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Might also be that they dropped the 4k Cinema price so they can sell them off. A OG Pocket siced 4K o 6K cam would be fun.

Isn't that the R8?

I haven't seen any good skin tones / high key stuff from the XH2s - it has a special and fantastic Fuji look, but somehow that one is also very distinct.

What would Kendy Ty do?

also strange that not one of the youtube testers is combinig it with the 28mm pancake lens...

Here it is, the camera i have wanted 5 years ago! https://www.canon.co.uk/cameras/eos-r50v/ A strange time: so many options: a cheap red komodo for that indie movie, a supersmall canon camera with 10 bit codec - things everyone would have dreamt of 5-8 years ago.

Specwisee this looks like the camera i have been waiting for ( .. apart from the 5.6). The material from the camera in the promotion video looks pretty horrible though, especially in comparison to the beautifully shot and great looking rest of the commercial ( what did they shoot it on?)

One additional point would be that parents don't want their children to use the smartphone on holidays all the time, don't want to be seen using the smartphone on holidays, etc.

Check out this film they shot on Leica SL-2 with Zeiss Supreme Primes: Some of the bts shots can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C1MNI8_s4kL/?igsh=Zmk4dG9kaTZ2Mnp3 Some of you might still know Steffen Hacker of Hackermovies Fame ( a german independent film forum that was pretty popular between 2002 and 2012).

Wow, thank you!

… just bringing this back up because today is the day…

Interesting! Maybe they also want just want to check if they can sell more if they lower the price - or a combination of the two...

I recieved the camera approx. 3 weeks ago, i did not have much time to test it and decided to send it back. - The body is made of plastic but the size and the weight are fantastic. Funny how different it feels to take pictures and videos of the family with such a small camera (compared to the a74). - On the video side it feels great, feelings of the original blackmagic pocket come up. It's really fun to use for such a small camera body. Of course it is winter and i was only able to take pictures inside: for that use case the camera is worse to the a74 by far. Not sure wether it is fair to compare those two though... So overall i believe that this is a really fun camera - i will just not be able to invest the time to learn a new system right now, also @Andrew Reids praise of the S9 did not help as well. But it's defenetly a great camera for every day carry, holidays and traveling. Not sure wether it's the right thing for my use case of music videos, short films and family pictures though...

Yes, sadly the batteries are more expensive than the lights itself.

The Leica then had Problems with lenses from other manufacturers, doesn't it?