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Anecdotal evidence indicates that the auto focus has been the deciding factor for many people on YouTube to switch from Panasonic to other systems. At this point I think Fuji is as popular, if not more popular, than Panasonic is with that market. As someone that's heavily invested in Panasonic and the M43 system, auto focus is a big thing for me not because I need it (the cameras I have meet my needs) but because I'm interested in the long term health of the system. A move towards AF that is on par with the competition gives me more confidence in the viability of the system and company long term. Knowing the system I'm in has a future is important to me and my business decisions. I realize that there are people who think that's crazy, I don't really care to argue over it.

Sigma 14mm f4 APS-C Lens * * Fixed lens on the Sigma DP0. Shot in 65x24 AR on the DP0 and posted as an FYI for anyone interested in doing Hasselblad XPan style stuff without dropping £4K 😉

Also look at that Suicide Squad/Red BTS video. It seems that productions are looking for smaller cameras that they can do more with much easily.

There aren't enough FF cinema lenses in the PL mount to warrant it. Hence the RF mount. PL lenses can be adapted, and any other cine modded, FF still lens can be adapted.

That is true. I still am not sure why they wouldn't make an interchangeable mount like the old RED cameras. @kye I think it comes down to most people will choose 5 pounds over 10 or 15 if you can get the same function. I have heard AC's complain about the Komodo being very impractical for traditional use and really being made for solo operation with the touch screen being placed where it is. The Mini with the EVF/LCD is a better solution. But thats why they are the top brand I suppose.

Exactly what ^he^ said, except I do use AF. Not all the time but probably about 50:50 on a typical wedding day. It’s the viability of Panasonic’s camera division that concerns me. Especially as I came from Fuji who have some very interesting stuff available in the next few weeks and ‘probably’ coming next year… Ie, I think their future does stand or fall very much based on what they do in regard to AF simply because the sheer volume of negativity surrounding the AF is overwhelming the rest which is arguably the best kit going at these price points.

Osmo Pocket (mark 1) with the Freewell anamorphic adapter.

All the talk about the Alexa Mini LF that I saw they realised that the image from the mini was good enough to use for the whole film and so just used the same camera throughout instead of using the mini for drone/mounted shots and the larger bodies for the normal stuff. I think that even ARRI might have underestimated how much camera size matters, even on larger productions. That's true, although we are beginning to get into a grey area when comparing a changeable mount from an adapter if the adapter can be securely mounted to the camera and start to have the same kind of weight capacities etc. I'm not an expert, and maybe an interchangeable mount is still very strong compared to a locking adapter, but a locking adapter has got to be a completely different proposition than a non-locking one. If it was me using the camera for my own personal work, a locking adapter would be enough for me to just mount it to the camera and just keep it there permanently, but each to their own of course. I've read most of the "<<XYZ>> Lens Survival Guide" threads on reduser and my impression was that a lot of people were building a set of primes that they could convert to EF, could rent out (and pay for themselves), and they could use on their own long-term projects like documentaries (where it would be impractical to rent lenses every time they got a phone call and had to jump in the car and go). These people talked about the second set, normally USSR / FD / Minolta / Pentax / Nikon primes, as more vintage, and that they'd rent CP2's or whatever for projects that needed a "modern" or "high-end" look, and use their own set when a more organic or vintage look was more desirable. In a sense, the RF mount is offering a third option. We know RF can convert to EF, and thus support all the vintage primes that people are typically converting to EF, but it would also support the new RF primes that Canon are making for their 8K stills cameras like the R5, which might be a modern look to rival (or surpass) the resolution of a CP3 (for example). In a way this would be a modern high-end look for less money than hiring / buying PL glass.

Thanks for this! I looked on eBay and couldn't find any, but I found a seller that spools film and compares the film to Technical Pan. The price is cheap enough that I may give it a try.

It is a locking mount which is cool. Though most people I know in the uber professional relm dislike using adapters. I don't know, all the Alexa cameras are PL mount and there doesn't seem to be an issue with lenses. Non PL mount lenses just won't be used on super high end stuff for the most part. Its an interesting choice for sure. Doesn't seem to directly compete with ARRI. Of course its also cheaper than the Mini and much cheaper than the LF. I think its a different direction for RED. Its a changing industry.

If you can find one or two cartridges of discontinued 35mm B&W Kodak Technical Pan online, you may want to try it before its gone forever. This was one of the few films I used to process myself, and was the most amazingly sharp & fine grained 35mm I ever used. It’s image quality looked more like a 2 1/4 neg than 35mm. Your half frame negs would look as sharp as full frame. Really disappointed to see it was discontinued by 2005. See a discussion about that here: https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/tech-pan-to-be-discontinued.126092/

I think film is a great exercise from digital photography and I enjoy the slower process and the space between time photo was taken to development and viewing. I own three film cameras. For 135 film I use the Nikon FM2 with 50mm f1.4 lens. I vastly prefer the FM3a metering system but the prices are insane for a 35mm camera so I settled for the FM2. My second two cameras are for 120 film. I have the 6x6 Yashica-Mat 124G TLR camera. Small and light as far as medium format cameras go and a unique square format and a solid, built-in Yashinon f3.5 lens. Third, and my favorite medium format camera currently, is my Mamiya 645 Pro TL. Excellent meter, packed with features, 90s nostalgia design. For me, the perfect balance between size, weight, interchangeability and negative size for landscape photography. Love the 645 format: 2.5x larger than 35mm film, 4:3 aspect ratio, with a few more extra shots per roll (15 shots) for bracketing compared to 6x6 (12 shots) or 6x7 (10 shots). Sekor C 45 & 80mm f/2.8. There is also a 80mm f/1.9 available which I hope to snag. I believe it is one of the fastest medium format lenses made.

Tasty thread. Will have to read it once I got a bit more time. For now, a bit of a recommendation. I have a few interesting photocams and I love my Olympus 35 RC, my favorite filmcamera I think. Also, I enjoy the Ricoh 500G, which has a cool feature of double exposure. Both are rangefinder cameras with fixed lenses. The Olympus is a gem to hold and touch, a minimalistic design masterpiece. The Ricoh is a joy because of its price, which it's worth many dozen times. Both with F2.8 and fun handling. Both are a bit blocky in hand but somehow feel so right. I had the Oly 35SP, which is supposed to have a lengendary lens. Unfortunately I never enjoyed it much. Ricoh and Oly are both full manual operation. My other dear favorite is the Yashica Elektro 35CC, with a fantastic 35mm 1.8 lens. What a beauty! With film these gems are a pleasure, which is hard to beat. Scanner, well Pakons used to be dirt cheap on the bay. Now they go for astronomic prices. Super fast and robust handling of negatives. I love my Kodak RFS 2035 film scanner. CCD magic but only 2000dpi for a 135 (35x24mm) negative, which makes 6MPix. Using the cameras. In Berlin I have lost my enjoyment in analogue photography due to the Hipster Consumer attitude attached to this beautiful activity. Good thing, I started my passion about it in Berlin as well years. It depends on the people and the surroundings one is attached or accompanied by. So, happy company and shutter therapy! One more, there many great web1.0 with awesome and fun reads, not the clickbait copycat articles but labour of writing love and photo passion. Unfortunately Flickr is plagued with dull ads now, interrupting browsing and watching pleasure.

Will mention just that - the Olympus XA. Have one and love it, genius touches sparkled everywhere - the clamshell mechanism (that doubles as lens cover and on/off switch), the insanely light shutter button, very good and compact lens, the size. Was more amazed by it than from my newer digtal cameras. If OM Digital have the idea to make a digital version (once I made a post in other forum saying how it could be done), probably would sell boatloads. Never will happen, though.