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Maybe a nod to the fact that within the next five years it might well only be old duffers who want to buy "real" cameras so they are looking to mirror the Morgan sports car approach to the mid-life crises. We'll all be cutting about taking images on our faux 70s cameras wearing a tweed hat and driving gloves. This will be us at IBC 2026

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Here's a Flog shot with an XT4 (trimmed copy of the original file). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1atTlmtWQYmRevkfXwsM4ihnyR7ARMLvf/view?usp=share_link And my grading suggestion.

The G9 ii seems like a really interesting camera and I'm considering to pick one up. It makes me think the GH7 is most likely going to have some sort of electronic ND filter (what else can they put in it?), which could be amazing. Purely speculation, you get 13 stops DR with V-Log, great IBIS, PDAF with great features, all the exposure tools with an electronic ND- that could be special. On a side note, I decided to get rid of my GH6, G100, and one of my GH2s. Also, I decided to only keep my best glass (for IQ) or smallest glass. I just wasn't using the other stuff. I'll let someone else have fun with it. Here's my inventory now: An old, beaten up, hacked GH2 for live streaming (I make money with that). For daily usage, a hacked E-M1 ii. For nice lenses, Olympus 12-40 Pro, Olympus 40-150 Pro, Olympus 17 f/1.2 Pro, Olympus 75mm f/1.8 and Panasonic 9mm. For small lenses, Olympus 14-42 EZ, Panasonic 14mm f/2.5, Olympus 17mm f/1.8 (two of them), Olympus 45mm f/1.8. When it came to getting rid of stuff, I'm happy that it might help with my "indecision" when asking myself which lens and camera to pick up. I still have too much though. Anyone else have this problem? I love having options, but sometimes it's overwhelming because I like all of them; they all have something good about them.

I found LightRoom to be a very well-designed tool back when I was doing photos. I read about wedding photographers ripping through several hundred images from a wedding and only needing seconds per one, and I could completely believe it. Such an interface, where you just start at the top and go down through each section as required / desired, is a very easy experience. I'm at a bit of a crossroads with my colour grading approach, where on the one hand I could implement a default node tree with heaps of nodes, and I could adjust different things in different nodes that are each configured in the right colour spaces etc, but the other pathway is for me to just design my own plugin that is like LightRoom and just has the sliders I want, each in the right colour space, that are in the order I want to apply them in. I think this is why all those all-in-one solutions like Dehancer / Filmconvert / etc all have options to select the input colour space. The saving grace of all this is that most log profiles are so similar to each other that they mostly work with each other if you're willing to adjust a few sliders to compensate and aren't trying to really fine-tune a particular look. If you don't have colour management (either the tool doesn't support it or you haven't learned it) then you're really fumbling in the dark. To a certain extent I can understand people not wanting to learn it, because there are a few core concepts you need to wrap your head around, but on the other hand it is so incredibly powerful that it's kind of like being given a winning lottery ticket but not bothering to cash it in because you'd have to work out how to declare it on your next tax return.

In a study by Me et al, earlier this evening, my conclusion is that some folks over-analyse some things and as a result, spout BS. I on the other hand, had an enjoyable walk/photoshoot this afternoon that neither made me feel ‘warm’ or ‘cold’ or ‘fuzzy nostalgic’, with the side benefit of some exercise, fresh air and Vitamin D. Which is probably more than some sad fcuker got bashing his keyboard in his parents spare bedroom. I did however have Pet Shop Boys greatest hits on Spotify earlier and wallowed in a bit of late 80’s / early 90’s musical nostalgia 😉

I zapped through the footage. Looks very nice. Looking forward to watch the whole thing with some snacks and some Radler. Thanks for posting. Presentation sounds also likeable, just like the presenter. Btw, the camping site video with the kids on the playground was nicely and engaging filmed. Like kye has responded to my criticism, footage looks like it can take some grading pretty well. I wished Panny would give us a compact cam with a dual gain one inch sensor and a manual focus clutch for 800 to 900 Euro/Usd. I will try the M10 or LG V60 route some time soon though. cheers

They seem to have got into the way of thinking that crop sensor = cut price version of full frame, rather than having them offer portability. The lenses are also getting too big as well! They showed all the way back in 2014 that a Micro Four Thirds sensor could go in something as small as a GM5 or LX100. Since then, it's all about capitulating to the American market which doesn't really go for small cameras. The GH1 and GH2 were typically Japanese and quirky, lovely to use. Then the American Panasonic team got involved and we got the stale GH3. As well as a new GX80 with latest gubbins and a new LX100 I'd love for Panasonic to give us their version of a Leica Q. Sony has the RX1. Panasonic with full frame camera the size of a deck of cards would be great, but their absolutely-not-a-cartel L2 partnership probably puts paid to that!