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

One of the key parts of what makes an NDA enforceable in the UK is the consideration of a power imbalance between the parties.
”Parties should not attempt to take unfair advantage of any imbalance in power during the negotiation of an NDA”
I’d like to see the outcome of “$58Billion Revenue/230K Employees company Vs Blogger” in respect of trying to make that fine stick.
There is also a part in excluding its enforcement if you divulge the contents to law enforcement.
So if it was re-using the same S5ii body shell then you could legally have walked out of the restaurant and into the nearest police station and announcing to the duty officer “I would like to report a crime”.

Who needs an S1H II when you have an S1 Mark ?E?E?E?E?E
E for electronic shutter, to save costs.
E for Exactly the same body as the cheapo camera from 2022 to save costs.
E for enamoured with accountancy.
E for enormous lack of creativity.
E for eeee dear.
E for End, as in the brand, and soon the entire system as well.
E for E-mount which has a 3 year old model that's twice as good.
E for erm, do I want to sign an NDA and go to some fancy Knightsbridge business lunch to see it.
N for no fucking thanks!

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

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

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

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

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

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 ?

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 ?
 

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 ?

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

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

Damn, that’s a much better price than I paid even just a few months back, but hey ho.
I am really intrigued now what it can do video-wise, especially with the current RED luts and anything future that may come in that regard.
I guess I really need to shoot a straight heads up against my S9 because I think it could easily slip into that role as at least a run & gun video unit.
That would then mean a switch to Nikon for all video needs which is something I have been complementing for 2026 anyway…

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

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

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.
 
 
 

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 😉 

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.

Cam Mackey hears your call to action and is now working on it.

Few additional findings and notes:
Tested it in bright sunlight conditions. It is great. Fully isolates the eye. Because it perfectly isolates the eye from external light, once brightness is adjusted there is no need to change it. Optics actually are better than thought initially. It has several lenses not just one loupe. Most likely metal housing was designed and used for smaller sensors - 0.5''. Current one is bigger at 0.7'' that's why far end corners aren't perfectly visible. I saw this only when was feeding it with signal from my laptop. When shooting with Sony ZV-E1 as already mentioned it displays a 3:2 crop at 1620x1080px and everything is perfectly visible and in focus. one relatively simple modification would be to cut the current cable and solder a female HDMI and probably glue it to the side of the EVF. This would allow to use better or custom HDMI cables. size is just perfect for cameras like Sony ZV-E1 and all other mirrorless cameras, especially when you don't want to use a rig and have just the camera and a lens, probably also a cage as it is in my case. Nice experience. Makes shooting with an EVF really comfortable. The more I use it, the more I like it  😀

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.