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I guess an anti-science herbalism is going on in this case.

So the bottleneck is the CPU, not the sensor.

It can't be at Z9 level, but it looks better than 5 years old Sony https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF__vsMRosw/

Only Sony and Canon have fully functional AF for Cine cameras, and it only works with their own lenses. But with Z mount the AF capabilities will be available with lenses other than Nikkor. This "changes everything" for those people who invested in E mount lenses but want to use a cine camera other than FX6/Burano. Of course this would be less of a topic if Burano wasn't such a meh product, or Sony had a global shutter sensor in an affordable body.

Wish I could combine Panasonic' IBIS with Nikon's digital VR.

Its like 18-55mm kit lens situation. Everybody thinks its a junk lens, because they've seen photos taken by that kind of lens, and most of them are not impressive; so they thought its a lens problem. But in reality, the proportion of amateur photographers who were still trying to learn and explore, in total users of that lens, was very high (because it was a kit and shipped with their first DSLR), so what others were seeing wasn't the lens problem, it was users' skill problem. The small group of people who use $30,000 camera, are the same people who know how to extract as much as much as possible from their gear, know how to get perfect lighting, and how to color grade. So when you see a Alexa footage, there is big chance you're seeing a team of elites performance. You see a discipline among elite groups, and its that when they find a winning formula, like the combination of attributes we call "Arri look", they stick with it. Thats how they made us addicted to it; as we were seeing that formula over and over again in many different movies, to the point that we collectively call it "cinematic", like any other formula is either inferior or not legit.

TV business is probably gone. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-supplier-panasonic-cut-costs-101150905.html A sword sharp enough that beheads the iconic Panasonic TV, can kill Panasonic camera too.

Their sensor choice and body design contradicts their pricing strategy. You want to grab market share with aggressive prices before AI destroy everything? You make a compact body around a full frame 8k sensor with L mount; especially when Panasonic is hibernated as a bear in winter.

With that tiny sensor its probably equivalent to f/4.

Its funny smartphone brands trying so hard to fake the "DSLR bokeh" but Gen Z do the subject separation by flash light. They don't care about the brand's solutions, they find their own. I think physical controls is part of the appeal. Here is what my smartphone live view looks like when I want to change the most basic settings. Almost 80% of the screen is occupied by the UI elements: Now imagine I want to change the ISO. Not only a considerable area of the 17:9 screen is wasted due to 4:3 size of the LV, but almost the third of LV area is crowded with numbers: Compare that to G7x. Its a small LCD, but at least most of the area is junk free. And it was Canon that was the most aggressive brand in icon inventions: And then look at here, you can zoom in/out with your left hand when you're taking selfie or filming yourself. This control looks amateurish for us but its huge ergonomics advantage for TikTok generation: But no just TikTokers. Look how this cyclist holds the G7x. Some PoVs here are impossible to take with a huge 6.7 inch smartphone: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-AOlHAscs8/ BTW, Canon marketing never managed to make an advertisement with 1.7m views that this guy did while not even trying.

They don't listen.

For exactly this wrong definition promoted by institutions like IMF we had to hear ridiculous terms like "transitory inflation" from politicians that wasn't.

While tariffs make things more expensive, and MAGA crowd is dumb enough to not understand that, its not actually inflation, because inflation is caused by increasing money supply. When money supply is not increased much but some goods become more expensive for whatever reason, shift in purchasing happens. Meaning you stop buying things you were buying before. And that's recession.

Remember "Essential" workers in covid lockdown days? Did they become millionaires? No. Because a job's income is determined by the number of available people who are willing to do that, not the importance of the job. And there are lot of people who want to be essential workers. The only reason train operator income is relatively high, despite the high number of people who want this job, is unions that can keep the income artificially higher. There is no union for video shooter and content creators. And thats because the political left couldn't figure out how to extend it to the industries that didn't exist in those years Marx was alive.

Interesting stories in that Reddit discussion. I guess we're dealing with Chinafication of content creation: super fast, short, low budget, cheap consumerism.