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From what I could see so far (1 week of usage) R5 II vs R5 advantages: 8k 60 SRAW 2k 240 Audio in 120fps and 240fps Better rolling shutter Better DR, CLog2 Better AF (I need to test more) Better overheating resistance 6h recording limit Better IBIS (I need to do some more tests) Waveform 4 channel audio USB-C iOS support allows you to use an iPhone as monitor with the App with almost no latency. Does not work in video playback. App UI is a bit crap and does not take full advantage of the iPhone screen size Full HDMI disadvantages: Price, especially vs used R5 Needs new battery R5 II vs R5c advantages: 8k 60 RAW with internal battery SRAW 2k 240 Better DR, CLog2 Audio on the same file for 120fps More than double battery life, no need of external battery or battery grip. IBIS (still need to check more for the wobble). Better and much more customizable AF, all features available in all res and frame rate. WiFi USB-C iOS support allows you to use an iPhone as monitor with the App with almost no latency. Does not work in video playback. App UI is a bit crap and does not take full advantage of the iPhone screen size Quicker way to delete video files When playing back it has the view assistant LUT applied, why why and one more why the R5c cannot do this. Is so bad to show clients dull videos.... C1-C3 memory, super easy to switch between 8k 50 RAW to 4k 120 10 bit. You can also switch from PAL to NTSC with the C memory. On the R5c is a pita changing from 8k 50 RAW to 4k 120 10 bit, many menus and for PAL to NTSC is a reboot. Switching video to photo and back is instantaneous, although it really never bothered me the R5c Full HDMI A bit smaller body disadvantages: Price No crop RAW No 4k 60 oversampled Less customization, cannot really decide what you want on the screen, hdmi, evf Less proxy choices, for 8k RAW just one as is 2k. Overheats vs no overheats Waveform is a single size and there is no way to assign a button to show it or not. R5c has two sizes plus button assignable. Seems a last-minute addition this waveform. Peaking is available only in MF. I like a lot to have Peeking on also in AF so I can easily see if the subject is really in focus, or the AF did not pick it up. False colors works only with view assist (709 LUT) disabled. I like the cinema menus better, they seem more logically organized. The R5 II res/format/framerate is confusing, maybe I just need to get used to it. Still missing from all of them the possibility of zooming in while video playback.... why is such a thing so difficult to implement?!? Also why I cannot stop on a frame and have a clean screen so I can check the framing...

It’s a tricky one for sure because sometimes it’s just his wife burning the toast again.

I had an E2 which I traded for an M4 when the flagship came out. Unfortunately my film group fell apart shortly after, so I didn't get to use it much. I always wanted an f6 but I just haven't shot much the last few years. I'm getting back into it this year though! Absolutely, and I've watched a couple sell used for under $1800. Wild value. My next few projects are very action and vfx heavy. A global shutter would make our virtual sets a little easier. Maybe if used komodo prices drop a bit more I'll get that. But I'm in no hurry, no big projects are imminent yet unfortunately.

MPB used prices for 'like new' are often like that for some stuff I find...

It seems like a bunch of small improvements overall but after having worked on a program syncing 38 GoPro cameras, the one feature that stands out for me is the ability to synchronize multiple cameras' timecodes.

Ah I see yes, I agree with that. Sometimes the customer doesn't need to go on a deep dive and upgrades become less frequent anyway. But it doesn't change the fact that written journalism in the tech industry should not simply vanish, there is still a huge demand for it. It is just that the way we digest content now on small screens just isn't suited to magazine style in-depth articles so it discourages us from spending time that way. When I do try to spend time with many of these websites I am bombarded by cookie permissions, ads, bad design and clickbait anyway, whereas scrolling through apps on a phone is a much cleaner, faster experience. Yeah the ad dollars have by and large been hoovered up by influencer gobshites. Witness the last Pana launch where they outnumbered journalists by a huge margin. And anyone who does more probing coverage isn't as useful for marketing now anyway. They are not there to sell. They're there to tell the truth in an in-depth way. Guess which the marketing bosses prefer, them or the influencers? And therefore they spend accordingly... Indeed the ad industry has seen a large shift in spend to influence the influencer.... rather than to themselves directly influence the customer. Yes good point. But wasn't it always a minority in class rooms that nerded out on stuff like this? But yeah, times change... Today's kids are more likely to be into Telegram, Ai, social media, YouTube, console gaming and streaming. A toxic bunch of platforms if ever I saw one.

For anyone with a BMMCC (and a 3D printer) looking for the Digital Bolex ergonomics this might be right up your street.

It included a Kondor Blue cage, a timecode cable, and an XLR adapter (though they refunded me the used price of the XLR adapter since it wasn't included after all). That was the going rate for the K-X in May. I'm not too thrilled that the price dropped so much just a few months after I bought it, but since I intend to keep it for a good long time, I'm not super angry about the suddenly much lower resale value. The link is to one that's $3,598 from Adorama which I remember from looking earlier to see if they dropped yet is in "well-used" condition (aka pretty beat up, but still functional). And we'll see about the other brains - Scarlet and Red One were both already getting pretty cheap (brain-only), but a lot of the other bodies were really holding their used value when I got the K-X. I'd been thinking about getting one of the older VV bodies, but in the end realized that even if the brain was $2k cheaper than the K-X, by the time I got it ready to shoot with all the proprietary DSMC2 crap, it'd be within spitting distance of the K-X price-wise. Yes, in the form that was shown at conventions and listed on Adorama/B&H. Apparently there's still hope for... something, though the Komodo price drops might have obliterated that hope too. The E2-S6G was already a tough sell at an equal price to the Komodo. I can't imagine who would be buying it for more. The only reason I have one is that a user in Europe sold it to me for half the new price because he hadn't been able to find a buyer in Europe for months. He threw in some other goodies too (mounts, Z Back, etc). "I can't get anybody to buy this thing, not even for half price." "Half price, you say?"

I’m not defending DJI, but this comment sounds like a bit of unnecessary skepticism because objectively the image is as good as any of the cameras on the market today. Competent shooters knows it’s what’s put in from of the sensor that paints these images.

That's fair, though it's also somewhat par for the course with Z Cam. They tend to announce things and then go silent for a while, with just the occasional flash of the thing showing up at trade shows - and then suddenly they're shipping it. And I'm in the "believe it when I see it" category with every camera vendor, not just Z Cam. At least their upcoming product info tends to come from employees/partners and not from shacks in the Dolomite Mountains. 😉

Not surprising. It's hard to sell cameras at long-term-investment prices when no one knows what the new owners will do with that product and there are so many other brands on the horizon. As much as I would love a global shutter box camera, I don't know that I would spend half those prices on Red cameras, unless Nikon releases a product or two that proves their commitment to those lines. Also, I made a mental note early this year that 2024 would be a uniquely poor time to buy a camera. At that time we knew Nikon had bought Red, and there were rumors of a new Canon C-camera. Here we are a few months later, and on top of both of those, Blackmagic announced a truckload of cameras, Z Cam has presumably cancelled the M5G, and rumors are swirling about successors to the FX6 and S1H. It's quite the year for low-to-mid cinema cams.

Also, wish they'd drop V-Raptor [X] down to $10-15k new. If so, I'd definitely be going through all of my stuff to figure out what could be traded in. 🤣

If anyone is interested in Nikon Z6 III's video quality

For you vintage lens fans, here's an oldie but a goodie... I was able to get out over the weekend with my FP and I finally tested the 10bit cDNG mode... hat tip to @BTM_Pix for recommending that mode... feels really solid while saving some storage space... and I brought out the Minolta MC 55mm 1.7. Wide open it's a little glowy, but not bad, but stopped down to 2.8 and I feel it shines...

Damn, I thought I replied to your post already. This was all Prores. I did some tests when I first got it and found grading the Prores in post was just as flexible as the RAW, but it was easier for me in some ways, so I decided not to complicate the trip by also switching to RAW as well. I also have a vague memory that the RAW files corrupt if the camera runs out of battery while recording, but the Prores didn't, which isn't the way around you'd expect but it's what I experienced, so this sort of eliminates that too.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell Very sad to see the news of Anandtech stopping. Canary in the coal mine or what? If this can happen to a PC / tech website which is part of a thriving market compared to DPReview, then it can happen to ALL quality journalism on the world wide web. Anandtech is owned by Future PLC, they are the British company behind some of the earliest mainstream tech journalism in the UK such as the PC and Atari magazines on shelves in the 80s and 90s. In a nut shell smartphones are killing long form written content completely and the internet is going away as we know it. It is turning into cable TV or sensationalised clickbait tabloid news. Just look at the camera rumors sites and YouTube. A big shame if you ask me and it would be great to know what to do to preserve the written word, written journalism and written knowledge outside of just books, if the internet is no longer the right medium for it. Time for an internet 1.0... That can only be accessed via a desktop or laptop? The problem with phones is that you just don't have the large enough screen space to do anything useful, content wise. It lends itself only to scrolling and short captions, or photos and video.