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Fuji may be back at the table with some interesting options, but you sure wouldn't want to party with them. If I were Suzuki, I'd consider training my lens on Fuji's senior PR department people. Problem is, the images would be completely flat... unless of course it was after hours and the team was back in fleshpots again.

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Of course you realize that the candid nature of this type of street photography doesn't work if one has to ask for permission, right? As far as 'respecting the boundaries' of his subjects, who of us is entitled to determine where a stranger's boundries should be? Could that be disrespectful? You see where this can lead?

It's Japan, and he knows that everyone is to polite/ restrained to do anything. I work like this in many places and rarely have issues. A wink and a smile goes a long way.

That's strange, I always thought that a philistine was a 'real dirty person.'

First class work and approach. Art or die.

Their is no doubting the gains 'whites' have made. But to be fair, a considerable percentage of this wealth (prosperity) was built on the backs of 'others.' And no I'm not 'othering' anyone by using these terms. But as a side note, here is where it gets interesting for me. Let's take India and the British for example. The British always tied up with the Indian Raj (kings) in order to do their looting. Both parties got richer, but the Raj swindled their own people and that's something you won't hear when the anti-colonial finger wagging zelots show up. Some local always sells out somewhere... what does that tell you? I don't see skin colour anymore, I just see agendas. Guns, Germs and Steel is an interesting read on how and why some societies came to rise (and dominate) faster than others. And make no mistake... sadly there are few who would not put others to work if given the opportunity. Just who makes your running shoes? For the record, I'm not a racist, I hate everyone the same

That makes sence, every race has their racists. Problem is that it's only the Western countries where it's somehow a problem.

While I feel that functioning social democracies have to be the light, I also find it amusing that people think racism is something that only white people do to colored people. Ever sit down with an African in India/ Asia? Terrible what they regularly endure. I certainly know what I experienced. As much as I like Joaquin, this feels out of place. But I also find it amusing how unsettled the audience looks... until he emotionally releases them back into their coddled and pampered lives

When I heard that the previous 5 iterations of Trump had either been assassinated or suffered catastrophic logic board failures while at McDonald's, it made me angry. I wanted to know who designed those logic boards? No wonder this version is eyeballin' an Apple facility. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/opinion/a-ticket-to-hell.html

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Not so fast there cowboy, what if it's a 'supermoon?' It'll be fun trying to enlighten telephoto lens buffs that 'compression' is what happens when they train any lens on anything. I guess it makes sense somehow... but. "I compressed some perspective and AoV while on vacation."

- I found myself scratching my head on this: "If you use the same perspective (camera postion) and same AoV on two different sensor sizes, you'll have the same compression. Compression is not an attribute of the sensor size, but a description of how a filmmaker sets up a shot (like: do we back up with a narrower AoV or go closer with a wider one)." I though compression was something achieved through the use of telephoto lenses, where the foreground and background distance was compressed via lens magnification. Hmmm.

Amen.

I have little interest in working on or seeing films that repeat tired narratives. Maybe it's the same for you? This gem puts a wonderful spin on films about workers and factories: See you in the smelter

Last year I met a burned out Western cinematographer spending time at a monastery in Dharamshala. One evening, as he walked through the garden, he tripped over a Arri 65 that a foreign crew had forgotten there while doing a piece with the Dali Lama. Seeing the man fall, several novice monks moved to help set him upon his feet again. Once there, he thanked the novice monks and began to marvel over the Arri. He was reminded of his days as a top globe-trotting dop and proceeded at length to describe the inherent nature of the large format sensor to the young and curious monks. Field of View, spacial relationships, shallow dof and circles of confusion filled the garden air. As the man finished there was a pause, and the youngest of the monks stepped forward and in a soft voice asked, "How will all this make us happy?" Last I heard, the man had left he monastery and was back in L.A. Working at a camera rental office. ?

Oh great, now I feel like a bit of a bozo for posting this nonsense... One thing for sure is that the skilled folks who do have access to these limited and expensive cameras, went ahead with them for a reason. Somehow I'm willing to bet it was more than just urban legends... now where is my snorkel? ?

- I'm really not the best person to comment on this, but if I had to take a stab, it's as simple as having the extra sensor size and the field of view it affords. Na? .... well then that certainly sells it all the more. See you there...

From the article: "In other words, the large format allows you to see wider, without going wider." “A camera three feet away from him, which also has a real psychological effect of connecting you to a character and feeling that sense of intimacy, but now we didn’t need to shoot it on a 21mm or a 24mm.” “You get a sense of the environment, but you’ve isolated him in that environment with this shallower depth of field.” the relationship of foreground and background, or a character and the world around them. very interesting compromise between depth of field and size of the frame,” background and foreground appearing closer together. “You could get these beautiful vistas, but not making things feel like they’re super far away,” “You have the same sort of presence of being, of seeing like you’re in a close up of someone, but now you also see much more expression, and much more of the physical performance someone is giving,” “So it just feels like you’re really close in a moment with a character, within the character’s space, in a way more traditionally we would be seeing just less of the performance. It’s like you kind of get this sort of intimate close up feeling, when watching a scene with a 50mm lens, but now we’re seeing much more of that person. That performance and how the character is framed in their space is just different, in a way that’s almost trippy at first.” If I 'get out' it'll be to a small island in Micronesia At the end of the day, it's more about narrative for me and I absolutely want 'proper' video camera that helps me get the film shot, so this most probably puts me in the 35mm sensor space. Recently I saw Honeyland, it was shot on on a couple of Nikon dslrs and has done quite well as a 'story'. Worth a watch. Alrighty... back to the front...

Some insightful info here laid out in plain English with good examples: https://www.indiewire.com/feature/large-format-cameras-arri-alexa-65-film-language-joker-roma-midsommar-1202179944/?fbclid=IwAR2fUA2vrI9dvj50_-mMrLFtEqdEt0eMb3azO2qu_8DjimOtDQWDLIo3J4M On a personal note, I'm in the edit on a doc with mixed footage... 1/2 inch, 35mm and full frame. Recently I've been back to making selections from the full frame (5DMkII) footage and when the conditions are right, it can really 'stand apart' from the others and I'm not talking shallow dof. More spacial relationships. That Arri 65 must really be a god king. Anyway.

3000 images, razor blades not included

DPAF ok. But what about an important practical aid like focus peeking? Any info on audio?

Just found and heading into this:

Yes 12k is coming. And the first one off the production line has been marked to shoot part two of this with even greater peace of mind and clarity:

An insightful and fascinating examination of sound design in film, featuring legendary sound. Website: https://www.makingwavesmovie.com Good for sound?