MrSMW

This one gets on my moobs also as does, “tell me what content you want me to make”. The latter reads to me as, “OK, I have been through everything I can think of and also copied everything everyone else has done in this genre and now I am stuck and desperate for more material. Please help”. I have been recently unsubscribing from so many YouTube channels as part of my on-going “I unsubscribe from this world of fuckwittery” lifestyle choice.

Do I think large camera companies are out of touch? Dunno/maybe… I think most companies and people are full stop. Or at least reactive rather than proactive ie, really only act when they need to rather than choose to. Are camera companies specifically focused on the higher end of the market and have prices for such kit gone up? Yes I think so. Mainly thank phones and social media for that ‘gift’. Does any of it have any bearing on me? Nope, not really… As a business user, the cost is not that big a deal to me and if my annual tool budget cost of my turnover goes from 5 to 6%, it’s no big deal. Until fairly recently, for my specific use case, I did buy and sell far more than I would have liked and ‘suffered’ the mockery and sometimes outright abuse of various so called colleagues, in that regard (not that I really cared or it made any difference and I am still here whilst most of them are not so…) partly out of need, partly out of want. In recent times though, it’s come down to pure want that is the deciding factor. Last year for sure was pure want over need. This year I am not making a single significant change other than I’ve moved a few pieces around, bought a new relatively cheap lens last year and will be picking up a new drone this Spring as my 5 year old one flies a bit wonky after several, err…‘incidents’. I still muse over stuff from time to time and there’s a couple of things I might jump on if they ever appear but as those things do not currently exist as anything but pure speculation at best, I’m not that bothered.

If they filmed The Creator on FX3’s, then on the Eterna, it would be a piece of piss. Which all goes to show it’s: lenses + lighting + talent + grading + budget + everything…and the camera is pretty much the least important component.

It would not surprise me in the least if Mattias packed it all in due to: A. Having a YouTube channel can be very taxing, especially if trying to do it as a business rather than just for fun as it’s a beast that never stops increasing it’s appetite, plus, B. It can get so toxic in the comments and most take it too personally and it only takes one or two toxic trolls and it can stress them out so much, it ruins it for them. Based on a couple of pals and their own YouTube experience…

I’m not ‘waiting’ for it as such, but based on my S9 experience, it could be something pretty special. If they get it right. If they even make one… I have gone backwards and forwards over what to do with my S9 that has been at times both A cam and B cam but due to me picking up a pair of S1RII’s mid last year, plus certain limitations of the S9 (mainly build), I was going to let it go… But then too many times I have let stuff go and regretted it so I have repurposed it giving it an XLCS cage, super-lightweight tripod and the dedicated 2 lenses to it, the 18mm or 85mm f1.8. I am hoping they do an S9II with a bigger screen à la ZR but with the S1I/R/E tilt option. And make it a bit more robust but spec wise, it’s already peak camera for my needs. So @gethin maybe look at an S9 because straight out of the box, it’s very high spec and really it’s only the body that is a bit weak, but beef it up with a cage and it’s 💪 And used, pretty cheap!

Also consider the S1IIE if the budget will stretch. Sits right between the S5II and the S1II. Really nice bit of kit and overlooked by many… I really wanted to like the ZR but for me it has two issues; I love the form factor and screen, but wish it would tilt and not just flip out to the side, plus in order to get the best out of it, you need to shoot the insanely large raw files. I’d rather have my Lumix spec in that style of ZR/FX3 body for sure and hope it happens sometime.

I would be up for that but SquareSpace would have to link to it as an option as I think they only currently link to Vimeo or YouTube for video? Could be why there are no other competitive other options out there?

Ditto, well over 800 of the things… I finish my annual accounts for 25 later today and tomorrow I’m going to start putting year by most recent year, all of finished productions up on YouTube plus all future ones so if/when the plug is pulled, I will just need to change a few links. I only need to go back 5 years max so maybe about 100 uploads but still… 😏

OK so not officially banned as such, but make it near impossible to be competitive in the US. I suspect that although Tesla seem to be everywhere in the UK at the moment (when I was there recently) and increasing in France, companies such as Xiaomi are going to begin to supplant them soon as they are considerably cheaper. I imagine that will hurt Tesla financially and the US economy and be another example of how these trade tariffs are going to backfire. But pure speculation on my part. I don’t claim to be an economist.

Have they banned Chinese car imports? Surely that is a far bigger industry and threatens home grown products like Tesla? Their car company BYD makes more cars than Tesla now and at much cheaper prices…

That new Fooj does look interesting… Utterly gimmicky for sure, but a great way to get folks at an event actually going to your website after the fact. It’s like a SteamPunk TikTok gen business card machine!

Ditto and it has been an absolute game changer for me with my workflow, especially as 100% of my clients what a result in ‘my style’, so effectively carte blanche. As long as I don’t do anything radically different…

The battleships of The Golden Fleet will take down the evil DJI regime from wherever they come from. Greenland or somewhere.

But if they (or anything else) never gets another firmware upgrade, does it matter? It wouldn’t and doesn’t for me beyond a point. The S1II/R received a major one recently re. overheating and that needed to happen, but otherwise, I can’t think of a single thing I’d need or want from them in the form of a future firmware upgrade. I’ve got bodies now with all the spec or rather, capabilities that I need and almost the lenses, - the only lens ‘missing’ for me now is a FF longer sibling to either the Sigma 28-45mm f1.8 or the APSC 17-40mm f1.8 and I’m done. But no further firmware is no biggie at this point. There are limits to what they can do!

Sorry, I meant S5II cage did not fit my S1RII. The S5 would definitely not either! Not sure where/how the Snake cages fit.