Marcio Kabke Pinheiro

Interesting indeed. Missed an EVF (but for the intended target is a no problem) and one or two proper control dials (you have one on the lens and one on the 4 way pad). The cooling solution is VERY neat. Let's see the stabilization, since it is OIS only (plus eletronic stab). But kinda surprised, is really a new camera, not a rehash.

Modified Nikon Z9 sensor?

Have the same one as @ntblowz, with the suction cup. The newer model, with springs, looks much better. And it really works. In the end I only used to do a torture test with my X-S20, under 12 o'clock sun and around 35 celsius, and put the camera to record 6.2k 10-bit 4:2:2. Without the fan, the camera over heated around 25 minutes; with it, went over an hour (the SD card was filled before a temperature shutdown).

I understand the decision to just go FF, but if Panasonic make a APS-C GX9 with the 26mp sensor that Fuji and Sony uses, with a good EVF, IBIS and LUTs system, I would jump from Fuji in the next day.

Now imagine if the Nikon Zf had the style based on this: They probably should stop making Z9s to keep up with the demand. 🙂

I love Lumix, but I suspect that if they don't get some traction in the next 2-3 years, they will "close" and just staying doing Leica develompments.

Any camera compared to the Pen-F is ugly. For me, is the most beautiful digital camera ever made.

My two cents: kinda like the camera. Their design "template" is clear: want to surf the retro trend, and gone for mixing two templates; the OM-1 film camera (that I had) and the Nikon Zf (this one becomes clear for the absence of an AF joystick - the Zf don't have one either - that could be easily put on the AF-ON button). The strange width with came from the OM1 film camera, and at least they used it for putting the bigger battery. The no grip came from the retro OM1 film styling - and I kinda don't bother much, I always use an external grip when there is no big grip, but for who wants to go "full retro" could use it with as is. You could put a grip, but not remove one. Remember: this is for people that goes for style first. The price is unreal - but Olympus/OM always put insane prices at launch. In 2 or 3 months (except if this sells like hotcakes) this will drop to 1799. Still expensive, and if I was OM, would have changed this: - Stacked sensor was a bad choice in my view - is not a sports or fast action paced camera. The 20mp PDAF from the OM5 could easily be used (but people will cry IS A REHOUSED OM5, and maybe this sensor would not have the speed for all computational stuff), or even better the 25mp PDAF that Pansonic is using (but the development would be much harder, all the image pipeline shoud be remade). Both sensors are probably much cheaper than the stacked one; - Spend a bit of the difference in a 3,69mp EVF panel; - Another bit in a AF joystick on the AF-ON button location, put the AF-ON on the CP button location. - And another bit in firmware people the rewrite the video codecs. The huge resolution drop in the 8-bit modes are unexcusable (no other brand have it). And that's it. Would be a much better camera for the intended target, and probably cheaper.

This. A 14 yr old daughter of a friend have a Iphone 15pro, but now carries everywhere a VERY crappy Olympus digicam, shoots everything with flash, and loves it. (now I've taught her on how to do long exposures) For me, is a trend - when Instagram appeared, everyone used their integrated filters in every photo, because it was so different, and now nobody uses. Dunno how this trend will carry - if 3 or 4 of the biggest infuencers start saying "clean iPhone photos are now the trend", it could dissapear fast. (probably is where the camera companies will put their money - reversing the trend could be cheaper than develop and sell new cameras)

I agree - but Viltrox is not for fully professional use (specially video ones). Is to bring more people to the system. They made a huge jump in quality - their first AF lenses were ok for the price, but the newer "Air" ones are much better optically, and cheaper (because use high quality plastic and basicalyy the same outer shell for a bunch of focal lenghts). Perfect for the S9 and for amateur / enthusiast use of the S5IIs. And the 27mm f/1.2 and the 75mm f/1.2 are superb (but APS-C). But their LAB line looks promising.

The AI was trained about overrigging a camera with Caleb Pike.

I guess Viltrox is follwing this thread... (just kidding) https://www.l-rumors.com/viltrox-is-officially-negotiating-with-leica-for-the-l-mount-licensing/

I started backup cloud when my local HD got corrupted (a thing that - fortunately - never happened again in the last 8 years), I've ran CHKDSK in Windows and it deleted the corrupted videos; and since at the time I had a sync software and did not noticed the deletion, they were erased at the external drive too. I'm an amateur and nothing REALLY important was lost, but I miss some concert footage - specially three from a amazing Sharon Jones concert. Now the cloud and external HD backup never delete files.

Yep - all my media files are in a internal hard drive, and external hard drive, and in a cloud backup. Not impossible that all the three copies becomes destroyed in the same day, but unlikely.

And a warning to remember to have a personal copy of any video uploaded to any plataform. If it dies, the footage dies together.