Andrew - EOSHD

In or out? It's the big question facing the British today. Native lenses for mirrorless cameras offer all sorts of advantages. They can be smaller. They can be video optimised with internal autofocus. Canon themselves said recently: "With the move to mirrorless the aim is to optimise the space where the mirror box used to be - that was what we were looking at. This allows us to make the lenses smaller and also to raise the optical quality." So how's it going making the lenses smaller? If you imagine at the Canon factory they have a range of levers to prioritise. When it came to planning his lens, the man on the optical quality lever pushed fully forward. The man on the price lever wrenched it as far forward as it could go. The man on the size lever was drunk, his entire body slumped forward on the lever. The man on the video autofocus lever was absent in entirety, and the factory sign in book empty for months. In fact the Japanese police think he may have been abducted by the Yakuza. Read the full review

Leaving out 1080/24p is that final push by Canon to get pros to use certain higher-end cameras instead. Fuck customer goodwill towards brand or customer loyalty. It's an extra $1 they want.

The codec quality is similar to the 1D C, actually a little less compressed per frame as 1D C is ALL-I, so needs a higher bitrate (as each frame is compressed separately). As 8bit goes the E-M1X is one of the best. Get exposure right in-camera and you'll be good to go.

The DJI Z7 thing I've seen rumoured for NAB looks entirely bonkers

They could have used older lenses to make it less clinically sharp, but apart from that I thought the image looked very cinematic.

Happy birthday!

Seems he didn't check the date when he uploaded it on the 31st March

Aren't they entitled to do that?

Shot externally with an Atomos in HLG 10bit mode (higher bitrate than internal) Looks pretty good to me, and a hint of what the internal codec upgrade will look like. I also feel for a promo film it's above average, a very simple story but effective. A bit sentimental of course, and not perfect attention to detail in some shots, but it works. I hope one day when I hear a piece of music it will remind me of the Panasonic S1, when I was young enough to shoot stuff and not too old and crippled to use a camera

I like Wooden Camera's stuff and a sun hood is a good idea, working with what we've got. Problem is we've got too little. Price is good. Now let's raise it by $1000 and see a Pro version.

What's the point of the big bad screen on the back of the Pocket then? They may as well have left it off. It sucks up power and doesn't point in the direction you need it to, and you can barely see it in sun light. Of course, nobody in Blackmagic pointed this out to the design team!

It would probably just be easier to add ProResRAW internal recording to E-M1X or future GH6 40 minutes at best and sometimes camera turns off at 50% so hardly reliable YES to that. Where is a new Ninja Star?! If they can power it via USB C with no need for Canon LP, even better. Modern chips very efficient and at same time powerful.

NAB 2019 begins this weekend and exhibits open to the public on Monday 8th. One of the big talking points this year I think will be DaVinci Resolve 16 and hopefully we will see a big swing away from Adobe Premiere for editing as a result. Adobe will also unveil updates at NAB but I am uninterested, as I really do think their reliability isn't fit for pro work any more, or any kind of work for that matter. On the camera side it looks a bit quiet so far. Canon confused us all with the EOS R external RAW recording tweet, but it's entirely possible their reps don't know the difference between external HDMI recording and RAW any way. Read the full article

Nice shots, especially the first two. Why 4:3?

NAB starts tomorrow

I think that's bang on the money... I dare say Sigma designed or even manufactured glass in Panasonic's lenses and have been doing so for years. Whereas the higher-end optical formulas are Leica, I wonder if Sigma is a contract manufacturer even for those. So for Panasonic to be in bed with Sigma is very cozy, but it must give Leica a lot of pause for thought to share the L-mount license with a rival lens manufacturer. Maybe it will give Leica a bit of a reality check on their pricing. Leica L mount lenses have some real rip offs in the ranks, such as that crap kit zoom for the TL and even the 23mm F2 which is a nice lens but it's just an APS-C Panasonic / Sigma jobby basically, with a Leica badge. Leica need to get real there and unless it is hand made in Germany, a modern full frame or APS-C L mount lens should not cost the same as an M mount lens. I am sure internally at Leica not everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet in agreement over the alliance. First shot across the bow... Disable Sigma's Canon adapter. Bam. Hopefully this is not the case, but even if it is politics, I have a feeling they will dress it up sweetly as a little technological hurdle maid. Oh dear it doesn't work, sorry about that, but we have a lovely £4000 50mm to sell you instead. Maybe that Novoflex adapter was an experiment by the Germans... How shit can we make this adapter perform with Canon glass and what impact does even this shit adapter have on our native lens sales? Problem for Panasonic and the alliance is that a good Canon EF adapter exists on a Sony body. Sony don't seem to mind, and their native lens sales are fine. So is Leica just paranoid? Time will tell. In the meantime they have lost two sales or at least delayed two sales of Sigma's little adapter!! But not gained any Leica L-mount lens sales! What a great achievement! Besides Sigma have a range of those coming out!

I am no clearer whether I should buy it or not! May as well continue using my manual focus stuff until they can tell us what the heck they are playing at.

Let's hope they don't revolutionise editing too much. FCPX magnetic timeline anyone?

Good to hear. Is the 120fps 10bit or 8bit in H.265?

Did somebody just say Anamorphic Mode?

Anything's possible, let's see how it progresses. Still early days yet but I have Magic Lantern up and running on my M50 with a few modules... no RAW video module yet but should only be a matter of time now!

Does anyone have the full version of this post? Or is that it? What are the max frame rates on the full frame cameras? Seriously impressive stuff and the Micro Four Thirds version shipping already is a total bargain for $1999. 4K 120fps 10bit ProRes!!

B&H say the MC-21 is compatible with the Leica SL https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1463159-REG/sigma_sigma_mc_21_mount_converter_lens.html

I already said it first a day ago and again now. I also said it in the review. Set C3 with 4K & Canon LOG, hit record. But it won't maintain the mode you are in at that moment for stills... it will go to whatever mode you saved to the C3 preset. Canon messed the usability up of the one simple thing that people liked about their DSLRs... A simple stills/movie mode lever and movie exposure following exactly what is selected for stills and on the mode dial. The Sigma is sharper wide open but the FD 1.2 holds its own stopped down, especially colour and contrast... And of course wide open it has the wonder F1.2 look, remaining sharper than the less expensive FD lenses at F1.4.

Say hello to the Fotomax people for me. They helped me out with some real gems of c-mount lenses last time I was in Berlin.