Andrew Reid

Wow so few! Got any more?!

I like Goto's modded Df but if all his criticisms of his own camera are valid then why the hell wasn't he voicing them during development, saying 'the metallic feeling needs to be better' and so on. Nikon seem to do everything by committee. A Steve Jobs-type manager would have taken more control. That's what they need on the product side. The comments about pros not using Sony, Olympus, Fujifilm are laughable as well all well know! I am sure Mr Goto knows as well, not sure why he feels it's ok to lie about it! "I have considered many options. Mirrorless cameras can be made thinner body but without the mirror shutter sound and vibration are gone, although they can be simulated electronically. How to integrate these technologies and ideas is one thing, how to execute and to build products is another." Well get on with it then... or should I say, Goto it. Vibration simulated electronically? No thanks What are they waiting for? We need that Nikon mirrorless range. I think they should build a real competitor to their DSLRs with their prosumer mirrorless camera and not try and do a Df with some Leica-mimicing piece of fashion fluff.

Here's what needs to happen - Google and Facebook should take on more editorial responsibility, have actual humans boost quality content up the ranking, rather than leaving it all to machines. They don't even curate the front page of YouTube, it's all numbers, maths. Facebook should allow content creators to reach 100% of their followers for free with each post. Those followers are not for sale. I don't want to have to pay Mark Zuckerberg a cent to speak to you guys. Next up, the aggregator sites (Nofilmschool, 43rumors) should be demoted down the Google search rankings every time they post non-original content and the content they post should go UP in the search ranking. Eventually you will get the original creator on the first page of Google and SonyAlphaRumors on page 26. Finally, for privacy reasons there should be an opt in on every single banner ad on a page. If you go to SonyAlphaRumors and it has 27 ads on the front page, every one of them stuffing a cookie in your mouth to track what you do on the internet. Browsers should pop a dialogue box up saying OK / Confirm to tracking for every single one of those 27 advert cookies. The more ads, the more hassle for the user, the more people turn to cleaner sources of info. Finally, I'd like to see YouTube PAY FOR ORIGINAL CONTENT like Netflix. No, not $1 cent from a million advertising impressions... A real contract, written on paper, mega bucks. Otherwise, fuck the entire internet, it is going down the drain.

I would like to discover some new sites and YouTubers. I am going to delete DPReview and all the reviews sites from my bookmarks and RSS. Had enough of em. I miss Philip Bloom and his cats. I never thought I'd say that His blog was a brilliantly entertaining read but he doesn't do it any more really. I've found some great YouTubers and people on this forum who I follow the blogs and channels of. Now I'd like to know more. Who regularly updates on new camera news, gives intelligent opinions, actually uses the stuff, actually makes original content? Also is Reddit a good place for camera reviews? And even... Are there any Vimeors? People with regular and good camera tests, on their Vimeo account?

Just a pun. Maybe it was too Ebrasive.

I think the rumors blogs are going to die off anyway. I'd much rather collaborate with YouTube channels, and much rather watch them, than wade through a sea of shitty deals and ad banners just to get to a made up headline they plucked out of their ass.

Lots is left for the A7S III 10bit codec Dual Pixel AF 4K 60p New ergonomics, better screen, etc. I doubt the A7 and A7R will have any of that, aside from the better AF!

You did a great job with the S-LOG 3 shot as well. Prefer the hair tone on Pro LOG S / WideDR though!

Ebraher!

Camera A for me. Camera C has better highlights though. While Camera E highlights are totally whacked... Is it the M8?!

I would expect A7R III with Nikon D850 sensor first, probably going to be next year now. A7S III a few months after that. I hope it arrives in 2018, not any later than that.

Thread continues here - Thanks!

Anyone can see discrimination, you don't need to be the one being discriminated against to notice it. Nikon ignored a bunch of good female photographers pure and simple. The guys they picked were probably not even all that good.... Just more eager to be Nikon whores. Maybe the girls didn't want to be used for marketing as much... as the art matters more to them than status.

Nice, which city? I reckon you can recover some highlights in the sky with the Highlight/Shadow LUT that comes with it by the way! Beautiful skintones on the Pro LOG / WideDR1 shot there. Really shows the cold zombie Sony standard up for what it is... clinical! I like that all of these are subtle enough to just look at and enjoy without being distracted by the styles themselves. The LUTs benefit from tweaking in Lumetri after applying to a shot rather than slapped on, and it seems you did a great job there?

I agree! And I wish there were more women on this forum. Why aren't there?!

The original content creator gets visibility but not as much as you think In my experience, 7 years running EOSHD, during that time it has been featured prominently on DPReview, Gizmodo, Engadget, 43Rumors, SonyAlphaRumors, etc. Yet over 90% of the traffic originates from Google and Facebook. Referrals from others are almost not worth bothering with. The main problem is the business model of the internet, it rewards lazy reposting of other people's hard work surrounded by your own ads on some shitty Wordpress template - And the really sad thing is the audience by and large - are still clicking it! It seems people can't help themselves! Clickbait works!

On most forums and mainstream sites, you aren't even allowed to discuss issues of sex, race and politics so you're lucky I'm chilled out about it. If things get divisive and out of hand, only then will I stop it.

They have a relentless posting rate now on the front page news feed... 20 articles PER DAY and sometimes more?! That's crowding out the last few good remaining writers and reviewers there like Richard Butler... crowding them out of their own damn site. They have hired click-bait writers from FStoppers like DL Cade. Indeed the In The News column that runs all the way down the right of the site is populated by articles from other sites like FStoppers and Petapixel. Is there anybody I respect left in the photographic blog community? I don't know! They have almost all gone down the drain. It's so sad. I want competition, I want to like and respect the work of others. The internet is going to implode under the weight of it's own shittyness at this rate, with this much quantity of clicks over quality, it isn't sustainable.

What about the focus fall off as well as perspective. F2.8 on medium format doesn't quite look like F1.4 on full frame. The transitions are more gentle. On perspective... Say you shoot the moon behind 3 trees. You want to get all 3 trees in the shot, make the moon loom as big as possible behind them. You need a telephoto to get the big moon... and to step back far enough from the trees that they are all in the shot and the perspective bunches them up against the backdrop. Shooting close to the trees with a wide lens will push the background perspective back so that the moon looks like a pinprick of light and the effect is lost. The advantage of a large sensor here is that you can get closer to the subject with a long lens, is it not? Because if you had a smaller sensor on there, you'd need to be so far away to get the framing the same as the larger sensor, and sometimes that isn't possible. In terms of going wider on the crop sensor and further way, yes it does seem to compensate for perspective changes of the focal length... distance does matter... Maybe I should do some more shooting with my Hasselblad to show what I mean in a clearer way... I had to leave it in the UK when I went back to Berlin recently so haven't had much time with it.

The point is that when you crop into a medium format image you get the compression of the 80mm, whereas when you crop into a 2x crop sensor from a 25mm lens, you never get the depth compression of an 80mm or telephoto... it's 25mm. A 25mm is a 25mm. An 80 is an 80! Cropping a full frame image out of medium format = 80mm on full frame Cropping a 2x crop image out of medium format = 80mm on micro four thirds Now, you can't say an 80mm portrait lens on micro four thirds looks like a 25mm portrait on micro four thirds.

I don't have much of a counter argument to compete against it seems Nikkor.

Look at all those heavy lenses, poor ladies. Someone get them a Nikon J1 All these men buying D850s with 42MPs better watch out they don't grow bigger breasts On a related topic... Isn't it time Canon and Nikon put their 80 year old male management in a retirement home? Or would that be agist?

Looking forward to seeing the footage. If anyone else would like to post theirs as well, would be great. I'll select the best, and put it on the blog. Comparisons / tests always useful as well.

I use Polarr and it opens raw stills, has 12 crops, none of them 2:35:1 The closest it gets is 16:10! Great app though. If anyone finds something to do the anamorphic crop style I'll give it a go.

No harm done, the thread was quite an interesting one in the end, enjoyed the footage!