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Sigma 50mm f2.8 APS-C Lens * * Fixed lens on the Sigma DP3 Merrill. 75mm FOV but easily enough resolution for 105mm when you need it. Quite decent macro performance too.

Sigma 19mm f2.8 APS-C Lens * * Fixed lens on the Sigma DP1 Merrill. 27mm FOV but with the resolution in the camera for it to be 35mm when you need it.

I agree with you - I'd love to see all the camera manufacturers implement better internal codecs. and by better, I mean: Scalable compressed internal RAW (best) Prores internal Scalable uncompressed internal RAW Unscalable uncompressed internal RAW High-bitrate low-processed high-quality h264/5 High-bitrate low-processed typical-quality h264/5 Whatever h264/5 implementation the marketing department thought was good What I mean by "scalable" RAW is the ability to read the whole sensor, downscale in-camera, and write that in a RAW format to the card. I believe the P6K can do this? It's how you can get different resolution RAW files with the same crop factor. Unfortunately, most cameras are "7" on the above scale, with only a few exceptions here and there, and those are often very compromised in other ways. Effectively, an external Prores recorder upgrades all the "7" cameras into "2" cameras. Cameras are always a compromise, some have this function but not that function, others are the other way around, etc. I'm looking to eliminate one of those variables.

But what you're saying in this topic is that you'd like a 3rd party to make an HDMI recorder, putting you in their hands for recording format instead of the camera's. Unless you're envisioning the external recorder space getting large enough that there is legitimate competition with a variety of different options. Why not wish for camera companies to allow for more flexibility in choosing codec, and higher quality instead of adding a whole extra layer of compatibility, accessories, and specs. Remember when Panasonic added 10 bit to the G9 years later via firmware? Remember when hackers added compressed raw recording to the 5D3? Or when Blackmagic made a pocket camera that shot ProRes and Raw at a fraction of the price of contemporary DSLR's, without fans and heatsinks? My sarcasm in this topic is because, in my opinion, wishing for small external recorders is a roundabout solution that would also encourage the implementation of bad internal video. I'd rather pay $100 for firmware that unlocks pro video formats, than $600 + batteries for a recorder even if it's the size of a battery grip. This is the exact reason I hope for the Octopus cinema camera to turn into a real product, or why I'd like to see cameras running vanilla android or Linux OS's. Getting on my soap box here, but the migration away from standardized computers (both hardware and software) to dozens of different devices running proprietary firmwares is a harmful trend.

Smug S1H owners titter in the background 😬 Canon R5 owners counter and bring up the subject of tracking AF 🤣 I like pretty much everything about the R5 and wouldn’t mind adding the fan…but then the power bank also…?

A warning about the camera: the EVF hump is very close to the mount in the front of the camera, and some adapters / focal reducers could not have room to fit. The Viltrox EF-M2 enter tight, the Zhongyi Lens Turbo (FD to m43) did not enter at all.