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Could be a hijacked user's account which has been re-purposed, happens often with scams to help make them look more "legit" *cough* a certain *cough* "Egyptian" *cough*

It is both..... either could be the bottleneck. The sensor might have a limit in how fast it can send out the data, or the processor might have a limit in how fast it can read that data sent to it. As more and more cameras get 10bit internal, I'd say the market for external recorders is going to die away.

I've been called it more than once! Blowing hot air was he?

Especially with the release of "The Mandalorian" just recently, and "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" tomorrow, the risks of Wookie attacks are much higher than normal!

Thanks for highlighting that link from @noone , I'll need to remember to check out that article when I've got time. https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2019/11/practical-use-of-field-curvature-graphs-the-50mm-primes/

Christmas Day can not come soon enough for me! Looking forward to the break, overworked to the bone. Don't think I'm buying myself any Christmas gifts, I've done enough extravagant purchases during 2019! But we'll see what the Boxing Day sales bring.... Did you make this for the local police?

Please don't use a blimp indoors :-( And definitely don't use it indoors with a wookie condom on it!

They're not for sale. They're rental only. Which is also perhaps a reason why they're so often on these top lists, because productions don't ever own cameras, they rent them. And what is one of those major rental houses? Panavision! Makes sense they'd rent the lenses from the same places as the camera bodies.

This recorder is an insane BARGAIN even at full price, but now it has gone on sale for the next few hours: **Zoom F8n 8-Input / 10-Track Multi-Track Field Recorder, US$799** https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1411499-REG/zoom_zf8n_zoom_f8n_multi_track_recorder.html

Or maybe it will be unlike past a7S models and it will be priced sky high like the Panasonic S1H is, as I see it does share the big chunky body the Panasonic S1H has

You seem to be mistakenly thinking the Z6 is "bad in lowlight" when it is not.

haha, I'm glad to see you're fighting on both sides of the fence in the Epic Hair Splitting Great War of 2019

Yeah perhaps the Z50 should be the one I should keep an eye on as my "next Nikon" Does it have 10bit external output as well? If only it had IBIS that would seal the deal! Sadly it doesn't. For a novice enthusiast you can ignore this whole splitting of hairs of raw D500 vs jpeg D3s etc etc etc A Nikon D500 is purpose built and targeted at exactly your kind of market!! The novice enthusiast through the serious semi pro amateur sports/birding photographer.

I hope the FS5 mk3 gets this level of AF performance as a feature

Fair point, D3s has a 50% longer shutter life, but there is also everything else about a heavily worn body over the years than just the shutter life. A cheap D3s has gone through the wars, while cheap D500 might just be a hobbyist who is bored and moving over to mirrorless now. Would cost an arm and a leg. Then after that.... why not just wait for the A7R V? Then after that, wait for the A7R VI instead? And then...

Yeah, the best argument against the Nikon D500 might be "it is not full frame" But APS-C can be a BENEFIT for this type of shooting when it means cheaper/faster/lighter lenses to pair with it. Definitely want a D500 myself (although my next stills camera purchase has to be a vlogging upgrade, got a few G85 cameras in my watchlist currently, unless I suddenly get rich then I'll get a G9 instead. Then after that I can think about a stills camera upgrade, likely will either be on the cheap getting a D7100 or splurging for a D750. Convinced/advised my little brother to buy a Nikon D7500 earlier this year, although it is kinda criminal how he doesn't make proper full usage of it to the max) From my reading into researching buying one the impression I got was: 1) D3S has a slight edge at High ISO, but the D500 files hold up better with better colors at high ISO (I'd happily trade off a bit of High ISO noise performance if it means the image looks better, as some colors go nasty when the High ISO goes really high with a few cameras. As High ISO shouldn't be purely only about noise performance), and the D500 raw files can be pushed further than the D3S ones even at High ISO 2) D500 is 10fps vs D3S 9fps, so the D500 has the edge there? 3) battery life of a D500 with grip is INSANE, so I don't really mind which one has the edge here.

Yet another reason to choose a Nikon D500 over a D3S Plus the D3S has such terrible video I wouldn't use it unless I had a gun put to my head. While the Nikon D500 I would very happily use its video for non-paying / amateur / personal / low key indie stuff etc. (of course if you're getting full time paid work then it would be the easiest thing in the world to justify a Nikon Z6, or heck even an UMP G2 purchase)

You'd still recommend the Nikon D3S over anything else at that price point??? The Nikon D500 is pretty much around that price point (only a hundred bucks difference), and it is a radically more modern camera (and won't have the extremely high shutter count an old cheap D3S would surely have).

Sound like then you should buy a Nikon Z6 As your only concern about it is a fake worry, its high ISO performance is top class. Don't prematurely discard and overlook MFT/APS-C! After all, the Panasonic GH5S gives us one of the best (if not the best) lowlight cameras there is! As for the DoF "look", do you have a problem with "the look" in nearly every Oscar winning film ever? (as they're usually always shot with S35 / APS-C!)

There is something to be said for buying Nikon F Mount glass ?

a) the Xeen 20mm is T1.9, not F1.9 b) I think at a few points he is just spewing a bunch of B.S. to make himself sound fancy with lots of words

However the Z6 (along with the EOS R, although that is a far inferior choice for video) do have access to the greatest range of "native adapted" lenses! Which for many people would put a Z6 right at the top of the pile as first pick for photography.

Bit of a stupid reason to attack Nikon over! Only two days ago was when the first CF Express cards were even ever available in stock: https://nikonrumors.com/2019/12/09/first-cfexpress-memory-cards-now-in-stock.aspx/

What was your F-stop though? Couldn't you use say 1/300th? Do you have a handful of pics you can share? Nahhhh, look at the measurement results: Basically identical until you get to over fifty thousand ISO

Have you seen the D750 vs BMPCC videos? (the OG BMPCC is a camera some folks might still argue hasn't even now yet been beaten by any other low budget alternative) Nikon is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better for video than people give them credit for! Nikon was first out of the gates with the Nikon D90 being the first ever HDSLR in the world, but then for years Nikon then badly lagged behind. Which is how Nikon acquired this meme of "Nikon is bad for video". But with the D800 then Nikon has woken up and started to offer their own decent alternative for filming with. Then with the D5200 (and subsequent successors) then Nikon really did give a fiercely competitive choice for the low budget filmmaker, and is what I went with back then as my main camera. Nikon then further cemented themselves (for those who were paying attention at least, and hadn't bought into the false narrative "Nikon is bad for video") with the D750/D500/D7500/D850, and finally now with the Nikon Z6 they've got a class leading "best mirrorless for filmmaking" (although this is of course highly subjective!).