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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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Stipended Shills Of Shininess

I’m probably biased as both a Nikon Df user and someone who thinks these two are pricks but even so I wasn’t sure that my contempt towards these two could get any bigger but here we are. They even went after the Leica CL. Of course if any of the cameras on their list was released today they would be shilling the shit out of it. Because that’s what they are, paid promoters of newness. No new gear, no pay day. Not exactly overflowing with content about great used alternatives that channel is it ? And that tells you all you need to know about them as a serious resource.

A time-lapse of the fuel price sign at your local filling station over the next month would be one for the ages.

It sounds like an off-Road vacuum cleaner.

My own tried and tested formula for determining if prices are getting out of hand is how much of an, erm, “rounding error” occurs when relaying the price I’ve paid for something to the wife. When it comes to cameras, it would be a base level of 10%. If I bought a new camera nowadays it would more likely be in the 20-25% area. The area where my perception of price escalation is most piqued though is in the price of first party lenses as much as it is cameras.

Every time I’m watching a YouTube video and they say “Let me know down below in the comments” I just think “Oh no you poor bastard”. The problem is of course that they have to appeal to people to do that to get the algorithm to work for them and give their content a chance to get noticed. YouTube actually make you open yourself up for trolling to even attempt to make yourself relevant in their “who gives a shit about quality?” mindset. It’s exactly the same with the other clown and his blue tick programme being a deliberate incitement to gain money by hateposting, rage baiting and outright lying to farm replies for cash and cause division. Absolute shithouse behaviour. Particularly as it also seems to be an effective template to become US President.

He will no doubt do some chicanery that feathers his own nest. Some sort of bogus licensing where DJI have to pay for the use of one of the raft of Chinese held patents that his daughter mysteriously got granted there during his first term. Of course, vanity will also dictate that they have to change the name from DJI to DJT for which they will also have to pay a licensing fee.

Trump would be locking his on the 1930s. They’d still get people whining about autofocus and IBIS.

Incidentally, FujiFilm have announced a new instax camera today that is already boiling the piss of many people in the same way as the X-Half does. It’s basically a video focused version of the Instax Evo but retains the printer and is based on their Fujica cine cameras of the past. The dial on the side let’s you choose the era of look that you want to emulate. So it shoots video which transfers to the app and then it prints a key frame still from it complete with a QR code on it that people can then scan to download the video from the cloud. It looks beautiful and based on my experience with the X-Half, if they made this with that larger format sensor (sans printer obviously) then I would be all over it for all the same reasons as I love the X-Half.

As many of you will have guessed, I’m not a rich teenage kawaii girl so take my opinion on this camera with a grain of matcha. What I am though is a member the unspoken demographic for it which is the jaded old photographer with a bad back. So I’m not her, I’m not you and you aren’t either of us so I’m predicting your mileage will vary wildly. Which is a good thing. I enjoy it for what it is, a genuinely pocketable holiday camera that makes me take silly snaps with far more frequency than I would do with a “real” camera because I’ve long since understood that holiday doesn’t mean assignment. Anyway, some silly soft, noisy snaps I took with it. Could I have taken these with my phone and at likely better quality ? Of course but the question is would I? No, because getting my phone out of my pocket and wrestling with it like a wet fish when I see something interesting is not my idea of using a camera.

It would take more than a Ronin to stabilise that government at the moment.

I think it might actually be Cam Maquis, who later became a leading part of the French Resistance movement. In the middle row I think I can see Hugo Knows Foto with his undershirt on which his wife has embroidered “I Shoot Daguerreotype“

It’s a pity about the multiple convictions for inciting racial hatred.

All paid for by Pathé and everyone on the trip etched postcards home saying “Game Changer”.