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ah my response you were replying to: Was me making a perhaps too subtle joke, as I was writing AImk2 instead of A1mk2 Because AImk2 is going to totally change the game for the stock footage business! (of insects, and everything else)

I think we could mention Fujifilm too, perhaps not quite as great value as Panasonic (but Fuji's new X-M5 shakes that up! The best value camera currently?) but they do usually still provide very good value and do even better with their series of constant firmware updates.

In terms of price / size / FoV / f-stop, then the Viltrox and TTArtisan are nearly identical, which one to go for? (I'd be using this with a Fujifilm X-A3, mostly photos, maybe a very teeny bit of causal video)

True. But not because of the A1mk2, but because of AImk2

That's shockingly cheap! Congrats. I wouldn't advocate for the RodeLinks though, because: too big, & 2.4GHz Saw yesterday Sony UWP-D11 for only US$50, only needs the TX antenna to be repaired/replaced (an easy fix there are lots of guides for). That would be a much better buy, although it was in the illegal (for USA) 600MHz band so not suitable for your purposes. Legal / working Sony UWP-D11 wireless seems to run more in the two hundred plus ish range, still an amazing bargain.

On the upside: a penny saved, is a penny earned. I just purchased a couple of new lenses, if only I had a bit more paralysis by analysis then perhaps I wouldn't have spent any money.

Welll.... by luck or not, I just got this question answered for me? Just won a fairly good deal for a SIRUI Sniper 23mm F1.2 autofocus lens. I already have a 7artisans 12mm F2.8 II Manual Focus Lens for Fuji X Mount (when a lens is this ultrawide, then being manual focus is no big deal), and I'll try to find a cheap hundred dollar 56mm autofocus lens. Together these three lens should make for a very nice trio of primes to cover most things. Depending on how bulky I find this f1.2 lens, I might yet still get the TTArtisan 27mm f/2.8 Lens as a more compact everyday lens. Or maaaaybe the even more compact and cheaper manual focus lenses: 7artisans 18mm f/6.3 or TTArtisan 25mm f/2

Ohhh... seems like we're just around the corner from even cheaper options: AstrHori and 7Artisans AF 27mm F2.8 are coming in X Mount, roughly US$126/US$129 each. https://www.fujirumors.com/astrhori-and-7artisans-af-27mm-f2-8-launched-and-fujifilm-x-mount-versions-to-come/

It's honestly what makes me the most excited about new camera releases these days, it helps push down the prices of the older secondhand models. Bring on the Nikon Z6 mk4 & mk5! (and a Nikon Z60 pretty please!!) Will make the Nikon D750 and D500 that much more affordable on eBay

What's the compact lens you've got for every day carry with the Fujifilm X-M5? As I've got a Fujfilm X-A3 (yeah, I know, old!) and I've been thinking what is the best lens for it for everyday everynight (out in nightclubs/pubs/events) carry. Definitely don't want anything too expensive, as the risks it could get lost/stolen/broken within the next couple of years are quite high. TTArtisan 27mm f/2.8 is top of the list, but I worry f2.8 might be too slow? But it is only US$149 https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1732752-REG/ttartisan_af2728_x_b_af_c27mm_f_2_8_lens.html Yongnuo YN 50mm f/1.8 is also only US$149, but being 50mm is definitely too long. However if I'm to bring along a second lens, then I think this could be perfect. (or the Viltrox AF 56mm f/1.7? Or the Meike 55mm f/1.4 AF Lens? Could go with a genuine Fujifilm lens, with the Fujifilm XC 35mm f/2 at the surprisingly low US$199. But hmm... tough and go about 35mm, probably is going to be not wide enough. (and the Meike 33mm f/1.4 and Tokina 33mm f/1.4 can be similarly ignored, only 2mm difference) Tokina 23mm f/1.4 could be the perfect lens for both FoV and F-stop, but price is creeping up at US$249 and maybe it's too bulky? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1608878-REG/tokina_atx_m_af23x_atx_m_23mm_f_1_4_x.html And for only a little more at US$279 there is the Sirui Sniper 23mm f/1.2 https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1798104-REG/sirui_23as12x_b_sniper_23mm_f_1_2_aps_c.html Keeping on creeping up with the price to US$299 we see the Viltrox AF 23mm f/1.4 https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1581754-REG/viltrox_af_23_1_4_xf_23mm_f_1_4_lens_for.html As the price keeps on going up, then there is the Sirui Sniper 16mm f/1.2 at $319: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1836434-REG/sirui_16as12x_b_sniper_16mm_f_1_2_autofocus.html And then finally for the Fujifilm XF 27mm f/2.8 R WR Lens for $399 (minor mention to the Fujfilm 35mm f/2 R WR & 16mm f/2.8 R WR Lenses which are also US$399), which is definitely the most compact of all the autofocus lenses being considered so far: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1618892-REG/fujifilm_16670168_xf_27mm_f_2_8_r.html But four hundred USD is definitely beyond the absolute max I'd consider splurging on such a lens for a frivolous purpose. The other option is forgetting about autofocus (how well are these third party lenses going to be focusing anyway in a dark environment at night on an old X-A3 body???), and go manual focus: TTArtisan 25mm f/2 for US$64: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1725977-REG/ttartisan_c2520_b_x_25mm_f_2_aps_c_compact.html (and the TTArtisan 50mm f/2 for US$69, it's cheap and compact enough I could indeed be always carrying around a second lens: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1718063-REG/ttartisan_f5020_b_x_50mm_f_2_full_frame.html Or spend a little bit more for a little extra speed, the TTArtisan 23mm f/1.4 for US$99: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1675251-REG/ttartisan_a35bs_x_23mm_f_1_4_aps_c_lens.html Or go wider, TTArtisan 17mm f/1.4 for US$118: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1644040-REG/ttartisan_a23b_17mm_f_1_4_aps_c_lens.html

Obviously is a lens that exists to compete against Canon's 28-70mm f2 Are Panasonic and Nikon going to bring out their own versions of this next as well?? Is this lens going to make @MrSMW once again rethink his wedding filmming / photography setup? (or no? Too heavy?) Is going to have a RRP of US$2898, and will be shipping this Decemeber. You can see here what the lens looks like on a FX3, not too badly sized: Sony also announced a new Second-Generation Flagship flagship camera, the Sony Alpha 1 II Also will be shipping in December, and is priced at US$6,499 https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1861705-REG/sony_a1_ii_mirrorless_camera.html Key Features: From a videographer's perspective, not really a huge upgrade from the mk1?

"The data shows Democrats taking a sharp turn leftward on social issues over the past decade. This has distanced them from the median voter. Notably, the shift began in 2016. This suggests that Trump’s election radicalised the left, not the right." https://www.ft.com/content/73a1836d-0faa-4c84-b973-554e2ca3a227 The data does indeed show there has been a clear swing to the extreme left (but it happened even earlier than 2016), thus why I said that. It's now the Republicans who are closer to Democrats of the past (such as the era of Bill Clinton) than modern Democrats of 2024 are, who have abandoned what the Democrat Party used to be, leaving that ground instead to only Republicans to claim. If Democrats want to win elections again, they should look to reclaim this lost ground they've given away to the Republicans. But it might be a multiyear process to regain the trust of voters (as it's been a decade plus long swing away from the median voters the Democrat Party has been doing, you can't change that overnight), otherwise voters will just suspect politicians are doing what they usually do to voters: lying to them. (take for instance Kamala Harris suddenly trying to be "tough on the border" in the final weeks of the campaign, come on man, nobody is taking her seriously over that! It's just pure political spin, and not what she truly believes, in fact her doing that out of desperation just made her look even less authentic)

Is this even strictly necessary? You said for anything that isn't personal work you could just rent when it comes to video work. Also what are you usually renting, Sony FX6 / FX9? If so it might make sense for your personal camera to also be a E Mount. I'd be inclined to go with the oldest Sony a7R you'd feel happy with (seeing resolution for architecture photography seems to matter a fair bit to you), you could go fairly old with it, seeing as you don't care about AF much. The a7R mk1 is 36megapixels like the Nikon D800, which is heaps, still is lots more than most stills cameras are. Or go a little more recent for the a7R mk2 for 42.4 megapixels. (or just splurge out for the Sony a7RV if you must have 10bit video, and also get a 60MP sensor for stills) Then get a handful of lenses for it to cover every situation, such as the Viltrox AF 28mm f/4.5 FE Lens makes it kinda pocketable. (or the faster / less wide Sony Sonnar T* FE 35mm f/2.8 lens, or the much cheaper Rokinon AF 35mm f/2.8 , both of which are rather slim lenses to use for street photography) Or the Venus Optics Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift Lens for doing architectural photography. Or the Viltrox AF 135mm f/1.8 lens for portraits. If you don't care about Sony E Mount in particular, then expand the scope to consider Panasonic S1R and Nikon Z7. Honestly not a bad idea to have your main stills camera and your pocketable camera be two different options. With your pocketable / everyday carry camera being something like a Fujfilm X100, or Sony RX100 (or even go more extra... Sony RX10mk2???), or Sony ZV-1, or very compact MFT / APSC mirrorless camera. (such as a Nikon Z30 or Sony EV10 or Panasonic GX850 etc) While your main stills camera is a beefier Panasonic G9mk2 / Nikon Z7 / Panasonic S1R / Fujifilm X-H2 / Sony a7R / etc

Let's not forget that many of these most prominent people who were on the other side to Kamala Harris and the Democrat Machine were people who had for most of their lives been Democrats (or at the very least liberal / Democrat leaning / voting), until that is the Democrats lurched to the extreme left, and left them behind: Joe Rogan, Tim Pool, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , Donald Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald, Elon Musk, Dave Rubin, etc For all of these people to have called them "conservatives or right wingers" would have been flat out wrong for most of their lives. https://theconversation.com/the-intellectual-dark-web-just-won-the-election-meet-the-coalition-of-joe-rogan-rfk-jr-tulsi-gabbard-and-elon-musk-243380 The Dow Jones is still up a massive two thousand points since the election (nearly five percent) Let's not forget that democracy was also an issue too, and on this point the exit polling showed that Trump was beating Harris as the better candidate for people who cared about democracy: Honestly this shouldn't be too surprising when you look at how the Biden Administration behaved over the last four years, and when you consider the palace coup which took place to put in place Kamala Harris, and how the Democrat Machine just totally ignored the will of their own voters in mattering in the process. Exit polls are much more accurate than polling done prior to an election, which is why I was referring to that in my prior comment. People forget how unusual it was what Trump did! He was the first president since Jimmy Carter to not start a new war! Hopefully the next four years will in this particular matter, be the same as his first term of presidency. USA has been so eager to jump into new wars for so long, hopefully this is another trend that Trump can break, and maybe even end. Perhaps if after Trump's presidency if we can get elected someone such as say Tulsi Gabbard perhaps, then we could see another four years then eight year added on top of there being "no new wars". And we could see created a new normal, of USA not going to war every other second. A lack of new wars would also go a long way towards drying up new funding towards the military industrial complex. THIS. USA has gravely depleted its weapon stocks. USA needs to immediately stop sending hundreds of billions of arms to Ukraine, as all it is accomplishing at the moment is: 1) needlessly perpetuating yet more deaths of Ukrainian men (they truly are trying to take literally the saying "until the last Ukrainian", this is going to be a demographic disaster for post war Ukraine) & 2) running dry USA's own stocks which is putting at risk USA's own security should they need it for themselves. Although in the long run, the better approach is to onshore more of USA's critically strategic manufacturing. Which has been part of both this administration's plan, and a very major part of the incoming administration's plan as well. The terribly botched withdrawal from Afghanistan happened under the Biden Presidency. How much of that was due to "outsourcing security to the USA" vs being due to: 1) having a collective living memory of the recent horrors of WW1 & WW2, with zero desire whatsoever to repeat that under any circumstance 2) having ever close economic ties with each other now within Europe than ever before (the more you're trading with a country, the less likely you wish to go to war and ruin all that prosperity) Unfortunately true, because no matter who the people elect to represet them in Washington DC, its "the establishment" (the unelected bureaucrats) who hold all the cards. NATO primarily existed to oppose the USSR, and the moment The Cold War ended then NATO itself should also have been wound down and abolished. But unfortunately many people (such as the John Boltons, Victoria Nulands, and Dick Cheneys of the world) liked The Cold War, and wished that it never ended. And thus did everything in their powers to try and perpetuate The Cold War, to justify their existence and to keep the dollars $$$ rolling into the military industrial complex. In fact in their wet dreams they don't just want the old Cold War to carry on as a forever war, but they're even happy to see a hot war. And in Ukraine they're seeing those wishes play out as they wanted.

Has anybody got a link to what Żydowicz wrote? I can't find it on their website, or anywhere else: https://www.cinematography.world/?s=Żydowicz Seems utterly pointless for these people to try and beat up some kind of controversy over what Żydowicz wrote if nobody can actually read for themselves what he said.

Just add NDs to the Pyxis and they'll make huge in roads. Add then next semi usable AF and it will be the cheery on top. Panasonic already has the BS1H (& BGH1), the just need to do next the mk2 with all the various flaws of the original one fixed up. Nearly there!

I'd be guessing the new GFX Fujfilm camera rather than being similar priced to a C80 it will instead be closer to double (or more) the price of a Canon C80 Hopefully there will be coming out a S35 version with an X Mount instead, and along with it a much lower price. Color still matters a lot. There is a reason why ARRI is #1. Plus there is an awful lot of content at the lower budget levels which uses SOOC colors, or just a simple LUT slapped on it. Because time is money, and they want a speedy workflow. Wait, what... there is a 1-in / Super 16 camera coming out?? Where is news of these rumors. https://www.fujirumors.com/fujifilms-move-to-1-inch-sensors-a-perfect-opportunity-to-revive-the-x30-xq2-and-xf1/ Ahhh.... I see, will be something like a competitor to the Sony RX100 / RX10 ?? Would be nice, I really liked my Fujifilm XQ1 / XF1, would be nice to see an updated 1" version of them.

oi! There are a few kiwis here too.

Never officially supported by Canon Lack of IBIS from Nikon, is the biggest drawback about this new Z50mk2

Is this the first mirrorless/DSLR to get waveforms while priced at under US$1K RRP?!

Yeah I've been staring for years at these cheap Sony PMW-F5 deals you see on ebay , being tempted by them. But I suspect my next camera most likely will be a P4K Yeah, those are to be fair even better deals even though the price is a little higher

I feel like it is just about time to start a Sony PMW-F5 / F55 thread? 😉 They're becoming even cheaper on eBay than the F3 was back when I first purchased my F3 a zillion years ago! Only US $739 from Adorama, put in a "best offer" and get it for even less: https://www.ebay.com/itm/235749404194 Then get yourself a cheap XQD to SXS card adapter, and you'll be away laughing with cheap media: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003950544795.html As you can pick up 128gig XQD cards on eBay for half of what the SXS cards would cost.

I do very little cinematography work these days 😕 Working instead with lots of DPs! As a Sound Mixer, rather than being a DP myself.

Heh, I haven't updated my YT channel in ages and ages, am posting about once per year it seems, anywhere, here is another quick update from last night's shoot about my setup with how I had it ready to go for a quick change over for how I'm doing this weekend's shoot:

I wonder if in an hypothetical world if Panasonic had never released a L Series of cameras, but had stayed focused on their MFT cameras. But instead had released APS-C / S35 versions of their cameras, so that they could very clearly compete head to head with Fujfilm (plus the Nikon Z / Canon RF / Sony E mount APS-C cameras). Would mean a much stronger range of MFT cameras, maybe Panasonic (and Olympus) would be doing better today. The keen fanatics might not be happy with the $159 50mm f2 lens, but most people would be fine with it. The original classic Nikon nifty fifty was from 1986: https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/5018af.htm Most people would be perfectly happy with its image quality in their cheapie lens. Or this lens from the 1970's: https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/50mm-f14-s.htm Also a solid choice optically! Exactly. (and the 50mm f1.8 from the 1980's is even reportedly a fair bit better optically than the lens you were testing)