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Hopefully both of these happen. Z6mk2 gets a RedCode firmware update, and Nikon mirrorless does things like taking TC more seriously. Meanwhile RED cinema cameras get better pricing / LCD screens / weatherproofing / Z Mount / EVFs / etc Yes please! But especially "a Nikon FX6" (or FX60???) ARRI lights with Canon branding! 😅 True, but RED is very much playing second fiddle to ARRI. They're waaaay behind these days. Heck, RED is playing second fiddle to even Sony in the cinema market! Hmmm... don't count on that, don't now assume anything ever about Nikon! How sure can you really be that Nikon won't make non-black cameras, perhaps even a RED colored camera:

Yup, even just a cheap Panasonic GH4 shooting a wide angle can be better than nothing to cut to if you hit a technical hiccup for a couple of seconds / minutes with your main camera. (edit: or in this case, your A6600, which I just saw you mention) Another approach is just to shoot afterwards a bunch of random generic B Roll with your main camera, that you can throw into the edit to patch up any holes with. Good reason to get a cardellini and other such clamps. Ah, you got a Sony FS7 just as "a hobby camera"? Amazing, shows how cheap and affordable this older pro Sony camera is getting.

Yes, and a year ago that was a major issue for AI photos. But today it's trending down towards becoming more of a non-issue for AI photos. We'll see the same happen soon for AI video as well.

You work for Texas Instruments? 😉

Not really, RED never ever owned their own fabs after all. Nikon will still be going to Sony to make their sensors (or maybe one of the very few other options, such as Tower Semiconductor, or rather their sub brand "TowerJazz" that most of us are more commonly aware of) Blackmagic is so much more than just their cameras, they won't be selling to Panasonic. And BMD was always the lower cost competitor, I think they've still got their niche against RED/Nikon. This has been the BIGGEST issue with Nikon in the past for serious users. (ditto Panasonic & Fujifilm too I'm afraid) If I start out with say a Nikon D5200 (and amazing starter camera for its time!!) where do I go afterwards? Nikon D500, and then perhaps a D5?? But then what? There is nothing pro grade I can move onto as a videographer / DoP. Same was true later on with say the Nikon Z30 => Z6mk2 => Z8 pipeline. Nothing suitable for the professional user. Ditto Panasonic, you might go Panasonic G6 => GH5, but then what? Or S5 => S1H, then what??? Ditto Fujifilm, X-T30 II => X-2HS, then what??? While Sony had very clear progression lines, you could for instance go: Sony a6000 => a7mk2 => a7Smk3 => FX6 => VENICE Or Canon, with T2i => 70D => 5Dmk3 => C100mk2 => C300mk2 The lack of this always made it very hard to seriously recommend Nikon/Panasonic/Fujifilm to newbies with lofty ambitious of rapid progression. I definitely think they'll keep the branding of "RedCode" and the decade plus of mind share that has been building up. These days, if they do it (which I'm expecting now), it would definitely be Z Mount and not F Mount. Plus there is the collapse in traditional media, and the collapse in advertising dollars. Just in the past week or so there has been major developments in New Zealand with major TV shows being shut down (one has been running since 1977!!) and entire news operations being shut down. (Newshub is gone, which is TV3's news)

I look forward to the next RED Komodo having a Nikon Z Mount I can see raw coming to all Nikon cameras now. (ok, maybe not the very low end stuff like the Nikon Z30) Wow, even at the age of 74 he's still creating new businesses. PLEASE have the Nikon Z8C have built in NDs! 😅🤣😝😎 Why? I'd imagine for at least the next few years they'll keep the RED branding on their cinema cameras while adding subtle Nikon / Nikkor references (such as the lens mount). Agreed! And RED was under a LOT of pressure from the high end and low end, I guess it made sense to the owners to exit and cash in on their profits High End = RED is no longer unique when it comes to: 1) cameras suitable for gimbals or other small form factor needs, as the ARRI Mini exists (or even VENICE Rialto etc) 2) RED isn't unique with high resolution, 4K is the norm 3) RED isn't unique with slow motion, lots can do 120fps or even 240fps + Low End = the Sony FX3 / FX6 / Blackmagic Cinema Camera / Panasonic S5mk2 / Fujifilm X-H2 / ZCam / Kinefinity / etc are all getting to be pretty damn good now and users will go for these when they need an affordable budget option. Unlike in the past when RED was "the budget option" (because shooting on a RED ONE / RED Epic was waaay cheaper than shooting on S35 film, or even an ARRI ALEXA) Nikon must be quite profitable if they can afford a purchase of the scale that RED is. Same!

It's no big secret that many Leica cameras are just rebadged Panasonic cameras. So is this new Leica 60MP L Mount a camera a big hint at what the future S1R mk2 could be?

When I saw the news yesterday of Nikon buying RED I thought this was just some kind of early April Fool's Prank. But then as I saw more and more people reporting this I clicked that it is real! Wow. I initially got into photography (& thus later on into filmmaking too) via Nikon. So this is exciting news for me! It has been very underappreciated the massive contributions Nikon has made to filmmaking (such as the first ever HDSLR, the Nikon D90. Or the first ever non-cine DSLRs to do 4K, the Nikon D5 & D500. Or the first ever mirrorless to do raw output, the Nikon Z6), so I look forward to what Nikon can do now they've acquired RED. What will Nikon's answer to the Sony FX6 or Sony BURANO look like?

It's all over for YouTube camera reviewers:

Personally, I'd be going for a Sony RX0mk2 for that big 1" sensor. And slog compatibility with other Sony cameras. But that might not be the same priorities you seek.

Oh I see, you're not targeting specifically French weddings? But English speakers doing a wedding in France???? I see! Maybe only run workshops in the USA? 😛

A "cinema camera" with a permanently fixed prime lens 😕

Weekly?? What are they losing their jobs because of Yikes, I thought you meant that. But damn, if volume is only a fifth of what it used to be even in the mecca of filmmaking, then that's a worrying factor about the industry as a whole indeed! Although yeah, LA/Hollywood isn't the dominant #1 place like it used to be, with the second tier (NYC, Atlanta, or even Europe etc) having more of the pie than they used to a few decades ago.

Tom Antos just put out a video about Sora: AI photos have already got good enough, that it is no longer a useful method to count their fingers. Any good AI photos will always be sensibly 5 fingers each now. It's funny how a decade ago we thought AI would take over all the boring drudgery in jobs that humans do, and we'd be left free to have fun fulfilling lives chasing our creative passions. Ummm... seems that AI is taking the opposite approach! AI is coming after the creative jobs first. Getting cover with sh*t as a Plumber, or crawling in dirt under houses as an Electrician, that's the jobs that AI is leaving for us to do! I'd say we're almost there already. If not already there! As in it's all technically possible right now, what's needed next is simply it to be more polished and an easier workflow. Personally, I think I need to take more seriously my former IT career, and revive it back from the grave it has been sleeping in all these years. As I need a solid "Plan B" should demand for Production Sound Mixing slump to a mere small fraction of the need for it today. I can see the "team" being even further reduced. You don't need a Senior and a Host. One of them is enough! Four pages of discussion in this thread is a rather small amount of "obsession", when you consider how much obsession we can do over some minor new gear release that takes our fancy. And there is no doubt whatsoever that AI is going to have a bigger impact upon all of our jobs than any new camera announcement will have this year. If anything, we're proportionally speaking not discussing this enough. Tyler Perry (a media billionaire, a megastar in the media industry) disagrees with you. Putting on hold an $800M studio expansion (sure, there are other factors too. But "AI" is the headline reason): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/tyler-perry-ai-alarm-1235833276/ If AI is going to be implemented everywhere in our lives (films/microwave/car/sports/music/etc), then who do you think is going to be doing that work to implement it. The IT people.

When you move into the final stretch of your career (say 5yrs or less until retirement) then start offering workshops / tutorials. As then it won't even matter if they're local to you in France! Because in a country the size of France, training up a couple of people won't have much impact. Sure, over a ten year span, you'll have trained up a lot! But what impact will those you train in just the first year or three?? Not much. Especially as someone who you train will then take another three years or so themselves to gear up and get skilled themselves and expand to a point they're even a minor threat to yourself. And by this point, you won't even care if they're "stealing" jobs from you! Because you'll either be semi-retired yourself, or within a couple of years of retirement anyway, so you'll be winding down anyway.

ahhh... as I think I just remembered: 1) you're always doing these solo? (never a second shooter with you) 2) yet the vast majority of them you're doing the video and photos for the couple? Ambitious! A bit different to what I'm used to or expect.

How very strange, a cage for the X100: https://www.newsshooter.com/2024/02/23/smallrig-fujifilm-x100vi-retro-cage/

Ohhh... for some reason I thought you were always bringing one brand or the other, not bringing both at once and mixing/matching them together.

Wait a second.... WHAT?? Are they saying it is "down by 15-20%" or that it is "15-20% of what it was before"??

I read this interview with Tyler Perry yesterday, and if a person wants to see concrete proof that AI will impact the film industry, then they need look no further! An $800M expansion to his studio lot, that now won't go ahead. That's a huge number of jobs gone now, who would have been working on constructing it, and then working on the soundstages once they were up and running. Yup, exactly. If it is entertaining enough, and it is cheap enough, then of course people will pay! And is really any different to a person spending 20hrs over the weekend playing computer games when 100% of what this media they're consuming are also not "real humans"? But they're entertained! And they'll pay for it. Exactly, as well as the example I just gave of computer games, there is also already: Cartoons, Animation, CGI, etc

Are you bringing all four cameras to a wedding?

1) you don't need TBs of data once the model is trained, the whole thing is probably just running in memory 2) I suspect it's faster than an hour 3) but even if I do use your assumption of an hour, and I dunno how many you think "a bunch of GPUs" is, but let's say a couple of dozen? And what GPUs are you referring to?? Let's say the very best consumer GPU that money can buy, the RTX 4090!! Even a whole hour of running a couple of dozen of those GPUs is only going to cost me twelve bucks. Waaaay less than getting a film crew to film this clip, and far less than your estimate of "1000USD - 10,000USD per render". Maybe you want to up the stakes a bit, rather than using a top of the line consumer GPU for gaming such as a RTX 4090 we will use a purpose built data center GPU such as the NVIDIA A40? Sorry, bad news for you, thanks to economies of scale (with its purpose built nature) it's actually slightly cheaper for me to use two dozen A40 GPUs (a little less than eleven dollars per hour). Oh, and remember these are the costs for me (a nobody) to rent on demand GPUs. Of course the running costs for massive companies such as OpenAI would be far lower than it is for me to casually rent these!

The cost is mere pennies to the dollar compared to the high costs to hire a film crew to go out and film a clip. And for animation, it's changing the game from what used to in the past take months to now be done almost "instantly": The other clips are also impressive, notably one asking for “an animated scene of a short fluffy monster kneeling beside a red candle,” along with some detailed stage directions (“wide eyes and open mouth”) and a description of the desired vibe of the clip. Sora produces a Pixar-esque creature that seems to have DNA from a Furby, a Gremlin, and Sully in Monsters, Inc. I remember when that latter film came out, Pixar made a huge deal of how difficult it was to create the ultra-complex texture of a monster’s fur as the creature moved around. It took all of Pixar’s wizards months to get it right. OpenAI’s new text-to-video machine … just did it. (copied from your link you gave) https://media.wired.com/clips/65cd6097640589f91cb00713/360p/pass/monster.mp4

What disappoints you, what were you hoping for? 40MP and IBIS seems very cool! And for the video geeks, 10-bit 6.2K 30p, 4K 60p, or FHD 240p video recording. Built in 4 stop ND filter is nice too. Being able to work with Frame.io is another new thing too.

This is a change as big as computers themselves arriving in the animation world, vs drawing it by hand. So yes, it's "just a change". Just like the arrival of the car was "just a change" from horse drawn buggies. But putting it like that, greatly understates the impact it will have.