Andrew - EOSHD

Here's a preview, very early days yet but the idea is to have a wiki page for every camera that draws together all the trusted resources for that model onto one single page with a clean design, no spam, no tracking malware banners, and no clickbait.

Within each page:

A ranking system

In-depth detailed info and specs at a glance.

LUTs and downloads, such as links to firmware updates, colour profiles, etc.

A box with only "trusted" high quality YouTube reviews sourced per camera.

Links to the top 5 best quality written reviews, manually sourced by me per camera.

That will replace DPReview and Google search results for camera models, both enshitified to the point of unusable now, with so much AI and clickbait.

Nikon are in trouble.

Camera sales down 22%.

RED suffering in the filmmaking downturn.

Patent has lost the biased ref.

1-0 down and could be 5-0 by full time.

Why does nobody talk about the FX2?

Much better value for money!

DPR is telling me about care homes, maybe they think it's itme?

That's the first fold on desktop of an article - 10% content, 60% ads, 30% blank spaces.

Maybe if they want to stuff 60% ads down our throats on every page at every scroll position, giving some of that blank space over to useful content would have been a consolation prize but they didn't even do that, the stupid cunts.

Scrolling further and it gets worse.

It's like a malware site.

Finally relieved to reach the bottom of the article, with just 4 ads here - unfortunately they are laid out completely at random as if sprayed on with a paint gun.

The conclusion is that DPR is now dead and it may have well as been shut down.

Everything that was usable and useful about the classic site has been eviscerated.

In terms of the historical specs and camera info I'll make my own site that can replace some of it, like a Wikipedia for every worthwhile camera ever made going back to the 90s.

It's actually under development now so expect to see it within the next few months.

22 hours ago, EduPortas said:

I agree, my time spent on that site has fallen by 90% at the very least since the re-design.

Their bounce rate must have skyrocketed.

Indeed. So much empty space reserved for ads, the content just looks completely lost and every single change they've made to every single detail and feature feels like a massive downgrade, their tools and feature comparison database for example... now almost unusable.

Yet still they pat themselves on the back for a job well done. Typical isn't it!

On 7/26/2026 at 10:40 AM, kye said:

I'm wondering what the smallest P&S camera is that shoots real 720p or 1080p (not line-skipped or pixel-binned and then upscaled).  If it has a zoom that would be even better.

Real 1080p on compacts is a unicorn. None of them do it, they are all pixel binning the 1080p and 720p.

There's a wide variance in binned image quality though - some pixel binning techniques get close to native res 1080p.

Pixel binning works well on the RX100 M1/M2, these use a good sampling method. Cleanest 1080p for the price, with the fast aperture zoom and the size is as small as it gets.

The RX100 M4 or newer got the fast stacked sensor, so they CAN do a full pixel readout for 4K, no crop, but the 1080p is still binned.

LX15 I can recommend as an all-round stills compact with 4K, but it still cannot sample the full width for a full pixel readout, the 4K is a crop and the 1080p is binned. I never used it for 1080p so can't vouch for the binning quality. I always 4K'ed it.

On 7/26/2026 at 10:40 AM, kye said:

My initial research shows turned up the below, but maybe there are some hidden gems?

It looks like the industry decided that 90-110mm wide and 55-60mm tall was perfectly fine and just pushed to go thinner?

Which, if any, of these are worth looking at?

The old DPReviews are still the best outside the regular modern blog posts and Youtube vids of the cameras being revisited.

Unfortunately that recent DPR re design wasn't kind - the site is almost unusable now.

Does that mean we may stop hearing about action cams on the EOSHD Forum?

What a gem of a find that Japanese ARRI user is. Lots of nice Sigma Fp stuff on his channel as well.

Great to see it's still being used at this level.

Looking at the linked image from above, I much prefer the handheld setup!

I really wish someone would revive the same form factor and Kodak CCD sensor.

Is it really doomed to be a one off?

Can the same look ever be revived with a modern CMOS sensor? I have my doubts!

I have a GM5 and I'd love Panasonic to update it but the market usually always chooses "more features" over "tiny size" when given the choice. The Sigma Fp got slammed for no EVF, no IBIS. The Panasonic S9 gets passed over for being too limited, even though it's a similar spec to the S1H, with better AF!

And with their 1 inch stuff like the LX15, nobody really bought it... all preferring RX100 VI etc, despite the fact the LX15 is one of the best compacts ever made with an F1.4 lens.

If Panasonic made a mistake with the L10 it's the lack of a prime lens version to go after the X100 crowd.

I also sense the age old marketing problems again with Panasonic. In Berlin, my local camera store (a very significant and long running one) has a Panasonic rep who is there very frequently, almost on a weekly basis. Panasonic have not even briefed him on the L10, let alone got a demo unit out for him to show to customers.

Camera companies need to learn the marketing basics.

If your strategy is to build hype around a big orchestrated online launch, have the camera in shops the next day, strike while the iron is hot. Why do the launch and actual release months apart and have nothing to sell?

Is the 14mm F2.5 II the same optically as the original?

Let's change the subject.

Terrance Malick is the most overrated boring director ever, adored by hipsters, hated by real filmmakers.

Bayer 8K sensors don't even resolve 8K

Oops

The dual crop from open gate is a legit use of it of course but unless you're shooting the portrait shot for a massive portrait orientated ad screen, you'd be better of shooting the camera in landscape orientation so that the cropped image is portrait, and the highest quality non-cropped image is landscape.

Phones the by far the dominant destination for portrait formats.

I really think it's massive overkill, and the file sizes in RAW are nuts.

If you are making disposable slop and are happy deleting the original files, then I suppose it doesn't matter - but imagine archiving so much data just for social media content. It makes my head hurt just thinking about it

Praise be to the gods... Megadap don't make stuff for L-mount (so far) but maybe they'll surprise all 3 users at once.

Indeed, hard to see what it offers over the Nikon Zr other than a different badge.

With the lens not covering the full sensor and battery is the absolute unit from the GH7, I think Panasonic are missing a trick here

https://www.dpreview.com/news/8679910436/panasonic-lumix-dc-l10-four-thirds-enthusiast-compact

They should make a version with a prime lens, a slim pancake on the front and reduce the body size a bit towards the Ricoh Gr series, then it would open up a world of sales Panasonic's marketing team never knew existed.

Have they ever heard of the Fuji X100 VI!?

They have all the capabilities to make a killer competitor to that too.

For manual focus vintage lens users like me, I just can't get away from that damned Techart adapter which autofocuses your Noctilux.

Really miss it when picking up my Sigma Fp-L.

It's a real shotgetter.

Not Panasonic or Leica's fault of course, lots of nice native Sigma lenses for the system and they can't influence third party adapters much.

The clearest sign yet that people's critical thinking might be in a dodgy place...

7K RAW on a content creator's camera with a tripod mount to shoot in portrait orientation.

Now let's remind ourselves:

Why do people shoot vertical video - because of phones

How big is a phone screen - Erm, about 7 inches tall

How much resolution is 7K in vertical format... 1000 dots per inch!

What DPI are the best flagship phone displays? Well, iPhone 17 Pro Max is 2868 ×1320, so about 450dpi, and that is overkill already because to make out the individual pixels you need a microscope.

Those Instagram stories never looked so good.

I think it's quite exciting, for someone who skipped the Sony a7r V for video because of the slow sensor and terrible rolling shutter in 8K, I can finally embrace it fully without any silly deal breakers.

It's also going to really help the price of the original a1 drop to sensible amounts. Already the lovely a1 OG is <£2200 on eBay from Japan.

This is highest resolution stacked sensor yet though... 68 vs 50mp, $2000 less than an a1 Mark II, DGO and a new, absolute chonk of a battery, plus new EVF - possibly the best ever on a Sony - and an EOS R5 Mark II price to match. Finally Sony are not deluding themselves that everything high-end they do should be 6 or 7 grand.

Would it be nice if it had real-time LUTs, open gate, anamorphic and raw codec?

Yes, but as an all-rounder it ain't bad is it? I am not in the least interested in 2500Mbit codec file sizes when H.265 looks as good as it does in 2026.

S1R II for me is tempting for open gate and the LUTs, but it's got too many deal-breakers where the Sony hasn't. The mount, for a start.

And the a7r VI autofocus I bet is stunning.

To be honest, I really want one. I'll wait for it to come down to 3500 euros used, then I think i'll sell some stuff and pounce on it.

The main weakness of the a7r V and Panasonic S1R II - the slower sensors and rolling shutter, is banished.

The 1.2x crop in 8K isn't ideal though.

Specs:

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-a7r-vi-review

What an absolute gem

Looks like a real winner and very brave move because this will absolutely tank G9 II sales.

As a G9 II owner, very happy with the GH7 sensor - I'm excited for this. Especially with it able to shoot 5K, although it does look to be the 2.2x crop variety rather than the oversized multi-aspect approach it goes for under-sized multi-aspect approach. That lens on the LX100 has always been the best compact camera 24-70mm equivalent. bar none though, so I'm not too bothered!

If instagram crowd still go for a Canon G7X II after this comes out they want their heads seeing to.