Marcio Kabke Pinheiro

With an aftermarket fan, it could even not be a problem. With my X-S20 tests with a Ulanzi fan, it doubled the record time, under direct sun - looks like the generic Aliexpress ones works as good as this one.

Still resisting, only a Smallrig half case for the X-S20 - just to prevent bottom mark to when I (maybe) sell it in some years. Of course, when you are restrained, temptations rains from everywhere. Was looking for almost 2 years to find a Olympus Pen F (because it is the most gorgeous digital camera that I've saw) or a LX100 MK II (that solve the biggest problem with my OG LX100 - crappy JPGs) without success, and now just find a LX100 II with a good price and pratically new, and a pristine Pen F with the 17mm f/2.8 with an AMAZING price. But resisted. In the end of the day, they would sit unused - even my X-S20 is subutilized these days, working like a slave here...

@IronFilm, good, I think this one could be considered a "no gear" for the year. 😆 But it could hurt the sound quality on some way?

Second that. Never had and X-T4, but had the X-S10, kinda of the same camera, downgraded. In image quality, will be EXACTLY the same - maybe a bit better in video, since now it have 10-bit 4:2:2 360mbps, or even external raw with a recorder. But, in general, the same. Using a lot the open gate 6.2k - not for vertical video, but for cropping in post to a 4k frame, saved some not well framed shots. AF - is MUCH better. The X-S10 had the same AF system of the X-T4, and the X-S20 is on another league. Face / Eye AF works with much smaller heads on the frame, like 4x smaller. Still missing the genearal trackng in video - Fuji finally made it on the newer GFX, let's hope that it will trickle down the line. My use case is a 5 year girl running frantically around, and with a bit of tweaking in the AF settings, it nails it around 98% of the time - it the X-S10, was unusable. IBIS is better too - not Panasonic or Olympus level, but better than before (and, from what I saw, better than the XT4). Overheating: only started to be "kinda" of a problem now in the summer (around 30 to 38o Celsius here) and after I bought a Smallrig half case - looks like the bottom of the camera is a important heat spreader. But even with these 2 factors, always the 1st heat warning (yellow) showed, with some 20 mins takes. The red one, never. Love the camera. But for professional work, is a (very) good B-cam. Could easily do pro work, but I would use an external recorder and maybe a fan (3rd party, not the Fuji one).

COBOL guys are still needed everywhere. 😀

Mine now is the X-S20 with the Sigma 18-50 f/2.8. Put an adapter ring on the front with a Kase magnetic adapter to put the ND filter when I need to film outside, remove it for photos. F/2.8 is not much farther from the f2 of my Nocticrons. It is such a versatile lens - and, repeating myself, should be the blue print for a bunch of f/2 MFT small zooms.

Mine now is the X-S20 with the Sigma 18-50 f/2.8. Put an adapter ring on the front with a Kase magnetic adapter to put the ND filter when I need to film outside, remove it for photos. F/2.8 is not much farther from the f2 of my Nocticrons. It is such a versatile lens - and, repeating myself, should be the blue print for a bunch of f/2 MFT small zooms.

Chivo is a monster, the 0:20 take with the horizon being a breaking wave was beautiful. Bit I follow the guy on Instagram, he could make a great shot from a Galaxy S3.

Tried something with a generic USB / HDMI converter and...aside from a bit of lag (not much more than the Panasonic's HDMI lag), worked surprisingly well. Except for the lack of an app that had peaking - haven't found one. Tried that one from Accsoon, started well but locks after some seconds - probably it verifies if it form an Accsoon adapter.

We need a Framework camera - that guys are doing VERY interesting things with laptops.

@IronFilm, can you give me a quick advise? Made some recordings on a music festival with a Panasonic FZ1000 with an Andycine mic (a Rode VideoMic copycat), and looks like that the FZ1000 input is too hot - even bringing down the mic adjustment level in camera to the lowest possible, the sound still clipped. Starting to look for some signal attenuators, found some passive ones, but saw that adjustable one from Sound Professionals: https://soundprofessionals.com/product/SP-ATEN-1/ But it is like a headphone volume control, isn't it? Do you know if it can degrades the sound by a large margin?

Probably this will be a (almost) no gear for me too. Have to work out my personal finances and prepare for to future (and my daughter is in the last year of public school, probably will have to pay - a lot - for education next year..). Spent almost a year searching for a LX100 II and/or an Olympus Pen F with reasonable prices, and now BOTH appeared...but have to stick to my plan. At the same time, my camera usage is down to a minimum (working double for income in TI / finances), hence it would be a very bad expense. And my current X-S20 and lenses is, by a big margin, the best kit that I had. More than enough for my current usage.

In the comments of the react video all the situation was explained. "Hey Kai & Lok, Bloody producer here. First thing first the videos have bene restored (there’s a post on DRTV channel explaining what happened). Long story short, no one is monitoring the channel so things decay. I wish you’d reached out to me first, but I also understand why you do what you do. I haven’t been back to our old channel for years, and this certainly brought back memories. I still remember the hundreds of weekly meetings we had together, exchanging banters and ridicule each other’s haircuts. I remember our shared love for Top Gear, and Lok our shared Apple fanboyship. Those were the most fun 7 years I had work-wise, and I still miss those days a lot. I’m sure you’ll agree that those were also our most creative years, daring to think big (nothing compared to today’s Mr Beast era but those were some big ideas on YouTube back then!). I’m glad we got it going for so long. I’m also glad you guys continue carrying on making these videos. I have reached out personally and hopefully you got my messages. Would be happy to catch up whenever you guys are back in Hong Kong. Please do more of these reaction videos. I’d be the first one to watch! And thanks for bringing back my memories, and renewing the interest in our old channel and content. Cheers, Richard (Bloody Producer)" After that, Kai posted: "UPDATE: Good News! Thank you to the Richard/Bloody Producer and DR for making all the videos available again What also happened is that I ended up speaking to the Bloody Producer; he made the point - both publicly and privately - that he wished that we’d got in touch before publishing this video. But I want to clarify a few things first: First thing I’d like to say is that primarily this was made as a reaction video; the purpose of it is to SHARE the old content that we had on our hard drives with the public because it wasn’t available anymore, and hadn’t been for more than one month. Simple as that. Although the mystery of why they were taken down in the first place has since been explained by Richard/BP, it wasn’t our core objective to find out. Nothing shifty. We wanted to make the videos available for all to watch via a fair use/reaction video sort of thing. Another thing about Richard/Bloody Producer mentioning that he wished that I’d “reached out” makes it sound like we have been on good terms ever since and I simply didn’t want to mention it to him. The last communication we had was in 2016 when I didn’t sign the last contract and it was made quite clear how things were at that point and there’s been no communication up until now. Long story short: things haven't been cool between us for quite some time. We both have had chances to chuck out an olive branch at many opportunities, but ultimately didn't. I felt that we were releasing this purely for the sake of sharing content with you - the people watching - not to do the dirty on DR or to stir up a controversy. People have written about this news over a month ago; blogs asked me for interviews about it; Tony Northrup made a video titled “DigitalRev DELETED!” On 2nd November 2023 with over 80k views. If either Lok or I wanted to jump on the Hot Controversial News bandwagon, we could’ve done it much, much earlier. Alas, I have apologised to Richard/Bloody Producer directly for not attempting to contact him before hand. And the good thing is that, as Richard and I are both grown-ass men, we can talk again, bury the hatchet - let bygones be bygones - and just move on. And even more importantly: the videos are back online on the DRTV channel and, well, Richard/BP has encouraged us to make more reaction videos if we want, which is great because we really enjoyed watching those old videos together and I hope you have too! Thanks for the support, everyone! Love from Me"

Holy shit. 4k120 without crop with global shutter. If the DR problems of global shutter were avoided, they just laid the foundation for the future sensor tech.

I have the Sigma on my X-S20. Amazing little thing, almost never used other lens after getting it. Should be the template for newer m43 zooms - if Sigma could do a 18-50 F/2.8 covering APS_C with this size, a small 12-35 f/2 or even f/1.8 is doable.

Yep, and a small and fast zoom lens (yes, it extends when powered on, but to carry is much smaller. And being a zoom, for me, is a big differentiator compared to the X100 and GR. Much more versatile, and for the target groups, don't having to worry to change lenses is a huge selling point. Never used a MK II - have the MK I, and it have a huge problem: the worst JPEG engine that I've ever saw in m4/3. Beside the usual green cast of the GH4 generation, it is mushy as hell. But the RAWs without problems, same as every m43 camera; but having to post-process takes a lot of the charm. From waht I've heard, the MK II have the same JPEG pipeline of the OG G9 - hence the better Panasonic color science of that time. Having a touchscreen mitigates a bit the absence of a af joystick - I used it a lot in the GX85 and GX9, a joystick is better, but lcd touchpad is close.

Should say that it is the 1st Osmo Pocket that got my attention. The 1 inch sensor look a huge upgrade on low light. Still think that the images looks oversharpened - but I guess that one of the clip-on filters is a black mist-alike, could make it a little less edgy. And someone (Moment?) could do a magnetic tele adapter, could be interesting. Still prefer my camera (the X-S20 with a Scorp Mini gimbal does not attract much attention), but the portability and the convenience of this new Pocket is amazing. Looking for good 24p footage.

I'm telling this for ages - there is a hole in the market because of lack of availabitlity of the X100v, and Panasonic could easily enter with a new LX100. In fact, I still have the OG LX100, and for some time I had a X100S too. The LX100 crushed the X100S (the old X100 lens is crap in short distances - and the biggest surprise was the LX100 being MUCH better in low light). A LX100 III with PDAF, a better EVF (could be the 2.36mp panel that a lot of cameras uses today), a tilt screen like the one in the X100V, and make some color profiles with their partnership with Leica. Would sell a lot. But no - just discontinued the LX100 II and, guess what, the used prices now are the same as new (sometimes even higher).

Waiting Tony Northrup talking on the Sphere with only the pimple in the front of his nose in focus.

In fact, I guess is trying to capture a trend kinda started with Fuji: don't spend time in post processing (or if you are not versed with it). I've put a film recipe from a guy (a "Portra 400") that is looking so good that my X-S20 become a camera just using this preset and the Sigma 18-50. And if you want to tweak it after, you still have the RAW file.

If some manufacturer managed to do very compact and very good quality f/5.6 zooms, I would move to FF.

Never recorded in log, started now with the X-S20. Will have to study a lot, because all my log gradings until now have the color quality of a Barbie cam.

As the amateur here - almost no plans. Loving the X-S20, and in Fuji world, would be only interested in this camera repackaged in a X-E3 body, IBIS included. And this will not happen. Lens wise, shop closed - the customs rules were stricted a lot here, and now buying a lens means a 92% increase from US prices...but was a thing that I predicted, hence I bought almost all the lenses that I was planning for the future. Will play more with my vintage ones - the Canon FD 35mm f/2 Concave works very well in the camera, and I have the guess that the "Leicanolta" MD 35-70 f/3.5 will work too. Will almost halt buying gear - I'm 52 now, wish to retire at 65, have a wife and a 5 year old child, and have nowhere near the conditions to stop working at 65 and kept them in a confort life. Time to start saving seriously.

Can't post the link here because it is on CineD, but never heard it before, and though that is VERY interesting. A cinema camera built with Raspberry PI, with the parts costing around $250 (if you use the super-8 sized Raspberry PI HQ camera - but there is a user that used a 20mp m43 sensor), including a 4-inch touchscreen, that records 12-bit CinemaDNG RAW in USB-C external drives. https://github.com/schoolpost/CinePI/wiki/Build-Guide