Andrew Reid

Aside from those very odd Pentax users I'd like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, and a happy new year resolution of buying more cameras. What is on your wish list and how are you spending the Christmas holidays? 👍

It's not line-skipped. Pixel binning is the modern way of subsampling high res sensors. As for the video rolling shutter and AF tracking, I look at it like this... There are a gazillion options for good AF and good rolling shutter, sometimes you can't get everything perfect in one camera. The GFX 100's image however is unique - there are not a gazillion options with this image or sensor size. It's a pleasure to use for certain kinds of video shooting. You also have the faster rolling shutter of 15ms in 24p 4K on the GFX 100 II if you turn dynamic range priority off. So they have addressed the need for a faster readout on the second model. I don't consider 26ms too ruinous, the a6500 and NX1 were still usable at 30ms, just not for certain things. At 38ms in 8K on the a7r V, that's when it really starts to be more noticeable for all sorts of stuff. 26ms is closer to the 1080p line skipped 5D Mark II which a lot of nice stuff has been made with in the past. Z8 is a great hybrid, no doubt about it, but it isn't the same sort of tool. A 50mm F1.8 looks very normal on full frame, whereas on the GFX 100 it takes on an other worldly quality like a Leica Noctilux. It's that big a difference. I would choose the GFX over Z8 for photography any day unless I wanted a sports & wildlife camera with big telephotos. The video specs are fine, if you can't create something incredible looking with 4K, 10bit, F-LOG, IBIS, and a sensor the size of an ALEXA 65 then god help u all.

Mine too, and in that video Sean says there's a proper camera coming but of course nobody has any idea when. He is against the regular 2 year release cycles and things like that. Here is the big problem for Panasonic though... Even if they do come out all guns blazing with an S1H Mark II, it's doubtful they'll fit an ND filter behind L-mount, and most customers will be even more locked into a rival lens mount like RF or Sony E than they were 6 years ago. So the S1H Mark II could be really really good... It could be a stacked sensor 8K camera and nobody will really care as they won't have any lenses for it. If it is to be truly radical, new sensor technology, groundbreaking specs, under $3500 and cutting edge fundamentals like autofocus, then Panasonic's margin will be thin and people still won't buy it due to the lens mount, although this way it might get some of the faithful to upgrade from their Lumix S1H OG. And it's the same problem with the S1, S1R successors. I think Panasonic's problems run deeper than we care to admit on this forum. I think they're fucked.

You mean Super 35mm. It's not called APS-C in filmmaking. Sony have not abandoned crop sensor customers... it's the other way round, customers abandoned Super 35mm. There's been a big shift to full frame. Surely you have noticed this. There's not really a very big Super 35mm range of E-mount lenses from Sony, it's all about the full frame cinema lenses now. Also with a full frame camera you get both formats in one sensor. Has been this way since the a7r II. There's no need to box yourself into one crop sensor format any more. The FX30 was a very nice gift to people who still prefer Super 35mm, and wanted a lower-cost solution to FX3. Just use a crop mode instead. The FS7 II is still a current model. https://pro.sony/en_UY/products/handheld-camcorders FS5 II is still very capable as well. A lot of those who need a crop sensor might be better off with a 1" camcorder anyway. Canon C70 would also be a good option.

Also, to be fair to Sean... They haven't given him very much in terms of resources for these broadcasts. As an official company spokesman, the first videos were done from his bedroom. Which shows how little these large corporations invest in their staff, even senior ones.

Sean is more senior in Lumix's marketing than people think. The idea for Lumix Live was well meaning, but there's something wrong, as they barely get 800 to 1.5k views per live broadcast. https://www.youtube.com/@LumixUSA/streams This points to a lack of joined up strategy and not making use of their overall reach as such a big company with so many social media channels. Or perhaps the content itself is just not compelling enough. As the main social media marketing guy at Lumix USA, Sean probably has to shoulder some of the blame for that. The strategy isn't working.

The Fringer works the best, much more reliable, dependable than the Techart with really the peak performance in terms of AF, but beware going wider than 40mm as you will see vignetting on a lot more lenses, especially the 24mm f1.4. You can shoot 35mm crop mode (full frame) on the GFX 100 but not in video mode. Minolta MD and A mount lenses work well but for autofocus you need that Fringer EF adapter.

If the Wish camera had a 10mm F2 prime on a 1" flagship smartphone sensor and shot 4K and RAW stills I'd probably get one myself for $150!

With a lens? I don't think so.

The GFX100 is about 300-400g heavier than the SL2 or S1R, so depending on what small nifty lens you put on it, it could in total end up lighter than those. Good luck!

The GFX100 is the most misunderstood camera on the market. It's a full frame mirrorless camera, which just so happens to have an even larger sensor and the highest resolution of any mirrorless camera. In the full frame mode it is 60mp, like an a7r V. In the medium format mode, it is more like full frame+ rather than real medium format like a Hasselblad film camera, so the full frame lenses still work. Had it been an even larger sensor or a reflex camera with a mirror, of course you'd need to get the native lenses but really you don't. So that brings the cost down massively and opens up the creative possibilities more than any other camera I know. Also what people don't understand is that the smaller GFX 100S is a significantly cost cut version, which doesn't feel anywhere near as good. The OG GFX100 has the best build quality and ergonomics of any mirrorless camera, full stop. The size isn't too bad, and neither is weight a problem. It's closer to a Nikon Z9 than a RED. I also really like the top display and gunmetal blue, and the detachable viewfinder which the GFX 100S doesn't have. It becomes completely flat on top without it, which is somehow quite charming and brings the profile down. With it, the EVF is one of the best on the market - big, detailed, fast. With superb IBIS and on-sensor phase-detect AF it has all the bells and whistles. You put a humdrum 50 dollar M42 lens on there and it looks like a fucking Noctilux. And this is the part I don't understand - the lack of awareness for that, and the massive depreciation as if nobody wants it. This was a $10,000 camera when it came out, and it came out in the modern era not in the fucking 90s! At half that price apparently it didn't really sell, so second hand prices kept going down and down. Now it is less than the price of a Z6 III! It makes that camera feel like a complete toy.

They are 80 euros vs thousands, so it's a viable product. No shame in that.

It's like talking Panasonic in a Leica store!

Basic bitches.

Always liked the a9 image. It's crispy