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As somebody that shoot mostly in 8k RAW with R5 (now replaced with the R5 II) and R5c I do strongly disagree with the above sentence.

Sure, it should arrive tomorrow, sold my R5 last week.

Says the guy who research a lot of cameras 😆 I am definitely keen to try filming in super 8 though, should be simple compare to modern camera? Just the film is expensive to buy and develop and only 3 min for each roll.

sony, I hear you. hidden menu, sometimes three layers, yes, you. f5.

watching on a 4k projector at 100”. No need for 4k unless green screen or VFX

Who here too? These manufacturers we're used to praise here other than - maybe - a few if any? (for some reason Blackmagic cameras are a graceful exception with their intuitive user interface) ...are killing the pleasure of photography. This is a science and art born a way before these idiots have been born. We only need three commands to control aperture, shutter speed and sensitivity. Eventually a SINGLE menu for electronic/feature/recording modes when applicable such as AF, stabilization, etc., and that's it! Full stop. Other than that, go to hell with your bloody menus! End of story. Users need time for the craft in order to develop creative skills and create stuff, not handling electronics strictly proper of a moron or a geek in the photography world. Pick one but don't call yourself a shooter.

Yeah that is your opinion, I also shoot occasional 8k for virtual production or those showing on big LED And 8K is needed for VR applications, those 6k 360 cam is not really sharp for Vision Pro.. Raw on the other hand I rarely use it so it must be gimmick 😉

If you rent equipment, or if you sometimes use the employer's equipment that is also used by others, I would imagine it can be a frequent problem. Certainly going from Nikon (my own equipment) to Olympus, Panasonic or Fuji can take some time to get everything set up properly and this is (kind of) an unnecessary complexity. The more rarely you use a particular type of gear, the more difficult it can be to remember the thinking behind each make and model. The manufacturers try to make switching difficult and staying within-brand easy (as a part of vendor lock-in) and so the nomenclature and menus evolve in different directions in each brand compared to others. Which brand of camera is used for a task may not be in the operator's control.

Even the Menu structure of the OG BMCC was great. But yeah, I agree. Cameras that are marketed as cine cameras or cine cameras for the ambitioned con-/pro-sumer should offer some sort of video-menu-mode with a reduced structure and only relevant settings. As much as I like the VLOG-Files from my S1, the Menu is bloated when it´s being used primarily as a video-camera.

Pretty much. It's cool that the tech is now at a point where we can do 4K without straining our cameras and computers but for presentation, HD is plenty.

720 > 1080

depends on what kind of 2mp. I have several nikon d1h bodies. I have no issue using them, as long as no cropping in post. if don't present in full screen, like embedded photos in web news article, it is perfectly fine. vertical video is almost exclusively for phones, not even for iPad. on phones, YouTube default res is 480p, every time I change to 4k, I have to click three buttons into the submenu.

OG BMMCC + 12-35mm F2.8 lens + IR/UV filter + vND + monitor + wrist-strap and that's it. 🙂

Gangnam. It's all glitz and glam and occasionally quite disorganised telephone pole wiring, but it's no backstreets of Yongsan, which I'd take any day of the week over this.

simply gorgeous

Hmm, ok. It hasn't happened that many times and seems to be fixed with a restart, so I guess I'll just carry on. The whole thing of shooting slowly because it's fully manual seems to align with the idea that you miss things happening, so if a shot here or there requires a bit of fiddling then it's not a big deal really. Speaking of carrying on, went for a walk in the backstreets of Yongsan last night. I had to cheat another stop by going to 360 shutter as some places were seriously dark, but in post I was able to raise up images by a stop, and if I put a bit of NR then I could go even further without issue. Of course, this requires grading the images properly - where blacks are actually black! I'm actually surprised how good the low-light is. This is only at F2.8 with a zoom and IS, and yet it's basically usable to replicate what you can see in real life, despite being S16 and almost a decade old. Images even less graded than previously: One thing I've noticed is that with the 12-35mm not being that long a zoom, and with my monitor set to show a 2.35:1 crop, I tend to compose with people smaller in the frame than with other cameras I've used. I don't know how well this is translating, as in theory this should make the 'world' larger by showing people smaller in comparison, but as I only have my laptop and not my normal monitor I'm not used to judging.

Not affiliated at all for sure but found this one a no-brainer, as usual BTW coming from that usual suspect, kudos to him actually: