Andrew - EOSHD

The zebras work in 8bit on the display, any value above a certain brightness i.e. 250-255 get the zebra treatment.

When the picture profile is changed to Z-LOG for the wider dynamic range, and the values aren't clipping, the highlights won't get zebras.

Without hacking Nikon's firmware, it's not possible to add them for Z-LOG.

Happy easter everyone, good spring weather to get the camera bag out

Nikon has a new boss

An optics engineer... not an accountant. Wishing him well for the future...

Jordan is filming on Aizu primes in his bedroom.

These are $8000 lenses for a YouTube talking head

So he's a guy who knows a thing or two about creativity.

But the cameras they have picked for this video make you wonder whether the fundamental judgement is there or not.

They must have had their hands on just about every camera now, so aren't lacking in experience.

The Nikon Df is also in their slagging off list along with the lovely X-Pro3!

The Df... That's a bloody wonderful little tool to use, a pure pleasure and hands down the best optical viewfinders you can get - better than most pro level DSLRs, so unique in that respect. And it's really pretty.

The Olympus E-M1X is one of the most ergonomic and nice to hold camera designs ever made. Chris acknowledges this yet it's the main focus of the YT thumbnail

Best grip ever, built like a tank, really fast and flawless stabilisation.

It stands head and shoulders above the ergonomics of the G9 II or Panasonic full frame bodies of 2026.

I just don't get these guys...

Dumb as fuck.

Was vista vision really a 3:2 aspect ratio like full frame, even if it's for the cinema screen?

Did PTools ever get a ROM address probe feature like Magic Lantern?

This could be very useful in this day and age for a new adventure...

Hiding all the clutter would go a long way to making stuff like Resolve more usable, it's fine for professionals who actually need and use 1000 features but when you just want to get a quick turnaround done on a piece of video news journalism or a YouTube edit, it's total overkill central and as for newcomers it's totally baffling for them, and creates a sense of dread.

FCP's magnetic timeline is the sort of thing you need to learn and read the manual for, it never felt intuitive compared to Premiere. It doesn't work well for soundtracks, sends stuff out of sync, maybe I was using it wrong but I never figured it out myself and gave up on it (like a good proportion of the pro market did).

The situation today is we have a few iPad apps that are vaguely decent and a few Mac NLEs that look like Windows XP apps with too much clutter.

But if people have constructive design ideas for an alternative solution I'm all ears 🙂

The EOSHD NLE is already under way and basic prototype exists.

What if you want to crop as well? Quick Actions are too limited. Photoshop is too bloated. The in between solutions are all a bit weak.

Also on the image editing side, I might do something there.

I use Photoshop basically for resizing JPEGs 99% of the time. It's total overkill.

13 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

I'm not sure what "a modern approach" is, but iMovie and Luma Fusion are both pretty straightforward and unbloated from what I remember - and they both run on Mac.  I'm not sure if either one has a lut editor, but 3d lut editor has been pretty good for a while now, hasn't it?

is the '3d lut editor' this one https://3dlutcreator.com

Costs 99 quid?

Seems very pricey when Resolve can be used as a lut creator for free.

Still, a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

And then you have iMovie which is a toy hammer to crack a nut!

I'm thinking of something else... Maybe an NLE and LUT Creator all in one for $39 which does away with all the bloatware and speeds up your workflow for 99% of edits.

I have used Luma Fusion, a touch screen tablet / phone app - I don't know about you but I hate NLEs on a phone, you just don't have enough screen real-estate.

It tries to do too much, and dates originally to 2004.

A modern approach is needed. New ideas welcome!

Sometimes it feels as if Resolve is a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and as for Adobe... less said the better 🙂

What is missing, I feel, is a quick turnaround NLE for the Mac.

My plan is to make a couple of apps:

- A Quick NLE, no fuss, no magnetic timeline BS, just works - 8K,4K, ProRes, HEVC support, GPU accelerated, LUT support and a nice built in colour grading tool

- A LUT Creator, import a RAW DNG Photo or V-LOG Video, and use colour grading tools to get the perfect look, export this as a Realtime LUT for your Lumix S9 or S1R II, and export as a plain old .cube LUT

What features do you think are needed most? Bear in mind we're not throwing the kitchen sink in there like Resolve. My priorities so far are...Apple style UI, quick to use, GPU accelerated, no stuttering, a much more lightweight app than Resolve, Premiere or FCPX which does one thing really well and that's edit really well and without a lot of clutter.

Suggestions welcome.

At this point Blackmagic should just buy ARRI and take over 🙂

21 hours ago, Aussie Ash said:

Yorgos film "The Favourite" is a damn good film as well.

He's a very interesting director that's for sure

Which 17K displays will HBO customers be watching this on?

Yep Z-LOG works with the Z50

I'll have a dig and host them here if I find the mother lode

Lots of diplomatic non-answers.

TLDR:

S1H Successor — Panasonic acknowledged the demand, but gave no timeline or product confirmation CineD, only saying they're listening to feedback from video creators.

Cinema Cameras — Panasonic hinted at future growth in this space, noting that merging its consumer and professional AV divisions will allow cinema cameras to "evolve even further," CineD but stopped short of announcing anything specific like a Sony FX3 competitor.

MFT is Not Dead — Tsumura-san pushed back on concerns about MFT being sidelined, pointing to recent releases like the GH7, G9II, and new LEICA MFT lenses, framing the dual L-mount/MFT strategy as one of LUMIX's core strengths.

S9 EVF — Panasonic is aware that photographers strongly want an EVF on the S9, and is weighing that against keeping the camera compact.

What's Coming — Panasonic teased "numerous exciting products and new workflow proposals throughout the year" L Mount System but gave no specifics.

"Tsumura-san confirmed that photographers who compose through viewfinders “strongly request the inclusion of an EVF,” and that Panasonic is considering the balance between compact size and EVF inclusion as they work to “meet the expectations of as many customers as possible.”

LOL. GM5 anyone?

56 minutes ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

It only took from July to August for my own country to go from demonstrating nuclear fission to dropping a fission bomb on a city full of civilians.

I thought there was some breaking news for a moment then!

What we're seeing with AI is what we see with human intelligence, in that it can be either the best of humanity or the most evil of humanity, and there's a similar spread of ethics on YouTube as well! On one hand the inevitable consequence of a free and open platform with no editorial oversight, no unifying force in terms of values, just a bunch of people doing what they do - some grifters, some artists, some enthusiasts, some engineers, some marketing, some desperate for money, others more interested in creating and less interested in what other people think.

I'm kinda upset Mr Burling won't be around any more as he was definitely in the latter camp of YouTubers who had credibility and an artist's vision.

I find a lot of the animation folk are the same... that field seems to attract people who are in it for the pure love of it rather than grifters just in it for the ego and the money. In photography and filmmaking the balance is more close to the middle, 50-50.

What I like about YouTube and social media in general is you can seek out the niche pockets of creativity and that it sits on what is now a big mainstream TV platform. A mainstream TV platform in the 'old days' would never have had the sheer amount of one-man-band content on it that YouTube has now.

So there's a lot to be grateful for with it as well as the other more negative side of it which is sometimes difficult to ignore.

It's a net gain overall though isn't it?

I will reconsider my own absence from YouTube soon and get some stuff out there.

On 1/30/2026 at 12:25 AM, gethin said:

Dynamic range a bit crap. I know the zr has similarly crap DR, but the examples I saw on redraw looked lovely (nice highlight rolloff), that’s what got me interested to start with, but seeing how crap the h.265 was in comparison has put me off

The dynamic range is only crap in the world of luxury peepers.

For whom pixel peeping got a bit out of control and if they loose 0.02 stops of dynamic range due to a fast sensor readout they will huff and puff and buy something different.

Nuts!

4 hours ago, Mattias Burling said:

Hello, I hope everyone is well!

Even though I’m not really active on camera forums anymore, I frequently read the EOSHD blog and every now and then the forum, so I saw the thread and thought I would respond.

Because it wasn’t ”poof gone”, it was announced on the channel over a year ago and mentioned in the last three videos.

Before going into why, super flattered that this thread exist. I mean that.

So here are some thoughts on the matter and why I took it down.

Hobby vs Work

YouTube was never my job, just a hobby. So was video making and photography, in the beginning.

When starting the channel I was working as a producer after a couple of years as a radio/TV reporter. So I started the channel to keep my practical skills fresh. And to keep up with the development, which was huge at the time. The DSLR revolution, Blackmagic, cheaper editors etc.

Fast forward a couple of years and I started making more videos at work again. At the same time I pretty much lost all interest in doing it as a hobby. And actually canceled the channel.

Winston Churchill was definitely right in saying that work and hobbies should not be too similar. 

But what I had discovered was a passion for still photography, which I had pretty much no experience with. So I started making videos again.

That’s why my videos became very repetitive and short. I didn’t care about that part, I just wanted to display my stills work and get feedback, talk to the community, experiment with cameras and develop.

After a few years I became a good enough photographer that my new employer noticed and just like that I was shooting stills professionally all the time. And I still do (I work in marketing and PR). It’s a huge bonus in my field and if you are good at it you will never be out of work.

So photography also became less and less of a hobby.

Instead I found other hobbies. They where things that for example got me out into nature, so photography tagged a long a while, as a secondary activity. But eventually it faded. It was also nice to do things and not share it with people. I know I probably could have a very successful channel by making videos about my current hobbies, and even make some money. But I never really wanted a channel for the sake of a channel. And always had a full time job.

The fact is that at no point would I had been able to live of my channel, not even at the peak. Even with sponsors it was never more that a regular salary (in my field and country). But as long as it was a hobby and I was glad to do it, it was a welcome addition to finance camera gear.

 

Time

At the same time as my channel started to feel less fun and other hobbies started taking my time, I started a family. So.. you get the idea: full time job + family + 2-3 hobbies = no YouTube.

Upkeep 

So why take it down, why not leave it for the community? I did..  at first.

Like some of you pointed out, the YouTube crowd in the photography/video space is generally nice and positive. That is my experience as well.

Early on I learned that a good way of keeping the trolls away was to be present. Respond and engage. Trolls are usually idiots or cowards, so they don’t like getting push back.

But once I stopped making videos, views and comments obviously went down. But the trolls started coming back. Not so much after me, and I don’t care about that. But agains the community. The people commenting started being nasty towards each other.

I felt a responsibility to moderate, which was annoying. That’s when the thought about simply removing it started to grow.

It wasn’t an impuls. It was an internal debate that went on for months. And the issue grew much much larger than a couple of trolls. 

I started thinking about five years ahead, 10 years, 30 years..

This post is already way too long so I won’t go into all of it. But I think you get the idea when I say:

Privacy or when the content no longer reflects the creator. Digital minimalism, control over one’s narrative, inactive or outdated content. Risk of misuse of content  due to me not checking the terms updates. Closure.

 

So there is a looong ramble 🙂

 

To keep in spirit of the forum I can charge my current gear for pro work 🙂

For the longest time I used the EOS-R for 75% of all my work and the R5 (rental)  for the rest. It wasn’t mine but my employer told me to buy whatever I wanted. Paired it with a 28, 35 and 70-200. 70/30 stills/video.

 

The R5 is peak camera imo.

 

Today is a little different. I started working for a new company about a year ago and again was told to buy what I needed. I would have bought the R5 without hesitation if it wasn’t for the Sigma 35-150/2-2.8.. I just had to have it. So I ordered the Nikon Z6iii. It’s not as good overall as the R5 for me and what I like in a tool camera. But it’s 90% there. And coupled with that lens it’s becomes on par.

 

//MB

Great to hear from you!

It makes much more sense now we know why you brought the channel to a close and also chose to delete it eventually. All I can say is that I'll miss it.

And I hope you find the passion to return one day to the tube.

Having read that I understand completely and found the same challenges myself too, everyone can see that I struggle to get excited about the gear sometimes, whereas in the earlier "DSLR revolution" era, I'd be updating EOSHD 5 times a day sometimes more. It is difficult when a passion becomes work, when enthusiasm becomes repetition, when an audience goes toxic or when a big US tech companies enshitifies the platform you're posting such valuable creativity on. I mean, look what they did to Vimeo, it's a difficult pill to swallow and I've always struggled with my enthusiasm for YouTube as a platform as well and there's very little in way of alternatives.

I'm just glad you're well and enjoying your R5... You're right in that it still holds up as near the peak even 5 years later, and the overheating drama is far behind it after Canon decided to undo the damage caused by their fake timers and cripple hammer decisions.

I've always found YouTube comments pretty positive. They certainly were on Burling's channel. Everyone was enjoying a wholesome source and then poooof... gone. A real shame and not the right way to bail on your community.

To be honest, I am annoyed at the guy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mk3v2k3r0o