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I’m saying they might have with a mk2 body. Takes time to gain traction in a market, especially the camera market.

I'm going to go with...pleasantly surprised. But since I'm now a Canon user: It sucked balls bro compared to my rig.

Much smarter for them to sell 100s of millions of (maybe billions?) of smartphone components than probably single digit millions of DSLR style mirrorless camera. However, they showed that even to this day it seems the camera companies are holding back on all fronts.

You buy the camera you can afford. You buy the camera that is the right tool for the job. If it is really a serious question for you, then you rent all the cameras that you think you like and test them for your use cases. Maybe one camera has amazing image but a terrible workflow. Maybe another has a sweet workflow but falls on its ass in certain modes you like or need. Maybe one camera needs a crew to operate effectively. If you are doing wedding, documentary, lower budget commercials, or events, and you are solo or small crew than any of the higher tier cameras from Sony or Canon you really can't go wrong with (FX6, A7SIII, C70). Rent those and see which one works best for you. They all have gotchas and trade-offs.

I’m hoping to see clog3 as well and something in the mid to high 11 stop range of DR in that mode. The cineD test said there was perhaps 1-2 stops recoverable in RAW with some clever noise reduction in post so the RAW range is something like 11-13 stops. Clog3 favors highlights so perhaps the difference won’t be so much compared to clog1. If they do something clever with the H265 encoding to preserve detail in the shadows then maybe we will see a 1 stop improvement. We shall see. The Sony sensors are definitely better in the DR department on paper.

No. The H264 is 4:2:2 but the h265 is 4:2:0 (like Fuji XT4). The reason being probably a more practical choice for GPU support. Most GPUs skip over accelerating H265 4:2:2 for some reason, unless you are taking about Nvidia Titan workstation cards. Yes this a good read if you have any interest at all on the topic of chip design. Its the “revenge of RISC” prophecy that has finally come. The simpler fixed sized instruction set allows Apple to use many more decoders when CISC design basically have to guess and then stall out and do it again when the guess wasn’t right. will be really interesting to see the higher end chips from Apple.

Leica is releasing the SL2-S a Panasonic S5 wrapped in a Leica body and menu systems. Color looks on point too.

The quality of the 4KLQ is a tad overblown. Is it worst? Yes, it is. But after some smart sharpening and after YouTube or Vimeo mangles and compresses it for delivery (YouTube more so) the mode is similar to HQ mode on the same delivery platform. You still have to watch out for lowlight and moire issues though. I wouldn’t have bought the R5 pre 1.1.0 update. After the update it is an a good hybrid camera from Canon with some issues to work around. I am a bit worried about the delays in the clog3 and lower bitrate RAW update as those two changes will further improve the hybrid-ness of this camera. I agree. Part of the reason I settled with the R5 after the firmware update is that it had a internal RAW 8K mode. It is essentially a specialist mode for me to be used when it makes sense. It also takes gorgeous 45MP photos and is just a bit better than the A7RIV for me. Also, all the legacy EF glass goodness and native adapters.

I was shocked Panasonic put micro on the S5. Your options are kinda limited at the $2000 price point for newer camera bodies. There is always Sony. Can’t speak to adapted EF glass performance on Sony bodies.

R5 doesn’t really even have HDMI in my opinion. It’s not a matter of if the micro hdmi will fail but when. I wouldn’t touch it. Also, if you will be recording any kind of long from critical content then the R5 is the wrong tool. Buy the S5 with the dual recording slots and unlimited recording. You can still do long from on R5 if you are happy with the 4KLQ output (frankly I am for the few times I will need it).

My R5 just shipped today. I had about a 2.5 week wait from backorder to shipping on my order from Adorama. Will probably pick up a M1 Mac too post holidays. Cheapest way for me to edit R5 footage, especially since I’m already on the platform and there won’t be an ryzen based Macs anytime soon if ever.

Seems to be: Movies have become overpriced for the experience you get at theaters. In-home viewing technology is reaching the ever so important “better than good enough for a fair price OR convenience threshold” (similar to what phone cameras have done to the camera market). Shorter attention spans and the need for instant gratification. The Internet is eating all things

I think there will be a push in the other direction come spring/summer with people sick and tired of sitting at home watching the world go to shit.

As I have been dealing with a mild case of appendicitis I have checked out of this discussion. Hoping to avoid surgery. And spending 5 hours in an ER seeing exactly what this hoax virus is doing To people...my god. But it’s people exactly like Tim Pool here that give real journalists a bad name. He is a disgrace. The world needs to tune out people like him and start doing the far more important and hard thing and solve our troubles, not peddling in this click-bait sensationalist fear and hate mongering.

Yes so you see the rub. You can call people to violence indirectly. Lots of atrocities have been promoted and achieved through this kind of crap. So it’s always a balance and I’m of the opinion the balance is no longer their because we now have technology that had outpaced our traditional societal structures. Im not promoting anything except abundant caution.

And this is wrong in my opinion and it would be in the best interest of proper peer review journals to crack down and fight this kind of greed. Except when the gov’t is made up of elected people...people who then go on to ignore or repeal laws. Governance starts at the bottom like it or not.

So how is that different than an self imposed echo chamber? The other problem with this separate from this site in particular is the whole “recommendation” platform and incentive these platforms have to keep you viewing on their platform. People end up getting recommended content that doesn’t give them a diverse range. Google is the worst. So I can roll my own and have it select only videos about a singular agenda I might want to promote (say kicking out all immigrants) and then advertise this website as “news”. This is exactly the problem with the current situation. People live in fantasy bubbles and can’t even agree on a consistent reality. White is black. No black is white. No the sky is up. Sky is down. Mix in partisanship and hate (that is actively prompted) and it leads to violence in the most unstable.

Except free speech doesn’t often cover some of the content they show you. Is promoting violence ok? Many people think not. And the issue is a slippery slope for drawing a line in the sand.

But this is exactly what happens almost every time. People seek out the content and they go right back into echo chamber group-think. Doesn’t matter the platform. It’s worse with conspiracy theorists because they think they have the “real” answers and don’t trust anything. And it’s just not them being skeptical it’s an insidious undertone to their entire life. And when their grand theory is stretched in anyway they invent a fantasy reality to make it work. Sounds like a pandemic of mental health problems. I don’t have the answers but a lot of this revolves around people having poor interpersonal and critical thinking skills.

I’m not sure what that would be. Sony literally passed around a few demo units of the A7SIII to select YouTubers to share. They didn’t pay them anything (as claimed by the youtubers themselves) and they hyped, reviewed, and showed their product off for essential pennies on the dollar in marketing terms. I can only see this trend accelerating. Most of it is pure fluff to fill a 10 minute video for the ad revenue, which’s is how they are really being paid by being given exclusive access to a product of value and such exclusive rights to the ad revenue for the searches for the new item. Which is a paid review in my humble and reasonable opinion and kinda of a loop hole around the laws. Not to mention they are given free gear from companies hoping for it to be talked about. Do they pay taxes? Are these gifts? We have all seen it. No interviews with engineers, short documentaries about the product design and manufacturing, no extra or in depth information from anything except someone reading from the press release spec sheet. Love them or hate them, at least CineD does do occasional documentaries on a company, like their sigma factory tour which was very enjoyable!

There is an asteroid out there with our name on it. Mercy kill.

C70 with speedbooster would be my choice based on your uses if you have EF glass. C70 is just a much more integrated package than the A7SIII imho. I wonder how long we will have to wait for DGO in a FF camera from Canon that won’t be $16K. I much prefer the simplicity of DGO then the dual gain switching that Sony does. The lowlight party trick is nice but rarely see a use for it. Would rather have a clean image all the time with a linear ISO range.

Someday would be nice to have a Mini with a 1” sensor and variable aperture but I can’t see them going bigger with the Mavic Pro.

In RAW mode you can expose to the right as there will be more noise on that mode. Or you can expose for your subject and then clean up the noise in post with a denoiser and gain a stop of DR. For 4KHQ the noise is better controlled and stays up with the A7SIII up to 12800 I would say. Beyond that the A7SIII is the clear winner. So I would just expose for the subject in that mode and lift shadows no more than 2 stops of need be and denoise in post if it needs it. That’s just my opinion.