Andrew - EOSHD

So in my personal experience... Just in Berlin two great stores I regularly visited have simply disappeared in the month I was away! So sad to see Photo-Stade go. He was always a true enthusiast and owned an FS7 In the bigger retailers for the first time the camera sections have been shunted to the back of the floor or in some cases an upper floor instead of ground/first. Even at Manchester airport I noticed the cameras had been moved to the back. If Canon and Nikon don't get their finger out soon and start innovating and winning back smartphone users the whole industry is going to suffer, not just the corporate giants (who can move into medical and other profitable sections and survive just fine). It's the whole ecosystem that's at stake.

Just bringing this up again because there's a new kid on the blog, the EPS range http://www.sirui.eu/en/products/monopods/eps-series/ This replaces the feet from the PS range with small tripod legs, has anybody used it? Is it as good? Better?

The Q has a lovely look. In the end I took it back and stuck with the RX1 II though. Just wait till that thing starts doing 4K The T is very nice but it is basically the guts of a Fuji X-T20 in a very very expensive aluminium unibody. The original is still great if you want it just for stills, for £600 it is much much cheaper. Ergonomics are very nice. The AF lenses for it are VERY expensive but if you use manual focus stuff on it then tons adapts to the mount. I'd be more tempted to go for the SL with manual glass than the TL2 with a couple of Leica AF primes for same price.

Ah yes it depends on ISO. What's the optimal 'native ISO' for the best DR or isn't there one?

Get one, it's a much nicer body than the GH5 for stills and the video IBIS makes shooting easy, no lugging around heavy crap or extras, just shoot from the hip. It feels very much like a photography tool but the video mode is far better than it has any right to be, and lovely Olympus colours. John Brawley would agree

If I were Sony I'd make the A7S3 the first camera to be fully electronic with no moving parts, reap the good publicity, and leave us with our lovely E-ND and photographers can go away and use a A7R

They are very similar in 1080p if you have the VAF moire filter installed on the 5D2, so you can save some money there but the big difference is the 5D3 can do the stunning 3.5K footage in crop mode and lossless compression. 5D2 is 14bit only. Also it doesn't do 60p 3x3 binning. Dear peoples... Can you test something for me? Who has 10bit lossless in 3.5K? I did. Then it went away without explanation (same build, same card). Now the minimum is 11bit.

Find a better test that doesn't involve a big pair of tits. Depends on the store. Berlin and Sony's own store quite different to Best Buy, so who knows... Try it? There's an idea?! They are hardly going to arrest you.

Don't worry about the codec on the E-M1 II, it's very good. Minor differences between that and the superior 10bit on the GH5. And that price is very good indeed. The flat profile can actually be graded quite a lot before it falls apart. I should get my GH5 vs E-M1 II comparison shootout article and footage out, it's been a while and I haven't got round to it!

I'm not seeing that 10bit lossless is larger than 12bit lossless.

Sony have stopped all rumours and leaks quite successfully. There's no more farming out info to leaky external marketing companies, until the camera is announced by Sony themselves - then the review units and PR events invitations start going out. Camera companies are slowing down the release cycle of their products. I would think the A7R 3 would come first, if it is a 2-year cycle it could be announced within months, but if it's been switched to 3 years it would not surprise me. However the current models have had a price drop, so maybe the replacements are imminent after all. I hope they announce the a7R 3 and a7S 3 at the same time so we are not tempted to get an a7r and then regret it when the a7s comes along like the previous two times. I also hope it has the electronic ND filter from the FS5

Good to know! Thanks

EOS M with Magic Lantern I take it? The raw picture is what I'll be using it for. The image quality in stock mode for video is crap. The stills are lovely though.

3072 x 1308 is 95.5MB to the card with 14bit lossless. What card are you using that gives you such a high sustained data rate? I thought it maxed out at around 85MB/s on the 5D3? It is a shame they have not got live-view working yet with the 3K/4K mode, it's impossible to frame a shot.

What about trying EOSHD Pro Color?

I like the design of the handset, it looks like RED will build an ecosystem around it but will just put out the handset first and the rest is still far off. The start of something I think.

Right so it seems like an Android phone with no specs, but we do know it probably has some kind of lenticular screen like the Nintendo 3DS for a depth effect that will make you cross eyed and it has contacts that back onto other modules to give it other functionality like as a screen for your RED Epic. Props to red for trying something different at least. However, I'd need to see at least the basic specs and exactly what screen tech is in it before stumping up $1500

Apple are going backwards in so many ways.

Good stuff. I always thought the Olympus E-M1 II would make quite a nice compact telephoto choice for sports, with it's blazing speeds and nice 300mm F4 pro lens. Pair that with the 40-150mm F2.8 pro lens and it's quite versatile even in low light at ISO 6400. Wouldn't go much above that though.

Ladies and gentlemen I bring you good news. You can now record video with the shutter button in video mode on the A9. Read the full article

Enjoy the Spanish footy! What gear are you taking?

If Apple still felt like being innovative they should have built a £500 mega-death keyboard of OLED panel keys (every key a display) which you could configure however you like. Some could even be related to the app you're using (no need for touch bar) and even change the keyboard layout from UK to German or whatever your language needs are at the time... Think virtual phone keyboard but with physical keys. Why does this not exist yet. Ah it does exist, since 2008 But apparently falls apart. Here's the successor The hero we need in the post Jobs era.

Podcast? The body language is very important in this and you don't go all the way to the Kremlin, interview Putin, only to make a podcast

Old vs new... Is that progress the Apple way?!

Somebody at Sony has some explaining to do.........