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If the rumor’s true and they’re dropping two new cameras, I’m not even that fussed about how they differ from each other. I just want to know how they plan to make them stand out from the S5II and S5IIX. How are they gonna explain that to customers? Just the 60p crop? Seriously, how do they expect all these models to survive in a market that’s getting tighter by the minute? And it’s not like they’re Canon, Nikon, or Sony. Beats me, feels like a magic trick at this point.

Yes but it seems just a normal camera

I see you all lurking in the shadows, secretly reading the rumors, too afraid to hit “post”... 😇 In just a few days, the new Lumix FF is set to drop—and rumor has it, we’re talking cinema camera territory. The Canadian YouTubers? Already in Texas and Portugal, probably under NDAs thicker than a RED firmware update. So... are we talking or what? Because let’s face it: after this one, it’s gonna be another six years—and at least one global event worthy of a disaster movie—before Panasonic releases their next cine cam. Built-in ND? Or are we chasing DJI ghosts again? Meanwhile, our cowboy filmmaker has the mystery box chilling on the hood of his pickup, right across from the light he’s testing:

Does it exist a camera whose image technically falls apart nowadays? 😉

Could you elaborate on this?

Yesterday I watched on Sky TV the documentary Linx, a French-Swiss documentary released in January 2022, shot and directed by Laurent Geslin. It follows a lynx family in the Jura Mountains and reveals the hidden life of this elusive feline. https://mulderville.net/en/news/5009/lynx-interview-with-director-laurent-geslin Geslin is fascinated by all wildlife but was particularly drawn to the lynx due to its rarity and symbolism. Living near the Jura Mountains, he found it meaningful to focus on a local predator rather than traveling abroad. The lynx, reintroduced in the area to help control herbivore populations, represents successful coexistence between humans and nature. While he has photographed many animals (including urban foxes), making a film was a new challenge. Film allows him to tell stories in ways still photography can't. The transition required adapting techniques, such as anticipating and building cinematic shots rather than capturing single moments. He already published a photographic book about the linx. Finding and filming a wild lynx was incredibly difficult—he once spent eight months without a sighting. Lynxes are elusive and mostly nocturnal. He used lightweight gear for mobility in the mountains and learned to read animal behavior over time. All footage in Lynx features truly wild animals in their natural environment—no trained animals or artificial setups. Geslin emphasizes that the authenticity took years to achieve. Geslin hopes viewers understand the lynx’s vital ecological role. As a top predator, the lynx helps control herbivore populations, which in turn protects young forests. He sees the lynx as the “keystone” of forest health and aims to raise awareness about the importance of preserving such species. The cinematography of the film is very beautiful. It is not cinematic in the strict sense. It has a very very natural look. The documentary has a distinctly European style that I prefer. There are no cumbersome hosts, no one is pretending to risk their lives to film the animals. No spectacularization. There is very sparse voice over and lots of natural sounds, ASMR style. I would have liked to see it in the cinema. Geslin appears in Nikon magazines and I became curious about the equipment used. In all the interviews he tells about the enormous effort of following these animals for two years. I couldn't find direct references to the equipment used (I have great difficulty with the French language) then by chance I came across some short shorts on his YouTube channel and a Lumix appeared. I can't tell if in a photo it is a GH5S and the other one it's a Lumix FF. If he really shot everything with Lumix cameras, I think yes yet another demonstration of what can be done with these cameras in a genre (wildlife) almost totally monopolized by Red. Regardless of the camera used I absolutely recommend viewing.

How to make someone addicted to drugs: first I will gift you drugs and then when you can't do without them I will ask you for money. Another clear example of enshittification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification)

Each time I think to change my two GH5 I check again the old work of Filippo Chiesa with his GH5s and... I save a lot of money 😉

When FLCs were introduced in Resolve I had seen some tutorials on how to apply them. I had never actually played with them because I was only working with underwater footage at that time. Some time ago I took up the subject again and realized that several YouTube videos gave wrong directions on how to apply them and the results are very different. I am certainly stating a trivia and I apologize in advance. This should be a correct example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwcItNYhOV4

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/04/disney-snow-white-live-action-movie-cgi

I was reading this interview with Matteo Cocco, the DoP of an Italian TV series produced by Sky. https://collettivochiaroscuro.com/sul-set-di-dostoevskij-con-i-fratelli-dinnocenzo-conversazione-con-il-cinematographer-matteo-cocco/?lang=en In my opinion, it confirms that these A/B distinctions (where you can insert whatever you want for A and B) are absolutely arbitrary. Reading about how they worked on this series, it’s clear that the creative process and the desired result are achieved by using (and even mixing) all the available tools. As for the final outcome, I won’t say anything—I haven’t seen the series, and the trailer on YouTube doesn’t provide enough to form a judgment. I’m sharing some excerpts here that are relevant to the thread’s topic. I’ll also add that they chose to shoot on film and in Super 16mm format 😁 Sky production didn't like the combination film/Super 16: Camera: ARRI SR3 Lenses: Elite s16 Film: Kodak 7219 – 500T

On the BTS shots it's impressive to see how the operators hand the machine to each other on the fly during filming

Regarding technique and creativity, has anyone seen Adolescence on Netflix? Among the most viewed TV series on Netflix is Adolescence, a four-episode British miniseries that is receiving rave reviews from audiences and critics just about everywhere. The praise is partly about the story it tells, and partly about the way the series was written, performed, and, above all, directed: each episode is in fact shot in a single, very long take, that is, all at once, with no cuts between shots and therefore no breaks for the actors and crew, and no editing required. Adolescence was written by Englishmen Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham. In addition to contributing to the screenplay, the latter also plays Eddie Miller, the protagonist's father and one of the main characters. The director, on the other hand, is compatriot Philip Barantini, who four years ago had directed Graham himself in the film Boiling Point - Disaster is Served, a thriller that was a good success in the United Kingdom and which, just like Adolescence, was shot with a single long take. Adolescence centers on the story of Jamie Miller, a 13-year-old student who is arrested on charges of committing murder. However, the detective plot is set aside fairly early on because the point of the series is not so much to get to the resolution of a case, but to analyze the motives behind the actions of a teenager in our times, and to place them in the social and cultural context in which he lives. For me, who has a 13-year-old son, the first two episodes were a punch in the gut. Perhaps the absence of editing also helps to give you no respite and lower you even more into the story. Truly a peculiar product. Two scenes in particular struck me. For the first, at the beginning of the first episode, I had thought of a crane being moved on a trolley or truck. The second one is even more peculiar because the camera goes through the window and flies high above the houses. Netflix has released a BTS showing both scenes. (Spoiler: they used a drone) Sorry, I couldn't find a YT link: https://x.com/NetflixUK/status/1901617851192033326 It was entirely shot on the Ronin 4D: Spoiler alert: https://variety.com/2025/artisans/news/adolescence-one-take-episodes-netflix-1236339292/

A well known tendency https://nofilmschool.com/second-screen And this in Italian can be easily read via Google translate: https://www.ilpost.it/2025/02/03/netflix-serie-secondo-schermo/ The dialogues of many Netflix-produced series are often didactic and informative: it frequently happens that a character summarises what has happened so far, or anticipates some future plot development in a more or less arbitrary way. They are written in this way to allow the most inattentive viewers to pick up the thread at any time, without having to go back or interrupt their viewing. Productions that include dialogues of this kind are usually associated with the expression 'second screen', because they are designed and written in such a way that they can be easily followed even while attention is focused on a 'first screen': that of the smartphone.

Exactly. The viewer does not give a damn how it was made. A film or documentary must move feelings or make people think. If they do, who cares about the technical details? Only the insiders.