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Meanwhile, across the street..... "Looks like that fella at number 38 is having an extension put in Brian. Get on to the council to check his planning permission".

I think Samyang getting that L mount version of the 35-150mm over the line might bode well for the S9 if they can now also start bringing their compact prime lenses over to L mount too. I have their 35mm f2.8 in E mount, for example, and it would be ideal for the S9 and is available for around £220. They also have a number of others in the same range such as 24mm etc that are form factor appropriate for the S9.

Yes, I'd say that was a sign of growth. * Although growth is unsurprising with all these free prostitutes incessantly knocking on the door.

Well, its taken 8 pages but we finally got from Gerald Undone to Trousers Undone.

Samyang have released it in L Mount this morning. Thats put a cat amongst my pigeons at least.

I can’t speak for YouTubers but one of my previous roles was writing magazine features and product reviews. In addition, I also covered the press only product launches and the major trade shows such as IBC, NAB and AES. At no time during any of that was I provided with prostitutes by any manufacturer. And God knows I asked them enough times.

I think we are probably a few days away from discovering that S9-gate was really GH7-gate all along. At the time the rest of them started gathering in Osaka, I commented that there were quite a few MFT oriented channels there. My speculation about that was that the S9 was being introduced as the “new” MFT camera to transition to FF. When the “there was another camera they were going to launch but didn’t” stuff started up and then Undone wet his pants, I felt that I was wrong about that speculation and that they were sent back from the trip with an MFT camera as well to “review” when they got home. The extent of his (likely bridge burning) reaction seemed too much for missing out on an interesting but not ground breaking camera so I think it’s because he’s missed out on a much more significant release. With his response to the GH6 he could probably have expected to get a lot of views for his take on the GH7. Incidentally, there is another Canadian YouTuber that received the exact same treatment in not being invited to Japan for the S9 (which he expected because he turns down all such trips) but, significantly, for the first time not being sent the camera. Im sure he has his own views about that, erm, conspiracy. So, Undone was not as singled out for “special” treatment from Panasonic as widely believed.

It’s OK for them to call out Trump’s behaviour when it intersects with their interests though. https://www.nab.org/documents/newsroom/pressRelease.asp?id=4253 I suspect that they may be trying to hedge their bets in preparation in the event of his not completely unlikely WTF re-election in November. The NAB are fundamentally a lobbying group after all that, following their ability to host their cash cow show again after Covid, are now able to resume spending $12-16m a year greasing both sides of the aisle. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/national-assn-of-broadcasters/summary?id=D000000202

The “new” Leica camera, internally at least, is their version of the Panasonic LX100ii. It is wearing a different jacket so is far more like a mini Q than an LX100ii and it has the very elegant Leica interface and the RAWs are DNG. Those differences make it a very nice little camera to be fair but the price…. Well, obviously.

I understand that they based the algorithm for the battery gauge on the Pocket based on this. Do you have one of ye olde worlde NPF adapters like this one ? It will power the camera all day obviously and with much the lower profile F550 batteries you'll still get plenty of run time without it being too unwieldy. There is actually an argument that adding the weight on to the camera using one of these is beneficial anyway when it comes to it not wafting about. However, the good thing about these plates and the way I use(d) mine when out and about was to have it in my coat/bag and attach it to the camera when moving place to place to top up the charge of the internal battery. Time has moved on though and if I was looking for something a bit more modern to deal with the problem then this small charging case looks pretty interesting. It is to be used with a USB power pack (of which there are a gazillion of various sizes and capacities obviously) and can be used in the jacket/bag in the same way as the battery plate except of course you are background charging batteries to be put in the camera rather than re-charging the one that is currently in it. I think its a decent price for what you get as it includes two batteries and it also doubles as a dual slot USB card reader. It won't stop the randomness of the insta-drain "feature" of the BMPCC so to be totally sure of avoiding that then you'll need the continuous power offered by the NPF adapter.

“Daddy, please come back inside and play with us” ”Not now kids, the world MUST be told IMMEDIATELY about a rumour I’ve heard about a new camera”. From Mr. Undone to Mr. Unfun, it’s all a bit silly for grown adults this isn’t it?

I'm only ill in the very particular "I'm back in the UK and listening to The Smiths" kind of a way.

I don’t think the ad revenue argument stands up to any scrutiny to be honest. Have a look at the views for all of the S9 videos. YouTube pays what these days, $2-3K per million views? Big channels covering it such as PetaPixel have broke 100K views but the rest are mainly sub 20 and 30K. I’s be surprised if the total viewership from all of the attendants broke a million views so I don’t think anyone is making money on ad revenue. As I said, those days are gone and these numbers are indicative of it. The first dozen or so times I went to do work in Japan, I didn’t see any of it either. Thats why I went back on holidays there. The only reason I could do the latter was because I got paid for the former. No one was getting my work time for free and no one was getting any of my holiday time for free either. If someone has paid me to go on holiday but expects me to attend a seminar, bussed around on a few organised days of photo opportunities and then produce a video about their product in a deadline no less then I either haven’t really been on holiday or I’ve allowed myself to be paid a negligible rate. It would be akin to going on a free “holiday” from a timeshare company. In the imaging industry there has been a race to the bottom fuelled by the initially creeping and now virtually ubiquitous expectation that people should work for the exposure and the networking opportunity so I find it out of order that people are aiding and abetting the practice for a manufacturer. When the practice now actually begins with the manufacturer, how will that situation improve for anyone who they want to sell the product to? In the past decade or so, malignant interests have bought off politicians in the UK and other countries and it’s a toss up between what has been the more surprising; the ease with which it has been done or how little it actually costs. I suspect many manufacturers (not just of cameras) view their relationship with many YouTubers in exactly the same way.

You’d have to question the business wisdom of such a trip that took out at least 7-8 days out of working time when you factor in prep, travel and jet lag recovery. Yes the travel, accommodation and likely some sort of PD was involved but without an actual fee, how is the loss of earnings for those days covered ? Even if you factored in the “long term” loan of the camera being so long term that they allow you to sell it then a $1000 spread over 7 days isn’t much of a day rate. I don’t think the argument of exposure and views compensating holds up either. The gold rush era of making YouTube camera videos and becoming relatively rich is in the rear view mirror now. Thats why so many of them are pivoting to other areas. The days of these get rich quick Beverley Shillbillies will hopefully be a thing of the past pretty soon.

No. I said that based on the timeline that any panic that had been suggested to exist would have had to have been on BM’s side. The suggestion wasn’t mine obviously.

With regard to the objectivity and competence of these “reviewers”, I thought we’d put that to bed on here a few years ago. Never forget the absolute pile on suffered by @Andrew Reid for raising the blatant shenanigans that Canon were up to and the lengths that we both had to go to in proving it definitively. Did any of these clowns apologise ? No, they just made follow up videos about it to generate more clicks ! Oh but jokes about kittens right ?

They’d already gathered in Osaka, shot with it and left by time BM announced the price cut. With the amount of leaks coming out of there about the S9, it’s more likely the panic came from BM rather than the other way round. There was a lot of talk about there being a fixed lens camera (aka Panasonic badged Leica Q3) so it’s possible that may have been something that was held back. Perhaps Leica didn’t want Panasonic overshadowing their own announcement this week of their new fixed lens camera. Although them releasing a £1500 version of the few years old Panasonic LX100mk2 kind of overshadowed itself anyway. My theory is that the leaking about all this stuff comes from the manufacturers of the cages which are always coincidentally announced on the same day as the new cameras so they have the most prior knowledge.

Discussing them is all I’ll be doing as, unfortunately, I’m just too washed up to be using them anymore. Oddly enough, there is exactly the same type of WW2 re-enactment event taking place on Monday (which is a Bank Holiday so guaranteed flat lighting ) at a heritage railway 20 mins from where I’ll be. I can’t even be arsed going to watch it let alone taking a camera and filming it. On the topic of your endearing love for the 5D3, I think it’s quite common for people to still have the strongest affiliation to the first camera that offered the “great leap forward” for them in terms of their image making. That’s why there is still so much love for cameras such as the BMPCC and the GH2. Possibly also because they all represent peak enthusiasm before the gear ridden descent into being so jaded 😂

Yeah, if you go to their main site which defaults to USA then the offer is up there at the top of the page. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com Change it to the UK (or any European country) however and it is not there. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk But if you fancy a little break in Cancun, though, you are back in business https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/mx

I'd give even money on him doing the same with a Chocolate Brownie. His XH-2 stuff is very good.

Interesting to see how relatively lukewarm the YouTube videos have been about it. Particularly considering that an all expenses paid trip to Japan and an indefinite loan of a camera usually engenders a certain degree of "goodwill" from the "reviewers". For me, that means its either really, really average or they've all suddenly got religion. Which one is your money on ?

Authentic Maidens sounds like the name that members of the original lineup would have to tour under after an acrimonious split where Bruce Dickinson ends up with the sole rights to use the Iron Maiden name.

The offer would appear to be unit limited rather than specifically time limited then.

I've also been waiting for a cheap used 6K Pro as I think its the sweet spot with the internal NDs, tiltable screen and reasonably priced EVF. This changes things for me there too. This with its EVF is about £1700 (cheaper really as there are quite a few used EVFs round that will knock £200 off that price) so its still cheaper than the 6K Pro and it puts into sharp relief the PIXSYS 6K with its EVF which is about £2000 more. I think at this price that if I was getting PIXSYS then I would pick one of these up as well to get a 2nd matched camera, albeit it with a very different form factor.

Quite surprised by this really. Means it’s now slightly cheaper than the regular Pocket version and a lot cheaper than the 6K Pro version. Not sure how “limited” the time is that it is actually this price for I but think it’s a very good deal.