Andrew Reid

I have been waiting for the step to 4" screens for ages. A slightly bigger body to facilitate 2x better focussing abilities. Not so difficult. Samsung AMOLED as well please!

So I went to check out the S9 expecting it to be the boring reheat of the S8 that it seems like on paper. Maybe I have been a bit harsh on them! There are considerable evolutions across the board. Video is 4K 60P and much nicer than the S8. MUCH. I've compared the headphone jack to my Burr Brown stuff and tube amps - it stands up. What's more, Adapt Sound now allows you to save profiles for individual headphones, which it tunes to your ears. Hifiman HE100 sound wonderful on the smartphone, as good as a high-end portable DAC like the Chord Mojo (which I also benchmarked it against in an A/B). They have solved the slow loading of RAW DNG files in the gallery. It's slick. These can be edited within 2 seconds of a press on Advanced Edit. It used to take over 10 seconds to load a single raw photo in Polarr, my main mobile editing app. The raw files allow you to turn off the typical smartphone over processing and get fine grain, better grading. The camera app now defaults to Pro mode if you left off in that mode the first time, it no longer defaults back to auto, which doesn't save JPG+RAW. This makes a big difference to usability. I am comparing it in this instance to the P20 Pro, with it's ridiculously nice 40MP raw.... Will do a review. Performance seems snappier and slicker than S8 with less background apps and bloatware, plus new CPU makes a difference. The speakers are hands-down the most full-bodied I have ever heard from a smartphone, with twice the dynamic range of what I've previously experienced from iPhone X and P20 Pro. YouTube Premium plays music clips in the background on the phone, with it's latest Android OS... That's a nice touch. You can use it like Spotify. Tidal works well on the phone in MQA mode, to get the most out of that new DAC and headphone socket. So it's not a case of iPhone 6S vs 7... There is actually a bigger difference under the surface than expected.

The GH5 is a fantastic camera. Like Oliver, though, I think it comes down to the full frame aesthetic on the A7 III - and the autofocus. GH5 a better choice for anamorphic though.

Here's a tip. You have to think carefully about which search terms to compare. A general brand name is not the same as an individual camera model name, so comparing them is meaningless. "Leica" vs "D850" is totally meaningless. Think carefully about comparing apples to apples.

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Apple better hurry up and innovate. Samsung smartphones are dying! S8 was the pinnacle, since then they have run out of ideas. S9... Zzzz. So the Note 9 was the big chance to do something! Oh. Dear. A better stylus. Erm. What else? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45128899 It's a great phone but it has no adventurous ideas whatsoever. Samsung are a hardware company, that's what they do best. Great cameras, great screens, build quality. Beyond that, when it comes to software innovation they're lost and just copy others. They have tacked on some gimmicky AI features to the Note 9 camera like blink-detection, but little else is new. They need a great visionary in their smartphone division, whose job it is to differentiate it from stock Android in exciting ways. Answer there definitely isn't Bixby, DEX and TouchWiz. I am talking meaningful leaps in development of Android as an OS, without reliance on Google to do it for them. In copying Apple by recognising the importance of software in driving the product forward they just can't seem to bring any new ideas to the table. I think it is time for Samsung to switch to a 2-year cycle on their smartphones and emphasise the new hardware differences. They don't stand a chance in the ideas department if their idea of innovative is a stylus that doubles as a pointy stick remote.

to be honest I have the GH5 and A7 III and guess which gets more use... the Sony ?

It shows wider public interest in days of 5D III and D800 has dropped off quite a lot. These were hot ticket consumer goods. Maybe after spending £1000 on their phone, people can no longer afford a high-end DSLR?

That will be nice. Hey, anybody remember the days of getting the news first on launch day and all the excitement of a surprise. All that with plentiful information on the day, even some reviews and features. It's a shame that somebody working inside Panasonic, is undermining the company by leaking info. We're so used to these rumours sites now. But I think the leaks need to stop. LX100 II - hope it maintains a fast zoom, rather than go prime. No scrub that, I hope it is full frame like the RX1

The aspect ratio hasn't changed though. Distortion has.

Hansel, what the hellareyou talking about?

The question is whether the novelty will wear off like it did with other 3D devices, because if there's not the long-term interest there, there won't be long-term 3D content. It's a good way to differentiate it to other phones though... Certainly stands out as different, both in branding, design and the display. Not sure about the camera. Is it better than P20 Pro? Most smartphones are too alike these days so this is good from RED... But we'll see how it does on the market.

Yeah, I tried that and trend was similar. D750 isn't reeeaaally in the same line though!

Google registered 75% less interest in the 5D Mark IV launch compared to the previous camera. Overall, all search queries for the Canon range has fallen 50% since 2010. With that an other insights let's take a deep look at the search giant's traffic... Read the full article

They were unwilling. This is the company that brought out the 5D III originally with no 1080p HDMI output, claiming the hardware was unable. Then they magically enabled it in firmware later.

Unable or unwilling?

Yeah it started with the D5200. What a total bargain that was. An A7S-like image for really cheap. It was a more cinematic camera than the GH3 at the time and better in low light. D5300 fixed the banding. So light and great big LCDs. Also I have always been impressed by Nikon's codec. The creamy blacks. Great colour. Sony could learn a lot.

No it doesn't matter. But it is interesting to know why it happens, as it's very strange.

The lens on the DP3 is absolutely insane. The DP2 is good as well but that 50mm on the DP3 is a razor blade.

To be fair there were NO specs in the press release not even megapixel count. It was just Nikon saying "we're making a full frame mirrorless camera". So that's no-way an indication of lack of 4K, which is in all the leaked specs present and correct. Video has not been an afterthought at Nikon since the D750. They woke up. Sony see the demand for 4K enough to do a separate model for us - A7S - which has sold well - and Nikon see the same market demand and same data as Sony do - so they will provide the video specs we need... Maybe not to the extent of a dedicated model, but certainly building on the D850 spec. There's a lot of speculation that it will be a damp squib vs the mighty Sony benchmark. Well actually the benchmark for a full frame mirrorless camera is the Leica SL in some respects - best EVF on the market, best ergonomics, largest grip, highest build quality. Some of that photographic heritage is there at Nikon as well. And they will bring it to an A7R III-like body, what's not to like about that? I say give it a chance, because I know a lot of people are deeply indebted to Sony and invested balls deep in Sony gear, so it's hard to get your head around the fact there may be a second choice that wasn't there previously. If the Nikon ends up outperforming the A7R III, I am sure Jon will switch like he did from GHx to A7x and change his mind entirely about his previous kit. Just imagine IF... The IBIS is as good as Olympus/Panasonic... The EVF is as big as the Leica SL... The 4K is as good as the D850 but with extra options like HLG and Nikon LOG... And the AF is Dual Pixel... That would mean the Sony A7R III would be beaten and it would leave the A7 III to win on price but not much else. They already are though! Sigma for one. Given the Sigma lenses for Sony FE-mount are as large as the DSLR mount versions, you may as well use the Nikon F mount adapter and the existing versions on the new camera. Given the way the autofocus on the latest Sony cameras, it bodes well for the Nikon in video mode.

It's gorgeous stuff, how can anyone complain this is ugly. As for the mount... if it falls off, we will know about it, but until that fateful day, who cares about the number of screws Anyone can tell this is going to be nicer in the hand than the A7 III and A7R III Bigger and more tactile. Just like the 4K files will be... Thicker than Sony. At least until the A7S III comes along (maybe).

Yep, the non-bayer design of the Sigma is outstanding with how cleanly it resolves resolution. I have one and should finally get round to finishing that 2nd article about it. I'd put it at around A7R III level of detail, so not quite 50MP but very very clean and very close for the price. It has a lot of other weaknesses along with the mirrorless version of it, however, so it's a special purpose / occasional tool, not a full on replacement for anything else.

At launch: X1D body RRP $8995 GFX body RRP $6499 Those do not include tax. At current time, the X1D has dropped $2500 because nobody bought it. It's still more expensive than the GFX at B&H. Maybe at some shops around the world, it is the same price... because of lack of demand and a glut of stock. They got the pricing wrong and they know it. 63mm F2.8 for the GFX is £1359 new. This is a 50mm equiv. focal length on the GFX and X1D Sony CMOS medium format sensor. The Hasselblad system only has a 45mm and 90mm, nothing in between! So that is 35mm and 75mm-ish, right? No 50!? And how are we doing for pricing on that 90... Yours for only £2899, a complete bargain... not. The autofocus is crap on top of that. I bought mine used. Used, they are going for £2000 less than the X1D. For me, that is reality my friend. I.e. how can I get the camera for best price possible and still with 12 month warranty. I got mine from London Camera Exchange for £3800 with the 63mm F2.8, which effectively made the body cost £3000. The cheapest I have seen the X1D go for used is £5800, and that is only in the last few weeks after the massive price drop on the new bodies. If you bought the X1D at launch or just a few months ago, you'd be seriously fucked-off with that kind of depreciation and price drop on the new model. Yes it does. I can shoot medium format at F1.4 I can get full coverage from Minolta full frame lenses and even some Contax Zeiss gems on the cheap. The creativity is endless and the looks never before produced. Possible for the first time with the GFX 50S. For video? Yes. For AF? Yes. For 50MP photography and dynamic range? No. Don't try and simply my argument until it no longer makes sense! "Best image quality" is more like "exact same image quality" in case of X1D vs GFX. There are plenty of other cameras with a leaf shutter and high speed flash sync BTW. Hardly makes X1D unique.

Transcoding the H.264 to ProRes really helps fluid 4K editing. It helps more than upgrading the system. To answer the OP... Yes the upgrade is worth it, 100%, over the 12" MacBook. But you will still need to convert the 4K H.264 from the A6500 to an editing codec to see the most significant leaps... Or switch to FCPX.

30p is a crop, so the lens correction wouldn't reveal the very bottom edge of the sensor readout. Looking at Caleb's video, the stretch is certainly enough to push the bottom of the frame out of the picture where the blinking pixels occurred. My theory is that Sony discovered some units shipped with a hardware fault causing corruption on that bottom scan line of the readout, and only way to fix it was to hide it with firmware fix, rather than do a recall. Why else would it be stretching the picture? It has no purpose and is an unlikely "bug" (would be the first bug of its kind ever in the camera industry). It is a full pixel readout in 4K/24p/25p of the entire sensor top to bottom, so yes they are scaling from 5 or 6K down to 4K. I don't think that's the issue. They have done it before, no problem. Wonder if A9 has same stretch?