PYXIS price increased in line with the China tariff, BM have found another way from what their original intention was via either route and they must be confident it will survive a challenge. As they don’t have a definitive shipping date they were able to do this without having a ton of stock inbound to the US and they will also be able to absorb any delay incurred in the change of plan by just extending the actual release date. It’s not like the customers will complain about a delay if the result is the price not being hiked and, of course, it’s BM so no one was expecting it to ship on time anyway !

Here is the list of the new exemptions. https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCBP/bulletins/3db9e55 The general HTS code for cameras is 8025. So they are not included in the list. As it currently stands, if you buy the Ursa Cine 12K then you will be hit with 150% for the camera but not the media module. All of this is “as it currently stands” because he’s probably not finished his morning double cheeseburger yet so is almost certainly subject to further “strategic alterations” and all the new tariffs are removed over the next two weeks. I’m surprised they didn’t disappear in real time while I was reading the document.

Not locally owned any more but RED are still there. And with significantly less cringe.

I think it’s only polite that you disclose your affiliation to the Jehovah’s Witnesses before posting blind links to their religious material. Unless it’s just a massive coincidence that your profile contact details on here link to their jw.org domain.

What an absolute bell end this man is.

When it was dawning on the hard of thinking here that Brexit was a load of old bollocks they just doubled down on the delusion using their weapon of choice, the piss poor home made sign. The weapons of choice for Trump’s disciples when the penny drops might be a bit more problematic for him.