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Sure, @ landcapturer on IG you can see my photography. If you like landscapes you will be served. Travel videos like the Cuba one, I do not do them so much anymore. I love to film, so I filmed a full video in Japan, in New Zealand, In Taiwan and other places. I have hundreds of hours of footage but it's all unedited. The truth is I enjoy the video shooting but not so much the video editing. So the only thing I edit is paid work, but that is not my main job, so rare thing once a year. For overheating, they fixed most of the overheating issue but even before that it was never a big deal for me. I shoot clips that are 20 seconds, not 20 minutes. I have never done an interview or something like that so it never bother me especially after the update. Where do you live? The mini, as I mentioned does it, but quality lacks. The Air 3S does not shoot vertical. Good to hear that! And yeah lot of $$ for sure gotta pay to play lol, but also everybody and their grandma have 8K with AI autofocus on a gimbal so there is nothing special now it's all the same cameras, all the same videos. Everybody and their grandma is also a YouTuber, influencer, etc. I did not follow the IG trend of posting reels all the time, I went from 15K followers to 10K in no time with 0 engagements because people don't care about photography anymore, they want to see viral garbage all they long and so that's what instagram feeds them. Fucking disaster, I am so glad I have a job because there is no way I was going to fit in this trendy pile of crappy content just for the sake of making views and get my paycheck. I feel sorry for the influencers that have to keep up with 2 reels a day to make a living, following what the algorithm wants instead of following their creative path. But don't start me on the fucking disaster of a world we live in guys. That's why you see my on my IG camping in remote locations in the middle of the desert or mountains. Far from all that shit! 🙂

Indeed this is where the real-world perspective helps. If a camera isn't designed to run in the highest quality mode for hours of continuous monologue, don't use it for that. Show us instead what it can do and what it's suited to. Unless there's a serious issue like with the EOS R5 at release where 30 or so photos in live-view locks you out of shooting 30 seconds of 8K for half an hour at a time!!! I don't use my Sigma Fp-L in Cinema DNG as a Twitch streaming cam! What next? GFX 100 for OnlyFans? It's the imaginary user he has in his head that's the problem isn't it? He doesn't quite have the average filmmaker in mind. Indeed and this is what fucking pisses me off about it. The Sigma Fp for example is an cine-art tool, it isn't a webcam. And he gave it a shit review because for his use-case of pointing it at himself doing selfies with autofocus on a tripod it wasn't optimal. Had he gone outside with it and shot a mood piece of nature and beauty in Cinema DNG, with a great sound track over the top maybe he'd have appreciate it more. His rant about not showing us any beauty and how he justified that was pathetic. As if he was looking down at art altogether and saying look how fucking irrelevant it is to camera reviews. It's the whole fucking point of a fucking camera you fucking dick.

I don't hate Gerald or think he's a bad person, I'm just bummed at what he has become. He genuinely seems pretty miserable doing this stuff, and the more he shares about himself (the comments about why he doesn't create anything were really illuminating) the more I wonder why he is even into cameras to begin with. If you aren't inspired to actually use these things to create art or entertainment, then what are you even doing? Those comments in particular brought me back to a comment he made in his previous video last year, where he bragged about being brought on these press trips to exotic places and filming nothing. Say what you want about those trips and whether they are ethical or not, how are you not inspired to photograph or film the sights and sounds of these exotic locations and the elaborate sets these marketing folks have created for you if you're even remotely into cameras? Surely your interest in cameras has to go beyond what you film in your basement and the tests you run on them... right?

He is starting to behave exactly like his best friend Philip Bloom with the thin skin and obsessing over a few negative comments on social media. There was a time when you could guarantee Bloom would come flocking to a comment like a moth to a flame, you only had to call him out anywhere on the internet and he'd find it. There's evidence he even resorted to editing his own Wikipedia at one stage. It's fucking pathetic. It is better to let the ego go when it comes to celebrity. Focus on the objective stuff, the creative. If Gerald is genuinely as jaded as he sounds maybe he should have a break from YouTube and see if he does actually enjoy using all this gear. If he goes and shoots some personal stuff and doesn't enjoy it then he's better off leaving the camera reviews to people who enjoy BOTH the technical and the shooting part.

Exactly. He has almost 500K followers, he is part of the problem, he helped create it and now he is playing the virgin. It sounds to me like a butcher lecturing on veganism. This is the second whining he has done in a few months and both times it was because of a Lumix review. At this point I don't think it's a casual thing. Yet if you read the comments to his whining, everyone agrees with him. Maybe all the loser haters are here.

I think I focus most on gear when I am struggling creatively, failing to find subjects or projects to work on. Cameras are creative tools and it seems the worst of the youtubers are the ones who treat their work like a grind with creativity as a distant afterthought. I still like Kai W, even though his work leans toward marketing, because he is so charismatic and seems to have a lot of fun actually taking pictures in the world with all the new gear. The Ed Prosser review of the S1RII is very good too. Others, who I don't think its necessary to name, have built complaining about their jobs into the reviews - which begs the question, why not do something else?

That's why the sales and marketing guys all burn out. They don't have that underlying passion or talent for art, cinema, photography... They get a kick from the affiliate links, channel building, glossy presentation, studio sets and meeting other influencers so that they can social network, and build further influence. That's where Gerald spends his time rather than getting a kick out of pointing his camera at stuff.

More Nikon fuel to the fire. In case you are interested how S5ii, GH6, GH7 and Z6iii look on one timeline, here’s a video from footage we shot last year. About first 2/3rd of the video is shot with S5ii and GH6, and the rest with Z6iii and GH7. Edited and color corrected in Resolve UHD 2020 ST.2084 (PQ) 1,000 nit timeline on a M3 Macbook Pro with P3 ST 2084 display preset. Exported to H.265 80Mbps with HDR10+ metadata embedded. Resolve color space transform: GH6, GH7, S5ii: input color space Panasonic Vlog or with Lumasweet LUTs Z6iii: Color space transform from Rec2020 NLog to Rec2020 ST.2084 Camera codecs and resolutions: GH6 and GH7: 5.8k25p open gate, 5.7k50p and 4k100p S5ii: 6k25p open gate, also with Sirui Saturn 1.6x in 2.40:1 AR, 4k50p Z6iii: 6k50p and 4k100p NRaw, 5.4k50p and 4k100p H.265 NLog Lenses: GH6: Olympus 75mm F1.8, 25mm F1.8, 20mm F2 GH7: same than GH6 and Nocticron 42.5mm F1.2 S5ii: S Pro 50mm F1.4, 100mm F2.8, Sigma 35mm F2, Sirui Saturn 1.6x 75mm T2.9 Z6iii: S 50mm F1.2, 85mm F1.8, 40mm F2 The video is shot in various lighting conditions on different locations through the 4 seasons, while S5ii IBIS, AF and Estabilization firmware updates were also tested when they were released. AF was used on some of the clips with S5ii and GH7 and almost on all clips with Z6iii. And last, it’s mainly a bouldering video. In bouldering you try to climb up a specific spot of rock. The more difficult the boulder is for you the more you have to try and fail, until you may succeed. As a bonus you get to enjoy nature, what views and joys it has to offer, and capture those memories too.

I want them to make a FX3 killer with low noise 5k sensor, 120fps, active cooling, and RED codec/log. But they won't. They're much smaller a company than Sony, and have to spend the limited R&D budget on upgrading the current line up. And they have to ramp up their glass business too; they have much work to do: filling the gaps in still lenses, and develop cine lenses (they got curiosity from cinema community, now they need their attention).

Thought I'd make a list, and it has ended up being quite big... - That sensor filter stack is amazing, turns a mediocre soft-ish lens wide open into something much better - Separate sensor readout on Z8 for the EVF, it's so effing fast... A real shot getter of an EVF - Z-Mount... It has proved to be the most versatile of all mounts, in the history of the industry - RAW video codecs, post RED-buyout they are clearly on top of the RAW game - Sensor development... Although they're using Sony Semi, these are not off the shelf chips. The Z8/Z9 sensor is superior to even Sony's own flagship full frame sensor (in the a1/a1 II/CineAlta Burano) - Heat management... 8K 60p RAW with not even a vent in the body (Z8, Z9) - IBIS. The Zf takes things to new heights, even better than Panasonic. As good as OM-1, but full frame - Rear screen... 3.2" may not sound a lot but it's appreciably larger than 3.0" on the Sony alpha cameras. - Ergonomics. Once you get used to the Nikon controls and menus they are some of the most intuitive... Really fast to switch between stillls and video mode too... although like all cameras there are still quirks - Affordable lenses... The Nikon 28-75 2.8, 40mm 2.0 SE, and 24-200mm travel zoom are all very high performing optically for the price. They have also allowed Sigma to bring their affordable APS-C range to Z-mount. Now do the same with the full frame ART lenses please Nikon! - Autofocus performance. I think it edges out the other brands overall, or at least level with Sony. Superior to Canon, Fuji and Panasonic. - Autofocus performance via adapters... The AF with Sony FE-mount lenses and Canon EF is excellent (Megadap & Fringer adapters). - Range of video codecs, resolutions and crops... The list is almost never-ending on the Z8 and Z9. Very impressed with that side, now they just need anamorphic & open gate to complete it - Colour science. It's super and the auto white balance system is very intelligent, as it was on their top-end DSLRs like the D5 and D850. The ability to add your own custom Fuji-style picture styles via Nikon Picture Control Utility is cherry on top (copy on from SD card). - Extended oversampling in 4K/60p... Sony a1 pixel bins in this mode and even in 4K/24p. The Z8 is capable of downsampling from 8K/60p, a full pixel readout. - Rolling shutter performance in 8K. Their flagship sensor is just crazy fast and it means you don't miss an obsolete mechanical shutter for photography - Price/performance ratio. I think the full frame Zf is a real sweet deal, Z6 II by far the best video specs and codec in the mid-range and the Nikon Z8 brand new for $3500 is better value for money than the already good value Panasonic S1R Mark II, let alone compared to Canon or Sony. The equivalent specs from Canon (EOS R5 II) and Sony (a1 II) cost $5-6K. It's all a big step from where Nikon were 10 years ago, let's get some perspective... Canon, Sony and Panasonic were far out in front for video and Nikon had only 1" sensors in their mirrorless cameras! The D750 was a decent start at taking video more seriously but only a 1080p DSLR with limited features, no phase-detect AF for video, no IBIS and so on. A much better stills camera than video. The D800 had been a big success in the years earlier, but the 5D Mark II and III took the vast majority of the video attention. D800 was definitely more a photographic success story. This recent progress makes me wonder what Nikon can do with RED. It would be nice to have a Z8 C with REDcode, global shutter and built in e-ND. It would also be nice if they update the Zf with the Z6 III sensor and N-RAW... Zf Mark II anybody?

With all due respect... It's not a forum about you, but about cameras. Let's start thinking about what is interesting to read and insightful for the 100s of people reading or researching at this moment, and what is pages and pages of personal exposition with no relation to the topic of cameras. We can discuss Gerald, he is very much on topic... including this one, as he has reviewed the S1R II. "UK (from London to Belfast) is my official residence and Malta will follow at same time for soon, very likely. With a few productions a bit spread all over EU and East Europe to include Moscow and Kyiv" This isn't S1R II related. It's about you. Let's not always make stuff about ourselves shall we?

@Emanuel RS in 6K/4K 60p full frame is around 15.5ms, so pretty good and not an issue for most scenarios. I am not fond of the 22ms in 24p 8k/4k, especially not the latter. What I could take away from the online footage is a lush creamyness of textures which I really like, high resolution without oversharpening.

We could meet in Berlin, though I have mostly done photo safaris but hardly any video rides with friends. I went on a cinema verité tour by myself last year for a couple of days, with my og pocket and a 25mm Cmount lens. S1H with the Vivitar 90mm and a tripod is rather something for a single filmer expedition I imagine and a rather unsocial affair of carrying and sweating heavily:)@Emanuel Hardly any videos on youtube from the 10bit fullframe league by Sony, Canon and Panasonic have wowed me. Nikon Z6III looked awesome in the skating video. A real stand out regarding motion, texture and colour. I also admired some Canon R7 videos for their colour. I'm interested to see how the S1RII will be put to use. Panasonic had one impressive launch video for the GH6 from a french director which was a true showcase. All the other GH6 videos were again rather generic imho.

Man, do we meet? When? ; ) Tomorrow I will meet some Polish EOSHD user I crossed my life with over these same pages. He will be with his Fuji and I will be with my FX30 and some vintage glass, that is, if I will locally find an adapter till tomorrow... I am done with Amazon's local courier (CTT Express failed their delivery for today!). Any pics from those setups BTW? PS: Andrew could organise a meeting for those users interested to test my spoken English skills! LOL ;- )

I got the Vivitar 1 alteration of the Bokina. I'd call it the steelhammer version. It is so robust and tough. Mine has a ca 1/3" × 1/4" × 1/4" chunk of steel chipped off miraculously by a former owner, maybe in a steelhammer manner. It still operates like a charm. This lens is crazy regarding built. What a beasty lens. I have only used it once or twice many years ago. I must change that. Which Viv I lenses do you have? @Ninpo33We could do a Vivitar cinema verité piece or any kind of video and share it here. I got the Bokina and a Vivitar 35mm 1.9, which I wouldnt consider in the same league as the Bokina. I'm pretty sure the 35mm is not a lens from the I series. The 28mm F2 looks beautiful. Must be a pleasure to hold and use. It's a shame I left that gem collecting dust. As it comes to my mind, I even have a converter for it, changing it into a 60 or 65mm lens. This lens is a good reason for some solid tripod fun! Back to topic. If the S1RII has a creamy look like a C500II with absence of oversharpening, it could be a tempting prospect of Gas. Better not.:)

Their first 40mm 1.8 doesnt have L mount and have noisy AF, but seems that is all fixed up. Just waiting for actual lens review on L mount camera before I jumped the ship

Why did RED Hydrogen fail? Cost? It wasn’t that much more expensive than the top iPhone of its day. Android rather than iOS? (Possibly the most significant reason I never used it as a phone - the photographs I took were fun). The pre-sale hyperbole made it too easy to criticise? Insufficient info relating to the expansion pins and the so-called (and never developed) cinema grade camera module? Poor choice of manufacturer (who apparently promised more than they were able to deliver)? Lack of mainstream interest/awareness of H4V/3D? The in-built camera was certainly no better than other cameras in phones - immediately depriving it of any perceived advantage of being a RED? Expectation. JJ’s habit of promising a rose garden (albeit inhabited by skulls) then problem after problem, waiting upon waiting… rather than low-key developing, low-key manufacturing and Big Hype delivering. Design wise it was stunning. It received regular and significant updates. Yet it failed dismally. What lessons are there for any other camera manufacturer thinking along similar lines? Don’t bother?

Funnily enough, just found some pics from that evening. Days of innocence (kinda).

@Jahleh I didn’t think there would be a very noticeable difference. On a 4K Sony OLED TV in HDR those Nikon shots just look like a whole other level. Whole video looks great, but is amped up to 11 with the Nikon. The highlight roll off and color gives the image a larger than life feeling. Watch Jimmy Chen slowly come to the Nikon side for his upcoming docs with Alex Hanold.

DRE is only available in the 5.8k and above higher res modes if I remember correctly. Also, read out speeds at 4k and super 35 are below 15s rolling shutter at 60p so very usable. Also, I love the ”Bokina”. I have several of the older Tokina/Vivitar Series 1 lenses and they are really a bargain for the image they produce and the build quality.

I don't watch these s/cam promoters. I am interested in our footage and discoveries, like we used to share much more in pre 10bit full frame times. I want to see a Tokina 24-40 in action, mounted on a camera of your choice. I still got mine and what a character lens it is, very gloomy at 2.8, mechanically a joy to use. I'd mount mine on my S1H for some 10bit HD 120p or the Tokina Bokina on a tripod in 120p pixel to pixel mode. Old song, as old as the ones about shill cam channels. Back to topic. Does DRE work in S35 and pixel to pixel 4k? That could provide an acceptable readout speed for DRE use.

It's a really entitled video, all about him. A lot of people would be very happy to have his job and his money. He doesn't have to shoot anything, doesn't have to chase clients and he often doesn't even have to buy any gear, it comes from marketing. I don't mind that he's rebutting criticism, it's the way he does it that annoys me - Saying he doesn't care about dynamic range and rolling shutter, after spending the last 10 years and every video advocating such stuff to us and measuring it... that is just highly fucking disingenuous, not to mention hypocritical. And I do think that lacking the artistic perspective matters in camera reviews. He needs to go out and shoot more. Instinctual talent and creative ability is one thing, you either have it or not. But it's as if he doesn't even try at it. No wonder he sounds so jaded. There's literally no point in camera performance, dynamic range and so on if you yourself ain't going to use it creativity. I think he's bored. The pivot to Apple products isn't far off.

I watched the video and it was, as I expected, a lot of him whining about things where he was accurately called out. He made some wishy-washy comments about how he talked about the RS early and often because of this and that, but I'd be willing to bet that if I had the attention span to go back and rewatch his video on any Sony camera with high RS (at least equal to the S1R II, and probably in 4K because... Sony), it'd probably be mentioned only briefly and about 3/4 the way through an otherwise glowing video. He also threw in digs about overheating which is completely nonsensical, but he said would be a deal-breaker for him. Fair enough, of course, but overheating after more than 1 hour in the camera's most taxing mode and not at all in most modes is just not a big thing for most people. Poor battery life? Sure, that's somewhat valid, but easily solved by... buying a couple more batteries or just plugging the damn thing in, either to mains or a v-mount... or to a USB PD power bank for that matter. He also completely misrepresents the comments people make about him not being a filmmaker. It's totally fine for him to make an objective video where he talks about the specs of a camera. One doesn't have to be a filmmaker for that. On the other hand, the attention he pays to minutia and how much he harps on various things that are not that important to a filmmaker are relevant to the discussion. Any of his preferences/suggestions come from the point of view of a person who leaves a studio permanently set up and, for the most part, stands by a desk and talks into a stationary camera. I'm not a wedding videographer and as such, if someone came to me asking for the best gear to use if they wanted to get into it, I'd probably refer them to MrSMW and/or some local friends who do that instead of posing as the expert. I'm not a commercial filmmaker either - so if someone wanted advice on the best stuff for corporate talking heads videos and the current fashion trends related to it, I'd send them off to a friend who does that stuff. Even for the things I do shoot, if people ask me for info on the camera to buy, the answers have a lot of "well, it depends," "opinions vary," and "basically every mirrorless or cine camera released in the last 5 years will probably work just fine for you." After all... they're all pretty damn good now. If only that guy had released the Fran, I could have at least one camera to tell people not to buy. Maybe the Bosma 8K sucks? I remember seeing that it's actually for sale in some places, but I've never heard of anybody actually using one.

I've watched this livestream on the LUMIX YT channel yesterday and a couple of interesting/new things were said (at least new to me) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghXxZTwNMpE 1) Matt Frazer suggested to keep the digital cropless stabilisation on at all times because it uses gyro data to do perspective correction so it reduces motion induced rolling shutter (I believe in a similar fashion to what resolve can do on BRAW) 2) because of this geometry correction the electronic stabilisation can also work with anamorphic lenses now 3) 4k120 is binned but there's also the option to shoot in 1:1 readout if needed (that of course would mean a 2x crop approximately but I think is good the have the option of a clean 4k120 if needed) 3) when recording to SSD in those modes that require extra power with the battery grip or the dummy battery if one battery dies or the dummy is unplugged the camera will be able to close the file correctly before it stops recording so no corrupted files thankfully 😅 I'm going to Park Cameras in London tomorrow where Lumix reps will be present with the camera so if there's anything you'd like me to ask/check let me know! 😊

I mean, she can stand up in a car, but she ain't Sydney Sweeney.

Gerald DOES get a lot of dumb criticism, but he also uses that to deflect valid criticism by lumping it all together. This thread, which also is related to another time Gerald got upset and decided to rant to his subscribers to make himself feel better, discusses most of the criticisms and his hypocrisy. He helped create the beast that bothers him so much today. I remember making this post in October 2022, which is around the time I kinda realized what Gerald really is about. It still rings true, too.

Like I said the other day, this is a lot like his response to the Z Cam review where he complained throughout the whole thing about a file corruption problem that only happened if you ripped out the battery while recording (and was fixable by sending the file to Z Cam for repair). A bunch of people correctly and politely told him that it really wasn't a big deal and he made a follow-up video whining that people felt attacked and tribal. Almost nobody felt "attacked" - we just thought his review was stupid and got irritated that every dimwit who had never touched a Z Cam and got information from him would start complaining about file corruption if recording during power loss literally every time you mentioned the camera anywhere. I don't have the patience to go re-watch his original review to see how many times he complained about rolling shutter on the S1R II, but I bet it's the same sort of thing. Now every time anybody anywhere brings up the camera, there will be an army of his followers "but what about the rollllliinnnnngngggg shuuttttterrrrsssss??? go watch GURRAALLLDDDDD" Meanwhile, yeah, 32ms rolling shutter is pretty bad. I have it on my GFX 100 II in 8K mode and yeah, if something is moving horizontally through the frame at almost any speed, you will probably see it a little bit. Solution? Don't use that mode in those cases. Works fine for plenty of other stuff. Something's moving horizontally? Better to just use the 4K mode that has like a 15-17ms readout. Anybody with the S1R II will probably end up doing the same thing. Seeing too many artifacts in the slow readout mode with horizontal movement? Better to use a different mode for those scenes, then. Ideal? Nope. A major problem? Big nope. Worth alleging some inclination to be negative because Jerry didn't get his free trip to the S9 event? Yuuup. Guess I'll go watch Gerald's dumb video now because apparently I like drama more than watching balanced reviews.

Even a Viltrox lens looks good thanks to her!

@PannySVHS@ita149 This guy has some footage to download in a range of codecs if you want to work with it a bit. I have and while there is not much, I am at least seeing there is no longer the need to pull greens out of the midtones, which is a standard proceedure for me with my S1 VLog footage. Curious what you see & think regarding the color smearing in skin tones. (Also appreciate that this might not be the best footage to evaluate that concern.) Edit: youtube video linked now! (sorry sorry)

Rolling shutter will be a situational issue and I agree that more more footage I see, the less concerned I am than from the early reports. Yeah, the middle of the CVP review is disconcerting but this is a very tight crop of the subjects head in 6k open-gate and it really appears to be not significant in many other scenerios that align with how I shoot and what I need. @Jahleh Also agree - super heartening to see some really gorgeous footage. I've not watched everything but I was initially pretty put off by the 8k I saw from PetaPixel - seemed overly sharp with aliasing in the details. So much that I'm seeing now is so much nicer. I may wait until end of June or I might spring for it in early April depending upon the work I have coming up. A few days ago I covered (photo & video) two rallys over six hours at the State House in New York. Profoundly variable lighting, mixed lighting, terrible light quality and hundreds of people in a variety of locations. The S1 is still a champ but when I think about one switch to move from photo to video (vs a dial and two button presses), higher resolution with no lower light penalty, auto focus that I can point to an individual in a crowd and say "stay there" for the next thirty seconds, to be able to walk and have quite good stabilized footage.... I'm excited to not be fighting the camera to get the results, let's just say.