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WHAT? Why.................

Nope. Absolutely no legal requirement for me to have an accountant. I can do my own taxes if I wish. Although the courier company I do some occasional bike messenger work for on the side does require me to use a registered charted accountant (read: my mum) if I wish to access the portion of my earnings they keep in a trust account. However that is not at all a legal requirement, that is just an internal company's process they've got in place to help their contractors manage their cashflow better. And the current courier company I'm contracted to is the *ONLY* courier company I know of in the country which does that. And I've worked with a lot of courier companies over my lifetime. and the one I'm with now is the most premium one in NZ and they're really good in how they look out for their contracts. Of which that is one example (because is not unusual in this industry to know of couriers who have screwed themselves over because they didn't keep money aside for their taxes, thus why they implemented this trust account system which has money that can only be accessed with a letter of release from your chartered accountant). Unfortunately our current government is going to try and push capital gains tax. They stacked this "Taxing Working Group" with people who'd report back with what they want. The chairman was a former Labour Party Finance Minister, although somewhat ironically years back when he was their Finance Minster he always argued against a Capital Gains Tax..... !! Guess you'll say anything if you're being paid $1K/day?? Oh dear god.... But is it for the benefit of those societies? Or is perhaps all those strict laws and regulations are related to why Greece (and some other EU countries as well) is an economic basketcase?

I live somewhere even better.... New Zealand! ? Am not joking either, on some measures we're even more economically liberal than the USA Although yeah, are unions can be quite powerful here in NZ and are a major player behind the scenes of our current ruling party which is in government at the moment. However... compared to say the USA (let alone say France! ha), then nah, our unions are not that strong at all. We don't have VAT, we've got "GST" (basically the same thing). But if your revenue is under $60K then it is completely voluntary to register. You've got no requirement to charge GST on your invoices! (so I don't, although probably in another couple more tax cycles I will start to do so, I'm growing close to that point) Absolutely no legal requirement to have insurance of any sort. (although of course it is a good idea to do so if you feel you need it) I send invoices out. But again, no legal requirement to do so. I could do work purely on the basis of verbal contracts if I wanted to? Would be a dumb idea though.

Also not exciting enough for me to want to spend more for a new G90 over a G85 on eBay But I do hope it leads to a price hit on the G85! Now that the G85 is no longer the "latest and current" model in the line up

Actually... there is a shockingly ( or at least it feels like that to me as a kiwi, is just madness) large number of jobs in america which require government licensing https://reason.com/blog/2019/04/05/joe-biden-is-right-ridiculous-occupation

damn, that is really nice for BTS! Would hope the music video though is going to be even more epic :-)

As a kiwi it sounds utterly crazy to me to need a "license" to be a videographer!! But I guess there are many countries like that, however I can only imagine such red tape must act as a massive strangle on the economy. Oh gee, I feel equally sorry also for countries which makes "criminals" out of parallel importers! (guessing you're referring to that?? Or some other made up law a person would be breaking?? :-/ ) Another thing we also don't have in New Zealand. Exactly! (not that I'm keen on the government regulating bridge builders either...)

I was writing a joke :-P Anywho... to answer, it should be the latter but in reality that isn't always so and just means the former

IBIS? Headphone jack?

It isn't very big at all when you consider it is a dual receiver Then don't be so very careless???? Seems like an easy "problem" to solve ? Or just have the antennas be removable and take them off while in transport. (this is what I often do with my RXs, so I can leave them wired into my bag)

This reminds me of the Kodak "Brownie" camera that was introduced in the 1920's. All of a sudden every dolt could take their own pictures. They did and a large number of "professional" photographers went out of business. It is still a vocation but not one immune from amateurs taking a really good picture.

Just one product, different names for different regions

Huh??? Get a Deity Connect Exactly, Sony UWP-D11 are solid semi pro wireless. Everything else discussed in this thread is not.

What are you doing now?

Are you sure, not the Z Cam F8? ?

Don't forget "opportunity cost", if you take that one day of $500 means you miss out on a whole week of $800/day then you've lost out big time. This past year I've definitely been charging more than I used to and working more. They're NOT making a living as a wedding photographer, they're playing at it. This. You don't need to "the best" in the world, or even in your city, but at least be the best that they are checking out!

At least ten hours would be "ok ish" with a top up at lunch if you feel the day may run long. However.... even that is not really enough! Because give it a few years of constant usage and that battery life will have worn down significantly to a shorter lifespan that wouldn't then be acceptable.

The D700/D3 was for years used by top pros for all sorts of end result, magazines, billboards, weddings, commercials, etc And they're both 12 megapixels like the a7S Nailed it

Is $1.2K with the 12-60mm kit lens again, but does anybody know what is the body only price??

Is a brand brand new product, hasn't been officially announced. An entirely different body design to the F4/F8 (but still great for bag use, not like that ugly duck which is the F1! UGH!), much smaller than the F4/F8 (but not as small as the MixPre3! Darn. I was hoping for that from Zoom with their next sound recorder) Depending on its price/specs I might pre order it when the sales pages go up. However what I really want is that Scorpio recorder.... sigh Anybody want my kidney?

A grand per finished minute for your run of the mill corporate ish video is completely reasonable.

I just had a friend buy an Arri WCU-4 (NZD$33K!!), which seems like an insane amount for a wireless follow focus with so many cheaper products like these. But when you consider the features and how it just works then it makes sense.

E2C has 10bit but not raw Bit surprising they haven't shipped it yet They've partnered with a company to make a monitor which is touch screen and works to control their camera, like RED does (but their monitor is waaaaaaaaay cheaper than RED's is!!). So if you get a Z Cam that would make more sense than buying a Shinobi or Swit

Z Cam was doing 4K 30fps before in the E1