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Yeah the Fp stuff was my gateway to him 😂

I thought the title was slightly clickbaity but I’m glad I clicked on this one. There are a lot of “Arri look on your xyz camera” videos but I think this is a far more interesting take on it. The question is are you doomed to never match it because it is baked in (not least the IR cut filter) and it can’t be reverse engineered in post? Can anyone who has bought the Arri license for their supported Panasonic camera chime in with their thoughts?

I originally read the title as “This Guy Makes Any Camera Shite” and thought my cloud account had been hacked. I enjoy watching Brandon Li’s stuff, particularly the self shooting ones. Self shooting as in shooting on your own as though someone else is shooting rather than self shooting in the vlogging context. Tripods basically.

I’ve also had an email this week trying to get me to rush down to London for the MPTS broadcast show lest I miss their headline speaker…..erm…. Michael Gove The irony/shamefulness of having him as an expert speaker when his most famous contribution to political discourse in the UK was this.

It’s the Frank Sinatra of camera review retirements then.

Amazing spec really. Looks like it could be my forever camera….

Turns out I didn’t dream it. https://www.shutterdial.com However, what I did dream )or maybe they’ve removed the function) was that you could search by specific camera on addition to the focal length/aperture.

I may have dreamt this but either in Flickr itself or an external site that used it’s data, you were able to search by EXIF so you could look at the extremes of the lens range and in this case it would be to display all LX100 images at 24mm f1.8 and 70mm f2.8 which was a more informative way to do it. People can fuck up the composition and the processing but even they struggle to overcome the physics. Welcome to episode two of the series! Fixed. The EIS is an additional crop as far as I can recall.

So there are indeed some details in the video specs that will be of note to some. Internal RecordingH.264/H.265/MOV/MPEG-4 AVC 4:2:0 8/10-Bit 5674 x 2988 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/48.00/50/59.94 fps (200 to 300 Mb/s) 5184 x 3888 up to 23.98/24.00/25/29.97 fps (200 Mb/s) 4352 x 3264 up to 47.95/50/59.94 fps (300 Mb/s) 4096 x 2160 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94/100/120 fps (100 to 300 Mb/s) 3840 x 2160 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94/100/120 fps (70 to 300 Mb/s) 1920 x 1080 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94/100/120/200/240 fps (16 to 200 Mb/s) H.264 ALL-Intra/MPEG-4 AVC 4:2:2 10-Bit 4096 x 2160 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94 fps (400 to 600 Mb/s) 3840 x 2160 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94 fps (400 to 600 Mb/s) 1920 x 1080 at 23.98/24.00/25/29.97/47.95/50/59.94/100/120 fps (200 to 400 Mb/s) Interesting to note that Panasonic have sidestepped the Micro HDMI bleating by just fucking it off altogether. Although it was playback only on the original anyway.

The Leica variants of the Panasonic cameras like the RX100 always hold their value far, far better so the initial premium that you pay is offset somewhat when you sell it. Join me next time for another episode of “Flimsy Justifications I Present To My Wife When Buying Cameras”. The good thing about a fixed lens camera is that you can just forget about all of that. What you’ve got is what you’ve got. When the full spec for the L10 comes out then I would look for some devil in the detail regarding this as well in the video modes. I saw something regarding it being 4.2.0 in some modes and 4.2.2 in others for example. Not sure about numbers but the Flickr pool for the LX100/ii should give you plenty of visuals to evaluate it. As with most pools on Flickr for older cameras I’d recommend going back to closer to the end and working forward as the advent of faster internet has led to a proliferation of any old shit being uploaded. People were a lot more selective ten years ago 😂 https://www.flickr.com/groups/dmc-lx100/pool/with/55214982443

Does it still have the same caveat as the LX100 in having an MFT sensor but only having 85% of it exposed to the lens ? The lens on the L10 being 10.9-34mm but being described as a 24-70mm equivalent does align with that 2.2x crop factor of the 85%. Does it matter though ? Not really, I really like my original LX100 and this addresses absolutely every one of its shortcomings including the OIS on the lens and the fixed screen let alone the internals. As it should of course being twelve years after the launch of the original and at practically double the price. I think Panasonic has jumped the shark so high with its MFT prices in recent years that they believe they can now position even a sub-MFT size product as a bargain and they are likely correct. I think I’ll wait for the Leica badged version though as if I’m going to pay through the nose for it then I might as well go the whole hog.

Unless of course they got me mixed up with Gerald Undone.

I hope MPB have looked at this thread at some point because I’ve just had an email from them entitled “Was it just a phase?”. I thought it was going to be something punny about phase detect AF and trying to alert me to their range of manual focus lenses or some such but no, it’s suggesting that photography must’ve just been a phase because I haven’t bought anything from THEM for a while. Entitling the email “Is it because we have gone really quite expensive and frequently lose your mate’s cameras?” then I’d have agreed with them as that being the reason I haven’t bought anything from them for a while. My “phase” of being a photographer which began a comfortable three decades before your company even existed remains intact MPB but I tell you what is now a phase and that’s ever buying anything from you, you cheeky patronising pricks. When someone who has been a frequent customer since you began, you might want to look inward as to what might have caused their buying to fall off a cliff.

That might be something positive that AI can do for creative people. Get it acting like a promotional agent to get your work in front of people. That aspect gives most artists the ick but AI doesn’t give a shit about anyone thinking it is a soulless wanker.

Well I came, I saw. I chickened out. Bought a secondhand ZFc with a kit lens. Effectively, I confidently walked in to get the 64 Strat in classic white with triple single coil pickups and a whammy bar…and walked out with a banjo. Went from getting a forever camera to getting a foralittlewhile camera. I had an FM2 when I was a kid and this drew me in as did the £450 price. The Z8 will have to wait but…

Hopes dashed for anyone hoping a bit more of a dynamic company might buy them and filter their products down to our level then. This is possibly the driest takeover imaginable. Riedel make Leica look like The Sex Pistols.

I think laying off 23% of it’s workforce has had a lot to do with the share price rising. Those finance vampires love people losing their jobs.

🤷‍♂️ sexy as fcuk ? Perfectly legitimate reason to be honest.

Just curious what advantage the cine versions would bring in your application over the stills versions, particularly for the price bump ? Are they parfocal or have significant reduction in focus breathing ? Or are you looking at having wireless motor FIZ control with a Nucleus etc?

Very small mice are operating pulleys to physically move the lenses in and out of focus. Hang on, it’s not mice it’s small motors. Nikon’s FTZ adapter takes care of the AF Nikkors and for manual focus ones you just use the M mount one with additional M to F adapter stacked. And indeed the same for any other type such as C/Y and M42 etc that have M adapters. The other Z mount adapter that you may or not be interested in is the MegaDap E mount adapter which opens up the world of small and affordable primes. There is even a Fuji X to Z adapter which is obviously only for APS-C lenses but would come in handy if your additional down the line Z camera was the not at all shit Z50ii. It would be a tacit admission that the end is nigh 😂

I would say that Z mount would be the way to go. It can adapt everything you’ve got in your lens collection to be near native. Not just your AF EF and F mount but with the TechArt you can have AF of all your manual lenses as well. If you can stretch to a used Z8 then that would close the argument on every aspect and would be a - if not THE -forever camera. I say this as someone who has still failed to buy one for the past three years despite it being THAT camera to me. But I’m going to London this weekend and you know what, I might well end up feeling saucy and doing a Wayne Campbell…

Think it’s a 1 inch sensor so it’s likely to be 2.7x

Region unlocking for the cheap Japanese versions would be welcome . Not sure open memories tweak supports the newer models. https://github.com/ma1co/OpenMemories-Tweak?tab=readme-ov-file

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