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Hey Ebrahim, listen I have been a fan of your posts for the past couple years. They made me look at tech and craft in a new light. I never even knew there were supposedly two of you. I appreciate you are making attempts to right this wrong with the 3 people directly affected by your actions, but you must understand that your words had a lot of credibility on this site... so you cannot blame the forum for being interested and invested with these events. So, in a lot of ways we are all victims of this scam. There is an unwritten trust in these forums and unfortunately you have yet to answer the basic of questions. I think if you were to answer, HONESTLY, the following couple questions, it may clear up some things for some of the members... 1. Does your grandfather exist in the capacity he was represented in this forum? 2. Does you or your grandfather have the first hand knowledge with all of these cameras, or was it theoretical at best and in some instances just a lot copy and pasting? 3. Do you truly admit to scamming these people, or are you just admitting to it, because you feel bullied and you are just telling the forum what it wants to hear to end the ridicule? 4. If you did perform this scam, then why? Your last excuse does not add up, in fact, almost everything you have said since the beginning of this does not add up, so what is the REAL TRUTH? 5. What gives you the right to believe that you can con hundreds of people into believing you are something that you are not and then steal money from members of this forum and other forums and then think that we should just drop it because all of the sudden you are claiming to do the right thing? Answer these questions and I will stop posting in this thread... honestly your stories are getting quite boring now anyway but I believe we deserve the right to know the truth.

So, I may be picking up an xc10 for some personal and hopefully small professional projects. I was planning on shooting the majority of my stuff in C-Log... ETTRd... Partially due to the authority and eloquence in which ES had spoke of it in the past, but after all of this talk about the scam and his questionable theories, I decided to research ETTR C-Log. One of the first Google search results is the following article (link below) In it you will find his theory and screengrab examples... One shot even being of ES himself... I believe. This was from back in Jan '15. I'm curious to know what his rating was before this post... Or even how quickly his ratings rose compared to when he signed up for eoshd.

Yeah maybe, but there is definitely a difference between the two. If you look at the fb reply Tomas showed us, it seems more in the style of Old ES... I don't know something still feels fishy about this whole thing. If that FB reply didn't exist the whole story would make more sense. Maybe there was never an Old ES, but there was an Older ES.

It is pretty effin interesting when you read how well Old ES wrote in English compared to Young ES.

I like your idea, I meant for him to make a serious movie based on this. That would be crap. What you're suggesting could be pretty funny. Part of his punishment should be to supple stock footage from Egypt.

But I'm sorry to say... this movie would be horrible. International crime movies require an interesting, capable antagonist... I think we can all agree... Haha, honestly... I've been getting bored by this for the past 10 pages or so. The ending is never as good as the one I imagined. But I do think it's crap that the kid won't own up to anything without being strong armed by the Hipster Mafia.

This is an utter farce. I wouldn't even accept his money if I were the one scammed until he honestly owned up to it. If for some reason he is telling the truth, why not be forthcoming and aid in this investigation. Hell, he still hasn't even admitted to there never being an elder ES. Why would he be som worried about his families' and friends' opinions if he was innocent. And now people are encouraging him to make a movie about it? He should sign away any rights to any motion picture filmed about this idea to the people scammed by him. And if he didn't do it, which I admit with this weird effin story is quite possible, then explain his inconsistencies. I don't know... I'm really starting to believe this whole thing is a game. Once the conversation begins to slow up on it, he shows up again or another victim does. Something does not smell right here.

Panny I admire your maturity, I really do, but I never once called for violence to ES and I couldn't disagree more about closing this thread, especially now. If for no other reason but a paper trail of the events that transpired... And the events that will come to fruition. The problem here is that the motive doesn't add up. That's why I believe there is more to this story than has been uncovered. I think there may be more aliases he goes under on this site. I believe he may have created these aliases to build more "Likes" to his posts and build a credibility to his reputation. I believe almost everybody on this forum has been relatively honest about who they are and what we do, it's imperative for a forum like this, especially since so many of the members are giving advice on major purchases. For instance, here's a hypothetical, Oliver Daniel has a long record of shooting music videos. Since he has an extensive portfolio, someone may go to him to ask what he feels about a specific Sony camera that they are contemplating using for an upcoming music video gig. They take his advice and buy it. And then a week later... What if it came out that he lied about his portfolio and history and this person just spent a butt load of money based on his recommendations... Sure they should have done their own research but he is a trusted member with a supposed track record. That is exactly what ES has been doing for years. And I think as a community, we deserve the truth. Why should we cater to the lowest common denominator because his feelings may be hurt? I'm sure a lot of people considered ES a friend... Does their feelings not matter? Do they not deserve the truth?

I think I need some compensation because I was robbed of about 4-6 hours of my life reading this kid's nonsense. But this isn't a court of law. This is a court of public opinion and save for a few instances, I think we were pretty fair to him. We gave him more than enough chances to come clean. From the beginning many people believed him, but unfortunately facts are fickle mistresses and there are too many stacked against him. Is it possible he is innocent... Yes it is possible... With caveats. He would have to be protecting someone close to him who had done it... A close family member and he felt he could attempt to save his reputation on the board if he could figure a way around it... Of course I have just given the dummy another lie he can use to try wiggle out of this. Damn!!!

I highly doubt you will go to jail for trying to help online friends retrieve stolen money. You were a little over exuberant but I highly doubt Interpol is going to be knocking on your door in west Chester or wherever the hell you live.

I think I most likely will be picking up an XC10 and a GX85 and selling my BMMCC... But I'm not a hundred percent sure about buying the GX85 and selling the BMMCC... But the XC10 is practically a definite. How about you fuzzy, how are you getting on with GX85?

Man that GX85 is a great little image. I would have sworn it would have been the worst of the lot, but it blows away the a6300... IMO. And it's damn close to the BMPCC. Interesting. Was the BMPCC in raw or ProRes?

So, first is a6300. Second is BMCC and third is gx85?

Top - GX85 natural all the way down Middle - a6300 s-log Bottom - XC10 c-log

So wait, you were badgering him on Instagram and that's what led to his confession today? But even though he said he would confess, he still held strong to the story that he didn't do it but agreed to do it because you were extorting him? Do you know what you just admitted to?

If anyone on this forum donates a single penny to the people who were scammed then you are the biggest fools and are doing nothing to help this situation. This kid is hitting refresh every 5 seconds and every bleeding heart, call for forgiveness, and donation promised turns this piece of shits frown a little more upside down... And his hand further and further from his wallet.

The more you know... It's really half the battle.

One lesson learned for the young ES is that he does not have a career as a grifter ahead of him. So, he can check that off the list.

@Ed_David I have a serious problem and I need your help. I have an ingrown toenail and the clinic has told me the only cure is a C100 mkii, if I do not receive either the C100 mkii or the equivalent money wired to me through Western Union the ingrown toenail will become infected and my dog will die... I mean my grandfather's dog's toe. Can you help me?

So, he did this scam to help his sister, so she isn't punished, but now because a bunch of faceless people on an Internet forum have bullied him so much he admits to what he's done and tells everyone, on a public forum, that his "grandfather" frequents, that he did this scam to help his sister get an abortion. So in essence he just sent his sister to a public stoning... The same sister he was willing to scam for to protect... Okay...

"I will send as soon as it is possible the cameras then to help you." haha

I have read somewhere that habitual liars, truly believe if they stick to their story long enough, people will eventually believe them.

So, you don't understand that by sending messages agreeing to a deal and giving instructions on how to pay for that deal, then receiving the money for that deal but knowingly not upholding your end of the deal is fraud and theft... Both considered crimes by every society in the civilized world since tribes were trading in cashews? You don't understand that? Seriously?! Close your eyes and put your grandfather on. Now open them so we can speak to your logical side.

This kind of statement is proof why nobody believes you... You cannot even acknowledge that a crime took place. I think it would be a good time to show a copy of that police report. Andrew has always seemed like a fair man, so any evidence to prove your side of the case would probably be in your best interest right now.

I think the GX85 would probably be a good choice for product photos, and you would have 4K video and 5-Axis IBIS if your work ever calls for it. On the other hand, Nikon makes great stills cameras and their video capabilities are supposed to be some of the best h.264 1080p up to 60p around, plus the Nikon's flat profile is supposed to a pleasure to grade. The sigmas should be really nice with the Nikon as well. If you're looking for autofocus just make sure you get the right model of Nikon... Some lenses won't autofocus with the D5500, so you will need the D7200. Good luck.