According to Wikipedia, the sony a7 came out in October 2013. I remember it well. What if Sony then decided to follow The Great Panasonic Strategy, and really follow through on delivering one full frame mega-hit after the other?

In 2014 Sony then released the first a7s, a hybrid-focused filmmaking full frame camera. Let’s call it the Sony S1H for short.

Luckily that was not all and photographers had something fun to play with as well… The Sony S1R with that thing photographers love above everything else… megapixels.

So having established the basic model, the video model and the megapixels model – Sony were off to a flying start. Only one problem, all their customers were using incompatible lenses, and none of the cameras could autofocus properly.

So consulting once more The Great Panasonic Strategy for success, Sony decided to sit it out for 7 years and do nothing. No more flagship cameras for you!

(OK that isn’t strictly true… We did get the fantastic Sony a5, a cut price entry level camera which also couldn’t autofocus).

So fast forward 7 years on from 2013, and the world is having a terrible time.

There’s a deadly plague, and fascism is on the rise even in Sweden.

At this point Sony decides to come back… Finally that Sony s1R is going to get a long-awaited update after 7 years in the wilderness. But not yet.

First Sony must invite everyone who is expecting a Sony a7s successor to Tokyo, to see a camera aimed at Chinese Instagrammers.

The Sony S9 is born! Finally the camera can autofocus, which is very important as the main purpose of it is to be pointed at your own head or to be stuck on a tripod pointed at a desk. The camera operator no longer sits behind the camera but in front of it!

For that reason, suddenly the screens all start to pivot and swivel in all manner of ways, none of them very elegant or very good.

By this time, Sony looks over their shoulder expecting to see Canon, only to release that the only company in the rearview is Pentax.

Finally Panasonic (I mean Sony) can hike their prices.

Instead of £2000, the Sony a7 II… sorry s1 II… can be £3500, but fear not we’ll release the old camera again for £2800 with a kit lens that bumps it up to £3800. Makes sense to me.

What letter designation should this worse product have? It shouldn’t be S, as that stands for…

Speed! It has an 8 year old sensor design so that doesn’t fit.

Maybe X? Nope, as that’s reserved for cameras where you want the customer to pay Apple for a codec.

How about H? Well they’ve used that before, and although it is a Hybrid camera, it’s not High End.

So that only leaves us with one option… It has to be E!

What does the Grand Panasonic Strategy manual say about E? Does it stand for extra? Expensive? End-game? Or eeeeek, I haven’t a clue!

Apparently the E doesn’t stand for anything, much like Panasonic’s brand.

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Welcome to episode 117 of the Gutenberg Changelog podcast! In this jam-packed episode, host Birgit Pauli-Haack is joined by Ellen Bauer, product lead at WooCommerce for an insightful conversation covering all the latest developments in the WordPress ecosystem. Together, they dive into the progress on the new WooCommerce Starter Theme, its underlying “workhorse” philosophy, and […]

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David talks to historian Meg Jacobs about how the 1970s changed everything for America’s understanding of its place in the global economy. How did first the Nixon Shock and then the Oil Shock reshape American politics? Why did America’s politicians respond to these shocks not with tariffs or sabre-rattling but with calls to national self-sacrifice? Did anyone heed those calls? And what lessons did Donald Trump draw from America’s crisis decade?

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Dear assembled tech progressives, it’s been a pleasure to attend the rally here in Berlin. Truly a privilege to address so many of you – especially you Tim! – from all corners of the 1935 business community. Deeply humbled I stand here in awe of the courage and bravery you have all shown towards your share prices, let alone the brave battle against inequality, racism and fascism and the manner in how you fight it – By wining and dining the Nazi party leaders at lunch, and giving them a 30% cut of all your imports – negotiated down from 50% already!

None of this would be possible of course, without the Pineapple Time Machine Pro (Bleak History Edition).

Yes… I see you Tim! OK not such a good first year of sales was it? We saw a lot of returns as a result of a firmware bug which only allowed our customers to travel to 1931 (many are still with us today in fact) but we would not be here ourselves today without it.

I won’t sugarcoat it, 2025 had been a terrible year for business. Our inteligentCamera had suffered numerous hallucinations. In some of the photos, fellow silicon valley bosses were depicted doing fascist salutes, and in other pictures the American President himself (of all people!) was pictured in front of a board of economically illiterate tariffs. If his supporters were economically literate they’d be very upset, especially as they’re the ones going to be paying.

Alas none of this is a problem here in the glorious 1930s, thanks to Tim’s Time Machine Pro. As people of such impeccable moral principals, we’ve always wondered what would indeed happen should a brave likeminded bunch of democratic freedom fighters went back in time to the Nazi era? How many lives would we save? How many phones would we sell? And now we’re finding out in real-time that we fit right in like Jack Nicholson in a black and white photo!

We’re on course to change history and get really rich doing so. We don’t have all these dinners with Hitler just here to increase stakeholder value although that is a big reason. No, we also want to extend the demographic of our marketing to Germany. We do this also to make Hitler feel a bit better about himself and calm him down a bit. It isn’t easy ruling over every aspect of everybody’s lives and leading the country down a destructive path of racism and territorial expansion. Especially when your incontinence pants keep leaking.

I’d like to introduce to you on stage now a special guest, one of our best marketing strategists and the pioneer in split time period sales and promotions. Why sell in one fascist era when you can do it in two?

Welcome to the stage Johnny!

Hello everybody, what a pleasure it is to be here in person reaching out directly to the 1930s to ask if they want their timeline back.

The genius of all of you assembled here today is in our collective activism, leading to the discovery that all our progressive marketing from 2025 seems to work the same in 1935 too. What a coincidence! The tight control of journalism with NDAs and embargo deadlines! The propaganda channels of YouTube with Gerald Done and Fro Knows Nothing. Some of our best social media influencers have even managed to get plumb jobs at the Reichstag!

Now we all know there are dissenting voices in the room. Yes, our dear old grandparents!

Some of them are even here today in this room, in much younger form [laughter]– but some sadly cannot join us here in Berlin as they’ve been taken away somewhere even worse. Look, it won’t be that bad, trust me! [Laughter]

You know who doesn’t dissent? Our very own sons and daughters! They don’t have any memory of history and no memory of history classes either as they spent the time more productively logged into Facesucker. And as for us… we’re just finding out as we go along! [Raucous Laughter]

I just had a call only yesterday with my lovely daughter, 18 years old today and brought up to believe that freedom is the most important value we have, which is why she voted for our dear leader.

Freedom from the baggage of history, freedom from the anchor of time, from lessons learnt past, unburdened by what has been.

Now we are selling in two historic periods simultaneously, we can’t stand by and just be bystanders as the 1930s evolve into what we now know in history as one of the most legendary earnings call ever especially for Pete’s Nazi army supplier, great company by the way Pete!

I hear your cheers, everyone – let’s raise our glasses again to Pete, to Tim and Jeff. Oh and Mark I almost forgot, whose family unfortunately can’t join us today but we’re working on it, I’ll ask nicely and shuffle some future calls onto the Führer’s trading app.

I want to draw this evening to a close now with a rapturous piece of music by Wagner.

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Client journalism, you see it at the White House. Bunch of tossers, bunch of boot lickers, the same people who appeased the ruling party in 1930s Germany. Panasonic comes along, dying brand and says hey EOSHD – can you sign an NDA, it’s 25k fine if you leak it to L-mount rumours dot com. Oh really? That happens with every release doesn’t it? But apparently that’s £25k if I should open my fucking mouth about it though. For me I should shut up and value this “relationship”, drink the S1 II koolaid and get on with it…go and get wined and dined as if I have the principals of Bill Maher at the Trump dinner with his village idiots.

No.

I don’t care if they never invite me to another launch again, I am having no part of it.

The brand’s dead, the mount’s dead, and it’s entirely Panasonic’s doing. There are better options across the board. I was last invited to a Panasonic launch in January 2022, I can’t even remember what it was. S5 II maybe.

Since my sister died they have not even sent me a proper email. Let alone replaced the S1H II I had on loan, which promptly bricked itself.

The only journalist that goes to a Panasonic launch is a dead journalist.

If you want to see the death of journalism, sign that NDA.

Go and observe the social media twits and ask them what they’ll do for a career once the YouTube algorithm forgets who they are or even whether they existed to begin with.

Inevitably, the very day I was due at the fancy Knightsbridge restaurant the leaks begin, showing up the whole exclusivity for what it is… a vain charade of the untalented celebrating the mediocre.

LEAKED images of the new S1II, S1IIE and 24-60mm lens!

And it isn’t just the leak that pisses me off it’s the product.

Not cutting edge, not creative, not appealing to anyone with a Sony or a Canon or Nikon, not interesting in terms of the design because it’s a 2022 camera body with a new sensor and that’s about it.

It’s absolutely pathetic.

Panasonic’s legendary team in Japan has been replaced by teenagers and incels.

They’ve abandoned completely any sense of culture or art.

That’s only my opinion but the market will decide, and indeed you can say it has already.

On less than 5% market share, the marketing idiots in Knightsbridge want loyal long-time customers like me to celebrate their failure.

I will never do that.

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Maio é o mês da língua portuguesa e, para comemorar, o 451 MHz apresenta uma conversa entre Caetano W. Galindo e Marcos Bagno: dois autores que compartilham a paixão pelo nosso idioma na escrita, tradução e estudo da língua. Eles discutem as origens, o presente e futuro do português, principalmente da variante brasileira, e ainda falam de como o preconceito linguístico é uma expressão do racismo em nossa sociedade. O encontro aconteceu durante A Feira do Livro 2024 e foi mediado pela professora e escritora Luana Chnaiderman.

O episódio foi realizado com apoio da Lei Rouanet – Incentivo a Projetos Culturais.

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Nenhuma mãe está alheia às pressões do ideal construído sobre a maternidade. Mesmo que nos últimos anos falar sobre exaustão, sobrecarga, falta de rede de apoio e solidão no cuidado com os filhos tenha se tornado mais comum, esses desafios continuam recaindo, quase exclusivamente, sobre as mulheres. Um cenário que é ainda mais complexo na maternidade atípica, cuidar de uma criança neurodivergente, ou fazer parte de uma família que não se enquadra nos padrões esperados pela sociedade.

Para falar sobre como a experiência de cada maternidade é única, mas que o cuidado precisa ser coletivo, o Pauta Pública desta semana recebe Luciana Viegas, pedagoga e diretora-executiva do Instituto Vidas Negras com Deficiência Importam. Autista e mãe de autista, Luciana aponta caminhos e reflexões para transformar as  dificuldades em luta e construir uma sociedade mais acolhedora, que entenda a diversidade e a impossibilidade de criar um filho idealizado a partir de uma ‘normalidade’.

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Entre fusos horários e plataformas de streaming, Samuel de Saboia estreia em disco com "As Noites Estão Cada Dia Mais Claras". Gravado em Tóquio, Salvador, Paris, São Paulo e Londres, o álbum articula deslocamentos geográficos e afetivos. Artista visual com passagens por instituições como o LACMA (Los Angeles), o Museo Thyssen (Madri) e colaborações com Comme des Garçons e Vogue Britânica, Samuel agora transforma suas travessias em música - num gesto que dialoga com os discos-diário de Joni Mitchell, os rituais sonoros de Carlinhos Brown e a intimidade de Labi Siffre. Leia mais (05/08/2025 - 10h12)

This week, Nicola Shulman salutes the memoirs of an old-school editor and socialite; and Rebecca Fraser on an unexpectedly peaceful transition of power in 17th-century America.

'When the going was good: an editor’s adventures during the last golden age of magazines', by Graydon Carter

'Taking Manhattan: the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America', by Russell Shorto

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Today David talks to political and economic theorist Leah Downey about the role that central banks in general – and the Federal Reserve in particular – have played in the story of globalisation. How has the Fed tried to reconcile its obligations to American democracy with its obligations to the global order? Is the Eurodollar a token of American strength or American vulnerability? Are the world’s central bankers really just a private club? And what does history tell us about the likely outcome of Trump vs Powell?

The latest edition of our free fortnightly newsletter is out tomorrow with guides, insights and clips to accompany this series, plus David writes about whether Nigel Farage really spells the end of two-party politics in the UK. Sign up now https://www.ppfideas.com/newsletters

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Are you more likely to die on your birthday? Yes.

Salve, vocês pediram e o Mano a Mano está de volta! Para abrir os trabalhos, recebemos o gigante Paulo Vieira num papo sincero, divertido e profundo com Mano Brown e Semayat Oliveira. Do riso à reflexão, da fé à luta diária por equilíbrio, eles falam sobre tudo que atravessa a vida real: saúde mental, ancestralidade, insegurança, vulnerabilidades e coragem pra ser feliz também apesar das adversidades da vida.É papo reto com afeto do jeito que só o Mano a Mano sabe fazer. Chega mais e aperta o play. Classificação indicativa: 12 anos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Salve, rapa! Salve, massa! Mano Brown está de volta de papo reto com grandes convidados que têm muito a dizer. Tendo ao lado a jornalista Semayat Oliveira, Brown retorna com uma novidade: cinco episódios em vídeo que poderão ser assistidos aqui no seu Spotify. Estreia dia 8 de maio de 2025! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

David talks to historian Gary Gerstle about the last time the Republican party got caught up in a tariffs disaster and how it changed American politics. The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 brought tariffs back and helped bring down both the Republican Party and the global economy. Why didn’t Hoover stop it? What did the fiasco reveal about the limits of presidential power back then? And what does it suggest about the limits of presidential power today?

Next time on Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People (and Trump!)

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Tem disco que é prece, tem disco que é protesto. Serpente Sapiente chega com os dois. "Apenas o Básico" e "Manifesto Sepé" são extremos de uma mesma trajetória: um fala baixo, o outro grita. Juntos, expõem a alma de um artista forjado entre ocupações, batalhas e noites sem resposta. Com apoio do selo Sujoground - o mesmo que projetou Maria Esmeralda - Serpente transforma vivência em verso, e lança dois álbuns que não pedem aplauso: pedem atenção. Leia mais (05/02/2025 - 12h00)

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O avanço das tecnologias e da inteligência artificial, somados à crescente precarização, têm feito a CLT ser vista com desdém por parte da juventude, como um símbolo ultrapassado de um modelo de trabalho que já não parece mais acessível. A reforma trabalhista aprovada no governo Temer, em 2017, pavimentou esse cenário ao flexibilizar a Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho (CLT). De acordo com o IBGE, o Brasil conta com pelo menos 2,1 milhões de brasileiros trabalhando por meio de plataformas digitais, que cumprem jornadas mais longas e têm menos proteção previdenciária do que os demais brasileiros.

Para falar como as relações de trabalho vêm se transformando nas últimas décadas, o Pauta Publica desta semana entrevista o sociólogo Ruy Braga que analisa como termos — antes sinônimo de estabilidade e conquista — passaram a ser criticados e desprezados. “Esse desmanche da utopia da sociedade salarial brasileira — de você ter um emprego protegido, ganhar um salário digno, trabalhar durante muitos anos numa empresa, viver uma aposentadoria digna, enfim — isso tudo fica para trás. [...] E se não é alcançável, deixa de ser desejável. E se não é desejável, muitas vezes se transforma em algo que é motivo de repulsa.” 

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