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Sample S9 footage... guy made his own custom LUT and loaded it into the camera and footage wasn't graded in post. Linked to timestamp:

4K G2 with Angenieux... Obviously you'd have to crop into the image in post, but you'd still have heaps of pixels.

Well, at some point the sheer size of the FF sensor becomes an issue when fitting it into a smaller body, and maybe that's the limit we've reached. Not only is the sensor larger, but the IBIS must be more powerful because of the extra weight as well as thermal considerations from the extra power demands, which of course require a larger battery. There's a reason the iPhone camera can be so small:

Massive PITA though.

So, that's a couple above average then, right?

There goes hopes of using Resolve - it doesn't support Prores RAW.

Why did you get rid of it? Too heavy? too large?

It makes perfect sense to me. Those two are the only ones that could scrape through without being eviscerated by more than 75% of the population. The fact there were even two that made it should surprise you if you stop to realise that even on this very forum, no camera in the history of time escaped this fate, despite having the entire worlds camera industry desperately trying to make something we'd like!

Can you mount the accessory without the handle?

I saw a presentation from someone who was following his campaign from the start and they said he just said random things in his early speeches and kept repeating the things that got the biggest response from the crowd, so his entire campaign was just telling people what they wanted to hear. Sad thing is, it worked. I'm a huge fan of democracy.... the thing that lets it down is the voting public.

and isn't 15x the size of the camera. I mean, seriously: Just another instance of "people who want quality must be fine with a humungous camera".

It seems strange to me that because a cinema camera is small that somehow it is judged like a P&S rather than a cinema camera. Many/most cinema cameras lack IBIS and reliable AF-C today, and even P&S cameras smaller than GX85 lack IBIS. It is a pity that they didn't have a bigger grip / battery though. One good way to do it would be to look at the smallest lens that would practically be used (which in this case is the 14mm F2.5 or 20mm F1.7) and then make the grip just smaller than that.

Or they just want to distance themselves from it as much as possible. Also, writing things off can help with your tax bill sometimes, so could be corporate finance hijinx.

...or an optional unit that fits an NVME SSD

To be fair, it's not like the professional politicians were providing that much competition in the relatability department!

Yeah, the game has changed, and luckily for them, the price got lower and they realised they could mostly automate it!

You must have an honest face... doomed from the outset!

Varicam RAW is uncompressed DPX with an external unit. Source: https://na.panasonic.com/us/trends/raw-capture-varicam-lt-and-convergent-design-odyssey-7q They could go the FP route and just have uncompressed Cinema DNG files, but it's not particularly elegant. Panasonic and BM are both part of the L-mount alliance, and MFT is an open standard from Panasonic and Olympus, so in a way they're agreements, but Panasonic also supported external RAW with Atomos who are a competing ecosystem to BRAW / Resolve, so I would estimate that Panasonic and BM aren't secret best friends.

You'd assume it would be licensed from one of the existing RAW format patent holders, not a brand new format. Panasonic has worked with Atomos to get external Prores RAW, but who owns that patent? If it's Atomos then giving RAW support without having to buy an external recorder wouldn't seem like a desirable strategy for Atomos' perspective, although maybe they cut a big cheque? Or maybe it's not Atomos that owns the patent, or the rights to it? BM or RED seem equally unlikely.

Gentlemen, warm up your keyboards... remember, no imperfection shouldn't be blown completely out of proportion!

I've seen stranger things in the corporate world... Still, if you think they're all organised and rational, think about how well the camera offerings seem to match consumer requirements! 🙂 I'm hearing references to the Varicam, and that it might be high-end. At this point it could be anything!

The fact that a working man couldn't afford her seems to be feasible too...

If it was a last minute change then it must have been almost ready for launch anyway, which seems to fit considering they launched a camera basically without the lenses to go with it. So maybe the camera was ready and the lenses weren't (except for the F8 pancake) but it was the best option at the last minute.

Thanks. Things are always in the last place you look....

Where the hell is my flying car?!?!