Andrew Reid

I usually prefer a d-pad for the menus to a joystick. Don't know if this is just from habit or whether a d-pad really is better for menus, because I sometimes forget the 5D Mark III lacks a d-pad altogether and it's all joystick and scroll wheel action in the menus. If I were Fuji I'd try and put more clear water between their models... X-T20, X-T2 and now this, all quite similar in features, form factor and specs. The X-E3 just has the EVF at the side instead of the middle, and that's the only real substantial difference?!

I'll provide some proper downloadable footage soon.

Available now! The new EOSHD 5D Mark III 3.5K RAW Shooter's Guide With the new Magic Lantern experimental build for the 5D Mark III, we have an amazing 3.5K 10bit lossless raw mode with Super 35mm continuous recording. Read the full article

That poor lens. Was it in good condition?

So tomorrow is "Fujikina" aka party time and 4K firmware update for the Fuji X Pro 2!! If it doesn't happen, we are going to have to hang the DJ (FujiRumors) from a VERY high post. I have my hopes up like anything!! I see they are reporting in-body 5 axis stabilisation for the X-T2S as well... That would be a very nice move by Fuji.

You get to choose... You can encode it to 10Mbit H.264 for YouTube if you want, it's up to you. With ProRes you get to choose between the different bitrate flavours, like LT, Proxy, etc...

This is a very good suggestion. LUT folder on the memory card. Menu on the camera to select them. Job done. Once converted to 5K ProRes they're smooth as butter.

Yes, going to be good for warp stabiliser. With Dual IS, 5 axis IBIS and Warp, maybe we won't need that £1000 tripod Flowtech 75 after all

With the new firmware 2.0 update, the Panasonic GH5 becomes the first 5K 10bit H.265 mirrorless camera, and you don't even need an anamorphic lens to join the party. Read the full article

Yes, as the sensor is better. A lot of junk noise, banding, in the Blackmagic files.

Finally, they did it. What took so long?!

Thanks for the good explanations!

Thanks for clearing that up Brian I was secretly holding out some hope for an anamorphic Speed Booster but if it's not possible, some new anamorphic lenses are always welcome. A few years ago I thought there were some soviet zooms on eBay with the anamorphic elements at the rear of the lens, like the Foton 37mm-140mm Anamorphic F3.5 but it turns out not to be the case (blame bad eBay descriptions)! The anamorphic went on the front and was enormous. I wish someone would do a modern version of the Iscorama... Small, focussing adapter, fits on almost any prime.

Exactly, they said "middle" codec between 8bit 4:2:0 low bitrate H.264 and 10bit RAW. Then they went back on it, but are still calling it a middle codec and an upgrade. It's deceitful practice.

No that A99 II measurement will be the full frame pixel binning mode, the Super 35mm mode has worse rolling shutter, more towards 30ms-ish as with the A7R II Super 35mm mode, as it's a 5K full pixel readout. Pixel binning is faster. The more pixels you need to read, the slower it can scan the sensor from top to bottom. Nice. How did Sam do the maths? I take it accounts for different panning speeds and different focal lengths between camera test footage?

Cheers ed. With the wider glass, they tend to vignette. Super 16 or 16 needs to be 25mm or longer to have a chance in covering the larger micro four thirds sensor, sometimes even those vignette and the zooms are out. So stick to around 25mm and get one really nice one, is what I've tended towards

Just the 4K cams BM MicroStudio 4K--- 9.9 ms (official) BM 4.6K (4K crop)-- 12.6 ms (official) 1DX II 4k 24&60 --- 14.7 ms (14.6-14.9-14.9-14.6) GH5 --------------- 15.0 ms (official, preproduction) BM 4.6K ----------- 15.2 ms (official) my measurement was 16.3 ms (16.3-15.9-16.8) RX100 V 4k -------- 17.5 ms (18.1-16.3-17.7---17.7-16.9-18.5) (first 3 with stabilization, last 3 without) a7R II 4K FF ------ 19.9 ms (19.3-19.6-19.4-21.2) GH4 4K/UHD -------- 22.0 ms (official) my measurement was 22.5 ms(23.2-22.3-22.7-22.7-22.4-21.8-22.4-22.8-22.6) a99 II 4k --------- 23.4 ms (23.3-23.5) G7 4k ------------- 28.1 ms (27.8-28.5) GX85 4k ----------- 28.9 ms (30.2-29.0-28.8-27.5) a7s II FF 4K ------ 30.4 ms (30.2-30.6) XT2 4k ------------ 30.7 ms (30.5-30.7-31.2-31.2-30.8-29.9) NX1 4K ------------ 30.9 ms (30.6-31.6-31.4-30.7-30.2) NX1 UHD ----------- 32.6 ms (32.9-32.0-32.9-32.5) a7R II 4K S35 ----- 33.3 ms (35.6-32.2-32.8-35.3-32.6-31.1) RX100 IV 4K ------- 36.6 ms (36.4-36.7) (without stabilization it's slightly faster: 35.7) a6300 4K 24fps ---- 39.0 ms (39.2-38.9) A few remarks Don't think the number for the X-T2 is quite right, I'd say in my real world tests it comes out quite a bit better than the NX1 4K 30ms is where it gets bothersome, under that is fine for most stuff. Interesting that the A99 II 4K came out slightly worse than A7R II - it must be doing a better image though, more pixels in the readout. Fastest stills camera sensors - GH5 and 1D X II... I think Canon could have given us better quality 120fps 1080p given how fast that chip is. Good to see BM at the top - power hungry though. Best value for money is GH5 and RX100 V.

Go and take your stupid posts to another forum, then.

8bit 4:2:0 on the C200 is a shame, but I understood why it had to be crippled to protect the C300 II. What I don't understand is why Canon feel they can fool people into believing their planned codec for 2018 is an 'upgrade' Surely C200 users know the difference between H.264 8bit 4:2:0 in a MP4 wrapper and an MXF wrapper, with meta data. I don't think you can really call that an upgraded coded. It is still H.264, 8bit, 4:2:0, isn't it! So Canon initially had a chart where the mysterious new codec would record to CFast 2.0 cards... Then that all changed and it is only going to record to SD cards now. I think Canon should come clean and tell C200 owners what the fuck just happened.

All you have shown is that the GH5 is unsuitable for EXTREME GREEN backgrounds and SHIT looking images. Anyone can break a file. I can break the Alexa's files!

The LG screen is probably fine in normal use. If it has uniformity and grain issues in certain situations then fine, good to know. Important to get it in perspective though, with how you actually use the phone. It is going to be a very very bad device for viewing flat grey surfaces in the dark that's for sure! On the camera front, I'd wait and see what the Google Pixel XL 2 brings as their image processing has been far superior to LG's so far. The current XL quite simply has a wonderful processor and sensor. It was a tough choice for me between that and the S8+ The S8+ won it in the end because of the screen and better raw images. To look at what the Pixel XL's processing did to the raw image data... it's a miracle transformation. And I fully expect XL 2 to have 10bit video and HDR if LG are making it... but for some reason I've never really got into video on smartphones that much... why bother, when you have so much else to play with that's far nicer? I am into smartphone photography on the other hand, as sometimes the best stills camera is the one you have on you. The best video camera on the other hand, is the one you make the effort to bring to a specific occasion!

I think this phone is in Berlin at the moment at IFA. I'll have a look on Monday.

Panasonic better get their printer hooked up again!

Nice colour, seems I underexposed a bit though... Seems V-LOG should be to the right 1-2 stops like S-LOG? By the way don't be afraid to push the shadows in 10bit... push the entire exposure 2 stops and it should be clean!

Brian, I'm meeting one of the Panasonic USA bosses at IFA in Berlin on Monday and will mention it. I also think they should license your speed booster patents We would have much better native M43 glass if they did!!