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Broadcast is his true love so he’s moved it up to take precedence in recent launches.
For anyone waiting for the cameras it’s like having to sit through ninety minutes of Sting doing his tantric lute albums before he throws everyone a bone with a Police medley in the encore.

I think they could’ve shaved 15 minutes off by having shorter product names.
We will definitely be cruising into hour two with the demo of this new ATEM.
 

All the PYXIS anticipants sitting through the initial hour long broadcast products part of the presentation like this.

I live on the Detroit River... still plenty of Prohibition-era smuggling relics in this area- secret canals and tunnels and such. Maybe I should get a little dinghy and start making midnight runs for barrels full of bodies and lenses 😄

By the by, that EF-S 18-135mm and PZ E-1 combo is a pretty good and cost effective used combo for anyone looking to do a roll your own Cinecorder solution.
 

It’s going to be like prohibition all over again.
The new B&H Photo branch will be a speakeasy selling smuggled camera bodies from Canada.
 

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you definitely won’t get either in that Blackmagic presentation 😀

“We are taking Greenland and making Canada the 51st State” should’ve been enough to have him laughed out of town.

The fact that he wasn’t means anything else he says or does will have a blind eye turned to it.

Certainly a competitor for the S5ii.
Headline features :
24MP BSI full-frame CMOS sensor
In-body image stabilization, rated up to 7.5EV
Autofocus subject detection with support for 9 subject types
11 fps Raw w/ mechanical shutter
30fps JPEG-only mode with pre-release capture
3.69M dot 60Hz EVF with 3000-nit peak brightness
4K/30 full-width, 60p w/ 1.5x crop
10-bit N-Log or N-Raw capture
Dual UHS-II card slots
Downloadable color mode presets via Imaging Cloud
Price is £1599
 

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you definitely won’t get either in that Blackmagic presentation 😀

Got my S1RII and like I thought, I'm a bit disappointed.
Stills are great with very good resolution, the Dpreview studio test is odd because the camera is very sharp even when using not so sharp lenses like the 28-200mm. 
But there are better cameras for photography, AF implementation is weird, AF-S is only DFD and the buffer is a joke when shooting high fps pictures.
Video quality is the same than S5II, a bit less sharpening but still the same video engine, it still looks worse than the old gen, the resolution just feels not as good, no matter the mode or resolution used the image doesn't look really sharp in a good way, lines are not straight, some details are missing like if a filter or blur in some part of the image was added. The image looks like there is a slight oil painting touch softening the image at the core. Like on the S5II the rec 709 profiles are worse than V-log.
So it is a bit ironic from Lumix to say "discover unseen details" for their S1RII tagline. Because of this the moire is not too much prononced. Some will like this tradeoff. 
I tested Prores Raw 6K Pixel to Pixel and the image is much better, the weird processing is gone. But I can't get the image right when using Premiere Pro, colors are off, I don't think Prores Raw is really fully supported by Premiere. The crop and the data size also makes this mode hard to use and it is not supported at all by Resolve.
Using the Canon R5 or Z6III for raw is much easier as the files are better supported and there is no crop.
The rolling shutter is just bad when using the DR boost, I didn't think I could see it but I can see jello even with relatively slow movements. In addition 24fps is the max fps we can use with DR boost and Open Gate. I can't select 30fps, maybe a bug.
I think the best modes are 6k or 4k 60fps, there is only a slight crop, worse DR because no DR boost and the image quality becomes even slighltly worse but there is not a big difference with the 30fps and the rolling shutter is better.
I quickly tested the 4k 120fps and as if it isn't enough that the 4k30fps was not great, the 120fps is even worse : blurry, bad details, just unusable. When selecting Pixel to Pixel, the quality is better but again these crop make these Pixel to Pixel modes hard to use and feel like we are using a S35 camera. 
Stabilization is the best in the market and for me it's the main reason I still use Panasonic (with Open Gate too). But the S5II is as good ...
 
The S1RII feels like it was created for people taking mostly photography of still subjects. And for this the camera is good, not the best DR performance but nice colors and impressive 177MP handheld mode (the image makes a very long time to create though, much longer than on the S5II). For video it comes with marketing bait as 8k and 4k 120fps. The 8k like every other modes except raw is too much processed, it has high rolling shutter when the DR boost is enabled and the 4k120fps is not good at all. Yes we can do a lot of things with this camera but with big penalties most of the time.
The added Prores Raw is questionable too, the files are not supported in Resolve and the crop is really disappointing.

The fact remains, however, than the S1RII is the only affordable high resolution camera with acceptable autofocus for L mount. However, I don't see anything which could attract new users to Lumix or L mount, the S5II is a much better value for Youtube and other social media creators. And the A7RIV is much cheaper and has better AF for stills. 3600€ is a lot of money but I would have happily spend a bit more to get better video engine, better rolling shutter and 8k raw. 
As things stand at the moment with the current firmware, I think the right price should be more about 3200€.


About the reviews available online like the one from Northrup, I think the best is to always wait for some Chinese or Korean reviews, they provides much more informations and are much more unbiased than any Northrup or Undone reviews.

Here is an exemple of a good and accurate review :

 

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you definitely won’t get either in that Blackmagic presentation 😀

OK, so we have until Friday to indulge in baseless wild speculation about what the new products will be.
Watch along live here.
 

One that would be interesting is if they took the original UMP12K Super35 sensor and put it in the Pocket 6K Pro body.
Though I suspect they would need to add too much power to make it viable.
I’m hopeful that they have a firmware upgrade for the Micro Studio 4K G2 that allows the use of the USB-C monitor they make for the PYXIS.
Or at least one that switches on the Bluetooth module we all know that’s in it but they inexplicably won’t let us use!

One that would be interesting is if they took the original UMP12K Super35 sensor and put it in the Pocket 6K Pro body.
Though I suspect they would need to add too much power to make it viable.
I’m hopeful that they have a firmware upgrade for the Micro Studio 4K G2 that allows the use of the USB-C monitor they make for the PYXIS.
Or at least one that switches on the Bluetooth module we all know that’s in it but they inexplicably won’t let us use!

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you definitely won’t get either in that Blackmagic presentation 😀

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you definitely won’t get either in that Blackmagic presentation 😀

One that would be interesting is if they took the original UMP12K Super35 sensor and put it in the Pocket 6K Pro body.
Though I suspect they would need to add too much power to make it viable.
I’m hopeful that they have a firmware upgrade for the Micro Studio 4K G2 that allows the use of the USB-C monitor they make for the PYXIS.
Or at least one that switches on the Bluetooth module we all know that’s in it but they inexplicably won’t let us use!

OK, so we have until Friday to indulge in baseless wild speculation about what the new products will be.
Watch along live here.
 

Maybe they meant their OWN FX3 rather than Sony’s.

Maybe they meant their OWN FX3 rather than Sony’s.

Maybe they meant their OWN FX3 rather than Sony’s.

Maybe they meant their OWN FX3 rather than Sony’s.

Maybe they meant their OWN FX3 rather than Sony’s.