A large sensor version of this, would please lovers of big cameras. Over at Canon Rumours it looks like a Canon fan has been reading the AF100 spec sheet to produce the first rumour, and dreamt up the second one altogether. ‘Yamato’ does have a nice feel to it – 20 stops of dynamic range with no clipped highlights, beautiful shades of snow out in the Japanese field test. Great…
Month: November 2010
What’s the longest and fastest AF100 lens? <a target=”_self” href=”http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5574929666&toolid=10001&campid=5336727214&customid=&icep_item=110608685112&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg”>Canon 200mm F1.8 FD L lens on eBay</a><img style=”text-decoration:none;border:0;padding:0;margin:0;” src=”[CACHEBUSTER]”>
Lomo Konvas mount anamorphic lenses were designed in the USSR to film communist propaganda. Later, the great master Tarkovsky shot Solaris (and other masterpieces) on these very lenses. They’re slightly soft wide open and focussing mechanics are hit / miss depending on the item but for character and authenticity they cannot be beat. Lomos also have the best anamorphic lens flare of all anamorphic lenses, and the expensive Hawk modern…
[vimeo]16538991[/vimeo] Here is a quick test I conducted in Berlin today… No bloody charts, just a pair of AKG headphones. The idea was to focus on the AKG badge, determine sharpness and judge the overall character of the lenses. The apertures are at a minimum for each lens – maybe you can go a bit lower on the Proskar but the Canon FD 50mm Macro is a good fit for…
Left – LX5 is a compact camera. Right – GF2. Image source Photography Blog The Panasonic GF2 has full manual control in Aperture Priority mode thanks to a new feature called flicker reduction.
Over the course of EOSHD.com nearly all my kit has been sourced from eBay. Not for me these super expensive gear lists. I find it much more interesting to find unique treasure online – the stuff which hardly anybody else is shooting with and lenses with a unique look. My eBay searches have served me very well over the year. Unfortunately I can’t buy every gem I see so now…
EOSHD.com reader RichST who picked up a Japanese GH2 this week (production retail model) has been showing me some useful shots demonstrating the look of different picture profiles on the GH2, including the new Teleconverter mode. Seemingly Panasonic listened, because this is a feature the community has long been dreaming of. No line skipping, no pixel binning, no scaling – just the ability to take an unscaled 1080p 1:1 crop…
Image source – 43rumors.com UPDATE – vital video stats are: Full HD is 30p for NTSC, 25p for PAL. 17Mbit AVCHD in full HD mode. No 720/60p, just 720p/30p. As predicted first by EOSHD on Twitter last week thanks to a tip off from a jolly good source, the GF2 is having a launch party this week.