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Standard M1 and the massive jump in processing was between the desktop and the M2. I didn’t see much difference between the desktop and M1 for most things. Possibly also differences in software being more streamlined? I don’t know and am not really interested in techy things as in ‘how’, but rather just that it does. And my M2 does!

Is there a new camera module? The current camera module used by cinepi is imx477. It doesn't matter how fancy the raspberry pi is that you connect it to, it's still only a 12 megapixel sensor. If Sony have a 45 megapixel 1" sensor that can read out at 12 bits, it could be cool to see that in a Raspberry Pi camera. Until then, you'd be a lot better off buying a used BMPCC4K - it costs a bit more, but it's a lot more usable as a camera... and I say that as a person who doesn't like any "pocket" cinema camera except for the very first one from like 10 years ago. (Or for just. little bit more, a Sigma FP)

I think this is going to be even more disrupting as the new raspberry pi 5 is just announced. I figure that cinepi 3 based on pi 5 may do 8k raw on a s16/1-inch sensor, at about $500.

The neorealist filmmakers brought the cameras to the streets. There is a joke told about Rossellini when Ingrid Bergman wrote to him (they would form a family and a team later) that he asked "who is she?" : D Hollywood was made indoors and Italians wanted to shoot the real life with real people (not professional actors as much as possible, etc.). Light equipment all the way where the French took advantage from their aesthetics proposal. French New Wave filmmakers had all been fascinated by their precursors, those Italians who had left the artificial construction out of their creation. That focus on the true portrait of the real conveyed from there. The light setup, yes. And the natural light source as exposure method too. It is famous the story often told as anecdotal note about Rossellini when he would have submitted all the crew to wait for the sun exactly to match the sun movement in the middle of two buildings around noon... In 2023, we celebrate 100 years of 16mm film introduced by Kodak. There are a lot of movie reels shot by amateurs since 20s of a century ago. I have a few of them, well, dozens or okay, hundreds LOL : ) in my private collection I am organising to say it more explicit as of now. Also trying to save those pictures with other professionals of same field. I am involved with a couple of labs. Part of my business today. French New Wave shooters were kids, young cinephiles, film critics (Cahiers du Cinema their Bible) their Italian neorealists their parents. While Italians brought Hollywood method to make films to the real life, FNW left the tripod. The film language was not anymore something necessarily stable, stuck on a few rules determinated by the need to look like or adopt a professional look. The shots didn't have to be lovely and carefully on the spot. As the industry had been so severe to put limits. Italians had opened the pandora box. French said why not to take the option to disrupt the whole thing with an amateur 16mm format, besides already used professionally for news reels, as for instance? And that's it! Came from their obsession with the real which popped up after WWII in Italy. No more fake, as mantra. Seems Orson Welles (F for Fake ; ) would have said that Rossellini was not a real director but all Italians great actors! LOL : ) The influence of neorealism is beyond the technical side of this craft, not so far from their approach to the way the technology should be adopted though. Here is a list of a few examples earned in the American cinema for example. John Cassavetes, one of the most influential filmmakers of the History of this medium (here's another link which can help to render better understanding of the relevance of the contribution of these people who were able to shoot "on grainy 16mm film stock and set over one night" as BFI tells the story here on Faces and the American Cinematographer here for Shadows), has his part of this route for sure, not only the case of someone I am proud to have had the luck to have personally met and associated to my curriculum and work with, even today, Jonas Mekas. Lars von Trier, also one of my dearest ones, did his course with his Dogma 95 movement when digital video had just arrived. Gilles Deleuze, a French thinker I've studied for decades and praise a lot and one of the most important individuals of the XX century, is the philosophical expression of all this.

Interesting. That’ll make for good bedtime reading. Thanks.

Thanks a lot. Will try the voice isolation.

You might benefit from the Voice Isolation feature in Resolve. I'm not sure if this is a paid feature or in free version, but it seems to work pretty well in some situations. In general though, having something on the microphones to block them from wind is essential. You can't side-step the laws of physics 🙂 That's true of almost every camera. The closest you get it right in-camera the better the output will be.

Just got around to watching this - interesting stuff. One thing described as a key element to the French New Wave was the availability of affordable and portable 16mm film cameras, allowing the available-light, hand-held shooting style. I see from wikipedia that the Italian Neorealism was a precursor to the FNW, with Italian Neorealism in full swing from ~1945-1955 and FNW not really getting started until the late 1950s. I couldn't find any good timeline about when 16mm film became affordable - but I did note that wikipedia said "The format was used extensively during World War II, and there was a huge expansion of 16 mm professional filmmaking in the post-war years." so maybe the Italian Neorealism was the first movement to really benefit from this technological advancement? I was also under the impression that the FNW was the innovative movement that took the new tech and developed new techniques that fully utilised it, but maybe that's not the case?

And the new HLG 4K slow motion test: in HDR:

4K 60P Holiday Video at night (for all audiences): Looks spectacular in HDR, when YouTube gets around to showing it. Looks good in SDR. Nothing beats a gimbal for nighttime video with movement.

thx boss. i finally figured it out. in qrcode app, there is a tab called extension. there are many items in the pull down menu. the description can be found at th gp labs website. all of these are advanced features. gp is very smart, this way isolates experts from green hand totally, minimizing complaining and liability. now gp 12 even has a live histogram, basically i can do manual exposure. and the tonemapping, etc. these features make gp12 very interesting now. i will enjoy playing this little toy for a long time.

Its secondary to its stills use and hence there isn't that much example footage from it, but the Q3 has 8K video. Which is the expected nod to it arriving in an arguably overdue refresh of the S1 range in the not too distant future. My guess is that is what this gathering is for rather than a GH7. Unless its the bi-annual meeting of the Shocked Face Clickbaiters Association.

5k? It's not even 6, never mind 8k 😜

I would rather see a Super 16mm Digital Bolex CCD type camera than Super 8mm film bodies, but yes it should be kept alive. Kodak will do a good job of killing it with products like this though.

Sounds like every wedding I have been to for the last 4-5 years…which has been circa 100+ (would have been more if it wasn’t for covid). EXACTLY, including that 60+ gent fumbling with his archaic DSLR and that Fuji hipster couple 😂

A dream come true of the Italian neorealism... think about it : X To those who are used : D to complain on crappy YT entries, here's something... (Marty @PannySVHS, this time, starts with my beloved Rome found now right after when arrived to that earlier Lisbon clip of before ; )

If I am allowed to chim in, I would love a powersaving solution like the m1 tech in a windows laptop. What would be an equivalent to a M1 Max Macbook, with lowish powerdraw and same performance in Resolve for editing, grading and rendering?