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Yeah its pretty exciting as a Canon shooter myself to see a new product line emerge, especially one dedicated to video. First flat top Canon design ever. I don't know about no overheating as this is an entry-level product aimed at social network content creators so usually very short form content but the video below states they worked hard to avoid it. In any case rest assured this is the first product of an entirely new V camera line dedicated to video so its pretty much a given pro FF version will come. Here is a rare glimpse into the R&D folks at Canon HQ talking about it: R50V also has filters, custom LUTs, false color, aspect markers & 2.35:1 cine mode. Pretty cool for a $695 camera!

It was missing a question mark as I was looking for confirmation if it was or wasn’t 😀 I don’t disagree but by the same token, the S5 has garnered the reputation as being a much nicer image than it’s successor the S5ii from people who own both bur I only have personal experience with the latter so I have no idea. Keeping the resolution of the camera in all names means It has a whiff of the file naming abyss you fall down with “FinalEditUltimateRevisionDeliveryVersion.mov” that quickly becomes “FinalEditUltimateRevisionDeliveryVersion_v2.mov”

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How about a fat fucking cunt named Donald. Would make a great soviet villain.

To save you bothering to watch that video (as pretty as the visuals are) here is what it ended up being about.

Here it is, the camera i have wanted 5 years ago! https://www.canon.co.uk/cameras/eos-r50v/ A strange time: so many options: a cheap red komodo for that indie movie, a supersmall canon camera with 10 bit codec - things everyone would have dreamt of 5-8 years ago.

So its not the X version and its not the new Z mount version but still its a lot for a lot less. https://www.red.com/stories/komodo-price-drop

The EOS R50 V is a loss leader out to encourage lens sales with a huge army of social media influencers and Youtubers. On the face of it, it's definitely a step forward from Canon in the value for money stakes. Sure, they will want you to buy loads of expensive glass for it. Thankfully Sigma is doing some nifty APS-C lenses so we don't have to. I do like the built in LUTs, C-LOG3, AF should be decent although maybe perfect, but it does lack an EVF and IBIS.

It doesn't have a full HDMI, SDI or proper timecode. FAIL. For me, it doesn't look as good as my 5Diii, no internal storage and it doesn't have IBIS. WTF... Why didn't anybody tell me this? Haha, but I'd still argue that BM neutered everything that was cool about the OG Pocket's image for those other things, without adding the better battery life... but I guess that's debatable because there are so many different low end, +K BM Pocket models that it's hard to differentiate which one does what or all of those things. "If you want better battery... well then you have to upgrade to the 6K... better screen and internal NDs... you my friend will need the 6K Pro. If you just need 4K and a better screen, then the 4K will work for you... but just a warning it is in no way pocketable, but by pocket we always meant it had a built in hand grip and was shaped kinda like a regular camera not that it could actually fit into a pocket. Also the image just isn't as cool as the original pocket... but with the included software you can just do it in post." "Ok... cool. But I shoot events and YouTube content" "Then you will want one of our various switchers. We sell them too" Blackmagic Design, your all stop shop for things you don't need that end up being a lot more complicated than Premiere and FCPX.

I think the elephant in the room is that Nikon is clearing space in their lineup. I assume they want to get a little bit more out of the Komodo before it's discontinued for their lower end cinema camera. A bunch of good news here. If somebody is in the market for a low end cinema camera, can you do much better? Pyxis vs Komodo? Other than FF fanatics, the choice is pretty clear. other good news... it's possible this pricing is a sign that Nikon may be replacing it with a similar priced camera in the future. As far as cinema camera popularity, it's hard to judge from this site or even from YouTube. How many times have we seen/heard people want a cinema camera... the P4K was a great example, but after the, BM Overlords are demigods for giving us soooo much, talk subsides then you see a lot of BM cameras for sale on eBay. How many times do you hear (myself included) if the FP was just everything that it wasn't designed to be, then I'd love it. Or the C200 shoots internal 4K raw... that's fucking amazing... what a fail though because they didn't offer an internal 10bit codec... Cinema cameras are a pain in the ass to use and aren't for most shooters, especially the people who frequent this site. Some offer better IQ than most mirrorless cameras, but mirrorless cameras are easier and a lot of times, more fun to operate... But that Redcode...

What makes the Komodo special is the look of global shutter and 16bit raw, but more than this a terrific OLPF. I'm not in the market and agree it's not as convenient as mirrorless setups, so here's hoping that Nikon puts a strong and well engineered OLPF in their upcoming cameras focused on video. I owned both the Z8 and the Z6III, terrific cameras, usable in most situations but plagued by moiré.

$3k is a good price but it might be more interesting to wait it out and see what Nikon mirrorless camera gets Redcode. As for global shutter vs rolling shutter... 4ms vs global shutter is probably not going to be very noticeable. The Fuji X-H2S is doing 9ms in 4K and 4ms in 4K/120p and it costs $1500 on eBay. Show us 🙂

I think the new price might give many people looking to buy a PYXIS some pause for thought. Although from what I can see on here at least, the lack of discussion about the PYXIS seems to indicate that there has been a lot of pausing about buying one even before this. Everyone wants a box camera until it comes time to buy one.

Was catching up with my new favourite magazine The Atlantic today They have some neat AI articles https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093/ Like this one about the kind of scale of piracy the tech giants are doing in order to train some of their mainstream AI models. There's a link to a tool called LibGen, where you can put in an author name and see if his work has been harvested up by Meta and used to train their large language models. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/ Sure enough I put "Andrew Reid" into it and up comes the GH4 guide. So we can confidently say the Meta's Llama 3 knows all about shooting 4K with a certain 2014 Lumix camera. When do I get paid and how much?

https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/RN_e.htm After you selected the camera, click on the name above the chart, it opens the table As you see in R5m2 all points are triangles, meaning noise reduction on RAW at all ISO settings.

Assuming that you're talking about the price of the lens that you have, sold item search on ebay puts it between $700 and $1,000 depending on condition. I'd guess that the simmod mount swap would put you near the higher end of the range.

No, there's hype, but it's fabricated. Panasonic gave all of them an S9 for free to use forever. Please find me a YouTube video of someone who purchased the S9 at its retail price. I've counted 11 reviews on B&H since its release. That tells me it's not exactly selling like crazy and like many have said- it's way too expensive for what it is.