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It honestly gives me a "plastic feel". I don't know, it's like the texture of the things appearing in the video can't be related to anything "alive", anything that materially exists and so can transmit an impression of actual feeling. And on a side note, that disappearing shoe... The channel's description : H E L P

Yes my whole comment was on a "joke tone" and ironic as a mean to try to be "light" given the harsh and unbelievable reality we are all witnessing right now. I could've add "marple sirup" and "advanced Artic position related to Denmark" in the "unless they contain" list, that would have been more obvious I was being light. Sorry, not always easy to convey humor with text on sad topics (and not in your mother's tongue🫠). I need to rely more on spot-on British humor Gif like @BTM_Pix does😅

We can assume they are pretty safe yes, unless they contain a canal of major interest for international maritime trade, or mineral ressources/oil, or are not already ruled by an extrem right-wing felon-buddy😅

A Parrot would now be a more appropriate bird, since they are resorting to piracy... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/10/venezuela-oil-tanker-seizure/?itid=hp-mv-top-stories_top-table-main_p001_f001

Yes but not to that point where we are at now, right? I'm looking to buy a car right now, and I've read several times on a french reddit sub dedicated to cars, stories of people selling their cars several thousands € more than the price they paid for it 2 or 3 years ago. The used market is absolutely crazy. I think that what we witness now in the camera industry (more higher hand models that cost more and more) also applies to cars etc. The new Dacia Bigster (that name... I read it everytime with a Monthy Python type of accent ahah) starts from 25.000€, base model with wheels and steering wheels and the motor from a moped (yes it a lot cheaper than, say, a Rav4. But there is a world of difference between both, and Dacia reliability went downhill recently). Skoda prices have also risen significantly.

Cool, one step closer to completely unburden us, humans, from all those unnecessary skills of ours.

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Good to hear thanks 🙂 Concerning deliveries, I can certainly relate as I've lived most of my life in rural areas in the French mountains. I worked at a public administration which was open from 8 to 17, and I remember experiencing the infamous "recipient was not in to sign" ahah. Drove us crazy, especially the reception secretaries who often stayed on expressly during lunch time in order to collect parcels. But back then it was still "La Poste" who was in charge (often relying on temporary workers though). I've lived abroad for the last 3 years and have just moved back to France, and I kind of discover this wave of "sub-contractor drivers". I can see them jumping from door to door in their Hertz renting van and sometimes using an old "La poste" jacket who has seen more sunsets than Michel Drucker (I hope you picked up our national running jokes 😅). Still, I'm temporary located in a city and they seem to do a great job from what I see and hear (and I've had only nice and "friendly" encounters with them). Just feel annoyed for them when i see them carrying a mountain of Prime boxes for the old timers next door who appeared to have been hooked with the almost hidden check box "click here if you're absolutely sure that, despite the fantastic offer on Prime, you want to say no to such an incredible offer, and at the same time, no, we've changed our minds, if you click here you solemnly declare your willingness not to refuse what we've said and you've probably now forgotten." on the Amazon page prior to pay your order. Anyway, we'll see. I now only have to decide on what gear to buy !

So, how did it turn out? I might order from them (delivery to France also), but not really sure...

Ahah, absolutely not! Haven't posted here for a while, but I visit and read every day. And I have to say I enjoy following your journey/"péripéties" (plus, being a French myself and living abroad, there is something nice to spot your little "expat rants" 😁 ). It reminds me I'm not the only one to be completely entangled in these gear considerations! I've been without a camera for the past 3 years, except my phone and my wife's LX100 and A6600 I can borrow from time to time (I'm compensating in the meantime with audio stuff, using my Zoom F3 and AT BP4025 + Clippy EM272 for nature ambient sound). And now that I have spared enough money to afford new gear, I'm conflicted between my past experience and what I want, like you with your S1H example. The cameras I used for the past 10 years were X-T2, GH4, Z6 and Pana S1. My experience and my use case (photo + video, often in the mountains) asks for lightweight gear and limited footprint. Loved my S1 for all it's qualities, but it was a pain to use due to the size and weight and resulted in it often left at home. The cameras I enjoyed the most using were X-T2 and Z6. So now, I'm eyeing either a Z6 iii or a Z8, like really, but the size of Nikon lenses + Z8 deter me a bit. Yeah, I almost bought the Z8 with the EU rebates, but decided against after reading my field notes from my last "expeditions", finding myself complaining too much about the S1 size and weight 😆And reading your experience now with the S1H, I'm glad I did not choose this path. If I rationalize a little and look at my needs, Sony makes the most sense, especially with the new 16-25 f2.8 and 24-50 f2.8 zooms (+ the primes, the new 70-200 f4 macro v2 etc.). But I'm not a fan of using my wife's A6600, and the joy to shoot is really far from what I recalled with Fuji and Nikon. I also eyed Canon, with the R6 ii, but only the 70-200 f4 is interesting to me, their lens line-up lacking, amongst others, wide-angle primes (like the Viltrox 16 1.8 for Sony and Nikon, or even the 20mm 1.8 primes in both mounts). So, yes, it helps me reading your brainstorming and back and forth!

Hi everyone, Hope you don't mind that I share with you this new documentary about Blade Runner ("Blade Runner, beyond the fiction). It's available until June 26 and broadcasted on the French/German channel "Arte". You can watch it in French or German, subtitled, or in English (there are also subtitled in Spanish and Italian). I believe you can't watch it outside of Europe, but with a good vpn... It was pleasant to watch, and I know many here especially @Andrew Reid could also be interested. Scott, actors and people who worked on the film are interviewed and share their views, their opinions on the impact of the movie and what it forecasted of our present. https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/089086-000-A/blade-runner-au-dela-de-la-fiction/ Cheers !

Well, another one concerning the R6...He explains that the camera warns for overheating without being hot (while the R5 got really hot). Worst, he did not figured out how to cool it down, as the camera is not hot, so no indication of where he needed to... cool it, hm (this is what I understood, but maybe I got wrong, my English understanding being far from perfect). Hm, Andrew's assertions come to mind, the R6 being far from the R5 in terms of embarked technology prone to overheating. So, basically, you have to shoot in 1080, and cross your fingers for a firmware update. Too bad, this camera is really appealing to me and tick a lot of boxes on paper. But it is really hard to justify for the asking 2600€ (!!!) body only price.

Oh nice ! Indeed, not the impressive scenery as some parts of Norway but, seriously, a true winter wonderland ! That is my favourite thing in winter : forests of snow trapped trees, big cold, more clear skies, northern lights... You must spend great winters there ! Plus, the eastern boundary of Finland is a paradise for wildlife if you are into that.

So, shouldn't money be raised and gave to magiclantern, in order to reform the past team and hack this to give us something usable 😄 ? Concerning the "it is not a professional video camera" argument (or excuse), something is worth mentioning : at forums, especially dpreview, everybody was complaining that canon gave the camera to videographers/ youtubers to review, thus the first infos we had were almost only on the video side of the camera. They were desperate to find a proper photography oriented review. In France, one of the biggest video youtubers came back to canon, from sony, and was given the r5 to make videos, review, long lives etc. So yeah, "not a professional video camera", but, as Andrew said, a heavily marketed "video camera", gave to videographers by canon to review.

Norway for the most part, and Sweden (mostly in the mountain region between Sarek National park and Abisko). But as I will soon move to Norway, I will be glad to discover Finland (where you are I believe ?) !