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The only way for them to remedy the Z6iii sensor's flickering is using a better noise reduction. Its too late for a hardware tweak. Meanwhile I hope this rumor of Sony Semi becoming independent entity is true. 

Yesterday I watched on Sky TV the documentary Linx, a French-Swiss documentary released in January 2022, shot and directed by Laurent Geslin. It follows a lynx family in the Jura Mountains and reveals the hidden life of this elusive feline.
https://mulderville.net/en/news/5009/lynx-interview-with-director-laurent-geslin

Geslin is fascinated by all wildlife but was particularly drawn to the lynx due to its rarity and symbolism. Living near the Jura Mountains, he found it meaningful to focus on a local predator rather than traveling abroad. The lynx, reintroduced in the area to help control herbivore populations, represents successful coexistence between humans and nature.
While he has photographed many animals (including urban foxes), making a film was a new challenge. Film allows him to tell stories in ways still photography can't. The transition required adapting techniques, such as anticipating and building cinematic shots rather than capturing single moments. He already published a photographic book about the linx.
Finding and filming a wild lynx was incredibly difficult—he once spent eight months without a sighting. Lynxes are elusive and mostly nocturnal. He used lightweight gear for mobility in the mountains and learned to read animal behavior over time. All footage in Lynx features truly wild animals in their natural environment—no trained animals or artificial setups. Geslin emphasizes that the authenticity took years to achieve. Geslin hopes viewers understand the lynx’s vital ecological role. As a top predator, the lynx helps control herbivore populations, which in turn protects young forests. He sees the lynx as the “keystone” of forest health and aims to raise awareness about the importance of preserving such species.
The cinematography of the film is very beautiful. It is not cinematic in the strict sense. It has a very very natural look. The documentary has a distinctly European style that I prefer. There are no cumbersome hosts, no one is pretending to risk their lives to film the animals. No spectacularization. There is very sparse voice over and lots of natural sounds, ASMR style. I would have liked to see it in the cinema.
Geslin appears in Nikon magazines and I became curious about the equipment used. In all the interviews he tells about the enormous effort of following these animals for two years. I couldn't find direct references to the equipment used (I have great difficulty with the French language) then by chance I came across some short shorts on his YouTube channel and a Lumix appeared. I can't tell if in a photo it is a GH5S and the other one it's a Lumix FF.


If he really shot everything with Lumix cameras, I think yes yet another demonstration of what can be done with these cameras in a genre (wildlife) almost totally monopolized by Red.
Regardless of the camera used I absolutely recommend viewing.
 
 

I thought that about picking up some FX3’s and my next wedding film would look like a sequel to The Creator.
But stupidly, I stuck with my S5ii’s 😒

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Cam Mackey hears your call to action and is now working on it.

Well, the 8K sensor for the X9 is generally acknowledged as superior to the 6K one and it's (as far as almost anybody can tell) the same sensor that is used in the Panasonic S1R Mark II, a $3,300 camera.
That camera compares favorably to the EOS R5 without being enormously better.  You can get a used EOS R5 for around $2,000.
Having both an EOS R5 and both versions of the X9 (having bought the 6K and upgraded), I can safely say that the image from the EOS R5 is pretty close to the X9.
Plus if we're talking about shows on Netflix, Chimp Empire (recommended to be by another forum member here) is gorgeous.  That one was shot on the Canon C70.  Someone listed one in the local Facebook buy/sell camera group today for about $3,500.
The Creator was shown on theater screens everywhere.  It was shot on the FX3.  The Sony ZV-E1 which is available used for about $1,700 uses the same sensor.
In a recent short film contest, a film that I shot tied for best cinematography - mine was shot on a combo of Komodo-X and C70.   The one that tied it?  Shot on a Panasonic S5, a camera that is available used for about $800-900.  Even if I cared about awards, I wouldn't be upset about the tie - the other film looked great on the big screen.
So...  I'm not really sure anymore what point you're trying to make about the Ronin here.  Yes, it was used for a Netflix show.  Other high-end prosumer cameras have also been used for Netflix shows before so this isn't really novel.  Nearly every camera on the market right now is superior technically to the Red One M-X (also available for under $2,000 on the used market) - the camera used to shoot films like The Social Network, Ché, and District 9, all of which were shown on cinema screens worldwide.
All of this means it's a great time to be a filmmaker, but that's hardly unique to this one camera. 😃

For full frame, 6K and various flavors of ProRes that's a very very small number of cameras.
Even more so if the camera AND lens totals around US$10k (the 32mm Cooke lens used for the entire show costs US$4,500 brand-new; the 6K version of the camera US5k)

Does it exist a camera whose image technically falls apart nowadays? 😉
 

Just like the Zhiyun light, they will come with silly fake leather trim and Cam Mackey's name plastered over every square inch of the camera, the strap, the case, etc.  They'll also have a filter that you can't turn off that gives everything a yellow tint.  

The x model will come with a hat and it'll have built-in wheels and a special "X" button that makes the camera itself start doing sick burnouts in the sand.
There will also be a special Gerald Undone edition of both cameras that will have a special extra-super-hdr mode that increases the rolling shutter to 41.5ms.  On this model, the leatherette will be purple.
Finally, there will be a Matt Granger special pocket edition which is the same as a normal edition, but comes with some extra large pocket cargo pants.

If the rumor’s true and they’re dropping two new cameras, I’m not even that fussed about how they differ from each other. I just want to know how they plan to make them stand out from the S5II and S5IIX. How are they gonna explain that to customers? Just the 60p crop?
Seriously, how do they expect all these models to survive in a market that’s getting tighter by the minute? And it’s not like they’re Canon, Nikon, or Sony. Beats me, feels like a magic trick at this point.

I am going to predict not.
I reckon it will be S5ii spec in a Sony FX3 style body and that's about it.
Possibly a better built and beefier S9...
Interested?
'Mildly curious'. 
I have literally just finished packing up my van after updating software, resetting all the settings and clocks etc on all my kit ahead of this seasons opening event.
I have ZERO interest in changing anything until this season is done and in the bag. Mid-season changes just cause problems!

That general blackout of a couple of days ago reaching two-digit millions of people for half a day was creepy enough to say the least... First time ever in half of a century of life. We are nothing without modern life or too little. 
Looked to be part of a movie. Don't want to know what genre is.
EAG :- )

And the footage from it, when shown, also looks like all of Cam's other footage. At least now the mindless YouTube zombies won't have to write angry letters to Panasonic that they should send a camera to CM "so we can see what it can really do."

The latest rumor is they are releasing TWO cameras: S1ii and S1iix - the latter I presume more video oriented. I really hope they use the Z6iii sensor (as speculated) and that the S1iix is a more compact form factor, with no EVF, bigger fan, no IBIS and a thick OLPF.

I see you all lurking in the shadows, secretly reading the rumors, too afraid to hit “post”... 😇
In just a few days, the new Lumix FF is set to drop—and rumor has it, we’re talking cinema camera territory. The Canadian YouTubers? Already in Texas and Portugal, probably under NDAs thicker than a RED firmware update. So... are we talking or what?
Because let’s face it: after this one, it’s gonna be another six years—and at least one global event worthy of a disaster movie—before Panasonic releases their next cine cam.
Built-in ND? Or are we chasing DJI ghosts again?
Meanwhile, our cowboy filmmaker has the mystery box chilling on the hood of his pickup, right across from the light he’s testing:
 
 

This seems to be the clearest frame of it.  It's not really giving much away, though.

 

I see you all lurking in the shadows, secretly reading the rumors, too afraid to hit “post”... 😇
In just a few days, the new Lumix FF is set to drop—and rumor has it, we’re talking cinema camera territory. The Canadian YouTubers? Already in Texas and Portugal, probably under NDAs thicker than a RED firmware update. So... are we talking or what?
Because let’s face it: after this one, it’s gonna be another six years—and at least one global event worthy of a disaster movie—before Panasonic releases their next cine cam.
Built-in ND? Or are we chasing DJI ghosts again?
Meanwhile, our cowboy filmmaker has the mystery box chilling on the hood of his pickup, right across from the light he’s testing:
 
 

Does it exist a camera whose image technically falls apart nowadays? 😉
 

Just came out of watching Sinners in IMAX.
What can I say? Its a good movie, I really liked it a lot and I would highly recommend it.
Cinematography 12 out of 10.
Acting 10/10
Story 9/10 - I would give this 10/10 if I didn’t think it was slightly inspired by dusk till dawn. If you don’t think so… 2 criminal brothers flee south to some bar to fight off vampires… [SPOILER ALERT] 1 brother is level headed and the other one is off…in both movies there is a girl that is forbidden fruit where the brother that is off wants that forbidden fruit. In Sinners the forbidden fruit is a white girl (black guy in prohibition time), in Dusk till  dawn Quentin Tarrantino (yeah he acted in his own movie) was the creep that wanted to fuck the 16 year old (the forbidden fruit). Look… there are some sequences in this movie (sinners) that you’ve never seen before and that alone makes you forgive the inspirational notes and thats why its still a high 9 out of 10 for me.

Published by Canon (JP 2025-040484) a month ago... 
«To provide a compact imaging optical system that’s wide and fast.»
The prototype coming (or is it mere proof of concept for patent purposes?) would be for a 24mm f/0.7 from those white papers announcing they have worked out «a long-standing challenge in lens design» but according to Canon rumors, any RF f/1.0 lens is then just arriving around the corner, very likely.