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Sure, it could be that too. I guess it depends on whether bulk 50MP sensors are available in big quantities and for a price that is competitive with modern FF sensors. I'd love a 100mp fixed lens medium format camera - and I can say from personal experience that Fuji has a long history of excellent fixed lens MF cameras. I guess the bigger question is whether people would be willing to drop $5k on one - and which lens they'd pair with it to keep it "small." I guess they could do the 50/3.5 - as far as I know, that's the smallest native lens for GFX and it's a decent sharp modern lens.

The latest posts from the Dolomites haver been saying that Fuji is working on a new camera with a sensor size that they never used before. My guess is, based on the success of the X100VI, they're building a full frame fixed lens camera. Fixed lens means they don't need to build out an entire ecosystem of lenses like they would if they introduced a new FF MILC line.

I think that, as with many things, the only rule is to choose what tells the story best without resorting to dogma. Hitchcock was also, situationally, a fan of opening with the wide establishing shot and then bringing the shots closer and closer to the subject.

Bogdanovich and Fuller were also against the establishing shot for the sake of establishing the shot. If I remember right, Hitchcock preferred to end with the establishing shot since he felt it had more dramatic effect (and I would be the last person to argue with Mr. Hitchcock about what has dramatic effect).

Honestly, if it were redesigned and a lot smaller (or were integrated with the filter adapter somehow), I'd consider a cooling fan if I wanted to do long takes. Right now, the filter and CFE adapter add fairly minimal extra space (could maybe get even a little smaller by adding one of the smaller magsafe SSD's or by supergluing a Sabrent Nano to my filter holder, but I prefer to have swappable media). Anyway, for me, it's about keeping the setup as small/light as possible. I sort of wish somebody would make a case with a filter turret or sliding filter or something since the ND filter is the only thing I really need in the moment.

If owning 3 Ninja V's counts, I'm an Atomos customer. I still have them because the resale value isn't great - though I should just get a quote from MPB to see about swapping them all out for a Video Assist 12G. At this point, it's hard to imagine Atomos releasing a product that I would buy, both because the CEO is fucking awful and for the other reasons I outlined abovef.

It wouldn't really be fair to compare the telephoto lens on an iPhone to the pocket 3 since the pocket 3 has no similar telephoto lens. Between the standard lens on a modern iPhone and the pocket 3, I'd be willing to bet that the differences won't be enough to matter a lot.

They're all pretty bad/cringeworthy now, but sure - here's one where you can see me confused by the Osmo Raw. Apparently airflow matters a lot. While it ran for about 13 minutes the other day and merely felt warm to the touch, I set it up by the window of my house today. The house is about 25C inside, but there's no breeze like there was by the river aside from it being a bit warmer. After 12:10 of recording ProRes 120p, the BlackMagic app stopped recording due to high temperature. When I picked up the phone, it was uncomfortably hot and so was the CF adapter. So rolling long takes at indoor concerts doesn't seem like it'll be a thing!

It's also not really a new thing that Leica partner with a consumer brand for cameras and even some lenses. https://forum.mflenses.com/the-leica-minolta-collaboration-t77452.html The Leica R3 and R4 were basically Minolta bodies with a different mount. And a number of Leica R lenses were also Minolta rebrands (mostly zooms, but the 24/2.8 R lens was one too, as was the 15mm fisheye). At least one R lens was even made by Sigma - and that's not Sigma of 2024, but Sigma of before 1995. Imagine paying Leica prices for a 28-70mm zoom lens only to learn later that you'd just bought a Sigma.

As far as I could see by searching sold items on ebay, the current going price is about $4,600 for a 2TB model that works or $1,900 for a 2TB model that doesn't work. There's also a more recent sale that was a $7,700 for one with 1TB, but it was apparently recently serviced by Rubenstein which included battery replacement - and that one also included a Zacuto EVF, PL mount adapter, gold mount adapter, and 3 Zeiss Tevidons. So it seems like it's probably $4000ish for an unserviced camera - but it'll be on the market for a while before an enthusiast picks it up. If I saw one in working condition for $2k, I'd probably jump on it, but I'd also be pretty sure it was a scam. At $4k, the camera is competing with stuff like used Komodos and C70's which... is a little crazy. I'm also expecting Komodo prices to start dropping more soon as the ones with buy-it-now at $4k+ are not moving and those selling for auction are going for between $3-4k. A lot of sellers still seem to be in denial about the recent price cuts.

Sure - one thing that might be nice in terms of not missing the moment is that now you can raise the phone and push a button and it will instantly load a photo/video app which is faster than it used to be. But if you're worried about missing a moment, no amount of speed improvement will help. A lot of people prefer a bigger phone! If I could, I'd take an even smaller phone. If they put the 16 Pro guts in a 16 body, I'd probably take that instead. The ideal would be a Zoolander-sized smartphone (maybe it could have a projector for the screen). 😀 You can turn down the screen brightness a lot if heat genearted by the screen is a concern. I meant to try it the other time, but my attention span isn't so long. It's the same thing that I realized during the brief time when I considered becoming a YouTube camera reviewer. Maybe I'll try again today. I could point it out the window or something and leave it while I work.

Why limit yourself to cinema lenses? Now you can also use this cage to make sure your phone is powered by v mount and has an external screen and shotgun mic! You can finally realize the dream of having a cinema camera in your pocket... just as long as you don't mind a heavy backpack full of accessories. https://petapixel.com/2024/09/26/moments-smartphone-supercage-has-integrated-power-mic-headphone-jacks-and-more/

The idea that the R1 is a camera that some people might choose instead of the C80 is not offensive. However, your continuous bombarding of this thread with test charts and graphs to demand that it's a better choice than the C80, once again despite that you have touched neither camera is not necessary. If the R1 is noticeably better than the C80 in real-world usage once both cameras have been released, Canon will sell more R1's than they would otherwise. I'd certainly consider it once it's available on the used market or there's a big sale, just as I am considering the C80 now (but no way I'm paying full price). Regardless, neither camera is "better" than the other - but one might be a better fit for you. If it is, that's great. You should get that camera. If you plan to buy/use neither camera, then you should stop caring about which one is "better."

For almost any other camera, I'd suggest that you should post some details about the camera, etc - but in this case, I think it's perfectly valid to just yell the price. 🤣

Great. So since we agree that most of the discussion is useless until the cameras are released and in the hands of real users, you can stop the lengthy rants and pasting screenshots from YouTube and reviewer websites and demanding that one camera (that you have never actually touched) is better than another camera (that you have never actually touched).

Other than gt3rs' actual real-world experience with the R5 II, this is all nonsense anyway. It is based entirely on pixel peeping crap from internet reviewers. I'll stick with "if you love the R1 so very much, you should get in the preorder line and enjoy shooting it when it's released." Otherwise, beyond some chat about specs, it's really worth waiting for the camera to get into the hands of real users. Then the truth will be understood. As for me, I'm going to guess that we'll see a lot more owner-operators and documentary crews running around with C80's and C400's than we will see them using R1's. The R1 will likely be a niche camera, used primarily by sports photographers.

I went for a walk in the park yesterday and took a few minutes to check things out. It was about 21C here yesterday and I was by a river so the entire area was in the shade because it's down in a valley. The setup is a filter adapter that connects by Magsafe and the Angelbird CF express adapter which connects with magnets to that. I set it up on a rock and rolled 4kp120 ProRes in the Blackmagic Camera app with the 1x/24mm equiv lens. Sometime between 4 and 8 minutes, the BM app started showing a warning on the record button which seems to indicate that the camera is heating up. At 13 minutes, I got bored and stopped the recording. The phone was a bit warm to the touch. The CF Express adapter was warmer. At least for me, I don't expect that there will be a lot of times when I need to roll 120 fps for 10+ minutes. Detaching the reader from the phone would probably help with cooling. After that, I played around a bit with the phone. I really like the 5x lens (not sure if I like it enough to replace the 3x) - but I ran into a bug in the BM app where stabilization gets weird with the 5x or 0.5x lenses. It jumps around a lot. Hopefully they fix that soon.

No. 16 Pro with "natural titanium" color. With the "Pro," I can still just barely use it with one hand when walking, etc. With the Max, I definitely can not. Maybe in my next life, I'll be born with bigger hands. Probably a bit if in sunlight. Probably not much if out of it. How long do you need it to roll before stopping before you'd consider it? 😅 Probably somewhat, but I wouldn't expect it to be night and day.

Not really. It's some metadata that is sent with HDR video streams that theoretically helps displays to better understand how to display it.

No update. Gotta' find a time when I both remember to do it and am not worried about killing my battery. 🙂

My magnetic filter holder and Angelbird CF reader/writer showed up today. It's a bummer to have to take off the case to put on the filter holder, but there are worse things and the camera's pretty comfortable to hold with both stacked on. It could be that I finally have a decent 4K pocket camera. 😉

It sounds like you really like the R1, even to the point of obsessing about micro-differences between images which would be removed during even basic color grading. Seems like you should get one.

Why should people buy any Atomos product? They shouldn't. Atomos is a terrible company who moved a while ago from selling customers a working tool and supporting it to trying to build new revenue streams from their existing customer base. The whole reason to release a "new" Ninja V model seems to have been to release the same hardware again, but with a few licenses that were an additional cost on the original NInja V (such as H.265), but that nobody in their right mind was going to buy (why would I get a Ninja V to record in the codec that my camera already uses?)... difference in price for the new monitor? Basically the cost of buying those add-ons for the original. It's also why getting the activation code for ProRes RAW for the Ninja V went from a simple basic website where you entered a serial number and it gave you an activation code - now the site forces you to register and wade through a bunch of ads (for things like add-on software licenses) before you can register it. Meanwhile, you take the Video Assist 12G out of a box, plug in your camera, and start recording BM Raw. And that's all in addition to the bad press, sexual harassment allegations, covid fuckery, etc. If Atomos are struggling, they have only themselves and their own terrible choices to blame.

Current pricing for the D16 is IMO a bit crazy - there are two which come up in a sold item search on ebay - $4600 in working condition and $1900 for parts/repair. Original price was about $3,300. Are you really sure you'd want to walk away from about $1,300? FWIW, I'm guessing that anybody who spends $4,500 on a camera is going to use it. At least, I hope so. 😃

Also 1080p240 and "Dolby Vision" for other things, whatever Dolby Vision is.