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If Brazil can do it with Pix, I'm sure the European Union with twice the population (across all member states) can do it as well. Visa/Mastercard are still plentiful here, but Pix is huge and, being owned/controlled by the Central Bank of Brazil, I suspect that it has both lower per-transaction fees than the commercial counterpart, but also keeps the money in the country vs shipping it abroad.

This is certainly a sustainable approach, but it might end up being very unpopular with users - that and it would encourage trendy/mass appeal/influencer content vs evergreen content. It's not a wrong decision, but it definitely won't appeal to everybody. It might. Keep in mind that depending on the market, you will also have legal concerns and fees associated with hosting user-generated video content. The second anybody uploads CSAM, you're going to be dealing with international police, regulations, etc. Then add in processing of copyright claims, etc. That many users will also necessitate a user support organization of some sort. Massive economies of scale indeed - plus owning a lot of their own fiber and CDN (reducing transfer costs) as well as owning their own storage, etc. Premium is, IMO, one of the best values in streaming and it's hard to imagine that it doesn't lose google money, at least somewhat. They may look at it as losing them less money than users installing Adblock. Peer to peer, no. Federation, maybe. We'll see how things go for Bluesky and the like.

Would you limit storage space for uploads and/or remove videos after a certain amount of time on the platform? Storage tends to be one of the biggest difficulties cost-wise for a video hosting site. Keep in mind that you don't store just one copy of the video at the resolution that was uploaded. You store multiple copies of the video at progressively smaller sizes - so if somebody uploads 4k, you will end up storing at least 1080p and 720p copies as well - as well as potentially 2.5k and 480p copies depending. People don't usually expect their videos to stay on the site for only 1 year. So even if you're able to stay even at £60 ($82USD)/year for a year or two, as long as people are uploading and not deleting things, your costs will keep increasing. That's also not to mention transfer and CDN costs which are also potentially high. Imagine having a single very popular creator who uploads a daily 20 minute video in 4K quality which is then streamed by 1 million people every day. Will you still charge them just $82/year even though they're costing you a lot more than that? To make it worse, storage costs are increasing a lot - thanks to the AIpocalypse for RAM which impacts SSD's as well... and since SSD's are up, hard drives also went up since the big players are buying more of them instead of SSD's. This is where decentralized options like PeerTube start to become tempting - though they suffer the problem that a chunk of the content can vanish because a single operator gets tired of paying a lot of money to host others' content.

The best bet for a YouTube alternative might be something a bit more decentralized. PeerTube have been around for a bit, but still haven't really taken off. Sorting by "global views" shows the most popular videos getting around 10k views. https://peertube.tv/ There are also options like Floatplane and Patreon, but their focus is more on people who will pay to follow a specific creator vs delivering a client gallery or similar. Finally, there are commercial services like Vidflow - no personal experience, but they're probably fine. Who knows how long they'll stay in business, though?

Now it's truly the end of an era. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707699 https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sjtjgbabzx

I still wish them the best with their Eterna sales to anybody other than a few rental houses. Other than 4:3 recording and more professional I/O, the much less expensive GFX 100 II has the same output. Also, the autofocus in video is a bit ass on it and unlikely to be much better on Eterna. 😅 But you know, if you have some 1.8x anamorphics that cover a 44mm wide sensor that you've been champing at the bit to use or if you really wanna go overkill on your social media presence, that 4:3 mode is probably killer. 🤣

... and the Ursa Cine 12K LF. This would be huge for me.

As Doctorow said, Europe could also finally remove anti-circumvention laws since one of the only reasons to implement them in the first place was to avoid tariffs from the US.

Yes, and then I made a Zoolander reference.

Looks like we'll also be seeing a bunch of BYD in Canada soon. This is why you generally don't want to piss off your closest trading partners... https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/chinese-evs-inch-closer-to-the-us-as-canada-slashes-tariffs/

What is this? A LAPTOP FOR ANTS?

Tesla's sales numbers in much of Europe would lead me to believe that their increase in most countries has nearly completely stalled. Aside from BYD and Xioami being cheaper, their CEO's aren't making white power salutes on stage and/or collaborating with a president who has begun to threaten military action against Denmark (and as of today, Iceland???).

It's not a guess. Trump's kid is a major investor in a US-based drone manufacturer. If they actually cared about security, they would have performed the audit that the law required (and that DJI was demanding that they do) instead of refusing to perform it.

i'm not sure what the government could do to shut them down, but DJI's app uses/needs GPS and I could see them threatening to fine/sanction DJI if they don't geofence out non-approved drones. But at this point, I don't think there are any existing DJI products that aren't approved.

Then you'd probably like DSMC3. Standard batteries, standard CF Express cards, etc. If the CFE card isn't on the compatibility list, you'll get a warning, but then the camera will let you try to record whatever quality you want.

Probably. I just found it really overbearing. I personally don't bother with diffusion filters at all. The short, lacking detail reason is that I'll just use a vintage lens if I want a vintage look. And yes, your observations align with mine about using diffusion filters. On low-budget sets, they also add headaches on controlled shots as the DP is now complaining that the lights are interacting with their diffusion filter in a bad way, causing time loss due to coddling the darn thing.

I think you're assigning more capability for logic to my government than they deserve.

This is incorrect. They were added to the FCC's "covered" list which means that they won't be able to get certification on any new devices that have wireless transmission moving forward. It's not just future drones. And while it's true that DJI can still legally sell existing devices that already have FCC approval, if you try to buy something, you will quickly find that DJI are barely trickling stock of any of it into the US now (apparently customs also scrutinize/delay their stuff a lot more). In some of the Ronin 4D groups, people are practically begging for parts. Just the other day, I saw somebody offering to pay full MSRP for used ProSSD's since they couldn't find stock anywhere.

At least judging by the trailer, I agree. The only thing that bugged me, really, was the glow/halation effect - were they actual diffusion filters or did they just smear the lens with vaseline? Other than finding the diffusion distracting, though, I thought the look was absolutely well-suited to the story being told. The choice of a phone felt intimate and immersive.

Hezekiah Northrup is somewhere in the background too. He's just hard to make out because the photo was taken just a few weeks after he invented Bokeh.

The weirdest bit is @Andrew - EOSHD in the center rear, similar to Jack Torrance in the old-timey photos from The Overlook...

My first thought was "I bet Rosco or Lee have something like that, but maybe not in the right size" and after a few minutes of searching, I found something from Rosco that's like that, but not in the right size. https://www.adorama.com/ro1081102024.html So there's hope, maybe that or searching for "graduated center filter gel" or similar would get you closer! Another thought would be to make something like the soft focus disc for an some types of large format soft focus lens - some examples here: https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?49632-Recommendation-for-Soft-Focus-lenses-for-4x5/page2 It wouldn't be exactly the same as varying the opacity of the film like in a gradient, but you could make an aperture that has a hard edge in the center with the edges around it perforated, but with the density of perforation decreasing toward the edges. It'd almost certainly introduce some interesting aberrations.

I think the goal is to record once and have a frame that can be cropped to work with both landscape and portrait edits.

I'd be inclined to put the R5 II over the a7V on the IQ chart. The A9 III is probably worth mentioning somewhere too. The OG Komodo is almost worth including, even though it isn't a hybrid mirrorless - but I have seen some in the approximately $2,000 range on the used market - pair it up with a $500 RVLVR Clutch handle and a $300 Portkeys monitor and you have a setup that's not much heavier than most mirrorless cameras on the market, with good ergonomics. The main bummers are the battery (I use a V mount adapter from Wooden Camera instead of the Canon batteries that it uses natively) and the recording media (CFast).

I, for one, would like to welcome Zhiyun's marketing team and/or their spam bot to this forum. As to that specific light, if it doesn't come in an ugly leather case and have Cam Mackey's signature all over the light and all of its accessories, is it even worth considering?