For as long as Nikon, Panasonic and Olympus remain fully dependent on Sony sensors, they're guaranteed to provide only an appearance of competition. With Nikon only reaching a sub-7% market share in...
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Yesterday, 11:48 PM
Thread: Nikon in Dire Straits
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For as long as Nikon, Panasonic and Olympus...
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Yesterday, 06:45 PM
Thread: Photos from the "old days"
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On the subject of Vorkuta. Off Accuweather. ...
On the subject of Vorkuta. Off Accuweather.
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Yesterday, 12:34 AM
Thread: Nikon in Dire Straits
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January's CIPA numbers came out. 416,000 ILC's...
January's CIPA numbers came out. 416,000 ILC's shipped globally, 7% off January, 2020, which was generally pre-pandemic (the numbers drastically dropped in March)
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03-05-2021, 11:07 PM
Thread: Why It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/diet_and_immun...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/diet_and_immunity?xtor=CS8-1000-%5BIn_Article_Promo_Box%5D-%5BSport_Promo_In_Article%5D-%5BSport_Promo_In_Article_BBCGeneric%5D-%5BPS_FOOD~~~A_DietandImmunity%5D
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03-05-2021, 06:41 PM
Thread: Cooled cameras
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imJ9QgOJHzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imJ9QgOJHzY
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03-05-2021, 06:36 PM
Thread: Photos from the "old days"
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Rum the Soviets got from Cuba (presumably under a...
Rum the Soviets got from Cuba (presumably under a barter system, "we give your nuclear warheads, you gives us rum and cigars"). Cognac, as it was called then, was made in Armenia and called Ararat....
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03-05-2021, 01:48 PM
Thread: Photos from the "old days"
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Actually, they put in a different liquor (rum or...
Actually, they put in a different liquor (rum or cognac/brandy) and that wasn't rare at all.
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03-05-2021, 01:26 PM
Thread: Photos from the "old days"
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Who needs Kinder when you gots Faberge! ...
Who needs Kinder when you gots Faberge!
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03-05-2021, 10:32 AM
Thread: Photos from the "old days"
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Plastic bags were extremely valued in the USSR...
Plastic bags were extremely valued in the USSR from the mid-1970's to the end.
First of all, they were easy to store and carry.
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03-05-2021, 10:23 AM
Thread: Photos from the "old days"
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Here's an eggman, goo goo g'joob 142621 A...
Here's an eggman, goo goo g'joob
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03-05-2021, 10:04 AM
Thread: Photos from the "old days"
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The Soviets loved their plastic bags. They were...
The Soviets loved their plastic bags. They were thicker than a typical US grocery version and were used, washed, reused and sewn back together whenever possible. Because they were that cool. And...
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03-05-2021, 12:14 AM
Thread: What are you listening to now ?
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School's out for Covid! ...
School's out for Covid!
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03-04-2021, 01:40 PM
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Let's put this here - how much money do the...
Let's put this here - how much money do the YouTubers make per view via the company own ads only. This doesn't count the channel sponsors.
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03-03-2021, 09:43 PM
Thread: Nikon in Dire Straits
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This is computer translated from the Japanese - ...
This is computer translated from the Japanese -
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://biz-journal.jp/2021/03/post_211003.html
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03-03-2021, 01:54 PM
Thread: FX9 is it still viable - I知 looking to buy 🤔
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FS5:
Ted Williams could see seams on a baseball...
Ted Williams could see seams on a baseball traveling at him at 100 miles an hour.
He could also spot the difference between a 46" 4K Vizio and a 60" 8K Samsung from the home plate.
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03-03-2021, 08:06 AM
Thread: FX9 is it still viable - I知 looking to buy 🤔
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If I may add a small bit. There are other...
If I may add a small bit. There are other proprietary codecs - such as HEVC/H265 and AV 1 - developed outside of Red and Canon and capable of 12-bit compressed encoding. The visual loss, at some...
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03-03-2021, 07:26 AM
Thread: Has DVXUSER Jumped The Shark?
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If you're accusing someone of theft, you ought to...
If you're accusing someone of theft, you ought to name your sources.
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03-03-2021, 12:04 AM
Thread: Has DVXUSER Jumped The Shark?
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NFS has solely original content and quite a bit...
NFS has solely original content and quite a bit of it too. Its comments section was a big wild - one could actually comment using the existing poster's name - but it was lots of fun. Ryan then...
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03-02-2021, 09:36 PM
Thread: FX9 is it still viable - I知 looking to buy 🤔
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The problem with FX-9 is its fairly expensive...
The problem with FX-9 is its fairly expensive attachment for Raw recording, whereas a lower tier FX-6 (and FX-3 and A7SIII) can record Raw into Ninja 5 without it. Many FX-9 owners are not happy...
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03-02-2021, 09:28 PM
Thread: Kinefinity yanks compressed RAW formats
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There was a Rodney Charters interview (Newshooter...
There was a Rodney Charters interview (Newshooter at the NAB, I believe) from 2014 or so, where he admitted that they only shoot in ProRes. That was in the original Alexa 2.8K-to-HD era when he was...
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03-02-2021, 09:11 PM
Thread: Has DVXUSER Jumped The Shark?
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NoFilmSchool went "real name" about six years ago...
NoFilmSchool went "real name" about six years ago and promptly died. It used to have comment sections per article three pages long. Now - and I disclose that I have only scrolled it this time -...
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03-02-2021, 09:30 AM
Thread: How interested are you in a GH6 anymore?
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1000 stores .... they may close 40-50 .... their...
1000 stores .... they may close 40-50 .... their revenues are up significantly in 2020 and in Q1 of 2021 ...
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03-02-2021, 07:30 AM
Thread: Kinefinity yanks compressed RAW formats
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There are other compression codecs (H265) and, in...
There are other compression codecs (H265) and, in 8K, it is beneficial to get the file size down anyway.
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03-02-2021, 01:27 AM
Thread: Which was better, VHS or Video8?
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A slight tangent about broadcasts and broadcast...
A slight tangent about broadcasts and broadcast cameras.
Prior to 1966 WC, World Cups were broadcast on the radio, with filmed matches then occasionally shown in a highlight form.
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03-02-2021, 01:06 AM
Thread: Has DVXUSER Jumped The Shark?
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I must have been too subtle responding to a...
I must have been too subtle responding to a previous poster. So, I'll elaborate. There's a world outside of Hollywood and what plays well in Hollywood doesn't always play well in Peoria. Come to...
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