FHDcrew

Exactly the current info is a mess with half of YT saying it’s the same as a simple CST while the other half (shills) are like “omg your LUMIX s1 II is a baby Alexa and and and it’s different cuz cuz cuz arri engineers tweaked the color look look but my affiliate LUMIX sent me this camera for free”

I’ve heard some people (mainly the YouTube shills) say it’s the next best thing since slice bread. Others have said it’s no better than the Davinci Resolce Arri Log CST lol

Understandable. Not the smallest camera in the world lol.

Literally he is so underrated

We should revive this what cool stuff is everyone making right now?

Even the freaking c100 II and original A7S look incredible in the right hands.

And the difference now is nothing like what it used to be. When we leapfrogged from lineskipped Canon t2i mush to GH4 clean 8mp 4k readouts, those were some huge IQ improvements. Everything now feels so tiny, what I really do care and appreciate about with modern releases is workflow, ergonomics, things that contribute to my enjoyment of shooting. And I do see genuine advancements. That’s what matters to me.

Haha nice I just bought a Nikon F 24-85 f/3.5-4.5 as a dirt cheap zoom lens for my Nikon z6. Gonna post about it in the lenses topic but yea f4 is often plenty. Yepp. I was networking with a wedding videographer the other day and showing her some of my work, she was asking me if I shot in SLOG3 when like half the videos I sent her were in 8 bit flat on my Nikon z6, but they were color graded in davinci to improve the highlight rolloff etc lol they did not end up looking different from lots of people’s videos they’re produced on FX3s. Really does come down to how you use the tools and seems that we’ve had sufficient tools for quite a while. I still don’t think I have reached the limits of what my 7 yr old Z6 is even capable of haha. Again I also think a big reason in people’s minds that they think the current crop of cams looks so much better than the stuff we had in 2017/18 (or heck even 2015 with some of the stuff I’ve seen from the Panasonic GX85 lol) comes down to skill. YouTube reviewers are much better in lighting, grading, editing etc than they were when say the A7iii was released. Yea there are totally very real advancements and I’m not discounting that these advancements can be extremely helpful, but I think so many older cameras are capable of a wayyy better image that I used to think…and that a lot of people on YouTube still think.

I love this

Yes…it destroys our contentment with the gear we already have haha

Probably bored. I would be too if I was doing those reviews for that long lol. Still tho.

Absolutely, I agree and would say its a draw between Lumix and Nikon for the best value and innovation right now imo. I feel super secure a a Nikon Z6 shooter knowing that my current camera has aged really well and continues to fit my needs, and when I need (or want) to upgrade I can easily get a Z6III (or heck even a Z5II is fantastic), use all my current f-mount lenses, use my Z6 OG as a bcam and have a camera that's super competitive. And I'm so impressed at all of Lumix's stuff; the freaking S9 for $1k used is killer, the S5II is cheap and darn near perfect, and the S1 II basically flawless. LUMIX and Nikon really are the top dogs right now. But back to the main topic...it seems there are so many aspects of the brand deals that are not disclosed well. Like this entire Craterr thing. When was that ever made clear in a video ever?!?! "Yo this camera manufacturer sent me this camera for free but dont worry this is my unbiased opinion" just does not cut it anymore. When I watch the 'popular' camera youtube, i start to feel the lie that my current gear is inadequate...but its funny because then when I'm actually shooting and editing i totally forget about that and end up feeling really comfortable shooting on a camera I have been using for 4 years...and as my skills improve so do the results I'm able to get out of the camera. I am getting better results out of the Z6 8 bit flat than I used to out of the 10 bit NLOG Prores from the Ninja V...and I literally had a post on this forum from 3 years ago deeming the 8 bit flat "unusable" with "terrible highlight rolloff". Well a few small tricks in Resolve and I was able to just roll off the highlights more in post which really mitigates that problem haha, and I can get the color/image to a really nice point in the internal 8 bit...

Honestly you are so right. I too have noticed how rapidly people are hyping up Panasonic as they once did Sony. And all at once. And 1/3 of these YouTubers are brand ambassadors for LUMIX. Don’t get me wrong the current crop of lumix cams are amazing and they in a sense do deserve the praise they are getting…literally that good. But still…

Facts. Still some gems out there. I still love Nigel Barros’ content and he has a second channel now haha (side-note, pretty funny how good the gh5 looks given many YouTubers dismiss it now lol. I’m realizing that a good 60% of the reason modern cameras seem to look so much better than cameras from 2014-2018 is because the skills of those reviewing cameras has gotten so much better. Nigel’s footage looks amazing. Obviously, there are absolutely valid reasons to upgrade still. But I’m realizing image quality is not as bad as I’m tempted to think on older cameras)

Yeppp. I love Justin Philip BTW. But yeah these youtubers deserve it lol. The YT camera community is so toxic.