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Nobody replied to my first post but I was right. This won't be the last sad news on camera industry.

Yes, but I wouldn't do it on regular basis. You can find instructions to do so on the user manual. Bye

Despite of all marketing campaign, camera market is in full and steady decline since several years. Profit margins are razor thin and the Corona dealt the final blow to an already compromise situation. New advanced features require new LSI development with huge investment and right now few company have the expertise and money: Sony and Samsung. Sony have still great margin developing sensor for most of the brands out there. Even Canon has serious issue developing in house technology. Low margin is the main reason we saw the FF race of the last two years. FF camera are perceived as pro gear with more margins. Unfortunately IMHO they just delayed the sad end. Yes I'm pessimistic. Looking at camera sales figure is clear that manufacturers fail to persuade people the they need a new camera every year. As consumer I'm happy that the race to new models every year is stopping. Just to put some figure on the table: Year to Date Sales compared to Jan-April 2019: DSLR Units : 754K, -47% YTD DSLR Shipped Value: ¥32.3 billion -45% Mirrorless Units: 720K , -36% Mirrorless Shipped Value: ¥50.4 billion -40% Compact Units: 1.16m -47% Compact Shipped Value: ¥22.9 billion -44% Lenses for smaller than 35mm Units: 1.68 million, -41% Lenses for smaller than 35mm Shipped Value: ¥23.9 billion, -40% Lenses for 35mm and larger Units: 978K, -40% Lenses for 35mm and larger Shipped Value: ¥48 billion, -39% I hope it will never happen but: http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/22998/olympus-closure-is-near-can-happen-in-less-than-8-months/p3 Canon results: The last two pages of this thread are very informative of the situation: http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/23470/industry-rumors-coronavirus-can-be-final-blow-for-camera-industry/p9 These are rumours: Olympus leads sales fall in EU and US, it reached 97% in some areas Pentax is close, in one area that had 98% fall, overall is is around 90% Panasonic comes third, L mount FF bodies sales drop is staggering, some areas >85% Nikon is next with 60-70% fall Canon and Sony are best, in some areas they are even above 60% drop slightly.

Hi, Any quick source in Europe for a HDMI internal cable for GH5? (not Nauticam) 90° full hdmi male to straight micro hdmi male It seems that Amazon and Ebay have all sort of connectors combination except what I'm looking for... Thanks in advance

Wow, very interesting indeed.Nice work P.S Another twilight zone lover, I see

Massimo, I'm speaking about a NLE you don't know and you reply me about sensors and processor and rolling shutter. I have countless DVD made from HD and 4K content and since Edius introduced Lanczros 3 scaling algorithm, results are quite different. Moreover I don't see why I should not believe a document from Grass Valley, a company completely dedicated to professional equipment. I'm done too

Why don't you just say I didn't know it! it's much simpler. Isn't it?

Nope. On Edius it works on video downsampling: https://www.ediusworld.com/old_pdfs/en/support/faq/EDIUS_ResamplingMethod.pdf https://www.videoproductions.com.au/html/edius-downscale.html

John, no offense at all, but it's clear from what you write that you have little or no experience of underwater filming. As @Interceptor121 and @Lionfi2sare trying to tell you, it's not all gold that glitters. The data on the paper doesn't necessarily reflect real advantages in the field. Besides, I stopped giving too much importance to VIP reviews on the web years ago. Many people have a strong incentive to push one product over another. Read: biased opinions. Full frame is by no means the best format to shoot underwater. Even a RED (except the MONSTRO 8K) has a smaller sensor than the FF. On this forum you can find hundreds of posts explaining the pros and cons of having an FF camera. And no, photography is not video. In addition, all these hypothetical advantages will be put to the test by the operator's skills (read my signature). Since you're talking about costs (and selling a kidney), things are pretty simple: we all know that selling used equipment means losing a lot of money anyway so: #1 you're a professional. So you can spend a lot of money on the right tool for the job you just took. Surely with the revenue from your work you can easily make up the initial investment in a short/medium period of time. #2 you are an amateur like many of us here (me first). Then it's important to stay mainstream. Because when you'll sell your used equipment, just having something very common/appealing can make up part of the investment. I have a nice collection of camera housing on the shelf. It's clear that this camera is very niche. Only one manufacturer of niche underwater enclosures has claimed to make one. Do you think when you decide to sell it, it'll be easy? That's why they pointed out to you that there is the Panasonic S1/S1H that has the same sensor and an electronics that has a history behind it. And yet, I'm convinced that it would be very difficult to sell a used SH1 housing. Of course if you are a billionaire who has fallen in love with this camera, then the two options mentioned above do not apply. Bye It's not true. My Edius have Lanczos 3 downsampling method among the other and difference is quite noticeable

A GH5

Good video. Perfect time to sit on the couch and see or favorite documentaries. As I wrote on an old thread, I find US and EU storytelling completely different. Anyway I agree on your chart except you missed the Laurent Ballesta work. i.e.

Who makes these floating spherical balls? I think you already saw the BTM tutorial video

With @Lionfi2s suggestion I could use the floating arm like a stick

I disabled by mistake English subtitles, it should be ok now.

Right now, without monitor, my whole setup stay exactly as yours @thani I spent several hours finding the best balance. I gave up using two section arms. It's a classic photo setup that IMHO does not work well for video. With a single arm section I find that everything is better balanced. With a classic dome as mine the main problem is that the camera rotate with the dome up, so I added nearly 1 Kg on the dome collar via an ankle weight. For this reason I had to use those big floating arms. Now everything will change because I could not use the central arm. Maybe I could use two small floating arms. I'v seen somewhere of spherical shape or, trying @Lionfi2ssuggestion. Anyway it's a long way to go. Here in Italy no dives until June