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When there is an extra sales tax applied, then that is applied exactly evenly across all companies. Let's say it's a 20% tax, no matter if it is a Panasonic $2K camera or a Sony $2K camera or a Nikon $2K camera or a Fujifilm $2K camera or a Canon $2K camera or a whatever brand, they will all need the consumer to pay exactly $400 more in taxes. But what if it's a more opaque cost, such as mandatory a 10yr consumer warranty on all cameras? Panasonic vs Fujfilm vs Canon vs etc could all have a very different idea of what that exact extra cost is to them. (although you'd hope they'd all come up with vaguely similar numbers) England does have a european mindset (relatively speaking vs the USA). Usually it does not make sense to ship things directly to NZ because shipping costs offered by the seller are outrageous. So I have for years been using a reshipping services offered by NZ Post called "YouShop", they're located in a state with 0% sales tax. However lately both the service offered by YouShop has fallen immesensely and the costs they charge have gone up immensely. So I'm toying with ditching YouShop. Am using shipito for a change, but their free shipping address the offer is unfortunately located in California (thus 10% sales tax, and I can't claim that back from California). And getting a warehouse address in a 0% sales tax State means paying shipito a subscription membership. Hmmm... not sure if I wish to commit fully to it, but if this goes well, then I think I might and start a sub with them? Often companies do look to each other, and copy what the other is doing. As in a way their competitor has "done the market research" for them be proving it in real life. They've proven the market can afford cameras at $xxxx price point, or they've proven that consumers want Y & Z features. So they'll closely stalk each other, and mirror the moves done by the other one.

Only 2.5% spent on Trabants? Appalling! Increase that immediately.

Yup, and a person's optimal setup depends so much on their own goals / skills / equipment. For instance I was fairly comfortable shooting weddings sometimes with 6x Panasonic MFT cameras. Something like: UWA at the back looking forward, a side camera (maybe from both the L & R sides, or maybe just one) that's mid wide looking forward, a centered camera mid wide shot looking forward, a camera facing backwards to get the wedding guests, and a central tight camera on the bride/groom/celebrant. Plus my manned camera that's I'm roaming with an all in one zoom. (such as the 14-140mm) That's easily six plus cameras, and it's quite doable. That's largely thanks to their great battery life , no record limits, and no overhead. Was easy and zero hassle! But if this setup had been 6x Canon 60D or 6x Nikon D5200, it might have sent me insane due to the extra overhead hassle of dealing with their limitations! With Panasonic however you can just set it and forget it! It's ok if only 5% of the footage gets used. (perhaps it's the UWA at the back, so it's boring if too much of the ceremony is from that angle. Or maybe a framing is a bit too tight, and the people end up standing somewhere a bit off to the side of where you thought, that's fine too). Because setting up that camera cost a lot less than 5% of your day's efforts! Although I'd still babysit them a little. Especially if I was using a smaller number, like five or four cameras. My central camera for instance might be fairly loose framing, then once the bride had arrived and I'd got my shots I'd wanted with my manned camera, I'd run over and check on it, adjust the framing if need be, and make the framing a little tighter (no 4K shooting back then! So I had to get the most out of the 1080 that I could). Or maybe I only have a side angle camera on the right hand side of the ceremony, so half way through I might move it across the to the left hand side of the venue just to mix up the footage I'm getting with more variety. Or maybe I don't have any cameras pointing back at the wedding guests at all, so I'll grap the UWA camera at the back and move it around to the front instead. Interesting, being waaay heavier into the video world than photography, normally one camera is the max for us to be carrying. I know multiple is more normal for photographers. But I find it curious the split, 2x hip vs 1x strap. I'd have thought it made more sense to use a dual sling for your main two cameras and put on your hip the 3rd camera you might use? Why have you gone with a 2x hip vs 1x strap split instead.

This makes a lot of sense to me. Personally I feel it is risky playing with fire to use less than 2 static cameras, and carrying anything more than two cameras at once becomes a bit ridiculous.

$450 more above $1200 is a lot bigger percentage increase than the Z6III has in Europe

Not just taxes, but lots of other hidden socialist/European regulatory costs. Maybe for instance consumer guarantees are higher in europe, that's a cost which has to thus be recouped somehow somewhere. Was rather annoyed by the 10% California tax I had to swallow today. Very strictly honest people? Sure, most people won't do it! But you're technically a criminal. Maybe different cost structures they have to tackle the additional regulatory burdens? Or a different appetite for risk / minimizing margins. The Fujifim XH2s as well, I just found out. Still, that's a very short list! XH2s + S5II + Z6III, only three cameras, does make them quite unique indeed. Indeed Andrew! If I was starting out in photography (with no interest in video) I'd be hard pressed to justify spending more than the sub $400 it costs for a used Nikon D750 or D800 or the $500ish for a Nikon D500 (or if going even cheaper, the D600 for sub $300 or a D7100 for sub $200!!!) vs buying any modern Z Mount camera, not even the OG Nikon Z6 secondhand, as if a person only cares about photography, why not get a D750 for $300 less?? Plus there is the glorious range of cheap Nikon F Mount lenses! Maybe by 2030, by that point in time we'll probably have a tonne of dirt cheap bargain priced secondhand chinese Z Mount lenses to choose from (for instance you couldn't today easily find a half priced secondhand Meike 50mm f/1.8 AF Z Lens, but a secondhand Nikon 50mm f1.8D lens? Easy! Found one in second on eBay for under $60), and Z6 will have fallen so low in price they'll be within a whisker of D750/D800/D500 pricing.

But perfectly "good enough" for amateurs and very early stage professionals? Then once you're past that point and you're an established professional, then well I guess you just have to pay up for "the best" and pass the costs along to the clients. Give it me!! 😛 😆 I have a GH4... nah, I'm kidding. What I meant to say, is you should sell it while it still has value!!! ebay suggests you could perhaps get maybe $1K-ish for it if you're patient: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=Nauticam+gh4&_sacat=0&_sop=15&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1

At least it is more on topic than a dreadful Sennheiser 416

Yeah I personally would never ever ever buy a proper underwater housing for a current gen camera! Waaaaaaaaay too expensive. I have a splash bag, but if I was to get a "real" kit then I'd be getting it for a GH5 (heck, maybe even a GH4 if the price is cheap enough!). Definitely not for the newer GH6 or GH7 Or perhaps even the chinese Seafrogs underwater casings. Of course if I was doing this professionally, the economics of all of this becomes totally different. And you go for the best.

99% of the readers of NikonRumors.com wouldn't fully appreciate the significance of this! 🤣 😂 😆😁

Blimps existed for MOS cameras to make them kinda suitable for sync sound in a pinch. Or the other option is rent one of the more expensive cameras that are designed from the ground up to be used on sync sound shoots. On that topic, if anybody wants to buy one, ARRI has the very best available for sale right now: https://www.newsshooter.com/2024/06/16/arriflex-416-plus-hs-auction/

Was impressed to see that the Z6 mk3 gains waveforms! (as I don't think the Z6 series had this beforehand? https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4680517#forum-post-66604118 Was only Panasonic who had waveforms as a feature in their stills cameras??) This is a big deal! For people who are used to the benefits of using waveforms already. Ohhhh.... and the Z6 mk3 now supports line level audio!! That's also quite unique for a stills cameras, a great feature for a camera to have. Only half a dozen? Nah, go full hog, get a round dozen of them! I reckon they also need a slower zoom, say a f4 zoom that is a mega 10x zoom, not 24mm to 120mm but to 240mm! Or maybe even 28mm to 280mm??? With f4! It would be a nifty way to make use of that handheld control grip that Nikon has made for their cameras if you could control it like this, while covering sport games or other event coverage.

Oh I dunno, lots of places:

I agree! It's quite frustrating. Why can't people just accept each format for what it is?? Heck, if we saw a BMPCC 2.0 released which has an even smaller sensor than the GH7, I would still be excited about that. And we shouldn't be hating upon it specifically for the S16 sized sensor. Sure, we might complain about the lack of modern day affordable S16 cine lenses! That we could use on the BMPCC 2.0 But that's a totally different question to complaining about the S16 sensor size itself.

"Depends". If you're somewhat far away from the source, such as standing across a pool of water from a waterfall, then a directional mic could make sense. Your specific phrase of "the sounds of the forest around (behind) me" isn't what OP originally said. They said at the of a cliff, with the forest behind them. What they see in the distance, from the cliff edge, could be vastly more important to them, than the forest that's behind them and out of shot. Scratch audio might or might not be used in the final edit, sometimes it is. I kinda classify all on camera mounted mics, be it for "ambient" or whatever, as scratch mics. Got a get a mic off camera if you want better than scratch audio.

Just "something" to get audio into the camera. Yes, perhaps it might need a little strip of rubber if it is very lose, but probably not. No, they are supercardioid

@lsquareif you want a scratch mic with your DWM-XLR2 to get decent-ish ambient audio, then get the Deity SMic3S if on a very low budget, or the Sanken CSM1 if on a medium budget. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1830582-REG/deity_microphones_dtm0304d11_s_mic_3s_short_shotgun.html https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1404643-REG/sanken_cs_m1_super_cardioid_short.html Unless they're specifically doing 360VR videos, or maybe some other niche usage (I dunno, creating audio library with lots of different format options??) then usually ambisonics is not a good idea for ambient recordings.

Sadly only two MFT lenses! Strange that they don't offer the 33mm T1 in MFT mount, so that there can be fleshed out a small 3x lens set for MFT. Why bother striving to film things that are not going to be seen at all by your views?? At a certain point in time you hit diminishing returns hard

I'm fairly certain (without bothering to look it up, just from memory) that famous scene in Citizen Kane was filmed not with deep focus but with a split diopter. But yes, I agree with your general point.

It's wrong to assume that just because a person is famous that they're immune to "big = better" hype. Larger sized film stock was an easier way to get better technical performance, they didn't have 6400 ISO cameras back then

Nope. https://www.eoshd.com/news/zacuto-revenge-shootout-part-2-results-revealed-francis-ford-coppola-and-audience-majority-give-win-to-gh2/

Yeah, but you could just do also that with a laptop and a eGPU, and it would be an even more convenient setup to be traveling with than one without a monitor like this Beelink Exactly, I could get a dirt cheap but still high performance laptop such as a Thinkpad P71 for just US$550 then pair it with a beefy eGPU. Oodles of power! https://www.ebay.com/itm/116213947999

A mini PC will still need a monitor, what is your use case here that can't be met by a beefy gaming laptop / workstation ?

Technically that's the title which they're optimizing when they say "This 3/4 adaptor changes everything!!!!!!", not the thumbnail

At least you have an Amazon!!! (not the case for me)