Andrew Reid

Thanks for the conclusion. You saved me 11 minutes and 42 valuable seconds of my life.

I am not even going to watch this one. Did he reveal his settings this time? Did he even bother to say what lenses were used? Camera is only half the story when it comes to AF in video mode. I see from the YouTube poster frame he fixed the Z7 skin tones though. Maybe not so bad after all!?

This full frame 3840 x 2160 4K clip is from my Nikon Z7 and I've included a standard JPEG to compare with. See how much it can bring out in the blacks https://www.eoshd.com/uploads/z-log/EOSHD-Z-LOG-Sample.zip The image quality from this camera is absolutely incredible. I am not sure if it is as good as the D850 - need to do a back to back. On DPReview's chart they had more aliasing on the Z7, but that could be down to the default in-camera processing having a more consumer friendly level of sharpening going on. With Z-LOG this is dialled down further than is possible with the default picture styles, even further down than the Flat profile. I find I am getting better colour in Z-LOG as well, vs Flat. Show us your grading skills!

Yeah, might work. It depends if you want the look of Alexa 65 or the 8K / 12k resolution as well. If you just want the look, then the ground glass would work or even a medium format Speed Booster for Pentax 645 to Sony full frame E-mount.

Wonderful video. I'll probably subscribe to his channel. How about this for a future trick - Project the medium format lens onto ground glass and behind that put two vertical GH5S in 4:3 side by side. One can capture the full height and half the width of the left side of the image and one can do the same but for the right side. Merge in post for 8K medium format!? Sliding the camera along like his rig was a great experiment in the lab and result was beautiful, but tricky to use for anything that moves. Oh and by the way - his vintage projector is a thing of beauty isn't it!?

Yes it does work with an external recorder as well. But the quality internally is so good with it, I wouldn't bother with one. On the Z6 you already have N-LOG for HDMI. This is more for internal recording when you don't want to bother with the hassle and wobbly HDMI cable.

You should try writing an email right now to a rumours site with anything at all in it. They'd probably publish it. Then I'd comment on it here like it's fact.

Same manual WB on both these shots. Different colour science, sensor, processing and codec.

HAHAHHAHA

https://***URL removed***/news/2936447826/cinemartin-launches-fran-cameras-with-8k-global-shutter-and-raw-support It shouldn't get the publicity. I have been burned before by a clickbait writer slapping something up on DPReview because it has a buzzword in the title. They publicised a Kickstarter campaign for a high speed camera which had WAY more credibility than this but it led to a £1000 loss for me.

It doesn't. You just take the battery door off.

The image quality is impressive. Download the original files from the main page

Z-LOG is an in-camera LOG profile for video shooting on the Nikon Z7 and Z6 mirrorless cameras, and most Nikon DSLRs. Available now

Yet again they gave it to someone else!!

For me even the way the RAW files look on default Photoshop (ACR) settings is a factor in my decision to like that camera or find it a completely pain in the ass. Leica M9 for instance - bang. Perfect. Barely need to touch the RAWs in Adobe Camera Raw. Sony Raw - eh. Honestly most photographers do simple changes. Contrast, curve maybe, saturation, that's about it. They don't go fine tuning individual hues or luma / sat curves and mess with advanced colour channel settings or profiles. They just want it quick and easy. For me it is a complete mystery why the manufacturers cannot grasp this simple point! Sony's RAW files look so flat when you open them. It's another stupid default setting decision. Stephen is right above - that the colour science is now in the software and not the camera, apart from the fact you are seeing raw sensor data - so it's representative of the hardware in that sense. And he is definitely bang on the money to say Tony throwing video into his RAW colour science (actually just a white balance test) is total nonsense and misleading bullshit.

I think you may have started a new meme @BTM_Pix

Seen it before. Part of the problem with Sony is that their colour matches a chart but looks clinical on real-world subjects. We are talking about video by the way, not RAW where the colour processing is in post. In warm sunlight, the Sony too often looks dead. Canon 1D X JPEG: Sony A7S II JPEG: On some screens this will vary. The Canon might look like it has too much magenta and red in the skin tones. That's the display that's at fault or the browser, not the camera file. The Sony looks dead no matter what you view it on

Just a quick test. Big difference!!

I am getting more and more used to Resolve for editing. Closer than ever before to switching. Using Resolve 15 Studio. It came with a free Pocket 4K!

I've had this before as well! Turned out to be one browser was showing it according to the Display profile in Mac OS and the other one was using SRGB or doing it's own thing. At the time I had an LG 4K monitor and when I changed the monitor colour mode in the LG monitor menus to match Mac OS the problem went away and both browsers were the same. A lot of people do see colour differences between computers and that's why it causes so many arguments about camera colour!

The entire core product is probably secondary to marketing. They probably have 10x the number of branding and marketing or PR staff than people working in technical, design and creative positions. The core product will go to shit at some point and all their customers will use something better, from a hungry rival. And Adobe will be dead.

I was tweeted at by a programmer / tech guy on the Premiere team the other month and his Twitter feed is full of him trying out Resolve himself!! He was criticising it at one point, but someone corrected him and it turned out to be user error. In other tweets he's being pretty clueless as well. I think sometimes there is a lack of common sense in the tech teams, coupled with a lack of oversight from the management. Premiere is not release-worthy and every year it is the same. Appalling reliability and clearly they are getting heat for it not just from normal customers but from big customers and institutions.... otherwise they wouldn't need to put out propaganda and have Johnnie salivating all over them.

A CEO says "failing often can be empowering" because they are never the ones to get the brunt of the consequences and can always continue their career somewhere else high-paid. I think it's almost like a spoilt child who doesn't care what toys they break as they immediately get a replacement! She's shafting us who rely on Vimeo for work, and at the same time is immune herself to the controversy. Living in some kind of bubble. It's the highest form of entitlement and late stage capitalism.