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Just did OM1 Oly 25mm F1.8. I am very impressed by the dr. The sharpness is good enough. I think the generic focal reducer caused the lacking of sharpness in previous shots. The Oly 25mm F1.8 sometimes pulses in continuous AF in video mode.

This as a fundamental choice. Possibly…probably even, in some areas, it would be a case of fighting the tide, but I think too many people will use it to compensate for both their own lack of skill and in order to make a fast buck. While they still can. But short term gain and all that…

When folks say ‘rangefinder’ they generally mean ‘rangefinderesque’ because unless they are old school hardcore purists, we tend to want great AF these days. It’s purely form over function, ie, sacrificing something less (D)SLR looking for something more stylish and yes, nostalgic. The format can of course be used with zooms, but is more suited to compact primes and helps keep that ‘small, fast, discrete’ philosophy. For me anyway… If Lumix were to make one based on the S1Rii spec, I’d be all over a pair of them instantly whereas as the S1Rii is more of a, “yeah, like it and if starting again…”

And Brazil has stricter and better laws about hate speech and false reporting than the US - the reason that Twitter and Starlink were recently shut off in the country for a while. It's even worse here where that's not even a thing. Speaking as someone from the US, this is more true than I'd like it to be.

The majority of Americans are proudly anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti educated, and anti-ideas.

In Canada, at one time, electronics from Asia (mostly Japan in those days), had Canadian tariffs applied (to protect Canadian electronics manufacturing, yes we once had that). This meant many people travelled to the US to buy electronics. Shopping malls opened up close to the Canadian border to sell to them. At some point in the 1980s that changed and then the price was about the same.

B&H has adjusted the price back to the original $4995.

As a Canadian I have always envied US prices! I think that has changed!

Damn, nice. I've been saying cameras should be doing this. considering you can get like an hour on those batteries, it's a no brainer. But it doesn't have xlr built into the camera??

Does that makes the people rather travel outside US to buy the camera overseas instead? I've done it a few times as the price here is always outrageous

DJI Pocket 3 in B&H went from $519 to $619.

Others, I don't know. Nostalgia, probably. For me, it is because I like to shoot on streets, when travelling (and where anything "DSLR-like" gets a lot of attention and make everyone around unconfortable), and like to shoot in concerts (rangefinder-like cameras atracts no attention to security, SLR-like cameras are banned). Shoot a lot of concerts and travelled a lot in my m4/3 days, nobady ever cared about the GX7, GX85 and GX9 that I had (only once one approached to see my GX7 thinking it was a film camera). Only m4/3 camera that was barred on security in a concert was...a GH2 (because looks like a DSLR). My current X-S20 is kinda discreet, but sometime people bother a little when see a EVF hump.

"Blackmagic PYXIS 12K Camera Price Increased by 32% to $6,595 in the USA Due to Tariffs" via CineD Full article: https://www.cined.com/blackmagic-pyxis-12k-camera-price-increased-by-32-to-6595-in-the-usa-due-to-tariffs/ "It has only been two days since the announcement of the very promising cinema camera Blackmagic PYXIS 12K. The initially announced price of $4,995 for the US market is now corrected on the manufacturer’s website and shows $6,595, which is a 32% increase caused by the new reciprocal tariffs imposed on imported products in the USA."

Oh yeah, I just mean the day by day hustle corporate video's. Its just time I can spend with my family instead. If it is an passion project or art project it is different, then I will try everything by hand to get the best possible result. But in business its time I dont get paid extra for + all the AI applications are more or less aimed at repetitive tasks that dont require that much creativity.

What is all about this demand for rangefinder we see everywhere? I'm just curious. What difference does it make, compared to Zf for example?

For much less Aaron Swartz was so prosecuted that took his own life.

Not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but the reason I don't want to indulge AI is exactly because of it's ability to divorce me from the minutia. (even though what you're outlining here is not minutia. Having AI do an audio mix? Bleh.) Hey, this may be completely stupid and stubborn, but I still believe that the craft of things is in the detail of things. Always has been. Don't know the details? You won't know the craft. Don't know the craft? It's going to be hard to achieve one's voice in the art you practice. Now, are you worried about the clock? The time you're putting in? Nothing wrong with that, but if you are worried, the chances are you're not making anything special, right? Again, if your goal is to not create art, just push content, then you're eventually going to be replaced by AI totally anyway. You got a small window, I guess. Enjoy that while you can. But, for me, it's not about making things look pristine or ideally technically proficient. There's a deeper quality to things than that. Wabi sabi Here's an analogy litmus test for consideration: Is music better when it's a little pitchy? At the end of the day, I'm just one guy staying true to my goals. I realize they're not other's goals.

Internal RAW probably was just for bragging rights, but yeah, it could backfire. For a entry level camera, it would be perfectly acceptable to have external RAW option (which it has, with full quality) - if you are saving money in a camera, probably would not have a beast computer to handle external files. But if Nikon make a rangefinder version of this one (or if the ZF had the same size), I would probably jump ship to Nikon.

Nope, they won´t. If social media does not become regulated and co-reponsible for the content they publish, they won't. He had our Trump here in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. He blocked the Covid vaccines for months - Pfizer offered their vaccines for a very low price as soon as it was approved, because they wanted to use Brazil as an example. They sent 101 emails (yep) for all the authorities, NONE had an answer. A congressional investigation after discovered that it was blocked because some of their allies were trying to put some intermediates on vaccines to profit around US$1 per dose. More than 700.000 people died in Brazil because of Covid. A father of a friend and a grandmother of another friend between them, both very healthy, more than 5 months after the Pfizer offer. They probably be alive today. Bolsonaro even tried a coup - in the election day, he sent the federal road police to make blockades "for safety" - but only in places that he was in a major advantage, to try to block people to get to local vote places. In Jan 8th 2023, they incited people to broke into all the major institutions, a version of the USA's Jan 6th; but here it was like the White House, The Capitol and the Supreme Court were invaded and destroyed. It was a plan to force the new president to call the military forces - than the militaries would depose the new government. With some luck, the riot was dissolved, a investigation was opened, an a lot of coup plans were discovered - as with Trump, their allies and dumbfucks lunatics, and coup plans were found handwritten over their desks...plans that included killing the current president, the vice-president and one Supreme Court judge. They tried to explode a gasoline truck in front of the Brasilia airport in the Christmas Eve, since it was full of people. They are prosecuted now, and probably will go to jail (in factm, probably Bolsonaro will fly to Argentina or USA to not be arrested). And even with all this, around 35 to 38% of the population would vote for him. Because a majority of Brazil's population are permanently addicted to social media. Almost all of these 38% reads nothing else than far-right channels in Whatsapp and Telegram - they are bombarded so much by fake news that they believe in no one more than these info. Like Q'Anon guys. I have relatives, that were (and in a good part stills) some of the most honest and caring people that I know, and they firmly believe than now we live in a dictartorship that only Bolsonaro could destroy. That China will invade Brazil through Uruguay. That Bill Gates patented the Covid virus. All bombarded by social media. If I put a video with some copywrighted music in Youtube, in less than a minute I receive a warning. A FUCKING MUSIC - much more hard to pinpoint than words or images. Don't try to convince me that they cannot spot fake news on the fly. But they will not be accountable. And the consequences will be VERY bad - because USA will be hit with a massive reccession, but the far right will say that other countries, or the immigrants, or ANYHTING stupid are the real culprits, and these people will believe. And I see no easy outcome for this.

Some new details courtesy of Petapixel: - Will support 4:3 open gate (brace yourself for rolling shutter comments!) - "Will have an electronic variable ND filter" - 0.6-2.1/2-7 stops - I'm assuming this is in-body, but they didn't specify - Supports an internal NP-W235, seemingly as a backup - CF Express type B and SD card slots - Supports Tascam XLR Microphone handle - Frame.io support https://petapixel.com/2025/04/06/new-fujifilm-gfx-eterna-details-a-fancy-variable-nd-frame-io-and-more/ If they bring 4:3 to the GFX 100 II, it could be fun for anamorphic shooters, especially if anybody comes out with some decent anamorphics that cover it for under $5k. The electronic variable ND is a good idea too. Still, if they don't nail the pricing, it'll be a hard sell vs the Ursa 17K now that it has a $22k (or so?) body-only option (or maybe more now for those of us in freedom-land). At least the 44x33 sensor is a differentiating factor vs the 56x24mm sensor.

Hey there fellow artists, I've created and uploaded some cool new concrete textures onto my website...you'll find them here: https://soundimage.org/txr-concrete-pavement-seamless/ Maybe useful for roads, buildings, statues, bridges. etc. CUSTOM WORK Does anyone need some custom one-of-a-kind textures created? Or custom music? You can contact me here: https://soundimage.org/custom-work/ As always, please stay safe and keep being creative! 🙂

It’s paid by the importer and then passed directly on to the consumer, though fixed costs such as handling and transport fees after the port of entry mean that the calculation isn’t always a straight addition to the current retail price as those costs don’t include any additional increase. The original $4995 is now $6595. If they’d added the whole 34% directly on (which is on top of an existing 20% by the way) then it would be $6693. The reason for it not being that much is that fixed costs such as US based handling and transportation charges do not carry the tariff.

Yikes, glad I'm in the EU for once. Looks like the tables have turned, soon Americans will be flying in to Europe to purchase cameras lol. For RED importing components with tariffs should only mean a very minor impact on total price versus cameras like BMD manufactured in Asia. RED/Nikon is in a much better position to control costs and avoid drastic price jumps, unless Nikon shifts production overseas which I'd assume is something they wouldn't consider under the current situation.

Yes, in many cases, it would be the original vendor. Because especially on the stock market, they care about profit margin and not absolute dollars. In a theoretical situation, let's say Canon currently sells a camera for $3,000 and they get 10% profit margin on it. Now there is a 10% tariff levied. Will they sell the camera for $3,300? No. Because then they go from making 10% on each camera to making 9.1%. Their stock will drop. Instead, the camera will sell for $3,340 or so. Now the margin is retained and wall street isn't pissed off. BMD, I think, isn't a public company and as far as I can see, their US price increases pretty closely track the tariff increases without maintaining margin. The changes have caused total havoc on BMD's pricing - UC 12K only went up 10% or so from $7,000 to $7,700. Pyxis went up 33% to $4,000 and Pyxis 12K went to $6,600 which puts the price way closer to the Ursa now, making it a harder sell.

But tariffs apply at import point not at the retail. Its "import value" is not $5k. For example if Canon R5ii is $4k, Canon USA will take its profit from that, and then B&H. So the import value could be $3k (I don't know how much each middle man takes from MSRP, but I know its not insignificant). So 33% tariff should be applied to the $3k price, which makes it $4k, then add to that the distributer and retailer profit, which was $1k, and then it will be $5k for the customer. But if you apply that to the original retail price of $4k, it becomes $5330. So somebody other than the government pocket that extra $330.