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Chinese competition is getting serious so Japanese are trying to take advantage of their only weakness: fast, unconventional and complicated zooms. Its more about showing six pack muscles of expertise. The results are expensive niche lenses that you have to be rich rat in recession economy to buy, and gym rat to hold for more than 30 minutes. Of course "competition is good", but I'm afraid they run out of weird ideas in the not too distant future.

Flagship smartphones are more sophisticated than any compact these days. Oppo Find X8 Ultra has four sensors. An 1 inch main camera, two portrait periscope cameras, one 3x and one 6x, and an ultra wide. The 1 inch sensor has f/1.8 on it. Its equivalent to f/3.8 on APSC.

The reason Germany became aggressive that led to WWII was this perception that they're going to be irrelevant in the new world. The same reason that Russia became so aggressive after Putin took control. Russia has nothing to offer to the world except oil and gas, and their reserve last only 20 years (assuming they didn't fucked up the wells due to sanctions). That's why they think they need new vassal states to survive. Pure imperial framework of thinking. And now at least half of Americans are thinking the same. They think they were an empire sometime in the past (which is a delusion. It never was), and now facing the danger of becoming irrelevant. Because in the new world, China makes anything (including rules and standards), does anything, changes anything. So in their view, not only its justified to be aggressive towards China, but also towards the whole world that accepts China supremacy. And as happened many times before, the one who get aggressive towards almost everybody, caused by a panic, based on some delusions; will commit some suicidal acts.

What is all about this demand for rangefinder we see everywhere? I'm just curious. What difference does it make, compared to Zf for example?

But tariffs apply at import point not at the retail. Its "import value" is not $5k. For example if Canon R5ii is $4k, Canon USA will take its profit from that, and then B&H. So the import value could be $3k (I don't know how much each middle man takes from MSRP, but I know its not insignificant). So 33% tariff should be applied to the $3k price, which makes it $4k, then add to that the distributer and retailer profit, which was $1k, and then it will be $5k for the customer. But if you apply that to the original retail price of $4k, it becomes $5330. So somebody other than the government pocket that extra $330.

How they calculated that? Is it Made in China?

Looks like its implemented. This is DJI pocket 3

My point is if we had faster SDs we could have 6k raw. Because 6k30p at 6:1 compression needs 1200mbs, which is way beyond V90 cards capability.

Its old school Japanese parentalism. But I think his assumption of line skipping and then NR is not accurate. Some kind of pixel binning is happening. Its not easy to downscaling 6k to 4k as half of 6k is only 3k، so conventional line skipping doesn't work in this case.

4k raw wouldn't need line skipping and pixel binning and so much compression that look inferior to heavily compressed h.265 if SD Express wasn't such a flop of a standard.

I don't know it's educational system issue or purely political issue, but it should be clear for anyone with IQ above the "retarded" territory that the whole purpose of the trade, (even since thousands of years ago), is provide the best goods available in the world at cheapest possible price for "our" people. So even from a nationalist point of view, if my people get the best goods very cheap, my country wins. With tariffs, my fellow citizens get worse goods (because of less competition) at higher prices! Its completely opposite of the purpose of the trade. We're living in a timeline that Christians support billionaires who publicly despise the poor, and nationalists support the losing position for the nation.

I thought the reason there is that exemption was that there wasn't the logistics to inspect every box, which I heard millions of them are coming to the US every year. So what's their plan for that logistical issue?

Like what limitation?

Once you have access to the RAW data, you should be able to make any magic sauce you want with that. If you can't, its your fault. In still photography world it was a known fact, untill fuji marketing team pretended its a revolution if its done in camera.

That would be "Krasnov" 🙂