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It's a little bit of a trick question, I think. Sony seems to have mostly skipped 6K for their cameras (unless there is one I'm forgetting). They have 4K and 8K available. As for Canon, the R6 Mark II can do 6K raw internally. Used prices are usually around $1700 so about 2x your S5 kit, but a lot more convenient to use, and with good autofocus - both with native lenses, but also with adapted EF lenses. Spend about $200 more than that and you can have 8k internal raw with the EOS R5. Anyway, there's no doubt that a used S5 is one of the best deals around right now in terms of FF video. But the target market for the Sony A1 is not the budget-minded filmmaker. 😅

US labor costs more than foreign labor. Bringing jobs into the US does not reduce the cost of goods. Also, factories don't build themselves (that costs a bunch of money and will take time) and people won't instantly be trained to do the work. So yeah, years of major inflation. Learn to read. I said "immigrants" and didn't qualify their documentation status. Shit for brains said he wants to also revoke citizenship from a number of people who entered the country legally. We're also talking about inflation here and when farmers and slaughterhouses, etc have to suddenly start paying 5-10x the prices for labor, the prices of food will go up. Yes, there isn't specific evidence of Trump fucking children with Epstein. There's also no evidence that he didn't. There is, however, evidence that they were buddies, Trump brags about sexually assaulting women, and women who were in teenage beauty pageants that he judged said he used to like walking into the changing room while they were undressed. Also, Matt fucking Gaetz. Don't be a cherry picking dipshit. Who is asking about fucking opinion polls? Trump's convictions weren't through the DOJ anyway. It was through the state courts of New York. Learn how the fucking legal system works. I'm asking, specifically, what's wrong with you and your dangerously impaired critical thinking skills. Do you get all of your information from a steady diet of right-wing news sources? What the fuck? He proved the first time that he is completely incompetent at running a country which is why, specifically, people voted him out of office. Also, I'm not talking about the "American voter." I am talking about you, specifically, and the dumbshit reasons you're giving for supporting a sex predator. Bill Clinton, FWIW, lied about receiving a blowjob from an intern. There is a big difference between "questionable morals" and "rapist." If you can't tell that difference, kindly remove yourself from any public discussion of anything. You are an embarrassment to my country. If you think Trump will "protect freedom," you are truly idiotic and I won't bother responding to any other pablum that you want to post. Trump will protect "Donald J Trump" and will be glad to fuck over anybody else in order to enrich himself and his cronies. Here you go again with dipshit comments about Ukraine. If somebody invaded the US, most people wouldn't be OK with us just giving up a few states to avoid further conflict. But yet, you think that the only solution is for them to do just that, any you wring your hands while shedding crocodile tears about their generation of young men that will be lost because the big bad US had the gall to arm them to defend themselves against Russian aggression. Note also that BIden escalated jack shit with military strategy. Our military is not in Ukraine. You'd know that if you pulled your head out of your ass long enough to actually pay attention.

I'm not yet, but I don't want to have multiple apps for my lights on set so I mostly buy Aputure/Amaran. I'm interested in being able to integrate some other vendors, though, without having to constantly reconnect all day. Since I have some Aputure gear that only supports Sidus link, Sidus One seems like a good path forward to getting lights from other vendors (among other things, while I like my B7C's, there have been two occasions when they wouldn't fit in a light fixture - Astera makes some that would have fit).

Aputure BF deals live now. This year's sale looks an awful lot like last year's sale. Like I think the LS600X bundle is the same I got last year at about the same price. Also worth noting that last year, on actual BF, they had some extra incentives like throwing in an MT Pro on orders above a certain amount. If I decide to order anything, I'm just going to hold out to see if there are any extra things. https://aputure.com/EN-US/collections/black-friday-sale

The tariffs and mass deportation of immigrants proposed by Trump are likely to cause an inflation nightmare. Nearly every economic expert agrees. But be sure to enjoy your gas costing a little less at the pump. Great logical thinking skills on display there. Congratulations on electing a candidate who was friends with Epstein and just put an alleged sex trafficker up as his head of the DOJ, then. What a great step ahead in the fight against trafficking! Being convicted of 34 felonies and still running is, frankly, a stupid fucking reason to elect somebody. What the fuck is wrong with you? You do realize, right, that had he dropped out of the race, he would likely have been convicted for election interference in Georgia as well as having to face trial for his federal crimes relating to the 2020 election? Staying in the race was fully motivated by his own self-interest. And hey, now that he's going to be in control of the DOJ, he can demand that it settle his own 100 million dollar lawsuit. Nice that he'll directly take tax dollars from every individual in the US and put it in his own bank account. The recordings of him talking about how much he liked sexually assaulting women? How great that we have a sexual abuser in office - confirmed in court, as part of the trial for him defaming a woman that he sexually assaulted. Once again, what the fuck is wrong with you? The problem is that I do believe he will follow through on a number of the things he said he would do. Most of them are fucking awful. Elon Musk is an expert in almost exactly one thing - hiring smart people and exploiting them. He's invented exactly one thing - the hyperloop, the dumbest form of mass transit that has been proposed in more than 50 years. He's a shithead who failed upward by owning part a company that he was driving into the ground, getting fired as its CEO, and profiting when Peter Thiel actually made it successful. Oh yeah, the guy with a history of putting his own interests ahead of quite literally everybody else really has your back. Great reasoning there. He definitely won't fuck the common person and do a bunch of stuff to enrich himself and his cronies. Even if it means he'll have a few dollars less, he'll definitely look out for the little guy. 🤣

The Amaran portion of Aputure's BF deals dropped. Some decent deals - now kicking myself for having paid normal prices for a couple of T4C's + extra battery + grid a couple of months ago. Still picked up another. Also finally grabbed an F22C. If I didn't already have the B7C 8-light kit, I'd have jumped at the sale price for it too. Now hoping that Sidus One is included in Aputure's BF sale once it hits. https://amarancreators.com/collections/black-friday-sale

I'm certainly interested in the EU, but I don't think that's what you meant. 😉 You might want to include a price, at least as a starting point for interested parties to negotiate. Helps to avoid wasting time when both parties are living in different worlds.

Maybe a lot of the reviewers are just thankful to do an easy review so close to the holidays. No need to do much work reviewing the camera when it's basically just like the last one. "The last one was just fine and this one, being basically the same... is also just fine."

No, the data you provided shows that the Democrats shifted left on two issues, and in neither case to the "far left." In particular, many of the Democrats who lost their races this year were immigration centrists/hardliners on border security. One place where they did move a bit left is on a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who are currently in the country, many of them doing jobs that current citizens won't take (such as working for low wages in slaughterhouses or picking crops). Others might call that "living in reality" that mass deportation of those immigrants would be economic disaster for this country - but a path to citizenship can protect them from some of the abuses heaped on them by employers. That's a really stupid statement. The shift of Republicans to the far right is well-understood and documented. If you think of the Trump/Vance ticket as closer to the center than the Harris/Walz ticket was, you were either paying no attention to the last election or your head is far enough up your ass that there's no point in discussing politics with you.

To describe the Democrat presidential platform as "extreme left" is just plain inane. As a person who is somewhere between extreme left and centrist, I can say that their platform is insufficiently left for me. My leftist friends hate the Democrats and a number of them describe the party as indistinguishable from Republicans. Mostly, when people complain about the Democrats swinging too left, it's a warning sign that they're homophobes, given that just about the most "left" thing in the platform is equal treatment protection for LGBTQ+ individuals. Many of the Democrat candidates who lost their races this time around were actually running on hard-core centrist platforms, denouncing their more left-leaning counterparts in Washington. FWIW, my Congressperson (Ilhan Omar) is just about as left as any Democrat in congress and in many other countries, she'd be considered only moderately leftist. For reference, this is the Democratic party platform for 2024. It is not a "far left" platform. I'd describe it as more of a left-of-center populist platform (about what one would expect as a series of compromises in a coalition party encompassing center and left-of-center). Before you repeat inane right-wing news pablum, please familiarize yourself with it. https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf

One can hope that you're right, but Trump's handlers are a lot smarter and more powerful than he is. For many things, he's basically a useful idiot for the far right. For instance, he did not write Project 2025 and probably had very little to do with it. Yet, he's already announced that he'll be appointing many of its authors and architects to positions of power over their areas of interest. Project 2025 specifically calls for transformation of NATO and insists that allies should be self-sufficient in defending against Russia. And even if Trump (theoretically) doesn't have the power to unilaterally withdraw the US from NATO, he does have full control of the military and could refuse to engage them if Europe requested help. Even the guardrails on NATO withdrawal aren't guarantees, given that our Supreme court is now packed with right-wing partisans - and they'd be the tiebreaking vote in a showdown between the executive and legislative branches.

Trump doesn't negotiate for shit with Putin. His negotiations with that guy basically involve "how high did you say you asked me to jump, sir?" On the contrary, ceding Ukrainian to Russia as Trump will almost certainly do, will serve as a signal to China that the international community is allowing forced annexation of other countries and embolden them to crush Taiwan. The current US involvement in Ukraine is not "fighting a war." It's "supplying arms." The US military doesn't have boots on the ground. At best, you could say the US is fighting a proxy war there. That's a huge difference. Again, the only way that shithead can "end" the Ukraine war is by refusing to supply arms and letting Russia have what they want. And like how he encouraged Iran to restart their nuclear program by ending the program that prevented it? Yeah, the guy's a real fucking winner. Quite literally everything the guy has done in his entire goddamn life. That includes fraudulent businesses, fraudulent charities, 34 felony convictions, a long history of refusing to pay contractors to force them to settle for less money, sending covid testing equipment to Russia when the US didn't have enough, the attempted implementation of schedule f, the upcoming implementation of project 2025, choosing a series of dangerously unqualified idiots for his cabinet positions, and just about anything else you want to name.

For fuck's sake. I'm going to respond one more time to this stupid shit and then I'm done. I'll repost it again for the two genius experts who failed to read it the first time. Here is an entry on the wiki from a company who makes CMOS cameras talking about the overclocking options that exist for their camera, at least one of which is listed as potentially destabilizaing the camera. https://wiki.edgertronic.com/wiki/Overclock So, in the argument of "can you overclock a CMOS sensor," the answer is a simple "yes." Unless you can provide a specific piece of documentation from the manufacturer of CMOS sensors that says that "CMOS sensors cannot be overclocked in any way," then it's not worth continuing this discussion. Note that the above shit pasted from the "Hamamatsu company website" does not specifically say "you can not overclock a CMOS sensor." It does sound, though, like doing so would be different than overclocking a CCD. Again, provide actual hard evidence that counters the actual evidence that I have provided or stop making useless arguments.

Cined's interview with Fuji that I posted above pretty much confirms that the Eterna camera is "basically the same" as the GFX 100 II in terms of capability. So I don't think it's even safe to say that the RS improvement is "likely." It's possible, but I wouldn't bank on it. It's believed by just about everybody that the GFX 100 II continues to use an IMX 461, given the complete lack of meaningful change in photo capabilities and the fact that Sony doesn't have any newer sensor available. It's not clear whether it's been tweaked by Sony or whether Fuji is using some other trickery (such as using an 11-bit readout instead of 12-bit) to achieve the increased frame rates. Anyway, the point isn't what it's safe to assume about this camera, but that is a nice attempt to reframe the argument so that you'll be right. The point is that the readout modes chart in the sensor data sheet doesn't give the entire picture about the capabilities of the sensor and nothing in that datasheet or elsewhere specifically excludes the possibility of overclocking. You know, the argument that you were actually trying to make and failed at.

What a pity for me and for every other current user of the GFX 100 II that, according to the table on page 105, the sensor being used by it has absolutely no capability to do 4k at 60 frames per second, 8k at 24-30 frames per second, or 5.8k at anything resembling 24-30fps. Thanks so much for enlightening all of us as to how useful the sensor data sheet is for understanding the actual capacity of the sensor being used in the GFX 100 II. You also get a gold star.

Film flatness is one of the most important things when scanning. If he moved away from the Coolscan based on the results when using the standard carrier being less sharp than the results when "scanning" with the GFX 100, that's great for him, but it has nothing to do with the actual capabilities of the scanner. Again, I have the 8000 which is in many ways the same scanner - but much slower due to needing to use "fine" mode to scan and that the 9000 can use digital ICE on Kodachrome. My biggest issue with the Coolscan is that there are sometimes some funky artifacts in the shadows, especially when using Vuescan. I might experiment with the my GFX for it at some point, if only for that reason. I have some sort of copy stand around here somewhere. I'll need to poke around to see if I have a light table with even enough illumination... If my copy stand is rigid enough, it could also potentially be interesting for scanning larger negatives that currently I need to scan in my flatbed.

Yes, I said there are examples of overclocking sensors over the years. No, I didn't say that doing so is simply a matter of adding a few lines of code or letting the sensor consume more power. That's not how overclocking is done, even on a computer. Maybe instead of telling me to learn more about sensors, you should learn more about electronics. I also provided you an example of a manufacturer who gives advice on how to overclock their sensors. Do you know more than they do, now? Here's another example. This one refers to overclocking a CCD, but the commentary can be applicable to CMOS sensors as well. https://www.edmundoptics.com/knowledge-center/application-notes/imaging/basics-of-digital-camera-settings-for-improved-imaging-results/ As far as reading datasheets, that's far from the whole picture for everything that can be done with an image sensor. Even without overclocking, there are readout methods supported that aren't documented. One example would be the Z Cam E2-F6. Again, it's not overclocked, but it does support several styles of readout that aren't documented in the datasheet for its sensor. Even if overclocking isn't directly supported, it's not out of the question that Fuji could ask Sony to send them a tweaked variant of the sensor. Anyway, moving forward, don't put words in my mouth and/or learn to read better.

Good job redefining the argument so that you can be right. Literally nobody said "edit a few lines of code" or "let the sensor consume more power." You win today's gold star for bad faith argument loss tactics.

FWIW, the S5 and R5 are nearly identical in size and while the R5 is 10-bit 4:2:0 in H.265 mode, it also shoots raw internally - and unless you're doing special effects work, you won't miss it - that or just record in 8K and when you downsize it to 4K, you'll have all the luma/chroma info that you need anyway. Regardless, sounds like you chose the S5. It's a great camera and I'm sure you'll enjoy it! Happy shooting!

I'm not sure if I have the patience to watch the entire video - did he say whether he's using the anti-newton glass carrier for his Coolscan? That makes an absolutely enormous difference in scanning resolution. I use an 8000 and when using the glass carrier at 4,000 dpi, I can see grain pretty clearly defined when zooming in (though not as much with some films like Velvia 50, but that's not an especially common stock for filmmakers). Anyway, the standard carriers for the Coolscan do a pretty piss-poor job of keeping film flat and the scanner has a really tiny DOF - so non-flat film = unsharp scans (but still usually usable for a print or whatever, an 8x10 print at 300dpi is only about 8 megapixels after all). Either way, it's just plain untrue that most S35 film has much more resolution than 4k. At the point where the grain structure is clearly visible at 100% (including the bigger and smaller grains), you aren't going to get a lot more detail. The main reason that most people think 4K is good enough now is that unless you're sitting really close to a huge screen, we're well past the threshold of declining returns on increasing resolution. The average human eye can't perceive any difference whatsoever between 4K and 8K on a 50" screen viewed from a distance of around 2-3 meters - and the perceived difference, even between 2K and 4K content at that distance is not huge. Upgrade yourself to a 75" TV and at that distance, the sharp-eyed can perceive a difference between 4K and 8K... but most people won't notice the difference or care at all. I'm not sure how things are in every market, but in my local market, I can say that many cinemas are still projecting most content at 2K. Even on a huge screen, people don't seem to mind the difference when watching from 15 meters away. Also, also - at 4K, lots of little flaws (make-up seams, etc) become more visible and VFX can take a while to render. Step up to 8K and those problems are compounded yet again.

Wrong. There are plenty of examples of overclocking various sensors over the years. You can find them using a little-known research tool called "google." You might try that in the future before responding. Just like a computer, overclocking a sensor can lead to increased power consumption, increased heat (leading to more noise), and instability. Here's one example. https://wiki.edgertronic.com/wiki/Overclock Increased power consumption and heat are hard to deal with in a hybrid camera body which takes a single fairly small battery and has no fan. They're easier to deal with on a larger camera with integrated cooling fan and a v-mount battery (judging by the pictures, the camera uses them natively).

Those are all supported already in the GFX 100 II so it'd be a safe bet that they won't remove them from the cinema camera. Internal ProRes 4444 would be nice - or raw, of course.

Price isn't released yet, but if I'm placing bets, I'm going to bet on "more than the GFX 100 II which is currently $7500"

Why not just get a used EOS R5 and keep using whatever lenses you already own? 45 megapixel stills and decent video, as long as you're not rolling super long takes. Pair it with some of the plastic Canon RF consumer lenses and you'll have something that's just about as pocketable as many other cameras. You can find them used for right around $2k now too.

So at least for now, I'm inclined to stick with my original take - you can go buy a GFX 100 II right now and have "basically the same" almost everything as the cine camera, but without pro I/O and without internal ND... but you will also have what is arguably the best sub-$10,000 stills camera that is available. Although now that I've seen the size of that 32-90, unless you make some sort of cinerig for the GFX 100 II, it'd probably end up awfully front-heavy. That thing is a monster. Sheesh.