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Certainly a competitor for the S5ii. Headline features : 24MP BSI full-frame CMOS sensor In-body image stabilization, rated up to 7.5EV Autofocus subject detection with support for 9 subject types 11 fps Raw w/ mechanical shutter 30fps JPEG-only mode with pre-release capture 3.69M dot 60Hz EVF with 3000-nit peak brightness 4K/30 full-width, 60p w/ 1.5x crop 10-bit N-Log or N-Raw capture Dual UHS-II card slots Downloadable color mode presets via Imaging Cloud Price is £1599

The frustrating thing, as an American, is that lower income folks are among his most ardent supporters yet are the ones who will end up hurt the most by his heartless, cruel policies. I've said it on here before, I live in a mobile home. I made a choice to live as cheaply as I could, regardless of whether I could afford a nicer home or not, because I want to live a simple, affordable life. I own my mobile home outright, so I have no mortgage. I just pay a modest lot fee every month in the community I live in. My taxes property taxes are extremely low, and I live comfortably. A lot of folks here are lower income, though, and live here because it's what they could afford. They're decent, working class folks who struggle to make ends meet. A lot of them are on public assistance, like fuel assistance and food stamps. You want to know who most of them voted for, though? Based on the yard signs and flags, most folks here voted for Donald Trump. They voted for the man whose policies will hurt them the most. It'd be funny if it weren't so sad. It's a testament to the Democrats and their incompetence that twice they lost to a swindler and con man because they were unable to convince a majority of the electorate that the racist billionaire doesn't give a fuck about them.

I don't know it's educational system issue or purely political issue, but it should be clear for anyone with IQ above the "retarded" territory that the whole purpose of the trade, (even since thousands of years ago), is provide the best goods available in the world at cheapest possible price for "our" people. So even from a nationalist point of view, if my people get the best goods very cheap, my country wins. With tariffs, my fellow citizens get worse goods (because of less competition) at higher prices! Its completely opposite of the purpose of the trade. We're living in a timeline that Christians support billionaires who publicly despise the poor, and nationalists support the losing position for the nation.

I thought the reason there is that exemption was that there wasn't the logistics to inspect every box, which I heard millions of them are coming to the US every year. So what's their plan for that logistical issue?

The low-contrast look has been fashionable for a long time, since people started shooting in LOG and then editing in it and getting used to how it looks. Colourists talk about this problem like it's been around for many years and simply never went away. This caused a feedback loop where directors fought the colourist to keep things bland, which made films get released with bland grades, and then this became the reference for future directors and also all the amateurs. Also, it's quite hard to add contrast in post because it requires a clarity of thinking that many do not possess. When you look at your image and see it's captured all this information in the shadows and highlights and then apply a healthy level of contrast you immediately miss the details that are now crushed in the rolloffs. This leads to the question of what parts of the scene can be obscured. The only way to be able to answer this question is to understand what the shot is about, and therefore what is relevant. This is a level of maturity not yet attained by many. I didn't really do a systematic comparison with the G9ii, but in general terms, why would I pay several thousand dollars for a new camera that isn't the leading offering, when the flagship is only a few hundred more? Certainly, if internal Prores and cooling fans were absent on the G9ii then either of those would probably have been an instant disqualification. The size comparison is pretty moot as well, for street work I'd consider both to be full-sized bodies.

Does any Black Magic camera have autofocus other than single AF? At some point, they'll probably need to implement it, but even their flagship only has single as far as I know (I'd be very pleasantly surprised if someone told me I just hadn't been able to find it - but there's not really anything in the menus and if I press the AF button on the body, it does a really basic single AF - one of the reasons that I rigged mine with a DJI Focus Pro). I wouldn't even care that much if they did full AF - if they just did like Canon's cinema OS and gave little arrow indicators for whether the thing under the focus point was in focus, that'd already be a big improvement). Otherwise, I think a new pocket camera from them under $1k is a longshot. It's not impossible, but they made a big deal about lowering the price of the micro 4/3 BMPCC 4K to $995 in December.

I've been on a buying spree for the last month to prepare for this coming. I think I've bought like a year's worth of camera gear in a month. Guess I also need to think about which vintage lenses I want to order from Japan on ebay since there's still 1 month before the $800 de minimis exemption ends and those get slapped with tariffs too. I wish that the only thing getting fucked by those tariffs were cameras. This is going to drive up the prices of nearly everything - and all that at a time when more than 100,000 people are suddenly unemployed between government cuts and private companies laying people off when their government contract got canceled without warning. Oh, and they cut a bunch of charity funding for food banks and the like so... yeah. ☹️

It's actually worse. Over 50% on China in sum total of all Trump's tariffs. If you voted for this and think it's a good idea you need your head examined.

I think it's a compromise but far better to have the one-take per episode than the usual cutting. There's nothing natural about cutting really. Our eyes don't do it. If anything, the slow panning between actors replicates our mind tuning into one person over the other at various times, and we do that in real life quite a bit.

I'd like a consumer camera from them, under $1k. They've done enough pro stuff now, big and heavy stuff, sensor in a box, you name it. But there's no small camera with autofocus and IBIS. Blackmagic could add in their unique features and it would rule. Internal BRAW + ND + their image quality all in a consumer friendly mirrorless camera form factor with similar build quality to Fuji. I also think they should do a modern spin on the original BMCC 2.5K. The Cinema DNG image from that was cinema on a stick. If only they'd do a new version with the same or similar sensor, with autofocus, IBIS, and an EVF, plus small, interchangeable battery + CFexpress slot all for under $2k. We'd finally have that next Digital Bolex type camera.

The main camera manufacturing countries just got slapped by Tango-man. China - 34% Vietnam - 46% Taiwan - 32% Japan - 24% Thailand - 36% Hope all the ones who voted for this enjoy their new electronics prices 👍

The price of S1RII is higher than R5II here (R5ii running on promo), that definitely makes it harder to attract new people except for the Lumix users.

After a few tries to order the media module from stores who claimed to have it in stock, but didn't, I gave up and ordered a couple of CF Express cards that are on the recommended list when they went on sale. My cheap scrub Sabrent cards were working fine in the few limited tests I did in the house, but I'd rather use some sort of approved media when on a shoot. And then, suddenly, B&H had one in stock - and even better yet, it was used! Usually I'd be pretty iffy about buying used memory modules, but given that the UC 12K has only been in user hands for less than a year, I was pretty confident it would be fine. It showed up earlier today and as far as I can tell, it is! I still need to check if there's a way to display the media age/lifespan on the camera, but to stress test it, I set the camera to something I'd be unlikely ever to use - 8K 16:9 at 168fps in 3:1 compression. Then I set up the camera in another room pointing at a downspout in the rain and let it go. After around 30 minutes, I had to change the battery (even my biggest 220Wh v mounts only last so long, especially with the 26v converter, and it didn't start full). With the second battery in, everything recorded fine until I stopped it with 1 minute remaining. Conformed (in camera) to 23.98p, this left me with approximately 7 hours of footage. At the end, the media module was mildly warm to the touch and the camera's top handle (the fan exhaust vents upward) was uncomfortably warm. Not bad for having spent about 40 minutes writing 3 GB/second of footage. The heat sink on the media module (and on the CF Express module) is substantial and I'd guess the airflow is well-designed to flow over it. I threw it on a timeline to have a play - looks really nice and while it isn't exactly a challenging scene, the raw files seem very flexible. My biggest lesson learned was that unless BMD release a cheaper media reader, plugging the camera into 10gE is really the only way to edit stuff in situ - and the only reasonable way to offload footage. I tried it via USB and what I learned is that instead of just working as a media reader, the camera exposes a fake network interface over USB. Network properties in OSX show it as 100 megabit per second. Trying to edit that way in Resolve means a delay of more than a second when you scrub anywhere on the timeline - and playback is like ~1fps. Wifi was a little better with a slightly more responsive timeline and like 1-6fps. When I plugged into 10gE, I could edit in real time. If the cheap version of the camera (which I bought) came with a power cable, I could presumably just offload overnight with one of the slower methods, but since I'm running entirely on batteries, that's just not a good option. Anyway. Here are some water drops falling from my broken rain gutter with rain falling nearby.

I hope proress gets released on the newer cameras again + internal ND on the full frame cinema 6k sensor.

Very interested to hear more about this! Thanks for your thorough reflections.

I hoped and I wished but I only moaned slightly!

My S1Rii is currently sitting in an unopened shipping box in the corner of my office. I'm waiting to see what NAB brings (if anything) from Panasonic before opening it. I'll find it a bit odd if Panasonic does announce another camera so close to the release of this one, but the rumor sites seem pretty confident that something is coming.

"The S1RII feels like it was created for people taking mostly photography of still subjects." I guess I don't understand how anyone thought it would be otherwise. I mean, that's what the R stands for. I continue to be amazed at how the online crowd managed to psyche themselves into thinking camera was going to be something it was never intended to be. It's a photo-centric camera with a massive video bonus. It's not an S1HII. It's not a Sony A1II. Especially considering only 6 weeks ago we all thought it was going to be just a cheaper Leica SL3 (cue the moaners saying 'I wish it was' as if there wouldn't be a horde of complaints). I just got mine and it's exactly what I wanted. Now I can get off the terminally negative online train and get snapping.

I bought the S1RII for 3250€, I think it's a good price for this camera, not sure I would have bought it at 3600€. By the way, I spoke with someone who said he was able to remove most of the noise reduction inside of the V-log footage of the S1RII, if it's true the camera will be much more interesting. The A7RV is a great camera for still, but for video I would prefer to use Panasonic, just for IBIS and Open Gate. Yes both the 28-45mm and 45-90mm would make a killer combo. And why not the rumored 200mm f1.8 to get the perfect trio ...

I’ve got €1000 burning a hole in my pocket if you want? 😉 That was and still is my feeling as in it has more video capability over stills compared with it’s predecessor, but is no updated replacement for the S1H. I still think I’d go for one if I didn’t have my A7RV, if only to keep both my stills and video within the same family, but the simple reality is for stills alone, I still (no pun intended) prefer the Sony and bring lenses into the equation and it’s even more clear cut for me. It will be interesting however if Sigma do bring out a longer sibling to the 28-45mm f1.8 because if it’s anything like a 45-90mm f1.8, we now have parity on glass as both L and Sony can take these lenses. At that point…and only that point, would I consider a flip. And there is no sign of that second lens as things stand, just ever more long zoom lenses 😏

Oh, it’s a Black Magic voodoo bollocks event. I thought it was a trade show jobbie. My bad 🙈 I still would like those objects though!

I have a friend who still shoots GH5 professionally and his clients are happy. Really the GH5 represents insane value these days.

Might also be that they dropped the 4k Cinema price so they can sell them off. A OG Pocket siced 4K o 6K cam would be fun.

The plan is to launch it in Tokyo and invite everyone over to see the S9 Barbie Edition (China only)

Maybe they were going to launch it yesterday but realised the joke wouldn’t be very funny