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I’m sure it will be fine. As an aside for anyone that has watched the show, this is basically an advertorial about the Atomos sync products but The Great Pottery Throwdown uses FX9, A7siii and twelve GoProHero 11. https://www.atomos.com/2024/01/08/atomos-airglu-great-pottery-throwdown/

Instead of spending $7-10K per talking head to get twenty or thirty of the bros to Osaka to film each other eating ramen and doing running to camera AF tests, it would be much better to use that money to fund ten people to make actual small films with their new camera. They’d end up with a far more inspiring showcase of the camera and I don’t doubt the ethical aspect would make them feel better about themselves as well.

The key issue with the Fp and the additions is the “when you need it” aspect though. I don’t always have to use the EVF-11 or the cage or even the SSD but it’s there if and when I need to. Obviously, something like the R5 has to be the R5 all the time so I wouldn’t be able to strip it to a semi pocketable form like my Fp with a small M mount. But it’s all swings and roundabouts isn’t it. With regard to the drive holder, I actually prefer the Dark Power Lab with the front mounted SSD as it can come off in one piece with the EVF-11 and makes a grip too. But the last time I looked it was considerably more expensive (unless I dreamt it) but now looks to be in the same ballpark. So, rudely not following my own suggestion to my good friend @mercer I’ll buy one of these and a couple of the drive holders instead !

Not a camera obviously but Behringer released a new mic pre-amp/compressor today and I was having a look at the review. German company but now do all of their manufacturing in China. The reality is now realitying about who’s paying.

Might be too little too late for you but this Arca-Swiss plate SSD mount is quite interesting and is just over $100 Full details here https://www.52weeks.com/product-page/sigma-fp-arca-swiss-ssd-bottom-plate-1-0

As it’s the current obsession in camera world, I’m trying to work out what would happen if you used a camera with terrible rolling shutter when filming pottery throwing when it starts to go awry on the wheel and gets the wobbles. Will it make it look like a lava lamp or will it go the other way and cross the streams in the Steven Wright “I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time” way ?

Cameras that have been entrusted to DHL and are now MIA. Also, did you not buy that Lytro Illum in the end ?

My fault so need to apologise when I read it back it looked exactly like you’d interpreted it ! I guess the Jazz English must be catching.

Summerando makes it muchio choosy in the optica cover snuggle width vicinity maximus. Deep Joy

By selling multiple times more of them? Doubtful that they would achieve those levels though with even a 30-40% price reduction. The only thing that stops me buying a 907x isn’t the price but more my wife finding out about it.

So many options torturing you. I bet you can’t wait for full solution so you’ll be Glad It’s All Over.

Someone has made and maintains a spreadsheet guide to the coverage (or not) of lenses on the GFX. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uxvvpxJ9QVFFyh0pW2rs9KBmUW9vlh-d-VnbcLDCTn8/edit?usp=sharing

Well, Hasselblad have been taking the opposite path and removing video altogether in recent cameras rather than enhancing it. I suppose it depends now on whether they are getting spanked by the GFX and if so whether they have to add it back in to regain ground or go completely the opposite way and go for full on differentiation and keep video out for good.

For clarity, the “them” in this sentence is still referring to Hasselblad. So, something from their parent company DJI (ie the incorporation of their video tech) will make Hasselblad more relevant. Although it has to be said that a mirrorless camera from DJI might cause far more of a splash with a far bigger modern audience who’ve been using their drones, action cameras and gimbals than would a cost reduced Hasselblad with comprehensive video features. Those of us of a certain age might well choke on our pipes and unexpectedly fill our incontinence pants in excitement at such a Hasselblad but we are literally a dying breed so it might well appear under the DJI guise if it happens.

What? I said no such thing. It is precisely DJI’s video relevance that makes Hasselblad with their internals such a potentially serious competitor in the high end hybrid market.

Saw this today and whilst I don’t exactly agree with his views on the image making output of some/many of the YouTubers mentioned, it is in an interesting watch and raises really valid points about being sucked in to the reviews but then taking stock of what he really needs. I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s a new manifesto for this place but it certainly does speak to its original vibe and make do and mend spirit.

Hasselblad. I think something will come from DJI that will make them more relevant video wise. They might also be eyeing the fixed lens market (not to mention the eye watering prices X-Pans fetch) and thinking they could have a slice of that. Let’s not forget that DJI are also L Mount alliance members so a an L mount full frame or APS-C (as no one is doing one) Hasselblad could also make a splash. Although Leica would probably lose their minds over that possibility so maybe it is contractually forbidden to do anything other than DJI branded.

I’d add to that the integration of wireless BLE timecode for multi camera and audio recorder sync.

Though not as popular as Space Karen thought they were.

Monster Adapter are about to release an F to Z mount adapter that incorporates a motor to drive old AF-D lenses. So thats another boatload of high quality very affordable lenses that can now be used with Z mount cameras. It really is the USB of lens mounts.

I think he just makes cameras that he himself wants to use and feels there are enough like minded people around who will want to as well. And if not, well, they sell enough lenses to cover it anyway.

Apparently, due to the aluminium milling process taking seven hours, the production capability is limited to nine units a day. They really are mad bastards.

Deep Joy

I was accused of "secret YouTubing" yesterday amid demands to know what it was I was watching. "Just videos of the new BF". "Fair enough, tell him he can wait outside MapCamera for you from now on then".

Even MFT lenses can find a home on the Z mount. Yes it will only be for manual but that encompasses a lot of very fine and affordable lenses (particularly cine) that can be used and the vast majority of those will cover APS-C. https://pixco.com.cn/products/micro-4-3-nikon-z-adapter