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    Davide DB reacted to eatstoomuchjam in Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4k G2 - now shipping   
    If your budget is decent, the Canon R5 is really not much larger to begin with when compared with the Sigma fp, does decent 12-bit raw internally, and has a decent flippy screen.  By the time the fp is rigged to do 12-bit raw (and you add a small grip so you can actually hold the thing!), it’s already about the same size as the R5 (and still has a fixed screen).  It’s one of the reasons I sold my fp and fp-l and kept my R5.  Sometimes I thought about shoving the fp into a small space without a screen to get something, but then I remembered there’s no built-in wifi and by the time you add even the smallest cineeye/hollyland transmitter to it, it’s… about the same size as the R5.  😛

    If the new BMMCC 4K can do monitoring over wifi to a phone and can do 12-bit raw to a really small external SSD (like a Sabrent Nano or something), it could work well for that kind of thing.  If not, by the time you add an external screen (even the VL35) and small SSD, you have a kit about the size of an R5 (with worse ergonomics).
    (With that said, your computer’s likely to be able to edit raw from the BMMCC a lot more smoothly than from the R5 - my M2 Max is just barely tolerable with R5 stuff in Resolve)
    Also, I’d add in (though I haven’t used) a hacked EOS M as an option for a teeny tiny camera that can record raw internally.  From what I remember, it can do some sort of 2.5k, though that might only be in a 2.35 mode or similar.
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    Davide DB reacted to ghostwind in Nikon buys Red?   
    Dunno what tests those were, but I've shot in all formats on my Z9s, and N-RAW is definitely better than H265. More latitude, less/no NR, less/no sharpening, etc. Not to mention, of course, the freedom to change WB and exposure in Resolve in post.
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    Davide DB reacted to ac6000cw in Nikon buys Red?   
    I doubt it - for example, AFAIK including MPEG/AVC/HEVC in a product requires license fees to be paid to the patent holders (normally via a patent pool licensing organization). As end users we don't usually see those fees directly, because they are paid by the companies selling the products i.e. the fees are included in the purchase price.
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    Davide DB reacted to ac6000cw in Nikon buys Red?   
    intoPIX and Fraunhofer IIS are the two major contributors to the JPEG XS patent pool - https://www.jpegxspool.com/ and https://www.jpegxspool.com/s/JPEG-XS-Patent-Pool-Licensed-Patents-01-Oct-2023.pdf  and https://www.tinynews.be/jpeg-xs-intopix-belgique/
    As JPEG XS uses a wavelet transform, there is a reasonable chance TicoRAW uses a wavelet transform in its implementation, especially as JPEG XS has built-in support for RAW Bayer/CFA images - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XS#Sensor_compression
    But as intoPIX is a developer of video compression technology, TicoRAW unlikely to be "just another branded version of something that someone else wrote."
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    Davide DB reacted to Andrew Reid in Nikon buys Red?   
    Jarred Land speaks out about the Nikon buyout here:
    The question is.... is he sticking around at the helm, or will Nikon replace him?
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    Davide DB reacted to Andrew Reid in Nikon buys Red?   
    Mark my words TicoRAW is a dead dodo
    Nikon is all about R3D from now on and it will be on all their cameras in place of N-RAW which is going away.
    I don't know if it has already been mentioned earlier in the thread but Adobe has already put on hold support for it.
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    Davide DB reacted to kye in Is the GX85, G7 and G85 so skilled with dynamic range?   
    I'll chime in with my usual advice about colour grading.
    The simple fact is that colour grading has a much more significant role in getting great looking images than the camera does.  I'll also re-enforce the points above that what you point the camera at is more important than anything else.
    When we look at something shot on ARRI or RED or the high end Sony cameras, the reason they look great are 70% the scene, 25% the colour grading and 5% the camera.  I know this is a bold statement, but I stand by it.
    Colour grading is the elephant in the room of all online discussions about cameras.  Everyone is looking at sample videos and going "wow, this looks great - I want to get that look without doing any colour grading or work in post at all!" and it's just not true.
    If you need more convincing, here are a few things to look at:
    The BMPCC 4K can match the Alexa almost perfectly...   So, why don't all P4K videos look as good as Netflix shows?  It's not the camera! The image from the GX85 is more flexible in post than you think...  @John Matthews I haven't forgotten about doing a follow-up with skin-tones in it. Simple colour grading > Camera colour science...  I compare a few examples of the 709 version of some professional grade images with the final colour graded image, and it's pretty obvious that the 709 version looks quite plain - a lot like the images we get when us mere mortals shoot The best film-making advice I ever got was to do with colour grading, but it helped me improve my shooting, editing, sound design, etc etc, the whole lot. Here are a bunch of GX85 shots SOOC that I took in Korea last year..  this just goes to show you that not only is the GX85 a very capable camera, but that it's the subject that you put in front of it that really makes the difference.  Of course, colour grading will elevate these beyond that level. High-end TV shows and movies look nothing like the standard images out of a camera... In this thread I compare some standard images from ARRI with real images from TV shows and movies and it's pretty obvious that not only are the colours significantly changed, the real images aren't sharp and clean like the videos that camera YT seems to idolise.  The goal isn't technical purity, the goal is creativity, and this means taking your sharp and clean images and giving them some character.   I could go on (many will wholeheartedly agree on this!) but long story short...  the camera is a minor part of the journey that the image takes from finding / creating something cool to point it at, to all the work done in post.
    Also, learn to edit.  Well edited bad-quality clips are better than boring high-quality images every time.
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    Davide DB reacted to fuzzynormal in Is the GX85, G7 and G85 so skilled with dynamic range?   
    I don't know what's going on in your world, but I can tell you it doesn't matter how you fiddle the menu on a camera that leads to good shots.
    All the real work that happens with a good shot starts outside of the camera.  The camera is honestly one of the LAST things you should fret about.
    I swear to God, you can be a better shooter by visiting a museum full of Romanticism Artistic movement paintings.
    Study how light affects a scene, and you'll become a more sophisticated videograper that way.
    If you can't train yourself to "see light" you're always gonna struggle.
    I'm not being flippant here.  It's the cheat-code.  Skip all the tech BS and learn light.  Take a classic art appreciation class.  Learn composition skills.  These are the things that actually make a difference.  Train your eye to be a shooter and a person that can paint with light. 
    Sure, you can be a pixel nerd, but that has a low ceiling of accomplishment and, honestly, advanced tech makes those acomplishments not a big deal to begin with.
    And look, when you study art, you'll learn more about the human condition along the way, maybe even some philosophy.  Win-win.
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    Davide DB reacted to MrSMW in Nikon Z6III is coming.. as mini Z8   
    You can adapt pretty much adapt anything and everything to Z Mount except L Mount and even convert what are otherwise manual focus Leica lenses to become AF lenses.
    OK, regarding the latter, it's not amazing AF, but at least something...though not something that especially interests me and I prefer the native manual focus options for Z that were previously primarily L Mount only, from Voigtlander.
    E Mount lenses on Z bodies with an ultra thin adapter is great though! Nikon have a range of 'native' lenses that are essentially rebranded older gen Tamron E Mount lenses, but I prefer the newer gen myself.
     
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    Davide DB reacted to ac6000cw in Nikon Z6III is coming.. as mini Z8   
    I think it's because Z-mount has the shortest flange to sensor distance of the common mirrorless mounts. So it's possible to make a (2mm thick!) E-mount to Z-mount adaptor e.g. the Megadap one, but not the other way round.
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    Davide DB reacted to Danyyyel in Nikon Z6III is coming.. as mini Z8   
    Would Nikon go to such a small niche market like this, that is PL mount lens. I personally think they envision a Sony like lineup from red in the future. Option one would be to start just above the z9 price bracket with a new Komodo directly in competition with the Sony FX6. A 6k global shutter camera with a video camera form factor with XLR input, timecode etc. but this time it would include Nikon super good autofocus, Stabilization, CFexpress memory, Z mount and if possible internal ND. I don't know if their is enough space for the later. 
    This type of camera, will be the type of high volume camera, that Nikon can use to make with little change some Cine like Z mount lens, because lets not forget, while the Z mount are the most adaptable lens mount, the Z lens are the least because of this.  
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    Davide DB got a reaction from IronFilm in Leica SL3... the Panasonic S1R mk2 is coming soon?   
    My signature in another forum is: "your new gear will not make you produce any better art than you already do"
    Maybe it was something someone wrote here years ago. I only i could remember, I would credit him 
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    Davide DB reacted to Tim Sewell in A couple of firsts   
    The biggest thing for me, using it, is the realisation that a huge proportion of the features we pay extra for in hybrid cameras are really just workarounds for the problems caused by using a completely inappropriate form factor for shooting video.
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    Davide DB reacted to MrSMW in Leica SL3... the Panasonic S1R mk2 is coming soon?   
    Same for a lot of us, ie, more idle chat and musing than anything.
    Some folks immediately think that because you have an interest in such things, you are unhappy with your current situation and simply believe ‘The Next Thing’ will fix all your issues.
    I don’t think that is so much the case here where a lot of our musings are more, “if I was not invested in X, I might be looking at Y or Z” and nothing wrong with that in my book!
    And ultimately it’s all harmless!
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    Davide DB reacted to IronFilm in Leica SL3... the Panasonic S1R mk2 is coming soon?   
    Panasonic does tend to implement and do video a bit better in their versions of the cameras than Leica's 
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    Davide DB reacted to kye in Leica SL3... the Panasonic S1R mk2 is coming soon?   
    Greater resolution comes at the expense of every other spec.
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    Davide DB reacted to MrSMW in Leica SL3... the Panasonic S1R mk2 is coming soon?   
    The S1R and the SL2 are the more stills focused units and perhaps the SL3 and any S2R will also be leaving the option for lower res more video focused versions?
    Full frame 6k 50/60p over 8k 25/30p internal all day for me.
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    Davide DB got a reaction from Thpriest in Leica SL3... the Panasonic S1R mk2 is coming soon?   
    Well I hope these are not the features of the future Lumix FF flagship.
    The specifications for the video look very basic. 8K@30p 10 bit but only 4:2:0 internally.
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    Davide DB got a reaction from PannySVHS in Leica SL3... the Panasonic S1R mk2 is coming soon?   
    Well I hope these are not the features of the future Lumix FF flagship.
    The specifications for the video look very basic. 8K@30p 10 bit but only 4:2:0 internally.
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    Davide DB got a reaction from IronFilm in Nikon buys Red?   
    It is economy of scale, baby!
    I see nothing mysterious in this. Nikon just before the move to mirroless was almost given up for dead (it had just lost a very important piece of its business in lithography of electronic components). Now it's out of the picture, but I don't think its Z line has changed things all that much.
    So in a very high-tech market with a very small (declining) number of units sold, it is increasingly difficult to find the funds for the necessary technological investments. Sony has a diversified business and can rely on revenues and technologies from so many other markets.
    Red in my opinion did not fare any better. It remained a mystery to me how such a small company could make a living in this industry. Where was it getting the money for technology investments. By the way, in Europe Red was getting progressively gnawed off the market by Arri.
    So big fish eat little fish. It's a win-win deal for both of them even while keeping their respective brands separate.
    The exchange of technologies will be there. Even without fantasy Red by Nikon stickers or the like.
    Nikon acquires several patents and technology (raw and global shutter) and enters the cinema market.
    Red accesses Nikon's technology and more of its production capacity.
    If in a few years we essentially have a Nikon camera inside a Red cube marked Red no one will ever know. Then of course there are a whole series of probable ripple effects in the patent war and on trade agreements with other brands.
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    Davide DB reacted to mercer in Nikon buys Red?   
    Here's an interesting video regarding the purchase...
    For those that don't have the time, or inclination, to watch, he basically says that this purchase was so Nikon could get into the high end cinema market. He also claims it has nothing to do with the patent, but then kinda contradicts himself. Either way, it's a breakdown of what probably occurred over the past 2 years between Red and Nikon...
    Trigger Warning: if you despise Red and believe their patent is complete BS, then you may want to skip this video.
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    Davide DB reacted to kye in Nikon buys Red?   
    It's definitely cute, but I think it's probably not good.
    I couldn't find any reviews or sample images, so I suspect it might even be a low-res sensor that just upscales to 44M in software.  It's probably the same sensor and firmware as those first generation 40+MP smartphones.  If retro is in, then a bit of blur is part of the style, not a failure of lens design or MTF curves!
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    Davide DB reacted to kye in Nikon buys Red?   
    We all know the camera and imaging industry is being disrupted heavily, first with the move to digital that sunk Kodak, then with smartphones slowly eating the whole industry from the bottom up, and now right at the start of generative AI.  In situations like this market consolidation is an enormous game of 9-dimensional chess, so this move will be the result of more analysis than a person could read in a week, even if we had post-graduate qualifications in corporate law, economics, and accounting.
    It's not like Nikon was sitting on a huge pile of cash to begin with - in this phase of a market disruption where the manufacturers are literally fighting to stay alive if this wasn't a great match for the two companies across many/most factors then it will be a mistake that might cost them everything.
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    Davide DB reacted to Marcio Kabke Pinheiro in Nikon buys Red?   
    Would be funny if the Z-mount Komodo gets launched as NIKOMODO.
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    Davide DB reacted to ac6000cw in Nikon buys Red?   
    I agree - the RED cinema cameras will keep the RED branding - it would be silly to dilute/erase the RED brand image.
    (pure speculation) From a branding point of view, maybe Nikon might add some subsidiary RED branding to few video-orientated hybids e.g. 'RED Cinema' or 'Video by RED', in the way Panasonic and Sony use the Leica and Zeiss branding on some products?
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