There is a lot of conjecture here, but my observations are the following:

Fire sale of the GH5M2all over (Norway, UK, Germany). Mostly bodies as the GH5M2 kits have been sold out during the black friday week. UPDATE: One retailer lists the GH5M2 as discontinued.

Also hefty rebates in the GH6 last year (-500 USD in US, same as on the S5 mk I BTW, in europe it was 400 euro winter cash back). Current GH6 discount at B&H is still -300USD. GH6 lens kits sold out from many german retailers, some list mid march for new stock/replacements.

Also the 12-35 mm f2.8 mk II lens have been observed at dumping prices, i.e. buy a GH6 get the 12-35 mm f2.8 for FREE (Norway).

So my personal prediction; both the GH5M2 and GH6 are end-of-life. The last GH6 has probably already departed from the factory. New high end m43 camera, probably an upgraded GHx, with the new Pana Leica 12-35 mm f2.8 kit zoom, will be here in 3-4 months.

Possible/Likely announcement at CP+ in february.

So it seems only a new technology can make things better from now.

So the question is: will a new sensor technology come soon? Are the manufacturers developing a game changer sensor technology?

• Find X7 Ultra debuts OPPO's Quad Main Camera and advanced 1-inch Sony LYT-900 sensor • World-first dual-periscope telephoto cameras with class-leading large sensors and 14mm-270mm quality zoom • Sophisticated styling combines with Ultra flagship features

https://www.oppo.com/en/newsroom/press/oppo-find-x7-ultra-hypertone-camera-system/

First full-size sample images:

https://weibo.com/oppo?is_hot=1&layerid=4992212192463708

DJI Osmo Action

• Sony IMX377 sensor (Hero7 Black has IMX277 with HDOL-HDR)
• Ambarella H2 SOC
• Lens 145 degree FOV
• 4K/60

The only thing this adds compared to the Hero7 Black seems to be the front facing selfie screen.

While the Ambarella H2 SOC has 3D based image stabilization it's unlikely to compete fully with GoPro HyperSmooth.

A Star Destroyer patrols among hundreds of ship hulks, remnants of a recent battle lost by the Rebels.

A small ship with half of its engines being damaged beyond repair is trying to speak behind huge debris and survive. The chance is slim, but it is there.

Feel the full power of Star Destroyer, feel the theme of hope changing to theme of the inevitability of fate.

Like a huge industrial fan giant ship will, without even noticing, stir up with its lasers all the pieces of ships standing on its way to ultimate goal. And, of course, the little one's fate is set and impossible to escape.

With the final coda, the Star Destroyer captain smiles a little, looking through the huge bridge window at the blurring wreckage of the little ship and in a duty voice transmits to the bridge personnel - "This quadrant is clear. Calculate hyperjump to Rilot."

Traitor

Prologue

Today is quite an unusual day. Captain Cressy is in bad mood. Maxie, his squadron's best pilot, hijacked a Tie Fighter. Ungrateful bastard. What's wrong with the Empire? Everything seems right. Traditional family values. And we even banned LGBT. Last time radar picked him up somewhere in the vast asteroid field near Utopau's second moon. Well, we gotta find the asshole. We can't let a traitor get away that easily. It's okay, it's okay, and he doesn't have hyperdrive anyway. He won't get too far. And no rebel ships have been spotted in the vicinity yet. He's got to be here somewhere.

The chase

Cressy drove the Tie Interceptor gently and carefully. The huge asteroids, slowly rotating, were passing dangerously close to him, blocking his view.

Hmm. There's something suspicious about that asteroid over there that looks like an ugly dwarf. Cressy accelerated. But he almost regretted it at the last moment when he swerved sideways away from the small spinning rock.

Closer. Closer still. What's that shiny thing? Interesting.

Damn... It's just the wreckage of an unfortunate transport that accidentally wandered into this blighted place.

Where could this asshole be hiding? Probably near that trio of huge asteroids over there. That's where I'd lay low if I were him. Let's check it out.

The trio of huge asteroids were slowly getting bigger. They were practically touching each other. Yeah. How big are they. Cressy felt himself and his ship like a small gnat compared to them.

He gave a sharp roll, and the Tie Interceptor neatly fit into a narrow cleft in the asteroid.

I'd lay low somewhere around here if I where you. Careful. Where are you?

Cressy's ship flew out of the crevice into opening of a giant crater.

I must have been wrong.

A little higher. What's that? Behind that rock down there. Uh-huh.

At the bottom of the cliff, the engines glow suddenly appeared. The Tie Fighter spun around its axis and began to gain altitude.

Cressy clenched his teeth.

No, you won't go away.

A sharp turn. A little more. A little more. The targeting system beeped. Cressy pressed the proton torpedoes firing button.

I got ya!

Maxie's ship was still spinning around its axis like a madman. He turned sharply toward the second among the trio of huge asteroids. From the side it seemed as if it was about to crash into it....

A sharp turn. Damn torpedo. It managed to not crash into the surface. It's close. Shit. Maxi saw a hole in the asteroid. That's it. A sharp movement of the rudder.

Cressy watched with a smile. It's going to get him now. Right now.

A sudden explosion blinded Cressy. When his vision began to return, he saw that the torpedo had blown the asteroid to pieces, which were now floating slowly in different directions.

The young asshole deserved it. Cressy smiled and turned the ship around.

Maxie gripped the wheel with all her might. The ship was traveling at ultra-low altitude over the asteroid. Here and there to the left and to the right fell the debris of its exploded twin.

And a torpedo. Damn it. The second torpedo was quite close now. Maxi could even see the blue trace of the ion engine. Even closer. Give me more, dear, give a little more! The old ship grunted, squeezing everything out of its puny engines. All available power was now diverted to them, even the cockpit was lit only by the emergency lights.

It's getting closer... Closer... So close... Maxi closed his eyes.

But the abrupt silence that came was clearly not what he had expected. The torpedo had run out of ion fuel. Maxi exhaled and steered the ship into a small cavern.

Let's hope Cressy thinks I'm dead, he thought.

So, if you are less than stoked after being upgraded to the new Quik app this week just to find that the remote settings for "Pro Tune" is nowhere to be found in the app the reason is that GoPro is in litigation with a company which holds two old Contour patens:

"the court agreed with Contour’s claim that GoPro’s remote app infringes on the technology patents and has done so since 2014."

"In December (2020), a jury is scheduled to hear evidence and will decide whether GoPro has willfully infringed on the patents and how much in damages must be paid. So far, liability has not been established; however, if it is, GoPro will be required license the rights from Contour since Contour has valid patents on the technology. Contour will also be allowed to share evidence of GoPro CEO Nick Woodman taking apart and copying Contour action cameras at the trial."

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/contour-ip-holding-llc-v-gopro-inc-70318/

They have 4-5 years to do it. After that RED is basically worthless in any case.

Trump signed a memorandum that directs U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to determine whether an investigation is needed into alleged unfair Chinese trade practices. Shortly after Trump signed the directive, Lighthizer said his office will launch a probe and, "if needed, take action to preserve the future of U.S. industry."

The move represents the first step in a process that could allow Trump to impose tariffs on Chinese imports or other punishing trade actions.

A new lawsuit, filed by representatives for cinema camera manufacturer RED, accuses Nikon of illegally using its patented data compression technology in its Nikon Z9 full-frame mirrorless camera.

According to the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, the plaintiff, Red.com, LLC (RED), is accusing the defendant, Nikon Corporation (Nikon), of patent infringement. Specifically, RED is accusing Nikon of knowingly using technology described in RED’s patents pertaining to ‘highly compress[ed] video data in a visually lossless manner’ in its Nikon’s Z series mirrorless cameras, ‘such as the “Nikon Z9 with Firmware 2.0.”’

Just nice, only in shitty capitalism parasites can live happily for years instead of being in jail.

• 102 Megapixel BSI sensor
• Phase detection AF with lot of focus points
• IBIS
• $5,999 price in US
• Jan 27 Announcement

Magix, known as a manufacturer of audio and photo editing programs such as Magix Video deluxe and - since the acquisition of Sony in 2016 - also Vegas Pro , is insolvent. On March 1st, the Berlin district court opened the self-administration proceedings after Magix had already filed for bankruptcy in December. According to the press release, business operations will continue without restrictions - the aim is to restructure the entire company by selling it to an investor, which should be completed in the next 2-3 months.

PTool3 message: Wrong file or trying to use already patched file! Tell me what to do?

In connection with a problem that I recently had and solved (see here: https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/28027/gh1-.mts-file-corruption-anything-to-do-), I noticed then that there is an incompatibility: it is improper to have on the same sd card films shot with the setting "AVCHD Movie Mode" --> "Wrapper" --> "Native 24p/25p" and films shot without.

In my case, I saw that, after having installed the firmware with the hacked setting "AVCHD Movie Mode" --> "Wrapper" --> "Native 24p/25p", it was impossible to watch videos shot without this setting (i.e. shot with 50i): the camera would freeze, nothing more would happen, I had to switch the camera off. I repeated the procedure three times, and the same problem happened everytime with different clips shot with old settings (the three clips I shot with the new settings played fine).

I inferred from this, that I should avoid having the two types of videos on one single card.

It reminded me of a similar notice that I read in ptool: in "Patches for end users" --> "Movie related restrictions" --> "PAL <-> NTSC Menu" setting states in its /!\ warning: "You must clear sd card from other format footage".

If I may allow myself to make a suggestion for a future update of ptool3, I would say that the same warning ought to apply to the setting "AVCHD Movie Mode" --> "Wrapper" --> "Native 24p/25p", or an information to the effect that "There is an incompatibility between films shot with this new setting and films shot without it. Watching films shot with the old setting while the camera has the new setting might lead to camera freeze."

Cheers

Ludo

A long time user of these pages, I have been a member of this forum for nearly 4 years.

I really enjoyed applying the camera hack for the GH1, which I use on an almost daily basis.

I actually hardly ever had any problem, which is why I have made myself rare...

What brings me to write today is the fact that I have these film clips that I was trying to edit into a single video : all of them taken with one hacked GH1, all .MTS (AVCHD "FHD"); one clip is 1h17m1s (time displayed in camera), and was divided into two files: 00005.MTS, size 4GB, 43m59s, and 00006.MTS, size 3.1GB, 33m1s (these two times are displayed in VLC); the second clip is 30m49s (00007.MTS, size 2.9GB).

The problem is that file 00006.MTS displays a greened image right at its beginning (or sometimes a horizontal stripes pattern in millimeter spacing) for about half a second.

And the worse problem is that, trying to work on the files with Kdenlive, I realized that file 00006.MTS just wasn't seen, the sections I used showed no video on display on the project monitor (even already on the timeline), and gave just white clips even before rendering (and after rendering as well). Trying to trim the first few images off the clip didn't work out, even converting the whole file to another format like .MP4 (with VLC) made no difference either. On the contrary the other two files 00005.MTS and 00007.MTS were fine.

I thought of file corruption, looked here (https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/3679/mts-file-corruption-help/p1) and there (http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/6019/rewrap-an-avchd-file-from-quicktime-.mov-to-.mts-premiere-issues/p1?Sort=date) but wasn't sure if it was the same problem as mine. Similarly I am not sure whether the problem and the solution here (https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/621/removing-the-corrupted-start-up-gh2-avchd-frames./p1) is the right one for me...

So if you have any information for me, whether it is a known problem, what might be the reason and the solution, I would be extremely grateful...

Thanks a lot in advance.

Cheers

Ludo

The End NR4 Stable and Intra Patches,

denoise profiles and presets for neatvideo4, and denoise target,

presets for dynamic range grading in adobe premiere

instructions included in the zip files

Best size/quality render settings for web (youtube and vimeo): CBR, 12Mbps, keyframe distance 24. If there is lots of motion you can try VBR two pass with 12Mbps target and 16Mbps maximum.

Still trying to find a solution to this problem (https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/28027/gh1-.mts-file-corruption-anything-to-do-#Item_2).

I saw here (https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/621/removing-the-corrupted-start-up-gh2-avchd-frames./p1) that it is possible to divide or cut films in the Lumix GH2 - and I suppose that it is also possible to do it in any of the later GH's as well, isn't it?

Now my question would be: is it possible to cut/divide a film that was shot with a GH1 in a GH2 or 3/4 and further? That means inserting an SD card that was formatted and used with a GH1 in a GH2 or even later... Could that work ?

Thanks for any suggestion and feedback on experience on this matter.

Ludo

https://weibo.com/xiaomishouji?layerid=5003129135565552

So far we know the phone will feature 4 sensors on the back, the main one Sony LYT 900 23mm f/1,6 1", a 12mm ultra-wide (unknown specs), 3.2x portrait lens respectively 5x periscope telephoto, both featuring the Sony IMX858 1/2.51 sensors with macro capabilities.

Note that Korean manufacturers are like mafia as they coordinate prices and have huge margins (on large OLED screen it can be 300-500%).