MrSMW

All I want to know is if the presentation has finished yet?

“Does one want mushy peas with that?”

Your fish looks a bit poshed up. Is your local one of those ‘artisan chippies’?

Yeah, that would do it.

Probably because it’s a more ‘entry level’ camera and ‘lower’ priced than the recent Lumix cameras?

Great value in every country in the world except the US where it will cost 17,000 US dollars.

As with most things in life, you can do what I call ‘common sense maths’ and work out how pretty much anything will work out. I’ve just spent a few days in the UK with my American father in law and with my American mother in law. Long separate and polar opposites politically. FIL votes Dem. Not because he supports them, but because they are the least bad choice for him. MIL votes Rep. And boy do we know it! 24 hour TV news and utter hatred of anyone and anything that is not DT. Canadians, Zelensky, Biden, transgender mice, you name it/them, they are all responsible for the shit that DT is cleaning up on their behalf. Meanwhile my FIL gets on with living his life and not spending a single second spitting relentless bile based on brainwashing and total misinformation. I think the situation will right itself when the delusional finally come to the conclusion they have been shafted. But not before a huge amount of damage has been done. Might be a (another) civil war prior to that worse case scenario…

I hoped and I wished but I only moaned slightly!

I’ve got €1000 burning a hole in my pocket if you want? 😉 That was and still is my feeling as in it has more video capability over stills compared with it’s predecessor, but is no updated replacement for the S1H. I still think I’d go for one if I didn’t have my A7RV, if only to keep both my stills and video within the same family, but the simple reality is for stills alone, I still (no pun intended) prefer the Sony and bring lenses into the equation and it’s even more clear cut for me. It will be interesting however if Sigma do bring out a longer sibling to the 28-45mm f1.8 because if it’s anything like a 45-90mm f1.8, we now have parity on glass as both L and Sony can take these lenses. At that point…and only that point, would I consider a flip. And there is no sign of that second lens as things stand, just ever more long zoom lenses 😏

Oh, it’s a Black Magic voodoo bollocks event. I thought it was a trade show jobbie. My bad 🙈 I still would like those objects though!

I'm really only interested in 2 specific things and I doubt either of them will be announced there or any time soon. A longer sibling to the Sigma 28-45mm f1.8 such as a 45-90mm f1.8 A cracking high megapixel, fast lens fixed or interchangeable (I don't care which) rangefinderesque full frame camera. Something to succeed the Sony RX1R that is not the Fuji GFX 100 RF. I don't think I'll get either...

Well I just ordered the 3 new used prime lenses I need for this year for my S9, an 18, a 50 and the 85. I'd rather have gone for the 100 over the 85, but as they are about twice the price...and those 18's aren't exactly cheap! Let's hope my delivery turns up! It's DHL rather than MPB from this point forwards and with delivery they are usually 'OK', but absolutely terrible with pickups.

4000 is the second native ISO with Lumix!

Just based on the thumbnails, really nice work Kye.

It wasn’t a biopic then?

But what choices are there currently other than: Decade old RX1Rii Sigma FP/L Leica Q3/43 And the new Fooj. Which is why I use my Zf as such with the 40mm f2 SE welded on. I just wish it was smaller and had 50+ mp…

The only way they could have improved upon this would have been having the artist formerly known as Ridley Scott, at the helm.

Large sensor more compact bodies are my jam!

MUCH better body than the S5 line, but the S5ii beat it for me for: 6k open gate, LUT support, IBIS and crop markers…otherwise I would definitely have gone for it! The rumor is of course an ‘S5ii’ in an ‘FX’ style body incoming…

Ditto, but then I also wanted IBIS. And a second back up card slot. And 4k 60p. Plus there was this lovely wooden grip that Sigma used to make but stopped and could I find one on eBay, Etsy, or anywhere? Nope. If it had just had IBIS, that was the one deal breaker for me, the rest I could compromise on and I would have done the flip screen. Too late now but that body design and that of the FX3/30 are my faves for my video work…but I am with LUMIX.

Very cool but I bet he can’t recreate Ana de Armas in my living room. It’s his next challenge.

Leica, Hasselblad and Sigma seem to be the only one’s making ‘want it’ bodies these days, for me anyway, but an honourable mention to Sony for the FX3/30. Fuji kind of with certain models, Nikon and Canon less so though at least they are trying with the Zf and Canon’s supposed imminent rival. But Lumix, nah. Innovative in some of the tech, but not the actual chassis which are all very pedestrian. But do they need to be simply functional and that is it? No. Folks like pretty things. Come on Lumix, give us a pretty thing, an S1Rii in a rangefinderesque body 🥰

Slightly chunkier, better built and with a bit more design flair than the S9. Yep, I’ll buy it. Probably… The S9 is my run & gun video unit for 2025. I don’t much care for it for stills however. The Fuji RF I was hoping might be ‘The One’ and it’s close, but no cigar. A7Rii & C have great sensors and size, but ‘fail’ in various other regards for me. Essentially take the best qualities of the above 3 and mash them up and spit it out as the LUMIX S-RF camera. I wish…

That's about the sum of it and I'm not sure if it's going to be a total flop, but The Internet is moaning about the f4 and the lack of IBIS. A lot of those moaning are actual prospective punters who now won't be. And there will be quite a few others who will buy one...and then sell it very quickly and then make a video about why. The used market by the end of this year will have them under 4k and then I reckon before the end of next year, below 3k. Take away the looks (not to everyone's taste), the size and the 100mp sensor (which many did not actually want and would have preferred a 50mp one with better low light), and what have you actually got and who is your market? I think this one was a bit of a punt on Fujis part and I think they haven't got it right. I reckon (but what do I know), that they should have gone with this body style, but NOT made it a fixed lens camera but instead brought out 3x pancake(ish) lenses at least f3.2, such as a 40mm, a 65mm and a 90mm., ie, made it the worlds best compact MF system. Or at least launched it with a wide and tele converter as with the X100. It will still be interesting to know if the X100 jobs will work but so far no one seems to have tested or reported that, that I can find. They should have compromised on the price then. For someone prepared to spend 5k on one of these, it's not that big a leap to 5.5 or even 6k. And if it had to be a tiny bit bigger, who cares? I think it's great that companies at least are willing to push things a bit, but IMO, they aren't pushing enough or just falling short in various niggling, but fundamental areas. Sigma fell way shorter than they might have done with their FP and FP-L, - so close yet so far... The new BF will be the next TikTok camera as those folks dump their X100vi's. The Sony A7Cii and R. S9, S1Rii launches and niggles. Now the RF. All close, but no cigar for me. And it goes without saying no camera is going to be The Perfect camera for all people, all of the time, but surely, when all the various components exist over 5-6 manufacturers, what will it take for just one of them to say, "hey I know, why don't we cherrypick the best bits of the best cameras out there and make The Uber camera?". It's not like the tech doesn't exist! How hard can it be? Very, it seems...

I think somewhat sadly you are correct. I don't think it's a bad lens as such, but rather for my needs, won't cut it. I really do want that 'one & done' relatively compact, fixed lens, probably medium format, camera...but it doesn't quite exist yet. For me. f2.8 and we might have been talking... 50mm AND 2.8 and we'd have been in, because it would then have been more like a 35mm f2 in FF speak. I'm not really sure why the lens has to be so slow? Well it's not that slow, but too slow for me realistically and from my experience, f4 doesn't cut it indoors after dark. Not without flash and that would mean going back to a totally different way of working and I'm not changing what I do in order to force a camera to try and meet my needs. Look around and there are quite a few FF 28/35/40mm FF lenses f2 and faster that are no bigger. I compared the new RF with the Leica Q3 today and decided that although I preferred the RF as a concept, in reality the Q3 would suit my needs better. And the Q3 43 even more so most of the time...but then I would now be limited by not being able to shoot wider than 43mm. The reality is that at over 5k each, I'd have to be nuts to use any of these as my only camera. Sony A7CR could be considered a competitor for the Q3/43 being about the same size and having the same sensor except it's so flawed to me, I wouldn't have one...because I compared that with the A7RV and within mere nanoseconds came to the conclusion that the A7RV was the most perfect camera for my (stills needs) and the A7CR fell way short. And still is. Yes, it's a little big bigger, but there isn't another high MP camera that's any smaller other than the Sigma FP-L and by comparison, that has even more flaws than the A7CR, so that's a nope. And what's better than a used A7RV? A pair of A7RV's! I'm going to sleep on that proposition for a couple of weeks, but it's viable. Very viable. Trade the Zf and the 40mm plus 3x Tamron zooms for another used A7RV and pick up 4 used compact i-series Sigma primes. Zero availability issues with any of this stuff. It's not 'one and done' but 2+4 (which kind of equals 6?) but it's the closest real world I can get to the new RF without keeping a zoom in the mix. It's really '2 & done' because I'd use one set of lenses indoors and the other set out, ie, 20 + 65 in and 35 + 90 out, plus use crop mode on the 90 if I wanted something longer. And if I did keep a zoom in the mix and wanted to stick with 'one & done', I'd struggle to see past the A7RV with the excellent Tamron G2 28-75mm which is my current workhorse because I can shoot that thing at 61mp FF or 26mp cropped with a range of 28-110mm...which is almost double the RF, with more megapixies, albeit at a bit of size & weight. Basically, all day today, I have been trying to find a way to make the RF a reality and the closest I got was pairing it with an XM5 + Sirui Aurora 85mm f1.4 (so like a FF 125/130mm) for all the longer stuff and some small fast lens for darker indoor environments. And it could work...but then I was back to 2 cameras and lens swaps on one of them and did that make any more sense than 2x A7RV's plus 4 primes, because it's actually only 1 more lens than the Fuji option, about the same overall cost, but arguably the Sony option offers a higher quality output ALL of the time and not just see of the time. Here endeth my day: The twin Fuji option looks the least likely of the 3 options I have been pondering. The safest one is stick with my current set up of A7RV + 3x compact zooms + Zf with 40mm. The kind of 'between the two' options is the 2x A7RV + 4 primes. I'm very happy with my current set up. I stand by that and am not looking to change ANYTHING unless it actually makes sense. Could I make something work? Of course. There are many options I could make work, but as above, change for change sake does not interest me. So sorry RF, maybe one day, but sadly I can't make a good enough case for you 😏