Andrew Reid

Looks like a Russian lens. The Communists have eaten the sun!

I am not sure I'd leave my girlfriend to hook up with you Panny By the way I found some very nice deals on wide angle adapters at Visual Impact but they are in the UK. I am sure they ship to Berlin though! Fuji, Optex, Sony, all pro stuff and high quality between £70 to 300 http://www.visuals.co.uk/used-items/used/lenses-used.html?___SID=U&dir=desc&order=price&p=3 I saw the Soligor at Foto Braune, he also had a nice Pentax mount 28mm F2 which he let me take home to try out... for free. I didn't go for it as it doesn't fit Speed Booster due to the aperture lever sticking out, but it's ok on a Sony A7 body. Nice optics but the build was as the price tag! There is a Distagon 28mm F2.0, the famous "Hollywood" Zeiss at Foto Mayer for 700 euros if you're feeling rich!

Is that Bush on the phone ordering a nuclear eclipse? Wondering if I can get my Sony ready for that. By then they might have it built in?! I did a timelapse of the meteor shower recently with the Leica SL and old version Noctilux. That lens even at F1 is surprisingly sharp and several bits of space debris were successfully detected. A good job it burned up before hitting the lens. I would do my next timelapse on the Hasselblad but I think the shutter might fall off after 12 shots

Good chance for some amazing footage today in the US! I would like to see what you've got, as being in England I will miss it. Jealous http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40657793

Good wide angle adapters are quite rare but it's always worth checking the usual places in Berlin like Foto Braune, Foto Mayer and others who stock used stuff. The only good one I have ever used (unless you count anamorphic Panasonic LA7200!) has been the Dog Schnidt Optiks FF38. You might want to contact Rich Gale and see if he can sell you one. It's very good Schott glass. http://www.eoshd.com/2015/02/dog-schidt-optiks-ff58-flare-factory-58-pl-mount-review/ I shot this footage with it on the front of his FF58 which is based on the Helios 44-M 58mm F2 I have it in Berlin but since I've only got one and I don't want to sell it as it was a gift from Richard, you're out of luck there Panny

In the UK the other day there was a news piece on this guy... Karl Popper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance It's interesting because it shows the paradox of today's liberal society... The US society is tolerant enough to allow the display of nazi flags outside houses under free speech laws and right wing protests in the streets under expensive police escorts, and it's tolerant enough to allow these people to arm themselves with several automatic weapons at once. The more tolerant we become, the more the door opens to the intolerant ones, the more freedom they have to wreak havoc and destroy tolerance. So Karl Popper argued (in 1945 no less) that for a society to be truly tolerant it has to be "intolerant of intolerance". I suppose in the case Ed raised of alleged discrimination by a photo company, we shouldn't tolerate it, he's right on that. But I am also against building a wall between us and every single person in the company because of the wrongdoings of a few of their management, and I still really don't know if Ed is talking about a shop or a manufacturer. I suppose the point of Ed's post was to get us all talking and I'm fine with a bit of politics every now and again. I just don't agree that race has much to do with talking about cameras. It's a privilege but not just a white one.

It's not political. You can be white, upper middle class and be creative without guilt. Political? It is what you make it. Sometimes political is good. From the outside, what is happening in the US at the moment is shocking. Tribal. What is the photo company? Names!

There's already been an 8K resolution smartphone camera... 41MP Nokia PureView 808 with 1" sensor. The problem for Nikon is twofold... They haven't delivered a compelling innovative camera for enthusiasts... The Df was a disaster. Their enthusiast mirrorless is nowhere. Their lack of dual pixel af a real problem too. Consumers have moved onto phones, but Nikon have showed zero expertise or understanding of the online services and apps market.

Definitely more CCD / film like than the usual CMOS! I find the Sigma is nicest when the white balance is set a little bit cooler for daylight than I'd otherwise do on a normal camera... It seems to bring out more colour. The grass has so much going on... autumnal tones, mint, all sorts, which are missing in action on a Sony!

I am sure we must have been on Park Cameras at the same time, I saw that as well. The refurbished body only was an amazing price as well for £599 but I couldn't find the 30mm F1.4 anywhere for less than £350. I have the 18-35 but not the 50-150 in Sigma mount. I had it once in EF mount but took it back, not that it wasn't amazing... was just a bit too big for my liking and breathes a lot...Was trying it out on the 1D C in 4K with the 1.3x crop and it didn't vignette. Maybe I could sell you my Quattro if I ever upgrade to the H? I was tempted, not so much for the extra megapixels as the extra sensor space. I think Park Cameras had a Quattro H body for £1129... bit cheaper than WEX at £1350 and was tempted by that until the Hasselblad popped up. Nice review. You can drag and drop the original high res images to the EOSHD forum editor and it will upload here... saves you having to cut and paste URLs from pic hosts!

Allow me to decriminalise myself! Classic Chrome Highlight Tone -2 Shadow Tone -2 Color + 2 Sharpness -4 No colour grading in post on that shot. Lens is the Fuji 23mm F1.4.

I've been shooting timelapses and infrared stills with the Sigma SD Quattro mirrorless camera. Foveon is a future bayer slayer. Sigma could end up ruling the sensor market for high end cameras in 10 years. Read the full article

I think this is the first proper digital film camera, for stills at least. 2007 was a golden year for the sensors. Panavision Genesis. Sony F35. Kodak medium format CCD in the Hassy. First impressions are... Smaller and lighter than expected, really no hassle to use. The shutter is ridiculously loud. Biggest viewfinder I've ever used. I like the modularity and the fact the battery doubles as the grip. There should be an Olympus version of this... A miniature, modular M43 camera. Easily matches detail of my A99 II 42MP raw stills. Can't say that about many 2007 cameras But the main thing I am enjoying is the perspective of the 80mm... It brings things in nice and close, whilst appearing wide-ish, around 56mm on a full frame camera but with the perspective and depth compression of an 80mm. The OLED screen on the back is... Interesting. Not up to todays standards obviously but great colour and contrast for the time. Must be a very early OLED for that time. Works with 64GB UDMA7 compact flash, when I think the norm for the time was 8GB UDMA1... However it has locked up twice... I think I might need to invest in an older CF card! Thanks for the spot on Park Cameras BTM_Pix!

The Hassle has arrived! This is now my oldest camera... 2007!! The images must have blown peoples heads off in 2007.

Cool, go for the deep-end!! Can confirm the X-T20 is a beast Here's a 4K frame... Lovely codec and colour... Super detailed.

Very cool. You're famous now, I hope the dog made it into the article as well. The Minolta zooms are great. I have the 24-70mm F2.8 which works on Sony A-mount and the 35-70mm F3.5 which has a very three dimensional feel but as it is MD mount goes on the A7S II not the A99 II. How are you getting on with the Fuji X-T20?

Yes but D7500 is APS-C as well, a crippled D500 for almost the same price. I guess they included it because it's newer, 2017. Maybe there haven't been enough good prosumer DSLRs related in 2017 for them to select anything else!!

Plenty of info here on Vega http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/16940/amd-rx-vega-lineup Also consider the GTX 1080 Ti? By the way in Resolve there is less difference then I'd like between my iMac GPU and GTX 970 in my PC desktop rig!! GTX 755M vs 970 should be big step up but it isn't really for Resolve rendering times and realtime 2K RAW playback.

It's almost as if they created that category especially for Panasonic. They got it wrong in many categories. Huawei P10 is soundly beaten by the camera on the Google Pixel XL and Samsung S8. I am not sure the A6500 qualifies as best prosumer mirrorless with so much competition out there like the X-T2, and I guess A7R II is too old to be voted for again Interesting the Nikon D7500 won a category. I thought everyone hated it! Why not D500?

!! Congrats dude, Quite a cool photo, what was the article about?

Oooo better hold onto mine, was about to let it go. Have the X-T20 now and it does pretty much everything the X-T2 and X Pro 2 do with no 4K crop. But I much prefer the lightness and ergonomic niceness of the good old X Pro 2.

Pentax 645Z is supposed to be quite DSLR-ish to use. I don't know why they can't get DSLR performance out of AF on medium format cameras and lenses... it is 2017 after all. Digital Bolex CCD had to be exposed different to CMOS... In the end the dynamic range was similar to the BMPCC, just differently spread.

I'll assume the 4K in both E-shutter stills / raw mode and video mode is pixel binned on the sensor itself like the A99 II, as it probably has similar Sony sensor technology. 6fps E-shutter gives you idea of how slow the 8K output is on this camera... quite far off 24fps. No reason they can't do 4K raw video to XDQ cards on the D850... oh there is... focus group didn't ask for it!

Park Cameras say the Hassy should arrive tomorrow and I found an 80mm F2.8 to go with it Should be interesting for some timelapses and photo shoots if it doesn't fall apart due to old age! I will also compare CCD colour to modern CMOS / Sony and see if there is indeed a big difference.

I am in the UK at the moment so thought I'd search for things to do I think one of the 80mm F2.8 might be a good option because the camera body is already 2kg and the zoom will take it close to 4kg! The 80mm is tiny however and I do tend to use 50mm equiv. focal lengths a lot. I had thought about getting the 50mm F3.5, as that pretty much gives you the look of 35mm medium format and 50mm full frame in one lens... just from a crop in Photoshop to get the full frame 50mm look. The dream lens seems to be 100mm F2.2 but starts at £1450 on eBay. The lenses have leaf shutters... Warranty says they will be guaranteed for 100,000 shots and should last close to 200,000 if you're lucky!