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I was also about to post about Chimp Empire which I watched after that recommendation!
Also, I haven't seen all of King Coal yet, but the trailer and various clips that I've seen from it looked great.  The C70 is also pretty affordable nowadays, as things go.  Is it the sharpest camera on the market?  Nope.  You can always rent it, though, to see if it meets your needs.
As far as lenses for the C70, instead of buying the latest shiny RF glass, you could also consider permanently affixing Canon's 0.71x focal reducer and using EF glass which is plentiful on the used market and very good.
If you're focused on Canon, you could also look at the original R5 which is now available used for about $2,000 and has a nice 8k raw image.
I'd also say that, had you not already said you're using the DJI Pocket 3, it would have been my first suggestion...  or maybe my second suggestion after an iPhone 16 Pro (or whatever the latest fancy Android phone with a great camera is, probably a Samsung something-or-others).  The iPhone can put out some really nice-looking ProRes log footage and it's one of the few cameras out there which will work well in every scenario you mentioned - whereas the C70 is not fantastic in low light and unless you buy a housing costing as much as the camera, won't work well after you submerge it in the water.
Working on technique and editing/storytelling is going to do a lot more for your overlanding vlogs than buying $10,000 in gear...  venture4wd, one of the most popular overlanding YouTubers uses a combination of action cameras and a Panasonic - I think an S5 II?  And he didn't upgrade to the Panasonic until his channel was already big.

It's a combination of things. The sensors, processing, better processing due to bigger physical size so better separate of circuit boards, protecting higher end cameras etc. 
 
But all that said, the bulk of that amazing image comes down to the workflow. Pretty much all the content you see coming off of the high end cameras are shot for movies. These movies are not only using an Arri Alexa, they are using A-list talent, the best make-up people, talented DPs with the best lights, diffusion, camera filters etc. They are also using very very expensive lenses and filtratration. Then the final images are sent to very expensive post houses for color correction, grading, and sometimes exclusive film emulation. 
All that to say that yes, the expensive cameras are genuinely better than current more affordable offerings. But, they aren't as much better as you might think. The whole workflow of talent from A-Z is what makes a gorgeous image, not just the camera. 

I reckon Sony / Leica pair-up does have a nice ring to it doesn't it?
It's a Sony sensor they are using anyway so may as well cut out the middle man.
It's most likely more cost effective to do this as well?
Sony could build a very nice Leica Q, as they already have done similar cameras with the RX1 series.
Sony would not cannibalise Leica's L-mount lenses with their own range either.
It would be bad for Panasonic.
But then Panasonic are more committed to green energy like batteries and digging up all the lithium for them in epic quantities.
Truly a planet saving initiative.

Yeah, and he will be saying that the amount of people who are riding round Japan on these e-bikes means that they are making far more dosh designing appropriately sized panniers and baskets to be arsed about designing new appropriately sized MFT cameras.

There are rumours that Leica are unhappy with Panasonic and might scope out a deal with Sony in future.
Leica own the rights to L-mount so they can keep that and still go Sony, they don't have to take E-mount as well.
Panasonic of all the camera companies aside from OM Shit and Ricohdear are most in danger of being really on the rocks.
Like I say just one activist shareholder away from being less of a sentimental business.
Less of an enthusiast enterprise, more of a topic of euthanasia.

As the OM-3 is now on camerasize.com, this is the OM-1, OM-3 and OM-5 compared (weights are around 600g, 500g and 410g):

Yes, but I think Andrew is right, OM is rummaging the basement retrieving the last designs left by the original Olympus team and occasionally combing through and polishing old products here and there. For this lens they only managed to make the stabilization compatible with their camera bodies (!) and little more. It's amazing, they redesigned the tripod collar, WOW.  Farewell Olympus, it's a shame because especially in wildlife photography they have a very solid user base. In this field, small, lightweight, high-performance cameras and lenses really make a difference.

I guess the other two lens upgrades you are talking about are these:
https://www.dpreview.com/news/9864806631/om-system-updates-17mm-and-25mm-f1-8-lenses-for-micro-four-thirds
Small updates with adding weather proofing. Am glad that OM is not just releasing bodies but doing "something" for their lenses too. But it's very minimal. 
  
Is interesting what happened with sony vaio laptops vs what happened with IBM's Thinkpads when they sold them off
Would be worthy of a Masters' dissertation or a research paper to dig deeply into how differently each of these two went, and others in related areas like Olympus vs OM
  
Or a Fujifilm X-M5 / X-T50 or Zfc with an APS-C sensor for way less money. 
  
That thinking really doesn't work when you could just buy a Panasonic GH7 for the same price, or a G9 II for a lot less, or a secondhand OG G9 for waaaaay less. And still be using your MFT lenses. 
 
 

Yup! I went to a meetup last night and to take pictures of the speakers I just simply brought along my compact Fujfilm camera with a Siru 23mm f1.2 on it and a Viltrox 56mm f1.7 slipped into my pocket! So easy to bring along. 

In addition to the camera, three lenses were upgraded. Version II of their 100-400 zoom lens was introduced, which I was very interested in. I currently use the Lumix version a lot which is a terrible lens. Optically it is good for its price but can only be used with AF. the zoom and focus rings are practically unusable. impossible to get smooth movement, the plastic creaks and they go jerky.
The optical quality of the new 100-400 OM zoom is the same as the old version (mediocre lens) but the big difference is in the stabilization: the first version had practically no stabilization because it did not communicate with the camera. This version interfaces with the camera's stabilization but... (the devil is in the details) the synchronization works only on OM bodies and not on Lumix cameras. Damn them forever!
This is yet more proof of the uselessness of the M43 alliance. What is the point if the lenses and camera bodies are not 100% compatible among the various companies in the consortium? It really sucks, and despite investing heavily in the M43 system, I hope they fail permanently. Damn them!
 

In addition to the camera, three lenses were upgraded. Version II of their 100-400 zoom lens was introduced, which I was very interested in. I currently use the Lumix version a lot which is a terrible lens. Optically it is good for its price but can only be used with AF. the zoom and focus rings are practically unusable. impossible to get smooth movement, the plastic creaks and they go jerky.
The optical quality of the new 100-400 OM zoom is the same as the old version (mediocre lens) but the big difference is in the stabilization: the first version had practically no stabilization because it did not communicate with the camera. This version interfaces with the camera's stabilization but... (the devil is in the details) the synchronization works only on OM bodies and not on Lumix cameras. Damn them forever!
This is yet more proof of the uselessness of the M43 alliance. What is the point if the lenses and camera bodies are not 100% compatible among the various companies in the consortium? It really sucks, and despite investing heavily in the M43 system, I hope they fail permanently. Damn them!
 

Canon now has an Only Fans page.

I'm pretty dubious about all of that!

I'm not so sure about the low light 'big advantage'.  Yes, the 12,800 ISO base is going to be a fantastic feature, but the C70 is already a fantastic camera in low light because of the rich inky blacks you get with DGO.  You're essentially getting an additional exposure at the shadow level and (with the great dynamic range) you get fantastic low-light imagery.  This was actually a key factor that made me buy the camera in the first place.
I film in subterranean poorly-lit locations with the C70 all the time, and it is brilliant for those kind of scenarios.  Unlike the cameras that have to crank up ISO (like the A7S derived Sonys) you get great highlight control alongside rich shadows.
The C400 (albeit pre-production at this stage) looks noisy and thin by comparison.
Also - when do you ever actually shoot at 12,800 ISO?  Like I say, I shoot in dark spaces very often, but never require that kind of facility.  Don't get me wrong - it's a nice feature to have, and might come in handy here and there.  But it isn't a key feature in my books, almost always makes things look unnatural, and you are going to be better off with DGO in most situations.

I'm talking here as someone who is likely to buy the C400 and is excited by it, so I'm not trying to rubbish the sensor tech and implimentation (which is the same as the C80). 

C70 is soft by design, just like many high-end cinema cameras.  Its a point of preference really, and not something that needs to 'fixed' in my view.  I'm looking forward to being able to choose between softer (doc and fiction) and sharper (corporate / client work).

You don't lose a stop of light between sensor sizes.  Speedboosters work in a unique way to refocus light, which is where the stop gain comes from.  
I notice that the C80 has SDI though - that is another differentiator from the C70 (HDMI only).

I guess there are more Lumix updates:
Actually, I'm quite happy about having some of those features. In particular, I'm very interest in trying out the mp4 Lite and hybrid zoom; the later is a feature is a unique selling point. Cool.
Quick question: would Sony, Canon, or Nikon have released this firmware or would they have released a new camera?

Potato AI.

It's definitely improved for very short takes.  While I didn't watch the whole thing, the bits I skipped around to see were all very short clips.  Anyplace with letters was also a give-away (the wording on the truck).  I also wonder how many "takes" they had to do of each clip to get one that looked good and where the physics were mostly realistic.  I saw a few clips that seemed in the "weird physics" space - that continues to be a major weakness of AI-generated video.
But the main thing that could still slow down the enshittification of everything through AI is that AI-generated material is still not able to be copyrighted - at least not in the US.  How long that lasts before the shitheads in Congress/Senate/Presidency "fix" it?  Unknown.

I am not suggesting they do it because it'd kill M43 dead and it'd mean starting from scratch, but they could in theory release 4/3 sensor cameras and lenses that would cover them for L-Mount. Again, not suggesting it, but I also can't say that I wouldn't be intrigued. I miss the small M43 lenses, but it's a really hard sell to re-invest in M43 and have two different systems.
I too also always thought it was weird that they didn't have a M43 crop mode on their full frame lenses. Not that I would use it a ton, but there are times when I would (that extra reach would be wonderful) and there really isn't a reason NOT to include it.

The great David Lynch passed away. Here's a trailer of one of my favorite films he made:
More recently, he made his weather reports... I'm thinking of a long, long joke, but I'm sure it gave him a good reason to make something (wish I could do that sometimes).
He will be missed.

They will indeed say nothing about Panasonic. But we all know the SL3S is just going to be a rebadged Lumix camera. 
That it's relatively easy to reverse engineer the logic to conclude we'll probably see the Panasonic version of the SL3 released six-ish months later. 

Well, my little black X-M5 finally arrived from Japan and wow, it’s tiny. Had some fun rigging it up as a tiny little micro cinema cam today LOL. USB C dummy battery arrives tomorrow and a couple little accessories to mount the Ninja V+ in a way that doesn’t look too ridiculous. Only complaint so far is the smallrig cage for it is a little overpriced and doesn’t come in all black. Just the strange steampunk looking retro vibes. 
 

Keep in mind that you're comparing an outlier low price on a used camera (at least in the US, going rate for a used GFX 100 in good condition is closer to $3k) to MSRP on a brand new camera that many people purchase as much as a lifestyle/fashion item as they do for any other reason.  Most of the people who buy an X100 VI would be better off just spending the money on the latest iPhone Pro if they don't already have it.  It'll look just as good for most of their use case, give them an integrated wide angle and telephoto option, and it can use apps to post directly to their social media platforms of choice.  😅
I can also say that after years of travel and trying to fit the GFX 100 into various smaller camera bags, the size of the GFX 100 II was a major selling point for me.

This looks like such an amazing little camera! I might just pick one up.
 

Well if comparing the S1R to the SL2, the SL2 had the arguably slightly better build by all accounts, (not that the S1R was shabby by any means), plus the badge and a nicer looking body, but otherwise, pretty much the same thing. Just half the price. And with a multi-angle rear screen vs the flat back of the camera which for my work is terrible.
I can't see any future S2R simply being a rebadged SL3 though, but I would be pretty stoked if it was as I'd love an SL3 other than on price.
It's probably the perfect camera for my needs as in:
Want, but can't afford a Hassie X2D, never mind the cost of the system with lenses.
Like the idea of a Fuji X100 but don't care for the lenses.
Like my A7RV and the lenses, but would rather have all 3 of my cameras within the same system for cross compatibility and my video needs are served with 2 LUMIX cameras and various lenses...so an S2R makes a whole load of sense to me!
 

MotionCam Pro app is a great step for smartphone pro usage with RAW capabilities on Android. Imagine it with a better design than standard smartphone and a gate for lenses.