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Had a Telegram channel for political commentary. I only used smartphone to type posts, many of them so long that exceeded Telegram character limit. After a while I realized if I write shorter comments and post them as caption of a photo, it will be reshared many times more! I knew pictures are more popular than text, but the thing that shocked me was that this happened in my channel, which was all about politics! Cause I assumed those few people in society, at least, who are interested in boring political discussions, are disciplined enough to not show general facebook user behavior. But I was wrong.

Some people in that comment section are saying they did 60p outdoor with no overheating. I guess the base temp at the time they trun on the camera is important. Wedding shooters use the camera all day, so when they start recording 4k60p the base temp is already high.

All female DJs I follow are super model first and a DJ second 🙂

Damn, even this tiny external ssd has active cooling fan

Yes. I think even with much larger sensor, the main hot spot in ILC camera is the processor fabricated with relatively old node. But even if sensor was a serious heat generator, there is millimeter thin "flexible" vapor chamber available on the market: This is how flexible it can be. Meaning it potentially can be used with IBIS, transfering heat from front of the mechanism to its back:

Nolan ows us nothing. Movie making is not a moral obligation. If he's interested to use his talent to work more on world war II, there are many subjects that doesn't receive the cinematic attention they deserve, like Japanese atrocious actions in east asia.

The main problem with overheating is not the max time for recording. Its inconsistency and unpredictability.

This phone has active cooling fan. Thickness and bulk is no longer an issue. Yea, not using this tech looks intentional.

As long as you don't use it at the dark. I don't know why its low light performance is so worse than comparable sensor in a chinese mid range smartphone. I did a side by side test with OnePlus Nord2, and well.. both videos were unusable! but Hero11 was in different class of unusable.

Even in Telegram, the best messaging app that can be used for documentation, channel address is editable, and when it happens all the links will be broken. And search doesn't search the channels and groups you're not aware they exist.

1- the rate of decline in engagement in all of the photo/video forums and websites is depressing. Even comment sections are mini ghost towns compared to same place ten years ago. Maybe social media is stealing a lot of that free time usually spent on traditional web in the past. 2- many of those people who could write informative blog posts are now like "why bother writting any more when no one reads any more?". Today they're making videos, and try hard to make it 10 min long, which means they have to add a lot of water to the milk. 3- I don't see any other industry with so much negativity about the major brands of that industry. Telling people they don't need and shouldn't buy new released products is a norm in our corner of internet fora! There is hype moments before and after press release days, but overall discouragement is way bigger. But look at car enthusiasts or audiophiles online communities...They're constantly encourage each other to buy more! 4- lack of communication between experienced users and newcomers is hurting everyone, and sometimes it's sad. Many people who are upgrading from smartphone, are making mistakes related to misunderstandings that discussed and explained and solved seven years ago. They just don't know where to find the knowledge. 5- a tendency to reduce everything to "matter of taste" has emerged to the point that the whole concept of critique apears as moot point, like there is no wrong way and right way of doing things! Maybe its overthinking. I don't know.. just wanted to share my thoughts.

There is a lot of great capabilities with computational photography that Japanese camera makers could use, and didn't, but the point of having interchangeable lens camera is to have more control, not less. Of course you get more noise, to control how you like to deal with it. And what iPhone does with highlights is anything but pleasing. I don't blame the AI tho. Stacking multiple frames with different exposure to get a "normal" looking image is still a challenge for humans too.

This announcement proved that viral claim saying Nikon only approves third party lenses that don't directly compete with its own lenses, was completely baseless. 35-150mm cannibalizes Nikon badged 70-180mm sales, as some people already cancelled their pre-order.

Even clouds are not in the same place.

Vladimir Putin is also a disconnected man. Did it help? Not at all. He doesn't even know what's happening on the ground, and yet his peasant cannon fodder soldiers calling for his help, or at least a bit of attention, on TikTok! In a world of "popular contrarianism", some people are selling the online abstinence as a virtue! And its stupid. The alternative of spending 8 hours a day on Twitter is not using flip phone. The alternative is spending 2 hours. "Can an AI generated actor who doesn’t exist, become a celebrity?" Yes, it can. When he is so realistic that people don't even want to hear that its software generated.

They use the simplest algorithm for debayering and simplest algorithm for downscaling and simplest algorithm for noise reduction and low compression codec in video mode, inside a big metal body, and yet overheats. My smartphone uses a ton of complicated algorithms to extract a good looking image from a tiny noisy sensor, and compresse it to hell, and does it at 4k60p, in the most restrictive housing possible, and rarely overheats. Look what Asus is doing in thermal management for their gaming phones. Look at the power draw chart of new Samsung OLED displays these days and compare to your camera LCD. Do a speed test of a "midrange" phone's wifi chip and compare that to your camera wifi "solution". Camera makers are still using a decade old tech in "new" cameras, and we're supposed to be excited to have 4k120 in crop mode of a crop sensor.

Its not simple as that. There are a lot of object color-background light combinations that affects depth perception. If someone really want to spend time on that, he or she better do it at the scene with LEDs and carefully selected objects in the background, instead of specific color grading in post.

Unpopular opinion: extreme hue shift is not art. Its a fad.

What was ISO here? Seems its better to use SDR for NRAW when the scene DR is not too high; cause with SDR, video ISO values are the same as still ISO, but with NLog, ISO 800 is actually ISO 64 with lifted shadows.

It won't be fun when VisionPro and its cheaper alternatives go mainstream and they get 4k display per eye and your image is 2.7k.

Manual focus only with adapter? Pass.

I like flip-out displays but I know people who work in repair shops and they told me they see a lot of broken ones. Most of the times the data cable can't handle the usual wear and tear. What is completely absent in long term camera reviews are technical opinions of the guys who repair these stuff several months after their release.

Isn't it putting them in a more vulnerable position? The next attacker will be DJI. Whats the point of having a patent you can't defend?

They're free to keep it for Z9, but we don't know they're also free to use it in Z8.

I don't think Nikon has anything in tech IP to offer that may be useful for RED. They don't want Z mount. And almost all of Nikon's sensor patents are based of long time collaboration with Sony Semi. Masked AF pixels, stacked fabrications, all are covered by Sony IP too. However I don't think they just agreed about a license payment. RED's language in this lawsuit was very harsh. It was like they wanted to punish Nikon, regardless of claimed damage. Note that this was not a "Voluntary Dismissal" by RED like it was in Kinefinity case.