Quote: I call it color moiré to make it distinct from normal moiré.
That actually makes a signifigant amount of sense to me -> I've always understood 'fringing' to be a result of the De-Bayering, and Colour Moire seems the best description of where the wrong colours are represented in the body of an object, not the edges.
John: I thought the tariff was a Europe only thing. Do they tax cameras differently in the US as well?
Multiple files, yes, that's what harddrive and SD card based video cameras do.
Quote: if anything, the sdcard should have an ext2 or ext4 filesystem, where filesize limit is some terabytes or exabytes (thousands or billions of times more than fat32) but Asia tends to do things the Windows way...
ExFat is open format, not Windows, and can be read and written by Linux, PC and Mac, majority of PC's can't do Ext.
Quote: You seem to have overlooked the advanced quality of Pansonic Lumix GH2 and GH3 completely ?
I'm in Melbourne, I know a grand total of One person who shoots on GH2, and he brought that back to Oz from New Mexico. It's not a matter of ignoring them, it's a matter of just not ever seeing them anywhere, not even on display in major stores.
My favorite full sized cameras are the HPX-502 and VariCam 3700.
Quote: 2. In all tv-broadcast .... ... I am talking about all kinds of broadcast ENG-cameras here.
I assume you're talking about recording sound for Film and TV Production?
ENG ( Electronic News Gathering ) set-ups are done in camera, yes. Any production done on DSLR, Red, Alexa, ie, large sensor cameras, the audio is always recorded separately, by an Audio specialist, usually on equipment capable of recording 4 or 8 channels, at 48, 96kHz sample rate, or even higher in some cases.
The only audio recorded on the camera is the guide track to make syncing the audio in post easier.
Quote: Rigs do look very "professional" ... but to me they are weird, because I need to touch my camera
directly when it needs adjusting - same for broadcast-cameras as for DSLRs. Handles and grips are
distracting you from quick access.
Only if they are badly designed. A decent rig makes camera operation easier, faster, and more stable. But I do get where the user frustration lies, one mate I work with regularly hates it when I strip half his rig of his camera before shooting because it gets in my way.
Wasn't meant to be 'blazed', just direct statement of the way it is. AF and SR are just not used or wanted in Pro environments.