Andrew Reid

Right so it seems like an Android phone with no specs, but we do know it probably has some kind of lenticular screen like the Nintendo 3DS for a depth effect that will make you cross eyed and it has contacts that back onto other modules to give it other functionality like as a screen for your RED Epic. Props to red for trying something different at least. However, I'd need to see at least the basic specs and exactly what screen tech is in it before stumping up $1500

Apple are going backwards in so many ways.

Good stuff. I always thought the Olympus E-M1 II would make quite a nice compact telephoto choice for sports, with it's blazing speeds and nice 300mm F4 pro lens. Pair that with the 40-150mm F2.8 pro lens and it's quite versatile even in low light at ISO 6400. Wouldn't go much above that though.

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Enjoy the Spanish footy! What gear are you taking?

If Apple still felt like being innovative they should have built a £500 mega-death keyboard of OLED panel keys (every key a display) which you could configure however you like. Some could even be related to the app you're using (no need for touch bar) and even change the keyboard layout from UK to German or whatever your language needs are at the time... Think virtual phone keyboard but with physical keys. Why does this not exist yet. Ah it does exist, since 2008 But apparently falls apart. Here's the successor The hero we need in the post Jobs era.

Podcast? The body language is very important in this and you don't go all the way to the Kremlin, interview Putin, only to make a podcast

Old vs new... Is that progress the Apple way?!

Somebody at Sony has some explaining to do.........

I did give them some feedback and they passed it on down the chain, so that's good of them... and yes - I think there are people at Canon who would like great video as much as we would do, and I am sure some Canon staff are actual enthusiasts and film for a hobby outside the main job. I will always carry on the crusade to get them to listen, and I will always be in the market for a Canon that does interesting stuff. Just bought an EOS M for Magic Lantern raw video with c-mount lenses. Canon Japan owe Magic Lantern a big thank you for the way they have kept the flame of passion alive somewhat for us in the absent of official video features.

Jon, keep your old keyboard safe It's surprising how many big companies worth many billions don't have a guy sat in a small office like Jobs obsessing over 'feel'. It sounds so hippy, just that word 'feelings'. Every time I pick up a camera or electronic device I want to it to feel nice, simple as that. Keys should have travel. They should be silent. I mean this is basic shit for Jobs and he left nobody at Apple in his place, it seems, with the sensitivity to 'get it' and the ruthlessness to enforce these things... So tappy-cheapo keys we get. The weight shaved off is good. The secret to USB C is not to buy dongles but to replace all your old USB cables with the right ones Any old USB device with a detachable cable can have one single USB C cable going from it to the Mac with no converter or USB dongle in sight!

Apple Magic keyboard, the one with the lightning jack and built in battery.... I have never seen such an overrated piece of junk in my life. To think this is going to be the standard wireless Apple keyboard for all iMacs, etc. for several years. Let's start with the keys themselves, dreadful flat cheap feel, awful clapping sound when typing, the softness and travel of the old keys has been obliterated just like on the new MacBook Pro. I just hate the way it feels. Then there's the cursor keys, 4 of them scrunched into the space only a bit bigger than a shift key. The up and down key is practically one key and you operate it with your finger tips as your fingers no longer fit on it or rest on the up/down directions. If you're thinking of gaming with this keyboard, don't do it... nightmare. Small thing, but I thought I'd put out a warning to prevent £120 being flushed down the toilet

Canon have been open to dialogue all along and their team got in touch, they didn't give any pre-conditions for it at all. One day, they got in touch and that was it. I have the 5D4 review half-done, but I don't think there is anything I can add about this camera that hasn't already been told... It's not a mysterious black box and since it's been out for a while now on the market, the review wouldn't be very fresh or a surprise. It's MJPEG 4K, big crop, Dual Pixel AF, good stills, not much else to say at all. That's the thing, if Canon really were serious about 4K and consumer video on a stills camera again, I'd be more interested in doing the reviews. But their kind-of lack of passion (in Japan with the top management at least, not with the hard-working PR people and those elsewhere in the company that ARE interested in DSLR video) results in a lack of passion in me as well.

Mercer is annoying to debate with because he keeps switching the subject when somebody tries to take his point on. At the least, stick with one line of argument for longer than 10 minutes, to reduce the frustration factor. So what if Canon had a lot of firsts with the 1D C? It was also the first DSLR priced $12,000!! The first with an MJPEG codec for 4K instead of a much better suited one like ProRes! And since that vintage year, 2012 to be precise, we've had Dual Pixel AF and fuck all else. By the way, the real smoking gun is what Magic Lantern reveals about features being intentionally switched off... The 5D Mark III came out as a 1080/24p camera, maximum 30p, with 720p over HDMI. It was actually a 1080/60p camera with 1080p HDMI. So explain that.

Well, it's nothing to celebrate. Canon and Nikon had to start innovating but I feel the boat has sailed a bit now... Is it too late? For online services, social media, smartphone cameras and the like, it probably is. If Canon had bought Instagram, etc. when they had the chance, different story. They didn't see it coming, they didn't see a future in that particular industry or the benefit of it to their core products. This may be over-simplifying it a bit but it gives you the general idea of the problem, of having 75 year old management guys in charge in Japan. Canon may end up being more of a business-to-business company than a consumer facing one. They won't mind because it is whatever makes money, but the cultural loss to photography of their poor form will be felt. Look at how quickly analogue sales dropped in just 5 years to practically nothing with the advent of affordable digital cameras between 2001-2005.

Guys, DM each other if you want to have an off-topic discussion about your photos. Not in this thread, thank you.

I'd rather have what I need, with the occasional glitch, than have the feature lacking entirely.

If you have given up expecting a minimum of video performance from Canon DSLRs, why do you keep defending them? Isn't it a big disgrace that even a loyal customer like you after spending thousands feels disappointed? 5D Mk IV should be your dream camera, a must-buy, and you are saying you would never spend 3700 euros on it.

It's always a compromise. The most reliable F1 car does not last for 10 years like your reliable town run-about does it?! The engine goes pop after 2 or 3 races and the parts have an ultra short lifespan. They get through a race reliably... That is different.

Yes and Canon will never build an F1 car, they have resigned themselves to uninspired reliable work tools and even the odd exciting office photocopier! Performance / reliability is always a compromise. It was Ross Brawn at Ferrari who made them reliable by putting good technical structures and procedures in-place, like post-race debrief sessions, parts compliance, better standards at the factory, etc. and Michael Schumacher was just a technically gifted driver, I sometimes think Schumacher gets too much credit for turning around the team when it was actually Brawn and the existing backroom staff. If you are an F1 fan get Total Competition by Ross Brawn and Adam Parr, a very good read!

Don't go on about your Toyota at a Ferrari enthusiasts club.

You point to a reputable link that shows Sony and Panasonic's camera divisions are loss making non-profitable entitles then!

Anybody that needs good 1080p. Remember, the 6D Mark II's 1080p mode should really be labeled standard definition "540p", with moire. They should put Moire as a sludge coloured badge on the side of the box. It's practically the same camera. Only difference is sensor size. A Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 will give the 80D a very similar image to the best F2.8 zoom on the 6D Mk II for much less money. You did! You said Sony, Panasonic, Fuji, etc. aren't profitable so that only leaves two that are! It's just wrong! If they were not profitable they would not be in the business for 15+ years and bringing out new stuff every few months! Yes Sony outselling Nikon full frame cameras... That's not what I call "in the red"! C'mooooooooon.

So only Canon and Nikon are profitable? Sony is actually now ahead of Nikon on the US market for all interchangeable lens photography equipment. They had record sales in 2017 and outgrew a contracting overall market minus-Sony made up of a drifting Canon and Nikon going slowly nowhere. As for Panasonic, well you only have to look around the streets in most major cities worldwide to see mass-market consumers using their G series mirrorless cameras. Find any tourist hotspot in the world and take a sample. It's not all Canon and Nikon. I don't know about you, but I would mind having the proceeds from some of those sales in MY bank account For Sony meanwhile, the sensor business IS part of the camera business, and if you add smartphone photography to the mix then Sony has a larger part to play in worldwide sales of cameras than even Canon. For most of it's life Samsung's camera division did not bleed money. It was only in the final 1-2 years that sales saw a dramatic downturn because the bulk of Samsung's market share was in the low-end products that smartphones were killing off. That's why at the last moment they switched to the high-end with the NX1 and courted us filmmakers and enthusiasts, but in the end they felt it was time to pull the plug because of the continuing low sales and that frankly that a gargantuan company the size of Samsung had bigger fish to fry like military contracts for tank building, ship building and worldwide billion dollar smartphone market. In terms of photography they didn't have the kind of loyal sheep to fall back on as Canon and Nikon do so it was always going to be one of their smaller profit lines, selling NX1s to filmmakers

A high performance Ferrari isn't going to be as reliable as a Toyota you drive to the supermarket. The NX1 is many many times the performance of the Canon and Nikon cameras in terms of the internal processing. Personally I've never had it crash due to heat. It crashes on occasion due to the firmware, the hack, and the fact Samsung have stopped patching it. What lens did you have on the A7R II? If it's via an adapter then it may not even be the fault of the camera. Personally I have never ever had my A7S II crash during a stills shoot. Or a video shoot, come to think of it. I'm sorry you had a worse than average experience. It's not normal. Sure, with certain cameras especially the A6500's lack of conservative heat-management, Sony do need to focus on that last 1-2% of reliability but I'd rather the occasional hang in high performance mode than a permanently crippled low performance mode as found at Canon and Nikon. By the way people should be careful about using stats like "in 2013 Mirrorless was only 5% of shipments" Shipments can go down at same time as sales going up, for example if the models are high-end like the A7R II as they are sold for a much higher price but in smaller quantities than the low-end mirrorless shite by the bucket load.