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The EOS R5 was sort of famously software-limited for overheating, but that was changed years ago, largely due to widespread shaming (especially from our gracious host). Modern Canons have been hit a lot less by the hammer. They've had to scramble to catch up with Sony. Competition is the antidote for market segregation. There are a lot fewer things on modern Canon where I'd be excited for ML. Open gate? Maybe. For me, at least, I'd be a bit more excited if they added "official" support for some of the newer EOS M bodies that are 4K-capable and have faster SD card slots than the original one. I don't remember any of the EOS M series having 10 bit recording - but if ML could enable a 10-bit (or more!) mode and keep DPAF working, something like the M200 could become a really fun ultraportable.

I suppose I'll regret choosing to come straight home last night after a long shoot when I have to fill my nearly empty tank tomorrow... ... but not nearly as much as I regret my country's terrible choices in leadership. Who was the idiot on here who said they voted for that guy because they were so against violence and they were certain that he wouldn't get us into another war?

"Much larger" is subjective. It's about 15% bigger (it's hard to get a real number since sites like cameradecision which you also used measure height, for example, to the top of the EVF - and Panny Boy's VF protrudes more. And yes, it's about 50% heavier. But when that 50% is a total of like 250g, I kind of shrug. Neither one is going to break your back if you carry it around all day. I'd make that trade-off for much better (but still not great) AF. I also think of my R5 as a very compact/light body and it weighs more than either of them. Years of medium and large format photography may have warped my perception. For a long time, I was doing abandoned buildings with an RB67 which meant jumping fences with it and a heavy tripod (carbon fiber wasn't even remotely affordable yet!) in a backpack. 😅

That or the G9 II - it seems to be not much bigger (a little taller and the hand grip + EVF protrude just a little more) and it barely costs more used. This one seems to be another example of OM system taking an existing camera, upgrading the processor, and adding computational photography features. The CP features are pretty neat, but it'd be so much better to see OM systems invest in something more interesting/revolutionary. Also, at least in pictures, the limited edition "sand" finish looks cheap and tacky.

2012, you say. OK. I agree with the first part, but for the second, some days, I think that might be true, but today, I think that I am. I wish my phone could take my place at work. As it is, I earn all the money around here. Damn phone better start pulling its weight. Sounds like your friend has some real talent. Maybe they could join and you could leave.

Citing a few isolated incidents does not provide evidence of city-wide riots. Beyond that, get your head out of your idiot ass and stop getting your news from bullshit alt-right news sources.

For B-roll and photos, I'm not sure that any modern Canon is in any danger of overheating. I've used the original R5 as b camera for narrative, rolling every second alongside the C70 I was using at the time. It never even showed any signs of distress. That was doing 8K raw. If you use the 4K standard mode, it'll be even less of a problem. It would definitely not be a camera that I'd choose for rolling long takes in 8K, but most of its reputation for overheating is Canon's fault for having such stupid firmware when the camera was released.

Right. These days, you can pick one of Sony, Canon, Nikon, and Panasonic (and arguably, Fuji) and have everything you need. Beyond that, you're really just micro-optimizing in ways that are less meaningful than you might think. Most of them just take turns buying the same Sony sensors anyway. Each has some things that they do better than the others - and if you change your mind later about the things that are important, you could certainly regret it. But at some point, obsession over small differences between systems will lead to making a YouTube channel with a theme song about "All I want is the perfect camera, all I want is the perfect ca-me-ra..." (FWIW, Kasey is borderline convinced for the time being that his R5 II is the closest thing to a perfect camera and he also likes taking photo/videos of birds/squirrels in his local area). Am I actually suggesting that someone watch Camera Conspiracies for actual information about buying cameras for their use case? I can't believe I'm saying this, but... maybe I am.

What is your planned presentation/use for these photos? One of the not-so-secret secrets of wildlife photography is that the photos are rarely presented as-framed in camera. The D500 has 20 megapixels which gives you a bit of room to crop in if your presentation is going to be social media or embedded in a 4k video. The Z8 and R5C are both 45 megapixel sensors - so you'll be able to crop in even more than on the D500. An 800mm lens won't be meaningfully different in FOV on FF than your 500mm was on APS-C, though. You mention the built-in TC on the 200-800, but there's nothing stopping you from going out and getting a 1.4x TC for the lens that you have now... or a 2x, but on modern very high resolution sensors, I've never seen a 2x TC that looked better than just cropping. If you don't want to crop or if you want to shoot 4K for presentation at 4K, you really should be looking at APS-C or M43 cameras. Bonus, you can also still use a TC.

Using it as an example furthers the false narrative being pushed by the dipshit president and right-wing news outlets. A better example might be "the large-scale protests planned all across the country this weekend." As far as your other questions, as long as you're using a 180 shutter, once you become somewhat accustomed to the camera, your exposure controls are limited to ISO, aperture, and ND. In you use a variable ND, in many situations, you'll be able to just set an ISO/aperture and dial in the exposure with the ND. Otherwise, if you're less familiar with the camera and those settings, you might just use "S" mode and set the shutter to 180, put on an ND8 or ND16 if you plan to be outdoors, and just let the camera work out the aperture and ISO for you.

That all depends - if you have a 61 megapixel FF sensor, the only real benefit to it is the ability to crop in. Much heavier glass is also subjective - I kind of love the Canon RF 800mm f/11. It's obviously very limiting to have a fixed f/11 aperture, but the lens is otherwise a decent performer and not that different from using a 400mm lens at f/5.6 on M43. I would say, though, that stabilization is huge at such long focal lengths - and that might be a reason to consider a Panasonic body and Panasonic lens since their hybrid IS is by far the best. I don't have much problem getting sharp photos on the R5 with the 800/11 since whatever mix of IS is used works pretty well - but I also only use it in fairly bright areas and I don't mind bumping up the ISO a little bit.

There are no riots in Los Angeles. Get your information from a real news source.

Ooh, good point - that one is really big. I always forget that there are millions of electronic F mount lenses in the world since I've never had a camera that could use one. 😅 Well, that's just plain cool and probably makes the Z mount Komodo-X a much more compelling option! If there are also any Z mount cameras with APS-C, this can be an interesting option for a speed booster. It's the combination that I tend to use on my E2-S6G - MFT mount with 0.64x speed booster and FF lenses. I suspect that either of them would result in somebody getting sued into oblivion, though! 😅

Are they Sony lenses? Or are you including things like the autofocus adapter for M mount? Which other lenses can be adapted to Z mount that can't be adapted to R?

Nice. I have the same adapter, but so far, I think I've only ever mounted mine to my Dog Schidt Flare Factories - I have two and the look that I like most is the one with a fixed oval aperture. I'm not really one for making and posting test videos, but maybe I could take it out this weekend and put up a couple of frame grabs. BTW, Frankenhooker is a long-time favorite!

I hope the author receives just compensation for their idea!

Right. That's what I'm saying - the plot is nearly the same as your friend's. "Chichi (Sienna Stevens) writes a letter to Santa Claus for Christmas but accidentally misspells Santa's name. This leads to the letter finding its way to Satan (Paolo Contis), who answers to the girl's wishes. Satan attempts to tempt Chichi to evil, but the girl's virtues resists the demon's plans and changes him instead." Yes, and a number of those evil assholes own the companies that make large language models.

Right, but I was asking if he was associated with this one that hasn't been released yet, also made in 2024, but Filipino and with the same plot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Satan

Are you saying that you trained an LLM entirely on things where you owned the copyright and all other appropriate rights? If so, that's cool and ethical. On the other hand, if you're saying that you used one of the existing LLM's that were made by OpenAI/Google/HuggingFace/etc, then you're not using your own stuff. You're using a tool that could not exist without massive copyright theft on a previously unprecedented scale. The part that's black and white to me is silicon valley buttholes who have admitted that their business model cannot possibly function without stealing content. I've heard that some people (Getty images, maybe?) are allowing people to opt in to AI training for some compensation. I think those people will be short sighted and a bit foolish, but the resulting AI would be, in my opinion, fully ethical. Maybe I'll go ask AI how to make my dick bigger than everyone's. That is also very bad. But "Hollywood also steals things" is a kind of a terrible justification for "AI companies steal things." Was your friend's script the one that was used for the Filipino film that google tells me also exists with that name that was made by Mavx productions? If not, it seems like the Phillipines also stole from your friend (and that's also bad). But also, knowing that the other exists makes me want to intentionally not see the Hollywood release and go see the other one, at least partly because I don't like supporting that kind of theft. The phrase doesn't make a lot of sense in English so I don't think you'll have to worry too much about it being stolen. Did you mean something like "Where people present things with good will, a thief finds victims?"

I'm not aware of any existing generative AI model that could be even remotely considered to be ethical in its construction and any of use of the generated results should be considered generally unethical. Any use of Generative AI is using an unprecedented amount of stolen material. The AI companies even admit as much, saying that being obliged to require permission from the rights holders to use their existing content would be fatal to their business model. It's like a thief saying that the invention of locked doors presented an existential threat to their business model. And keep in mind that the end game for most/all of these AI companies is not to make your life better unless you are one of the huge businesses that are financing their development or a totalitarian government.

I think you might need to seek professional help before you go shoot up a pizza restaurant (which doesn't even have a basement). The AltCine people took their camera out and saw a neat-looking building and filmed it. To demonstrate detail, they zoomed in on a thing that has diagonal and curved lines that show aliasing. Please don't turn a camera discussion site into some bullshit about freemason conspiracy theories.

New details dropping today: https://petapixel.com/2025/06/04/gfx-eterna-sensor-formats-film-simulations-and-more-revealed/ - Will include OLPF - Adds readout modes including 3840x2880 full sensor open gate (up to48fps), additional anamorphic ff modes, and super35 modes up to 6k. PP also lists the 5.8k 2.39:1 full sensor width mode as new, but that exists on the GFX 100 II already. - Codecs seem to match GFX 100 II - Supports 3D LUT - Film simulations which seem mostly to match GFX 100 II - Custom frame guides - Remote control of multiple cameras - Bluetooth LE support for some accessories - Monitor will be a 5 inch 16:9 panel with 6.22 million dots and a max brightness of 2000 nits, onboard display is a 3 inch 3:2 panel with 1.04 million dots and 700 nit max brightness For me, it's not differentiating very strongly from the GFX 100 II yet. Maybe the next tranche of information will distinguish it more. Otherwise, it's hard to see why I wouldn't just put a cage on my GFX 100 II, put in a dummy battery, and get 90% of the same camera - and a super portable stills camera otherwise. OLPF could be nice for video, sure, but almost definitely not nice enough to make up the difference in cost. I can say with some certainty that Super 35 modes are not the thing that would sell a GF Eterna cinema camera to me. 🤣

Joking about ponies aside, the line can be a bit fuzzy sometimes. Does the Osmo Pocket 3 count as an action camera? There's some crossover in that use and using it for filmmaking. The RX0 uses the same sensor as the RX100 V and a 24mm equivalent rectilinear lens. The Insta360 One R 1" edition has a sensor of the same size and also has a 24mm rectlinear lens. Obviously we're not dumb and can easily tell an action camera from a non-action camera so I'm not trying to make that case - just making the point that as the years go on, they're increasingly capable filmmaking tools and increasingly useful to have on set.

I think this YouTuber already covered Pony usage very well. 😉

You mean the movies and not RLM, right? Because RLM are both wonderful and sort of neighbors (I'm in Minneapolis, they're just a few hours away in Milwaukee and we Midwesterners need to stick together). Anyway, I wish it were just a US problem - but the non-US market also hasn't been too kind to a lot of non-blockbuster/Marvel movies.