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I still say that the RX100 V is one of the most fun cameras that I ever owned - and I still have mine somewhere, as well as a ZV-1. Even though the 960 fps mode is potato-quality, the 240 fps mode wasn't bad. And even for photos, 24 fps in raw for around 5 seconds is kind of crazy in a camera that size. In theory, if one didn't need sound, one could do 5.5k raw video for very short clips using that mode. I never did that, but on the occasions when I'd use it for something fast-moving, I remember that the rapid fire tick-tick-tick while I held down the little shutter button on the tiny camera would just make me smile. Also, the built-in ND filter was so useful! It was only about 3 stops which wasn't perfect (c'mon, Sony, give us a 5 stop!), but it meant that shooting s-log video was just possible on a sunny day, albeit stopped down (I'm not home right now to check the base iso, but I think it was 640? That seems about right since I remember shooting at f/11 put highlights just in danger of blowing out). It was also kind of nice for dragging the shutter for like a waterfall or similar.

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It's definitely improved for very short takes. While I didn't watch the whole thing, the bits I skipped around to see were all very short clips. Anyplace with letters was also a give-away (the wording on the truck). I also wonder how many "takes" they had to do of each clip to get one that looked good and where the physics were mostly realistic. I saw a few clips that seemed in the "weird physics" space - that continues to be a major weakness of AI-generated video. But the main thing that could still slow down the enshittification of everything through AI is that AI-generated material is still not able to be copyrighted - at least not in the US. How long that lasts before the shitheads in Congress/Senate/Presidency "fix" it? Unknown.

The questions are overly broad and lacking in enough detail to answer effectively. What's the crew look like? How "limited" is "limited budget?" Do you already have a set of lenses? Since phones got pretty good, how many of your goals can you accomplish with a modern iPhone? In general, focus less on the camera body - as long as you find something with no recording time limits (or long limits), nearly any camera that has been sold in the last 10 years will be more than sufficient for concert videography. If you need good autofocus, then that's certainly a consideration as well. Also, the cameras you've chosen for the "without budget constraints" option are kind of weird. Why the GH6 if on an unlimited budget? If nothing else, the GH7 exists and is, by most accounts, a far more capable camera.

Looks like it was shot about 40% on the SL2 and about 60% in Blender. 🤣

From that one, I'm known to throw out an "Ohhhh, you are sick" every so often.

Even though I couldn't say I loved (or even liked a lot) a majority of his stuff after (and somewhat including) Lost Highway, I loved that Lynch was out there doing stuff. Blue Velvet is easily one of my favorite films of all time and I still can't see anything that says Heineken without briefly thinking in my head (or saying out loud) "Fuck that shit. Pabst! Blue! Ribbon!"

I just watched the PetaPixel preview for it which was, ironically, fairly photo-focused and didn't include the Jordan section. But my jaw dropped a bit when Chris mentioned that the ES readout time is 25ms. 25ms! On a 6K $5,000+ video-focused body released in 2025! Also, the H.26whatever 6K that it records internally is only 4:2:0! What's a guy gotta' do to get some chroma subsampling around here? (Shoot ProRes, I guess, I think that's also internal). Since the Z6 III has come up a few times in this discussion already, its rolling shutter is <10ms. And sure, rolling shutter isn't the most important or only spec for a camera, but... heck, the R5 II has something like 13ms in 8K! Even knowing that Leica's luxury brand pricing is detached from reality, it seems just brazen to release a camera with specs that were pretty good 3 years ago (when the S5 II was released) at this price point! Guess they need to get some YouTubers to release a video that looks just like all their other videos and then insist that there's some special magic to the Leica image. Someone call Pooter McCubbins or Cam Mackackackacky STAT!

Yes, and it will have a much nicer body, different (and generally agreed to be better) colors, and may or may not work well with L mount lenses from other vendors (based on Andrew's recent experience). It does have a dedicated timecode input. That's nice. But if this is a preview for any sort of S1H II... 🥱

Keep in mind that you're comparing an outlier low price on a used camera (at least in the US, going rate for a used GFX 100 in good condition is closer to $3k) to MSRP on a brand new camera that many people purchase as much as a lifestyle/fashion item as they do for any other reason. Most of the people who buy an X100 VI would be better off just spending the money on the latest iPhone Pro if they don't already have it. It'll look just as good for most of their use case, give them an integrated wide angle and telephoto option, and it can use apps to post directly to their social media platforms of choice. 😅 I can also say that after years of travel and trying to fit the GFX 100 into various smaller camera bags, the size of the GFX 100 II was a major selling point for me.

Sorry if I wasn't clear! I meant that since there are rumors about Leica releasing an SL3-S (which would almost certainly have Panasonic guts, just as the SL3 does) and because there are rumors that Panasonic will be releasing two bodies soon (one of which will likely be the S1R II which puts SL3 guts in a Panasonic body), it's not out of the question that whatever is in the SL3-S will be in Panasonic's S1H II. I'd say that Panasonic sales don't meaningfully compete with Leica sales - both are niche companies and Leica is much more the "luxury" brand. However, if Panasonic release an S1H II, it will be competing with their own S5 II which is already really good (not to mention the original S1H which is also really good). The S1H, when released, was like $4k. At almost 2.5x the price of an S5 II and still more than 2x the price of the S5 IIx, an S1H II is going to have to be a hell of a camera to ship more than a few units (assuming the price stays similar).

Interesting. If the SL3-S uses a newer higher-end sensor than the S5 II, maybe the guts of it could be the foundation of an S1H II. It'd have to be a hell of an upgrade, though, to stand out from the other cameras and their own camera that was released almost 2 years ago.

Or for that matter, if Nikon would bring back the 1 series, but with an sort of modern specs/codec. If I remember right, the sensor on the 1 series was pretty close to 16mm, but even the V3 was only 1080p 8 bit H.264. If they put out one with 4k 10-bit HEVC, I'd have an EDC camera with some lovely C mount glass. 😃

Doesn't the S5 II already have decent PDAF? Would 60p or 120p full frame stand out in a big way against the competition? Would support for the XLR module peel away that many S5 II sales? Seems like it would need to be more than that - or the vast majority of potential customers for a video-centric body will just buy the cheaper one.

S1R II seems almost like a no-brainer since it seems to be accepted as fact, more or less, that Panasonic make the guts for the SL3. Just take that, improve the video stuff a bit, and stick it in something that's hopefully more like the S5 II body and less like the S1R body and sell a ton of few cameras. S1H II would involve actually doing some real work and if that's where they're going, I'd say it's pretty likely to be a combination of expensive and disappointing for people, mostly because the S5 II is really good. What are they going to add to entice people away from it for another video-centric body? Raw video? 12K? Every one sold includes a golden ticket allowing the user a tour of the Lumix factory and a personal handshake from the CEO?

One of the weirdest things with Fran was that they actually seeded at least one beta unit to a reviewer (and maybe more to others?). I won't link here since I seem to recall that Andrew is not even remotely a fan of PB, but at least they seem to have intended to build a camera enough to actually send one that apparently worked like shit to one of the better-known YouTubers.

Well, if I remember right, both think that only 144,000 people will be granted eternal salvation... but one of the two groups is trying to restore first-century Christianity and thinks that the reformation didn't go far enough and the other follows a guy who claimed to receive the words of his god on a series of golden plates that he carried around in a hat and requires its followers to buy magic underwear from the church. But from the standpoint of "I can't believe anybody buys this shit," I guess they're functionally equivalent. 😉

You might also want to have some words with the dummies at Cambridge, Merriam-Webster, and the Bank of England - as well as basically every other search result that you'll get if you google "inflation definition." You're not successful in your attempts to be technically correct against common usage. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/inflation https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inflation (note that they at least partially agree with you, but indicate that it's usually do to increase in monetary supply) https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/what-is-inflation

You are attempting to be technically correct, but no. Inflation is broadly any increase in prices which isn't accompanied by an increase in wages. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/Series/Back-to-Basics/Inflation

I think the OP said they're Jehovah's Witnesses, not Mormons. Huge difference, though your comments are otherwise likely to be accurate. There also probably aren't any Witnesses who have that kind of gear.

It is pretty good, yes, but once zoomed in (like in the 300% tests), the R5 still had a lot more detail - and that was with the 24-105/2.8 zoom lens, presumably, never changed away from 24mm so that it'd be a closer match for the phone camera's FOV. 😃

I just watched (most of) the video. Very interesting. Sorry if you addressed it in one of the parts that I skipped, but do you have plans to support emulation of more film stocks than Gold 200? And are there any plans to release a workflow for video?

No. In the photo he posted, the Arri is on a high-end Ready Rig.

Mostly bad. Tariffs should be wielded like a surgical scalpel, not a bazooka. The latter leads to widespread inflation.

On the fanciest Ready Rig around!