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To have everyone equal in India, with all having the same rights, with everyone speaking the same language, Now that would be an accomplishment!! I would not hold my breathe on it happening anytime soon.

There is just a Ton of old FF lenses out there that you can take advantage of. The 2x crop on m4/3 get old quick. And the low light problem, not on the GH5s, but a Sony A7 mk III looks half good at 204,000 ISO. it is scary. Sony is just flat leading the pack on about everything as of late. And I maybe wrong, but I think the A7 mk III is sort of using DPAF with a different name. I think Sony and Canon swapped some tech with each other.

I think I would have to go with the Sony A7 mk III since they are the same money. But good lenses for it are more expensive. A7s mk II is same money also. I am done with m4/3 stuff. And the AF on the GH5 is well, it blows. 10 bit is nice buy how often does it really matter. The A7 mk III is using the A9 AF so that is a Good thing. You have the s35 crop mode, clear zoom, better eye control, on and on. It is a damn nice camera. But so is the GH5 on the most part. Tough choice.

Well there is a God!

Mistake LoL.

I am surprised someone hasn't come up with a hack to be able to shoot 4k internal on a A7s.

I think Sony is your Only option Under 2 grand. Yeah A7s mk I, A7r mk II is the cheapest. I only paid 900 bucks for my A7s. But like others have said new A7 mkIII is pretty damn good at that price..

Speaking about False Color. Cheap solution for you high roller Sony Guys. https://www.fs7handbuch.de/false-color-for-sony

One is too light, one is too dark. Ehh...

Interesting comparison. G9 vs X-H1 vs A7III. Not sure it has been posted? https://***URL removed***/forums/thread/4263057 They look like the same picture on my Monitor?

One of my best friends in Florida that was 6' 4" and had a son that was 6' 6", and his wife was the kids mother lived on a 28' sailboat for 24 years free in the Sarasota, Florida Harbor! You can afford to do that LoL. Like he said they really sort of just slept on the boat. They worked all day and ate out a lot and the kid was in school for years. He was happy as a Lark as they say. No worries for crap. He was Deep Sea fishing guide, and he was licensed to pilot up to 120' long boats. So basically he gladly took rich peoples money LoL. Good old Captain Jim. I miss him. Fun guy to be around. And oh my God the stories he had to tell, Wow. What is really crazy is that I knew him, not a friend then, when I was in the Navy stationed in Newport Beach, Florida on the USS Saratoga Aircraft Carrier. He was a Bouncer in a bar I used to go to a lot. I remembered him like 45 years later when I moved into a place where he lived in a city 250 miles away from that bar. He didn't remember me but he was a Big ass muscle bound guy at the time. Hard to forget.

I guess I am old LoL. Never heard of this, but fits this discussion. https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/3/4/how-blockchain-will-change-photography

I follow a lot of people on You Tube, even am a Patreon to some of them, that have sailboats, and a few that Full time RV.. Always wanted to live on a boat since I have retired. The old Navy Sailor thing I guess. Heck down in Florida you can find some for free at Marinas that people stopped paying dock fees to. They need work but hell you can tie up to a anchor ball in a river or harbor for free while you live and work on one. I knew people that had young kids that did it when I lived down there. Most powerboats you find cheap have the engines gone out of them. Big money at times to replace them. But then sails arn't cheap either to replace. No real free lunch but sailboats are cheap as hell to operate. But you can't live in Finland or Canada and do it LoL. I had a lot of Bass Boats and a few 24' or less powerboats when I was younger. Loved it. I came within a hair of buying a 54" power boat in Key West, Florida for 30,000 bucks but it needed like 5 grand of work done to it and the 30k was all I really had cash wise at the time to spare. I lost a 42' sailboat for 8,000 bucks in Florida also to another guy because I was a day late to go see it. I lived 200 miles away. Not easy to pull off during the middle of a work week! I was pissed to say the least. But in reality I am getting too old to do the sailboat thing. I will be 71 in a less than a month. I need a Houseboat LoL.

Well if you have a family it is your job to provide for them. So unfortunately you might end up with a job, your own, or working for a company you hate but. well, it is your Job. But I think, me included, in the US has Way to much stuff. Toys if you want to call it. If a person is not a materialist person you Have time for family and are probably more happy and healthy to boot. But everyone is different and that is what makes life interesting. Out of Likes, but a great write up on your part. I guess I would have to add a sailboat to your wants in the last sentence. That would work.

Well the problem is with having a Photography Studio, only thing I knew well photo wise, was each photographer I worked for had a specialty. And that is a good thing and a bad thing. Good thing is you know what you need and how to do it. The bad is it gets to be a JOB, a very repetitive one, and yeah it puts food on the table but it becomes a, do I really want to go to work today thing. I mean every job most people have is some repeatable boring thing year after year. But the only way you can break into Photo or Video, or both, and make Big money is to start your own company. And then you are on your own. And that gets scary as hell when no money is rolling in, and very few business have a constant money flow. When you work for someone else you are making a wage and that is that. Nothing wrong with that. That is what 98% of the people do, but they don't pay much unless you are some wiz, and not many are. And if you work for yourself in this country you will not have Social Security when you retire if you always worked for yourself. You never did contribute into it. And no pension either, which I don't think many are going to have anymore anyways like I have. I get about half my Social Security I would have got if I never had owned my own company's for periods of time... There is no easy way to any of it. It is hard work, and maybe knowing someone, great skills and desire, luck, etc. But Very few people have some dream job that lasts forever. Most people just have a Job. I never really was bothered with the job, it is the people you work with, around that make it enjoyable, kind of fun or just terrible. Ehh, making a lot of money a year doesn't hurt either LoL.

Now that is a good idea. Start one up! And train them also to take Photos. You will be rich.

And to make matters worse most photographers work for a company. And guess who owns the rights to the photos, the Company. Ain't no money in stock photos unless you are nearly a household name that that people go to your website to buy stuff. And to get those type of shots, takes lots of money for gear, to pay models, to rent a Helicopter or fly to China on and on. You aren't going to shoot many Stock photos walking around your own town unless you live in Paris or Rome. And then you are in business, and being in business is not as glamorous as it sounds. Been there done that 3 times in my life. 2 of them incorporated. 10, 12 hours a day or more, maybe 7 days a week. As a Photographer if you are doing weddings, they are Always on the weekend, or own a restaurant etc you will be working 7 days a week. Good way to get divorced, or have a Heart Attack, or both LoL. Speaking of Stock Photos, I do like this one. It is on Adam Lillard's Facebook page.

Trouble is they only need like 3 people to do that! And you would loose money because you would have to hire a body guard 24/7 to keep the rest of the people from killing you for your job.

Hell I am retired. I could give a crap if there isn't Any jobs. You are the one that will need to worry years from now when Robots and AI take over. There is a ton of Robots here now. The Auto industry has a crazy bunch of them now. And no you won't be able to make robots, robots will make robots. It is going to get really ugly down the road. It is ugly here already. There is hardly any men even go to College anymore. Not many jobs for them. The College town I live in has twice as many students, 28,000, than people that live here. And most of what few men enrolled here are from China. A Lot of Asian students go to Miami University. One reason is that it is a super safe town to live in, and it is a great College that is not really expensive. In-state: $31,946, Out-of-state: $51,198. Been here since 1809. That is pretty old for a Mid West College. Ohio only became a State in 1803. They downsize like hell here because they just make people left do 2 peoples jobs. When I worked in Florida for U-Haul as the maintenance manager of 90 people I was doing 3 peoples jobs. They damn near went bankrupt 3 years before I started there, so they cut the living crap out of people. Everybody, including me was running around grabbing their chest half the time, feeling like you were going to have a Heart Attack. The benefits is what they save more money than the wages, so they make out double when they cut people. Hell we hardly build anything anymore in this Country. Most of it is made in China. Like a friend of mine says, soon the only job left will be delivering Pizzas to each other.

"I am not saying don't give up but be damn realistic and don't think everyone is going to get rich doing this shit." In the city I grew up in there used to be like 8 Funeral Homes in it. I think there still is 8 of them. But all but 2 of them Now are owned by some company out of the state. Don't know where. Probably California if I was guessing. All of them had their Own Mortician when I was young. Now there are only 2 of them for All 8 Funeral Homes. One of them is my Nephew. That is what has happened to a lot of the jobs in the US. Ergo, there isn't hardly any. Nearly every company is doing pretty much the same thing, Downsizing work force. Maybe where you live there are jobs everywhere, not here.

Test of a lot of m4/3 40's lenses. https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2018/03/finally-some-more-m43-mtf-testing-are-the-40s-fabulous/

Hell you can do anything if you want to if you try hard enough. Look at Donald Trump!! But it is a damn fast changing world. It Never was easy, but it is even harder now. Any job most people have on here they got by mostly pure luck. You maybe a Garbage man but you got it because you were in the right place a the right time, or your Father is one. Sure try hard as hell , but don't hold your breath, not in this day and age.

Maybe where you live. If you think you are going to make a good living as a Photographer in the United States in this day and age you need your head examined. Photographers are a dime a dozen, even good or great ones. Cameras are so good these days Anyone can take a damn good picture. And most Weddings here are now done on Cell phones and hand out disposable cameras at every table for free. The days of the payed Wedding photographer in this country is Done unless you are Trump! Truth be known he probably can't afford one. Where i live in a town of 28,000 there is Not one Photo business. In the town I grew up in with 64,000 people only 1 studio left and he is close to retirement, dying which ever comes first. And no his kids are not interested. Corporations here on average have one person employed to do it, or a agency you are never getting into. Bottom line you have a snowballs chance in hell to get into it, and I can tell you on average a Photography Studio Never did make anything but a living and a risky one week to week at that. I worked for a few of them doing darkroom work, and knew all of them in my area. It Isn't as glamours as you think. It is stressful as hell trust me. It is just like doing Real Estate work. They are a dime a dozen and they pay you like that also. Good experience but not a viable path forward. I have worked, made a living being a Videographer, Photographer for years, been around the block a few times as they say, and I still know people in both fields. It Ain't easy to get into. And TV stations have and do pay Shit wages, and now Everyone is a Photographer. And When I worked at the TV station nearly every cameraman Moonlighted on the side in it including me. And none of us made enough money to go quit our jobs at the station trust me. Rental Houses have that crap tied up now, They have all the equipment in the world and skilled people that know how to use it. My advice is to do this stuff as a hobby and have a Real job. There are less and less job opportunities now than when I was doing it, and even then it was a bitch. I am not saying don't give up but be damn realistic and don't think everyone is going to get rich doing this shit. Maybe Mattias is but.. Eh What Do you do for a living?? I bet it is not Video or Photography! And I am talking a living, not a job once every two weeks on the side for 50 bucks.

A Atomos Blade is the cheapest thing they make. Hardly a fair overstatement for Atomos. A SmallHD 7" monitor weighs 7 ounces, 198 grams less than a Atomos Flame. Hardy worth it to me, and you aren't hand holding anything with a 7" monitor on it anyways. And the SmallHD is Twice the price of the Atomos Flame that can do 4k 60p. But HDMI only. But yeah weight does matter if you are hand holding stuff for any long period of time. I am not knocking the SmallHD products, just the cost justification. Because I know the cheap 7" monitors are pretty much useless outdoors on average. Better than nothing but.. Now if you have lots of money you can have both. But that is not my case, or I bet most of the people on here's case.

I have done photography since I was in the Navy over 50 years ago. Even made a full time living doing it for a time. If you think you are going to make money selling photos good luck with that unless you are in the right place at the right time. There is weddings also, I did that for years, stressful as hell but rewarding. It really Never gets any more easier or relaxed. I think a person just ought to get into it for the pleasure of it, the relaxation of it, the sense of accomplishment. If you make a buck or two doing it great. I got into BiF towards the end and found that a two sided sword. I enjoyed the heck out of the Hunt as they say, And the pursuit of better and better cameras and lenses to do it with other than the cost LoL. It can get pretty damn expensive. It is mainly the reason I got back into video was instead of busting my butt to get a picture of one in focus why not video tape them. Hell I Have to get at least a few frames of them in focus! Easier said than done also. And back to better video cameras, better lenses. Yikes full circle. A person with the right camera can do both at the same time or make it a dual machine. That would be the way to go. Some Photos, some videos. Best of both worlds. And if you were rich and could afford a 8k video camera, you can get 33.3 mp frame grab stills and your problems are solved! It is a damn rewarding hobby to have, photography.