I have used Nikon Cameras for 20 years and they have never let me down. Never understood the hate. Been a Nikon loyal customer for years.

@manilamartin1001

2 ай бұрын

I'm with you. I love my Nikon cameras.

@GG-zv9ku

2 ай бұрын

Yup. Nikon user for over a decade completely satisfied. Pure enjoyment of all their high quality products

@longrider9551

2 ай бұрын

I dont think its "hate of Nikon" more just insecurity from poor photographers who need their brand of camera to be the best because they are lacking in skill. I shoot Sony and remember so much negativity from folks who never even used a Sony camera. If Nikon serves you well it shouldn't matter to anyone else, this platform has been saturated with ignorant amateurs putting out nonsense for a paycheck. Nikon has become a very attractive choice and they are 1 "Z500" away from me switching ✌, Sony has made the choice to chase the vlogging market and the wildlife lenses Nikon has released intrigue me greatly.

Cheers Ray, great video, so well thought out and constructed. Appreciate the time you are putting into production values. And yes can't wait to see what NIKON RED future holds. :) Thanks for the 'studio' tour

@RaymondParkerPhoto

3 ай бұрын

My pleasure, Matt! Thanks as always!

Beautiful colour palette in your set. And the content represents the voice of reason, Raymond. Best wishes.

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

An excellent commentary Raymond. The story that I heard about the Nikon and Red engineers working together solving each other's problems will result in innovations that we can only dream of now. I can envision a complete line of Nikkor Cinema Photography lens. Hybrid autofocus will be built into Red cameras enabling the camera operator/ focus puller to pick the point to be in focus and to set the rate of change to the next place. This will happen offset as some camera functions are already. The algorithms that compress the Nikon files are built into the chip design of the Expeed 7 chip. An Expeed 8 or 9 will be required to enable RED RAW in Nikon Cameras. I shoot very little video but am looking forward to the progress that RED and Nikon develop on the video side together and hope that it migrates to the still side. I shoot many brands. I try to use the best equipment for the task at hand, hense using many brands. Keep up the great work Raymond. The next time that I make it out to the left Island, I will drop by.🤠

@RaymondParkerPhoto

3 ай бұрын

Cheers Dave! Thanks for the tech input. Let me know when you're 'round these 'ere parts.

@jpdj2715

2 ай бұрын

I seriously doubt that "algorithms" have been built into a chip, but can't prove it. What's more likely is that it has instructions specific to the algorithm. Then the question is if this/these instruction(s) can be used in another algorithm. When NVIDIA launched the RTX series of graphics cards, they had added instructions to the processors specifically for "ray tracing". This is relevant to rendering virtual image worlds. CAD wireframes, surface and patina definitions, light sources and a viewpoint - which then is calculated into a realistic 3D-on-2D screen look. I would think these instructions don't help me in Adobe Camera Raw or Photoshop - unless some clever dickie invents a way to use these instructions in different algorithms. Because the reality is these instructions don't implement an algorithm but steps made a lot of times.

Potato puns! Eye see what you did there. Very nicely explained take on it all. I think the future is almost certainly going to be great. Of course there is always a chance that the cultures simply clash. Clearly RED can’t continue to be “as crazy” as they were before, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be crazy still. Japanese business culture is polar opposite as pointed out. But, Nikon honestly appears interested in embracing some of RED’s position and attitude. If Nikon can bring in just 5-10% of RED’s crazy into the new cinema alignment, and RED can accept quite a bit of Nikon’s business structure, it will be truly incredible what they build together. I appreciate the shout out for the interview(s). Jarred has been a great friend for many years and has been quite honest with me over the years, spilling lots of details as he goes. He is sincere for sure and Keiji was extremely nice to me and honestly is very pleased with the future plans. What I will share here (and not really anywhere else) is something I watched from the sideline. Jarred was seeing Keiji for the first time in many days/weeks? and so I watched body language intently, as I tend to do to truly see people. They were truly happy to see each other again. They hugged and chatted with huge grins. There was no one around. There was no “pose for the cameras”. It was simply 2 people who were honestly happy to see each other. It told me everything I needed to know. The future is bright.

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

Hi Scott ... what a surprise! Thanks for dropping by and adding this context. I owe it you and Jarred for giving me much of the insight to prepare this editorial. It added a lot of weight to what I was trying to impart. For sure, I think it's going to be a chance for some real "cross-pollination," as I put it , culturally as well as technologically. I also really appreciate your personal impressions regarding Keiji and Jarred's relationship. That was so cool to see them together in your podcast! I agree, though my perspective isn't first hand, from all my research and conversations, I too think things look positive.

@ScottBalkum

2 ай бұрын

@@RaymondParkerPhoto It was so weird watching the reactions of so many. When the whole Nikon lawsuit thing started, I spent a bit of time trying to explain what was happening and throwing water on the people claiming that RED was going to crash and burn. And when they agreed to dismiss the suits, I tried to explain it again. So many said I was, well… you know. I even had Jarred on a livestream where he clearly stated that Nikon licensed the patent in the end. Some people still didn’t believe it. In the end, some people just want to be negative and look for any reason to point fingers and claim doom. It is what it is. I won’t stop sharing what I learn and you should continue being you. :) Life is good.

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

Thanks again, Scott. Yep, hard to figure the rage merchants and especially the ones who claim to be cinema insiders -- who one would think should have a more informed and balanced perspective. I will indeed continue being me ... I'm too old to develop a new persona! 😀

If Nikon make a body with active cooling and R3D files, I'd probably switch. I hope they do...

You have years of experience and knowledge,always worth listening to when people are ready to learn.

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

Cheers! Always more to learn for me as well.

Thank you for bringing clarity against a tide of fear mongers.

@RaymondParkerPhoto

3 ай бұрын

I was gonna say "My pleasure!" but I don't really take any in having to counter fear mongers. But I do appreciate your appreciation. 😀 Cheers!

Thanks for the thoughts on the Red/Nikon merger. I've been a stockbroker for over 40 years which has come in handy as a provider of capital for my photography habit. Like you, I didn't get too excited about the merger, in fact I can see several reasons to believe that it will have a beneficial effect on both companies. This certainly was not a hostile merger, and I think there is little solid evidence that Nikon will fail to improve their brand as it finds ways of integrating the two companies and their respective expertise. While I use my Nikon Z8 and Z9 almost entirely for regularly shooting thousands of frames of still photography, it is clear that those younger than I have a real fascination with video. In my view, Nikon seems to have taken a very astute avenue into becoming a real player in cinema. The next 3 to 5 years should be very interesting in both stills and video photography.

@RaymondParkerPhoto

3 ай бұрын

Thanks very much for your perspective, John. I agree that this, as I see it, "collaboration" will prove to be a net benefit and, yes, future developments will be interesting, for sure.

I find it interesting how some of those “influencers” lack knowledge of the past accomplishments of the brand they bash and refuse to learn about competition to their favorite brand. As noted, Nikon was first with video in DSLRs and also the Z6 was first in its price point to offer 10 bit video. Tech marches on and if we only listened to those folks their brand was the first to do everything. I look forward to what benefit the merger will bring to Nikon hybrid shooters. Great video Raymond.

@RaymondParkerPhoto

3 ай бұрын

Thanks, Wayne! To understand the present and portend the future, knowledge of history is imperative.

Thanks Raymond! You have such a nice voice, even if I found this video a little long. Has anyone mentioned that your polite laugh is very close to Ronny Corbett’s? Your “set” and sound it much better than many, so worry no longer. From the moment Red was acquired, I was and am, sure it’s for the best. I’ve completely missed and voices to the contrary. All the best!

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

Not that I know of. Cheers!

This morning I read that camera sales increased last year for the first time in a long time. The lone exception was Canon. Their sales decreased 5%. It all leap-frogs over time.

wow. My work is photography, my hobby is bicycling. Love when photographers are also bikers. and yes, of course I shoot Nikon, as well as other brands.

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

Photography, cycling, writing -- my passions, not necessarily in that order. They all inform each other.

Imagine how it will be a Nikon RED camera with sensors of 80 or more megapixels with 8K, 12K or more in video with global shutter and high frame rates and incredible dynamic range in low light with a new processor Expeed 8 or more?😀

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

I can't wait! 😀

your videos look gorgeous , you have an incredibile set-up

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!

Through very good desktop speakers, you sound excellent. In the first place because you have a very good voice for this. The echo ... what echo? If you want to try to reduce the echo, try to remove standing waves between parallel walls. You cannot change the walls but you speak perpendicular to them, it seems, and as the walls are parallel, this causes standing waves. You cannot alter that between floor and ceiling, but by sitting at a slanted angle to the walls, you alter the reflection patterns. Your microphone seems OK. I would prefer a Sennheiser AVX-M series lavalier with the better microphone (Sennheiser AVX-MKE2 set - about US$1K at the NY, NY superstore - British Ytoober Nigel Danson uses one in his outdoors video on landscape photography and this seems to me to have a very good impedance match). You can see a lot of YT talking head channels where walls have been covered in sound absorbing panels. Well, you can make some of these panels yourself from wooden frames with cloth over them and then fill this with layers of cloth. How to make these and what to use can be found in YT videos too. So, if you want to maintain your position in the room relative to the walls, then you could place one of these DIY panels behind the camera, and one on either side of you. Potentially one overhead too - all outside the frame.

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tech tips! One of these days I may invest in a Sennheiser AVX-MKE2. It's just so hard to buy stuff that doesn't improve the "look" of my work--so many lenses, so little cash!--though I appreciate how important audio is to video production. In fact, I built a bunch of acoustic panels a few years ago. kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z4iBsaWnZNCvfqg.html They're a fixture in the studio. But, you guessed it, I neglected to use them in these videos, even though I built stands to use as gobos. I will add some the next time I use this space. Cheers, Ray

@jpdj2715

2 ай бұрын

@@RaymondParkerPhoto - excellent. And, as you are a perfectionist, I have to remind you of one phrase in my response: "what echo?"

@jpdj2715

2 ай бұрын

@@RaymondParkerPhoto - to be perfectly clear, to me as a foreign, English as a 2nd language speaker/listener, your voice was perfectly clear. The auditive brain helps us to hear, hence understand, what someone else says by making assumptions of what comes next. Well, that's a bit more difficult for non-natives as well as in monologues that jump between subject threads. No problem with intelligibility. No "boxed in" muted audio range. I could run the audio via a high-end audio chain with high-end audio headphones, but there's no need to take your video there for its audio. You mention the effect of YT's lossy compression to image quality and something like that is likely happening to the audio too. But less, I guess. Anyhow, in your case, with your voice, to my aged ear canals, there is no problem.

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

Good to, er, hear!

Hilarious, Raymond! Yep... Nikon/Red didn't invade my basement fortress either. :)

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

I know, right? 😀

@MikeJamesMedia

2 ай бұрын

@@RaymondParkerPhoto Seriously, great video, Ray!

👍 Thanks, well spoken. Good Analysis.

@RaymondParkerPhoto

3 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

Unlike you, I am extremely excited for what will come of the Red/Nikon merger. I do think this was a strategic play regarding the raw codec and getting out from under the lawsuit, but I honest want to see what Nikon will do with Red's global shutter and if this pulls Nikon away from relying on Sony sensors in the furture with Red making the sensors. I do wonder if the delay on a z6iii and z7iii may because of this very thing. All the press is about what Nikon/Red will do with video but very little is being said about the photography side of the deal and I'm most excited for that.

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

"Unlike" me? Is this perhaps a typo, or did you not watch the video? This editorial is meant as a rebuttal to all the negative Nellies and, as I state clearly "I can't wait to see what this team has in store for RED ...."

@joeclaymore

2 ай бұрын

Yup typo. I voice dictated that.

Thank you Ray. As a fellow Old Fart ,you're good by me

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

Cheers!

And it was Fuji bikes that advertised for cycling and cyclists everywhere.

Negativity is rampant, some folks aren’t happy unless they’re bashing others or their beliefs. Take solace in knowing you’re spreading joy to all parties. 😂

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

LOL! Cheers, Moz!

Dont see any issue with a simple good business transaction, sensors, film tech, a good backer for the business, business will do business things. Anything Nikon do will be structured, viable, i expect Red to be left alone as is, Nikon on the other hand will get some feed off Red, for Nikon bodies, maybe a red button for red tech, if you have a 5k camera and a 5k movie body, they are aimed at totally different audiences, thats why this will work, Red will run and support its existing lineups, will nikon make some cine line lenses - probably. How it goes forwards it is simply a tool like many others, you use what you know and both Red and Nikon have users which wont dabble in either side just because they bought them.

@RaymondParkerPhoto

2 ай бұрын

Agreed.

Red has been abusing that ridiculous patent which they got . Hopefully NIKON opens up video raw to non Hollywood users

"what's with these people?" .............Views Ray, It's all about the views. It was cool to bash Nikon.

@RaymondParkerPhoto

3 ай бұрын

Well, I'm hoping for a few for this epic! 😀