Andrew - EOSHD

I am sure we must have been on Park Cameras at the same time, I saw that as well. The refurbished body only was an amazing price as well for £599 but I couldn't find the 30mm F1.4 anywhere for less than £350. I have the 18-35 but not the 50-150 in Sigma mount. I had it once in EF mount but took it back, not that it wasn't amazing... was just a bit too big for my liking and breathes a lot...Was trying it out on the 1D C in 4K with the 1.3x crop and it didn't vignette. Maybe I could sell you my Quattro if I ever upgrade to the H? I was tempted, not so much for the extra megapixels as the extra sensor space. I think Park Cameras had a Quattro H body for £1129... bit cheaper than WEX at £1350 and was tempted by that until the Hasselblad popped up. Nice review. You can drag and drop the original high res images to the EOSHD forum editor and it will upload here... saves you having to cut and paste URLs from pic hosts!

Allow me to decriminalise myself! Classic Chrome Highlight Tone -2 Shadow Tone -2 Color + 2 Sharpness -4 No colour grading in post on that shot. Lens is the Fuji 23mm F1.4.

I've been shooting timelapses and infrared stills with the Sigma SD Quattro mirrorless camera. Foveon is a future bayer slayer. Sigma could end up ruling the sensor market for high end cameras in 10 years. Read the full article

I think this is the first proper digital film camera, for stills at least. 2007 was a golden year for the sensors. Panavision Genesis. Sony F35. Kodak medium format CCD in the Hassy. First impressions are... Smaller and lighter than expected, really no hassle to use. The shutter is ridiculously loud. Biggest viewfinder I've ever used. I like the modularity and the fact the battery doubles as the grip. There should be an Olympus version of this... A miniature, modular M43 camera. Easily matches detail of my A99 II 42MP raw stills. Can't say that about many 2007 cameras But the main thing I am enjoying is the perspective of the 80mm... It brings things in nice and close, whilst appearing wide-ish, around 56mm on a full frame camera but with the perspective and depth compression of an 80mm. The OLED screen on the back is... Interesting. Not up to todays standards obviously but great colour and contrast for the time. Must be a very early OLED for that time. Works with 64GB UDMA7 compact flash, when I think the norm for the time was 8GB UDMA1... However it has locked up twice... I think I might need to invest in an older CF card! Thanks for the spot on Park Cameras BTM_Pix!

The Hassle has arrived! This is now my oldest camera... 2007!! The images must have blown peoples heads off in 2007.

Cool, go for the deep-end!! Can confirm the X-T20 is a beast Here's a 4K frame... Lovely codec and colour... Super detailed.

Very cool. You're famous now, I hope the dog made it into the article as well. The Minolta zooms are great. I have the 24-70mm F2.8 which works on Sony A-mount and the 35-70mm F3.5 which has a very three dimensional feel but as it is MD mount goes on the A7S II not the A99 II. How are you getting on with the Fuji X-T20?

Yes but D7500 is APS-C as well, a crippled D500 for almost the same price. I guess they included it because it's newer, 2017. Maybe there haven't been enough good prosumer DSLRs related in 2017 for them to select anything else!!

Plenty of info here on Vega http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/16940/amd-rx-vega-lineup Also consider the GTX 1080 Ti? By the way in Resolve there is less difference then I'd like between my iMac GPU and GTX 970 in my PC desktop rig!! GTX 755M vs 970 should be big step up but it isn't really for Resolve rendering times and realtime 2K RAW playback.

It's almost as if they created that category especially for Panasonic. They got it wrong in many categories. Huawei P10 is soundly beaten by the camera on the Google Pixel XL and Samsung S8. I am not sure the A6500 qualifies as best prosumer mirrorless with so much competition out there like the X-T2, and I guess A7R II is too old to be voted for again Interesting the Nikon D7500 won a category. I thought everyone hated it! Why not D500?

!! Congrats dude, Quite a cool photo, what was the article about?

Oooo better hold onto mine, was about to let it go. Have the X-T20 now and it does pretty much everything the X-T2 and X Pro 2 do with no 4K crop. But I much prefer the lightness and ergonomic niceness of the good old X Pro 2.

Pentax 645Z is supposed to be quite DSLR-ish to use. I don't know why they can't get DSLR performance out of AF on medium format cameras and lenses... it is 2017 after all. Digital Bolex CCD had to be exposed different to CMOS... In the end the dynamic range was similar to the BMPCC, just differently spread.

I'll assume the 4K in both E-shutter stills / raw mode and video mode is pixel binned on the sensor itself like the A99 II, as it probably has similar Sony sensor technology. 6fps E-shutter gives you idea of how slow the 8K output is on this camera... quite far off 24fps. No reason they can't do 4K raw video to XDQ cards on the D850... oh there is... focus group didn't ask for it!

Park Cameras say the Hassy should arrive tomorrow and I found an 80mm F2.8 to go with it Should be interesting for some timelapses and photo shoots if it doesn't fall apart due to old age! I will also compare CCD colour to modern CMOS / Sony and see if there is indeed a big difference.

I am in the UK at the moment so thought I'd search for things to do I think one of the 80mm F2.8 might be a good option because the camera body is already 2kg and the zoom will take it close to 4kg! The 80mm is tiny however and I do tend to use 50mm equiv. focal lengths a lot. I had thought about getting the 50mm F3.5, as that pretty much gives you the look of 35mm medium format and 50mm full frame in one lens... just from a crop in Photoshop to get the full frame 50mm look. The dream lens seems to be 100mm F2.2 but starts at £1450 on eBay. The lenses have leaf shutters... Warranty says they will be guaranteed for 100,000 shots and should last close to 200,000 if you're lucky!

That's not bad is it?! Bought the Park Cameras H3DII-39. The lenses, not sure what to do... How much is the 50-110mm usually worth?

The A7R II sensor is 36 x 24mm. A high-end medium format CCD is 53 x 40mm. So it's a bit like saying, why not get Micro Four Thirds instead of full frame. Yes there are pros and cons but I am interested in medium format for stills and timelapse, not as a replacement for my Sonys The perspective of an 80mm lens on full frame draws in the background and is more flattering for portraits than a 50mm on full frame. Also the colour and skintones of a 16bit CCD sensor is far superior to even the latest DSLR CMOS sensors. The high megapixel count is merely a bonus feature. To look through that beautiful medium format viewfinder (enormous!) and shoot with a different look to any full frame camera will always be 'a thing' no matter how good the smaller sensors get.

I'm researching into what can be picked up in terms of digital backs and digital medium format cameras in 2017 and at what cost. Where is the sweet spot, ideally around $3000? Any suggestions and eBay finds welcome.

The internal codec is so good on the GH5 you don't need to record externally, so maybe get a monitor with minimal processing inside for fast latency. Some of the recorders might be doing more work, and deliver a delayed result.

The loss of detail is due the pixel binning method used on the sensor to increase the readout speed. It's not due to bitrate. 80Mbit is a LOT for H.265 1080p. That is equivalent to 160Mbit 1080p on the GH4!

Did you post this at RED User as well? I hope so They will be... ahem...GREEN with envy and cancel their pre-orders Does it have an 8K module coming 2047?

I have tried the D500, ended up giving it back to the shop, but the image in 4K is definitely good. Superb colour science and very good flat profile with clean codec. It is like a 2x crop 1D C. The problem is it is so expensive, you're better off just getting the GH5. The DSLR ergonomics of the Nikon get in the way of video a bit... No EVF, flippy mirror, Nikon mount. Although the feel of the body and the screen are very nice indeed. Your upgrade path from D5200 is quite simple... D750 or D5500. There's not much point going for D5300, it's too similar, although it does have cleaner shadows with less banding. The D5500 is a nice choice with the flat profile but again not too different. Full frame makes a big difference but you'd need good lenses so it gets expensive. I think you have almost topped out on what Nikon has to offer and you should consider the Samsung NX1. Same mojo as the Nikons in terms of colour, and superb ergonomics. Are you using 60p for slow-mo? NX1 has 120p.

My favourite Fuji is actually the X-T20 for video. It doesn't have the 4K crop and the image quality is very close to the X-T2's 4K for much less money, even at high ISOs. X-Pro 2 for stills has nicer ergonomics but only 1080p so the X-T20 has my vote.

Yes Leica SL is running V3.0 firmware. I think the 4K is excellent (not yet tried 10bit 4K via HDMI) but the compressed 8bit 1080p combined with the flatness and high black level of L-LOG = banding hell!