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When our music turns rubbish and our language ugly we know there's trouble ahead. Filmmakers and photographers seem to be on the way out, to be replaced by something altogether more homogenous - the "content creator" or simply "creator". Why specialise when you can just "create stuff"? New blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/news/creator-replaces-filmmaker-meet-thy-creator

Ditto. Sort of… Quite a few times, at certain events, I have run with the combo of; single body + 24-105 f4 shooting FF stills plus cropped video and it is very liberating. The only thing I don’t like about it is the size/weight and the relatively long extension of these mid to larger zoom lenses. Twin body plus multiple lenses enters the chat… For 2023, for stills, I have settled on the 28 + 65 indoors and 28 + 90 outdoors. For the video side of things, 28-70 but shooting S35 so ‘42-105’ and using that small & light and barely extending zoom, only at the extreme focal length ends, so just ‘40’ or ‘105’. I have pretty much always used zooms this way, ie, treated them as twin primes. I just wish they were all internal like my Sigma 16-28. A compact 70-200 would be very welcome and I have been tempted several times to switch to Sony, not because it’s Sony, the YouTubers camera system of choice, but because of 2 lenses: Tamron 20-40mm f2.8 Tamron 35-150mm f2-2.8 MUCH prefer Lumix and these lenses can also be adapted to Nikon (looked at a pair of Z9’s but the reality is I cannot do my job with less than 3 bodies and currently use 4) but it’s just not justifiable. But if it were feasible…and in some future year, maybe it will be, I could build a system around these 2 lenses that tick all my boxes except size & weight with the larger Tamron.

I guess longer lenses feel less intimate to me. As an extreme example lets say being on 16mm for a close up feels to me like you are actually right next to the person vs say being on a 85mm. Though I would agree that longer lenses generally look more pleasing. All personal preference at the end of the day of course.

In France during the Black Friday week, Panasonic offered 400 euros cash back, a SanDisk Extreme 1tb SSD, and an extra year of warranty for 1579 euros. The deal was available for about 2 days from selected online stores. The price sent up to 1779 with 200 euros cash back after, then 1979 euros. On this forum, people were bitching about not getting the GH6 initial deal and how Panasonic's marketing practices are suck because they didn't get the deal. Essentially, that's it.

I am currently running n gunning in South America for a family passion project. I've got an R5C, a Sennheiser G3 that I plug directly into the cam, 6 batteries, a mini stand and a basic ballhead. I brought a Zoom F3 just in case but haven't needed it bcuz the audio I'm getting plugging the G3 directly in-camera is solid. I sold a bunch of my Canon lens so I could buy/bring a 35mm RF f1.8 IS and the Sigma 24-70mm f2.8 OS ART. I've been using all natural light, and figuring out subject placement day-of on the fly. Of course it helps that I'm in a place that is sunny and beautiful 24/7 - but I can tell you I was only comfortable travelling this stripped down bcuz the R5C comings with pretty much every light and visual measurement tool you need (except for timelapse). So far the interviews have looked great, grabbing b-roll has been easy (the various crop modes have also been clutch for this!) and I definitely see myself using this type of stripped down setup more often!

Absolutely, golden hour is also where modern camera's 10bit really shines, letting you push the mids to proper exposure without a fill light and without the skin tones falling apart. My biggest problem with golden hour is that it does not last very long, I shoot a lot of swimsuit fashion and modeling shoots during the summers and if it is for a designer vs an individual model I can't use the golden hour because there's not enough time to film all of the models before the sun sets. That's a given, less edge distortion, more background compression. That is why my favorite event lens is the 24-105 F4.0....wide enough at 24mm for groups and long enough at 105mm for good background compression when shooting individuals or punching in for detail shots even at F4.0. On the R7 with its crop sensor that's around 35mm-165mm which is perfect for both photography and video. My favorite portrait photography lens is the 70-200 F2.8 and I typically shoot at 200mm whenever possible to get that perfect background compression and tack sharp image for studio and on location photography work.

I like to use longer focal lengths. Not necessarily tight shots. A person filmed head to toe with a longer lens just looks better, imo.