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This. A 14 yr old daughter of a friend have a Iphone 15pro, but now carries everywhere a VERY crappy Olympus digicam, shoots everything with flash, and loves it. (now I've taught her on how to do long exposures) For me, is a trend - when Instagram appeared, everyone used their integrated filters in every photo, because it was so different, and now nobody uses. Dunno how this trend will carry - if 3 or 4 of the biggest infuencers start saying "clean iPhone photos are now the trend", it could dissapear fast. (probably is where the camera companies will put their money - reversing the trend could be cheaper than develop and sell new cameras)

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Almost 5 years having my trusty S1 as my workhorse camera (I work on fashion films, weddings and small commercials) and the S5ii/X series never felt like a true upgrade. No 4K 120, same crops, same codecs. And the absence of phase detect in full frame 1080/50p (which I use vastly on weddings and events). GH7 looks great for my needs but I have already built a nice lens set of Sigma 16-28, 28-70 and 35 1.4 and the transition to equivalent MFT lenses would be too costly. I love MFT and I still have my beloved G80 (which I use as a tripod camera for low budget gigs as well as a travel camera) with 25mm 1.7 and 14-42 but I wouldn’t use those lenses for serious professional work. However, the S9 is a thing of its own with its form factor/capability ratio. As long as Panasonic doesn’t soon release the S1II/H (which will probably be above 3K) I’m keeping an eye on it as a 2nd/gimbal unit. There is no phase detect issue at 1080p and my back will thank me after long hours of shooting due to the lightweight body compared to the S1 since 90% of my work is handheld. It can also be the perfect street/travel camera replacing my G80. I think I’ll wait a little bit for any news from Panny but I am close to pulling the trigger 🙂

Yeah and although you can mimic the same look with a CCD camera app and the flash on your smartphone, Gen Z does not want to "fake" it, they want the authenticity aspect. It's more fun that way, and I agree with em!

Which has now got me thinking again about doing this with one of my FF Lumix cameras which when shooting raw only, can do about 6 seconds I think at 30fps.

I think a big part of it has to do with the simple fact that taking pictures or video with your phone just isn't very fun. It doesn't feel rewarding. I never really go back and look at the photos and videos I've taken on my phone. Often I forget I even took a picture! There is something though about taking an actual camera, putting it up to your face, looking in the viewfinder, and clicking the shutter. It stimulates a part of the my brain, and the images are much more present in my head than anything I've ever taken with my phone. And then, at the end of the day, I go over all the photos I've taken, often with a couple of pictures in mind that I'm excited to see, and it just is such a rewarding experience. It's the closest thing to the excitement you'd get when you'd open up a freshly developed set of film and seeing how things had come out. It just feels so much more meaningful. I think that's a big part of what might be fueling a compact revival, and really might be what ultimately saves the camera industry. You just can't replicate the picture and video taking experience that you get using an actual camera.

I shot S5ii h265 yesterday as b-cam to the ursa mini pro, and for some shots I'm really preferring the S5ii image. Consider the fact that the BRAW out of the S5ii bypasses most of the complaints people have with the L2 processing…if you can deal with a monitor and latency…that image is literally the best you can get for its accompanied features under $2.5k, no question. I’d agree though, the S series first gen colors are special. It’s what makes me want to pick up an s5 or s1h sometime.

It is one of those things that can get blown out of proportion, but there is just something really organic about the S5's image. The S5II/X, to my eye anyway, is just a little too sharp even when bringing sharpness down in the camera. It's very subtle though and I've always assumed it had to do with whatever they had to do with the sensor for PDAF. It's so far from being a deal breaker though when you factor in the other quality of life improvements. If I was in a position to do so I'd upgrade all my cameras to S5II or S5II X bodies. But I'm not in a rush because my two S5 bodies will still be going strong and the image will almost certainly still hold up years from now. I don't think stagnant is the proper word, but things haven't changed very much in the last few years. You can pretty much pick up any camera released after 2017 and it still holds up well even today. The leaps that were made between the DSLR revolution and the release of the A7SII and GH5 were gigantic. The leaps made since, while welcomed, aren't nearly as significant. I know people who still are using the GH5 for their video business and while it's kinda crazy to imagine running your business on 8 year old cameras, it's really not as crazy as you'd think given how well it still holds up. That S5 though... 😉

The S5 is still such a great camera and one that you can still grow into, all for under $900 in like new condition with a warranty on sites like MPB, or even better deals you can find locally or on Facebook Marketplace/Craigslist/eBay/whatever. And even though it's going to be 5 years old this year, Lumix kept improving it with firmware updates so it doesn't feel terribly outdated. One of the reasons I say it's a camera that you can still grow into is because I've never even used the ProRes RAW or BRAW capabilities, never really had to because I do mostly event work, but the fact that the capability is there is incredible. There's just so much value in that camera even today. We've kinda hit a point where there's a good chance you will still be able to get comparable images from it five years from now, because you can't really say there are tons of cameras released since that give you a significantly better image in the under $4000 price range and I don't know that we're going to see a huge leap in the next 5 years outside of more resolution that most of us have no need for. Great camera and it's pretty funny how often I recommend it.

The AI was trained about overrigging a camera with Caleb Pike.

I wonder just how close we are to movie level now then... But I suppose the material still needs to exist to pull together to make this kind of thing and as a commercial and BTS, enough exists, but not for any kind of real movie that would require a unique script and acting. At least not without going CGI. It's crazy how good this stuff is becoming and if I was a youngster, I certainly would not be looking at the more traditional aspects of this industry such as cameras, lenses, lighting, sound etc, but what skills I could develop in my parents basement from my laptop. But for me personally, that would be a hard no as it would not interest me and I'd rather be a lumberjack or something.