AndyJH

> For housewives....

Hoooo boy not even going to touch this one. Can't wait until you join the rest of us in 2019, buddy!

I feel like this is a false dichotomy. There are a ton of affordable speedlights that aren't a blatant ripoff. It's not like the option is Godox V1 or nothing. The option is Godox V1 or literally hundreds of others.

Even among Godox's lineup—they did Li-Ion speedlights before most (if not all) others with the V850 and V860, plus their AD200 is pretty innovative.

I guess that's what makes it all the more disheartening for me to see them making ripoffs—they're capable of developing a great product in-house rather than stealing IP to do it.

I'm really shocked to see the vitriol against Profoto—yes their product is expensive, but they're a market leader and stick their neck out by investing the R&D to make these products in the first place. Godox simply reverse-engineers the finished product.

Remember that once the companies investing in R&D—like Profoto—are gone, the ripoff brands' products will either A) stagnate, or B) raise in price to subsidize their own development. Either way, we as the consumers of this market, lose.

Two completely different markets and aims—one is about speed first, the other about image quality and resolution first.

This is closer to a miniature D5 than a D850.

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Fuji was quite forthcoming about the fact that their particular IBIS implementation increases body size a lot.

I suspect that the decision was made to keep IBIS out of the X-T3 to keep size down, keep cost down (remember it's cheaper than the X-T2 was at launch), and to provide a bit of segmentation across the lineup.

As a fellow X-T2 owner, I'm waiting patiently for an X-H2 to see if it combines the best of these latest two models.

f/2.5? That's impressive. Detail looks great across the frame.

For a 75mm focal length, a bare minimum of a 79mm front element & entrance pupil are required to achieve f/0.95.

How are they building this with a 72mm filter thread? Seems like an 82mm or 86mm thread would be required...

Unfortunately, market leaders like Canikon already have the sales—the prevailing incentive for them is to push their loyal buyers up the chain to flagship models or into multiple cameras differentiated by feature sets.

It speaks volumes that Nikon threw the kitchen sink at their D850 (and even the D500 previously), featurewise. They're evidently less worried about withholding features for a future model than they are about losing market share to Canon and Sony.

Smaller brands want to generate sales and loyalty and will work harder for it, even if it means potentially selling a midrange or older model instead of the shiny new flagship.

This is why I had zero issues buying an X-T2 in December, while X-H1 rumours were already swirling—Fuji doesn't seem to fear cannibalizing flagship sales, but they DO seem to fear annoying loyal customers by witholding features needlessly. The anti-Canon, basically.

IBIS is nice, but certainly not make-or-break—I opted to have a camera sooner, plus save some money and put it into glass.

X-T2 has a more substantial heatsink.

Product differentiation is possible, but then I'm not sure why they'd have taken on the engineering challenge of adding 4K video to the X-Pro2.

Wow, it's already been upgraded to 4k30p. If you care so much about high video spec, buy a camera that's made for video.

Just to remind you, when the X-Pro 2 came out, noone even thought twice about Fuji for video. It's only since the X-T2 and X-H1 have come out with clean 4k and F-Log that anyone's given them a second look beyond stills.

Fuji has been quite upfront about the fact that the X-Pro 2 has lesser heat dissipation than the X-T2, so certain capabilities aren't going to be possible via FW update.

How is it not good news for RRS and their customers?

At minimum, they produce the same quality of gear for the same price, but their employees have a better standard of living.

More realistically? They can turn lower operating costs into saved money that can be re-invested into expanding their product line, lowering prices, or all of the above.

Maybe they could have relocated within Cali to save their employees from an out-of-state move. Maybe not, who knows. Utah is home to a number of up-and-coming photo gear companies—look at Wandrd bags in Provo-Orem.

I still don't get what bearing their particular location has on the end users' experience. It's still top-of-the-line gear, made in the USA, and with a price tag to match.

Not sure I love the lower res sensor for stills. The AA filter seems to be making pixel-level detail quite soft, yet there seems to be some stairstepping artifacts in the fine structure anyways.

Original idea or not, I'm happy to see another manufacturer taking on the Li-Ion powered speedlight concept.

I bought into a pair of Godox V850s and they worked for about 3 months (of very light use) before giving me major issues. First they stopped firing intermittently, then the batteries wouldn't charge, then the chargers stopped working with replacement batteries.

Support and quality control have huge value. If you're, in fact, shooting 32 weddings/season, you'll be exactly the kind of person who can't screw around with flaky gear. Just a thought.