Andrew Reid

Yes I think a lot of people have it, didn't realise, didn't care or didn't get checked. Which in good news, means the 3.5% overall death rate is probably lower. The knock on impact is bound to get out of control, it's already mutated into two strains, one more deadly than the other and there are economic / social dangers. The issue with putting a statistic or rate on anything is that the virus impacts different people differently... I don't want my mum to get it, who is in her 70's. I think in Europe we might need to start taking it a bit more seriously and get more of a clue about where it's heading. Some people on the London underground think a bucket will do it...

EOSdh rumors is reporting that EOS R0 will have built in laser gun for zapping zombies in the coronavirus apocalypse. Also comes with a free snake potion in the box and 5 bottle caps for trading with Pentax users... The last survivors,

Check out the Potsdam filmpark babelsberg, and for camera history.... Some of the shops! FotoMax, FotoBraune, etc. very good.

Now Fujifilm has pulled out and only 3 remain - Sony, Panasonic and Canon. But due to coronavirus they are now in doubt, which means Photokina is likely now completely kaput! I think a good German camera trade show with a long history deserves better. Photokina has been mishandled for years. Sure, the final demise is virus assisted, but I don't see them coming back from this. What is the point of 2 or 3 manufacturers turning up every 2 years? The thing I enjoyed the most about Photokina (RIP) were the smaller stands, many of them from China. How many of those will be making the trip this year amidst a near-pandemic for a show that may or may not happen, but one that needs to be booked months in advance and costs an absolute fortune for exhibitors? Hopefully we get a NAB-equivilent for photo cameras soon, one a year, in both Europe and the US.

It puts buying the same lens twice because you forgot you already own it in the shade. That's for sure. Good job the shop owner in Barcelona was an honest fellow, he could have played it to his advantage! All the F1 stuff is done, and I've got race car fuel all over me... I am a bit combustable and face has gone red. That's what happens I guess when you have 150 laps each from 22 cars circling you for 3 days. The GFX 100 is worth its weight in repeat lens purchases. At least I can now stop buying cameras! It's the end-game* * For 6 months!

So did history. DSLR dead as a dodo.

Makes me curious to try some more Contax Zeiss on it. The 40-80mm F3.5 maybe. Ended up getting the 35mm F2.4 Zeiss Jena from that shop. Very good macro, very sharp, a gentle swoop and swirl in the bokeh rendering, it's glorious.

Is the X-T4 the basically an GH5 with larger sensor, but 3 years later? I was expecting a bit more, and the Vlogging screen dumbs down what was quite a pro photographic feeling camera line. The X-H2 is the one I will be getting, if it ever arrives. It's a design that much less hipster, far more practical. 1080/240p is a first and great to have, so well done Fuji there. It lacks the 6K headline feature that nobody actually needs! Bad marketing, but who cares. Autofocus seems to be steadily improving, but it'll vary depending on the lens. The fast Fuji X-mount primes are not made for fast phase-detect AF. I feel that Fuji long term is onto a winner with GFX 100 video specs in a $2500 medium format sensor size cam, which will get enthusiasts excited while the mainstream goes for X-T series. It's a decent update, that's for sure, but price is creeping up to full frame land now and times are a-changin! I see a far stronger long-term future for the GFX range than I do the X-T.

The good news is I did in fact bring the MC-21 to Barcelona. It's not pick-pocketed, it's right there where I left it in the suitcase. GREAT JOB MR REID! A bit late for a meaningful comparison but we DID shoot some Blackmagic raw files of the F1 Unfortunately we have no idea what as not once could I see the screen in the sun. Cue Blackmagic Bots in 3,2,1....

Thank fuck for live view!!

Would be interesting to use that without the modular grip. Weird having two shutter buttons and reproducing what is essentially a 50R, but a tiny Fp-like medium format with detachable EVF? Now that is fascinating.

Yes it's true. I escaped 6 months of drizzle, flooding, and unworkably shit cloud covered light to do an actual shoot. We will find that out as I brought that with me as well. The first time it has seen sunlight I dare say the S1H is a bit cleaner in low light at 6400+

I often look at the 4 or 5 cameras in my bag and think “this cost me far too much and they’re all the same”. Then I have a cup of tea and try to forget about it. Yes it’s true, the full frame market is overcrowded and image quality differences between them are getting smaller. What about selling 3 or 4 of those cameras, I thought to myself… And consolidating them into one giant mad one. So this happened… https://www.eoshd.com/filmmaking/inspecting-the-fuji-gfx-100-and-having-a-cup-of-tea/

When you get hard edges like bright white pixels on a completely black background, it'll look more jagged on a camera that is pixel binning or line-skipping - that is aliasing, and it creates a distracting shimmering effect when the subject or camera moves. Moire throws up colour patterns from a similar process. Very fine detail can shimmer or take on a rainbow pattern. No the Alexa and RED don't have any of this, even if you look close. When you have to downsample from a high resolution stills sensor like 100MP to just 8MP required for 4K, you have to throw away a lot of pixels or find a way to merge these pixels into larger pixels. The GFX100 is doing some snazzy downsampling but it isn't reading the entire 100MP, that would be too slow for 24fps and create too much data to handle. I am happy so far with the 4K though. There is nothing quite like it!

It seems to be switched on without an off switch in Quicktime Player and Mac OS Finder. Bozos. Fuck ing hell

I find Mac OS automatically seems to convert HLG footage to Rec709 now as well. Tim Apple needs to get it sorted.

My Mac is obliterating the blacks in H.265 mode from this camera, mega crushing going on. I'll upload some original clips during the week, be interested to see what is going on there and whether this is a common issue.

GLS are a nightmare. I posted a camera to Berlin from the UK once and Royal Mail handed it off to them. Didn't go well, basically sat in a warehouse undelivered. They are the worst courier service in Europe.

On close inspection there is aliasing and some jaggies on high contrast edges, some moire, a bit like an A7R IV or D850, but it's more or less under control for the most part. Certainly helps to turn the sharpness down in-camera.

I have that battery too. It's decent, but a considerable weight penalty.

Edit: It's right there in the data sheet... https://www.sony-semicon.co.jp/products/common/pdf/IMX461ALR_AQR_Flyer.pdf See readout mode 5 at up to 30fps 12bit. Resolution is exactly 3882 x 2912. So if the GFX100 sensor can bin like that, why would it heavily line skip instead?

Remember this? Didn't that refer to X-Trans IV / GFX 100? Or, as I speculated at the time - a medium format cine cam GFX H100? https://www.eoshd.com/news/fujifilm-hint-at-44x33-large-format-gfx-h100-filmmakers-camera-open-gate-4k3k/ In terms of the image in 4K on the GFX 100 I am impressed by it and I wouldn't say heavy moire or aliasing... More like barely noticeable and very detailed, especially with real world (of course you can always see some zoomed in on a chart). I heard the GFX100 reads every pixel horizontally as well, in 4K. Not sure about the line-skipping. Does it tell us in the Sony data sheet?

There's the format conversion Metabones as well where it expands the image circle from a Nikon lens to fit the medium format sensor. Same look as full frame but 100MP and a Fuji. Can't do that with an A7 or Z6 yet

Can confirm there is no 4K recording in full frame 35mm crop mode, it's medium format only. Not that I mind. Punch in magnification during recording works. It's not too heavy and I like the ergonomics. ALL-I H.265 10bit at 400Mbit. Remind me did X-T3 have ALL-I mode in H.265 or Long GOP only? A while since I shot with it. This doesn't feel like a big X-T3. Feels more in the X-H1 mould. Which is a good thing. They got rid of the hipster dials for ISO and shutter speed (GFX 50S also had those) and it's more like a DSLR.

The internet allows you to make better decisions on what you DO buy. However it never stops, there is always something new and better on the internet. I find Flickr and YouTube compel me to buy stuff quite often... Flickr is a good way to find out if you like the look from a certain lens, but there are always great shots with every lens, so it's hard to be critical browsing through them all. While YouTube is very personal, very charismatic, it's like the great team of salesmen the camera companies never got themselves