Video Hummus

Perhaps, but Sony A1 + XLR-K3M is a compelling setup. No internal ND or SDI. I would bet money Sony will release a mirrorless camera like A1 or A7S with a eND within the next 2-3 years.

Yep, and that describes exactly what I did. When they released the S5 without PDAF I saw the writing on the wall. I simply want a camera with excellent AF regardless if I use it 90% of the time or 30% of the time...it's there when I need it. It's a shame really, Panasonic offers all these excellent features, great camera bodies that double as weapons, good menus, excellent features sets, great firmware updates, but the market demands good AF and they have been left behind.

People shouldn't be opposed to 8K cameras. As the R5 and now the A1 show, the best thing Panasonic could do to improve a MFT sized sensor image is to aim for 8K and use the extra resolution to downsample a superb 6K, 4K, and 2K image with less noise and more DR from cleaner shadows. Offer 8K open gate 4:3 anamorphic which no one is doing in mirrorless. But the single biggest thing Panasonic could do to sell their cameras is: Offer reliability Phase Detect AF with face and eye tracking. DfD is stigmatized no matter how much they improve it. FF mirrorless has really taken huge leap in performance in the past 2 years. I'm not sure MFT has a place anymore and I really loved my MFT cameras. I just don't know what they could make, besides a Sony A1 at 1/4 the cost, that would sell. As a MFT fanboy for many years, Panasonic would do better to focus entirely on FF and fix their AF and compete on their excellent feature while bringing in more cinema level features and color. It's the only way they will stay relevant in the shrinking market.

Thats ARRI Alexa levels of rolling shutter and approaching ARRI Alexa levels of dynamic range as well. Seems to me, based off Gerald's hands on with it, that it is perhaps worth the price tag for people that don't want or need a flip screen and wants a hybrid camera that does it all, at least the best one so far. I wonder how FX9 owners are feeling now?

yes, and those preserving the blacks without lifting them up.

Black Promist is one of the best "mist" filters that preserves contrast, especially in the blacks, hence its name. I think it is money well spent to have a 1/8 or a 1/4 black promist in your bag. I haven't used any of the other filters.

Well, hedge funds double shorting stock should maybe be more careful next time. Highly doubt the majority of GME stock holders care.

Some, I'm sure are. But probably a majority are like you and threw several hundred dollars in to the circus ring. They aren't jumping the barrier to get it back. Thats bad news for hedge funds. It's pump and popcorn.

And Robinhood fucked up too and showed their bare ass for all to see. So not only was the actions of hedge funds exposed to the masses in a meaningful way but also the twisted web of factions inside wall street which I predict will take hurt Robinhood's business. Suddenly trying to take the high road has become factually incorrect and wanton self-delusion. Okay then.... I think we can advocate for a better reality and existence without this kind of unnecessary burden.

A few hundred thousand people throwing $100 into a hat is not wealth to many people. I didn’t say it was life affirming. I simply said people are doing it as a form of protest now. And the reaction of some of these certain hedge fund people just affirms why people have disgust for their behavior and their actions and more people pile on. And probably a lot of people doing this are victims of these same hedge fund and Wall Street types that wiped out many families wealth in 2008. So I can understand their emotions and cause. So you could say it’s revenge with low risk and good rewards that seem to be paying out. If you read my post more deeply you would realize that I was advocating for some self-realization dose applied equally for all.

As dedicated cameras have become more niche and the market isn't as large, I suspect more companies will play around with MF. I think they will stay expensive because the volume will be so low. I think we are going to be moving into the age of "I want my bokeh to be a real physical effect caused by combination of sensor, lens, focal length and aperture" because I'm a purist and "digital bokeh is good enough for me". So maybe sensor size will be effectively digitized like everything else. Video of course will most likely be the last hold out as faking the digital effects convincingly will be a computer power, time, and battery life issue. Here is where maybe MF can eek out an existence.

It's a $100+ middle finger that many people happily parted with. This is a depressing cynical viewpoint and actually points to the core of the current problems in this world. Maybe if everybody was a little less cynical, a little less jaded, a little less full of themselves, a little more joyful the world would be a vastly better place; 100% money back guaranteed it would.

I much prefer glidecam style footage when feet are on the ground. It's stabilized enough but allows some organic movement to come through. Much more dynamic and natural looking to my eyes. The whole robotic gimbal floating camera shit is overdone and misused in my opinion.

I thought it was a good hype video for sure. I mean, I was hyped after seeing it. Not hyped to buy an Alpha 1 though 😂 Definitely puts the other camera manufactures videos to shame. I take any image quality comparison or evaluation from YouTube with a huge lump of salt. YouTube is pushing out lowest possible bitrate 8-bit video it can get away with.

All of that above adds up to a bit more longevity in the body for becoming a pretty solid B-Cam in the future if I were to ever get a C70/90 or R1 or something as a more robust A Cam. I would love to see a FF C90 form factor camera with R5 autofocus even if it didn't have 4K120p.

IBIS on R5 smooth with panning in my experience at 24mm. Anything wider and IBIS corrections become noticeable. I spent the extra money for R5: The 14-bit 45MP stills are just awesome Custom Modes Oversampled 4K in S35 mode (hopefully we get some wider RF lenses soon; RF 14-28 f/2 please canon; btw sigmas fast 14mm f/1.8 or 20mm f/1.4 lens with RF ND adapter in s35 mode 👌) Record button in photo mode can trigger custom mode (R6 goes into a weird full auto mode; very dumb) 8K can actually be pretty useful in certain scenarios 4KLQ > 1080 from R6 4K120p while not oversampled looks fantastic in my opinion (I can't ever go back to 2K120p I'm spoiled) I would love a RP sized RF camera that shoots FF 4K 24p in CLOG and more affordable f/1.8 primes as a hand-off camera, B, C camera.

Difference between R5 DCI and UHD is interesting too for wide angle lenses.

Well as we have seen, even a small copper heat sink change in the R5 pushes past A7SIII overheating performance. We have heat pipe technology... Maybe someday when I'm not afraid of bricking my camera and CFExpress is super cheap I'll do a DYI heatsink upgrade like @Matt Perks did and shoot 8K RAW 24 hour livestreams.

Yeah, same story here. I've been exhausting multiple CFExpress cards 8K HEVC before any overheating. Granted, this is 4C to 5C weather at the moment. Really looking forward to the new firmware update...soon.

This is awesome from FujiFilm. We are entering into mirrorless medium format video shooting. Holy shit.

I appreciate the baby steps Sony took with making it easier offload photos and video from their cameras...can we just please have something like WiFi 6 onboard with a simple bluetooth hold-phone-up-to-camera-to-pair and then automatically sync photos and perhaps video directly to our phone of choice whether iOS or Android wirelessly. Why is it so hard? Perhaps they would sell more cameras, just saying. And please, god no, don't put android or iOS in my camera with apps and widgets and notifications. I don't want a notification that Toneh Northrop posted a new YouTube video while I'm shooting. Give me ergonomics with physical buttons that can be customized and a bright micro-LED or OLED EVF and articulating screen with touch navigation menus like Blackmagic does. Don't try to beat phones by being phones, it isn't going to work. Just work seamlessly with my existing $1000 phone so the camera just becomes an extension feature of my phone--without silly bulky hotshot mount or an annoying dangling, flimsy micro-hdmi cable.

I don't mind the non articulating screen that much. Panasonic still has the best screen implementation giving everybody what they prefer in the S1H. Yes, the fact they didn't mention that the FF 4K is uber-oversampled from 8.4k probably means it isn't. That being said, Sony's pixel-binning has been excellent. Lack of DCI always stings, especially at this price point. All I shoot is DCI now because I've been using 2:1 more and more. The lack of mechanical shutter performance is very, very strange. I would have liked to seen an internal RAW option. Even though the R5's internal RAW is crippled its vastly better to shoot internal without a stupid external recorder. Last weekend I shot some RAW in freezing rain and snow. Would have had to rigged something stupid up if I had to use an external recorder. Also, why the camera companies don't charge a few more $10 of dollars for a proper, bright OLED rear display is beyond me. It's in the EVFs, put it on the back screen please. Now that is revolutionary!

Maybe a step for Sony to be the first to eliminate the mechanical shutter in their cameras. I can see them taking it out of their next A7S camera and replacing it with their eND + IBIS technology.

I think with YouTube in general the problem is people are told to set their camera to 24fps because it's the movie standard. That is fine. But then they go on to record their video without thinking about their frame rate: camera pans that are too fast, subjects moving in the frame too fast, parallaxing shots that are too fast and look weird. I see this commonly with drone shots with parallax shots. Maybe their shutter speed was off, or they filmed in 30fps and then forgot to conform it. I definitely notice it at the 0:28 mark in the video. Maybe in the future the world will standardized on PAL (or something close) and we can just make 25fps the new cinema standard and do away with the weird (but genius) quirks with NTSC cathode ray tube jiggery they did.

Impressive beast! Sony seems to be the only camera manufacturer that gets the whole ease of connectivity thing in the age of smartphones. They took baby steps with their phone integration with the A1.