Andrew Reid

Milestones will get posted when they happen...

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Producing your own content is a good long term business model because years later when the repeats air on other stations, you can earn a lot from the syndication fees. Once Stranger Things is old and no longer attracts new customers to Netflix it will be on cable and other streaming services and Netflix will get paid for every view.

The other camera with this Kodak super 16 sensor was the Ikonoskop A good place to find them used is here - http://www.rawcinemashop.com/used-gear-market-place/ Might be worth looking for some on eBay as the prices may have come down quite a lot. https://www.eoshd.com/2012/11/ikonoskop-a-cam-dll-vs-blackmagic-cinema-camera-first-impressions/ The Digital Bolex and Ikonoskop look was one of the most unique I've ever seen from any digital camera. Limitations and all - all part of how special it looks. https://www.eoshd.com/2013/03/ikonoskop-a-cam-dll-versus-blackmagic-cinema-camera/

Yes the big 2.0 is now out

How's your experience with EOSHD at the moment? All ok for speed, responsiveness and do you ever find it offline?

Yes perfect for that. Yes, the guide included explains everything.

There will always be bargains out there. Go and grab them, not moan

The preview shouldn't have a slow refresh rate or low quality in this mode, so something is up... Try turning global draw off It's full frame you want right? So don't enter crop mode for the 3x3 binning HD 60p

I really think it's more like a hardware limit. You need hardware acceleration for 10bit H.264 and H.265. It's silicon, not software. If you don't feel like you got what you paid for on the G85 and GX85, then I'm amazedballs. They really do go beyond the specs you'd expect for the price. Any closer to the GH5 and what would be the point of ponying up $2000 for it? Making the G85 any better would kill the GH5 stone dead and nobody wants that to happen. Sensor readout speed isn't fast enough. It's not just the processor. Again it's not just software. The sensor has to be fast enough to scan for CDAF at over 240fps. If they gave users the option to buy V-LOG for an extra $100 on a $500 camera, they would lose $1500 not gain $100. I'm all for generosity, and Panasonic are much more generous than Canon. You could argue that Sony having S-LOG on their consumers cameras gives them a bad reputation because a lot of consumers don't know how to grade it properly and it ends up all over the internet making people think Sony cameras shoot weird looking video. You don't expect 1st class service when you buy an economy ticket on a flight though do you? So why expect it with cameras?

What Compact Flash card are you using @tigerbengal?

A glimpse into the future. This will really influence the look of lenses a lot in 10 years. Smartphones were the first! The adjusted stills are a big leap forwards in your examples.

Nice to see some amazing results come in. Will put them on the blog early next week!

Interesting article found via Daring Fireball / John Gruber (well known Apple blogger): ‘The Real Story in This Mess Is Not the Threat That Algorithms Pose to Amazon Shoppers, but the Threat That Algorithms Pose to Journalism’ Maciej Ceglowski, demolishing a “news” story [from reputable Channel 4 News in the UK] that spread around the world claiming that Amazon’s suggestions were helping people make bombs, when in fact they were helping people conduct high school chemistry experiments:

It's a bellows focusing film camera though. The article is about finding the price sweet spot for digital medium format. If you added a half decent Leaf back to the RZ67 you'd still end up past the £3000 point. Hasselblad H3D and Pentax 645D is where it's at.

Such a patronising tone cantsin, ffs. That's the whole point - an environmental cause has broader appeal than a camera review, so they are going after the clicks with this kind of bait instead of putting the hard work in and doing the reviews. And it is happening everywhere, to the real detriment of ORIGINAL content and original journalism.

The disaster artists at DPReview have a new headline article for us today. And the main takeaway from the repost is this: As for capturing the photo itself, we asked Hofman if he would like to share anything with our audience of photographers directly. This is what he had to say: "The thing I would really like to tell photographers is to a) Listen to your gut and b) Don't worry so much about gear." *Shrugs* So yes, this is DPReview telling us after 1000's of in-depth reviews to not worry so much about gear after all. Not that this message runs counter to their overall purpose as journalists and camera reviewers, nooooooo Not that by placing this clickbait front and centre on the home page distracts from their core business of reviews and puts off 90% of their existing readership, of course not! Once the novelty of q-tip holding seahorses, microscopic close-ups of peacock feathers and tips on shooting macro photos of boiling water* wears off, maybe we will get to why we browsed to the site, maybe a review or 2... After all it is called Digital Photography Review, as is about cameras. So I did a small sample of one day in September, yesterday in fact, it was a real vintage day for content at DPReview with 12 articles going out and only 2 of them were reviews. So now we can conclude that DPReview is approximately 10% reviews and 90% seahorse pictures, with the readership currently 90% looking for reviews and 10% for seahorse pictures. What I assume DPReview wants to achieve is to switch that readership to 90% looking for seahorse pictures because who the fuck doesn't like seahorse pictures? Suddenly DPReview is going to explode into the mainstream with more clicks than they can handle... Just look at the CUUUUUTE little seahorse!!! * actual articles on DPR Yes even the BBC and they are publicly funded! They have a special place reserved on their main news home page for clickbait, it's the 4th square across under the main headline of the day. The seahorse picture is right up there with a journalist reporting from a war zone. It's what people want. Yes they love a good controversy generated out of nothing. PewDiePie on YouTube owes 70% of his popularity to the Wall Street Journal. And we see the results in their voting and consumption behaviour! I really hope this happens. I hope people get so burned out by trivial, repetitive junk content that there comes a golden age of the internet where the amount of content drops massively and the quality of each piece skyrockets. It would do us all a lot of good to go on a digital diet. This is an interesting point, because the corporate influence is so much more personal and subversive now. They are able to influence which friends we interact with, which ones we see the updates from and which ones we don't, the machines are acting as a filter rather than us. I think by and large machine algorithms are even influencing which articles get written and which don't, despite their original purpose to filter for quality.

Yes they are sending it to the real Andrew thankfully!

The teardown video - You can't look at a sensor like that and tell what the bit depth is. Where is his info coming from? Actual LG white paper for the camera module? Or advertising department? Most sensors are 12bit or 14bit by the way I don't even think 8bit sensors exist in phones. They are all 12bit. Correct me if I'm wrong (with proof!) It's the processing that determines the final bit-depth to be either 8bit or 10bit. When I bypass that and shoot raw on my S8+, the files are not 8bit raw. The proof will be in the pudding... how does the image look from the phone, and so on.

The main thing for me is the lack of headphone jack and DAC options. The S8+ has a personalised EQ that adapts volume for your hearing, so if you're down on a certain frequencies vs others you can boost those frequencies and get better perceived audio quality. It actually works. I have tried it vs the Chord Mojo DAC. The internal DAC isn't as good as the Mojo but this helps. With the Audiofly AF180 IEMs it's a joy to listen to. Can't say the same about my dull sounding iPhone 7 with dongle. Music is important to Apple and yet all they have to show for their efforts is a dongle and Beats. They are nowhere near satisfying the needs of audiophiles. And on the OLED front - the S8+ delivers all I need there, why should I pay $1000+ to Apple just to get the same or equal feature I already have? It remains to be seen whether the front dual camera setup beats the Galaxy Note 8 as well, but I am happy shooting on the S8+ in RAW. Does the iPhone X have RAW in the built in camera app or does it need a third party app? 4K 60fps H.265 is one thing. Nice to see, but doubt it'll make me shoot more serious video on a phone. iOS is still better engineered than Android though. More secure and better under the hood. Attracts higher calibre of devs and apps on average. More innovative software for sure. But in day to day use, to be honest now Android is not far off in terms of the overall experience and battery life.

Yep easy to trap. "Please send to Ebrahim Saadawi, 1 scam street, fraudtown."

Someone is pretending to be me, trying to scam free products out of the DSLR video community. Huge thanks for this company for being smart and sending me an email through this site, to check it was actually me!! Previously also James Miller I think was a victim of this kind of thing as well, but the real victims are the small businesses who lose valuable goods to an imposter! (This is a message to the person behind this ruse: It's completely fraudulent and we will get the police involved)

Yes you can do that. Although I designed it to be an in-camera profile for video and JPEG, nowhere did I say it was for shooting raw

Thanks for the thoughtful comments OliKMIA. I didn't see the emails, were they sent recently? I was in a similar position to you. I've written for DPReview, had some friends there, but their main editor was a constant road block and the main driving force behind the new click bait led-approach there. I just never saw eye to eye with him. I actually started off writing a bit for DigitalRev before that, but you see - these places are actually making a shit ton of money and they pay writers peanuts. The best thing you can do is to use them as a step on the ladder towards starting your own blog or YouTube channel. The exposure they give you is more valuable than the peanuts they feed you. But eventually you will starve and have to eat something. When I look at NoFilmSchool, PetaPixel and yes FStoppers I usually find that 90% of the content isn't original. Certainly not in terms of camera reviews. The reviews section reads like a top 10 of YouTube videos. It is outsourced to writers like yourself who aren't paid enough and aren't part of a core team in a building. This is against my principals because I think it's bad business and bad for the internet. There should be more investment in talent like yourself and more campuses in all major cities where these sites invest in space for writers, reviewers and filmmakers. Perhaps the money required just isn't there, but if Patreon can raise $60m in funding for their site from investors, I am sure a site as high profile as Amazon can invest a little more in what they own - aka DPReview - and give something back to the photography community. FStoppers I am sure is a multi-million dollar business and instead of maintaining a high traffic volume through the current model of curating content, should be writing it in-house from scratch, and Google should be the ones who are curating the content, showing more of an editorial hand by moving good stuff up the rankings by hand rather than relying on clicks and popularity matrixes. The danger for DPR now is that their front page click-bait is drowning out the hard work of the core team such as Richard Butler and his original articles, reviews, technical pieces and opinion. It will attract a different audience and kill their core audience stone dead. The clicks will all be heading towards the reposts and sensational gimmickry, and away from what made them such a respected authority on cameras. As creators we are also users. I am a consumer. I'm a visitor of several other blogs and sites. The general feeling whenever I surf the net these days for camera news is sheer disappointment in the standard of content and I actually often come back to the EOSHD forum instead and ask a question or reply to topics, because you often learn more from your own community than you do from the broader industry one.

"It's now 2017 and the NX system is still alive and going strong. In some cases, the NX cameras still offer technology still missing from other manufactures to date. Think about how impressive this is? That's how ahead of the curve you were." Very true! The technology was an incredible achievement. If they wanted to just do an NX2, an update, I am sure they could swing the factories back into action. Problem is, they have to justify the business plan to the Samsung board and CEO, who has his eyes on sales numbering in the millions. I hope Samsung can see the advantage of doing a smaller scale brand prestige project with the NX2, ahead of a full frame camera launch in the future that grabs a big chunk of the market.