UPDATE: The rumours were right! Now expect the NEX7 for September’s Photokina. Sony’s much anticipated mirrorless HDSLR is released in a few days. What do we know? It will be available in Hong Kong and Japan from May 11th and a limited stock global release that same day. Whilst an attempt at a global release is good, unfortunately 24p is missing from the spec sheet. Stop reading now?
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Currently, the firmware project lead by Vitaliy is too technical and not well explained. Next week EOSHD will complete work on a Wiki which answers the basic questions about the firmware, for creative who people who just want to shoot and not read 111 page threads on DVXUser.
Above: the GH1’s sensor and related circuitry A DPReview forum user from the UK was unhappy with the amount of banding on his Panasonic GH1 [url]http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1041&message=35221454 He called Panasonic in the UK who asked to see samples of the banding. After analysing his photos, they replied that the problem with too much chroma banding, in vertical and horizontal lines – was outside of the usual tolerances. They suggested he return…
Here is an example of a guy with a disgusting attitude towards creative people. James B. Venice [SIZE=”5″>”[/SIZE]You Zacuto guys might want to edit out the “**** *****” trailer at the end of your video. They are using a soundtrack from Steve Joblonsky without copyright permission. Not cool. I would hate for all your hard work and “original” content to be ruined by the kids at *******. I work for…
A few months ago on EOSHD I did a series of articles on the Panasonic LA7200 anamorphic lens. Since then it’s strangely disappeared from eBay. Who snapped them all up? Was it you? There must be a lot of people out there without one too! It’s a great lens, gives footage bags of cinematic feel, and I absolutely love it. Yet still, the LA7200 cannot quite compete with the expensive…
[vimeo]11285405[/vimeo] It’s here – the full movie “City of Lakes”, a hybrid wedding / feature film shot with a Canon 5D Mark II + 7D. Check out EOSHD.com’s interview with Kevin Shahinian here
Progress continues on the new GH1 custom firmware by Vitaliy K or ‘tester13’ as he’s know in the community. The developer has succeeded in enabling native 24p 1080p recording to the SD card. However the native 24p files cannot be played back on the camera yet. Previously the GH1 recorded 24p 1080p in a 60i stream, which needed pulldown and reverse telecline to get the native 24p stream back out…
Sample video (720 24p) on Vimeo / download the original file Sample stills (12MP) Meet the Nokia mobile which does 24p. Sounds like a joke doesn’t it? Nokia’s N8 has a specially developed sensor which is the largest ever found in a mobile device, and larger than all but the highest end compacts like the Panasonic LX3.