Andrew Reid

There is space on the market for the lightest and smallest possible full frame mirrorless, for sure. Look at RX1R II and imagine something like that with interchangeable lenses! A dream. Maybe that's the future for Micro Four Thirds... Micro Full Frame has a much better ring to it

Yep there's a good chance it's for Leica. I still hold out some hope for the full frame Panasonic cameras though, I really think there's some hints it may happen.

Haha what a headline

Vignetting would be an issue if you moved it as much as a M43 sensor, I think. It will improved but I think M43 will stay ahead for a while. Unless Sony can improve with hybrid OIS / IBIS route.

Remember it's just a fake picture.

They know their ergs!!

Solving the TowerJazz mystery... Read the full article

This is a really good summary by the Brotographer (follow on Instagram here and YouTube here) of his experience of using EOSHD Pro Color V4 on the A7R III. Read the full article

Maybe that's the crux of it.

Yeah I saw the outrage over this, it made the headlines. Another rush to judgement over a fucking worth of fiction. The fury should be directed at real life, not television!!

I reckon Fuji's strategy is the longest term of anyone, it's predicting a future where full frame is the new APS-C and medium format is the default large sensor choice. You could have the full frame crop for sports at faster shooting rates and the full medium format coverage when you need extra resolution and incredible resolving power of a high-end medium format lens at F4. I think it could get more cost effective... not as in £1000 but £3000 to compete with top-end full frame cameras. I've been very happy with the GFX, a lot of cheap full frame lenses actually cover the medium format sensor (Contax Zeiss, Minolta, etc.) so I've saved money not needing to buy a lot of new glass, just adapters. It's my best stills camera but obviously they will need to step up video over the next few years... And I am sure they will. Medium format sensors are already doing 4K and 100MP at the same time... quite an achievement! The TechArt adapter for Leica M to E-mount is fantastic - AF is very fast, and through Leica M adapters it still works with a range of other manual focus lenses, like the Contax lenses. I'll be doing a blog post about it soon. I should try and get hold of the Canon autofocus adapter for Fuji X mount and the GFX version too... Although autofocus isn't the biggest strength of the GFX. It's ok with the internal focus GFX zoom but with the primes it can be quite bad.

So with Kevin Spacey's firing, the allegations are not proven and may never be, but nevertheless people believed them. They were pretty serious allegations, more serious than be accused over jokes, that's for sure. So it's not really an Apples to Oranges comparison. One is a man losing his career over unproven allegations. The other is a man losing his career over a bad joke act on Twitter. Maybe Gunn joked about what Spacey was actually doing to young boys and they were in it together - that's one for the right wing conspiracy theorists to investigate. Ever the reliable witnesses. And the joke cops. Don't forget the joke cops! If there is outrage enough, who needs proof?!

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I fully expect Netflix to be the beneficiary of all of this. They're still taking risks... If the current culture and climate carries on though, they will be under a lot of pressure and controversy in 1-2 years, with numerous firings of creative directors and talent. PS modern music is boring as well. Completely lost it's edge, for the same reason film has. The silencing of voices such as Gunn's.

Will be interesting to read your opinion on this then @anonim https://www.eoshd.com/2018/07/boring-art-defending-voices-that-carry-from-attacks-by-right-wing-extremists/

A7 III is 24MP and it allows for the best video quality on any of the Sony mirrorless cameras, better than 12MP A7S II for instance due to oversampling. The technology is there now. And with quad bayer technology there's no need to reduce the megapixel count to improve low light performance or dynamic range. As for 4K 60P from 24MP. GH5 is 2 years old tech and does 4K 60P from 20MP... The tech is done. In fact we'll be at 8K in no time.

I am sorry to come between you and your love affair with the lovable Harlem shooter. I'm not going to get into all the ins and outs of why he pissed me off and why I think he's boring and annoying, because that would be defensive and to be honest I don't really need to defend myself. Everyone can see that the lovable Harlem shooter thought I was defending the amoral content of James' jokes, rather than see the issue around it and the dangerous precedence Gunn's firing sets for all of the creative industries. A real phenomenon and a trend. Next will occur, the blacklisting of certain characters and scenes. After that, a witch-hunt of actors in taboo roles, or even for working with the 'wrong' content (like bad jokes), because people can't tell the difference between fact and fiction any more, just like the President of the United States.

New topic, as this is quite a separate take and subject, to the original thread (which crashed and burned in so much shock / horror) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/firing-james-gunn-disney-hurts-all-hollywood-1129691 Says the respected journal: "A creative industry requires artists like the 'Guardians' director who push boundaries, make (offensive) mistakes and evolve, writes Hollywood Reporter columnist Marc Bernardin...“To demand that every artist who works for you to have never had a past...is asking for people who will make boring art.” Hopefully we can have a sensible debate this time...But please do read that article first. It's GOOD.

Magic Lantern does. Assuming the sensor even has a native ISO. Not all do.

Those are some serious images in the video above. If the Pocket is anything like the URSA Mini Pro it will be a treat.

The worst thing about this forum for me is what happens after people write a long, reasonable post, I like I just did, setting out a balanced argument with rational thought - and the reply is lazy low quality effort that isn't engaging with the substance of the debate and does what you just did there - A) You ignore what I said in it's entity B) You ignore the subject being debated or sidestep it C) You put a pithy one line post up complaining about my attitude D) You don't take into consideration that it's my site... you are in my house as a guest, so basic manners should be activated E) You don't give me the benefit of defending myself in my own home... Versus Actual Idiots who refuse to get the point of the discussion and people who attack me out of the blue... What do you expect me to do man, seriously!? Hand them a prize, or me to say "goodbye, you're no longer welcome in my front lounge room!" Somehow I think the latter is more appropriate. As I come here every day to hear what the vast majority of good members have to say and contribute, I just don't want it spoiling by a minority. Whenever there is a controversial filmmaking or camera topic discussed it goes to hell. I don't want only safe topics and no politics. If you can't deal with it, leave. I don't want to have to deal with a pack of enemies in my own living room... with their stupid arguments and pithy one-liners... and I include ALL those who don't listen and don't debate as enemies of a discussion forum about filmmaking! I will always provoke idiots, and there's a very good reason for that... Because I can't be bothered to accommodate them. Server bandwidth isn't free!

The typical enthusiast Sony user has Canon glass, and that's the most dangerous situation for Sony right now with the Canon mirrorless rival on the horizon. They haven't been very good at moving people off EF lenses onto their own FE range because it's been way overpriced. They should have had a low-end, mid-range and high-end of lenses. Instead it's all a bit of a mixture, and a mess, with gaping holes in every price bracket. They tried to fill in some of the holes in the low-end with the 28mm F2 FE, 50 and 85... but forgot to do a 35! The 35mm F2.8 is mid-range and boring. The 35mm F1.4 is high-end and very expensive. But an affordable 35 is a basic requirement for every mirrorless camera. When Canon brings out a Dual Pixel AF full frame mirrorless camera with native EF adapter that works flawlessly, and Sony is still relying on Metabones, that spells trouble to me... Metabones have done a great job... But it will never work quite as well as the Canon system. Yep, totally agree.

Well in defence of actors, if you're assigned a role, you're playing a fictional character that might have nothing to do with you. It's somebody else's creation. Where I think James Gunn was misunderstood (and he did little to help things in the apology), was that he was playing a fictional role, an extreme character, that of a pervert. Now to be absolutely clear - this isn't me making excuses for bad behaviour, or absolving him of any responsibility, or justifying the content of the jokes, let alone denying the hurt they probably caused to people who have suffered from real abuse in their childhoods. But as Stephen Fry said self pity is a horrible thing, and if you feel hurt by something or offended, it takes character to rise above that and switch off. That's what I would like to see more of on the internet - if people are offended by a joke - don't expose yourself to more, don't get self pity and don't start grandstanding about how angelic and virtuous you are by essentially attacking the freedom of the artist to express a character - even a very offensive character. If, by extension we start removing rape (for example) from all fictional work, films, books and plays - a lot of classic material will have to be burnt and removed from our culture. A lot of lessons learnt, unlearnt. This is where all the outrage is heading... You know what, I am most of all angry at Disney's executives. If they would stand up for their artists when they make a mistake, and say "look, it's a sick joke, but it's fiction... it isn't real, and it doesn't represent the guy", this would all have died down and might never even have entered the news headlines, and we wouldn't be talking about it. Instead, firing him creates a shit storm and now everyone knows about the jokes and far more people are now hurt by them than his intended audience 10 years ago. Plus it justifies the action of those far-right conspiracy theorists - mission now accomplished thanks to Disney - who spread fake news and misinform the public. This is encouraging them to become more active, like a group of right wing activists attacking film talent (because the arts are mostly liberal). For now it is the high profile figures, but one day they might even come after some of us. That intended audience is an important factor in all of this too. There are people who enjoy provocative, edgy humour, in the right context, and who understand that it's an act, a fiction, a character, and not real life. By changing the context so that it's a statement on Twitter by a famous film director who then is fired by a huge company, simply smears Gunn as a wrong-doer, a pervert, doing things serious enough to lose his entire career... rather than what he actually was... a nice man, but with bad taste in jokes, who became a very good film director 10 years after the fact. Now that achievement in the arts stands for nothing. In fact has anyone attacking him here, actually seen Guardians of the Galaxy? He will be missed, by a lot of people. Millions enjoyed his work. Far more, than the small number offended by his bad taste humour. This will go on and on... Just now, Star Wars director Rian Johnson just deleted 20,000 tweets in self-defence, not that they contained anything remotely risqué. https://www.cosmicbooknews.com/rian-johnson-deletes-tweets (Which actually had the affect of idiots speculating that he was covering something up... like hiding the fact he was a Twitter pervert or something!?) I feel so strongly about this because it is an attack on the arts by very evil, bad people, who are leading a knee-jerk reactionary hysterical public into a book burning ritual. I also feel strongly about it because of how unfair it is to lose your career because of a fictional version of yourself telling bad taste jokes. Unless we're all to become virtuous corporate drones and bots... That is an attack on what it is to be human. To err. To laugh. To be silly and to have free speech. Sad era of history we are entering...

And now I truly believe Panasonic and Olympus must go full frame too. The success of the Sony A7 series was the catalyst for Nikon's return to the mirrorless market after the failed 1 series experiment, and according to Nikkei the mirrorless market is forecast to eclipse the sales of DSLRs for the first time in 2018. So as you can see, Nikon's hand was forced. Now Canon too will be forced to put one foot in the future rather than an entire leg in the grave. Last year, of all units shipped, 7.5 million units were DSLRs, down 10% on the year, while 4 million were mirrorless, up 30%, according to CIPA. In 2018 the number of mirrorless cameras shipped are forecast to exceed those of DSLRs. That's quite a trend going on. We are looking at over 6 million mirrorless shipments vs DSLR down at 5 or even 4 million this year. If the trend continues, DSLRs (and potentially their lenses) will be obsolete in a few years. That is big news. Read the full article

Actually will keep it open. If the forum is "getting worse lately", you must surely see it is the user generated part of the site. So if you want it to be more interesting, maybe post something that's more interesting and provocative? Or make something? Or contribute original content not just opinion soup?