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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!

Maybe a lot of the reviewers are just thankful to do an easy review so close to the holidays. No need to do much work reviewing the camera when it's basically just like the last one. "The last one was just fine and this one, being basically the same... is also just fine."

But when Nikon keeps an old sensor in a sub $1000 APSC body and upgrade everything else, the internet says "what a bummer". When Sony does the same, in a $6500 body, YouTubers call it "mind blowing", "perfect flagship". If Canon does the same its called "corporate greed", but when it comes to Sony its called "strategy". It also debunks the old stupid notion, again, that Sony Semi keeps the best and state of the art sensor for Sony Imaging! Sony Semi can't send the best when Sony Imaging says "We don't want the best, cause its high development price lower our profit margin, thanks". So Sony users are stuck with 8k30p, and non downsampled 4k, for the next two years, while users of the other Sony Semi customer have 8k60p and downsampled 4k60.

Correct. Although when you look at who Trump has appointed in the cabinet, you have to say that the majority of those Americans aren't a very astute judge of character, or perhaps they're simply unawares. Lesser of the two evils? Trump's tariffs will destroy the US economy and triple inflation, and it doesn't need a 'mainstream media outlet' to tell you that. It's simply logic. If he does what he says he will, and nobody stops him, then he could also crash the global economic outlook as well. The stock market has already fallen following his batshit crazy cabinet picks. I can't in any way deny that the Democrats completely messed up this election... Too cozy with corporate culture and lobbyists, ignored men, ignored Bernie Sanders, can't claim a good record on the economy when normal people aren't feeling it and only big businesses are... And involved in two depressing wars. But the fact that people think Trump is the lesser evil just seems completely wrongheaded to me. It's as if you folk have been brainwashed by a cult leader. I agree... Too much divide and rule in today's pre-war world. Absolutely... Shelter is unaffordable, food is a rip off, and society is becoming clinical, sexless, dull. In fact property prices, rent prices, food prices, are a big reason Biden lost the election. And he ain't responsible for any of it. Global population is growing, resources are not keeping up, and the US public will find out soon enough that whether they elect a politician or a celebrity, it won't make a damn difference in the long term. You have a celebrity apprentice government with unserious, inexperienced demigods and narcissist in it, and somehow they have been able to resonate with the public. That shows how vast the failure of the liberals are... That a convicted felon was able to resonate with the everyday American family better than the morally posturing vacant Harris. They didn't lie at all the polls were very accurate, it was a close outcome in the few key states where the voting mattered, 51-49% is a similar margin to Brexit referendum in the UK which was always on a knife edge, and in these situations even a Joe Rogen podcast can sway the result last minute. Why do you think Trump is the lesser of the two evils then, he is the ultimate divide and profit by media candidate. He is not out for you. He is not out for anybody but himself and his racist rich friends. I am all for it. No hardened personal feelings towards you at all.

Just because the majority of voting Americas voted for Trump, does not make them conservatives or right wingers. Many of them simply voted against Harris, just as people voted against Trump in 2020. Picking the lesser of two evils is what it comes down to in American politics today and not some type of ideological victory as the media would have you believe. So when I encounter liberals - I happen to rent a room from one. When we actually talk about the issues, it turns out we have more in common as Americans than the media would have us believe. All these labels do is divide people... I'm pretty sure the hierarchy of needs is something like shelter, food, and sex rather than "believe what I believe or we can't work together to help each other get our common needs meet"... Ironically every day has now become "be kind to a liberal day" because the media completely lied to their base about the election forecast - no wonder people for Harris are upset about the election results - same thing happened on 2016. The situation is not people vs people - it is divide and profit by the media - it makes sick the brain washing the has taken over society. People are people and may the best film maker win regards of how they voted in an election, or what race or gender or creed they are. The facts is, it is the people against the media rather liberals against conservatives - what a deception - I happen to like pulp fiction and tropic thunder... great cinema is great cinema and great comedy is great comedy no matter who makes it and who is offends... The price of freedom is me allowing other's to express ideas that I don't agree with and other's allowing me to express ideas they don't agree with... hopefully the first amendment is practiced on this forum. ; )

Obviously is a lens that exists to compete against Canon's 28-70mm f2 Are Panasonic and Nikon going to bring out their own versions of this next as well?? Is this lens going to make @MrSMW once again rethink his wedding filmming / photography setup? (or no? Too heavy?) Is going to have a RRP of US$2898, and will be shipping this Decemeber. You can see here what the lens looks like on a FX3, not too badly sized: Sony also announced a new Second-Generation Flagship flagship camera, the Sony Alpha 1 II Also will be shipping in December, and is priced at US$6,499 https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1861705-REG/sony_a1_ii_mirrorless_camera.html Key Features: From a videographer's perspective, not really a huge upgrade from the mk1?

From a Canadian perspective as well. The US Democratic Party would be considered centre-right in Canada. Having said that even Canadian politics is more right than it used to be, much like the world. This was predicted by historians. When resources run out, people start fighting over their differences (which previously would have been ignored) then political opportunists see this and use it to gain power.

You know what I immediately realised when I've started to deal with Russia (I lived there in 2012 and 2013) in those twenty years ago of 2005? Western politicians should only be able to candidate to the office from a living experience in Russia or they have no clue what they're doing. West should never insult/defy the good people of Russia because of the bad apple BUT never to be afraid of them either. Such fear will lead all of us to a nuclear war, unfortunately, just not in 2024 or 2025, very likely. Trumpism explores you all in a very embarrassing way, to the general view and history/science no less WTH : X Biden is the best President you had in two decades at least. To only pair Clinton and Reagan, whether the differences between them whether you like it or not. Half of U.S. voters are a bunch of ignorants on economics to begin with and their vote just proves it. Let alone the politics and sense of reality. Plain pathetic : ) On this, among a lot of other their claims, @Andrew Reid and @eatstoomuchjam are 100% accurate. And I am not the kind of individual who don't see pros and cons practically about everything TBH. Disclaimer: Nothing about you @majoraxis (one of my favs ones over here : ) neither I have any beef against Trump or Musk, on the contrary even though my fierce resistance, they're not losers at all, of course, I wish they would! BTW in the past, I supported for U.S. President versus anyone else who could fit the job, the perfect real American war hero and one of the best Americans ever born: John McCain. Remember his position on all this we're living today? And his loyalty to 'his' POTUS and VPOTUS too? Just not to this current elected one. You have no clue what you've done. Despite the fact you are in California so I suppose you haven't elected him. Your electoral system is far to be a democracy. A lunatic left not a small blemish on his father, uncle and his own family name's memory, when arranged a way to stay in the American history selling his vote for a role. And less than 233 thousands of votes in 3 out of 50 States and the District of Columbia. No 2nd round. Anyone with less than 50% can become the most powerful man in the world and rule the lives of all of us worldwide. For some reason the South African-born American businessman Elon will be part of the next government. The characters are all there: We have no need to be Nostradamus to understand what's really going on.

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.

You must be new to the scene... cause this scene isn't even that old. Even the alpha cameras are only coming up on 10 years... we are already in like 5th iteration (especially in the a7r line)... every 2-3 years isn't slow, actually fast compared to Canon's 4 to 5 year per iteration. Yeah... they've slowed down compared to the beginning, but thats cause they know they got the Youtube community in their hands and they are quickly catching up to Canon's numbers. But to say they are "known for its slow, incremental releases..." since when? between Sony a7s ii and Sony a7s iii? I'm sure a7V will wow... mostly because of price and config.

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!

From Canada they say it is the perfect camera.... Too bad Sony segmentation still doesn't allow open gate on these units. So perfect my as* BTW price increase demonstrate that the market is shrinking, shrinking, shrinking...

Mine will arrive in the next days. I will do the initial tests with the kitlens and take it from there. Thanks for the overview! I will get back to it!

Nope, but… Well I am interested in it and was aware it was coming and for me, it is another lens that I am VERY interested in except for one fact, it’s a bit expensive 🤔 Until 2024 came along, for my needs, lenses have always been the Achilles Heel for me and I have both wanted and needed fast do it all lenses. At the end of 2023, the ‘best’ option I had in L Mount was the Leica 24-90 f2.8-4 which was; big, heavy, variable aperture and not especially fast for indoor / low-light work. Since then, all under 1kg/2lbs, we have had; Sigma 28-45mm f1.8, Sigma 28-105mm f2.8 and now this new Sony. My system has been L Mount for photo & video for 2 years with Sony coming in this year for stills. Nikon is coming back for 2025 for me as a hybrid option, as in can shoot stills alongside my main Sony (A7RV) cam, plus video alongside my Lumix. But, as I am down to just 1 camera and 1 lens for L Mount and STILL no sign of any S2H or S2R, I have decided to throw my lot in with Sony & Nikon for 2025 and onwards. Why? Lenses. More specifically because I can lens share across both Sony and Nikon bodies with any e Mount lenses including if I fancied it, putting this new 28-70 f2 on any Nikon Z body. Except I won’t because for one single fact and that is whilst any e Mount lens can be adapted with near native AF and IBIS on any Nikon Z body, you do not get the in camera corrections that you get with using native lenses on Sony bodies, so I am somewhat wary of using e Mount lenses on Nikon bodies. More for stills than video, but a couple of tests required on that department before fully committing… But back to this lens specifically… Faced with a choice of Sigma 28-45mm f1.8 for indoor and low-light work plus Sigma 28-105mm f2.8 for outdoor, for the SAME cost as this new 28-70, this new 28-70 does not make financial sense to me. It’s a stunning lens in isolation and if you do not need longer than 70mm, possibly great, but as above, I can’t see how it could work for me with this pairing of Sigma lenses which cover FAR more bases for the same total cost. The camera doesn’t interest me. The S5ii does all I need and the Z6iii, most likely my main video unit for 2025, arguably even more and providing it can work with the Tamron 28-75 f2.8 which I am going to test on my Zf, will almost certainly be my video A cam. Actually, I have tested that combo for stills over several weddings earlier this year and for stills, worked very well other than the odd vertical distortion that was a bit of a PITA to fix in post, but for video should be OK. Mostly I am happy to see these new fast zooms which were but a dream only one year ago.

I scored an awesome Black Friday deal on a music effects VST plugin. It was 40% off, but allowed coupons to be applied after that, so some quick googling and I got it down from $199 to $86! I've recently been getting the sound design and music side of things sorted out, so I'll be writing custom music and sound design for my videos as well. Remember - sound is 50% of the movie... at least!

Not exactly Black Friday but the service I use to buy cheap used gear in Japan has a bunch of 10% off coupons that work in their auction sites. https://buyee.jp/yahoo/auction Just scored a very nice lumix S5 for $550 including FedX shipping to the U.S. with a coupon.

My favorite right now has to be Sony. After years of squeaking by with old cameras from several different brands, with odd adapters and cheap lenses, we finally invested in a complete Sony package this year. Overall just a really solid offering when it comes to cameras, image and feature wise. The FX6 is the best documentary camera hands down IMO. E-ND, 4k120, 4 channels of audio, good ergonomics etc. We're pairing that with a couple of FX30s for studio work, solid image and great for static use. And an A7R IV, which has been an awesome camera for some light video combined with photography use. The really nice thing is we can use all of the above mentioned cameras in a multicam shoot if we want, and they will match decently in post.

With control of the entire judicial system from the top down, Trump could end democracy and he's already given himself criminal immunity. The clever thing is that he has convinced a lot of Americans that the "other side" are the real threat to democracy. I've lived through similar in the UK. We had a right-wing government promising all sorts of things like reduced immigration and a better economy and they never delivered. The only thing they were effective at was adding zeros to the end of their own bank balances. I know that Biden's term hasn't been easy for people but there was a global pandemic for petes sake. Had Trump not lost in 2020 he would be taking the blame for that now, and not Biden. When he lost in 2020 he gave the reputation of democracy a good kicking, for good measure. As a result many of his voters don't even trust the same process they used themselves last week which gave rise to their voice electing President Trump. If Trump believes so firmly that US democracy is corrupt and the votes rigged, he would be whining about it all the time and not only when he's losing. Project 2025, ending democracy, stitching up the justice system, removing checks and balances, abolishing department of education, destroying people's trust in gov. institutions and the courts, enabling Communist Russia and China to do as they please to the rest of the world is serious shit. And we have barely scraped the surface of the shit! Look at the character of those around him... Some of them are truly monsters. I think the people who voted for him did so for a variety of reasons... Some liberals believe that a majority of them did so out of sexism and racism. I don't believe that. I think undecided voters and swing state voters had good economic reasons to want change, and a change of government, but struggling people no matter where they are or who they are, are much more susceptible to con tricks and their critical thinking goes out the window in a social media age of mass rumour, misinformation and hysteria. They believe the wrong stuff but think that the other side is equally as wrong. As usual the actual truth lies somewhere in the middle and I dislike the extreme right / extreme left viewpoint, it is not the way to have a unified nation. Believe me I don't just watch the mainstream news and see the US from the outside - I am living the same shit in the UK, we are the same kind of society with the same kind of two party politics and the same interference from Russia, the same hybrid warfare and same problems brought about by globalisation, technology and social media. Good luck to US democracy you will need it, and good luck to the rest of us who are living ever closer to a time of world war or potential nuclear war.

oi! There are a few kiwis here too.

It looks promising! Everything looks sensibly laid out, more or less. I'd be extremely surprised if Fuji doesn't intend to follow up with a S35 version if this sells well. On a side note, the number of people on various sites who said "I would buy x camera if they put it in a cinema body!" and now turn around and say "it's just a lazily rehoused x camera" is truly mind boggling.

Hi, Opening this topic so we can share black friday deals. Prolly looking out for a dji mini 4 pro deal, maybe also the sony zv-e1. But we can share everything. Cheers

Trump doesn't negotiate for shit with Putin. His negotiations with that guy basically involve "how high did you say you asked me to jump, sir?" On the contrary, ceding Ukrainian to Russia as Trump will almost certainly do, will serve as a signal to China that the international community is allowing forced annexation of other countries and embolden them to crush Taiwan. The current US involvement in Ukraine is not "fighting a war." It's "supplying arms." The US military doesn't have boots on the ground. At best, you could say the US is fighting a proxy war there. That's a huge difference. Again, the only way that shithead can "end" the Ukraine war is by refusing to supply arms and letting Russia have what they want. And like how he encouraged Iran to restart their nuclear program by ending the program that prevented it? Yeah, the guy's a real fucking winner. Quite literally everything the guy has done in his entire goddamn life. That includes fraudulent businesses, fraudulent charities, 34 felony convictions, a long history of refusing to pay contractors to force them to settle for less money, sending covid testing equipment to Russia when the US didn't have enough, the attempted implementation of schedule f, the upcoming implementation of project 2025, choosing a series of dangerously unqualified idiots for his cabinet positions, and just about anything else you want to name.

I'd be guessing the new GFX Fujfilm camera rather than being similar priced to a C80 it will instead be closer to double (or more) the price of a Canon C80 Hopefully there will be coming out a S35 version with an X Mount instead, and along with it a much lower price. Color still matters a lot. There is a reason why ARRI is #1. Plus there is an awful lot of content at the lower budget levels which uses SOOC colors, or just a simple LUT slapped on it. Because time is money, and they want a speedy workflow. Wait, what... there is a 1-in / Super 16 camera coming out?? Where is news of these rumors. https://www.fujirumors.com/fujifilms-move-to-1-inch-sensors-a-perfect-opportunity-to-revive-the-x30-xq2-and-xf1/ Ahhh.... I see, will be something like a competitor to the Sony RX100 / RX10 ?? Would be nice, I really liked my Fujifilm XQ1 / XF1, would be nice to see an updated 1" version of them.

Never mind. I finally found one with a serial number 7511105 with significant yellowing according to the seller. That would mean one with a serial number lower would definitely have it too. I'm still not sure when it stopped. I'm fairly sure they made this lens into the 80s and they wouldn't have done it then. It's so easy to blow time on things like this.

What they are calling "overclock" isn't. This looks like some kind of industrial high speed camera. It's just a different operating MODE. Just like on the spec sheet. And the so called downsides are more to do with the engineering side on the camera (thermals and data pipes) not keeping up. And 1000% certain that Fuji aren't going to offer a menu option that says "overclock me baby"

It used to not matter once upon a time. Politics didn't even factor in dating... you had young people getting married with totally different opinions, yes shocking. And even today it's possible to agree with certain things that people say no matter who they are or what end of the culture war they belong to. It would be nice to have a bit more of that and a bit less of the divide and rule, but I am also equally fed up with the stupidity and naivety coming out both ends of the same toilet... from extremists on the far right (Trump cult) and far left (unrealistic ideologues) The cameraimage thing is quite sad really, it was a force for good as far as I can see and the festival organisers have done a great job over the years of supporting talent, and it's right that student films should be shown even if they're no masterpiece. Every talented person looks back at their earliest work and it's imperfect. I think where the BSC is right (but didn't say so) is that Marek has been really insensitive with his interview comments given he is hosting the debut screening of RUST at Cameraimage... Halyna's last work and she died shooting it. Whether it is tasteful to show it is a whole other debate. It's hard to square it being her last work behind the camera, and it being the film set that was incompetent enough to get her killed.

Yeah. I have a feeling the next gen of BMD stuff will begin making the “big dogs” like Arri and Red more than a little concerned. Even simple iterations on the Pyxis and the new RGBW LF Ursa will be devastating. I’m primarily eyeing the impact on classic-type Alexa pricing though! If I can snag one with open gate for around $4k I’ll be a happy camper. The bottom has to drop out eventually!

Not sure. I’m guessing the wheel might be a mirror of the servo zoom control or assignable to focus. Although, with the camera hidden inside a Perspex box and not exactly looking particularly finished, I could also equally speculate that it is the steam controller for an internal coffee machine hidden behind a secret cover! No, I didn’t see him. The Sigma booth was predominantly a very patient and polite man with a cart full of lenses putting them on cameras for people to test so I didn’t linger there long enough. The Nikon booth was very busy though with them doing presentations about the RED lut stuff whilst the RED booth next to them was a lot about using their cameras in broadcast situations with box lenses etc Nikon were showing their prototype servo zoom lens but also showing RED Kimodos with F Mount lenses. I was quite intrigued by the latter at first glance thinking they’d produced some sort of adapter but they were just using a dumb 3rd party F-RF adapter. You’d think that through the acquisition of RED they’d make their own smart adapter now they had both parts of the puzzle but who knows the legalities of the deal RED had with Canon that would prevent that. I doubt it sits well with Nikon to have that situation last longer than necessary and I wonder whether we might see the inevitable Z mount version of the Komodo be a Nikon branded product.

The X-H2s is a beast. Going to finally build mine up this X-Mas into a mini Cine camera with a Cineback and some other goodies. X-H2s is $1,400 US now on the used market and it’s a lot of camera for that price.

I think this video sums of my feelings perfectly…

Price isn't released yet, but if I'm placing bets, I'm going to bet on "more than the GFX 100 II which is currently $7500"

What a useless interview, guy said nothing other than its the same IQ as GFX100II. I noticed a Japanese spec sheet on a monitor towards the end of the video that specifies ProRes HQ, ProRes 422 & ProRes LT so there's that. Anyways yeah I don't see much purpose in this cam versus a GFX 100 II. I'm betting it will be +$10K too. Page me when they stick the XH2S sensor in an affordable cine body. Speaking of rigged GFX 100 II Fuji USA posted this yesterday:

cined interviewed the product planner. There are internal ND's which is good. Picture quality "basically the same" as the GFX 100 II, but "optimized more for filmmaking" with what I think he said would be f-log2c for cinema gamma.

Looks expensive.. are Fuji not releasing specs yet?? Hopefully this paves the way for a more budget S35 cine cam with something like the XH2S sensor. Exciting to have a new player in the market, Fuji nonetheless !

Is it pocketable?

Few more from Weibo

Live from the exhibition floor… Well, it’s here but as expected it’s in a Perspex case making touching it impossible and the reflections and dim environment not exactly easy to get a decent picture of it especially on my ageing iPhone. What I can confirm though which Is what everyone wants to know is that it does have internal ND.

Taking a bunch of old things and putting them together does in fact make a new thing if those things in that configuration never existed before. Is the ZV-E1 a new camera or is it just an FX3? which is just an A7sIII… Since you’re splitting hairs here I will clarify that the “newness” in my original post referred to a newly announced medium format cinema cam for the low end market. That is new is it not? My point was that innovation in the market has been stale and it’s nice to see Fuji announce an $800 camera with 6.2k open gate 12 Bit HDMI Raw and a medium format cinema cam in the same month. I’m optimistic about the future but feel free to argue about partial tech specs from a day old press release.

The rumors site also said that Fuji announced a 32-90mm zoom for the GFX system. That might also be exciting - the 32-64 is my default lens on the GFX 100 and one of my only objections is the lack of reach at the long end.

Bold, maybe, but "new" is really what I was objecting to. Nothing in the announcement is "new." Otherwise, that's cool that Customs 65 is doing well. I'm glad that OFG are having some success with it. Though it's not necessarily the case that the success of a niche camera in LA is predictive of the success/desire for the same camera in every market. I can say that in my market, the lower end for narrative production is pretty full of Black Magic and the higher end is skewed toward Sony and Red. When I've shown up places with the GFX 100, people see "Fuji" and make some comment about how they prefer FF to S35. 😆 (Dude, I know the GFX 100 II is smaller than the original, but does it really look like an S35 body to you, especially with the big chonky GF lens on the front?) I'll definitely look forward to hearing from BTM_Pix about what info can be gleaned on the show floor, especially if it's possible to put hands on the camera. I'd be genuinely excited if my prediction that it's "GFX 100 II in a box with better I/O" is wrong and it's able to merge the low RS mode and the high DR modes, even at 4K. Even more excited if it included a faster readout version of my beloved 5.8k widescreen mode.

It’s early days and we don’t know exactly what the final product is going to end up with right? Lots of time between now and when it’s released. Fun to speculate of course but yes it is a bold move by Fuji. And while the individual components in the preproduction model announcement might be existing tech, I would argue that it is indeed a bold camera. Andrew has already expounded on it better than I could so I won’t go into detail here. I know locally here in Los Angeles the Old Fast Glass, “Custom 65” rents out pretty much continuously and they’re building more to keep up with the demand. The fact that they even put that custom rig together and how popular it’s been show shows me that there is a desire for a camera like this and it’s been popular even in its limited speced, modded out version. For perspective, Canons are not renting at all for larger productions and even the new C400 is sitting around right now. It’s all Alexa Mini LF and 65 on the high end and FX6 with FX3 on the low end. Smaller owner operators are different but local DP’s love the idea of a cheaper Medium Format option that can use adapted vintage glass. All it will take is faster readout speeds and reduced rolling shutter to take it a level above where it’s at right now.

Rolling shutter and bit depth will be the big question for this. As far at the 17K, I’m sure it will be similar to the new 12k which CineD just tested and seems pretty impressive. https://www.cined.com/blackmagic-ursa-cine-12k-lf-lab-test-rolling-shutter-dynamic-range-and-exposure-latitude/

I'd say that just about any of Red's VV cameras are also competitors in the "bigger than FF, but not as big as 65mm" category. Unless I'm mistaken, they're all 40.96mm wide - so more than halfway between a 35.7mm (or so) full frame sensor and the 43.8mm GFX sensor size. A monstro brain sold on ebay in early September for $4,700. Add a $400 IO expander, $700 v-lock module, and some ridiculously overpriced mini-mags (which could be less expensive if the Jinnitech hack still works - just buy the smallest/cheapest one possible and swap it for bigger/better media and overwrite the needed SMART bits), and you're not too far off from $6k. Now if only the prices of DSMC2 accessories would drop to match the bodies...

It is exactly this - everyone is trying to get a piece of the ZV-E10 (which is a HUGE seller for Sony), but positioning the cameras as hybrids. A good move, I should say. And with the dedicated button to switch custom picture profiles in the Z50 II, now oficially Fujifilm (which created the market for "filmish" picture profiles) is the worst brand if you want to use custom picture proflies. Great job, Fuji.

Is suspect the reasons for leaving out IBIS (other than the Mk 1 didn't have it) are cost and weight e.g. the Sony ZV-10 ii doesn't have it either. But it's still larger and heavier than the A6700 and X-S20 (which have IBIS), and has the worst battery life out of the three. Nikon seem to be targeting the ZV-10 ii & X-M5 market price area but with the EVF as added value (in exchange for heavily cropped 4k60p, a larger & heavier body and less extensive moderately priced lens choices). Prices from Wex in the UK: Size/weight/battery life spec extracts from dpreview.com: Z50 ii: A6700: X-S20:

This thread is a good idea, but might be tricky since the handful of actually-active members on the forum are spread between England, a few EU countries, the US, and Australia. Most of the deals are fairly country/geo-specific.

If anyone spots a 50% off all things Hasselblad, shout in my direction. Thanks in advance.