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He claims that his previous videos "shook a tree" and netted him some "reliable sources", but his account is literally just him creating videos "reporting" what the rumor sites report, so I am skeptical that he has any sources of his own. That trip IS very peculiar though. I still feel it's unlikely they flew so many people out to Japan for just a lens reveal for M43, especially because people like Chris Hau were there, and they're S5 shooters not M43 ones. Perhaps it was a combination of a lens release and getting feedback from YouTubers on a future release? Or maybe we're all just dumb and getting our hopes up? It could be anything, haha!

Please don't take this the wrong way, but are you Russian by chance? I know you said you're in Georgia, but a lot of Russians have fled to Georgia. The reason I ask is that since the war my Russian friend that lives in France has had a harder time getting work, too.

I can't imagine they'd do that but nothing would surprise me these days.

I'm not too big about the holidays, especially since most of my family has passed, but I wish you all a wonderful holiday season filled with love and happiness. Treasure those moments you spend with your loved ones. ❤️

It will be very disappointing if it's solely lens releases (they announced a new 12-35 today too.)

I know in the past DJI released drones with M43 sensors and even released a 15mm f1.4 lens, which was just a re-branded version of the Panasonic Leica 15mm. I'm curious what DJI gets out of this new partnership, assuming it's all related.

I'm much more cautious than John, ha ha, especially regarding the specifics, but I do suspect something significant. I've seen folks post that they've returned from Japan, so I imagine we'll see what's up once the embargo is lifted. I do, however, think if it was something ready for release they'd have done it while everyone was there still, so I am thinking whatever it is probably won't be ready for a while and this is just Panasonic trying to keep people more informed on what they're working on, which is really all most of us Panasonic users have been asking. I do think an external LIDAR system is better than nothing, but I also am unsure how I feel about having to spend more money to get better auto focus technology. It's probably something I'd pass on as I've made their AF work for most of my uses, but I would kinda also ask myself "what are we doing here?" I mean, external hardware to get better AF? Really?

It'd be asinine to fly a bunch of auto focus obsessed YouTubers across the world to release another contrast AF camera, right? Then again this is Panasonic, so who knows?!

It's probably wishful thinking but I still think it might be something significant. That the people I've seen are video shooters, it'd be weird that they were flown for a photo centric release. I suppose we'll find out over the next couple days.

The main problem with cloud storage I've had is that every company eventually either decreases their offerings or drastically raises their prices. You're kind of at the mercy of whatever company you go with. About 10 years ago I had all my stuff backed up to a service called Bitcasa. What it provided then would be considered incredible today. For like $99/year you would get unlimited storage, and all these bells and whistles. I had terabytes of data on there when they raised the price to $999/year. I moved my data to Amazon Drive. That worked fine for a few years, until they too raised the price and eventually offered only unlimited storage for photos. After hopping around from service to service I just decided to create back ups on hard drives and store them in a fire proof safe. Once I set up my office I'll build a NAS, but things are working okay right now especially since I have gigabit fiber internet, so if I need to share something I can upload it to Google Drive within an hour.

So it seems a lot of YouTubers are in Japan right now at a Panasonic event. https://www.43rumors.com/lots-of-creators-are-all-in-tokyo-for-a-big-panasonic-event-new-lidar-autofocus-related-announcement/ 43Rumors speculates it's related to a partnership between Panasonic and DJI, re: Lidar AF. It would seem to be a significant announcement though, given I think this is the first time they've flown people to Japan for an event in years (certainly pre-pandemic.) They didn't do that for the GH6 did they?

To sell on here I think Andrew just asks that you ask him first and get permission, which is fair.

They just add up because I think eBay takes a cut then you have PayPal fees.

I'm gonna say, given how good old C100 footage still holds up, it's still a very capable camera in 2022.

I guess I can see why some people might feel like the C100 is too big, if they've primarily shot with mirrorless cameras, but it is, in my opinion, the perfect size and was very comfortable to hold. I would trade the mirrorless camera ergonomics for that kind of body any day.

The c100 is one of my favorite cameras I've ever uses when it came to size and form factor, I just could never justify the price even on the used market. It was just so comfortable in the hands, at least for me. It'd be hard to "go back" to a c100 given all the new features that have come out since, but I think it absolutely would still hold up IQ wise for a lot of work. You probably wouldn't even need to use software like Topaz to upscale it to 4K. Less DSLR style bodies and more C100 style bodies plz.

Bless your hearts for having any faith in Elon Musk.

It's not that I think Twitter was perfect before, or that there isn't room to innovate, it's that I think Elon Musk is an idiot that is obsessed with the platform and shitposting. When you are among the wealthiest people in the world you can afford to hire geniuses to build companies like Tesla and SpaceX. Elon is not an engineer, he's not deep in the bowels of those companies leading the charge in innovation and development. He's just a guy that comes from a rich family that used his money to facilitate it. He was smart enough to understand his limitations when it came to these things, but when it comes to Twitter the same can't be said. It seems clear that he is deeply hands-on with everything going on with Twitter right now, which has resulted in internal chaos, plummeting ad revenue, and embarrassing public outbursts. Being an erratic asshole that antagonizes a large part of the user base and its advertisers isn't an intelligent thing to do, particularly when you've spent 44 BILLION DOLLARS on a company that wasn't profitable. He can pretend it is advertisers wanting to silence "free speech" (no Elon, you're just an asshole and brands don't want to be associated with a site that seems poised to let a bunch of racists and fascists back on it) and whatever other excuse he wants to make, but ultimately the dude just isn't nearly as smart as he (and millions of others) think he is. When you are that obscenely wealthy it is pretty easy to accumulate more wealth by leveraging your assets regardless of your business acumen or intelligence. Elon is just the latest example of that. It's time for society to stop putting these people on a pedestal and thinking they're smart.

He'll either sell it for a huge loss or kill it.

It's very popular with wedding videographers in part because it can record a safety track you can use in the event the person mic'd up gets too loud. If that's your budget ($180) then that's a very good option. You'll get "good enough" audio straight out of it, and even better if you do a little post processing. If you do have the budget the Tentacle Track E is a great option, due to the timecode feature and the option to record in 32-bit float, which can be a life saver in the event someone gets too loud.

I love this forum in no small part because randomly you'll have someone share a video filmed with an old ass bridge camera that makes you think "damn, that looks pretty dang good!" Looks good! Thank you for sharing!

The thing I keep going back to, even after people talk about the benefits of being able to downscale it to get even better 4K, is that we really aren't even using 4K to its true potential and probably never will before it gets replaced by 8K. Even downscaling to get "better" 4K feels silly, because the difference is so negligible unless you're watching on a big enough screen. It feels weird to argue against higher resolutions, and I don't necessarily view it like that in my head, but this rush to 8K and beyond feels more like a way to charge us more for cameras than a genuine need or necessity. Give me a 4K camera that can film 120fps without any risk of overheating and with all the features we are genuinely asking for before trying to entice us with 8K that 98% of us don't need.

I think there's a need for 8 and 12k, just not in these tiny mirrorless cameras and not for 98% of us. 4K, in many ways, was overblown. There is a difference but not a significant difference between 1080p and 4K when watching on the most common TV size people own (55 inch), especially when it comes to streaming. The exception for me is when watching 4K Blu-ray discs. 8K will be much the same. There will be benefits, but will 8K really look significantly better on a 55 inch television than 4K? Probably not. I have a client that was obsessed with everything being filmed, edited, and delivered in 4K. I'll upload his stuff for him and he used to marvel at how amazing the 4K was on his 4K TV. I just kinda brushed it off until one day he needed me to help him download an original file to his laptop to put on a thumbdrive for a presentation. Seeing how slow his connection was, I realized there was no way he was watching anything streaming in "4K". I had him play a video on his TV and then showed him that it was playing in 1080p. He had no idea. I told him even if it were playing in 4K he'd notice very little difference given the compression used. He stopped marveling after that, and I kinda felt bad about it for a bit. I still film and edit everything in 4K because there's really no reason not to. But I can't really think of any reason why I'd need 8K. I really don't need that much extra resolution to reframe (or really any extra at all... You can get away with it enough in a lot of instances in 4K) or anything. I don't think there's a ton of people really that need it who aren't in the film industry doing fx work or something. I'd much prefer camera companies push 4K to its limits while maintaining reliable functionality over this race for higher resolutions.

I can't help but feel like we're moving backwards when overheating is an issue that keeps creeping back in. Stop with the 6 or 8K resolution nonsense and just put out a camera that can do 4K 60p without overheating. It's not rocket science.

One thing Canon does that irks me is how they remove important information once you hit record. What logical reason could there be for this? Surely it's not putting much strain on the processor to keep up the histogram while recording, right?!