Andrew - EOSHD

  I'm afraid I agree with my readers on this John. What seems to be going on here isn't really fair. The selling "rules" are not a set of laws to be enforced by mods, they're meant as a general guideline to staying safe and as a disclaimer. Also your bad relationship with some of the other mods isn't sustainable. I'm afraid from now on you will no longer have moderator rights on the forum John. Sorry.   I am sure you can appreciate my position here. I feel you are abusing your power as a moderator to sell your stuff and censor competitors and this is just not acceptable. Way too many complaints for you to stay as a mod.

Nope. Only difference is it doesn't hunt when it snaps onto focus, but it snaps on a lot slower than the best contrast detect AF and is hopeless in low light.   What are you hoping to use it for? If it is casual holiday snap shot video time, then fine it works well. If it is filmmaking, then no, you need MF. And if it is stills forget it, just look through the optical viewfinder instead.

What on earth is this thread but a total waste of everybody's time. Pathetic LAfilm.

  Does it? Big shortfall in image quality for video to the Nikon D5300, not to mention the others.   And dual pixel AF is too slow for stills, too unreliable for filmmaking.   But apart from that... yeah... wow... amazing. etc.

I have a D750 to test so will put it through its paces on the blog this weekend.   Looks good so far. Flat picture profile offers pretty impressive dynamic range and there's very little weirdness coming from the sensor. At least as clean as D5300 but seems less soft.

Yes some side to side test needs to be done to see which is better.   That's why you need a site like EOSHD.   Unfortunately nobody at Nikon have bothered sending me the cameras. From my files I shot in Cologne and at a shop, they do look very similar but the D750 looks a bit better in low light.

In that same DPReview interview Maeda San claimed WiFi wasn't possible because of the construction of the 7D Mark II's chassis. What's it made of, lead?   The D750 has a carbon fibre chassis and built in WiFi. More expensive to produce.   Excuses are bad enough, but if you have to lie to your customers in forming such excuses, it's doubly bad.   I was told by Canon when the 5D Mark III came out that it lacked full 1080p HDMI because the hardware wasn't capable of it, then along it came later in a firmware update, so I know they lie to their customers. I have seen it for myself.

  Good stuff creatively there.   Agree DR does look good. Didn't see any nasties like moire either.

They either give us what we want at the price we want, like Sony and Panasonic and Blackmagic are doing, or the get zero. Better to get a bit than to get nothing at all.

Shot with both at Photokina and have the original files on my card if anyone wants them, I might upload.   D750 and D810 were too similar to tell apart without a proper shoot and more time with them.

At Photokina I talked to product specialists Jörg Ammon and John Morris, both of Canon Europe. We talked mainly about video on the 7D Mark II. Read the full article here

  What the hell is it with all these fake comparison videos on YouTube recently?

Just tried the firmware update. Works but didn't see the claimed improvement in video quality.   Hack project seems pretty real though.

  Try it guys.   I will do once I have some time tomorrow.

You're right, TN has improved a lot recently. People could really do with trying the Samsung as I have before dismissing my views on it quite so readily.

I plan to transcribe the interview from my iPhone recording. It was never meant to go online as an audio file, just a rough quality recording to transcribe from. There's a lot of background noise from the show floor on it and much of the implied unpleasantness was in the body language of the product specialist actually, more so than what he said.   I don't want to be in such a difficult personal situation with Canon. There are good people at Canon. I have a good relationship with people at Panasonic, Sony and eventually want to have the same with people at Canon. If I am critical of their products on EOSHD then it is because I want to see better products from Canon not because I have a personal issue with them. The truth is there for you all to see, the DSLRs are simply not delivering the advances we want for video and the Cinema EOS line is priced out of reach for many of us.   I was chatting on the record to a German product specialist at Canon named Jorg who was very friendly. I was asking tough questions about video on the 7D Mark II but he was doing very well to answer and to explain the other advantages of the camera and who it was aimed at. After about 20 minutes we were discussing moire and he called over a Canon UK manager who happened to be close-by, to ask him if moire had been fixed. You should have seen the face of this guy. You could feel the stress in both of our voices in his presence, it was simply horrible. He refuses to answer whether moire had been sorted out, then proceeded to be extremely rude and dismissive for a good 10 minutes until I decided I'd had enough and ended the interview. It ended with him saying within earshot of me and in a bitter tone "who's next" as if his time was better spent talking to some kind of 'yes' man.   The guy's name is John Morris, he's a product specialist at Canon.   I feel that in being so dismissive of my concerns over video on DSLRs, he is dismissive of all of us really, as a community, because you all (mostly) share my concerns. And on a personal level, as a representative of Canon at Photokina I feel the attitude he displayed fell well short of what is expected from people at such large companies.

  Well we're on the V3 now and still no 4K.   The sensor in the V1 was actually capable of doing it years ago.

Fake. Beware of the plant videos!

Seriously you two, were you expecting a 4K IPS panel for $599?   Come on, time to get a fucking clue.

The D810 now shoots better quality 1080p out of the box than the 5D Mark III. It isn't 4K or raw but it's good. In fact Nikon are now providing better image quality than Canon across the range in video mode. Beginning with the D3300 and D5300 which provide a better APS-C image than the 7D Mark II with less moire, Nikon have taken the same improvement to image quality and applied it to the D800's successor, the D810. Read the full article here

The reasons to shoot anamorphic are the same they've always been. Maximise vertical resolution and recording area, obtain wider aspect ratio and benefit from other characteristics and stylistic traits of the optics like flare, stretched bokeh, etc.   Our scholar froess here is an annoying troll. If anyone wants to learn and not take the bait, click here -   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_format

Canon wait until the others have made their move and usually follow up a few years later with the same thing at a lower price.   Then as tumbleweeds roll across the floor, eventually Nikon gets round to copying Canon!   Even took them a while with full frame FX format!   So I am not expecting any low-priced 4K camera from Nikon soon, if anything it will probably be a Cinema Nikon and $10k!

Cool. Is it $599?   :D  B)

If they are competitive with the competition I have no problem buying a Nikon. I even have a V1!   Like I say... IF they are competitive with the competition....

Too late I already have my A7S.