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  1. Well, they are Reds now, so it makes sense.
  2. Aputure are bigger than Nikon at this point 😜.
  3. The 3D animation stuff looks the scariest. Not my industry, but it looks like it's seriously coming to get that sector in the near future. They are first. The realism and uncanny valley issues are not so important. It's a really technically demanding field, so this will smash down barriers. Be interesting to see how people mitigate. For what it's worth, I think there will still be plenty of stuff for people to develop expertise in, it's just going to be quite a different load of stuff.
  4. I think people brushing this aside are being a bit short-sighted, bordering on naive. I'd say that what we've seen so far from text-to-image from machine learning has been - Quick developing. One month it's all fuzzy, the next month it's all smoothed out. One month there are 11 fingers on each hand, a year later there are only 6.😅 In other words - it iterates fast. Unpredictable. As even a tech-savvy person, it is really hard to predict what 'AI' (I don't like using that term) is going to be good at, and bad at - 🖐ïļ! Far reaching. Useful. I'm not a particular enthusiast, but I have used Adobe's AI tools on around 75% of the projects I have delivered as a freelancer over the past 6 months or so. And that's just casually discovering things that make my life *tons* easier. I also believe them to be reasonably ethical, or I wouldn't be using them. Similarly, I think the impact of this will be quick developing and unpredictable. The biggest threat I think, may be that unpredictability itself. It's going to be very difficult developing a workflow, without knowing whether it will become undermined by a much easier AI pathway at some not-so-distant point. Example - I recently decided to really lean into doing 2.5d and true 3d animations from flat artworks as a client offering (for context, a lot of my clients are museums). To really develop skills in this using tools like Cinema 4D, Projection 3D, DUIK, etc. will take a couple of years of learning as I go. I very much doubt that AI will explode into use in that time, but certainly at some point just beyond that horizon I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a turnkey AI tool that offers very professional bespoke 3D animation from still images. That's very up AI's street. Aside from some very obvious things, like news gathering, I don't see anything that machine learning could not potentially impact within the foreseeable future. This includes - editing a corporate film from start to finish from supplied footage almost instantly, with several versions to choose from; writing a compelling and original television series (yes, I honestly believe that machines will be doing this); creating photo-realistic footage of any location in the world that has been photographed more than 3 times, etc., etc. Of the course the nature of unpredictability is that just as equally, none of this might happen. But I think the main point to make is that the scale of the threat (to professional livelihoods) is so profound, that anybody just blithely ignoring it has their head in the sand to my reckoning.
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    Panasonic GH6

    I can only imagine the colorist was told 'show how much the colours can be pushed with RAW' and took the brief a bit too literally!
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    Panasonic GH6

    Strangely garish promo video:
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    Panasonic GH6

    12-bit ProRes RAW external too!
  8. Mmmbeats

    Panasonic GH6

    Ooooh, tasty new firmware update announced today! ProRes internal at lower resolutions (C4K and 1080). Win!
  9. Mmmbeats

    Panasonic GH6

    Yes, I'm finding the time of use similar (though I haven't timed it or anything). The old batteries seem fine really.
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    Panasonic GH6

    Battery life is pretty poor. That said, we've been a bit spoiled with the GH4 and GH5S in particular. Battery life is in line with most other cameras of its type. You need about 4 or 5 batteries to get through a day's shoot I'm finding. I'm using mainly the old GH5 batteries, which offer good basic functionality.
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    Panasonic GH6

    There is a possibility that I missed focus on the 1080 Pixel / Pixel shot. It's hard to tell as the quality of that setting is pretty mushy!
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    Panasonic GH6

    Righto. Slightly embarrassed as I shot these almost a month ago now, and I'm sure they would have been a bit more useful then, but anyway... All shot with DR Boost turned off (I almost always have it turned on now). I used a bit of VND to regulate exposure. Focus is on the post box. These are 'as shot', resolved with Nicest 709 LUT, which is a Panasonic LUT for V Log. I usually tame the saturation a bit! [These have loaded in the reverse order I intended. You might want to view them from the bottom up!]
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    Panasonic GH6

    I'll do it later today (UK time). It's really the first day I've had with any semblance of time sanity for quite a while. Thankfully I've been getting some exciting but demanding jobs all in a row lately.
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    Panasonic GH6

    I did follow up on shooting some quick test shots at 1080p, but then got very busy and couldn't get back to this thread. Then, funnily enough, I had to shoot a project in 1080p (client request). I'll post up some stills when I get a mo. My initial thought were that the image looks sharp and detailed. The 1080p pixel / pixel mode looked a bit mushy though. I wouldn't use it personally.
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    Panasonic GH6

    I totally agree about V Log. I used to be a bit intimidated by it till I sussed it out. Now I hardly even think about it. In post (in Premiere) I tend to put an instance of Lumetri with an input LUT on one of the master clips, and then cut and paste it onto all the other master clips at once (you can't use the Paste Attributes method on master clips for some reason). Takes about 30 seconds and is very 'set and forget'. Forgot to highlight that the focus magnification function now works during recording. Finally! I keep forgetting that it does this and messing myself up because I have a long-standing habit of using the record button to simultaneously initiate recording and dismiss the focus magnification ðŸĪŠ.
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