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That's the risk with being an early adopter. You're making a big bet, if you get it right you might be getting in early to make $$$$$$ If you get it wrong, you could be losing it all. I think the consumer priced version is the Canon R7 Or perhaps the next generation iPhone Pro Max???

There has been a short lived frenzy for 3D filmmaking ages ago, and then again a few years back for 360VR, both in the end frizzled out. As people prefer their flat 2D moving images on a normal rectangular screen. Honestly, 2D rectangular filmmaking but simply rotated 180 degrees from landscape mode to portrait mode instead has had a bigger impact as "a new format" of filmmaking than 3D or 360VR has. But maybe that's about to change? Thanks to the new Apple Vision Pro (and whatever new versions and copycats are coming next). I see a couple of interesting news stories today on Newsshooter, first of all there is yet another new Blackmagic product: https://www.newsshooter.com/2024/06/10/blackmagic-ursa-cine-immersive-capture-content-for-apple-vision-pro-with-8160-x-7200-resolution-per-eye/ This is one mega monster drone to be carrying an URSA Cine: And a far more affordable option than Blackmagic's URSA Cine variant, I see also got announced today: https://www.newsshooter.com/2024/06/10/canon-announced-the-rf-s-3-9mm-f3--stm-dual-fisheye-rf-s-7-8mm-f4-stm-dual-lenses/ "With the demand for VR content creation increasing at pace (the market is projected to grow to more than 22 billion U.S. dollars by 2025), the latest lens makes creating 3D content – from gaming and education to tourism, documentaries, and entertainment – more achievable." Rear mounted filters! And yet another new lens is also in development: "Canon also announced today that it is working on the development of the RF-S 7.8mm F4 STM DUAL lens for capturing spatial video for use with Apple’s Vision Pro." Which will be even more aimed towards the mainstream mass market I expect.

Makes no sense whatsoever to put both a wireless receiver and a transmitter on a recorder just to get camera audio. Plug the smallest possible scratch mic instead into it.

You need to also be living in the USA! That pays rates far higher than many other parts of the world.

If it gets taken down again, then there is another video here:

If you're shooting raw at anything less than the full resolution, then of course there will be a crop! This will be true for any camera. Could be Panasonic, ARRI, RED, Nikon, Canon, whoever! It's a law of physics / maths / the universe. Want to shoot at a low resolution but with the full sensor? Then choose anything else but raw.

Beelink isn't super obscure? Or at least, I've already heard of them before. They've been in the miniPC space for a little while how. Yeah unless you're building a DIT Cart or a cart for a QTake Playback Op, or similar, then I don't see the reason here for a powerful miniPC.

The Deity S Mic3 series of mics are a million times better? How much better is a chicken than a canoe?? It's two completely categories, the hollyland larks are 2.4GHz wireless kits. These are XLR boom mics.

It came out a hot second just before the GH7. Think of it as "a mini S5" (???). Kinda. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1828733-REG/panasonic_dc_s9bodyk_lumix_s9_mirrorless_camera.html

Ah well, something to store your cigars with instead?

Three points of contact vs two points of contact. Yup, lots of accessories on offer to do this, such as: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/554102-REG/Manfrotto_080_080_Monopod_Belt_Pouch.html https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1439591-REG/oben_msh_05_monopod_belt_holster_support.html I remember the first time I ever came across this approach, the shooter was using a Canon C300mk1 with the monopod in a pouch on the hip, was quite impressed with that approach.

Yeah for such big box stores it's less of a hassle to sell a product at a couple of hundred dollars loss than to keep just a unit or two of stock lurking around on the shelves for many more months cluttering up space in a store that could be used to sell higher margin / faster selling products. It's better for them to just fully eliminate that item from stocking it in the store.

96KHz 32bit audio recorded into the video files themselves: Didn't realize it was offering 96KHz, that's nice! (although it's also total complete overkill. But hey, a nice change to see a camera doing audio in an overkill manner for once!)

Anybody that paid full RRP for a GH6 a year ago and is complaining about their prices now doesn't have a leg to stand on. As the GH6 was often enough on discount (for instance over a year ago you could get a brand new GH6 for as little as US$1.4K on Amazon). Let's go check what the ebay prices are for a GH6 currently: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=panasonic+gh6&_sacat=0&_sop=15 About US$1.2K-ish to US$1.4K+ ish Nah, the value of your GH6 hasn't suddenly crashed. @newfoundmass is trying to spin it that this is a normal sale price for a GH6. It is not. It's an open box GH6 (i.e. a technically secondhand camera, but is "like new") and only an exceptionally small number of them, and only for those who can go to their local store (if they even have one! And it's in stock, which it won't be) and buy it in person. Or in other words: This will have zero impact upon eBay prices. (nothing that could be measurable anyway)

Seems like the BMD EVF works on the Canon C400's USB-C output? Or that is what I've read.

I think it's popular with people who shoot a lot of high speed frame rates with their Panasonic L Mount camera, where it does it in S35 mode

"If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will" ~ Steve Jobs I completely disagree with your assessment that all those products were "flops" because later on Panasonic releases an even "better" product. (such as the much cheaper S5 coming after the S1, or GH6 because the S5mk2 came out afterwards) If in February next year Panasonic releases a small sized Panasonic G100mk2 that offers 80% of what a GH7 does but at half the price, does that make the GH7 a flop and Panasonic a failure who are shooting themselves in their foot?

I'm now worried about what "double launch" means in that sentence.

Yes, but I was just asking/curious about what specifically you're noticing that is so severe it's a sticking point for you. Is it... Noise? DR? DoF? (but even the DoF for UWA??)

Maybe 37 minutes is the limit for 8K recording? But 4K can do 120 minutes.

Nah, that person has had the camera and got a full years of use out of it! Eh, the GH6 won't be available for $550 "new" (open box) for very long. And is severely geographically restricted, even while it was still available. The secondhand prices on eBay I predict will not this year be consistently on average below that! They'll stay above it. If a GH6 drops down to that price after a couple more years, then that seems reasonable to me. A three year cycle from a GH5 to a GH6 then matching the price. That's roughly what a life cycle is for a camera. In a couple of years from now, your GH5 will probably be selling for what GH4 cameras were selling for back when you purchased your GH5.

when it's only $300 difference between them, I don't quite understand why a hybrid shooter would go for G9mk2 over GH7? Even if it makes no difference for you between them today, I would assume over the lifespan of years for them, that it's very likely the GH7 will get more video specific firmware updates for it than the G9mk2 (or at the very least, the GH7 will get them earlier). So it's quite possible that months/years down the road, the GH7 might have something then you do want but the G9mk2 won't. Why can't MFT do stills for you? Noise? DR? DoF? (even the DoF for UWA??)

Still doesn't record actual proper 4K though. I guess the C200's 4K 8bit, or getting a C70, is the closest thing to a "C100mk3" that there will ever be.

Wouldn't the Olympus 7-14mm f/2.8 or Panasonic 8-18mm f/2.8-4 lenses be a possible alternative to the Sigma 16-28 f2.8? It offers the same (actually... even more!) zoom range as the Sigma does. The equivalent of 14-28mm or 16-36mm

The Panasonic G100 might be due to get a G100mk2 update??? That's bonkers insanely cheap for with the lens! Drat, it's even tempting me to get a GH6. Thank goodness I don't live anywhere near any American Best Buys otherwise I might fall victim to temptation and give in! True, I guess I'm meaning "relatively speaking" As hard as matching an ARRI 35 + ALEXA Mini is, I'm sure if they randomly threw in a GH5 or a7S or whatever, you'd have an even tougher job to match it on set. @homestar_kevin does not sound pissed at all! Rather very happy with their new GH6 Almost nobody? An even better question is... who will buy a C500mk2 now??? I feel the C400 has mostly replaced the C300mk3 and C500mk2 for almost all new buyers. (although many existing C300mk3 / C500mk2 users might feel the C400 doesn't offer enough to be "upgrading" themselves to a C400)