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https://www.fujirumors.com/teac-announces-development-of-tascam-xlr-audio-adapter-for-fujifilm-mirrorless-cameras/ Anyone was aware that some Fujifilm models had a hotshoe with a digital interface?

Awesome step in the right direction. To me, camera companies are both archaic and stupid the way they treat audio. Syncing audio in post is a critical function (audio sync issues are completely intolerable) and yet the camera companies have done nothing, literally zero, to try and take market share from the external audio market, despite the fact they have the advantage of being able to sync to the image. To give an idea about the ridiculous state of in-camera audio, here's what I would like: the TRS (stereo) for the mic should be a TRRS and record three channels of audio a combination hot-shoe / top handle or "battery grip" style add-on with XLRs and high-end low-noise pre-amps every channel should be low-noise pre-amps at least one channel should offer a virtual safety channel, where the single audio input is split to two channels - one gets digitised at that level and the other gets a 20dB attenuation and then is digitised The way it stands, you can't record two mics with one of them having a safety channel, you can't record a stereo signal as well as a mono signal, and on most hybrid cameras the audio is so poor you can't even use a non-powered mic. Almost every hybrid camera has stereo internal mics and a stereo mic input, and yet they can't record all 4 channels at once, the internal mics are often useless (recording digital interference or recording the lens focusing mechanism etc). Audio is significantly more important than image, and yet camera companies basically go "we're not going to use audio pre-amps that cost $80c more - instead we'll make the customer spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars to buy external audio interfaces / recorders and spend time in post syncing the audio on every project". It's like they don't even know what "integration" means.

I read TEAC's announcement as well. So far it looks like only two Canon models will support this interface. This has been one of my long running Canon pet peeves; they provided no way to get XLR audio into their non cinema bodies and is one of my favorite features of the S5. https://www.teac.co.jp/int/support/news/6615 What would be great is if 32bit float audio was included in the TEAC accessory but I guess I can't have everything. This accessory though is an important first step to me ever considering getting a Canon mirrorless for video and was one of the main reasons I chose the S5 over the R5. The fact that only the as yet released R3 will even support this accessory further proves to me that I made the right decision in not getting or considering the R5. If the R3 offers dual slot video recording I may actually be truly interested in it.

From '30s Weissmuller's Tarzan on nowadays 1080p B&W copy: 8-bit H.264 10-bit H.265 Similar bitrate. Different jagged edges though ; ) Out of curiosity, any other samples and takers... out there? ;- )