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New blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/news/which-camera-websites-spy-on-you-each-site-ranked-for-privacy-and-trackers-in-safari-14/

I'm glad you're bringing attention to this, @Andrew Reid, as everyone should at least be aware of who is tracking them and why. I have two Firefox addons, one is uBlock Origin for blocking ads, and the other is Blur for blocking trackers. I can confirm that the EOSHD main site has those two Google trackers (which Blur blocks), and the forum has 0. Blur blocks 9 trackers on SonyAlphaRumors even after opting out of cookies, and 67 ads are blocked. It's worth pointing out that even if you are okay with being tracked, the richest companies and people in the world make their money off analysis of your data. It's worth considering whether you want to freely donate your data (which YOU pay for with electricity and internet bills!) to the wealthiest people on earth.

Sometimes you've got to jump on a good deal and it seems like you made a smart move. I'm hoping my purchase of the UMP was made under the same sort of rationalization. Admittedly, as it's out for delivery today I've felt both relief and remorse haha. If I choose to keep it, I'll have to make similar steps to finance it, probably meaning selling my Nocticron and BMPCC4K to at least take a chunk out of the cost. Best of luck to you in the coming year!

Just bought an A7iii. Not because I really want it or rate it. I had a last opportunity to discount VAT (IVA here), the camera with a 50 1.8 cost 2100€ but with a 400€ cashback from Sony. Then discounting the VAT it comes in around 1350€. Why the A7iii? Because I have a new client and they only use Sony so hopefully it means more work (I've been told that if I had had a Sony I would have had several shoots in October and November). I just informed them of the purchase and they've just confirmed the first shoot of the year, so seems a good choice. Seriously thought about the A7Siii but I don't think this year is the time to splash out. To finance this I have sold my GX85, Sigma 18-35 1.8 and a Sigma 50-150 2.8. I'm also selling a Canon 18-135, 2 Voigtlanders and 2 Edlekrone sliders. This will give me enough to purchase a Tamron 28-75 2.8 or a Sigma 24-70 2.8 for the Sony. I might well sell my 10-25 1.7 Lumix as well if I like the Sony enough. I will keep my GH5 and GH5S with the 12-35 2.8 and 35-100 2.8, XLR adapter etc for streaming and long form recordings. Lenses are easy enough to rent cheaply in Madrid if I need one. So for me it's about rationalising my gear choices. If the Sony works out well for me I'd consider a A7iv depending on needs, specs and price. P.S. What I really wanted to buy was the Panasonic S5 but I couldn't justify it rationally!

Z-cam just released a firmware update for all of their cameras. All resolution and frame rate combinations now support ProRes 422 recording (except C8K 2.4:1). Added 5K 60fps recording on E2-F6. ProRes proxy records in separate files. Preview & in camera playback with 3D LUT banding issue fixed. External SSD recording through USB performance improved. Now I can do Prores 422 on my S6 at 4k 100fps. That is pretty awesome IMHO. I wish Panasonic would get in on the Prores game.

What ? Thats not scorn and derision, its the absolute reality of the situation when this party has an 80 seat majority. Lets not forget that in September 2020, they used that majority to pass a bill that would allow them to break international law. And then used that majority to vote down an amendment to the bill that would have required "ministers to respect the rule of law and uphold the independence of the courts". Considering all of this was set in motion while still a member of the EU, how did any of that require the UK to leave the largest trading bloc in the world? More to the point, how will the uncompleted elements fare with even the government's best case scenario of a 5% reduction in GDP with the deal that they negotiated compared to the one we had ? How are the airport and the port going to be impacted by the UK leaving the bloc too? Hostile environment in the UK, more restrictions on travel from the UK to the EU and the painful import/export process of being a 3rd country to its nearest substantial market is a concern, I would've thought. I'm guessing you're from Teeside, so more of the £180 million pounds that region has had in funding from the EU in the past six years would certainly have come in handy over the next years to support these and other initiatives. Whilst it is great news for your area to have had the current Conservative chancellor making the trip up there with his cheque book, a previous Conservative chancellor had a cunning plan for my city when they decided that there was no point trying to win us round to "their" way of thinking and hence not worth their effort and called for its "managed decline". It was the EU investment that provided the money for Liverpool to recover, not central Government, and that is why we voted to Remain and continue to reject the Conservatives. I honestly hope it works out for you and they don't subsequently shit on your region but, unfortunately, that 80 seat majority they were handed means we don't even have a two party system to oppose them even if they do. Incidentally, we also have a Metro Mayor of our Region but it hasn't stopped the funding cuts from central government, both pre and post Covid-19, so devolution is not a panacea. It just passes the buck of which library or meals on wheels service to close to someone else other than the government. Cheers and good luck.

I am pretty happy with my S1. The only potentially NEW cameras that interest me really are if the a7 IV comes out and it is basically an a7 III with 10-bit 4:2:2 and maybe 4K 60fps, and probably more importantly, better ergonomics and menu / ui. Otherwise, still thinking of adding an S5 / GH5 / another S1 (instead of using my a6500 as a B cam). I guess personally I am more interested in lighting and audio at this time. The S1 is pretty much a better camera than I am a camera man, so I have a lot of catching up to do before I find it deficient in any area for me.

Providing Fujifilm don't completely cripple it then I'll be having a fire sale to get the upcoming GFX100S. If it is too compromised then I'll be having an inferno sale to buy a used version of the original GFX100. And then switch the internet off.

For an older guy like me, these examples are the reasons I'm a bit loyal to this EOSHD. It's a website, not a marketing "platform." And the way it's run reminds me of the young-information-super-highway-idealism of what the internet had potential to be. Also, I especially like the irony that the title of the website is now an anachronism...in less than a decade. And that titular company is routinely and harshly critiqued here. That's simply something backwardly pure. That would never exist if it had to get filtered through a corporate system; probably would have ad 3 re-branding launches by now if that was the case. EOSHD, I guess, is kind of like visiting an awesome chef-run-restaurant in a town that only has corporate fast-food franchises in it. You can get fed in both, but you can only get a proper meal from one.

There you go: https://www.falcofilms.com/es/145/id_cat-277/Cámaras.html?id_tree=277 This other company doesn't have those cameras but it does have others that might be of interest one day. https://visualrent.es/categoria-producto/alquiler-camaras-cine-video-foto/

Cheers! Good luck with your sales and purchases! I had a week of troubled sleep before making up my mind!

Aside from a small government, the other reason the Tories want devolution is so they can enrich the private sector via less-centralised, less-accountable, easily bribable local government. Some sham of a private company will come along and gobble up the money, making big profits for the Tory cronies involved in it. Look at the sham of the school meal packages recently - supposably £30 for 5 days of food, and what the mums got was £5 of baked beans. Where did the £25 go? This is OUR tax money. We pay our taxes, only for 90% of it to get syphoned off into the pockets of dodgy incompetent private sector Tories.

So red wall voters in the North East have turned to the neo-nazi Conservative party because they are promised a more direct form of democracy and devolved decision making, a Northern power house, a 'charismatic' say it like it is leader in Boris and a way to push back on the globalised Neo-liberal EU... It's a complete sham and a lie. Local airport could have been bought back regardless of Brexit. The upgrade of it could have benefited from EU funds. The railway can be modernised regardless of Brexit. Since most of the infrastructure and rolling stock are German or French however you may need to keep an eye on the supply of spare parts from Jan 1st. Got your defunct steel works, check. Great news. Now you can haemorrhage tax payer's money as well as Thai bank contributions. Investment in transport... again, nothing to do with Brexit whatsoever. Large plot of land for new businesses, new jobs, green energy, offshore wind-farms, etc. again nothing to do with Brexit, in fact the EU would have contributed a lot in terms of green energy, Germany being one of the most prominent countries for that, again not something most people are discussing down the pub but still true, and as for the move away from centralised Westminster London-centric decision-making, one of the reasons for devolution (and soon the break-up of the entire UK, with Scottish independence and 1970s Berlin / Northern Ireland style land border checks with military presence) is that the Tories are in favour of a small government, massive cuts to public spending, cuts to social care, public funding of the BBC and the arts & cinemas, and more things just too numerous to mention here.

Yeah - except for the groups of cops every 10 metres with massive sticks!

My Uncle lived in a flat on Smithdown and, yeah, the difference in how Parly looked when we were driving up it on the bus going to visit him pre and post riot was marginal 🙂 . The front page of today's FT shows the wholly anticipated direction of travel now that this government is free of those pesky EU rules. The painful economic recovery from COVID and "re-adjustment" to Brexit trading conditions will give convenient cover for the unscrupulous to exploit any sort of removal of protections. And this is only week two.

I'd just like to be able to shoot some video in non-deserted situations with my FS5, that I bought during the first lockdown!

Quite. I was there at the time (grew up in Birkenhead and latterly Toxteth) and I saw the results of the historic trashing of Liverpool of which that was just another episode. I was at my Mum's friend's flat by the Rialto when mates of her daughter's rushed in to tell us that people were coming on to the streets after the beating of two local lads in a cop van in the city centre. It was a wild few days; mind you, afterwards you could barely tell the difference up Parliament Street, since it had still looked like a fresh bomb site before the riots - there were still huge flattened stretches left over from WW2 - in 1981! - that told anyone willing to keep their eyes open just how much of a fuck successive governments, mostly Tory, gave about Liverpool and the North. Anyone, *anyone* who thinks the Conservatives will help working people anywhere, let alone in 'the provinces' is either too young to remember or too dumb to understand what's been in front of their faces for decades. It certainly wasn't the fault of the EU that 9 out of 10 of the most deprived areas in the EU are in the UK, yet the very people who helped sustain that 'world-beating' performance are those who were believed when they campaigned to remove the only barriers to them continuing it. Anyway. We're entering a period where a lot of people are going to suffer, while a tiny few will prosper mightily. Maybe those who are still convincing themselves that Brexit and the Conservatives are going to usher in a golden age will, after a few years of that, start to understand that they've been conned. But I'm not holding my breath.

I don't plan on buying any LOL. Possibly if Z-cam releases something with the A7S3 sensor.

Apple's going blow everyone away in the short term. Their willingness to let go of old tech (for better or worse) and prioritize the performance/energy efficiency factor give them a serious edge. The icing on the cake is the ability to match software and hardware, fine-tuning performance for better results.

Next Pocket. Next Insta360. Next Mavic Pro.

Would love some external BRAW with the S1 for the perfect Davinci workflow! Any rumours when the update is to be expected?

I had just received some FD lenses yesterday when it started to snow so I took the F3 for a first stroll.