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I've just saw this video that shows very well what's going on with these settings.
Enable English subtitles and then it's straightforward.
NR01=1 effectively improve the image details but you are forced to use a denoiser (he uses Resolve temporal denoiser).
LOGB=400 doesn't add any improvement.
Just jump to 1'42"
 
 

Yes, I acquired the a7siii when it first came out for its video features. It was the best option, then. As soon as the fx3 was introduced I traded. The fx3 was clearly superior as a video tool, even without the updates.
I agree not upgrading the a7siii is deliberate marketing. But if the new features of the fx3 are important and one's profession is video it seems odd to not trade up.
If a professional hangs on to the a7siii, then it is actually clear the new features are unimportant to her. The trade up cost is a tax-reducing investment and is a trivial expense, again, for a professional making a living based on video quality.
Just whining is not professional. Worse are those who say they will never buy Sony again over this. That is surely not professional.

Even the 14-42mm PZ is really compact when not in use and it's very cheap. That small extra tele could be useful too. There's even a cheaper rebranded version on Aliexpress.

It's more than just a legacy thing. Canon & Nikon at the DSLR height really took care of their customers with loyalty programs, pro services etc. For major sporting events they have their infamous stockpile rooms available to sponsored photogs:

 
Canon I feel go a step further and since they have the cine line offer services at their Burbank facility in LA. Here in Paris, if I have an issue I can call and meet someone. Nikon used to have a walk-in office Boulevard Beaumarchais, as well as the Nikon School. They do have Nikon Plaza now in the 6ème, pretty cool location too with interesting events and of course the Nikon Film Festival which has become a huge thing in France.
Leica are on a similar but different path. Much more intimate. You have official boutiques in every major city. The staff there are extremely knowledgeable and passionate and every shop has their own certified Leica engineer in his white lab coat. Its not just for show as he will fix your camera on the spot. It's basically the traditional experience you'd get at a high-end watchmaker or hand tailor.

This type of service to me is invaluable and definitely builds a human connection with the company and hence, loyalty.
Sony I'm afraid has nothing of the sort AFAIK. You have an issue, you file a ticket online and have to send the camera/lens back to some warehouse in the Netherlands, if they even accept your claim (I've had mine rejected, no dispute possible).
Imaging is just a fraction of their other core businesses. What they have been very strong at, is social media presence, especially YouTube. They keep converting influencers by basically buying them out, luring them to exotic locations for camera releases and then making deals with them. Its fair business I guess but a little disheartening. I've had several Canon shooters I follow switch overnight, no real explanation.
Anyways, I am a Sony shooter. Not really by choice but because the industry basically demands it. They make good products no doubt, lousy policies though. Its strictly business to them, zero customer care. So yeah, loyalty wise its no surprise people dip in & out with them. My $0.02c.

I'm into the edit from my last trip.
Putting everything on the timeline results in a 5h22m sequence.  Resolve interprets still images as a single frame, so they aren't padding out the edit time.  My first pass, where I pull in just the good bits of the clips got it down to 1h35m.  
The way I edit is to use markers to separate locations and sequences within a location, which lets me organise the footage (Resolve isn't great if you're shooting on multiple cameras without timecode, so things are often out-of-order).  For example, we went to an aquarium and saw the otters getting fed, saw the sharks getting fed, etc.  In a sense, each of these is like a little story, and for each one I have to establish the scene, then have some sort of progression in the sequence that addresses the "who was there", "what did they do", and "what happened" sort of questions.
I've identified over 40 location markers and over 40 sequence markers within those locations.  Some locations only had one sequence, but others were full day-trips and had a dozen seperate sequences.  That's over 80 stories!
My next steps are to work out which stories get cut completely, then to confirm the overall style of the edit.  My challenge is always how to get from one location to another and establish the change.  I typically shoot lots of clips when walking, on buses / trains / taxis, etc for this purpose.
As it was South Korea, known for K-pop, K-dramas, and the super-Kute things (their reality TV has lots of overlays like question-marks when people are confused or exploding emojis when people are surprised), I'm contemplating a super-cute style with lots of overlays, perhaps using animated title-cards that show where we are and what we're doing.  This would be an alternative style of establishing the location.  I could even have little pics of who was there (sometimes the kids came with us and sometimes not).
Then I'll identify the best shots from each sequence, which other shots are required to tell the story, and then cull the rest. Normally that shrinks the timeline significantly again.

Did you try adding “Cinematic vs iPhone vs ARRI vs Full Frame smash that like button buy my LUT that I created with ChatGPT should you still buy this vintage one year old camera in 2023” to your search term ?
A lot of stuff gets lost because people are trying to create titles that incorporate the phrases du jour that they hope will get them up the search rankings.
“Avoid these five scams when using the GH6 for stealth van life with otters” etc
From what I’ve seen, the “GH6 vs xyz” is the richest seam to mine as at least you get comparative stuff against known entities like the P4K etc.

Never without it when shooting under tropical sun
 

Never without it when shooting under tropical sun
 

Here is a video showing ways to install and use AgX in Resolve:
 
It's free and open source.  The way it attenuates saturation in the highlights is similar to what Arri does in-camera (and similar to film emulsion).  I think that AgX additionally reduces saturation in the shadows.
If you have suffered "rat piss yellow" and "nuclear cyan" in the brighter/highlight areas, it might be good to try AgX.  After using the related Filmic RGB module in Darktable, I want to go back and regrade all my images with AgX/Filmic. 

Not that daft an idea… In 30+ Celsius direct Summer sun when a camera is going to be on a tripod for say 30+ minutes, I often drape a white cloth over it simply to avoid some of that direct sun heat.
Otherwise, working typically May-Sep in mostly SW France in mostly 30+ Celsius, absolutely no way I will ever work with a camera without a fan ever again as every single one to date, HAS overheated mid job.
If I was a Sony shooter, I’d have no problem using this new kid on a gimbal for limited use…but then why when Sony offer much cheaper alternatives that would do that job as equally well

Is that a real product? 
Edit: it is, I'll be damned!

Sony missed a huge opportunity here - could've added some front facing cooling fans for that sexy "hair in the wind" look for vloggers and solved the overheating issue.

I was talking to a friend this morning who started out planning to be a YouTuber but ended up doing actual paid work and losing interest in YouTube. He's a Sony user and he gave me a different perspective for why this camera sucks and it is a pretty simple one: given it's limitations it can't grow with you.
His first paid jobs were because people knew he did "that YouTube stuff" and they wondered if he could film something for them. He was of course stoked about it, but ended up having a problem: his A7iii was good for his YouTube channel but the 30 minute record limit didn't cut it for the theater productions he was asked to film. Suddenly the camera that he bought because all the YouTubers he wanted to emulate were using it, and that he bought on credit (he was 20 at the time and didn't know better), wasn't the right tool for the job. He was able to get around it when he found out the trick to remove the limit, but he still found it'd overheat sometimes. His parents eventually helped him buy an A7siii once they saw the potential in what he was doing, but it was a costly lesson. 
Obviously his experience might not be typical, but his point was that if he was just getting started now he'd probably buy this camera but end up regretting it because of it's limitations. People's intentions/priorities change over time. People buying this camera might only intend to use it for YouTube and short takes, but what happens when your co-worker offers to pay you to film their kid's play? Or you're asked to film your cousin's wedding? 
Anyway, it was an interesting perspective from someone that started out as a YouTuber that I thought I'd share.

Leadership position syndrome. Sony have become the new Canon. Little to No firmware upgrades. Heavy segmentation. Paper spec cameras that overheat. Zero regards towards criticism. 
That being I always tell people, buy a camera (or any digital product) for what it can do today. Don't expect added specs down the line, you're most likely setting yourself up for disappointment. 

I'd also argue that they've already got people's money, so they don't care. They want you to buy the next camera, not increase the value of the camera you've already bought. And it works, because more than a couple notable YouTubers ended up getting the A1 and the A7RV after selling the A7SIII, which I'm sure then influenced others to do the same since that's how it works. I just wish more people cared about this shitty behavior.

We are all adults, this has been the norm for at least 8 years now, and it will get worse and worse.
We used to talk about Web 2.0. Now it seems to me that we have gone backwards. The ease with which anyone can post his or her fart on the Internet certainly has so many positives (this place is proof of that) but it has created countless self-referential webstars looking for their own little corner in the sun. Making a comparison with cooking, the trend is in having more chefs than dineers.
Why should Amazon spend money on employees and IT infrastructure when, with the Ponzi scheme it has created, it is directly the customers who pay for it to get money to them?

Backward. Full backward.
Last week I was trying to buy a piece of gear. 
The dozens of reviews on youtube were all identical and by asking for some details it was clear that no one had actually used the item but only reviewed it quickly with the usual disclaimers "I was not paid but company X kindly sent it to me blah blah..."
when I realized they were only selling it in the U.S. I wrote to the manufacturer if there was a European warehouse.
The reply was: go ahead and buy it on Amazon USA then when you receive it do a review with BTS photos and we will refund the extra costs via Paypal.
End of sad story 

Sad but true.
I was mentioning the old Web 2.0 definition where users to interact and collaborate with each other as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community. This contrasts the first generation of Web 1.0-era websites where people were limited to viewing content in a passive manner.
Well, now everyone is chasing the dream of becoming a "Creator," and they are all so intent on generating "content" that, in many cases, the dialogue has gone to zero.
Twitter is a prime example. Everyone tweets their bullshit but rarely responds to comments but that's the way it is now on all platforms. That is why I was writing that we are back to Web 1.0.
No one is interested in interactivity anymore.
Maybe in Web 5.0 everyone will have their own A.I. that will generate bullshit for us.

Two big categories: cats & backyards 

Honestly, I don't even know what we're talking about anymore.
I am just a hobbyist who has been using a 5D Mark III with 1080p ML Raw for the past 5-6 years as I attempt to make a few short films in my spare time. I'm hardly chasing cameras. I picked up a Sigma FP a few months ago, on a whim, and I like it. It has a nice image, I can't say for sure that it's a better image than the 5D though. I assumed the 14bit color from the 5D may be evening out the playing field, but what do I know... as I said... I'm not a professional like you guys are.
I've always been a writer first, so story is the most important thing to me, but I'm not delusional enough to think I am going to sell a screenplay or make a film that will have any impact on anything. I enjoy doing it, though and I suppose there are worse things I could spend my money on.
Next year I may buy a camcorder, making movies was a lot more fun back when camcorders were the only option for zero budget filmmakers.
I will end with this, though. Since we're all being so brutally honest... none of these cameras look that good. If you're shooting with a P4K and a Sigma zoom, or a 5D3 with ML Raw... they all look amateurish. So when you guys attack other people for their choices... remember your choices probably look questionable as well.
Then again, I've never seen any of your work, so maybe you guy's are artistic geniuses, but how could anyone know... only a few people share any of their work on this forum and when they do, the posts about the next best camera gets way more attention...
Good luck to you. 

“cinematic mode” (built in black bars feature)

2699€

I guess you are mixing output format with processing format.
From https://www.arri.com/en/learn-help/arri-camera-technology/best-overall-image-quality
 

Remember we discussed earlier that X-H2s 6.2K ProRes RAW has a hot pixel at the exact same location for everyone?
I spent days to create an executable in C++ that removes that hot pixel from the DNG raw file created from ProRes RAW.
I was just about to post it here but then I noticed that this is not a hot pixel issue at all! All pixels in the same row right from the hot pixel are shifted towards the right.
See here:

It starts with the hot pixel, and it goes all the way to the right edge.
Or here (this is the right edge of an image, you don't see the hot pixel here, it's somewhere in the middle):

 
Atomos says it's Fuji's fault, and as usual, Fuji couldn't care less.
Atomos is also silent about the framerate bug I discovered. A new firmware was released just now and it's not fixed, it's not even listed in the known bugs.
Stuff like this makes me really disillusioned.
 

Yeah it is plenty bright. I would say SmallHD is less reflective and more color accurate but you pay a premium for them. Atomos is the 2nd best in my opinion.

It might not be the right target group for those uninterested in video here.
Photo Camera Review on the other hand...
https://www.photocamerareview.com
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