Andrew - EOSHD

The ban makes it look like I am hosting illegal content or have done something so terrible that DPReview are protecting their users from my site. Any person interested in Pro Color or C-LOG has a broken censored link to contend with so that's lost sales right there. This is what you get from Barney when you criticise the DPReview news feed for clickbait. Good job nobody bought a Fran 8K after seeing it hyped on there by Gannon, isn't it. The Cinemartin bloke's now bankrupt and I hope nobody got burnt. Maybe I should ask DPReview to take down all my video page reviews like for the 5D Mark III and GH4 they got me to write, as well. They sell ads and Amazon links around my content, whilst threatening me with the law. Nice.

Unfortunately this ban has never been lifted. 3 years now and running now. I've had people pirating links to my Shooter's Guides on the DPReview forum and found it difficult to get mods to take it down. People cannot link to the genuine URLs at EOSHD. Unfortunately Barney Britton at DPReview (https://***URL removed***/about/staff/barneybritton) doesn't like me, and won't lift the forum ban on the domain name. I may need to ask some of you for help. If you have a DPReview forum account, or a way to contact the moderators, I think we need a campaign to lift this ban once and for all. On top of this, Barney has accused me of libel and has forwarded my emails to Amazon's legal counsel. He wanted me to take down the posts about the Sigma MC-21 adapter on this forum and the comments about the Fran 8K news piece Gannon wrote at DPReview. If anyone can help, please do. Now's the time.

On the other hand the Nikon Z 50mm F1.8 is actually surprisingly not boring. I am quite enjoying using it. Very good AF in video mode too. Nikon gave up altogether giving the F0.95 autofocus, I see. It's going to be a tank, that tanks sales wise as well. It makes the RF 50 1.2 look balanced in terms of size. The new Voigtlander 50mm F1.2 Asph is the best rendering and best overall performing smallest, highest 50mm F1.2 on the market right now. In stills mode that can be autofocuses on the Techart adapter on E-mount, and soon on Z mount too. The AF is fast, and moves entire lens, so optically that is superior to moving just one element. I find it very practical and don't mind the few MM the lens moves during use. Hand doesn't block the movement even when cradling the lens. I wish Canon would do a smaller softer 50mm F1.2 with more vignetting, and internal focussing elements, no larger than existing EF version, but I guess the pixel peepers would be up and arms about it.

All that bulk, expense and weight just for a more clinically sharp look and less vignetting. Give me the older style optics any day.

Or put a Sigma ART lens on the Fuji GFX cameras

In or out? It's the big question facing the British today. Native lenses for mirrorless cameras offer all sorts of advantages. They can be smaller. They can be video optimised with internal autofocus. Canon themselves said recently: "With the move to mirrorless the aim is to optimise the space where the mirror box used to be - that was what we were looking at. This allows us to make the lenses smaller and also to raise the optical quality." So how's it going making the lenses smaller? If you imagine at the Canon factory they have a range of levers to prioritise. When it came to planning his lens, the man on the optical quality lever pushed fully forward. The man on the price lever wrenched it as far forward as it could go. The man on the size lever was drunk, his entire body slumped forward on the lever. The man on the video autofocus lever was absent in entirety, and the factory sign in book empty for months. In fact the Japanese police think he may have been abducted by the Yakuza. Read the full review

Leaving out 1080/24p is that final push by Canon to get pros to use certain higher-end cameras instead. Fuck customer goodwill towards brand or customer loyalty. It's an extra $1 they want.

The codec quality is similar to the 1D C, actually a little less compressed per frame as 1D C is ALL-I, so needs a higher bitrate (as each frame is compressed separately). As 8bit goes the E-M1X is one of the best. Get exposure right in-camera and you'll be good to go.

The DJI Z7 thing I've seen rumoured for NAB looks entirely bonkers

They could have used older lenses to make it less clinically sharp, but apart from that I thought the image looked very cinematic.

Happy birthday!

Seems he didn't check the date when he uploaded it on the 31st March

Aren't they entitled to do that?

Shot externally with an Atomos in HLG 10bit mode (higher bitrate than internal) Looks pretty good to me, and a hint of what the internal codec upgrade will look like. I also feel for a promo film it's above average, a very simple story but effective. A bit sentimental of course, and not perfect attention to detail in some shots, but it works. I hope one day when I hear a piece of music it will remind me of the Panasonic S1, when I was young enough to shoot stuff and not too old and crippled to use a camera

I like Wooden Camera's stuff and a sun hood is a good idea, working with what we've got. Problem is we've got too little. Price is good. Now let's raise it by $1000 and see a Pro version.

What's the point of the big bad screen on the back of the Pocket then? They may as well have left it off. It sucks up power and doesn't point in the direction you need it to, and you can barely see it in sun light. Of course, nobody in Blackmagic pointed this out to the design team!

It would probably just be easier to add ProResRAW internal recording to E-M1X or future GH6 40 minutes at best and sometimes camera turns off at 50% so hardly reliable YES to that. Where is a new Ninja Star?! If they can power it via USB C with no need for Canon LP, even better. Modern chips very efficient and at same time powerful.

NAB 2019 begins this weekend and exhibits open to the public on Monday 8th. One of the big talking points this year I think will be DaVinci Resolve 16 and hopefully we will see a big swing away from Adobe Premiere for editing as a result. Adobe will also unveil updates at NAB but I am uninterested, as I really do think their reliability isn't fit for pro work any more, or any kind of work for that matter. On the camera side it looks a bit quiet so far. Canon confused us all with the EOS R external RAW recording tweet, but it's entirely possible their reps don't know the difference between external HDMI recording and RAW any way. Read the full article

Nice shots, especially the first two. Why 4:3?

NAB starts tomorrow

I think that's bang on the money... I dare say Sigma designed or even manufactured glass in Panasonic's lenses and have been doing so for years. Whereas the higher-end optical formulas are Leica, I wonder if Sigma is a contract manufacturer even for those. So for Panasonic to be in bed with Sigma is very cozy, but it must give Leica a lot of pause for thought to share the L-mount license with a rival lens manufacturer. Maybe it will give Leica a bit of a reality check on their pricing. Leica L mount lenses have some real rip offs in the ranks, such as that crap kit zoom for the TL and even the 23mm F2 which is a nice lens but it's just an APS-C Panasonic / Sigma jobby basically, with a Leica badge. Leica need to get real there and unless it is hand made in Germany, a modern full frame or APS-C L mount lens should not cost the same as an M mount lens. I am sure internally at Leica not everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet in agreement over the alliance. First shot across the bow... Disable Sigma's Canon adapter. Bam. Hopefully this is not the case, but even if it is politics, I have a feeling they will dress it up sweetly as a little technological hurdle maid. Oh dear it doesn't work, sorry about that, but we have a lovely £4000 50mm to sell you instead. Maybe that Novoflex adapter was an experiment by the Germans... How shit can we make this adapter perform with Canon glass and what impact does even this shit adapter have on our native lens sales? Problem for Panasonic and the alliance is that a good Canon EF adapter exists on a Sony body. Sony don't seem to mind, and their native lens sales are fine. So is Leica just paranoid? Time will tell. In the meantime they have lost two sales or at least delayed two sales of Sigma's little adapter!! But not gained any Leica L-mount lens sales! What a great achievement! Besides Sigma have a range of those coming out!

I am no clearer whether I should buy it or not! May as well continue using my manual focus stuff until they can tell us what the heck they are playing at.

Let's hope they don't revolutionise editing too much. FCPX magnetic timeline anyone?

Good to hear. Is the 120fps 10bit or 8bit in H.265?

Did somebody just say Anamorphic Mode?