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Davide DB reacted to MrSMW in Canon USA drops new teaser (FX30 competitor?)
There is talk of Viltrox even making their own camera so possibly that?
If that's a PL-L mount, that is interesting...
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Davide DB reacted to eatstoomuchjam in The YouTubers are fighting!
Casey Neistat and Candice?
Matt Granger and his 200/2 Nikkor?
DSLR video shooter and his entire camera studio attached to a rolling lightstand?
Gerald Undone and his own ego (or Sony?)?
Bloomie and his cats?
The Camera Conspiracies guy and his most 3d popping lens?
Snapchick and Raymond?
Cam Mackey and yellow-toned footage of cars driving around in the sand?
Pooter McCubbins and ugly poorly-made leather goods?
Potato Jet and his FPV drone?
Matti H and Pooter McCubbins' leftover views?
Mathieu Stern and other peoples' lens adapter ideas?
FroKnowsPhoto and his Canon rep?
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Davide DB reacted to BTM_Pix in The YouTubers are fighting!
On the subject of the thread title of YouTubers fighting, it appears that two prominent ones have been fighting so much that they are getting divorced.
But sharing custody of the YouTube channel.
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Davide DB reacted to MrSMW in Canon USA drops new teaser (FX30 competitor?)
I am 99.9% sure that pic from that video is none of the above named cameras.
Absolutely no way any 'cinema' camera is that small. It looks like a medium sized phone that ate a medium sized pie at best.
Not unless someone has found a way to defy physics, time and space...
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Davide DB got a reaction from eatstoomuchjam in Canon USA drops new teaser (FX30 competitor?)
And finally we will discover that it's the DJI 😄
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Davide DB reacted to Django in Canon USA drops new teaser (FX30 competitor?)
I dunno, couple weeks ago it was an APS-C sensor, yesterday it was the 45MP FF R5ii sensor, and today it's a 32MP FF sensor.. which Canon doesn't have AFAIK. Maybe it's the new rumoured sensor from R6iii or maybe its APSC. Also it apparently has open-gate which would be a game changer... stay tuned folks!
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Davide DB reacted to MrSMW in Canon USA drops new teaser (FX30 competitor?)
Cue all those who recently made, ‘Why I moved to Lumix’ pieces on YouRube gushing over the S1II, scrabbling for a piece of the Canon pie. Or Nikon pie. There’s 24 hours between the two so plenty of time to choose which ship to jump to next.
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Davide DB reacted to Django in Canon USA drops new teaser (FX30 competitor?)
Sony rumors claim from a "rock-solid" source it's the C50, a full frame FX3 killer with R5ii sensor. If true that would basically be the R5C mk2 in an FX type body. Also Nikon is supposed to drop Nikon ZR the following day. What a time to be alive!
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Davide DB reacted to octoplex in Enshittification Full Ahead
Resolve works great on Linux. The "Studio" edition is required for some codecs. Major graphics cards all have native Linux drivers available for download.
First time Linux-Resolve set-ups will likely require some self-teaching regarding the Linux OS, but once the rush kicks in, there's no retreating from an opensource operating-system. Basically: if you know your way around a 35mm analog SLR, you're already in the prerequisite-intelligence demographic:
Other migration tips for anyone who wants to taste the Linux "rich stuff" (The Goonies - 1985):
Instead of Photoshop -> Use: Krita / Darktable / RawTherapee /Blender
Instead of Microsoft Office -> Use: Libreoffice
Instead of InDesign -> Use: Scribus
Instead of Illustrator -> Use Inkscape
Instead of Ableton Live / ProTools -> Use Bitwig Studio (not opensource) / Ardour / etc.
I use all of this Linux software, in a professional context, and haven't touched a non-Linux system for over six years (yep, I don't carry a 'smart'phone). The most effective protest against fascism / late-stage phoney-capitalism is to stop using the products of that system. Protest without action is just noise.
The greatest trick these legacy-corporations have pulled is convincing the public that there is no alternative to their slop. Even if you start simply by running Linux in parallel with your existing legacy-surveillance-OS, at least you have an exit strategy from the subscription-crackhouse that Adobe and others are running.
Don't be another node on their networked fear-grid.
Good luck!
Volkswagen / Enshittification
On the topic of VW cars (earlier in this thread): If you think VW's new subscription policy is offensive, take a look at what Volkswagen did throughout World War II.
Volkswagen built and ran Nazi concentration camps
Volkswagen routinely murdered the children of their slave-laborers. Volkswagen didn't merely collaborate with the Nazis. Volkswagen are the Nazis. VW are still genociding humanity, to this day, via faked-emissions tests (SOURCE: Scientific American).
I'm not sure if any present-day Volkswagen customer is buying these vehicles with informed consent. This photograph should, by law, be placed on the door of every VW dealership. Then customers can make an informed choice:
LEGAL: Our right to reproduce this image for critique is legally protected under the terms of 'Fair Use' enshrined in United States law (17 U.S.C. § 107). Fair Use permits the reproduction of a copyrighted work in order to criticize or comment upon it.
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Davide DB got a reaction from eatstoomuchjam in Enshittification Full Ahead
You probably didn't waste time reading the various links in the article, but I understand if you hate the person. By the way, the accusations are so serious that if they were false, they could take him to court in an instant, but let's not get into that; it's not my place to defend Cory Doctorow here.
Indeed, this statement is a bit strong and, said like that, seems absolutely false. But, following the various links to his previous articles, I believe he was referring to his old article:
Tesla sells both 60kWh and 75kWh versions of its Model S and Model X cars; but these cars have identical batteries — the 60kWh version runs software that simply misreports the capacity of the battery to the charging apparatus and the car’s owner.
https://memex.craphound.com/2017/09/10/teslas-demon-haunted-cars-in-irmas-path-get-a-temporary-battery-life-boost/
BTW, you were complaining that all of this has nothing to do with my initial post. It absolutely does. In both cases, there's a distortion of the concept of property.
In the first case, the major music labels do you the favor of letting you listen to "their" music.
In the case Andrew cited, Bloomberg claims to have the copyright even on a POTUS speech.
In the magical world of subscription, you don't own a f*** thing and they can revoke everything at any moment. In all cases, you are only enabled to consume.
Maybe it's too left-wing? And yet the strong concept of private property and possession of a good doesn't come from there.
Ciao
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Davide DB reacted to Andrew Reid in Enshittification Full Ahead
I think more than ever there is a power struggle between the law and corporations, we'd do well to keep an eye on that - since most of the normal rules which keep companies in check like product and competition are becoming less of a factor. We have quite a few duopolies, even monopolies in many markets and in many countries.
What the corporate bastards have also realised, is that since the pandemic they are able to act like a cartel with patterns of cartel-like behaviour like all of them raising prices in unison and creating exclusivity of market share for themselves, and also making the consumer increasingly dependant on tech as a service... Less of a product, more of an app or a cloud based service. The pandemic accelerated all of this.
And that of course is where all the recent subscription bullshit comes in.
But of the two quite different topics raised in this thread...
I am way more worried about the abuse of the legal system to stifle journalism.
The companies in question are Nvidia and Universal Records.
I suggest to think twice before handing them your hard earned.
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Davide DB reacted to Andrew Reid in Enshittification Full Ahead
As with the fair use copyright strikes there needs to be a layer of legal protection for the smaller guy who doesn't have access to lawyers. Before the lawyers get involved, a judge should be able to quickly throw out spurious BS cases.
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Davide DB got a reaction from Andrew Reid in Enshittification Full Ahead
The pattern is always the same: silencing those who are inconvenient to you through supposed copyright violations or lawsuits, knowing full well that 99% of the time, the people affected don't have the means or the funds to defend themselves.
This is also a classic pattern in journalism here in The Banana Republic Of Italy. The big company or industrial group, or even the wealthy politician, sues the journalist. Anyway, they have a host of lawyers already on salary, and even if they lose the lawsuit, the amount doesn't even slightly affect their budget.
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Davide DB reacted to Jahleh in Nikon Zr is coming
Being happy in whatever camp is important. With Nikon and it’s lens options it can get expensive and out of hands quickly😆
Got 135 f1.8 Plena in the Spring, to prevent any ideas of changing back to Panny or Canon.
The Z6iii firmware was also updated at the same time, and need of NR in low light was gone, as was the flickering.
Not sure Panny has something like the Plena. Shooting with that is a pleasure always, and it takes good photos too.
Found also a used 400mm f4.5 before the price hike, and now I am quite firmly in the Nikon camp. Been shooting all year mostly N-Raw, to see how much space it takes. Editing N-Raw is quite easy now with M3 max 128GB and 3x4TB Nvme’s. No complaints about the DR and just happy about the results IQ wise.
Hope the ZR is not too big step up from Z6iii, as this shift to Nikon has cost some already😂
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Davide DB reacted to eatstoomuchjam in Enshittification Full Ahead
Yes, but as long as some people still buy VW and some people buy the upgrade, other car manufacturers will be inspired to do the same. This is how the enshittification race to the bottom works.
It used to be that if I bought a plane ticket on any airline, I got a checked bag for free. Not only that, but overhead space was plentiful and I could be a bit chill about boarding the plane. Then one airline started charging for checked bags. When people didn't stop flying with them, the other airlines followed suit. After all, people are apparently willing to accept a shittier flying experience. Now checked bags cost money and overhead space is crammed full which makes me one of the annoying boarding buzzards circling around the boarding stanchions so that I can be sure to get on in time to put my camera bag above me and not get into an argument with the boarding agent about whether I'm going to gate check it (and no, gate agent, I cannot relocate all of the lithium batteries into my other much smaller "personal item" that goes under the seat in front of me).
Anyway, the shrugging and accepting it is basically what is at the core of enshittification.
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Davide DB reacted to eatstoomuchjam in Enshittification Full Ahead
Volkswagen are now selling you the whole car, but requiring a subscription to get the full performance of it. 🤮
https://fortune.com/2025/08/19/volkswagen-horsepower-subscription-economy-cost-features/
(Relevant to enshittification, not to copyright strikes)
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Davide DB reacted to Andrew Reid in Enshittification Full Ahead
Absolute scumbag behaviour from these American corporate fascists.
The law and YouTube needs to stand up and say... enough.
You should not be able to abuse so many innocent people via the legal system.
It's all fair use.
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Davide DB reacted to ND64 in Nikon Zr is coming
But Redcode is 16 bit. Overkill for a sensor with 12 stop of DR. And I'm not sure Expeed 7 can handle that.
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Davide DB reacted to Emanuel in How both mirrorless and POV action camera worlds can match to each other in 2025...
The new GO Ultra (vs the previous GO 3S) as well more footage and 18:49 review here (in Spanish).
The 1/1.28 X5 sensor on 156º i.e. 35mm (FF) equivalent to 14mm lens.
Amazing performance to say the least. Let alone the low light use per se.
It's just now wait for the Nano by DJI and see what mandatory purchase pops up ;- )
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Davide DB reacted to ND64 in Nikon Zr is coming
They didn't use the full potential of that sensor in Z6iii. It can output two images per frame, one at first base ISO and one at second base ISO. Then the processor can combine them to achieve near 14 stop of DR. But as its 2x data, it takes longer to read out, hence the slow read out of S1ii when DR Boost is ON. Either Nikon's Expeed processor isn't capable enough for that task, or they didn't find that rolling shutter effect acceptable, or its a feature that needs premium license they didn't bother to pay.
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Davide DB reacted to Emanuel in 10-bit DJI Osmo 360 is here at last – new release date or for official announcement: July 31
Worth a look. Part I.
Without reframe — so far available on DJI Studio at least (video here) — will look like crap (versus Insta360 X5 with correction in-camera).
source
And now Part II... Imagine it now coupled to a new tool like this one:
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Davide DB reacted to Trankilstef in Fuuuuuuuuuuck A.I.
This is my presentation page on the website of the agency that represent me : https://bangger.com/realisateur/stephane-tranquillin/
I have other works I can't show or that aren't released yet, including some for major brands (French car brands, TV documentaries, etc).
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Davide DB reacted to QuickHitRecord in Fuuuuuuuuuuck A.I.
I agree, but if you're trying to make a living doing this, those were a lot of billable hours that are not going to be available anymore.
I had a potential client reach out about a project and I sent her a quote. I never heard back and later saw on their socials an AI version of said project.
I'd like to hear more about your experience because I can't quite grasp what the revision process would be like. I assume that you adjust your prompts based on client feedback, but does the client ever tell you exactly what prompts to use? And rather than trying to communicate their ideas, do they ever just generate their own AI imagery? At that point, I think I might have a difficult time justifying why I would still need to be involved.
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Davide DB reacted to QuickHitRecord in Fuuuuuuuuuuck A.I.
Last month, I officially lost my first (as far as I know) video job to AI. I'm sure it won't be the last.
