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JWilsonphoto wrote:
Hi Nick,
I'm going to work with the III video capability in the near future, looks like it's pretty cool. What with all the cinema gear I have in the case now I'm not sure I'll use that side of it very much, but you never know. I have long felt like video with 35mm, odd as the form factor is, has a much more "cinematic" feel to it than many video cameras, shallow depth of field and all that. The FS7 does very nicely in that department, but I gotta confess, that camera all decked out is just a beast. I do need to get it out and refresh my skills with it though, the PXW Z280 is just so dang convenient that it has become my default. Sony released the sequel to the sequel of the FS7 a year or so ago, the FX9. I've been following it as it develops, but don't think I'll bite, more $$$, more features waiting in "future" firmware updates, I'll let somebody else navigate that for once. Difficult to image but at some point I'm probably going to arrive at the "I got the gear I got" and leave it at that. I've done my best to stimulate the industry over the years economically 
I'd love to come and shoot ducks, benches, seascapes, the bull, with you, it would be a dream come true! Re: sharpness, so many things come into play there that it's tough to analyze. There are times when I shoot the 800mm and think that it's just perfectly dialed in and then there are occasions where I feel like it's (or I'm) totally out of whack. Temperature, wind, my arms, how I track that day, how you hold your mouth , so many factors. The 200-400/1.4X is pretty much spot on no matter what. I've been itching to demo the new-iso 600/4 III just to see how it behaves, but I don't think I'll be throwing another 12K at a lens anytime soon, given the "financial distancing" that is going around. The local "Office of the Budget" is downright cranky these days................Show more →
I hear you Jim.
IMHO it’s a fine line between putting new stuff in a firmware update as opposed to releasing a product with the promise of stuff to come that’s already known about. If you know it’s coming then just put it in from the off. Oh, I see – marketing considerations – right.
Having mentioned puffins previously, I thought I’d better dig around and see what I have. Answer – not much. Those things are about the size of a chicken and just A to B flyers. No gliding, no circling – just A to B like bullets. I have not one frame with one in flight coming toward me. I have few in flight at all. In the modern idiom – challenging. What happened to difficult?
Please giver our best regards to the “Office of the Budget”, take care, and have fun with the virtual egg hunt tomorrow.
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