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Blackmagic Design, an Australia-based digital cinematography camera company, was gearing up to start making products in the United States before the Trump administration blew a tariff-shaped hole in its plans. Now, not only is Blackmagic having to increase prices in the US to mitigate some of the levies on imported goods, but those same tariffs are also making it difficult to justify opening a US production line. “We were planning to build a new factory in Dallas, Texas, to streamline our supply chain and allow us to work more directly with US semiconductor companies,” Blackmagic Design spokesperson Patrick Hussey told The Verge. The introduction and ever-shifting confusion around President Donald Trump’s blanket global tariffs have since complicated things according to Hussey, because while the semiconductor parts and PCBs used in Blackmagic’s cameras are sourced from US companies, those companies are importing them from overseas. “If we proceed with the US factory, we’d incur tariffs on those parts, increasing costs and negating the savings we anticipated,” said Hussey. It’s a no-win situation that many other businesses in and outside of the US are facing if they deal with global suppliers. While Trump has brazenly declared that tariffs will incentivize companies to bring manufacturing to the US to remain competitive, if these manufacturers use foreign equipment or materials in their supply chain, they may — directly or indirectly — still get hit with hefty import fees. (That’s leaving aside the cost of doing business when the fees change dramatically from day to day.) A supply chain survey conducted by CNBC found that 61 percent of respondents from unspecified businesses would be financially better off moving from high-tariff countries to lower-tariffed countries instead of the US, and 81 percent said if they did relocate to the US, they would automate production instead of hiring human workers, failing to deliver the manufacturing jobs Trump promised. 61 percent of the companies also warned they would raise prices for products coming in under the new tariff rates. Blackmagic Design customers have already noticed a price hike has been applied to all products sold in the US, with the new Pyxis 12K briefly listed at $6,600 after initially being marketed at $5,000. This has since fallen to $5,500 after Blackmagic announced it had moved Pyxis production to lessen the tariff impact, but prices in every country besides the US have remained completely unscathed. “Due to new government tariffs, price increases in the US have been unavoidable,” said Hussey. “That said, we operate factories in several countries, so production of some product lines has been relocated to reduce the impact on our customers.” Hussey told The Verge that Blackmagic is now planning to “wait a few months” to see if the supply chain for the components it needs will move to the US. “If it does, we could still achieve the supply chain benefits we were aiming for.” The Trump Administration added “smartphones, computers, and other electronics” to its list of tariff exemptions last week — a list with no clear carveout for cameras or camera-specific manufacturing equipment — but then swiftly warned that companies shouldn’t get comfy. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said these are not “a permanent sort of exemption,” and that these goods will be hit with the same unspecified tariff rules that Trump is expected to apply to the semiconductor industry in “a month or two.” https://www.theverge.com/news/649225/blackmagic-design-trump-us-tariffs-price-hike

Yes indeed, but mainstream politicians also have their dosis to blame. When they don't do their job, opportunists or radical ones easily pop up... Ideology can be dangerous but no less, ineptitude or lack of competence. André Ventura is very talented as I had the chance to change ideas with Francisco Louçã a week ago... This left-wing politician even agreed with me. We who love a free society we are in big trouble to say the least TBH. Here is his opinion aired on national TV on XIX century Trump's tariffs next day of our long conversation me and him in person of about one hour or so the day before... Louçã is also a reputable economics professor at the university, he explains how these nonsense tariffs have no logic at all... in Portuguese though to those who know the language, you can follow his interesting criticism, pity that White House economists are dumb or too subservient, to not call it 'moron' and 'dumber than a sack of bricks' as even Musk did. Louçã refers how USD is falling despite what could be expected from: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1032490332104272 Former London-based and City University London graduate Catarina Castro (and talented right-wing economist no less) is there too and tries to contradict him but ends to fail the argument that Trump's plan is the dollar down because of the debt. It's just pure markets' fear, folks! And that's actually scaring... When inflation and uncertainty enter the things cannot end well for no one. The orange man is placing that on hold for 90 days for some reason and Musk has called Peter Navarro of those significant gross names definitely not for no reason...

No shrinks to see in the States? : ) I don't realize how people don't get all this is insanity at best or worst ; ) Before, people were smarter when their king was crazy, they were used to put the guy off, now the majority elects the wildest... So, this is not only a problem of one sole guy : P I consider myself half liberal half conservative no less, but as even Pope Francis said, Kamala with her pro choice policy had been much safer no matter what we think about the woke agenda -- what such a stratagedy! Even with no particular end result in mind... Definitely much mooooore healthy than a basis who has no clue what actually is going on in this same planet ready for extinction nowadays. Let's not forget the climate change, ok? March was the warmest month ever in Europe as far as records hint. Guess it's never late or enough to recall this one once again when art is far to be distant from reality... The society is sick as whole. The same. The situation now seems a way worse than in that January 6... Never thought to have to arrive here. Humankind is hard to learn... North Americans from Washington DC rule, the new Romans as someone called them, as our species flagship, follow. What expects us all yet?

Much diplomatic... Maybe human race is going towards the extinction a way faster than the most pessimist expectations or we'll see the States blowing up in riots. I have no idea how close sane* people to him manage to handle his crises... We haven't arrived to 100 days yet and we are at this point. What comes next? * if any

The way these people praise their egos rather than the same planet we live all in is beyond me. RED as many others, the Apple in hands of 60% of the American users is only another example, they need to pay the same tariffs when import the components made elsewhere. Without mention, no Americans will ever accept to receive the same salaries as those people explored overseas. All this is a joke without any connection with reality... unless insanity of mid-20s. Pity politics is a showbiz today rather than seeing people going to the movies or reading a good book, as for instance. Looks like it's all about that. The introduction of social media twenty years ago would end not in a good shape, so here is. - EAG

This situation is a shame, this orange man is writing a black page in the history of the humankind and people who have voted him no less. Ronald Reagan should be as much embarrassed with Republicans as John McCain when refused to even figure this guy "to visit" his dead body... tariffs and paranoid policies are proper of communist regimes, not the free world of a bygone age nowadays.

Impressive @kye no idea what this forum would be without you, really. Food for thought. You're such an asset and a few people here, if no more or/and elsewhere, miss you when you're absent : ) You've summed up the whole thing : ) it's all about that, no more no less, one of the reasons why people love (and use) anamorphics :- )

Still on doubt actually, if just mere another non-sense ('movies looked better before "color grading" was invented' : D I've only paid attention to the talking marks... LOL ; ) or makes us to think better about that... Not a simple equation as much as film isn't either -- post in the previous century or after, is surely part of it (from the keyboard of someone with editing/post as his primary film background* exactly in the late 90s/turn of the century ; ) while digital is doubtlessly also this: No matter how many LUTs, TikTokers & suchlike with their bloody vertical aspect ratio pop up... Lang protested against snakes & funerals as their proper format to shoot them when 2.35:1 cinemascope arrived despite MOONFLEET had been shot by him, go figure! : P While we can only dream in 2.39:1 ratio but on screen and in B&W or Colour out of there too, one doesn't exclude the other ;- ) The director playing himself on JLG's masterpiece LE MÉPRIS... : D [*] Moreover, currently in charge of a large 16mm/8mm inventory in EU, UK and U.S., as well their variations aka Super 16/Super 8 to be digitally transferred with the resource/use of the most advanced colour grading technology and techniques of today... just for the sake of memories preservation shot on film.

You surely have here some Borrego Valley as much more than a local plot. Not necessarily one-sided, confined to a niche ; ) Brazilians have done it pretty well with their 'Nordeste' (Brazilian Northeast) and 'Sertão'. Let alone Amazonia. Masterpieces* of people like Glauber Rocha or Nelson Pereira dos Santos had and still have worldwide audiences and wide-spread recognition beyond the local microcosm represented on screen. Other ones follow. Series Roque Santeiro shot for TV, as for instance, suits a larger time and space than where the story takes place (mid-80s) and some small community to cut across instead the whole country and decades or even centuries of their history. As University/College dissertations can easily prove it (here's an interesting text on topic in Portuguese -- there's a résumé in Spanish though). The most regional, the most universal can happen to be. It's all about language and handling. Loved your wife's work, editing work too (which one of you did it?) to launch from the early beginning not only the main character but the way you have there potential as work in progress to serve the rough cut as far as the character(s) design concerns to be developed later on, targeting the dramatic paradigma to pursue. It's not the Karpman drama triangle but fits the ticket ; ) Moreover, the introductory statement, director's style and theme as the main idea that drives the movie forward. Cinematography and grading (who in charge? only you?) to match the colours of desert and sunlight where hawks cross the sky and distributed a bit or all over the place, fills the cup, so no less : ) Much more can be added to your inquiry, I essentially agree on that already written by the other fellows of these boards I can now read and concur. Wild nature is the bubble where human nature discloses its intrinsic revelation we should all take a look at some point :- ) - EAG [*] PS: How many local story lines there in that breathtaking list...?! ;- )

Yes! Please follow here (from minute 07:37 on) in Portuguese, though, I'm sorry!... but you have enough pictures there : ) https://sic.pt/sic-radical/cinetendinha/2025-01-08-video-ricardo-trepa-esteve-em-destaque-no-bragacine-comecei-pelo-cume-da-montanha-e-aproveitei-6b0373ac (to those who haven't met me in the real world, you can even follow my mug in-between the minute 8 and 9 ; ) This is coming from a Portuguese national TV programme about cinema, filmmaking & alike to also cover my participation as producer joining some other local producers with three movies, a couple of feature films shot in New Zealand and Macao/China + a TV doc series in Macao, which collected six awards in the recent 22nd BragaCine[*] edition (Best Film in the short film and feature film categories, Best Directing and Best Cinematography awards and yet another Honorable Mention by the Youth Jury, as well, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for a Hong Kong actress we had the luck to have in the cast) -- here are the trailers of both feature films: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RSlwmdHhUi9DiH74um86FCtJ-a3HKott/view?usp=sharing KILLER SOFA (covered by Hollywood Reporter & HERE for remaining press) https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Er41RU5DVcouAOrb85PQbjyS0a25MLC/view?usp=sharing INA AND THE BLUE TIGER SAUNA (LINK on IMDb) I understand your comment and I even concur. As already reported by myself, so many times... : ) that I've already hinted that I should refrain to talk about work related with but cameras, hence to come here only now... because I can barely stand to become silent when I read this I fully second without remorse : P I hate anything anonymous BTW :- ) I will try to take a look as soon as I can but projected on the big screen through a 4K projector I use to see everything I can straight to a proper large screen if thought to be s(cr)een(ed) there ; ) Here you have the Macao's doc short film directed by António Caetano Faria (who also directed one of the feature films just mentioned with Bernie Rao who wrote the script and is the award-winning director/cinematographer and writer of KILLER SOFA too), 22nd BragaCine winner from where we are working right now to produce a local documentary TV series somewhere else in the other part of the planet, inspired by and in order to commemorate the transfer of sovereignty of Macao from Portugal to China a quarter of century ago, with local students of nowadays by the hands of one or more national film schools into a singular international Atlantic cooperation associated to a couple of other film school programs in the other side of the Ocean too, tracing a path... :- ) [* the oldest International Indie Film Festival currently operating in the country]

It's Sirui the 5th brand to join the L-mount alliance, after all... just announced: https://www.newsshooter.com/2025/03/20/sirui-joins-the-l-mount-alliance/ And a fast lightweight tele is the 1st one to arrive... https://store.sirui.com/products/sirui-aurora-series-85mm-full-frame-autofocus-lens

Ciao Daniele, nice to meet you too! Good initiative and kudos to you BTW, be welcome! : ) Maybe this may help some other ones here to look for cooperation with other users and make this forum to always have in mind that film making is essentially a colective work... and not some lonely activity behind a distant keyboard ; ) I will write you through DM... where are you exactly based in Italy? - EAG

The worst is the vertical ratio like humans have both eyes distributed by chin and forehead...

Good initiative! That's what I am already used to do! : ) It also depends on you, Andrew, the more you post the more people come to read you... Don't you take notice? :- )

I found his video very long. Much yadda yadda. To me. Couldn't hold for long. Others think the same of me! LOL So, all OK : ) Out of curiosy, I even had to go back (either outside there or here abovementioned and posted) for so much buzz... A short note anyway: if I'd write the history of this release, I wouldn't focus on his subscribers mark, not even the criticism about the guy. Only the cons of this camera. How to overcome it, no less. And how this compares with the competition (with... not compared to ; ) That and the recent Z8 talk here on EOSHD is something much more interesting IMHO. The pros, we're already aware of it in a camera release launched this year of 2025.