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Yes. I’ve only used it as a studio camera with an ATEM so all I can say is that with a P4K on another ATEM channel they look the same ! I find comparisons between the OG and new Pockets a bit moot as you can get them close enough for jazz visually so at that point it’s all about the rest of the deal. The new Pocket trounces the OG in every metric bar form factor. Depending on what you’re doing with a camera on any given day, the form factor of the OG can make all of the rest of the Pocket goodies irrelevant. The Komodo gave pause for thought over the PYXIS and the new PYXIS has given pause over the Komodo. You know how that goes. The bank balance has given pause over all of them though 😂 It remains to be seen what Nikon do as well with a new Cine line too. The Z mount is a great leveller for me because I can put anything on it. L mount is OK but the Z mount smokes it really when you’ve hoarded as many lenses in different mounts as I have.

Yes, it’s full control. I mean it’s not uber cheap but it’s a very convenient non flappy HDMI connected monitor. For anything outside the studio the Micro 4K is a bit of a bust to be honest but now it’s not. For people mad enough to also buy that PYXIS 12K it does double duty. Not that I’m mad enough to buy the new PYXIS 12K of course….

If it doesn’t burst into flames or require a portable power station, that PYXIS 12K is going to be a huge winner for them. The fact that they will finally have AF is the icing on the cake.

Being a diva, I’m still annoyed about the Bluetooth not being switched on ! I’m going to get that monitor ASAP.

Well I did ask ! That is great news that they’ve done that.

Autofocus!

Here we are in hour three then and no end in sight. Grant will have to be helped off stage like James Brown by the time this is over.

Our chippy is so posh it was beloved by royalty.

You would think so with them all being part of the L Mount alliance but the Atomos animosity runs deep.

He’s taking the piss now, doesn’t he know what Friday at 5.30pm means in the UK? I need to be in that queue in the chip shop in the next half an hour at the latest.

Broadcast is his true love so he’s moved it up to take precedence in recent launches. For anyone waiting for the cameras it’s like having to sit through ninety minutes of Sting doing his tantric lute albums before he throws everyone a bone with a Police medley in the encore.

The reach around demo method he uses makes the whole thing painful to watch as well.

I think they could’ve shaved 15 minutes off by having shorter product names. We will definitely be cruising into hour two with the demo of this new ATEM.

All the PYXIS anticipants sitting through the initial hour long broadcast products part of the presentation like this.

It’s going to be like prohibition all over again. The new B&H Photo branch will be a speakeasy selling smuggled camera bodies from Canada.

By the by, that EF-S 18-135mm and PZ E-1 combo is a pretty good and cost effective used combo for anyone looking to do a roll your own Cinecorder solution.

This looks like the Canon PZ E-1 power zoom adapter to me. This is designed to be used with the Canon EF-S 18-135mm lens. Obviously it’s no surprise that there is an EF mount of this new PYXIS but the curiosity is them choosing that APS-C combo to illustrate it. Particularly as the PZ E-1 has been discontinued for quite a long while now too.

“We are taking Greenland and making Canada the 51st State” should’ve been enough to have him laughed out of town. The fact that he wasn’t means anything else he says or does will have a blind eye turned to it.

I wonder if Nikon will be hastily putting together manufacturing kits for the higher end Z cameras to ship to RED for final assembly.

Certainly a competitor for the S5ii. Headline features : 24MP BSI full-frame CMOS sensor In-body image stabilization, rated up to 7.5EV Autofocus subject detection with support for 9 subject types 11 fps Raw w/ mechanical shutter 30fps JPEG-only mode with pre-release capture 3.69M dot 60Hz EVF with 3000-nit peak brightness 4K/30 full-width, 60p w/ 1.5x crop 10-bit N-Log or N-Raw capture Dual UHS-II card slots Downloadable color mode presets via Imaging Cloud Price is £1599

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you definitely won’t get either in that Blackmagic presentation 😀

One that would be interesting is if they took the original UMP12K Super35 sensor and put it in the Pocket 6K Pro body. Though I suspect they would need to add too much power to make it viable. I’m hopeful that they have a firmware upgrade for the Micro Studio 4K G2 that allows the use of the USB-C monitor they make for the PYXIS. Or at least one that switches on the Bluetooth module we all know that’s in it but they inexplicably won’t let us use!

OK, so we have until Friday to indulge in baseless wild speculation about what the new products will be. Watch along live here.

The last time this many cameras were lost in Berlin was when the Allies bombed the Kodak AG factory in 1943.