Andrew Reid

The GH5 shoots 4K 10bit 422 in H.264.

You seem to be you saying private companies aren't capable of censorship. The definition of censorship in the Oxford English dictionary is "the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security" If private companies censored George Floyd related topics on the internet as politically unacceptable, we'd have never seen the murder videos in the first place or the spread would have been far less mainstream. So yes private companies are capable of censorship, individuals are too. It isn't just reserved for communist governments. You won't change my mind on this so don't bother.

Going beyond full frame with Fuji GFX cameras has many perks. However one of the drawbacks of medium format used to be the amount of money you would have to spend on the lenses - and the size of them, and the slow apertures. With the development of mirrorless medium format cameras with a mechanical focal plane shutter that's all changed. I had no money left for lenses anyway, after I bought my Fuji GFX 100! So I set myself a challenge. What is the CHEAPEST lens I could use for great images on medium format? Here I used my Fuji GFX 50R to shoot the photos you see below, but the same look applies to the GFX 100 in 4K as well. https://www.eoshd.com/lens/best-50mm-lens-for-fuji-gfx-100/

AF doesn't need to be continuous it can just speed up your shot setup. Very valuable for decisive moment video. A blink and you miss it shot can be got where a manual focus lens would be just too slow, even if you have high confidence of focus from the high res EVF or screen. You can punch in plenty on the Fuji X-T4. There is the punch-in focus assist zoom for manual focus of course, not to be confused with changing the crop mode. And unlike most cameras it works during recording and not just before in live-view. The 1.5x crop sensor over full frame allows you to use a Speed Booster for 1.0x crop, then remove it for 1.5x crop. Same as having full frame and APS-C on the A7S II with one prime. Just factor in extra cost of the adapters. Then 1.85x crop like a GH5S is available in the menus. Further to that, you can apply DIS for extra stabilisation to go a bit beyond 2x crop. And a further crop in post from 4K can take you even further in. And all that from one prime focal length!

Found one on eBay for £200 so thought I'd give it a go. Got the rusty potato out for a test shoot versus the X-T4. The Voigtlander 17.5mm F0.95 is really nice on it. Did I miss any firmware updates on the Pocket 4K since I last bothered with it?

Try Standard profile -5 (you dial down the entire profile -5 to some kind of baseline) Then lift the shadows +2 on the custom curve. Gives you a good flat profile. Anything else too flat will fall apart. It's a very good image. They need to fix the flickering black level though.

I am still with the S1, it's a great camera. But the unreliable AF makes it unsuited to a wide range of work, and harms the stills prospects too. Take for example, shooting through a window. It would focus on a spec of dust on the glass and not the scene behind it. Say your documentary has a through the car or train window moment... Shot lost, or frustrating in the moment. The S1 is best as a manual focus cine camera, small form factor. For your manual focus needs it is superb. But for decisive moment stills and unplanned documentary clips you need the effortless speed of Fuji's phase-detect AF.

Sadly yes. It's why I left. The change was unbearable.

Thank you. I feel we could be getting somewhere

In London today, peaceful protests turned nasty. Some thugs attacked news reporters, members of the public. Good cops (you know, the non-racist type) trying to control the situation got vitriolic abuse. If we all are to have a voice and take action for what's right, the hardcore thugs that undermine their own side should first be silenced. I know this sounds like a paradox but it's true. Secondly, those who voted for Trump, Boris or whoever their demigod is (Bolsonaro another) purely for their own good reasons at the time (and the failure of Hilary Clinton to meet their concerns, or Corbyn in the UK) need to come to the right moral conclusion over time and see what he has done to their country. See the hard evidence. A moment of self-realisation needs to happen. Nobody is forcing them, and it doesn't mean to say they suddenly have to turn into the radical left. Carry on being conservative and standing up for your beliefs, but realise what sort of a man Trump is and what kind of weak leadership he represents. And the radical left, far left, who vilify the entire police force, encouraging the looting of innocent people's businesses, justifying it in the name of George Floyd (nope - it isn't justified) all need to calm the fuck down as well. They are using the anger to heighten the emotion even more and create dangerous tensions on our streets, all for their own selfish political ends. People just need to be reasonable. Too much to ask? Probably.

It's always this way. Someone like the Hemp man diverts the topic. I ask for help and he does this. It's trolling pure and simple, just bait to get you to respond. I don't expect much. Just for those who post at DPReview to be able to reference their information with the source of it, which could be here - they have that right to post EOSHD URLs, it's free speech. I don't ban their URL here despite DPReview treating me like shit. In fact how about this - fuck DPReview. Don't post there. If you don't feel this is right and the locking of protest photo threads, don't read DPReview.

AF is a real shot getter. Every time I go without it for run & gun I regret it as a shot sails past the frame out of focus. The S1 would be your first choice if it had decent autofocus. The Nikon Z6 and Fuji X-T4 are much better choices in that regard and the X-T4 has some very good native zooms for documentary... the 18-55mm 2.8-4 and 18-135mm both superb with very good (and silent) AF. The native zoom lenses for the Z6 are much more expensive. It does however have very good AF with the Fringer EF adapter, so you can use something like the Canon 24-105mm F4 on it, no problem, or a Sigma zoom. No 10bit on the Z6. Lowlight is good on both the Z6 and X-T4. I'm leaning towards X-T4 personally. More features than the Z6 and you can make up the sensor size difference with 1 stop faster glass.

Let's get this straight. So your contribution to camera nerd land is to bring the place into disrepute on so many occasions you get banned multiple times, but keep creeping back like a virus, even today opening an account only out of vindictiveness to your host, then you expect me to allow all this of course, otherwise it's censorship and hypocricy. When you get arrested for a theft, do you shout censorship too? I am not censoring you, I am protecting my property and other users. Looks like another Trump apologist has come out the woodwork! Who'll miss you?

Well that's a cynical way to look at it. How did you think Steve McCurry started photojournalism? Are you really suggesting there is something wrong with anyone photographing what's going on in their own towns and cities... their own country. If they want to use an ND let them. Let them use anything they like, I don't see the problem with it. You don't know the most important thing - their intention. If some of them are 'tourists' out for social media likes, then so be it... people are people... but you can't tarnish everyone with the same brush.

So many examples of that. This scene is from a river rave in Berlin, found on Reddit here https://old.reddit.com/r/berlin/comments/gui77y/peak_slacktivism_i_cant_breath_banner_on_a_party/ I suppose it makes them feel better doing jack shit. There's even now a name for it... Slacktivism! Words must match actions. You are out there packing food and household supplies. A wonderful deed and a reminder that sometimes humans actually do something good without expecting a pat on the head or a lot of social media likes for it. Those who aren't there need the pictures to know what's going on in a different country, the rest of us need those photos and videos. So keep these coming too.

It's hard to understand why people are so divided. Half of them voted for having a racist, nationalist, facist dictator as President, that's all. What's divisive about that? I can't see anything wrong with that! Must be all my fault. Is it me doing the provocation perhaps? They have done their country proud! 😂

There are some exceptions to the free speech rule actually. Racists or apologists for them, lose their right to a voice. So just so you know why, if I do have to delete posts on this topic it'll be for those reasons. Same with the "America first" MAGA nationalists. Fuck off.

Looks like some people need to learn what’s censorship and what’s standing up against immorality, racism, nationalism and worse.

Yup. Medium format and Leica forums do tend to be more civil, I find.

Again another example of the hypocrisy of this. Standing up for anti-censorship on the front page, while censoring their users on the back pages. https://***URL removed***/news/9338848714/sony-world-photography-awards-receives-backlash-over-censorship-of-hong-kong-protest-images

I see where the FPS shows up now. It is around 7fps with Metal. Real-time 24fps / 25fps with OpenCL. So the problem is Metal. Not the only problem mind you - there is the H.265 / Fuji shadow clipping issues that make all the files look like trash! Definitely all needs to be looked into by Blackmagic.

I am censored in effect by many of my colleagues but I don't censor you lot. If you want to post a link to Cinema5D or DPReview that's your right.

Photo by Fibonacci Blue Will Smith said recently that racism isn't increasing - the difference is that it's being photographed and filmed - now we realise just how much of it there is. If it wasn't for the filming of George Floyd's murder by a policeman, it may never have come to light in public. All of us who have a camera, smartphone or online presence should keep this flame alive and shine a light on the truth wherever it confronts us. Important photos and videos must never be censored. However when a long-time DPReview forum contributor tried to share his photos of the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis, he was immediately censored. I have also been subject to censorship on the DPReview forum (my URL is banned completely) so I know what it's like to have your voice silenced from a community. New blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/photo/dpreview-censors-frontline-riot-photographer-photos-of-george-floyd-protests/

For those that do go there, I want them to be able to have freedom of speech. Not much to ask.

Hello everyone, I need your help. I'd like everyone to write to Scott Everett at DPReview about the forum ban on EOSHD URLs and politely ask for them to stop doing this. I think it's been 5 years now. There are users who post in both places and want to reference a topic here, or reference in this forum a topic at DPReview. So it is not nice really, is it? Last year I had a big clear the air talk with Scott, their general manager. Unfortunately since, he has done nothing to stop the ban. So here is the address to email for him... https://***URL removed***/about/staff/scott.everett scottev@dpreview.com Please be polite and ask him to stop censoring you.