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Went here today where they had hands on units. It feels *maybe* a little narrow but a small grip will sort that. My advice is if you don’t want to buy it then for God’s sake don’t have a play with it because you will very likely walk out with one. Unfortunately, they aren’t released here for another week by which time I’ll be back on Monkey Island so without a pre-order I expect I won’t see one available for a while. Incidentally, the orders for the X100vi are still suspended even here in FujiFilm’s own flagship place so you have to wonder at how fluid the supply of the new camera will be too.

Not a Black Friday deal but a deal none the less: i needed a wireless mic system but refuse to buy one of those ones with non-replaceable batteries, so decided to see how much the old Rodelink Filmmaker Kits were going for on ebay... I bought one from a reputable seller that is listed as in "excellent" condition for $25 with free shipping. I bid, thinking it would probably get higher than that but nope, I won it for $25 and it'll arrive Friday. I'm quite happy!

You're a free speech absolutist but a very poor judge of character. Are you not watching who Trump has around him, men like Steve Bannon and Matt Gaetz. The former is another convict, and the latter is an alleged sex offender under investigation from all corners, $10k payments to prostitutes, sex with an underage girl and there's even a witness for that. This is only just scratching the surface of the Trump circle jerk. They are terrible people. Absolutely terrible. You as an American deserve better.

Z8, GFX100S and Sony a1. The Z8 because it just doesn’t give a fuck about restricting specs and for the mounting options. The GFX100S because it had a tiny bit of flaking so was ridiculously cheap *and* it’s party trick is to not only be able to adapt all of my F mount lenses with AF but also my Hasselblad HC lenses. That’s a new lease of life for those lenses, particularly the HC lenses as my H3Dii39 is beyond economic repair. The a1 because used ones have got a lot cheaper in the last ten days with the impending mark 2 versions and it hits a sweet spot of resolution, power and compactness. Also, I have seldom seen anything other than very, very nice video coming from it. The other thing that stopped me was the nagging feeling that a mark 2 Fp-L or higher res ZF are possibly coming over the horizon. At which point the dance will begin anew.

The main improvements for video over the A1 include the improved IBIS (8.5 vs 5.5), stabilization modes, rear screen (resolution and functionality), AF performance, LUT support (importing function), high ISO performance, higher second-base ISO in S-Log3 (5000 vs 4000), and the new implementation of S-Log3 to match the Venice/Burano color space and detail (as a dedicated B-cam). Also, the 8K insect 🦋 stock footage business will never be the same!

US labor costs more than foreign labor. Bringing jobs into the US does not reduce the cost of goods. Also, factories don't build themselves (that costs a bunch of money and will take time) and people won't instantly be trained to do the work. So yeah, years of major inflation. Learn to read. I said "immigrants" and didn't qualify their documentation status. Shit for brains said he wants to also revoke citizenship from a number of people who entered the country legally. We're also talking about inflation here and when farmers and slaughterhouses, etc have to suddenly start paying 5-10x the prices for labor, the prices of food will go up. Yes, there isn't specific evidence of Trump fucking children with Epstein. There's also no evidence that he didn't. There is, however, evidence that they were buddies, Trump brags about sexually assaulting women, and women who were in teenage beauty pageants that he judged said he used to like walking into the changing room while they were undressed. Also, Matt fucking Gaetz. Don't be a cherry picking dipshit. Who is asking about fucking opinion polls? Trump's convictions weren't through the DOJ anyway. It was through the state courts of New York. Learn how the fucking legal system works. I'm asking, specifically, what's wrong with you and your dangerously impaired critical thinking skills. Do you get all of your information from a steady diet of right-wing news sources? What the fuck? He proved the first time that he is completely incompetent at running a country which is why, specifically, people voted him out of office. Also, I'm not talking about the "American voter." I am talking about you, specifically, and the dumbshit reasons you're giving for supporting a sex predator. Bill Clinton, FWIW, lied about receiving a blowjob from an intern. There is a big difference between "questionable morals" and "rapist." If you can't tell that difference, kindly remove yourself from any public discussion of anything. You are an embarrassment to my country. If you think Trump will "protect freedom," you are truly idiotic and I won't bother responding to any other pablum that you want to post. Trump will protect "Donald J Trump" and will be glad to fuck over anybody else in order to enrich himself and his cronies. Here you go again with dipshit comments about Ukraine. If somebody invaded the US, most people wouldn't be OK with us just giving up a few states to avoid further conflict. But yet, you think that the only solution is for them to do just that, any you wring your hands while shedding crocodile tears about their generation of young men that will be lost because the big bad US had the gall to arm them to defend themselves against Russian aggression. Note also that BIden escalated jack shit with military strategy. Our military is not in Ukraine. You'd know that if you pulled your head out of your ass long enough to actually pay attention.

The tariffs and mass deportation of immigrants proposed by Trump are likely to cause an inflation nightmare. Nearly every economic expert agrees. But be sure to enjoy your gas costing a little less at the pump. Great logical thinking skills on display there. Congratulations on electing a candidate who was friends with Epstein and just put an alleged sex trafficker up as his head of the DOJ, then. What a great step ahead in the fight against trafficking! Being convicted of 34 felonies and still running is, frankly, a stupid fucking reason to elect somebody. What the fuck is wrong with you? You do realize, right, that had he dropped out of the race, he would likely have been convicted for election interference in Georgia as well as having to face trial for his federal crimes relating to the 2020 election? Staying in the race was fully motivated by his own self-interest. And hey, now that he's going to be in control of the DOJ, he can demand that it settle his own 100 million dollar lawsuit. Nice that he'll directly take tax dollars from every individual in the US and put it in his own bank account. The recordings of him talking about how much he liked sexually assaulting women? How great that we have a sexual abuser in office - confirmed in court, as part of the trial for him defaming a woman that he sexually assaulted. Once again, what the fuck is wrong with you? The problem is that I do believe he will follow through on a number of the things he said he would do. Most of them are fucking awful. Elon Musk is an expert in almost exactly one thing - hiring smart people and exploiting them. He's invented exactly one thing - the hyperloop, the dumbest form of mass transit that has been proposed in more than 50 years. He's a shithead who failed upward by owning part a company that he was driving into the ground, getting fired as its CEO, and profiting when Peter Thiel actually made it successful. Oh yeah, the guy with a history of putting his own interests ahead of quite literally everybody else really has your back. Great reasoning there. He definitely won't fuck the common person and do a bunch of stuff to enrich himself and his cronies. Even if it means he'll have a few dollars less, he'll definitely look out for the little guy. 🤣

The Amaran portion of Aputure's BF deals dropped. Some decent deals - now kicking myself for having paid normal prices for a couple of T4C's + extra battery + grid a couple of months ago. Still picked up another. Also finally grabbed an F22C. If I didn't already have the B7C 8-light kit, I'd have jumped at the sale price for it too. Now hoping that Sidus One is included in Aputure's BF sale once it hits. https://amarancreators.com/collections/black-friday-sale

But I’d rather have the Hassie 😉 I ogled one in a camera shop window the other day, but dared not enter and actually handle it. Or risk divorce papers being served.

It always does. I currently hope they do not make a successor to the FP because my dancing skills are shit. But until then, the GFX100S for me. I have almost pressed that button so many times, but in the end, came down in favour of the A7RV.

That's shockingly cheap! Congrats. I wouldn't advocate for the RodeLinks though, because: too big, & 2.4GHz Saw yesterday Sony UWP-D11 for only US$50, only needs the TX antenna to be repaired/replaced (an easy fix there are lots of guides for). That would be a much better buy, although it was in the illegal (for USA) 600MHz band so not suitable for your purposes. Legal / working Sony UWP-D11 wireless seems to run more in the two hundred plus ish range, still an amazing bargain.

Oh I bought two lenses too as soon as the paralysis wore off 😂 They were easy though as I needed two more servo zoom MFT lenses for a project and the herd is thin when it comes to those. I *think* there are only four (two each by Panasonic and Olympus) so I now have the full set.

Just made use of it with a bottle of Boss Bottled Absolu for £57. Bargain.

Yeah, that’s just one of the things he does. He does wildlife and has several YouTube channels too. Lots of good testing in the real world with examples which I like. Takes the time to actually shoot and not just read of camera specs at their desk so he gets my vote.

Once upon a time, Vimeo. For reasons officially unknown (I'll come back to this later) Vimeo stopped being, for us Europeans, a community of video storytellers. (As it still likes to call itself). Basically, in certain regions of the world you can no longer use the video search function and at the same time you can no longer browse other users' videos. I can only see and search my own videos and eventually see a video of another user only if I have its link. Even if I know his name I cannot search for him. I can only see his profile if I know his exact url. This post sums up what happened: https://shortverse.beehiiv.com/p/vime-nooo I am so angry. I noticed it by accident and I also looked like an idiot because I as well as thousands of other users thought it was a bug. No communication at all. Out of the blue. The entire UE community lost. Membership fee is the same for everyone but I have most of the features disabled. Those who read this thread and, for example, have an account in the U.S. or other countries not affected by this ban might think that this does not affect them. But it absolutely does not! I have several friends in the U.S. who use their Vimeo account for showreels, basically a videocentric Linked-in. In their profile they have written "available for hire." Here, you must know that their profile is no longer searchable from banned countries. And we don't even know which ones they are. I can only access a video of theirs via direct link but I can't go to their profile or search them by name via the search function. This is my following people page: I can see their names but I cannot click on their profile icons. Sounds like a joke. What is the point of these lists now? Just imagine my frustration, I've been a member for 13 years and I've developed a whole network of relationships over all these years and now I can't even see the profiles of people I've collaborated with, anymore. Think about it before you renew your subscription!

That’s fair. Could also just be profit motive in another direction: “we have all these parts let’s just throw these extra parts in a smaller body and call it a day”