Video Hummus

This is the problem with a closed, corporate owned web.

Everyday is a new nightmare from the moron machine of modern life.

I'm not holding my breath. People (the masses) are easily manipulated today because of brain rot and the collapse of critical thinking. compassion, and of any accountability for bad people saying and doing bad things.

I ordered an Action 6 a month ago and its backordered still. Something definitely going on here.

I agree with this 100%. More DR is great but it will be at the extremes of the image but all the magic happens in the middle.

People complain about Liquid Ass but continue to buy $1000 phones, continue to reward these shady techno-aristocrat run companies with $$$, continue to gobble down the AI slop and streaming hot turds every evening. Think back to 2007. A lot of shit started going badly after the first iPhone was released. The smartphone is a very sharp tool that has now been sabotaged by sadistic capitalist death cult profiteer weirdos. The effect on our societies has been like giving a flamethrowers with no safeties to toddlers. No oversight. No reflection. No thinking. Now every-other-thing is some kind of scam, Ponzi scheme, or malicious wealth extraction tool.

The screen is the gateway drug. I am much weaker than @BTM_Pix and after handling one briefly for 15 minutes ordered it 3 days later. It's coming tomorrow. I'm not bothered by the "lackluster" DR results or anything. I also bought it in hopes the firmware updates will add even more value, which is a big no-no but I heard ProRes LT is confirmed coming.

Cinema is going the way of the railroad. A novelty experience. Why hire a crew to film your car commercial when you can prompt AI to have a car do donuts in the desert with a AI narrator? People are too apathetic and dumb to know the difference between real and fake anymore. I haven't been to a movie theater since Dunkirk. I haven't had a killer movie experience since like "The Matrix" or "Lord of the Rings". People are overworked, overwhelmed, and underprepared for this AI Idiocracy we are barreling towards. People are filling that feeling of impending upheaval with distractions. I for one have canceled most of my subscriptions or upgrading to a new phone "just because there is a new one". Fuck the instagrams, facebooks, and tiktoks of the world. Scrolling physically makes me sick now and I'm actually glad for it. They don't get to monetize my attention anymore.

As a Z8 owner I'm ready to buy this camera but I really wish, and I'm dumbfounded, it did not ship with a more compressed R3D option. Especially since R3D NE is basically NRAW in the RED IPP2 workflow. I might actually wait to see what they do with the first firmware drop. Why Nikon!

You don't love anything except huffing those "alternative truthers" farts. I guess when you eat enough of the shit pies those types of people serve you, you eventually forget what shit tastes like and start enjoying it.

I get it. I'll happily wait for a mark 2 of the 100RF.

What exactly are you getting that you can't get somewhere else? Is it R3D only? See below then... I wouldn't count that as a win or worth the money to upgrade. Currently, the R3D in the ZR is 1500Mbps. You HAVE to shoot RAW to get the most out of the ZR when you compare it to other cameras. One wedding would be 4+ TB of footage. For $500 more Panasonic delivers a camera with 10 stops of latitude (the same as an Alexa LF) a solid 3 stops more than the ZR. But it might overheat. 9 stops without their "DR Boost" which is still better than the ZR. Or you buy and FX6 with electronic ND and make your life 3x times easier. If the ZR shipped with R3D with ELQ compression than it probably would be a decent buy. I'm definitely not sold on it for its current price and feature set. But considering the starting price is so low, and discounts will happen, it might be an interesting camera in 8 months.

On one hand, we have a video company (Panasonic) with a very robust video imaging pipeline, managing to squeeze an amazing amount of DR and latitude performance out of sensor that first appeared (lackluster; performance wise) in the Z6III. However, the camera was still heavily criticized for "terrible" rolling shutter performance and seemingly NOT being a SONY camera. Never-mind sony has released several cameras with terrible rolling shutter but people still shat their pants for them. The curse of being Panasonic LUMIX and not Sony Alpha. Nikon's take-2 on the same partially stacked sensor housed in a new body--apparently designed less than 1.5 years after they bought RED (Press X for doubt) for a measly 85 million (RED probably had massive debts that Nikon absorbed). It seems to me they did their best to squeeze enough RED tech for marketing purposes into a camera that was clearly just designed to be a Z6III with a new body, minus EVF, and with a huge giant screen. More like a Version 0.5 of "Z Cinema" than a V1.0, IMHO.

Fujifilm will probably release a GFX 100RF with a 28mm f/2.8 in 3-4 years, with IBIS, and an updated sensor and no one will give a shit about wanting a FF fuji camera. They'll instead be asking Leica why there isn't a MF sensor in their Q, hmmm?

They also fixed their horrible n-log view assist. Nikon is really killing lately with their value for money, firmware, and camera offerings.