Andrew Reid

In Magic Lantern raw, not stock form. BIG difference. It's not all about content actually. People want to buy a future proof TV or best spec for the price. All my friends who have bought a new TV in the last couple of years have gone for a 4K model without exception, especially as the prices now are similar to a decent 1080p set and start at around £350 in the UK. Why wouldn't you? Various set to boxes, PCs, laptops, game consoles have a 4K picture and they want to make use of that, so it's not all about watching TV even. The awareness of 4K on consumer market is very high and even the PS4 Pro, etc. capitalise on the hype with their upscaling modes. That gives them all the more reason to upgrade to 4K if they don't have it already. Not many people keep the same TV for 15 years in today's fast moving age of cheap consumer goods. Sony have a smartphone with a 4K display now and it's a selling point in the eyes of the consumer. Whether you agree it makes sense or not. Sounds like the research you've seen is out of date by at least 2 years.

I guess the same way Michael Flynn smiles in meeting Putin for some 'election help'!

I don't know. By the way I have a question for you as well... Will there be 8K on the 5D Mark 6?

Personally I really love a popup flash!

Canon Rumors is a general-audience Canon site with no emphasis on video, yet their poll currently shows 36% of photographers are angry about the lack of 4K. That's a huge amount of people. Although 9000 voted so far in that particular poll, if you extrapolate that 36% to 36% of Canon's total sales, they are in the shit. Why piss off over a third of your customers? I have the Mk IV with latest firmware! Sometimes, with certain lenses, the AF can be pretty good... It's more the random reliability that kills it, along with the low light AF. It was a big reason behind me sticking with the 1D C and 1D X Mark II for stills work.

Vladimir did joke about having Stone bumped off at one point near the end.

I bet the lenses are locking him into Canon. AF with the Metabones adapter is still very hit and miss for me.

Here's the source DPReview are using for the article Doesn't look like click bait to me Here's the 1D X Mark II reacting even worse to high brightness pulsing LED light sources https://***URL removed***/forums/thread/4133297 But it didn't make the front page, obviously

Anthony Dod Mantle is a well known cinematographer, responsible for pioneering work with digital right from the get-go in the late 1990's. He is the guy behind some of Danny Boyle and Lars Von Trier's best work. So why is he shooting with a 5D Mark II in 2017? Read the full article

ES can get you teeth with built in Canon cameras, and they are the best teeth ever made. Amazing white balance. LED boards I assume are a problem for non-Sony cameras too then? Because this article will go round the internet and kill A9 sales like a mercenary assassin, which is really unfair as they are trying to innovate and Canon are taking the piss!

Let's see how many people he defrauds out of their money on DPReview before they do something about it.

I wrote for DPReview for a few years contributing video advice and where it was a talking point as on the 5D Mark III and Panasonic GH4, I wrote that part of the review. DPReview was for me the original trusted authority on digital cameras and it was an honour to work for them but I am really sad at what the site has turned into today. Read the full article

But Sony, Panasonic, Nikon, Olympus, Fujifilm have all come to the conclusion that 4K is good for profit and that their customers are asking for it. What's different with Canon?! Same customers!

4K is about choice. It makes for great 1080p, very clean, less noise when downsampled in post. If it's too sharp or too realistic, you again have a choice... Use a filter, soften in post, there's all sorts you can do to make it look less digital. A great digital pioneer Anthony Dod Mantle recently shot 5D Mark II with moire and aliasing on a major documentary production... This to me makes no sense unless it's an artistic choice. What was he thinking? The leaders of this industry, the best DPs, are not always right... Trust your own judgement.

Get an A7S Mk 1 if you just want great 1080p

That shot is 3:2 or 4:3... In video mode 16:9 those dark corners will be gone, no?

Cheers for the replies guys. I might have to get a faster card as my Lexar UHS-II 150MB/s doesn't seem to make 160Mbit/s reliable enough. Is the NX1 card slot UHS-I or II?

Sony discontinued the older 16MP APS-C sensor that Fuji used in the X100 series until recently. Are you sure you're not confusing the G85 sensor with that, because I'm pretty sure the G85 isn't discontinued. It's only been out 8 months!!

Well the only advantages to the 6D Mark II over the 5D3 are the articulated screen and Dual Pixel AF, and these are very nice indeed but if it doesn't have the image quality or features to back this up, then shooting video on it is a pointless endeavour compared to other similarly priced cameras. The stock 5D Mark III image has been dead for a long time in the video community and the only reason we still use it is because of Magic Lantern raw, so if you're going to get a 5D Mark III instead of a 6D Mark II, you're not going to get it for the stock image quality in video mode, you're going to get it for raw, and if you don't like the raw workflow and file sizes or the idea of running a hack, then you're not going to be considering a Canon for video - you'll be better off with a different brand. There's always a used 1D C potentially - but it's still not up to the ergonomic convenience for video of the GH5, E-M1 II and countless others and it remains quite pricey.

"Missing 4K" is becoming THE story of the 6D Mark II in the eyes of the wider public. This has so much traffic it ended up on the front page of Reddit, which hardly ever happens for cameras - maybe once or twice per YEAR!

Image is soft with moire! Extremely soft on the wide angle landscape shots Looks worse than 2012.

Ah OK I'll correct it. Not sure why I remembered the 0.74x figure!

PRAISE BE!! They were forced to.... They had to put Dual Pixel AF on board, because even the $500 SL2 has that now. No UHS II. No USB 3 USB 2? Let's party like it's 2004. Exactly. Why bother putting this on, so great for video, when you are "not targeting video users" It's so mediocre in this regard, but it's one of their biggest selling points in all the literature I've seen. Weather sealed and swivel screen... See impossible!! $2000 is a lot for this, when you can get a 5D Mark III used for less. You're off topic. The moire is from YouTube's downsampling for your browser / non 4K-screen, most likely. But at least moan about it in the right thread Kubrickhead.

Sony has clean 1080/120fps with no moire on the A99 II. Canon can't even give us 1080/24p to match what Sony is doing at 120fps. Their customers must just not care. You shouldn't be confused, it's perfectly consistent. We want affordable, small, hybrid GH5-style cameras that do the most beautiful image possible for video purposes, with the minimum of effort and workarounds on our part. Canon's customers have been asking for that for ages, so they gave us an XC10, which was basically a camcorder, showing that they seem to lack the understand of what we actually want, whereas Sony and Panasonic are providing it without drama, without issues, without massive, crippling expense. Just about the best thing you can say about the 6D Mk II from an EOSHD perspective, is it would make a great Magic Lantern raw camera 3-5 years later, but there's no guarantee it will even happen.

Sure all those things are important for photographers. And the 6D Mark II is nice ergonomically. But there's no getting away from the fact that the 6D came out in 2012, the 6D 2 in 2017, and in between 5 years passed, Canon added Dual Pixel AF, which they have had lying around in the cupboard since 2013 with the 70D, a tilt screen, which the original 6D should have had in the first place, but they said "nah" it wouldn't be possible due to weather sealing, so now they have it on there with weather sealing anyway, so chalk that down to another fib, and as for the improvement in low light, you expect that as a given after 5 years of sensor development, it's probably not really very different from a Nikon D750 and I am sure 5D Mark IV owners are really over the moon about having worse low light performance than the 6D Mark II and no articulated screen for their extra $1500.