Andrew Reid

My Sony RX1R had developed some coating marks on the screen. Turns out it just peels off to reveal a pristine glass LCD underneath. Indeed the upper layer is a factory-installed layer of anti-reflective plastic! Daft decision from Sony and effects a lot of models... But at least now if it happens to you, you know what to do.

"We make so few of them, they'd sell out even in Greenland alone"

Have they thought of a new line because this one's getting old.

I think people should show us the magic sauce. It's hard to judge through YouTube commercials.

He switched to Sony. A full frame R5 V is what we really want, around the $2000 mark.

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.

Better not get too carried away with the pretty Canon logo. I mean it may be cheap but it's still shitter than a 6 or 7 year old camera isn't it? I mean you can get a Fuji X-T3 with the advantage of no crop in 4K/60p, more codec options and an EVF for the same price.

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$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 🙂

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

Apparently it has a fan. It's a keen price... $695 I quite like it but never going to be groundbreaking coming from them

Yes but I don't quite see the point of it Is the codec better than N-RAW? I'd say yes from a usability point of view, not so much from an image quality or special sauce standpoint. The use case certainly comes into it, but both images are so good as to be almost interchangeable. Whereas in the hay day of cinema cameras it was GH2 vs RED EPIC, a very big difference in the image. Although it didn't impress Francis Ford Coppola much. Yes even a Zf would thrash it at higher ISOs. Can you post some examples? If the magic is there then I'm far more interested in it. I have a RED EPIC... But hardly use it, even though it's a former Hollywood workhorse camera I have absolutely no interest in lugging it around the streets of Berlin for some reason.

All I know about Amy is she thinks Barack Obama would like Django Unchained.

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?

The new Fuji is quite a chonk. MUCH bigger than the Fp or X100 VI. RX1R II is the right size for me, smallest of the bunch and one of the best lenses too. Q3/43 price doesn't make sense for anybody but rich people. The Zf/40mm F2 is a different beast I think.... much bigger than RX1R The other option is Pana S9 with a pinhole F8 lens.