Andrew Reid

Ford first to mass production. Trust the Americans to blame the Germans.

Considering that UK air pollution is entirely traffic driven, and only on certain days of the year in cities, you'll see similar in LA or New York as well. It'll come down, once we get over our oil and car obsession. Wonder where that started?!

I think the stuff at the back is just part of the rig, maybe there could be a battery plate there, to power the EVF. No sign of a camera body in that area and I think I even see a patch of the daylight between her head and the matte box where otherwise an EVA type brick would be.

Detail holding up very well from such a high resolution pixel binning sensor. The 5 axis IBIS has a lot of jitter and doesn't seem to be working to stop rotational jitter, but then it is shot by a talentless idiot. A well worn Tony thing is whenever he doesn't get invited with his fellow diva children of the camera press to a nice jaunt / holiday, he goes off on one of his rants making sure he name checks the company who smited the chosen one. The biggest names Fuji chose for the trip were Johnnie B and Gordon L, those well known celebrities of the camera kingdom.... Who will sit on the throne at the end? It's a fight to the death and there is only room for one ego in the YouTube camera review community.

Not sure what gave you that idea. You can't see the camera at all behind the massive matte box. Also the use of HDMI and the fact it's launching under Lumix branding would suggest an S1 form factor. If it were a EVA1 form factor there would be an SDI cable going into that nice Zaucto EVF they are using from an SDI port on the camera.

Yes sure. Tell that to the people of Michigan and those living close to the Mississippi River. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2019/may/06/cancertown-louisana-reserve-special-report

Deregulated environmental destruction, and diverting tax revenue from schools, hospitals, etc. to fund obsolete and dirty factory jobs, more like.

If it reaches £5k used, I will be on a plane faster than Donald Trump going to a rally on Airforce One But before I book the plane ticket, better be mindful of the dead mount of Fuji, Leica and Panasonic, those really dead and unsuccessful camera companies!

Enhance. I see a Zacuto Gratical with HDMI cable, SDI not used. I see a large matte box with small camera behind it... But follow focus is in a weird place, doesn't seem to be near the lens?

I agree, two models would be good, if the lock mechanism isn't possible. If they take it out, it's an instant no-buy for me.

Partly in return for Fuji's material science contribution to ISOcell sensors perhaps?

So this is the paid update then? H.264 MP4 4K 25/30p 150Mbps (4:2:2 10-bit, Long-GOP, LPCM) H.264 MP4 4K 24p 150Mbps (4:2:2 10-bit, Long-GOP, LPCM) H.264 MP4 FHD 50/60p 100Mbps (4:2:2 10-bit, Long-GOP, LPCM) H.264 MP4 FHD 25/30p 100Mbps (4:2:2 10-bit, Long-GOP, LPCM) H.264 MP4 FHD 24p 100Mbps (4:2:2 10-bit, Long-GOP, LPCM)

Well at least the firmware update will fix the audio codec. You're never going to get the best audio quality through internal pre-amps anyway, always better to use an external device. The audio circuit inside a camera has a lot of other noise from electronics and heat to deal with. I think Panasonic are holding a few things back from the $2k S1, for obvious Cinema Lumix related reasons! That camera might be $4k or even $6k though, so at least you are saving some money by going with the S1 and it's minimally crippled video feature set. It's far from an EOS R. No crop, anamorphic aspect ratios, great codec, internal 10bit, soon to be 4:2:2, high bitrates, 4K/60p Super 35, hardly lacking for a stills camera is it?

Hope they don't leave out IBIS like they did with the GH5S.

Still people find a reason to complain Unbelievable.

How do you know this dude? Panasonic haven't announced the details yet. Yes, from a 2x crop sensor. Still impressive though but it is $2000 before you have added all the spidery shitty un-ergonomic bits.

Anamorphic lens users might want to look very closely at their Panasonic S1 menus, and even the manual on page 143. Read the full article

Impressive indeed. 200Mbit 10bit! There is a very small crop in the 6K mode. Let's call it 5K actually, because that's what it is. I still don't know where Panasonic get their 6K from!? With K you only measure horizontally. The 30p is a shame... I wish it were 25p at least, to avoid flickering in PAL countries and get it closer to the cinema look of 24p. I think it's worth waiting for the V-LOG update, which should bring a similarly high bitrate to the 4K mode... As well as 10bit 4:2:2 not just 4:2:0. Hopefully they will also add an anamorphic mode... if the Cinema Lumix camera doesn't get there first, that is!

The US has transitioned very successfully to a services based economy. I don't understand why so many Americans want the polluting labour intensive factories back and to plunder the land for massive amounts of raw material. That's why you have China, they are willing to do all of this and pollute their environment, so you don't have to, and so your kids can go to a nice school, get a good education and have a nice job that doesn't depend on manual labour. Other European countries are not in bad shape either. Like the US industry, Germany has maintained a lot of high skilled manufacturing and services. Premium car manufacturing, premium technology products, Leica, etc... It's far better than industrial component manufacture for cheap goods, believe me. London has a booming creative economy and massive financial sector. Sure, the steel industry is close to collapse... But it employs a tiny fraction of what a single shop chain does in the UK... So why does it matter? As long as these people can get satisfying jobs at other companies and the economy continues to grow, and we import steel... it doesn't.

The 100 megapixel monster announced at Photokina last year has landed. The Fuji GFX 100 will be shipping from June 30th and it is far better from a video perspective than I imagined. In fact in many ways, you are looking at the best studio and mirrorless camera ever made, as far as the specs sheet goes. That larger-than-full frame 44 x 33mm sensor is going to cost you over the usual 36 x 24mm though... Compared to a high-spec $2000 full frame camera the GFX 100 is $10,000. Even so, this smashes a barrier for medium format pricing compared to the first one to shoot 4K, the $28,000 Hasselblad H6D 100C. Read the full article

UK based, Japanese owned chip-designer ARM this week announced it is severing business ties with Huawei and others are following suite. Panasonic too, have announced a complete cut in the supply of unspecified components to the Chinese company. According to Nikkei Asian Review, even German chipmaker Infineon confirmed on Monday it needed to "halt American-origin shipments to Huawei to comply with U.S. law". What hope for Huawei supplier Leica? Huawei said in a statement to reporters that it valued the close relationships with partners, but recognised the intense pressure they are under as a result of 'politically motivated decisions'. Read the full article

I think image quality is already so good in 10bit on the S1 for $2k... They will have to do something different with the Cinema version for it to justify greater cost. If you pixel peep this frame from my S1 for example it's hard to see where what exactly is so bad about it that we need a $6000 version!

The S1 is getting 10bit 422 V-LOG at high bitrates, like an EVA-1... The full V-LOG not V-LOG-L like GH5. So if the "Cinema Lumix" is going to be an S series camera in same mould as the S1, why would Panasonic give you that on the cheap body? It leaves even less room for a "cinema" version of the S1. I suspect the Cinema Lumix camera will be in region of $6K for 6K and more likely in an EVA style form factor.

I am very impressed with the 10bit H.265 codec in the S1. It looks laughable because of the small file sizes and bitrate (72mbit H.265 = 144mbit H.264) but actually it's surprisingly close to the look of ProRes on my BMPC4K. It also looks less compressed than Sony's 100Mbit codec and more in keeping with a good 140Mbit H.265 4K file... That is close to 10bit ProRes Proxy in terms of the compression (Proxy is 150Mbit in 4K 25p)... But as it's not an ALL-I codec, it doesn't need as high a bitrate to look as good. Try it, and you will be surprised. S1 beats the BMPC4K for sensor size and lowlight... not to mention powering the damn thing... and all the extra stuff you get like the massive high res EVF and 5 axis IBIS.

I can see some serious retaliation coming from China in the form of a hit on Apple and Microsoft. Say goodbye to your iPhones and Surface devices, Americans.