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A little BTS of the short film:

Hello to all EOShd members. I haven't been here much this year, but I consider this forum to be my second home. This year has been hard personally (divorce with young children) but we must continue in life with good spirits. So like every year (and it's been 6 now) I link you to my police Christmas greeting: In the tech side it is Sony FX6 in UHD mode at 100fps (S&Q) and S-log, Hi Base Iso. Rokinon lenses. I hope you like it and I send you a hug. Adiós Amigos!!

Thanks for sharing. You can really see how the puppy just didn't want to stop!

And forgot to add this link ”Indeed, the value of data collected about genuine human interactions with systems will be increasingly valuable in the presence of content generated by LLMs in data crawled from the Internet.” https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.17493.pdf Genuine human interactions are what will be “valuable”

Humour. AI can tell a joke but it doesn’t get a joke. innuendo. It can’t tell if what’s made is “ good” either. There’s no self criticism. Just patterns and predictions based on data. Humans are storytellers. It’s not just the story telling, it’s the way we tell the story that’s just as important. Performance. Religion. Science. Art. It’s all storytelling and making sense of the world. These giant models of data are t without issues being so inward looking leading to more and more generic results. It’s called model collapse. “This means that the models begin to lose information about the less common -- but still important -- aspects of the data. As generations of AI models progress, models start producing increasingly similar and less diverse outputs.“ “Model collapse is based on the principle that generative models are replicating patterns that they have already seen, and there is only so much information that can be pulled from those patterns.” This type of AI is never better than it’s data. https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/Model-collapse-explained-How-synthetic-training-data-breaks-AI I have no doubt AI will become an important tool. Buts a tool driven by human data and prompts.

Hey I'm only reporting my friends frustrations - but I do think it is a bit ridiculous that they don't have Clog2 on the R5c it is supposed to be part of the Cinema line and would make matching to their other cinema cameras a lot easier. I have no scientific proof but imagine the reason they don't have Clog2 in the R5c is because it doesn't have the DR to utilise it fully. Maybe they could create a Clog2 lite like Panasonic did with GH5 and Vlog

Thanks @kye. As mentioned, I'm looking for silhouettes so no shadow detail is necessary, which was why I was thinking of going down the HG route. I think you're right, of course, in that I should do a test.

Ah yes, France, famously comparable to the authoritian regime routinely arresting and disappearing peaceful opposition leaders and protestors in the middle of the night, as well as installing an undemocratic puppet government through the systemic violent oppression of the people. Get the fuck outta here man.

Which tests? Any objective test that I've been able to find shows the R5C having marginally better DR to the R5 (as you said, possibly due to better cooling or different processing), but still much lower DR than the C70 at SNR 0.5 or 1. Having just used the C70 and R5 together side-by-side on a shoot last weekend (both using raw lt), I'd say the C70 images were overall cleaner and have a lot more detail in the shadows (even aside from having less noise) - I was glad, I was a bit worried that I'd end up feeling silly having traded in a bunch of gear and some cash to get the C70. 😃 As far as the main topic of the thread, if your debate is between Z8 and R5/R5C/R3, the choice probably is going to be more emotional or based on ergonomics, ultimately. They're all very good.

Most operating systems don’t handle their main drive filling up very well. I’ve found the best way to deal with this is to have separate drives for the OS and everything else. That way, if downloads or data files fill up a non-OS drive, the system doesn’t go haywire.

Clever ; ) Loved the sausages part! LOL : ) This is what a real production means as conforming creative choices to the stuff we have in hands... Well done again in this yearly tradition of yours, it will surely be appreciated by the local community :- ) ¡Felices fiestas de Navidad! - EAG

The drone images appear because we actually had them from previous days (taken for security reasons) and we decided to give them a use. And slow motion is a narrative decision. First we oredered the voice over with several situations to represent. Then we realized that the dog was unable to stay still for even a single second. All the time playing and jumping. So it was easier to extract expressions if everything is slow. In total it took 5 hours, 180Gb in fast cards and 2 packages of sausages!

Gracias for your wishes, amigo, always welcome as usual! To you too! Emanuel :- ) PS -- Funny the style this year... any special reason for the slowmo and drone shots approach?

There's no currently active Sony or NEX hacks, so long dead I'm afraid. And it isn't very useful. I don't think it went very far beyond the menu language hack. There are much better areas to focus on if you're interested in camera hacks, like Magic Lantern, ML RAW and of course the GH1/GH2 with PTools. Also the Samsung NX1 with the Linux based hacks and high bitrates in H265.