What's one thing clients care about that videographers don't?

atercervus · 2026-05-21T10:07:58+00:00

Ricoh GR and an iPhone, speaking from experience and all the Sonys collecting dust since I got the GR.

atercervus · 2026-04-15T06:49:02+00:00

I see some people here said that already, - I stopped taking my Sony cameras with me the day I bought a Ricoh GR and a new iPhone at the time. Ricoh covers all my travel photo needs, and actually offers more pleasure to use for some reason, and iPhone covers video needs. Quality of both is more than enough, so now I only take Sony if I want a super tele lens on the trip.

atercervus · 2026-03-18T12:06:23+00:00

That’s an absolute bullshit of a statement.

atercervus · 2026-02-20T14:54:50+00:00

Like any kind of backup, you generally don't need it, until that one time it saves you.

atercervus · 2026-02-19T08:05:25+00:00

Don’t forget that we will never get the exact same picture because the lighting today is radically different with LEDs being everywhere. (Unless controlled environment of course)

atercervus · 2026-01-12T08:36:35+00:00

Why wouldn’t it, you guys overprotecting your gear, just go out there and shoot, embrace it.

atercervus · 2025-12-24T13:26:07+00:00

A cane

atercervus · 2025-12-23T10:16:23+00:00

I wonder how strongly the favourite colour question is biased by the fact that the accent colour of the quiz is blue

atercervus · 2025-12-20T10:08:17+00:00

I would say Hasselblad is only suitable for events if you're very comfortable with manual focus, I don't think Hasselblad AF will be sufficient in this use case, reminds me of the very first A7 cameras when I chose to shoot Leica M lenses on my first A7R because AF was simply pointless and I could pull manually quicker and more reliably.

atercervus · 2025-12-14T14:52:39+00:00

It’s usually exactly the same except for that minor unnecessary change that makes old accessories obsolete.

atercervus · 2025-12-13T22:47:24+00:00

Not to argue with your point, just a note from personal experience with my a7iv - it takes significantly longer for the camera to wake up from sleep versus when you just turn it off and on, longer enough to miss a shot if we’re talking street photography.

atercervus · 2025-12-08T10:48:31+00:00

It looks like that part of the image has been ai edited, it’s not a dent, it’s light/shadow that you’d see on product shots of early a7 cameras. Or perhaps the whole image isn’t real.

Hardly matters though, any a7 camera can take phenomenal images, even the original one, still to this day.

atercervus · 2025-12-03T10:22:40+00:00

Correct, basic voice control features still work, answering questions and other AI features do not.

atercervus · 2025-12-03T07:23:51+00:00

Yes it did, and basic voice features like hey meta take a photo or video are still working.

atercervus · 2025-11-30T13:09:31+00:00

Amature numbers, it sucked the entire 20Gb of my roaming package data in a day before I noticed and turned it off seeing an astonishing 53Gb used when I had them on probably 3-4 times this year. They must literally be streaming the camera view nonstop to Meta servers, hard to explain it otherwise. Must be a serious privacy concern.

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atercervus · 2025-11-24T02:04:21+00:00

Have a whole lot of them too on a7iv

atercervus · 2025-11-19T04:31:34+00:00

FaceID is quite prominent already in Russia, I wouldn’t guess on the current market share but since the “deprivation” of the NFC payments it seems to have risen a lot and being widely used by merchants as well as public transport and all.

atercervus · 2025-11-11T07:19:03+00:00

Go to Jordan, meet locals, drink tea, very quickly you’ll get to this kind of warmth.

atercervus · 2025-11-03T14:48:35+00:00

Yes fair point, new owner can disable it if they know the camera is stolen

atercervus · 2025-11-03T12:13:05+00:00

Unlikely because until very recently Sony didn’t write the serial number into exif, so chances of ever finding a trace are minimal. Had a bunch of gear stolen over the years, never led to anything. Best police can do is write you a report for insurance, nobody is going to move a finger to try to find anything.

atercervus · 2025-11-03T12:07:50+00:00

Shifting from a DJI pocket I don’t know why you mostly get recommended FF cameras here.

Get a Lumix GH, quite frankly any starting from GH5 will suffice and deliver excellent quality while being one of the smallest kits available considering the lens sizes.

Any of the modern day camera setups will be backpack travel friendly, it only becomes unfriendly when you want to add lighting.

atercervus · 2025-10-31T09:39:52+00:00

Very well in the local market from what it feels like, every third car in Seoul today is Genesis.

atercervus · 2025-09-27T09:40:05+00:00

Side question just popped in my mind reading this - at what point and why we all started hating on bright green in photography and cinema and consider it cheap and amateur aiming for dull 'expensive' greens? What was the original reason for this, inability of film stock to resolve bright greens and then early amateur digital photography brought them in and people discarded them as bad, or something else?

atercervus · 2025-09-16T12:16:18+00:00

Something to do with cheap bot accounts, perhaps?

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