Davide DB

Speaking of new cameras...

This was shot by a friend of mine on a "vintage" Lumix LX10 in Nauticam housing and different wet diopters.

19 hours ago, EduPortas said:

Nice! What type of underwater housing are you using for your GH5s?

That looks really beautiful.

We are two divers, one GH5MII in a Nauticam Housing and a GH5S in Aquatica housing.

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

1 hour ago, Geoff_L said:

Yes but not to that point where we are at now, right? I'm looking to buy a car right now, and I've read several times on a french reddit sub dedicated to cars, stories of people selling their cars several thousands € more than the price they paid for it 2 or 3 years ago. The used market is absolutely crazy.

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

On 5/14/2025 at 4:55 AM, eatstoomuchjam said:

Is it really better than Fuji's? 

And DJI's is arguably better too.  😅

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

19 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

Not interested!

All of these current and recent models can do everything I need them to do and my only interest now is how compact a total kit I can make and do so at the lowest possible cost without sacrificing anything.

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.

20 minutes ago, ND64 said:

When a market is saturated, and there are big players in that saturated market, the only way to survive is to be bold and different.

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.

2 hours ago, MrSMW said:

How much is a used FX3 and a pair of FX30’s going to be in 2026, because I already have all the glass?

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 😉

2 hours ago, MrSMW said:

For €4k I’d want an FX3 style body and the next gen S1H with all of the previous build quality

At this point, with 6 FF cameras with overlapping features, I don't see how an S1HII could come out. It seems to me that Panasonic's R&D has reached a dead end.

That's quite a mess of resolutions!

Edit: found

How can I tell which ones are uncropped, meaning which of these can I still trust what's written on the lens?

I'm with Andrew.

If the leaked specifications are confirmed, I find these two cameras to be completely dull, boring, and uninspired.

I don't work in research and development, nor in the marketing department but I was a loyal customer and so I really don't understand the strategy (if there is a strategy).

You have 5% of the market and you present two absolutely anonymous cameras that don't stand out from the multitude of cameras sold by the market leaders. You can't afford 6 full-frame cameras.

What we all loved about Panasonic was its ability to stand out from the rest. In a market completely dominated by the usual players, it was able to innovate. Now that drive has been completely lost.

Precisely because you are constantly losing market share and are fading into oblivion, for me the motto applies: When in trouble, go big!

You have also absorbed what was once the professional division and you continue to present tired and worn-out concepts.

RIP Panasonic

3 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

> Let alone replaced the S1H II I had on loan, which promptly bricked itself.

@Andrew Reid This a typo or a hint of something to come?

Yes, same question!

A lot of leaked photos on l-rumors

Latest rumors: two cameras and one is the S1IIE 😑

Introducing the Lumix S1II E – The E stands for everything you didn’t know you needed.

Meet your new creative companion:

The Eeprominator – Built-in memory so loyal, it holds onto your moments like your grandma holds onto your baby photos.

E-Waste Not – Every shot counts. Even that accidental one of your foot? Frame it.

Easter Snap – Hidden features? Secret settings? Surprises await in every menu.

Emoticanon – Shoots in feels-per-second. Guaranteed to hit you right in the heartstrings.

Exploitomatic – It finds the light. It finds the angle. It finds you.

Lumix S1II E – Not just a camera. It’s a character

GH7

4 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

It's not the camera. It's not the lens. It's not the grade. It's not the lighting. It's not the budget. It's not the creative talent. It's all of these elements and that is what a camera body is, just one single element, but alone it is nothing.