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No joke, but when I saw the title of this thread that is what I came here to write! Sunlight is best. Thus light modifiers can be the best investment, to shape what you've already got.

10 minute time limit? No mic input? Micro HDMI ouput? (that cuts out when you're recording) No focus peaking? No punch in focus while recording? No 8bit or 10bit recording options?

Same! Is a pity they still sell for so much secondhand. But that just proves what a smash hit in this niche the DB16 was.

Think some photographers could be more diehard resistant to change, so better odds we will see a 1D series successor than another C300/C500 with an EF mount.

@Vincent Yang

It is always going to lag behind, because Sony crammed a FF sensor into a mount that was originally designed for APS-C

Yes, it's infamous the bad blood between these two Australian companies. Apparently Atomos was founded by someone who split away from Blackmagic.

Strange, I can't seem to find these auctions listed on trademe, wonder why they're hidden from me??

ah so it was a camera/lens combo, I wonder how much of an impact the lens has on the overall result?

Oh EF is a "dead mount" too! Not sure which will last longer, EOS-M or EF. Arguably EOS-M is the newer mirrorless mount thus as a longer lifespan. But I doubt that, I think EF has quite a few years left up its sleeve, just because of the massive user base, and especially pros on the high end will still want to keep on seeing pro work horses being made for a few more years for EF mount. I'd give it a good 50/50 chance we'll see a 5D/6D-ish level replacement within the next few years, and that at least one more 1D series will still come out. Yup, the moment a RF APS-C camera/lens comes out then you know the days for EOS-M are becoming very very short indeed.

Could be worse, it could be Tasmania

Interesting, I hadn't yet read that the S1 IBIS beat out the Z6 IBIS

It is doomed because Canon will not forever keep on putting equal efforts into both M & RF Mounts, as it is not in their best interests to do that. Thus eventually EOS-M will die out. But even before that happens, the EOS-M series is still a dead end to buy into. Like you said, where are the f2.8 zooms to buy into when you upgrade your kit lens? Where are the higher end bodies to upgrade to as you grow as a filmmaker?? At the moment if you're starting out with say Sony/Nikon/Panasonic you could buy a really cheap a6300/Z50/G7 then in the future upgrade to the likes of an a7Rmk4/a7Smk3/Z6/Z7/GH5/G9/P4K/E2-M4/etc along with having complete access (to each of their respective) full range of professional lenses. Exactly! And eventually that is what will happen, RF will their "one and only mirrorless mount".

South Australians are weird. Is that where you're from? Would mess with Panasonic's entire naming history for a GH series camera to be anything but MFT Mount. If the "GH6" has an L Mount then it makes far far more sense to call it "S2H" instead. (or adopt some of the Sony/Olympus/Canon naming with "Mark X", and go with "S1H mk2")

He's also shown a long history of RED outright lying to their customers. In the past I've tended to categorize RED into the "over promises - under delivers" type of company (such as "3K for 3K", to give one of many many many examples), which isn't "normalized" in the tech industry but it isn't totally abnormal either. While this outright lying to their consumers that RED does? That's not "normalized" in the industry (and if you think it is... ??? Well, that's sad! But even so, that should be no excuse for you to not stand up and fight against it). I support the EFF as well, and they're doing great work too, but you can't expect EFF to be everywhere. Yes, and this is why I also say you as a videographer/filmmaker shouldn't give a non-profit a discount just because they're a non-profit (although they're often trying that angle with us!). Exactly, just because RED arguably "did good" in the past, don't mean we should give them a free pass forever into the future. From my perspective, Epic Dragon was "peak RED". Was all upwards rapid progress to the Epic Dragon, but since then RED has stalled out or even go backwards relative to the rest of the industry. It is an open secret, you can see the Prosilica GX2300 machine vision camera in their own BTS promo video Digital Bolex published themselves: https://vimeo.com/38252059 I don't buy the argument that they were simply "repackaging the Prosilica GX2300", because: 1) there is nothing "simple" about that 2) they added a lot of features that filmmakers want which the GX2300 doesn't have 3) the Prosilica GX2300 sold for $5,660, while the Digital Bolex was a lot less! 4) they just used the Prosilica GX2300 as a way to test out the sensor itself, to see if the sensor was suitable to base their camera around it

From the moment RF Mount has announced (if not even earlier!) then it was crystal clear that EOS-M is a doomed mount that Canon will "eventually" (we don't know exactly when, but the writing is clearly there on the wall) drop support for.

Exactly. You can't win with some people: Simplify it too much and they'll say it is "too simple". Go into too many details and they'll accuse him of making "conspiracy truther-style videos". He's already put out many videos, for a series that is hours upon hours long! Can you seriously say with a straight face that he's simplified it too much and should make his videos even longer?? (I think he should do the opposite, and keep the current videos but also make a 2nd series which is a 5 or even 2 minute trimmed down edit summary of each of the long form videos)

"Truther-style videos"?? Wow. Clearly you either didn't watch his videos at all, or you did but just didn't comprehend them. As they after all covering YEARS of documented history of RED, and many aspects that RED has done wrong. (but yes, at the core it is all about the MiniMags like @BTM_Pix highlighted) If he was to try and just as thoroughly cover it with an article, that could easily turn into a multi series of them as well! You can't properly cover all of that in just a few paragraphs. But even a casual browsing of your videos should be enough for you to catch onto the history of lying and deception RED has been engaging in. I've got no problem with Jinni Tech choosing to use video format to tell it, not everyone is an expert journalist & skilled wordsmith, if he feels more comfortable in the video format (no surprise, he's a filmmaker) then that is what he should do. Plus I feel the visual medium works for what he's doing. This is such a major story (at least in our little niche of the world) that numerous others have covered this news as well, such as: Linus Torvalds, Newsshooter, CineD, RedSharkNews, ymcinema, NoFilmSchool, etc.... none of them are calling it "truther-style videos".

This is another cool one just posted to dvxuser, everything shot with the F3 (except for the slow motion components that are FS700 raw instead):

There is a new series starting up.... The Saga continues!

Wasn't 100% sure what is true or joking in this thread! Had to go to the site and check. Yup. It happened! Let the conspiracy theories start. /puts on Tinfoil Hat

True, would be interesting to track how the prices of say Nikon D5 or RED Weapons are trending. What "certain gear" have you seen more of? As theories go, it is a good one. F3 prices are just insane lately. Way overpriced in my opinion. And yeah even the HD recorders have gone up a little, but not the same leap up as F3 prices.

The new YAGH v2.0 has to have internal powering, unlike the original which was external only. (although having both external and internal is nice too)

Perhaps Canon is just embarrassed by all the overheating scandals they've had lately, and want to try and blame their serve meltdown on "hackers" instead. As it does less reputation damage to Canon than admitting to yet another case of overheating!

Are we sure this was a ransom attack, and not just simply Canon's servers overheating and shutting down?