Francis Carver

Nice "movie", ha-ha-ha-ha.

As for the camera being a good value for the money, less money than what the GH3 goes for will get you a Nikon D7100 body with a significantly larger sized sensor.......

Micro 4/3rd shooters don't seem to get a break.... like ever.

Yeah, China seems to be a country where folks have more money to spend than in North America and Europe combined. Add the Arabian Gulf nations to the pot, and boy oh boy, why do I suddenly feel...

Exactly right! Which is why I am looking at the 1-inch sensor Nikon 1-series V2 camera to be mated with the 10-100mm video style servo zoom. The 1-inch sensor will DWARF a 1/2.3-inch sensor by...

Okay, Petka, of course you know I was a-joking, huh? Seriously though.... SOME AMATEURS who are extremely deep-pocketed musty be buying some of those pricey-pricey medium format jobs, still no?

"The new XP200 uses.... 16MP CMOS sensor for enhanced image quality."

Okay, so I checked the specs -- yes indeed, a 16.4 megapixel sensor that is of the 1/2.3-inch physical size form factor.

Wow,...

With a 1-inch diagonal digital imager, the "sweet spot" for a zoom lens would be one with an 8x to 10x zooming range, around F2.8 to F4.0. Well, they could probably do it with a 12x optical zoom...

No, you are wrong, Shunda -- Fujifilm is only bringing out TWO NEW CAMERAS PER WEEK. They are not yet capable of brining out a new S-zoom every day of the week. Amazing, huh?

No, you are wrong, Shunda -- Fujifilm is only bringing out TWO NEW CAMERAS PER WEEK. They are not yet capable of bringing out a new S-zoom every day of the week. Amazing, huh?

60p is pretty much horrendous for my eyes -- is basically like if the cast and crew of an ultra-reality soap opera production went to see a screening of the high frame rate "The Hobbit." But 24p,...

Hey, on the other hand, it is FASTER than if the Fujinon lens mounted on the Finepix S8400W would have been an F5.6-to F22 lens, right?

A. Who really cares what the BBC broadcasts or does not broadcast in, folks? After all, they are likely one out of 99,999 television broadcasters operating worldwide.

B. Interlaced signal capable...

On the other hand, I am very disappointed in Fujifilm. Dang, it seems like we all have gotta wait until NEXT FRIDAY to read the press announcements about the latest Fujifilm Finepix 46x and 48x...

@ Cy: Agree, simply amazing that Fujinon is actually making today $90,000 cine-style lenses and $200,000+ video lenses. I guess they can also make $49.95 lenses.

The idiocy type is likely the manufacturer in this case, not its customers. Most of them cannot be hoodwinked that easily.

BTW, in view of medium format digital cameras going in the $7,000 to...

If it's Friday.... well, you can be pretty darn sure Fujifilm is gonna be announcing a few new cameras this Friday.... just as they usually do every Friday.

Congratulations to Fuji, though -- now...

Another all-plastic junker from Canon. Nothing surprising here any more, folks. Hey, Sony people won't lose any sleep over this one, he-he-he.

Don't really think so. When I called them a couple of years about that, the Canon USA tech support chap had zero clue what I was even asking.

Amazing that when everyone else and their brother are...

No clue who would spend a thou on this thing. I mean, why do you need a 1.78:1 aspect ration screen to draw stuff on, anyhow? That is for HDTV, for cripe's sake!

And why would you want to use an...

@ Mira: "everyone else" is NOT offering 13-inch 8-bit color input devices for US$1,000, most likely.

Now, if a Wacom product is only competing with a Wacom product -- well, then Wacom was stupid,...