Philip Bloom now has a cat channel

[Andrew Reid]

I found out what he's been up to and it's the greatest irony in the history of the camera world.

He has pivoted to cat videos.

Very occasionally you will see a long review of a camera. This is his one on the Nikon Zr.

I also tuned into another favourite of mine, Gerald Undone. He's done a Q&A where people throw money at him like a stripper.

Except he's a bloke so can't tuck the money into his bra.

I actually think this one of the purist examples of autism I have seen.

And if we look at the top fans, Philip is 7th...

I have no idea who the others are. TechMixr?

That's quite a good question on the chat box...

Which of the companies standard H.264/H.265 4K codecs at 100Mbit has the least noise reduction, aka most filimic, that I would like somebody to show.

I can't be bothered and have sold all my gear to fund the forum hosting fees.

Do you think the camera community would have worked out differently without all the narcissist Americans and Canadians?

I think it would have. You'd have women in it for a start.

Some real, talented actresses might be about... lending their opinions to DPs and gracing camera test scenes, instead we have some blokes being herded around like sheep by PR people from Sony and Panasonic!

Maybe we'd have an alternative platform to YouTube... like the early days Vimeo with original file downloads, forums, and beautifully curated portfolios of work.

Instead I do feel that the community has been rather sold out...

And to an extent, those in it have sold yourselves out by being silly. You have worshipped at the feet of the social media influencer, lapped up the rumours site clickbait like gullible little fools, whittered on and on and on about what your camera strategy is for 2025, changing cameras like underpants, and dropping thousands on 8K RAW cinema cameras to shoot Instagram material with, delivered onto a 5 inch smartphone screen at 480p resolution in a 10 second endless loop.