Canon R5 Announced with 8k

ahalpert said:
I feel dumb - who is this? DLD?
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No. Pretty easy to figure out if you've spent some time on RU, as well, but some people like to maintain separate identities on different forums, so I'll leave it at that, unless they want to say who they are. I just wanted to give them some credit.
 
Liam Hall said:
No idea who that is on here, but on Reeduser it's David Rasberry. One of the best things they did on Reduser was bringing in the use of real names...
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I've always been kind of torn on the real names thing. On the one hand, I think it can allow for a more open and truthful exchange, without fear of reprisal from clients/employers or even the industry at large or being looked down upon for asking something you may feel you should already know. But on the other it opens up the door for bad behavior, lying and many other such things, because there are no repercussions to keep things civil and truthful, because you are just a faceless, nameless person on the internet with no accountability.

For the most, part, I feel DVX is a pretty civil community, considering the majority of the users on here use screen names. And REDUser is a largely real names forum(there are some on there who use aliases), but I have still seen some rough exchanges on there. I kind of wish DVX had a little more of the freedom of RU. I just feel like DVX still has training wheels bolted on, because of the auto-censoring of certain words(even when they really aren't THOSE words). But both forums are paradises compared to the open comments on some of the "news" sites. Lately some of them have just become completely overrun with trolls and trouble makers.
 
Run&Gun said:
I've always been kind of torn on the real names thing. On the one hand, I think it can allow for a more open and truthful exchange, without fear of reprisal from clients/employers or even the industry at large or being looked down upon for asking something you may feel you should already know. But on the other it opens up the door for bad behavior, lying and many other such things, because there are no repercussions to keep things civil and truthful, because you are just a faceless, nameless person on the internet with no accountability.

For the most, part, I feel DVX is a pretty civil community, considering the majority of the users on here use screen names. And REDUser is a largely real names forum(there are some on there who use aliases), but I have still seen some rough exchanges on there. I kind of wish DVX had a little more of the freedom of RU. I just feel like DVX still has training wheels bolted on, because of the auto-censoring of certain words(even when they really aren't THOSE words). But both forums are paradises compared to the open comments on some of the "news" sites. Lately some of them have just become completely overrun with trolls and trouble makers.
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I get that. Reduser had to implement real names as it was getting a bit toxic a few years ago. We're much better behaved on here, mostly anyway, so it's not so important.
 
ahalpert said:
The only thing I dont like about RU is the massive RED fanboy energy and the incredible number of fluffy posts as a result.
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Yup, the signal to noise ratio the wannabes and fanboys create on there was what drove me away. Also, there appeared to be a few con-artists hanging out there who I couldn't stomach.
 
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It's really tricky. RU has been one of the better places that talk round the 12K has been. But for the longest time there's stuff I just won't and can't post there. Because what's the point of dousing yourself in gasoline and walking into a fire. I've shot some tests over the years that I've not shared, basically because that user base come after you hard when it don'ts go the way they think it should....

Facebook groups seem even worse than the traditional s*%tstorm that REDDIT normally is...and that IS real names....

JB
 
Run&Gun said:
Yes. For about the last three to four weeks, between things related to Komodo and the R5.
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Oh I see it now - they didnt like that Komodo won't work with RF lenses right off the bat. True, it seems odd. But whatever, they worked on EF first. Those are way more common anyway.

Liam Hall said:
Also, there appeared to be a few con-artists hanging out there who I couldn't stomach.
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...what sort of con artists?

John Brawley said:
It's really tricky. RU has been one of the better places that talk round the 12K has been.
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The degree of brand loyalty is intense...and probably correlated to the size of their financial investment. How is bmduser going? I imagine that launch made a lot of people happy
 
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ahalpert said:
...what sort of con artists?
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There were several people who created fake personas to ingratiate themselves into the community. One guy would regularly make up a sob story, then ask for funding, free gear or crew while making out he was a big-shot. Trouble was he was a complete amateur with zero ability, a massive ego, some very creepy ideas and a track record from photography forums of being a fake.
 
ahalpert said:
The degree of brand loyalty is intense...and probably correlated to the size of their financial investment. How is bmcuser going? I imagine that launch made a lot of people happy
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BMCUSER.COM is effectively dead.

Landmine, who own and operate REDUSER and DVXUSER as well, decided for some reason to upgrade the site in 2019. Ever since then it's been bricked. It's almost impossible to sue and is non-functional.

Many users have tried to get Landmine to either revert the site the older software (like what runs here and RU) or even just have a BMC thread on this site. They've decided for whatever reason to let it die.

I got invited to be a moderator at a new forum bmd users dot com like I was at BMCUSER and it's only been a few days that it's been running. I'm not sure how that will, go, it's WP based with is a worry too. But so far I've been surprised at how active it is...

There's lot's of camera forums out there, I'm not sure the world needs another one, but there's a lot of history and knowledge in BMCUSER as a community and it's a shame that was abandoned. 263 000 posts in 8 years is pretty good...

For now it seems like that info is still there, but who knows for how long...

JB

EDIT...funnily enough I see that the link for the new forum is blocked :-)
 
Liam Hall said:
There were several people who created fake personas to ingratiate themselves into the community. One guy would regularly make up a sob story, then ask for funding, free gear or crew while making out he was a big-shot. Trouble was he was a complete amateur with zero ability, a massive ego, some very creepy ideas and a track record from photography forums of being a fake.
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That is deeply unsettling. So I tried to come up with a joke -
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Liam Hall said:
I get that. Reduser had to implement real names as it was getting a bit toxic a few years ago. We're much better behaved on here, mostly anyway, so it's not so important.
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Well the request for real names don’t has to end in a real name. It could just be a fantasy name. Where I do not feel comfortable with the real name thing is the scenario where a (potential) client searches you on google and n steps over your 13K threads in various forums and groups.
 
Back to the R5: I had to transcode all files.
While all flavors of the C300iii playback smoothly on my 2019 maxed out iMac i9 Vega48 the R5 4K HQ don’t Playback at all
 
ahalpert said:
I feel dumb - who is this? DLD?
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Nope, not me. I feel RedUser is a lot like the Canon Rumors, which is a lot like the twenty year old Green Bay Packers forums on AOL - if you go against the grain, you have to battle 90% of the forum members (of course, the other 10% love you but are afraid to say it publicly). I tried joining CR half a decade ago but got kicked out of the registration. And that was a good thing.

I did spend a lot of time on sports forums and had some important figures proxies sending me some angry stuff. "My brother is a great coach. My nephew is a great player". And so on and so forth.
 
Clermond said:
Back to the R5: I had to transcode all files.
While all flavors of the C300iii playback smoothly on my 2019 maxed out iMac i9 Vega48 the R5 4K HQ don’t Playback at all
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Can you record simultaneous proxies? I can't find the answer
 
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