Andrew Reid

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Just to be clear for the all the hedge fund bots - It's a 100% Jeff Gibbs film. Michael Moore lends his name to it, as producer.

Sony's curved sensor is coming TOMORROW... LAST WEEK

MUCH K!! MANY FOCUS!

It was put on YouTube so the message got out to a large audience, it's got to kickstart a debate. Michael Moore says it was originally going to go into cinemas but the coronavirus pandemic of course scuttled that plan. What parts of the movie do you find to be 'downright lies'? Let's see if you can be specific! A lot of the YouTube 'critiques' are sponsored by hedge funds. Probably 80% of the material on the internet on the subject of green energy and biomass is shill content. You do realise that don't you? The movie told you exactly who funds and sponsors Bill McKibben and 350.org so I suggest you pay attention next time you skim through it!!

Hope they add the pivot!

Yeah looks like a separate add-on, another "11" model like the MC-11 adapter. I reckon side mounted block, makes it like a rangefinder or X-E4 style body, bit wider, maybe with a passthrough for HDMI and USB C. Something like that would make a lot of sense. Good old Sigma. Sony would just make is all buy the new $3000 Mark II model the next year instead.

Good info thanks. I'll move it to the GH6 thread

That looks like a rise to me. Did I miss something? 🙂

Apparently SEC are going to go after individual Reddit users, accusing them of an illegal pump and dump scheme. I have learnt that at least 80% of the internet is polluted by shills and lies. And the biggest sponsors of it are rather higher-up than we might suspect.

The lack of travelling is a problem for me. I had the choice of shooting Sheep in the UK, or closed shops under a grey steel sky in Berlin and that has just been the last 6 months 🙂 Nothing is going on whatsoever!

New blog post here! https://www.eoshd.com/news/eoshd-podcast-episode-2-an-interview-with-michael-moores-producer-jeff-gibbs-and-their-new-film-michael-moores-planet-of-the-humans/ And new podcast can be streamed here: https://anchor.fm/eoshd/episodes/The-EOSHD-Podcast---Episode-2---Jeff-Gibbs--Director---Michael-Moores-Planet-Of-The-Humans-epsucf

In the 1990's, a good capable and forward thinking management at Canon would have been in talks with Adobe, and would have bought a controlling stake in the company. Out from that, the company would have sprung all kinds of software and technological services, before going into online photo sharing in a big way, 5 years before Facebook. In the early 2010s, a good and correct thinking Nikon management would have been deep in talks with mobile networks around the world and Apple, looking to create a standard e-sim for all customers so that their network contracts worked with the multiple devices they own. Rather than a sim card, onboard chip could hold digital subscriber info and connect to 4G networks. When the 4G era really got going, therefore, camera companies would all have the connectivity ready to go in their DSLRs and mirrorless cameras and a one-button press to share shots online. Also, larger back screen, touch screen UI, in-camera editing and filters, plus proper OS to run it all. None of this ever happened of course which is why the chart looks like it does above, rather than being the fault of consumers switching to smartphones. It is more that the Japanese camera corporations did nothing to mitigate it.

Nice reward for making it through the apocalypse!

Has the digital camera market finally bottomed out? Or will retailers like Amazon start to turn their back on cameras altogether? In terms of the number of units shipped each year to stores, digital cameras are now shipping in lower volumes than in the year 2000. The chart above shows the decline until 2019 before the pandemic, reflecting the failure of management at Canon, Nikon, Sony and others. However the latest 2020 figures show a further decrease from 14.86 million shipments to just 8.8 million which brings us under the tally for the year 2000, 20 years ago. Much higher prices now compensate for the loss in volume (as I look into here), as we the customers and our wallets know only too well. Companies have placed their hopes in products like the Sony Alpha 1, Canon EOS R5 and the Fuji GFX series, but professional users and enthusiasts have all without many exceptions been hammered by the coronavirus pandemic. I also have somewhat of a gut feeling there is a global economic catastrophe soon and during that, sales of expensive $6000 cameras will flop. Although the decrease in unit shipments is not the same as a decrease in profits or total sales volume, it does show the extent to which the market has had to adjust… New blog post

Something has gone badly wrong with the camera market. New blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/news/collapse-in-unit-shipments-means-6000-cameras-could-be-the-norm

Yes the morale is down. Some went in far too deep at too high price. Many did not know what they were doing and gambled just far too much money. However the real problem is the brokers preventing buys to protect their big clients and pals at the hedge funds. Sadly it wasn't just Robinhood. Almost the entire marketplace shut down the stock and blocked retail investors. That needs a massive legal enquiry. People wanting to go in with their $100 should be allowed to.

Yes, the dark side of the Biden administration right there. They need more principals. More like Bernie Sanders, who to be honest cuts an isolated figure in the top echelons of the party. I think the whole thing now probably needs a independent public enquiry. It is more likely however to just get a Netflix!

This article is behind a paywall of course. https://www.ft.com/content/8a483767-6b55-40a2-b8a6-1439a2f56084 "The simplest and most common form of stock fraud is the “pump and dump.” "It has three parts. Someone gets hold of some cheap shares; tells lies about why they are going to rise; and when they do, sells them, before the lies are discovered and the shares fall. This is against the law." "But what if we take out the middle step — the lying? Instead of spinning falsehoods about the shares, our perpetrator shouts to anyone who will listen: “If we all buy these cheap shares, then the price will go up, and we’ll make money.” The reason to write about this now, of course, is Robinhood, Reddit and GameStop. The third step still has to happen, of course. When everyone sells to take profits, the shares will fall, and some people will lose a bundle. So far from denying this fact, however, our perp points it out. “This is a dangerous game,” he says, “your timing better be good.” ---- It is shocking how much bad journalism there is out there this week all of a sudden. The Reddit action was basically a buy-for-a-bet and of course to screw hedge fund short sellers, and then hold. Buy because you like the stock and hold. It was not a pump and dump get rich quick scheme. The share price got hammered today because of massive short laddering going on and virtually all brokers blocking buys.

Looks like it's not just Robinhood but others as well blocking buyers. If they are going to do this, they should suspend the share altogether from trading, no buys, no selling. The short-ladders seem to be working to push the price down in time for Tuesday, coincidentally the very day Melvin Capital and a lot of short sellers had a deadline to return the same number of stocks that they bought to the original holders.

Amazing isn't it. Hedge funds don't fail, they simply get bailed out.

I am even thinking of dropping my X-T4 and going for X-S10. Find the ergonomics are overcooked on the X-T4 and fiddly. X-S10 is more in the X-H1 mould. How's the build quality Marcio?

Personally I don't care if it's worth $200 instead of $300 if it helps end the practice of short selling. Legal only for vestigial reasons, as Elon Musk says. I don't even mind if eventually the stock goes back to the more realistic level of $10. It was not an investment for me, for personal gain. From now on, short selling at the scale of Melvin Capital and Citidel just got much riskier And perhaps the stock market can go back to some semblance of ethics, as exemplified by Buffett... Rather than the Vegas casino certain people have turned it into. As it is, it's a risk to the global economy. SEC needs to look into the brokers BTW

Yes, it's all a big corrupt fix up. Robinhood have received massive injections of capital to deal with placing huge orders from retail investors with the brokers, and yet they're STILL limiting GME and others to 1 stock per buy, or maximum 5 for some stocks AFAIK This is illegal market manipulation.

Who is dumping? Last time I looked GME is still above $250 and that's in spite of Wall Street trying to get it down.