MrSMW

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.

Truth bomb spat out right there and unique to you, to me, to others as our situations and needs are all different but unless you actually get out there and shoot shoot shoot, you’ll never truly know what works. And what does not. Probably always will be other than perhaps AI etc might/probably will fill in the blanks.

I don’t know but do know that my S5 Smallrig cage did not fit my S1RII due to slight differences in the bodies.

I think sometimes on forums and YouRube comments sections, too many get jumped on for wanting fast lenses with the often false assumption it’s all about getting the most shallow DOF possible, but for many of us, that is not the primary driver which is low light capability, ie, without the picture turning into a muddy mushy mess. Personally, I do like a shallow(er) DOF, but then for me it’s not a fad but something I have preferred for 25+ pro years. But not the razor shallow f1.0 in bright sunlight shallowness that causes all kinds of issues, more some clear separation and modest background blur rather than obliterated any and all context. Focal length can also of course remove said context so it’s all about balance and intent. In good light, outdoors, nothing much in it really but it’s definitely easier/more options with full-frame for low light. I don’t have anything faster than f1.8 for primes and no issues with low light.

Good call. I have spent years and years going back and forth between primes and zooms and in the end came to what should have been a very obvious conclusion and that is I need both. Depending on the circumstances. In an ideal world, I could do it all with fast zooms but fast zooms (faster than f2.8) are a rarity and come with the penalty of size & weight. I was debating (yet again) at the end of my most recent season the case for continuing with just primes (needs +1 body) or going back to zooms (needs -1 body) but there are compromises to both scenarios. Instead, I decided to go with the -1 body, but keep the primes and though it means a couple of extra lenses in my bag, that (and having to do a lens swap every now and again) is my only compromise. I took a very hard look at the G9II and I think if my needs were different, I might have gone for it (over the OM-1) but in the end decided I wished to stick with full-frame stills but would go back to shooting S35 for video. Which is what I am doing.

I love it’s size, it’s weight and it’s capability but as a pro tool, it is sorely lacking. I have used it as my primary video unit on a couple of occasions and the result has been great…mostly, - too many times I have jogged those dials etc though 😏 I would like to see a second gen, but for now/2026, I have relegated mine to back up/spare apart from one single use case (locked on to grooms face for bridal entrance…which seems a bit overkill to have a camera dedicated to and then packed away but 🤷‍♂️) and so it stays. For now.

Needs to be lockable on the next gen camera…if there is one. Plus more robust everything!

Now we are getting somewhere with I think just 3 suspects remaining… Top right, is clearly Louis Cyr, fake Canadian strongman from around the turn of the century before last. Great great grandsire of a more contemporary Canadian also with zero known photo or filmmaking skills who makes technical videos from a basement. Bottom left = Nikola Tesla, just back from the over-sized jacket store. Top left = Hitler’s favourite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl.

Oh great; that means France will enter a state of 6 months mourning as they did when Jonny Halliday fell off his perch and even less will get done.

Now that you mention it, every time I log in to this place, somewhere in the background, I can hear ‘Midnight, The Stars And You’…

It could possibly be him, - they do look quite similar in black & white. The centre bottom dude is Cam Mackay’s great great great grandfather, Dances With Cameras. That one I am positive about. I think…

The bottom right dude, is that the notoriously dageurreotype-shy, Louis 'Rolling' Shutter?

I suspect the OP is a bot, but it’s an interesting question nonetheless. I only need one type personally and that is a compact, hybrid, hi res monster because with that I can do it all. And am, so 😛