A Merry Christmas from EOSHD

[Andrew Reid]

Aside from those very odd Pentax users I'd like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, and a happy new year resolution of buying more cameras.

What is on your wish list and how are you spending the Christmas holidays?

👍

[Tim Sewell]

Happy Chrimbo to you too Andrew! Top of my wishlist would be for it to be summer, instead of currently being too cold and grey to go out and shoot anything!

[MrSMW]

10 minutes ago, Tim Sewell said:

Top of my wishlist would be for it to be summer

Always at the top of mine as soon as it gets past October. Still working on a plan to spend Jan-March in the Canary Islands every year...

Camera-wise, an S2R please. Reality, a 6 pack of low cut black socks.

Wife, daughter, 2 dogs and cat, in our Christmas themed timber shed. Was supposed to be Strasbourg/Colmar, but bigger than expected tax bill.

[BTM_Pix]

I will mainly be spending the festive period on very long walks of self loathing and contemplating the sheer scale of the hubris involved in this statement.

In 2025, as part of my ambitious expansion plans, I plan to fail miserably at delivering those five products and an additional two new ones.

 

[pat]

Snowy Christmas in the french Alps

[BTM_Pix]

24 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

Camera-wise, an S2R please.

And....

24 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

Wife, daughter, 2 dogs and cat, in our Christmas themed timber shed.

Hang on, you are him aren't you ?

[MrSMW]

33 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said:

Hang on, you are him aren't you ?

Well if I did an AI blend of my house with my shed and then set it on fire, I'd get pretty much that!

[eatstoomuchjam]

Happy holidays from me as well!

My holiday plans are spending time with family for Christmas and then flying to Sao Paulo before the New Year to spend a couple of months escaping Minnesota Winter.

Wish list?  To spend next year making better use of all the gear that I already have, planning to shoot my first feature - hopefully I can get the script written while abroad and everybody's happy enough on the edit for the short (that will become the 10-15 minutes of the feature) that they'll gladly come back for the rest!  As for gear, I'm theoretically set, but we'll see how prices are on C80's once they hit the used market - and if the hoped/wanted trip to Namibia works out, debating the finer points of renting vs owning the GF 500/5.6 and how irritating it would be to travel with it vs the 250/4 and 1.4x tc which I already own and cropping from 100 megapixels (rent vs own also to be determined by availability on the used market and pricing there)

[newfoundmass]

The holidays haven't been the same since my Mom passed in 2016, but I am trying to make the most of them after beating cancer last year!

As far as cameras, I think I am set for 2025. I MIGHT swap out my two S5s for S5IIs, depending on how the year goes. Not that I am unhappy with my S5s, it would just make matching them with my S5II X in post easier. I also might snag a S9... we'll see! But overall I am pretty settled until I see how things look next year or in 2026, as far as Lumix goes. What I have (two S5s and a S5II X) are honestly cameras I could use until the wheels fall off and I'd be happy with them, I'm more just looking at the long term big picture as far as where I end up.

Happy holidays to all of you!

[QuickHitRecord]

I don't have any plans to upgrade in 2025. Two C70s is plenty for me. If anything, I want to shoot more little passion projects with c-mount lenses on my EOS-M. I've also joined a screenwriting group and purchased an old AlphaSmart word processor which seems a much better place to spend any time and energy that is not sucked up by work.