Davide DB

60p cropped, HDMI RAW cropped. The S5IIx is the better choice—but I really want to see what all those shilltubers out there will have to say.

Latest Google Veo3

I've just sold my 2016 Nissan at the same price it was in 2020.

On one hand, @EduPortas totally nailed it: price hikes are pretty much everywhere. This is a mature luxury market, so manufacturers can kind of do whatever they want. An item's price really just comes down to what a customer's willing to fork over. Before they even put stuff out, they do all these market studies. Nowadays, a camera's a luxury item, while a smartphone? That's a commodity. Then again, the market's shrunk so much that all the costs just get dumped straight onto us, the customers. We've talked about this tons before, and honestly, my take on it is still spot-on: Personally, I'm always looking at the underwater photography and video gear market, and prices there are just going through the roof. If the camera market itself is a niche, just imagine the market for people who take cameras underwater – that's like the niche of the niche! Anyway, the biggest jump in prices happened around the pre/post-pandemic time. After that, things stayed pretty steady. But now, with those American tariffs, we're seeing price increases hitting the whole world. Basically, manufacturers are just spreading those tariff-driven price hikes across every market globally. For example, let's look at a Nauticam underwater housing (from Hong Kong) for the Nauticam Sony Alpha 2020 (for A9II and A7RIV). The price was $3048 USD in June 2020, then it went up to $4127 USD in July 2022, and it's currently $4700 USD as of May 2025. The Nauticam Sony Alpha 1 housing cost $4540 USD in July 2022, and its price remained pretty much unchanged until the Trump mess, when the price jumped to $5000 USD.

About at 16:50

I don't know anything but in the last Media division S1 II review they showed a goggles linked to the camera used as a monitor or something like that.

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! One more round, one more ride!

As usual, Media Division has one of the best review

Alright, drama aside for a sec! You've likely already stumbled upon this thanks to our friend Google 😜 but this guy is obsessed with anamorphic lenses and, besides having dedicated videos, he uses them pretty much everywhere. https://www.youtube.com/@cammackey

Where are some real AF tests, except the YouTuber's head moving in and out of the frame?

I was only saying it to emphasize the fact that Panasonic truly seems to have a curse that haunts them, or simply the incompetence of their own executives. The timing and manner of presentation of their products are the worst that has ever been seen in industrial history. As soon as the FX3 Mark II comes out, the used market will be flooded, and it's likely that in the following months the same fate will befall its APS-C sibling, the FX30.

Exactly rhe motto I cited few pages ago: when in trouble, go big! The responsibility doesn't lie with the engineers, but with the executives and the marketing/sales department.

An FX3II or something is expected in the next few weeks so Pana will be again one step behind.

From Canada they called a true masterpiece 😉