Andrew Reid

Although we shouldn't worry too much about this because it's barely noticeable, it's an interesting mystery to test and solve for Sony. Read the full article

For the money I bought it for there was no better stills camera than the GFX 50S. Next jump would have been the 100MP Hasselblad H6D which is £20k+. I could pay £3000 more than the Fuji for the X1D for no benefit at all, and have to invest in all-new medium format glass. Besides my 13 year old Hasselblad H3D II has faster autofocus, better viewfinder and similar resolution. OK. OK. Let's get a reality check. Leica SL is £4500 brand new, £3700 used. Hasselblad X1D is £12,000 with one lens! I have not seen it for less than £7000 body-only either new or used. Besides the cost of the X1D lenses, you can use all sorts of stuff on the Leica and Fuji GFX...Also AF is much better on the native SL mount, as well as the fact it does 4K video whereas Hassy does not. Specs are out there and unless proven to be wildly wrong, suggest it is very capable. Of course "reality" after the camera is out, is a different matter, which is why I said "on paper". Since when has a mechanical shutter mattered on a camcorder?! "Intention in same category". No. One is a photo-camera, one is a camcorder. You're not comparing even remotely the same tools. Unless DJI target different group of customers entirely, X1D will never compete with A7 series.

Sometimes I feel we go over the same arguments again and again for the benefit of people new to the thread or the story and who haven't done their research.

That's the thing... A joke is not a statement. It's not even real. It's not an actionable intent. It's an act. Said it time again. Learn to tell the difference between fiction and reality. Or you'll be stoning comedians on stage at this rate.

Why would one buy it over the GFX 50S? It is a hip design but far less practical and much more expensive, with no advantage in image quality over the Fuji! Plus you can't adapt glass to it very well, it lacks a mechanical focal plane shutter and the electronic shutter has more rolling shutter than a A6300 shooting howl's moving castle. Panasonic G1 was mature and very refined straight off the bat. Leica SL was and is a much better all-round system than the X1D. Nikon's first gen full frame mirrorless looks on paper to be superior to latest Sony stuff. In Cinema EOS land, C300 was a first gen product... and took over the planet. So it's not the case that no company has never made a great first effort, starting anew. It might. It might not. A bit of blind speculation there... I'd bet on it remaining a very expensive one-off rather than something to take on Panasonic, Sony and Nikon.

It depends on the region. I see far more Fujis in peoples hands around UK and Europe than Pentax DSLRs, that's for sure. The shops have far more room dedicated to Fuji's cameras than Pentax, and the unit shipments don't take into account the fact higher priced models ship in smaller numbers, but might take a larger proportion of the market by value than by unit numbers. Of course Canon and Nikon getting into mirrorless is a severe storm for Fuji, Panasonic and Olympus. They are going to get squeezed. It should prompt all 3 to go full frame, so we win in the end.

Do Fuji, Panasonic, Olympus and Pentax really fight over just 13% of the market between the 4 of them? The numbers seem a bit off to me, given what we know about the strong Fuji sales in particular.

The great advantage of medium format lenses is that you can stop down for insane detail and resolution, whilst maintaining a dreamy full frame fast-aperture look. The F2.8 GFX lenses for example look like F2 on full frame but MUCH sharper and better optically. The other advantage is the dynamic range - no matter what DXO Mark says or how good the full frame sensors are getting - I saw for myself with the GFX 50S how realistic the image looks when graded for maximum dynamic range and how much quality information comes out of the shadows vs my full frame cameras. Hasselblad deserve criticism for their handling of this YouTuber situation in-person, with the reps, although the YouTuber's account of what happened could be biased or exaggerated, we don't know what really went on. Hasselblad also deserve some flack for the X1D mirrorless camera, which came out with quite the showcase of bugs, and is hobbled by terrible AF performance. That was a very important category to mess up and at the price you expect a whole lot more. I love the H6D range though and the 100MP model is total cutting edge tech. The ergonomics of the Hasselblad H3D through H6D have to be experienced one in a life-time... they are different. I love the modularity and HUGE view-finder. There's not many other things you can find a 48mm wide Kodak CCD sensor in that feels as nice and costs £2000 used.

Canikon probably won't let a mirrorless camera completely out-spec their top-end DSLRs, so the D850 is a much nicer benchmark to aim for than that wet fish, the 5D IV. Also there are important differences between Nikon and Canon when it comes to video... Nikon has no pro-video division profit margins to protect. If the Canon mirrorless is going to be a full frame M50, with 5D Mk IV sensor and 4K MJPEG, I ain't buying it.

Disney empowering fascists.

Could be like a D850 with dual pixel AF in a mirrorless form factor. 100% perfect compatibility with F-mount lenses and a range of new ones. May introduce a Nikon LOG profile and extra video goodies. Ergonomics look nice. A lot to be excited about but it has a high bar to match in the cheaper A7 III

Nikon have patented their own version of dual pixel autofocus. https://www.diyphotography.net/nikon-mirrorless-camera-may-dual-pixel-autofocus-tech-according-new-patent/ We could well be seeing that in the new mirrorless cameras. If you assume the leaked specs and price are correct, there's no need to think it will be anything approaching a 'lite' mirrorless camera. Leaked ad campaign looks good. It's a Chinese one with a very famous actress. Not much unusual about that. If you want to read that much into a leaked BTS photo from one ad campaign because there isn't a serious pro photographer holding the camera...well... haha. Maybe if the leaked specs didn't mention a $3000 price tag and full frame 46MP sensor with 4K video. It's great that the Sony monopoly on full frame mirrorless cameras (Leica aside) has come to an end. There will be the Canon offering before too long as well, and then maybe Olympus / Panasonic will jump into the full frame mirrorless wars. More competition = better cameras.

I am curious about what they do with the more affordable model in the region of 24MP. Whether for example it apes the A7 III full pixel readout in 4K and Sony's on-chip phase detect AF. If Nikon doesn't copy Sony there, then the A7 III will have quite a nice advantage, especially given the price. On the 46MP model, which is probably going to perform similar to the D850 for 4K, again it will be interesting to see about AF in video mode... But I fully expect the 4K to be pixel binned in full frame mode, so the question is... will it look as good as it does on the D850 pixel binned? FX mirrorless cam = D850? I reckon so. Nikon have tended to standardise video quality very well between models... D3300 vs D5300 = same. D750 vs D810 = same. On the D850 you can barely tell the pixel binned full frame 4K apart from the full pixel readout in S35 mode, it's that good. If Nikon let the mirrorless models fall behind their own D850 or the A7 III for video, then of course it is much less attractive, no matter what kind of ergonomic niceness it'll bring to the table, which is much needed as Sony are still charmless here.

I think maybe it was intentional to put a famous actress in the ad campaign they were shooting ?

It's not retro, but I like the design. I wouldn't call it ugly. It is less utilitarian than a Sony body, with more curves.

Why don't they shoot the ad campaigns AFTER they announce it An easy leak this one I hope it is in shops before Photokina. Otherwise the temptation would be too high to run off with a demo unit in my loot bag.

Putting my Sonys on eBay as we speak

He should get both. C100 to look like a pro in front of clients. Just keep it turned off and use GH5 to do the actual shooting

Wow Hasselblad reps letting the company down big-time there. However.... ? Given the opportunity to play with an H6D-100 (which does 4K raw video as well), the review from Usman was total drivel. Shot a soft toy with it. Moans about the price. Erm....yeah that's about it!

Dynamic range is also determined by the grade and how tolerant you are to noisy shadows, weird colour and iffy highlight roll off. I would take a LOOK over a NUMBER any day.

There's no link. One is somebody with his own blog, who gets to choose who he reads daily on the forum, and if it's bullshit he reads daily, he gets bored and fed up of it and then chooses to delete said bullshit and the person responsible The other is a film director with free-speech, who made appalling jokes on Twitter 10 years ago, in the guise of an Troma-style provocative act, then is witch-hunted 10 years later by a right-wing conspiracy theorist who raped his wife, and whom gets a man of good character and great talent sacked unfairly.

Go off and make your own forum, then you can ban or re-admit whoever you like. I wouldn't really call the entire cast signing a letter calling for his re-instatement, the court of internet opinion.

I was offered a test recently but didn't have the time. Could put you in touch? Only problem is I think the distributor are based in Berlin.

It does look like the knee-jerk reactionary "House of Mouse" execs will have to eat their words. He has broad public support as well. Pretty much 90% of the internet seems to want Gunn reinstated, with a lot of high profile sites running positive articles about him and the vast majority of the Reddit comments being along the lines of positive support, not of his tasteless jokes, but of the man himself. Which makes the vastly more angry and negative response on the EOSHD forums even more hard to comprehend.

I own both cameras and in the real world the D850 4k is the better looking - Fewer instances of moire patterns in full frame 4K pixel binned mode - A bit more fine detail on the D850 4K pixel binned mode - Both have similarly perfect S35 4K from oversampling 5K crop - Thicker files on D850, higher bitrate codec - Better colour on D850 Both have some aliasing in the full frame 4K mode. The DPR chart you point to doesn't really prove whatever your point is... The D850 shows some advantages on there as well. It's only the purple false colour on the extremes of the chart you might be picking up on as a weakness but since you don't say, it's hard to know. In those places on the chart the A7R III is showing extreme aliasing, moire patterns and garbled details. The fine text is also more natural looking on the Nikon output and the instances of moire are fewer.