Andrew Reid

By September 2020 flights to Japan will be $10 so see you there for the sake

Ah well. At last some good news though.... Huawei has a great coronavirus treatment ready to sell to Trump for $666 billion Only one side effect, it puts a billion spy cameras up his arse. But Trump is the sacrifice we all need to make in order to get better. Let's sell him out to the Chinese as soon as possible so we can benefit from their science.

It's not like Trump acts like an animal fending for himself and his nest is it... No. You are in denial my friend.

If you support your president you support his actions. At the very least you agree with his central belief of American superiority over others, to the point of depriving me in the UK of a coronavirus vaccine. The Germans and Japanese are the ones coming up with medical breakthroughs... innovation which will save the life of my mum and potentially millions more people... You need to wake up and realise what AMERICAN FIRST means for the rest of us and how fucking selfish it makes you look.

Which bit of Trump do you support and which bits not? did you support the bit last week when he tried to deprive my mum of a coronavirus vaccine?

If Trump had his way he'd be making a profit on that $1 billion he offered the Germans Sharing out the vaccine around his rich pals Mercer you'd be fucking dead. And yet you're his cheerleader. Quite amazing.

How do Trump supporters feel about trying to steal the coronavirus vaccine from the rest of the world? Satisfied? Smug? Winning?

Same as normal then!?

That's because I am form owner and editor, You ain't. Sony have a vaccine but you have to enter the main menus to find it. Trump has offered the Japanese $2 billion for it, so fuck the rest of us. Coronavirus vaccine is only for those with good teeth and blue eyes who work in banking. We'll just have to get ours from the Germans!

It's not like Trump has ever encouraged yelling or denigrating members of other parties or religions is it.

BUH BYE #photokina photokina 2020 is cancelled After intensive consultation, Koelnmesse GmbH has decided to cancel photokina 2020, originally planned to be held 27 to 30 May 2020. The next instalment of the leading international trade fair for photography, video and imaging will be presented from 18 to 21 May 2022. The Imaging Innovation Conference will not be celebrating its première in 2020 as originally planned; a new date will be coordinated. In general the management team of Koelnmesse has decided not to organise any own events on the part of Koelnmesse until the end of June 2020. This decision is supported by the crisis management team of the City of Cologne, which also recommended in its meeting on 18.03.2020 to cancel the trade fairs during this period. This also happens against the background of the agreement reached on 16.03.2020 between the German federal government and the governments of the German states – laying down common guidelines for dealing with the coronavirus epidemic and explicitly including the general closure of trade fairs and exhibitions. This impairs the planning security for Koelnmesse and the participants of the trade fairs in Cologne far beyond the scope of the current scenarios. With this early announcement, Koelnmesse wants to give its exhibitors and visitors planning security. The decision not to host the next edition of photokina until May 2022 was made with in view of several factors: Even before the appearance of the coronavirus, the imaging market was already subject to strongly dynamic movements. This trend will now gain momentum and must be factored into plans for the upcoming photokina. Added to this is the fact that our customers’ resources are already under heavy strain in 2021 – as a result of general economic trends as well as rescheduled events on the global trade fair calendar. The orientation towards 2022 gives everyone involved time enough to design the next photokina with an eye to the needs of the market, and of our exhibitors and visitors. Kai Hillebrandt, Chairman of the Photo Industry Association [Photoindustrie-Verband e.V. (PIV)]: “It goes without saying that PIV completely stands behind the decision taken by Koelnmesse to cancel photokina 2020. The health of exhibitors and visitors is top priority at the moment. As the conceptual sponsor of photokina, we will do our utmost to assist the Koelnmesse with the planning of the next edition of photokina.” Koelnmesse – Global Competence in Digital Media, Entertainment and Mobility: Koelnmesse is an international leader in organising trade fairs in the Digital Media, Entertainment and Mobility segments. Trade fairs like photokina, DMEXCO, gamescom, gamescom asia, INTERMOT and THE TIRE COLOGNE are established as leading international trade fairs. Koelnmesse not only organises trade fairs in these areas in Cologne, but also in other growth markets like, for example, China, Singapore and Thailand, which have different areas of focus and content. These global activities offer customers of Koelnmesse tailor-made events in different markets, which guarantee sustainable and international business. Note for editorial offices: photokina photos are available in our image database on the Internet at www.photokina.com in the “News” section. Press information is available at: www.photokina.com/Pressinformation If you reprint this document, please send us a sample copy. photokina in Social Media www.facebook.com/photokina www.instagram.com/photokina www.twitter.com/photokina

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/japanese-flu-drug-clearly-effective-in-treating-coronavirus-says-china Seems effective. Well done Fuji. The only way we are going to get out of this mess is to innovate. "Medical authorities in China have said a drug used in Japan to treat new strains of influenza appeared to be effective in coronavirus patients, Japanese media said on Wednesday. Zhang Xinmin, an official at China’s science and technology ministry, said favipiravir, developed by a subsidiary of Fujifilm, had produced encouraging outcomes in clinical trials in Wuhan and Shenzhen involving 340 patients. “It has a high degree of safety and is clearly effective in treatment,” Zhang told reporters on Tuesday. Patients who were given the medicine in Shenzhen turned negative for the virus after a median of four days after becoming positive, compared with a median of 11 days for those who were not treated with the drug, public broadcaster NHK said. In addition, X-rays confirmed improvements in lung condition in about 91% of the patients who were treated with favipiravir, compared to 62% or those without the drug. Fujifilm Toyama Chemical, which developed the drug – also known as Avigan – in 2014, has declined to comment on the claims."

I really do enjoy complaining. Maybe it's something in the black tea that causes the British to be so cynical. You don't get it in LA where they drink the herbal crap and coffee.

Here's some 100% crops of the 100 megapixel.... JPEGs. A nice glimpse of the future. When these camera specs gets cheaper, this I think will be what replaces full frame... By which time, we'll all be dead from stupidity or coronavirus, whichever gets us first, so it won't even matter. Content is king! Ferrari car (100MP original JPEG) https://drive.google.com/open?id=1006AjsSC83KyJzhtGBzo9M55M4UsqWyl Red Bull car (100MP original JPEG) https://drive.google.com/open?id=1omCdj_NIUw3P8JziXSMT5Ncc40YBxeqa Downsampled... CROP...... 100MP original Ferrari \/ \/ \/ \/ Same level of 100% crop but for the Red Bull shot... 100MP original Red Bull

A peek for you of the first shot from the GFX 100 shoot with @BTM_Pix Edit is ongoing! This isn't "perfectly" in focus but it'll give you an idea of the kind of creamy 10bit tones from this "medium format Alexa". The dynamic range is extreme. This was shot in classic chrome. I shot a lot of F-LOG and the files are deeper than Oscar Wilde.

Yes I think a lot of people have it, didn't realise, didn't care or didn't get checked. Which in good news, means the 3.5% overall death rate is probably lower. The knock on impact is bound to get out of control, it's already mutated into two strains, one more deadly than the other and there are economic / social dangers. The issue with putting a statistic or rate on anything is that the virus impacts different people differently... I don't want my mum to get it, who is in her 70's. I think in Europe we might need to start taking it a bit more seriously and get more of a clue about where it's heading. Some people on the London underground think a bucket will do it...

EOSdh rumors is reporting that EOS R0 will have built in laser gun for zapping zombies in the coronavirus apocalypse. Also comes with a free snake potion in the box and 5 bottle caps for trading with Pentax users... The last survivors,

Check out the Potsdam filmpark babelsberg, and for camera history.... Some of the shops! FotoMax, FotoBraune, etc. very good.

Now Fujifilm has pulled out and only 3 remain - Sony, Panasonic and Canon. But due to coronavirus they are now in doubt, which means Photokina is likely now completely kaput! I think a good German camera trade show with a long history deserves better. Photokina has been mishandled for years. Sure, the final demise is virus assisted, but I don't see them coming back from this. What is the point of 2 or 3 manufacturers turning up every 2 years? The thing I enjoyed the most about Photokina (RIP) were the smaller stands, many of them from China. How many of those will be making the trip this year amidst a near-pandemic for a show that may or may not happen, but one that needs to be booked months in advance and costs an absolute fortune for exhibitors? Hopefully we get a NAB-equivilent for photo cameras soon, one a year, in both Europe and the US.

It puts buying the same lens twice because you forgot you already own it in the shade. That's for sure. Good job the shop owner in Barcelona was an honest fellow, he could have played it to his advantage! All the F1 stuff is done, and I've got race car fuel all over me... I am a bit combustable and face has gone red. That's what happens I guess when you have 150 laps each from 22 cars circling you for 3 days. The GFX 100 is worth its weight in repeat lens purchases. At least I can now stop buying cameras! It's the end-game* * For 6 months!

So did history. DSLR dead as a dodo.

Makes me curious to try some more Contax Zeiss on it. The 40-80mm F3.5 maybe. Ended up getting the 35mm F2.4 Zeiss Jena from that shop. Very good macro, very sharp, a gentle swoop and swirl in the bokeh rendering, it's glorious.

Is the X-T4 the basically an GH5 with larger sensor, but 3 years later? I was expecting a bit more, and the Vlogging screen dumbs down what was quite a pro photographic feeling camera line. The X-H2 is the one I will be getting, if it ever arrives. It's a design that much less hipster, far more practical. 1080/240p is a first and great to have, so well done Fuji there. It lacks the 6K headline feature that nobody actually needs! Bad marketing, but who cares. Autofocus seems to be steadily improving, but it'll vary depending on the lens. The fast Fuji X-mount primes are not made for fast phase-detect AF. I feel that Fuji long term is onto a winner with GFX 100 video specs in a $2500 medium format sensor size cam, which will get enthusiasts excited while the mainstream goes for X-T series. It's a decent update, that's for sure, but price is creeping up to full frame land now and times are a-changin! I see a far stronger long-term future for the GFX range than I do the X-T.

The good news is I did in fact bring the MC-21 to Barcelona. It's not pick-pocketed, it's right there where I left it in the suitcase. GREAT JOB MR REID! A bit late for a meaningful comparison but we DID shoot some Blackmagic raw files of the F1 Unfortunately we have no idea what as not once could I see the screen in the sun. Cue Blackmagic Bots in 3,2,1....

Thank fuck for live view!!