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I've always felt a Lack of Collaboration has mostly slowed down Indie Film Development. Studios have limitless wealth, and resources. This seems like a nice effort. Hopefully, he allows other people to use his studio space for rights or profits in return.

"Also, ISOCELL GN1 takes light information from each photodiode to produce a 100MP resolution photograph by a software algorithm." Interesting upressing (high res photo mode, like on Olympus and Panasonic) mode, without sensor shift. This seems quite interesting.

From DPREVIEW.COM "On March 2nd, Steptoe, a leading international law firm, secured a major trial victory for Autel Robotics USA at the US International Trade Commission (ITC). The ITC's chief administrative law judge found that SZ DJI Technology Co. Ltd., the world's largest manufacturer of consumer drones, and 7 related entities collectively known as 'DJI,' violated Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended. DJI has been importing and selling drones that infringe on Autel's US Patent No. 9, 260,184. The ITC's chief administrative law judge recommended barring the following DJI products from importation into the United States: the Mavic Pro, Mavic Pro Platinum, Mavic 2 Pro, Mavic 2 Zoom, Mavic Air, and Spark. The judge also recommended a cease and desist order prohibiting DJI from selling any of these products that are already in the U.S. when the exclusion order issues. If upheld, all of these products could be removed from the U.S. market as early as July. Autel scored another victory with the ITC. DJI was forced to post a 9.9% bond during the 60-day presidential review period following the exclusion order. Autel also filed a petition to prevent other DJI products from being sold including the Phantom 4 and Inspire series of drones. It is worth noting that DJI's Inspire 1 and most of its Phantom 4 line has been discontinued, with the exception of the Phantom 4 Pro V2.0. The Spark and original Mavic Pro models are also no longer produced." https://m.dpreview.com/news/5298432342/judge-rules-dji-infringed-patent-recommends-ceasing-sales-and-imports-of-most-dji-drones

At the beginning of the 2nd part, he mentions his choice of cameras, beginning with the GH2.

You're right. But a V90 or V60 card could easily have handled the necessary bandh width for both 4k at high bitrates, and well as RAW photo buffer (as one would notice from the Sony A7iii, which had 2 SD card slots, one of which is strangely UHS-I). The quality difference between the 150mbps and 400mbps is so minor, that most people prefer using the 150mbps codec. Panasonic can still re-release the S1, with a lower resolution EVF (this one with the higher resolution and refresh rate was probably also nesting into the battery) and LCD, and price it at $,2000 (or better still, at $1899), and it will outsell many other full frame cameras. Panasonic also needs to ensure that its lenses are smaller and lower priced for the L-mount. Sigma is obviously at it, it probably just needs to hurry up. After the A7iii, most full frame cameras are finding it difficult to price themselves above $2000 and sell well enough. Especially if they can't match the autofocus, shooting speeds, and battery life, among other things. Panasonic will really have to make some seriously tough decisions for the GH6. It has to be Below the $2000 Price, and thus not have any unnecessary hardware features that would increase its price. Because it becomes even more difficult to justify a M43 camera costing more than a Full Frame Camera. Plus, it would have to add some features that even full frame video shooters don't have (limitless recording, maybe audio bit depth, much higher video and photo shooting speeds, more high res photo options, maybe smartphone-like HDR, multi-frame video HDR, superb dual ISO etc).

IMHO Panasonic invested too much on the EVF and LCD. They should have left that high quality of both solely for the S1H. And priced the S1 at $2000 to compete with the A7iii (which has way superior autofocus and much faster shooting rate). Also the S1 should have had Dual SD card slots, instead of one SD and one XQD. Pricing it at $2000 would have ensured it sold way more than it did.

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I remember that it highlighted how the big guys try to overstate and thus oversell the much higher priced gear. So that when Coppola chose the GH2, it created a huge furore. The outcome was that the Zacuto Shootout was completely scrapped. That was the last year of the shootout. Curiously, Panasonic never advertised this fact in its advertising (which like I've been saying the longest, is rather lack lustre). They could have sold the GH2 like crazy, just based on this fact alone. Also, curiously, while the 5D Mark ii sold extremely well as a video and photo shooter, the much cheaper GH2 seemed to find much fewer takers.

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Andrew, it would be amazing to have a GH2 vs GH3 vs GH4 vs GH5 Challenge, to see how much Panasonic had changed over the last few years. Plus maybe cover how Panasonic didn't do enough to advertise the GH2 as an Indie Film Marvel (Panasonic's advertising team is still pretty garbage, IMO), at a fraction of the cost of the 5Dii and many other mor expensive options. Even Panasonic's G7, GX85, G85 are so underrated too. Why they couldn't grab a larger film students and low budget indie filmmakers market share, is a testament to probably poor advertising. I agree. Even the Darkness Seeker ISO12800 GH2 video. The grain in that video was just insane.

A smartphone with a 1/2 - 1 inch sensor + a M43 sensor, that shoots 12-bit compressed RAW video or ProRes, along with 4k at 120fps, does 24-48MP photos in 14-bit RAW, with 20fps burst photos, with modular accessories for recording 32-bit sound (dual sound on something the size of the InstaMic). It could be 3 times as thick as a present smartphone, but it should have a large battery, and physical buttons for manual operations (apart from a touchscreen). Also multiple mounting and transfer options.

Any particular reason it is 10-bit. I remember a lot of smaller sensors are 12-bit.

Perhaps their HDR photos compensate for this?

Very curious how easy or difficult it is to fly a drone in your country (laws, licenses and permissions).

It does seem to say that it has a few HDR modes. Hopefully, some of them are for video too. 34mins flight time(?), 68kms speed(?), and 10kms travel range(?).

It's too slow for a sensor of this size. It will have bad low light.

The f2.8 lens is a disappointment. Price and specs seem good otherwise.

The only question is, at what rate will it do a complete sensor scan. How many frames at full res. Otherwise, without decent HDR, the photos may not be usable. Also, terra and nano pixels will reduce detail, to a noticeable extent. These could be for surveillance or reconnaissance work. Maybe as tiny spy drones.

Please tell us it's more than this https://m.dpreview.com/news/4713396795/panasonic-announces-5-9k-prores-raw-video-for-lumix-dc-s1h

Hopefully we finally hear about the GH6. Not another S1 iteration (S1 8k 🤣). There's something very suspiciously quirky about an 8k Canon camera, which isn't just the price. It could be insane rolling shutter, or super overheating or a crop narrower than M43 or something nobody could have thought of. Maybe it has a 5 min recording limit. This just seems too good to be true. P.S.: I was going through some of the comments on dpreview and I almost died laughing. Maybe this is a Canon conspiracy. Sony and Panasonic could have mass resignations or layoffs regarding the sheer specs on this monster. And, maybe Canon is playing a joke on us, much like the 120MP sensor their announced, like 10 years back, which never saw the light of day. By the time Canon comes clean on a mis-timed April Fool's joke, (the Video) Mirrorless market would have probably shrunk to 1/3rd its size.

Whoa. Quite a bit. Someone in the Sony Alpha (A7s) division just submitted his resignation.

Hopefully R5 doesn't cost a kidney.

This is like a Panasonic S1H on steroids. It does RAW, and 4k at 120fps. And the 8k. I couldn't notice any fan vents, though Canon is rather secretive about the (final) design. The only question is what would the bitrate be? I am guessing it will cost over the S1H, perhaps $5000-6000.

I am guessing they are a newer generation (atleast 2 generations, I am guessing), of LED technology. That's why the power draw is substantially different. The Lupo outputs as much output, as lights which are much larger in size. The Aputure F7 is a comparable light (its RGB though). It's similar in size and beam angle (45° vs 40°). But the Aputure F7 outputs 1500 lx at a metre. And that has a power draw of 15 watts (as opposed to 20watts on the Lupo). It's not just the beam angle, the efficiency is actually highlighting a newer generation of LEDs. And this is the price of 2 large capacity batteries, along with a dual charging hub. https://www.amazon.com/Neewer-6600mAh-Replacement-Handycams-Feelworld/dp/B076M5LQC7/ref=sxin_9_ac_m_rm?ac_md=1-1-bnAgYmF0dGVyeQ%3D%3D-ac_d_rm&cv_ct_cx=Sony+NPF+battery&dchild=1&keywords=Sony+NPF+battery&pd_rd_i=B076M5LQC7&pd_rd_r=fba5927c-c582-43f1-8879-898943bbb3e1&pd_rd_w=c2qIb&pd_rd_wg=x7kxp&pf_rd_p=e3a499cf-9678-4595-82a4-3d742ce12b40&pf_rd_r=FEDYDDC7XX7R1ME7B5NG&psc=1&qid=1587328156&sr=1-2-87203c69-9404-44ba-aa52-290406ffe53a