Andrew Reid

Yeah WHAT A GREAT CAMERA! A total steal at just $2400!

You're not using your PC outside!

It's like the Speed Booster never existed isn't it? Sigma 18-35mm F1.8? F2.8 full frame zoom on Speed Booster? And now there is the upcoming F1.7 Panasonic zoom! Hang on is that the sensational fast aperture telephoto for Micro Four Thirds?!?! I thought Micro Four Thirds was just saddled with slow telephoto lenses!

I guess Sigma are ok for now making Nikon F mount lenses which work on the Z flawlessly through the FTZ adapter. But Canon and Nikon should be more like Panasonic and Sony and share the mount, that's for sure.

This thread and quite a few others have some really bad taste comments in it which lower the tone of the forum, not just a bit but a lot. And it is almost always you involved @jonpais I will have to decide Jon whether you are still welcome or whether it would be better for the community if you used a different place. You have no idea how tired I am of it. Final warning.

It's been noticed in the back-end of the site that some new users are joining in order to future the agendas of PR and marketing at some companies. It's a tricky area for me to deal with, but I'll get some advice on how to better detect it and prevent it from happening in the future. Whilst I know it is happening, the evidence as to what exact company is responsible for which posts isn't solid enough yet to go naming them. But rest assured if I do find out, they will be named and shamed on the front page of EOSHD.

If Fujifilm can be doing so well with both APS-C and medium format at the same time I am sure Micro Four Thirds can survive full frame, it has done since the start. I once chose the GH1 over the 5D Mark II remember! And I will never part with some of the more unique c-mount lenses, micro four thirds lenses and anamorphic glass - the anamorphic on full frame is, shall we say, more challenging.

It's $500!

Yep.

Let's keep it to the X-T3 with the footage please Jon.

Original file is available to download on Vimeo (click the video title above). Want the absolute best cheap low-end camera for 4K shooting? You're looking at it. I think the E-M10 III at $500 might just be the best value for money 4K camera now available, but it's easy to lose sight of that. With the recent price race to the top, I'm starting to wonder how monied you have to be. A certain "DSLR video" blog currently features an Alpa cage on a Hasselblad H6D 100C! Anyone got a spare $40,000? Read the full article

If you get yours this month, have an X-T3 on standby if you plan to shoot paid work on it.

I respectfully disagree Long flange allows for cross-platform compatibility and quality is still great. There's a reason so many of us are still using 1970's lenses on a mirrorless camera I can't bring my Z mount glass anywhere apart from 'home' on the Z7, so I will not be buying very much of it. Thankfully, I am sure Canon EF adapters will come along and a lot more besides. There is already a Canon FD adapter and medium format 'speed booster' both of which I am going to be using soon, if I can get hold of them early! The FTZ adapter is meant to work very well too. It is a Nikon in-house-adapter so no reverse engineering or bugs. It just "works" and great AF like a native lens (or so I believe - yet to test my F mount lenses myself on it). The EOS R lenses seem pretty BIG considering they are supposed to be short flange.

Yes Canon probably sells so many EF lenses for other cameras, they may as well be a lens company that does cameras on the side!! All these fancy Z and E and L and R mount mirrorless lenses are all very pretty but they don't commute!

When BM first got into camera market they had excuses for 'bad behaviour' such as unfinished cameras being released after long delays with the contents of a mouse's dinner behind the mount cap. I am not sure I want to go through it again. Such obvious BS. Why sacrifice EVERYTHING nice about something like a GH5 or X-T3, for JUST RAW? What is it doing for you that 10bit LOG doesn't? Let's get a reality check before people burn their fingers. I need to talk to BM and as respectfully as I can tell them to really think about the way they are handling this camera release...from design, to manufacturing, to shipping, to even marketing, it's all flawed and off-putting. Still a very interesting option but c'mon. Sounds like a bit of an excuse for them that does! A heat sink cannot be separate to the stuff it is cooling, so if water or whatever (spiders!?) is going in that massive hole on both top AND bottom it is going to meet up with vital stuff.

So we are comparing it to the EOS R are we It is 4k60. EOS R doesn't even do 4K60! No-additional crop in 1.5x Super 35mm 4K/24/25/30p. GH5 isn't 1.5x crop. It's 2x crop. Quite different. Speed Booster = full frame. On GH5, close but no cigar. Codec - FAR superior to EOS R. Rolling shutter - FAR superior. Build quality - superior. Low light - superior (yes, really). Handling - superior. EVF - superior. Price - $700 less!

Not to mention the whacking great MJPEG file sizes on the 1D X II. Killed it for video in long-run for me. Great stills camera though.

120p is 4x crop and no AF tracking. You can see THROUGH the camera from top to bottom - it has a HOLE in it. GOLD standard? Pity the early adopters, after I saw his 'problems' section. Squeals a high-pitched note randomly. Sometimes just hangs for no reason. No low battery warning or graceful shutdown procedure, just turns off and corrupts the ProRes file. The camera ain't finished.

I am just wondering how he can say it's the gold standard, in the same breath of "it's not a low light camera" It's not full frame either. "Fan a none issue!" It is an issue. It has a great whacking hole in the top!! I am interested to find out how they stop dust getting in there and onto the sensor, as the fan is primarily there to cool the sensor and image processor. I would also be frightened of a slight bit of drizzle or sand. You guys plan to use it in a plastic bag?

Some big claims "Gold standard for image quality for anything under $3000" Hmm.

Yeah right now it's a confusing jumble of new stuff. With the high-end stuff it's best to wait and see how the dust settles unless you're feeling adventurous!! X-T3 was a solid buy. I really enjoyed mine so far, and it's certainly the best value for money out of ALL the new stuff. E-M10 III at the low end is so cheap, a total value for money bargain too, though obviously not as future proof as X-T3, at least it packs IBIS Review of that is tomorrow on EOSHD so check it out as well. Will make great B-cam even for people already satisfied with their primary new kit.

I don't think AF has anything to do with the sensor readout speed. To do 4K/60p you need to run the rolling shutter scan much faster and that is a hardware limitation not software. Maybe it could do it for a short time but it would be pretty unstable if it did. X-T3 if you want 4K/60p. It's half the price. Or wait till S1?

It's not really a cinema camera though. It's going to be annoying especially with the low battery life, you will want to do a lot of power cycles in the midst of shooting with it. Now you can always rig it up with a big brick of a battery but you know what I think of doing that to "Pocket cameras".

It's a bit like doubling the horse power of your car through an engine mapping software tweak Not gonna happen. Anamorphic mode on the other-hand, perfectly doable!