Month: June 2020

For some background on this Leica SL2 problem, see my interview with Leica here. I am currently re-testing the Leica SL2 with vertical grip, to see how the battery performs with various lenses. Following on from the earlier situation where 4K recording is met with an error message on the SL2 depending on the lenses used, Sigma has now optimised this with a firmware update for MC-21 (Canon EF mount adapter…

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Comment on the forum In my opinion the Sigma Fp was a great camera milestone for creative shooting. As the first Sigma camera to shoot cinema quality 4K and the first full frame stills camera to record 4K RAW internally to SD card, Sigma have gained the attention of filmmakers and set a tone for a very bright future.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EteGNLBLStA Comment on the forum Above: Camera Conspiracies has a point! I’ve always been a big Panasonic shooter and no other company has done more to pioneer affordable 4K filmmaking. However I shouldn’t let my love of Panasonic’s cameras like the GH5 and S1H blind me to the failures. I’m afraid we need to talk about the G100.

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Download the Sigma Fp version 2.0 firmware here The eagerly awaited Sigma Fp version 2.0 firmware has been released today. The camera is now capable of a DCI 4K 12bit HDMI RAW feed which can be shot in compressed RAW format with a suitable external recorder. This enables the use of NLE friendly RAW workflows, in Apple ProRes RAW with the Ninja V recorder and even BRAW with the Blackmagic…

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Comment on the forum Officially a restructuring, but probably more likely the end. This is the saddest day and my thoughts are with the Olympus employees, hoping their best engineers can find a home at other camera companies. The new camera division under Japan Industrial Partners could be seen as something as a risk for any employees transferred here to work on the latest OM-D selfie stick. Far better to…

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Comment on the forum Metabones recently announced the long-awaited Canon EF mount Speed Booster Ultra for Fuji X, which will be one of the must-have accessories for X-T4 owners. This will have support for phase-detect AF and incorporates Caldwell Optics advanced 5-element ultra-high index tantalum optics. The Caldwell Optics focal reducer remains the best you can get. In this EOSHD Big Interview I caught up with Bo-Ming Tong in Canada,…

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