Andrew Reid

Eh? A speed booster will be a full $3500 cheaper than Canon's hypothetical full sensor readout EOS R2 and probably 2 years earlier as well You can wait and pay if you want. I'm ready for it NOW.

Great stuff. What lens were the wide shots with?

Mr Kipon is a nice guy. I met him at Photokina! The range of adapters they had there was incredible. The great thing about Kipon is that they had lots of more obscure mounts and combinations, there's some real photographic enthusiasm there and it's not all about quantity and $$. Meanwhile, a bit concerned about Metabones. They've been very quiet on the release front. No EOS R Speed Booster from them? Would like to see more of those Caldwell Optics - superb!

Rumours sites aren't an authority on technical matters, they just identify second hand info and label it. That chipmod source just tells us the manufacturing process is Sony. Doesn't say the design is. And made by Sony does not mean it's off the shelf Sony. Nikon designed the sensor in the Z7, Sony fabricated it for mass production. The sensor has Nikon IP and circuit layout, Nikon specification, Nikon micro lenses and other patented Nikon design aspects. It has a Sony BSI manufacturing technique, on Sony mass production wafer, Sony quality control and made in numbers determined by Sony's manufacturing capacity at their factory, which isn't as high as Nikon would like because they have so many other customers. Nikon should diversify their manufacturers, but making a sensor like this is hard. You won't see a BSI sensor from Canon. It doesn't exist.

That's insane Sitting on stock while everyone buys it elsewhere. You'll be amazed by the lack of logic at big established companies, be it a shop or a camera company Enjoy the EOS R - looking forward to seeing your footage

To my unscientific eye I'd put the Z7 FX around 22ms and the EOS R 1.8x crop around 35ms. I do wonder what difference bit-depth makes to how fast a sensor can get the data off. It could be that Canon insist in a slower 14bit output, even in video mode (not just for stills) to preserve colour. Canon have always been big on colour. We know for sure it is a 14bit raw buffer from Magic Lantern even in line-skipped 1080p! It could be that all these Sony and Nikon sensors doing great video, drop the bit-depth to 12bit or 10bit to achieve the fast readout. Maybe they even drop to 8bit sensor modes and that's why I could never see the difference between 10bit HDMI and 8bit HDMI on the GH4 It also seems Nikon are reading more data in FX on the Z7 than the A7R III because the rolling shutter is less in full frame on that camera in 4K vs Super 35 mode, and it has more aliasing.

How did your football go with the Leica SL EVF? I am curious to see some shots if you can publish any. Hopefully the dreadful Spanish weather did not interfere!?

I have the E-M1 II and only ever used the 4K. I am sure the 1080p is a lot better than the E-M5 II. The problem on the E-M5 II for me wasn't the codec, that was fine. It was the line skipping, soft detail, moire. Those days are long past us. Unless you're a Canon 1080p user

Yeah sounds like the AF confirm chip is the problem... passive dumb adapter will do it but be careful it doesn't short the metal contacts on the Metabones. I have gaffer tape over some of mine, especially the silver non-painted ones which can brush right up against the contacts and short them out. For a moment I thought you meant the speed booster was causing lens attachment failed... It can do that some times as well... a wiggle sorts that out, if not attached to the GH5 mount quite solidly enough.

Why?

The foot lever is an excellent idea. I have shot with a monopod with Gitzo fluid head, works well - but the height adjustment is a pain and the yaw / side to side jitter can be a bit of an issue with monopods.

Who knows? Latest UHS-II spec SD cards are very speedy. No idea what controller is on the EOS R.

The 1080p looks a tad over sharpened but it's still very impressive given 120fps. Not quite as good as the GH5 1080/24p though... Beats the GH3 and GH4 1080p, that's for sure... And look at that colour

Do you mean a small car in the background? That is not going to show up the rolling shutter. Needs to be a larger object closer to the camera and moving quite fast sideways, or the whole frame needs to be moving. Rolling shutter correction when the whole frame moves is fine, that is how Premiere can do it in post. But you're right it wouldn't work for moving objects that are distorted. The correction would have to be applied only to moving subjects in a static frame and not the background. Impossible. Background would have to be filled-in around the corrected object and you'd have all sorts of artefacts. Something very odd about that test!! Almost as if he's converted both to a 1080p file, before digitally zooming both for the crop-ins. Also, lens seems very soft. Maybe he should share the original files.

Nice. Very small and discrete! PS I am looking to buy a Bolex Anamorphic if anyone has one, let me know in a DM!

I don't trust Chinese "Fuji staff" talking on Weibo!! That doesn't tend to be how the Japanese operate! Maybe you are right about the bit-depth though. I have an open mind about it. Willing to change my opinion. My opinion at the moment though, is still that it is a Samsung sensor.

I am only joking. I quite agree with you actually. IBIS is a bit lazy, and it doesn't give as cinematic results as proper rigging or a tripod. But it's a lot more fun for run & gun narrative, a lot quicker, stealthier and a lot easier. As for AF, it depends on how well it works. Dual Pixel AF can be very cinematic. Anything that darts around or hunts is out. It depends on the shot as well, as whether or not you track focus on something depends on the story and mood of the scene.

Nah, it's not. The X-T3 sensor has an X-trans CFA which is Fuji property, so the chip cannot be listed for sale off the shelf by Sony without violating Fuji's intellectual property and patents. They list a 20MP sensor with full pixel readout at 60fps. (IMX272). That one is capable of 4K/60p like on the GH5 from full pixel readout. The one at 16fps is NOT. Sony 26MP APS-C sensor speed is listed at 16fps in full pixel readout. X-T3 sensor has full pixel readout in 4K at up to 30fps. No crop. Full width. That is over 6K. Considerably faster than the Sony specs quoted on their site. Let's not forget the 4K/60p. Have fun turning 16fps into 60fps!! That is a full pixel readout as well with a small crop of the sensor, yet the Sony 26MP chip can do a maximum full pixel readout of the whole sensor at just 16fps. That does not translate into 4K/60p on the X-T3 in any way, shape or form.

Your Pocket 4K advertising is getting more subliminal. Well done.

When you're moving the frame, a longer lens will of course make the contents of the frame move through quicker. Of course even if you use a 35mm equiv. wide frame, completely still on a tripod, stuff can still move in the frame - a sparring boxer, a train, a swift movement from an actor, and trigger the distortion. The important thing is to do comparison tests. All cameras at the same focal length (equivalent, so not all same lens but same FOV), on same tripod, moved at same speed at exact same moment. I just did a test for myself of the Z7 vs EOS R and the Z7 is nowhere near as bad. That is both in 4K (full frame on Z7). I could share it, but you don't deserve it

A7R III looks like it has a veil over it compared to that X-T3 120fps!! And I was impressed with that in the first place. Wowzers. Well done Samsung! DPReview: "Probably the camera's most powerful video feature is the Movie Silent Control mode" EH?! DPReview: "Like the GH5S though, the X-T3 has no in-body image stabilization, which is realistically going to limit you to using a tripod or gimbal if you want to get anything like the camera's full resolution in your footage, since in-lens stabilization can't provide effective correction for video shooting." Since when does OIS on the lens reduce resolution? I am very confused by that!! Even at 1/50 with OIS you're going to get a pristine 4K image and if not, then 1/200 won't have ANY motion blur from handheld shooting with OIS.

NX1 was down at 2ms like an Alexa in 1080p for rolling shutter, I once saw, can't remember where. I am surprised no camera has a distortion correction mode in firmware. Why don't they correct rolling shutter in-camera, just crop-in slightly and re-align the image.

Yes they actually went from bottom of the pile to first in 4 years.

X-T1 (2014) X-T3 (2018) Roll on 2022

If you like this forum and want to stay, you better apologise then. Nah mate, it's not a thin skin - it is that I am fed up with dealing with so many fuckwits. It is not that manufacturers "don't reach out to me", Panasonic, Leica, Sony all did previously. Even Canon did once upon a time. I am not here to defend myself. I don't need to. I do the right thing for the direction I want to take the blog in, and if you can't see that because you're too stupid, that ain't my problem!