MrSMW

I just had a good look at the specs compared with the 6k Pro and I was interested in the new boy it being full frame, but more relevant to me, L Mount…but actually, the 6k Pro would suit me better. No IBIS in either doesn’t really work for me but there are some decent OIS EF Mount lenses so there’s that, but it’s a camera I would probably use on a monopod. The biggest issue for me is it lost it’s 6k 50p capability and as someone looking to be able to shoot minimum 6k 50p for slow motion (up to 50%) when required and also be able to pull stills (so shooting at a minimum of 1/100th ideally) the new camera doesn’t cut it. It does what, 36p but with 2 higher options but the 6k 50p one being 2.4:1 which is very ‘cinematic’ and all, but very restricted for pulling stills. Unless you want very ‘cinematic’ stills! The search continues… Canon R3 offers me 6k 50p on raw and the Nikon brothers Z8/9, 8k 50p also raw…and raw is not necessarily a deal breaker (just the file sizes are fooking massive!) so still on that Lumix fence waiting on whatever the next S1R/H might be. Shooting internally. I am well aware there are external options but rigging is not my thing.

What is the source of these if you would be so kind?

Yes. Kind of torn about it though as 50% of what I do is photography and is pulling stills from video still photography? Rhetorical, personal question really and one for another thread as it’s a complex topic, but yes, in 2024, whether it’s with L Mount or someone else, I want to at least explore the possibility beyond the 4K I have tried it at.

I can. My project for 2024.

That reminds me that this Winter I need to finish my Mosquito fighter-bomber. Started it with my daughter last Summer before she left home (and country) for uni and haven’t been able to look at it since…but enough time has now probably passed to get glue all over my fingers once again.

I feel far more affinity with my wedding clients than their parents but then the other day, realised I was born the year before the brides dad 🤪

After 23 years of wedding and event photography, even more so is whether the camera is held to the eye (serious) or held at chest height using the rear LCD (less serious). I adapted to this way of shooting, I don’t know exactly when, but some time between 5-10 years ago as I was transitioning from photographer to hybrid shooter. Partly because it was easier to work this way, partly due to eyesight and partly because it does cause fewer people to be camera aware. Dimensions play a part, but so does how we use these things. Remember steady cam rigs? OK, they are still a thing for some I know, but the amount of attraction they used to get, never mind the Robocop body armour set ups I used to see at weddings. What’s the saying, ‘tread softly but carry a big stick’. I’m very much heading back to that ethos with gear going forward. I know this is @BTM_Pix quote originally but it was easier to not scroll back a page and find that!

Boo hood no IBIS which is a dealbreaker for what would be my intended use. It could have slotted in nicely otherwise as an alternative to the S5ii and in many ways, would have been a nicer option, but no IBIS, no dice. Goes back to sit on S2H/S2R fence…

That one was easy for me. She said, “it’s your thing really so you choose”. So I did. Since March, 20,000km and more than 60 nights in it. Typing from it right now on Day 16/32 on a 7 wedding road trip 😉

As a user of the S5ii, I don’t mind the size & weight with a 4/3 sensor as I think bodies can sometimes be too small and less good as lens platforms. I think if I could build a business case for a pair of G9ii’s it would be one with the pairing of 10-25mm and the 25-50mm f1.7’s, bolted on. Keep the S1H for long static duty which with the battery grip, is a long time, and keep hold of the 70-200mm f4 for the longer stuff. Ticks all my boxes really though the G9 units would come in a tad over my 1.5kg self-imposed new max weight limit… But being able to shoot 20mm, 50mm and 100mm FF equivalent focal lengths would be pretty bang on for me. Got me thinking now… These things also shoot 6k 50p in 10 bit don’t they? Must go read the specs and watch some reviews…

Or leaked pictures of the Lumix GH7 prototype. They will insist on putting those tiny sensors in larger bodies 😏

One of your pet peeves also? I have a new rule in that if they don't pop back into the conversation several times, I don't join the thread and expound my great opinion until such time as they do. Wankers, the lot of them. Good for you. Always fancied a bit of FX3 action myself but as a fully paid up member (at this time) of the L Mount Alliance and no hands on or rental opportunities where I live, only been able to live my FX3 fantasies vicariously. I could of course have bought one off Amazon, played with it and sent it back for full refund. But I'm not a complete twat. I did do that with an XH2 and before that, an OM-1, but in both cases I genuinely intended to keep each unit at that time. But anyway, enjoy your FX3.

I think that is about the sum of it Kye. If you can keep your authenticity and not sell out to the mass market or simply for the sake of conforming, I think a few can keep their ball rolling. I like to think in my own industry, it's how I am still standing and with most of my integrity still intact. Because I didn't follow every fad or chase recognition by my peers, but rather by mostly ever doing what I wanted to do. I've always said...and stand by it now and will stand by it until the day I choose to quit and that is my client first and foremost is me. I shoot for myself and if others wish to pay me to do that, then we have a deal. I guess if you are being bankrolled by big studios, very few have the luxury of saying "fcuk you" and take the dollars when offered. I'm also quite reclusive; part black sheep, part lone wolf 😉

My first thought, was they combined the (alleged) Italian style of Milan, but were going to have the thing made by under-employed watermelon farmers (other legal forms of occupation such as drug running are available) in old Mehico. BURrito milANO But I could see Brumano also being a thing. Made in one of Tommy Shelby's factories. Being sherioush, it does look like being quite a bit of kit. Waaaaay above my pay grade, but interesting.

Fun little camera and in some ways, better than the X100V. I'd still rather have a V for the purity of the thing, but get some kind of grip on an XE4 and stick the Sigma 18-50 f2.8 (or any small fast prime) and you'd have something half the price of the stupidly over-inflated prices people are asking for X100V's today. Worthy of the hype? Maybe... Worth the stupid money? Nope. The XE4 isn't quite 'pro' enough for my needs but a couple of the other Fujis are. I'm just not going that route.

I thought I had all the negatives of that one...

Even better stills than the GFX100 but yeah, anyone who tries shooting video on one will be in for a shock 🤭 MPB had one t’other week for I think about 4k? I was tempted to smash that buy button right then and there…but I know I would have regretted it as my days of big units are done. Done I tell ya!

That for me was the issue with 4/3. I so nearly went with the OM-1 last year just because I loved the compact chunkiness of it, but ultimately, I could not get passed (mentally at least), the inevitable loss of low light capability and ultimate image quality hit I would have taken going 'back' from full-frame. A 'step back' to APSC I could probably have swallowed with something like the XH2, but back to 4/3, nah, that boat has sailed for me. Less so for video, more so for stills. But these last few years, months and even weeks, have taught me something and that is next year, I am putting both a size and weight cap on what will be my next gen kit. I've been grappling with this ever since switching from Fuji to Lumix for 3 seasons now and I feel I am losing a large portion of my mojo when it comes to shooting as I am wrestling what feels like square pegs into round holes. That has to stop. That will stop. For video, it will almost certainly be Lumix shooting 4k 50p because A. they still offer me the best all round solution and B. I had an unexpected extra 13k tax bill this year due to an accounting error (not mine I should add but the tax office themselves!) plus a 30k new roof expense coming in March '24. But I WILL be getting a new compact, hi res stills camera. Based on what is available and what is definitely coming, I already know what that is and it's not (sadly) from L Mount as things stand. There's still a chance though... 2.8kg in the hand vs much more capable 1.4kg? There's just no contest and it's not even a question.

My wish also… At heart, I prefer to shoot a pair of rangefinderesque bodies with primes, for stills and ‘whatever’ for video. Went from great chonky D3S bodies with the 24-70 and 70-200 to a pair of X-Pro1’s with the trinity of original zooms. The penny dropped for me in 2012 or whenever that was. They were a bit slow being honest and the X-Pro2 made up for that and was probably the period in my career when I felt the happiest with the tools I was using. Then Sigma has disappointed twice with the original FP and then the L, both of which have too many shortcomings for me for stills or video. So Lumix, Leica, Sigma, I don’t care which L Mount member wishes to do it, but first one to make a modern iteration of the LC1 or RD1, has my money. I would have gone X-Pro3 except they stuffed up the rear screen for me 😏 The perfect unit for me would be the current X100V but with interchangeable lenses such and I’d even consider a zoom like Sigmas 18-50 (27-75) f2.8. Or fixed lens like the one in the LC1 which was what, 28-90 or something? They never seem to make ‘my’ camera… Or rather they do, but then abandon the line 🤨

Watched a few reviews, looks good. I like the design, that angled back top and the finish. But bloody hell, 8000+ euros in France... Without lenses... Primes = 2 bodies for me, or single body = zoom and the only one that would work for me is the 45-100 f4, but it's massive and heavy and slow. Nah... sadly not. MF has to remain a bit of a pipe dream for me, so my career peaks at full-frame. It does look REALLY nice though 😝

To quote old Ben Kenobi, these are not the Lumix cameras I am looking for.

Ah, a money no object camera. X2D for me. If I could justify it, with a set of the 3 newest primes. But that is around a 22.5k investment 🤔😏🤨 A mint used GFX100S looks good value now… I’m still sitting on my S2H/S2R fence and seeing how that plays out, but at some point soon (within 6 months max) I will be dropping some dough on something to take me through the next 3+ years…

Same set up here: C1 & 2 photo and all the C3’s, video scenarios.

I think the biggest issue is that sometimes the planets just align and you get a hit. Try to replicate that hit and different circumstances and different times, you just don’t seem to be able to. Directors, bands, wedding photographers…more often than not, we end up being if not ‘one hit’, then ‘limited hit’ wonders. So many times, it seems all the factors are there, on paper at least, but for whatever reason, it just doesn’t fire like it should and try as might, cannot work out how to repeat that success consistently. And I am not sure if we can… Call it luck, call it fate, call it shit happens, it’s just how stuff seems to work.

Maximus Decimus Maridius, commander of the armies of the North, General of the Felix Legion, loyal servant to the true Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, husband to a murdered wife, father to a murdered son…enters the chat.