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Is this to do with the mechanisms that combine the pixels together to down-res the output to 4K from the 8K sensor?

Did they cover fully-normalised databases yet? If someone says they've studied database design (in a programming context) and they don't know when a fully-normalised database is better than a semi-normalised database, then I just assume they're lying and/or don't know anything I think it's down to the clothing. @Kisaha also said "which for my country equals to Polar temperatures" which is true for me as well because we don't have clothing that is suitable for that kind of thing because it basically never happens! The wife and I are contemplating visiting Antarctica at some point, and apart from renting some really nice lenses I think I'd also rent some suitable clothing too

In a battle between the people with 100 million guns and the government, my money is on the side with the predator drones, not with the side who can't even talk about photography equipment online without getting into an argument.

Based on the Z Cam E2 already having done it, I'm also pretty certain it can be done.. ? That's not the limit in terms of what is state of the art either... both the RED MONSTRO 8K VV and the RED HELIUM 8K S35 do 8K60, and in theory they should be able to pump enough pixels for 4K240, so either they didn't think anyone wanted it, or there's some other limitation.

No worries mate... -3 would make me pretty grumpy too! All professions, huh? ALL professions? Really? Lawyers? Lobbyists? Hitmen? ..................Politicians? ???

What setup are you thinking of investing in?

8K has four times the pixels of 4K, so 8K30 is equivalent to 4K120 in terms of pixels-per-second. You might be right about less processor intensive processing but they'd have to be choosing from the options available in the marketplace which may not have a less-compression / higher bit rate option at the right price. Of course, if you were a microchip manufacturer then investing in the market for a 8K video compression chip isn't a risky proposition, and phones have been doing 4K60 with efficient power consumption and thermal loading for a few years now, so it's not like the tech is that far away.

Not realising that they should worship the art of photography or film-making and see the rest as tools. I suspect that brand worship is a symptom of the amateur who loves the equipment and talking about it online and not the pros who are way too busy trying to balance the quality of their work with putting food on the table, but who knows...

I'm still unclear if the OP is using a 100mm lens or a 100mm equivalent lens. I'm also a little surprised that you didn't get good results. I've only used a gimbal on my phone but it made smooth movement really easy to achieve. Maybe with a longer lens it would help to change to the slowest movement? What was the problem you had? Was the pan speed uneven or did it not stabilise enough?

I used mine hand-held with a 58mm Helios on it, which is the equivalent of a 116mm lens on full-frame. That worked well when I was able to be reasonably steady but needed a bit of help when I was cold or had been active. On a gimbal you shouldn't have any problems at all

No crop and it's really wonderful to use - I have used it handheld with long vintage lenses and it's worked really well. Enjoy!

No insult intended! Sorry if that's what it sounded like. I sympathise for the struggles that the pros are experiencing with the changes in the industry, and in a sense I just have my struggles in a different industry. I've had my fair share of stress from work (or the lack of it) during my career and there is just as much criticism and commentary of my industry from those outside it as there is in photography I think. We all live somewhere and holiday somewhere else, and we all work in one industry and have hobbies in other industries.

8K is twice as wide as 4K, thus has 4X the pixels. Maybe you're thinking of MP?

I'm an amateur, as are many people here I believe, so I think we'll grapple with the changes that are likely occurring in our own industries, and visit the world of photography and film-making in our spare time and with the luxury of not having to survive from it.

8K - the only way to get a true 4K image!

Edit 2: I tried creating a new node, changing the mode to HSL and then setting the RGB mixer to the same settings as the faulty node, and it has similar but much worse behaviour, so I can't work out what it's doing.

Thanks! That was what I was missing I've been playing with it for a while and I've noticed this "black sun" type problem: This is coming from the HSL node, but the strange thing is that even if I go into the RGB mixer in the HSL node and reset everything to defaults, it is still there, and gets turned on and off when I enable or disable the node. This looks like a bug in Resolve to me rather than the RGB mixer in that node doing anything wonky. But that's the only problem I can find. I even cranked the contrast to ridiculous amounts in a node in before the emulation nodes and it seems fine. Original image + emulation nodes: Stupid contrast + emulation nodes: This is my GH5 in 4K 150Mbps 10-bit 25p mode with HLG. Edit: I was using the WDR - Compound power grade for the above. I haven't played with the other ones yet.

A long shot, but I'm interested if Sony is going to update their X3000 action camera (the X3000 is their 4k30, 1080p120 action camera with IS). It was released late 2016 so might be due for a refresh? Considering GoPro bet their farm on stabilisation and Sony has had optical stabilisation since 2016 it's a strange segment right now.

I suspect you're right about them not scaling up. In a sense delays are inevitable, with the combination of goods getting cheaper and people buying more, and a faster pace of life with less planning combining with deliveries getting faster, and you've got the perfect recipe for a very intense and short spike in activity. If everywhere resourced up to meet that need you might need to have zero unemployment and everyone working 20-hour days for a week or so to compensate!

Cool! I downloaded the Powergrade and tried to test it on some GH5 footage but I couldn't install it. Resolve seemed to want different file types than what Juan had created, so I suspect it was a software version / backward compatibility issue. I googled a bit but didn't find any ready answers, and then got distracted. I'm curious to see your results, but the original LUT 'look' didn't look that special to me, so I'm not that motivated TBH.

Yeah, and he just hit 100k. His success is well deserved I think, his videos speak for themselves.

My sister ordered a voucher for me for xmas online, and paid to have it delivered in next day express post. That was about a week before xmas and it arrived after New Years day. I think xmas consumerism is getting better / worse!!

I think there's too many people concerned with defending themselves against the people with big problems and not enough concern for actually fixing those problems in the first place. Then again I live in a country so full of socialist communist lefty hippies that the conservative government used a massacre as an excuse to take away all our guns, and now as a forty-something I live in complete repression with only the fact that neither I, nor anyone else I know well, has been directly impacted by gun violence. Naturally, I'd rather be packing serious heat and going to funerals like all the free countries out there. But maybe that's just me?

In that case then maybe a gimbal is a good choice. It fits the feel, if you mount the camera with a quick-release plate and then balance it then it should stay balanced and be quick to setup, and perhaps most importantly, before you take a big step you can strap it to your chest somehow, put it into locked mode, and then take the step and have full use of both hands when doing those tricky bits of a climb. I think I've seen people strap a gimbal to the front strap on a backpack so maybe that might work.

I think two of the biggest challenges that we face in photography, and which starts fights, are: People make different kinds of films. I just started another thread with a great BTS from an adventure film-maker who shoots everything 60p so he has flexibility in post with which things he can use for slow-motion. This makes sense for adventure film-making, but would be stupid in narrative work where slow-motion plays very little part. If I had a zillion dollars then the best camera for narrative work might be an Alexa, but if I'm going to jump out of a plane it sure wouldn't be (extreme example) but also if you're running a studio for a game-show then the Alexa is probably also not the best choice. People see differently and have different tastes. Lots of the talk about colour science is about taste, but some people can't see colour that well and don't care. Some people are much more sensitive to motion and care about the 180 degree shutter, whereas others are sticklers for blowing highlights and chase high DR cameras with low noise and >8-bit outputs to ensure that the foreground looks good and the highlights aren't clipped. Most of the "this camera/lens/mic/preamp/tripod/etc is better" arguments are really people judging equipment according to their individual sensory perceptions, their workflow priorities, and their shooting situations and then thinking other people are stupid because other people have different perceptions / workflows / and shooting situations and evaluate differently. I think the solution is for people to be more curious. If someone says something you disagree with, instead of disagreeing with them, try asking them why they disagree, or how they came to that conclusion. This is how to cool a situation and learn something as well.