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Viltrox has better corner sharpness, and its AF motor is quieter.

But when Nikon keeps an old sensor in a sub $1000 APSC body and upgrade everything else, the internet says "what a bummer". When Sony does the same, in a $6500 body, YouTubers call it "mind blowing", "perfect flagship". If Canon does the same its called "corporate greed", but when it comes to Sony its called "strategy". It also debunks the old stupid notion, again, that Sony Semi keeps the best and state of the art sensor for Sony Imaging! Sony Semi can't send the best when Sony Imaging says "We don't want the best, cause its high development price lower our profit margin, thanks". So Sony users are stuck with 8k30p, and non downsampled 4k, for the next two years, while users of the other Sony Semi customer have 8k60p and downsampled 4k60.

What you're talking about is for EM-CCD sensors, not CMOS. "Pixel clock rate is an important specification for CCD and EM-CCD cameras, but not for CMOS cameras because of chip architecture. Unlike CCD and EM-CCD cameras where photoelectrons from each pixel are converted into voltage one-at-a-time via a single amplifier, in CMOS cameras each pixel has its own amplifier, so conversion of photoelectrons happens in parallel in all the pixels." From Hamamatsu company website. You know more than they do?

Dude its not abortion ban subject. You just need to learn more about sensors, even their datasheet can help, and you'll find out. "Literally nobody said let the sensor consume more power"? Really? This is your exact words: "Wrong. There are plenty of examples of overclocking various sensors over the years". Unless we assume you're "nobody". Fair enough.

That tweaks/adjustments are hardware changes, and needs redoing a lot of stuff at fab level. It's not like you edit a few lines of code and get a more capable sensor. Does GFX100II sensor support different modes of read out? Who knows.. But if there is any, thats not simple as "let the sensor consume more power".

Right wingers has X, liberals have Threads and BlueSky. Maybe we're heading for a situation where there is a film industry for conservatives and another film industry for liberals.

Its not like gaming PC that you overclock a bit and gain some extra performance. The sensor should support that specific read out capacity.

Few more from Weibo

What's the purpose of this announcement when almost no specs released other than sensor resolution? Why not wait until its done?

Apparently at 4k30p you hit the 2h05m limit sooner than overheating warning, hence bigger body. Regarding lenses, they patented a compact 16-48 f/2.8 design few years ago, I don't know why they don't make it.

Considering Apple obsession with thinness, I'm not sure they ever use 1 inch sensor.

What exactly Panasonic doing in 4k24p?60p is even worse. Then at 120p it looks 2MP image.

The first "reasonable" rumor emerged: 24-megapixel LC1720 sensor (C80) DIGIC Accelerator processor 8.5-stop hybrid image stabilization. Same focus system as EOS R5 II Highly reliable 14-bit 30fps RAW electronic shutter continuous shooting reading speed 1/180s. In-camera neural network noise reduction and high-resolution magnification. Supports XF-AVC S and XF-HEVC S recording of C4K/120p (S35) and 6K oversampled C4K. Supports 6K30p and 4K60p (S35) Cinema RAW Light recording. _________________________________ If true, C80 sensor in R6 body will satisfy many of Canon customers, but not enough to make other brands users jealous. If Panasonic was clever, and fast, could make this DOA with a 6k60p camera.

Imagine this hardware with iOS

There is still BoM to recover. And at least $100 goes to the retailer.

If you were a 22 years old vlogger, you would buy FX30. Not because its a better camera, but because you've seen it in hand of many of other vloggers you are trying to replicate their style of work. Sony marketing has established a collective belief that if you wanna do video, you've got to use Sony. You can't beat a better marketing with better IBIS.

Except that they let somebody leak S5 local minor update, and snowball effect started from there.

And still selling EF-S at a loss

And that includes a lot of sub $800 m4/3 cameras.

They are making motors for Ebikes now! But people expecting too much from them. They could make an open mount (market it as the first Chinese designed universal mount, if nationalism and independence from Japan is the concern) and let all the chinese lens makers do their thing. Could become complete line up in two years. But didn't. Instead introduced a drone friendly mount, limited it to APSC, with almost zero compatibility with their own Hasselblad mount.

Not always. If the one who leaks the specs is a photographer who has access to pre-production unit, would exaggerate about the experience, like "AF is two generation ahead of the competition". You know its probably not true, but you know why he would make that statement. That's different from a bullshitter that think sensor resolution determines the price, or a single model changes overall market share in a meaningful way, and does it instantly!

Some of these rumors are written by a child I assume

The other day I randomly observed an interaction between an instagram influencer and her follower in comments section of one of her reels where she was bragging about an old compact Sony handycam she found on ebay and loved the image "vibe", which means the worst quality you expect from some P&S cameras. The follower said I love that camera makers increase resolution in every generation and we sill looking for crappy film look! (Btw, that wasn't film look at all, it was 30fps washed out ccd soap opera video). And the influencer replied resolution is for commercials! This should be a wake up call for everybody in this industry (not just Japanese, but even DJI and Apple): these people don't care anymore! All they need/want is vertical 30fps 2MP image! Then I asked myself am I even prepared to market my art/content to these consumers? We're in such a "fad economy" that "better" becomes obsolete, and "worse" sells better! Those who know what will be the next worse thing, make tons of money; and people like us have to check how much we earned today through "buy me a coffee" link lol.

Rumor from Weibo LUMIX S5R quad-Bayer 61M BSI 8K FF 16:9 30fps 25ms super-sampled 5K S35 4:3 48fps 20ms super-sampled 5K S35 16:9 60fps 15ms super-sampled 4K S35 16:9 60fps 15ms super-sampled 5K FF OG 3:2 60fps 10ms dot-to-dot 5K FF 16:9 60fps 9ms dot-to-dot 4K FF 16:9 96fps 9ms super-sampled 4K FF 1.25x crop 120fps 7ms dot-to-dot dynamic range: FF 16EVs (FF4K) ------- If true its slow ass 8k camera. But better than A7r5.

They're so low volume in sales that using unique sensor is out of question. So expect to see a familiar sensor used by others. I would choose A1. They can't afford to not have 8k camera in 2024.