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I think the trick is that there are extra categories included as "directors fortnight" and others

Digital Bolex too. I would be really curious but I really don't know how to go into the data.

I saw Y.M. Cinema Magazine published updated statistics on cinema camera used at Sundance, Cannes and Oscar in 2023 and 2024. Interesting reading indeed: https://ymcinema.com/2024/05/29/the-most-popular-cinema-cameras/ Basically Arri leads and Sony Venice is making its way. But I really would like to know who was the hero who made a feature at Cannes with the mighty Panasonic SH1 🙂

For sure. The work of Robbie Ryan on Poor Things... Here two different approaches

It seems that Panasonic has read my post 😉 https://ymcinema.com/2024/05/13/panasonic-develops-an-advanced-boxy-style-cinema-camera/

Too clinical to me. Not something I expect from a narrative feature.

Yes I was lurking an episode from season #1. Lighting, grading and everything is top notch but maybe lacks that "film grain". On TV is tack sharp and looks very digital. I guess the YT encoding added some imperfection and look better 😄

BTW the YT trailer looks way more filmic than the original on TV (my TV is perfectly set to avoid the soap opera effect...)

Returning to the term 'cinematic'... My wife is watching a TV series on Sky "Belgravia". Definitely a big Anglo-American production and yet watching only a few minutes the look is purely television. Great settings, impeccable costumes and yet... it looks to me like the look of a classic South American telenovela. I cusrioused on the internet and find it was shot with Sony venice and Zeiss Supreme Primes lenses. What makes it so televisual and uncinematic to my poor illiterate eyes? https://www.dalemccready.com/belgravia

You forgot the timeless pink unicorn: internal NDs P.S. I heard voices about GH10...

However, we are truly insatiable. The GH7 is not yet available and we are already thinking about the GH8 and the 8K! Let's say that who cares will have a slight chance with the upcoming S1H. Back to the GH7, I'm waiting to see more reliable reviews and use cases once it's in the hands of normal people. Now more or less all the influencers all repeat the same things in parrot fashion having had the camera for a short time. For example, I didn't understand anything about Raw and here you explained me crop factors at various resolutions in Raw but on Youtube I couldn't find any mention of it and specific tests. Maybe I haven't looked properly but it seems to me that so far we are still at "WOW it works" and little more.

Another little gem form Filippo Chiesa. Reading the comments: His reply:

He is one of my favourites and has a passion for vintage optics. Look for his channel on Vimeo. Demonstration that an artist can make good use of any tool in his hand.

Because in the digital age, video is still the poor cousin of photography. Mirrorless cameras did not end up in the hands of filmmakers but rather the opposite: legions of photographers found themselves holding cameras that also did video. So we carry with us for eternity this bias inherited from photography that FF is the reference. A small dick complex destined to last.

I remember that about ten years ago, an Italian computer magazine did a kind of investigation on the price difference of various electronic devices between the US, Europe and Asia. They wanted to find out whether the price differences (which were more significant then than now) were due to factors such as logistics, taxes, duties, production costs, etc. In the end, they found no repeatable pattern among the various electronic appliances analysed and concluded that it all depended on how much that market was willing to pay for that item. Perhaps the Nikon and Panasonic marketing departments simply have different views or different data on their customers. And I think the customers of the brand are completely different. I have Panasonic air conditioners at home, my mother a microwave oven. Nikon is an exclusively photographic brand. By the way, in Italy Nikon and Panasonic have official technical service provided by the same company.

The problem with Seafrogs are the low quality domes and ports. P.S. I have a housing for the GH4 that I use as a paperweight 🙂

Until the early years of digital cameras, the few housing manufacturers produced housings for one or at most two camera models. The top of the line for Nikon and Canon. Then digital cameras became more and more complicated, with more and more controls, and the manufacturers went into crisis. the digital revolution caught them off guard and they could not keep up with the new releases. It took over a year to design and make a housing. Nauticam revolutionized the market by applying industrial design and construction logic to an industry where all companies were (are) little more than skilled craftsmen. Now the housings come out almost simultaneously with the release of the new cameras, probably thanks to agreements between companies that are able to get the designs in advance. They are producing housings for the more niche camera models, the problem is that the cost has skyrocketed. A housing for a mirrorless goes from 3K Euros to over 4.5K Euros (without dome and lens port) A housing for a cinema camera goes to over 20K Euros with all the accessories. The second hand market is ruthless with prices less than 50% if you are lucky to get one of the latest, mainstream models. When you decide to change, the camera body is almost the least of the problems.

Well, yes and no. It depends... Modern housings bring outside all the controls and remap them in a more ergonomic position for underwater use. A housing is like a glove with a perfect fit. Once upon a time the internal mechanisms allowed micro adjustments to compensate for small production variations between camera bodies. They no longer exist but I remember that the legendary GH2 was little more than a toy and when I changed the camera body because I had flooded the housing I had to change the rubber wheels that acted on the diaphragms because the wheels of the two bodies were slightly different. Now with more professional cameras the problem no longer exists. To show you how even 1 mm can make a difference, this is the back of an S1H, outside and inside. A small gem of engineering. You understand that when a new camera model uses the previous body, I open a bottle of sparkling wine 🙂

Actually from Panasonic website the two cameras seems identical on the external dimension at least. 100,3mm x 138,4mm x 99,6mm Gh7 is 805 g vs 823 g of GH6. Then on site Camera Decision I found this photo with 1mm of difference.

Guys could you point me to an official statement that the GH7 body/controls are identical to GH6? I found a bargain GH6 underwater housing but before I pull the trigger I have to be sure.

Gentlemen, I think we can all agree that at least the FF aesthetic exists and it is all shallow DOF. Youtube told me so!

My Pana 8-18 on GH5 in 4K become 16-36mm I thought the extra raw crop would add to the normal 2x crop. These crops don't fit in my head 🙂

My Pana 8-18 on GH5 in 4K become 16-36mm I thought the extra raw crop would add to the normal 2x crop. These crops don't fit in my head 🙂