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You'd think so, but no! If you're using like an f/1.2 lens, you can have surprisingly big dust spots on your sensor and never be any the wiser. The more stopped down, the more they appear. From what I remember, and I might be wrong about this, it's bascally the same effect as using a large diffuse light source vs a small point source - put your hand next to a white card near the large diffuse source and you'll get a blurry, indistinct shadow. Do the same with a small point source and you'll get a well-defined crisp shadow. It's the same on a smaller scale with sensor dust.

That, and also to set the aperture down to like f/16 or f/22 and shoot something - or even to put a pinhole lens on and shoot something. If you ever want to know how many pieces of dust have landed on your sensor, a pinhole lens is the quickest way to see them all. 🙂

Thanks to a maybe-too-good-to-be-true deal from MPB ($1500 or so off new), I guess I'll have a C80 soon? This puts me in officially "too many cameras" territory and I'm going to force myself to finally sell my E2-S6G for this. We'll also see whether what they describe as "dust on one of the ND filters" that won't impact image quality actually means. They originally said it was an unremovable mark on the sensor protection glass that wouldn't impact image quality - and they revised the description after I asked for a picture of the mark. There's a two-week return window, in case I feel differently after seeing the sensor. Of course, CPS membership should mean I'd get a 10% discount on a repair - so if the price would still be less than the substantial difference vs new, I could just do that. Anyway, any special requests from anybody for tests while I poke at it? Will this inspire me to buy Canon's 24-105/2.8? Could be a great pair for a super minimalist/fast day of shooting setup.

This is why, for me, there are two likely ways to use it: 1) My small bag full of C-mount and D-mount lenses and possibly attach it to the smallest 5" monitor that I have (which is quite small) 2) Throw it in my bag where it takes up almost no space and attach it to the back of existing short telephoto lenses which now function like long telephoto lenses

Oh, thank goodness Zoom finally have a reasonable accessory for timecode shoots. For a bit now, the worst thing to hear from an audio engineer has been "I use a Zoom F3." "Guess I'll hope waveform sync works in post, then..." 😅

The GFX 100 II and, I assume, Eterna, have a 5.8k 2.35:1 full sensor width recording mode. And the Ursa Cine 17K has a 65mm sensor. And FWIW, any of the Red VV cameras have a 40mm-wide sensor which is exactly in the middle of the 36mm of a FF camera and the 44mm of GFX/Eterna. Since terms don't matter anymore, they should probably just call that "medium format" since, y'know, the GFX sensor is also substantially smaller than what would traditionally be called "medium format." Unless Sony have a big 12K sensor that can read out fast enough for video, how would that happen? There's only one 12K video sensor on the market, as far as I know, and BMD have it custom-made. There isn't huge economy of scale in it so manufacturing costs are high. But also, speaking as a person who owns a 12K-capable camera, there is almost never any reason whatsoever to shoot in 12K - including in IMAX. Mine is an 8K camera nearly all the time, except when shooting plates - and when I forget to toggle back to 8K after switching plates and facepalm.

I'm pretty sure that the Mavo Mark II LF is using IMX410. It's a great sensor which is why it's been used in so many cameras since it was introduced in 2018. But that's also exactly the problem. It's in a lot of cameras already. Sell it at $1,500 and it's interesting as a budget play. Sell it at $3,000 and you're going up against the EOS R5, Nikon Z8, Red Komodo, Nikon ZR, Panasonic S1 II, and EOS R6 Mark III. IMO, every one of those sensors that's at least equal to the IMX410. They also support 10-bit internal recording that doesn't look like ProRes 4444 (I think that's the only 12-bit format available on Kinefinity right now). Of course, it's also up against the much cheaper Z Cam E2-F6 and E2-F6 Mark II which also use IMX410. The form factor is enticing, but a ZR is even smaller and also has a big flippy 4" screen. And internal raw. And really good autofocus. And costs around $1,000 less. Just like with some of the other cameras that have been announced recently, the question to ask not just "What makes me buy this over the other cameras on the market?" - but it's also "What makes me buy this over a camera I already have?"

Nice Storyblocks ad read in the middle of a video where he claims to be retiring, but then says he's just not going to make (as much) camera content as before. And then claims that the brands never paid him for reviews - guess he bought all those fancy Aputure lights himself and reviews calling the Amaran Halo series "UNBEATABLE" had no gear or money changing hands, 'cuz, y'know Amaran Halos are the pinnacle of video lighting technology... (Saw a couple used on set, they were fine - didn't seem bad or anything, but "unbeatable?" Yeaahhhhh Ooooookaaaayyyy) Also, the part where he says that he will now feel free to take gear given to him by camera brands because he's "retiring" from reviews. 🤣🤣🤣 Ohhh, and then he says he will make paid "showcase" videos for brands, but will limit it to short form content. Wow. What a "retirement."

Nice try, GoPro, but $699.99 is not as "less than $700" as I meant. So it is in "I'm gonna wait for this to be in the hands of real people" and not "Why the heck not put in a preorder?" territory. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1964095-REG/gopro_mission_1_pro_ils.html

I'd expect 10-bit H.265/HEVC. ProRes isn't impossible, but I'd still think of it as a long shot. I wouldn't place any bets on any form of raw video. But for this form factor and anything that I'd use it for, 10-bit H.265 would be absolutely fine. For me, the two use cases would be a pocketable 16mm-like camera with C mount and D mount lenses - and a super telephoto camera to pair up with an EF mount adapter. With a 2.7-3x crop factor (smaller than normal 1" sensor), the EF 100-400 turns into a like a 280-1120. Will the center of the image circle be sharp enough to resolve a full 8K? Don't care, if it makes a half decent 4K, that'll be plenty.

The Verge posted a 95% useless hands on video where they just kind of show the camera hardware and show it powered on (but with none of their own video), but near the end, they finally get to one of the things I was most interested in - there is indeed an HDMI port (micro HDMI (🤮), but it's better than nothing). Assuming that the latency is decent, maybe this really could be the Super 16 pocket camera that I've been waiting for!

What to think about it? It's a lot of beauty shots of a boxy camera with a lot of buttons, and apparently has some menus - from a company who made a Micro 4/3 cinema camera that I thought nobody bought, but judging by B&H having a used one for sale, I was wrong at least once. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1733741-REG/bosma_dc0201_g1_pro_camera.html But $3,500 for a Micro 4/3 camera with poor dynamic range from a mostly-unknown manufacturer was always going to be a hard sell - especially with the Komodo now costing $500 less brand new. This new camera is up against some really tough competition from other vendors, both new and used. It will need to have features a lot better than the others or have "good enough" features and compete a lot harder on price than the G1 did.

Huh. A Sub-$3k cinema body in that form factor could be really compelling. The big question now will be what sensor they put in there. If it's an IMX410, it'll be big shrug from me - but if it's a newer sensor, maybe the one used in the S1 II, and they have 10-bit ProRes and, ideally, some 12-bit codec, it could be a compelling product. Otherwise, the Nikon ZR exists, costs less, and can be shoved into any of the same spaces that the Vista would fit in. Also has decent face detect AF which is really useful when the camera's shoved into a tiny nook/cranny.

On the other hand, looks like Insta360 are leaking images of their own MFT camera... all speculation at this point, but it could also be a viable entry in the "small modern MFT camera" category. https://www.43rumors.com/the-mft-revolution-is-here-first-leaked-images-of-the-insta360-mft-camera/

Some nice updates, but even if they were available in my country, I'm not sure there's anything in there that would make me upgrade from the Pocket 3 that I already have. I took the train to Chicago last weekend and made a short film with some friends and I brought the Pocket 3 and the Ursa Cine 12K LF. It turned out to be less of a crazy combo than one might think. HIgher maximum frame rate? 🤷‍♂️ Higher bitrate for video? Nice, but not a "buy now" 10-bit D-Log vs 10-bit D-Log M? Also nice, but not a "buy now" Higher resolution for photos? 🤷‍♂️