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OK, boomer.

That looks literally nothing like Gary, IN... ever. And yes, it is a real concern if human artists can take months to build something, only for a bunch of untalented fakers to shit out hundreds of AI imitations overnight afterward. If you think it's a concern that melodies in pop music are similar to progressions in music that's hundreds of years old, I would urge you to familiarize yourself with the concept of public domain. Anyway, as with other things, the main thing that will or won't kill AI for this sort of thing will be whether what it produces can be copyrighted. If Musk's stupid ego-stroking horseshit videos can't be copyrighted due to being generated by AI, there's nothing to stop internet users from drawing dicks all over them and reposting the next day or competitors using them, etc.

Nice whataboutism.

You might also want to consider whether the convenience of touching your production monitor to choose focus points is worth supporting a shitty company like Atomos.

For sure! It might be the camera that finally inspires me to pick up X-mount.

That's basically why I ended up ditching my Sigma fp and fp-l. By the time they were set up for any sort of reasonable shooting (external SSD + screen), they ended up a lot bigger than my Canon R5 (internal raw, screen can be rotated).

Now it's apparently a 1" camera that will be marketed as "half frame." That makes a lot more sense, but it's nothing revolutionary. It could be a bit interesting to see a modern compact with 1" sensor - like an updated RX100/ZV-1 or similar - though for me, a bit less interesting if they actually make the sensor vertical.

Right, but we're not talking about them releasing a film camera. We're talking about a digital camera that has a half frame sensor. 23.5x15.6mm and half frame is 18x24mm. They're basically the same size with the only difference being that half frame is naturally portrait orientation and being 4:3 ratio instead of 3:2. Does Sony even make a 18x24 sensor? Or is Fuji just going to take one of the bigger APS-C sensors and rotate it 90 degrees? It would seem to make more sense for them to go APS-H (similar to Red's S35) or go fixed lens FF or MF.

It's regrettable because cameras like the GH2 and GH5 were truly industry-leading in any number of ways. I loved both of them - but failure to continue innovating has let everybody else catch up or surpass them.

At some point, the ecosystem becomes relevant. Are Panasonic's bodies in the $1,500-2,500 range price-competitive with competition in a similar bracket? Sure. Do any/many of them offer compelling features in excess of the competition? Not really. In that range, I can get an R6 Mark II, A Z6 III, or an A7 IV. Just slightly out of that range, an R5 (currently about $2,900) or even a used Komodo (I can say from personal experience that they're now available on ebay for <$3,000 - my K-X now has a cute little brother). Those options would put me in RF mount, Z mount, and E mount which are all supported by vendors who are regularly releasing new cameras and show every sign of still being in the industry in 3-5 years. Fuji X mount is also an option in that price point and excellent, though there's no FF option if that's a requirement. On the other hand, if Panasonic folds or stops releasing new cameras, what are my other options in L mount? Leica are a combination of expensive as hell and seemingly reliant on Panasonic for their electronics. Sigma haven't released a new L mount camera since the fp-l in 2021. What does Panasonic offer that the others don't? In photo terms, not much that I can think of. In video terms, internal ProRes on some models? Fuji has it too, but again, if we're only looking at FF... ProRes could be useful for some working professionals, but for a lot of the kids, they're apt to be a lot more excited by internal raw on Canon and Nikon. Panasonic still have, I think, the best IBIS in the industry. Is that enough of a selling point? Judging by the sales numbers above, a big majority of customers say no. If I have $1,500 in my pocket to buy a camera, do I buy the S9 or the FX30? But also, as far as working pros go, these days, most are going to go Sony and of those that don't go Sony, most will go Canon. That's just how the industry has gone.

If the latest smoke signals coming from the Dolomites are to be believed, the new Fuji camera will be a half frame camera. If there are nominations for dumbest rumor of the decade, this might be it... and if it turns out to be true, the nomination can become dumbest camera of the decade... given that half frame is nearly exactly the same size as APS-C. Is there really so much demand for "give me a sensor that's about the same size, but 4:3 instead of 3:2?" https://www.fujirumors.com/this-is-the-mysterious-all-new-camera-to-be-launched-by-fujifilm-in-2025/

I didn't watch the presentation yet so sorry if this is a dumb question that I'll answer as soon as I've actually watched it later - So the S5D is the S5 (not the S5 II), but with some sort of integration with the DJI Lidar sensor that allows it to use the autofocus motor instead of DJI's focus gear? But since it's not the S5 II, no PDAF if you don't put on the DJI sensor? Which, to be clear, the DJI Lidar unit costs $600 on its own without the handle or focus motor ($999 for the "Creator combo" which includes all 3 and some cables and mounting hardware). Who is the target market? I get that they must have a bunch of S5 in their warehouse that they want to move, but... who wants this over PDAF in the S5 II?

Keep in mind that those numbers are for "cameras" and not for MILC. Like I've heard that the Canon V10 is is weirdly popular in some regions. What's less clear is whether that's all digital or not - I've heard that Instax sells crazy well, but I've not heard numbers associated with that.

What heresy - I can tell in both of those images that there are cupboards just a few feet behind him and he's in a kitchen! Any proper image with Toneh should be at f/0.95 and I shouldn't be able to tell if he's in a kitchen, at a lake, or mountaineering!

He just regurgitates the same rumors as are on a bunch of websites.