Andrew - EOSHD

Fear not. The DIS is here to save the day. Very good and only 10% crop in full frame with it turned on. The extended mode is a BIG crop, and softer, but useful as a 2x crop mode in S35 for extra focal lengths from one prime. You can pretty much do a lot with a 35mm on there. DIS looks like IBIS it's that good. Although haven't done anything like an in-depth test with it yet, and just locked down shots. With IBIS you can't really pan anyway, it looks crap. A6500 and NX1 were around 30ms. But these measurements all seem to change depending on who you ask. Slashcam have 28ms for the 1DX3 24p. I am inclined to believe that one. The old 5D2 1080p in 24p was around 24ms.

It has arrived. Found another quirk. Max 1/4000 shutter in video mode. No shooting wide open outdoors without NDs. It is rare for an electronic shutter to have such a low maximum speed. Usually it is 1/8000 or even 1/16000. Ideally I don't want to use NDs for the 180 degree look and prefer to add that in post with the Resolve motion blur tools. Oh well can't have everything I suppose. So far the gut feeling is the GFX 100 and X-T4 are better for video, but I've yet to see the images from the 1DX3. The CFexpress card is coming tomorrow.

The digital IS and careful camera work helps. Otherwise there is nothing you can do but lose AF and shoot 60p, or lose full frame and shoot 60p with AF. It is a clear indication of what the EOS R5 8K will be like. Massive RS. AF quirks. Huge file sizes.

In the future digital will be so far gone... so far manipulated with computational photography... that documentary filmmakers will use film, to prove what they shot was real. Digital cameras are going to be reality distortion fields. The archival of so much digital data is still an ever present challenge for such large file sizes. If you shot everything at 2400Mbit/s you should add a zero to the cost of your camera.

It may be DPAF related yes. But seems odd that DPAF works fine in crop mode at 4K/60. Why not in full frame? Even if they have to disabled it so that it only covers the centre 80% of the chip, so less DPAF data to process, it would have been better than disabling it outright or forcing us into the slow lane.

I am pretty shocked by the rolling shutter behaviour reported by Slashcam. 16ms in 4K/60p 32ms in 4K/24p What a mess Canon! 32ms is completely unacceptable. It's worse than an A6500.

It's not going to be treated like film on a shoot, because with digital you can quickly offload a reel to affordable storage via USB. However it is treated like film in the way you archive 8K RAW material. After a few years you will need a building the size of the Paramount studios lot to put the hard drives

CFexpress is a very new format. Not the same as XQD, so at first prices are going to be high, due to limited quantities shipping. There are some exceptions. I got a Delkin CFexpress 256GB card for £170 yesterday. Typical Sandisk prices for same thing are around £400 on Amazon. Curiously the CFexpress 512GB cards are £500 which is around £100 per 100GB - much more reasonable than buying multiple 64GB cards at £170. CFexpress is PCI Express Nvme NAND memory like a PC Nvme M.2 SSD drive. So the memory chips are very cheap for a PC, built in great quantities. I expect similar progression to cheap and common availability with CFexpress once it moves out of its high-end niche.

The Fp 8bit is actually really good and it does 10bit or 12bit to SSD. However you sacrifice dynamic range in 8bit, less shadow retrieval before the breakup of the image begins in the deep blacks. The look of 5D Mark III Magic Lantern 12bit 3.5K RAW was always very special to me. Canon colour science and sensor technology is hard to beat. Nice to have it in official form now, although a lot more expensive and far less democratic.

70 minutes is a lot for certain filming. No, it is nothing for interviews or a stage event... but why you need RAW for those anyway? RAW is an art form for special creative occasions And you can always convert it, compress it, or even throw it away afterwards. 17 minutes on a 256GB CFexpress card is £200. Yes, very few minutes, very high cost of media so it's never meant to be an everyday thing. However for a really special shoot, it's worth it.

The file sizes are only massive in RAW Take a look at the range of bitrates below for 1D X III. We don't yet know if the EOS R5 will have same codec options as 1D X III. Also forgot there is a Movie IS mode with 10% crop on 1DX III. Handy.

I'd rather have 5K 60p RAW than 8K 30p RAW.

Canon's renaissance in video has come at a time when rather than being frozen over, hell has come to planet Earth in the form of 2020. Only a year as perverted and warped as this could bring not one, not two but three Canon hybrid cameras. Which one should you consider adding to your filmmaking life (indeed what's left of it)? New blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/news/canon-1d-x-iii-eos-r5-eos-r6-which-one-will-be-best-for-cine/

Xperia 1... 2 Who comes up with these names?!

I can indeed vouch for it and the project is alive and well Going to be interesting what happens next

There is a lot of unmotivated 'convinience' camera work out there today. I am making a 3 legged stand Tarkovsky would not use IBIS for a static shot Kubrick would not dump his Steadicam operator for a gimbal and drone. Some of the gimbal stuff is even worse than IBIS. Movement for the sake of it. No purpose. Tacky. Lazy.

It'll be good to know if the 1D X III stands up, because it'll inform the decision on the R5... So I have a 1D X Mark III on the way to test. Also having a big clear out. I think the SL2 may have to go if they can't fix it. £5300 is a lot for something that doesn't work properly. I have way too many cameras and time to get rid of the older ones that have fallen out of relevance and see what the Canon has to offer. My concern is that RAW file sizes in 8K are going to be a complete joke. I am concerned about rolling shutter. I am a bit hesitant over the low light performance too. The 4K/120p and IBIS are big attractions, but the 1D X III 4K/60p is a full pixel readout. The 120fps will be binned. And I have realised IBIS makes me a lazy shooter and I don't like the floaty look. I am going back to tripod work. The big dilemma is whether the GFX 100 justifies itself with the 1D X III around.

Impressive flamingo on his camera strap though. That lens looks perilously close to falling in. Won't matter as doesn't work with the camera in 4K anyway.

The question Leica must answer is why they feel it ok to advertise it as a professional 4K camera for £5300, but it doesn't behave like one.

Take a look here! https://www.eoshd.com/comments/forum/25-samsung-nx1-nx500-hack/ I recommend the 160 / 180Mbit mod As the NX1 records H.265, this is equivalent to H.264 4K quality at 360Mbit! I also recommend the EOSHD setup guide and LOG workflow. https://www.eoshd.com/samsung-nx1-video-settings-guide-tutorial/ As for accessories, look to see if you can get Luca's NX-L speed booster for the full frame look with Canon EF lenses. And the Samsung battery grip is pretty nice too. This camera really does hold up well today, apart from ISO 6400+ or the rolling shutter. Just keep the ISO below 3200 and use a fast lens in low light. Avoid very quick action pans! I wish Samsung would return to the market. Biggest loss of the past 10 years. PS - if you have trouble with the H.265 files try converting to ProRes with EditReady or using Blackmagic Resolve 16

FZ2000, RX10 III both good alternatives. The RX10 III has a great lens, and superb looking 240fps FZ2000 probably much improved with V-LOG. Did it get a bitrate bump along with it? The cheapest XC10 I have seen so far has been £950 on ebay. If it gets down to £700 I may revisit

Put one on an Alexa?

How is EF the future? Give me mirrorless lenses all day long It's not like people are short for good EF lenses

The buggy racing shots are my favourite.

I quite like the look of Canon's older zooms... the original 24-105 F4L and the even more past it 28-80mm F2.8-4L Pop them on an X-T4 and you have the XC-10 look with bells on and better AF too But I miss the XC10's "inventive" form factor and small size, especially the lens - which was lovely to use mechanically speaking Maybe it is worth giving the XC-10 another go if I find it cheap