Andrew Reid

The DX lens range is very weak. The price of the D7500 is too close to the full frame D750. The D750 is a much better choice for most photographers. The APS-C market is shrinking. It doesn't do video right. There's a huge crop in 4K. The 1080p is 'meh' I just don't see the appeal in the D7500 when you can get a D750 for a bit more money.

Panasonic should think about a merger with Olympus if either of their camera divisions hit severe trouble. Focus on the high end models from now on only. Nikon I fear for more because they are not innovating and seem completely clueless about how to turn things around. They are also the most dependant just on cameras, whereas Panasonic and Olympus have other big presences in medical and consumer goods beyond cameras. Sony's stuff is selling well, no need to fear for them. They will soon over take Nikon and go into second place behind Canon. Fuji I am not sure about... on one hand they have a strong enthusiast following, on the other hand their sales aren't exactly Canon-like and they are quite dependant to the consumer photographic market. I think medium format isn't enough to save them if things keep on deteriorating. Out of everyone, Canon and Leica have the biggest share of the pro market and big big margins. They'll be around for a long time. Even if their products are obsolete in some ways... Canon don't understand apps and services, and Leica don't understand very much outside of their professional photography niche. Rioch seem to be mismanaging Pentax and I can see the Pentax brand being sold. They are definitely the next one in the danger zone, and far more likely to do a 'Samsung' than Panasonic or Olympus.

Another non-starter for video, although as a stills camera I quite like it Nikon seem to have caught Canon-itis. A well known condition where you lose your memory and release the same camera every year with a different badge.

Slow-mo raw shooters can now make use of an improved 2K 60p mode on the 5D Mark III thanks to Magic Lantern. In addition, 1920 x 800 recordings at 60fps are continuous to the card without a frame limit, a feat made possible thanks to new lossless compression. Read the full article

The ALL-I 10bit codec coming in firmware update at 400Mbit/s should be easier on the CPU than the current more complex IPB 150Mbit codec. In the mean time you will need to transcode using EditReady to ProRes. That's what I'm doing. Thankfully it is FAST to process the files. http://www.divergentmedia.com/editready

Yours for only $32,000 + VAT. Bit expensive considering what you can get from RED or Sony for that price.

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The M40X are better and cheaper. The M50X are a real screw up. I have no idea why Innerfidelity felt up for putting them on the wall of fame. If you have the budget, the Audeze LCD-X is a stunning listen and amongst the best ever made. Not quite as good as a pair of STAX but you can run them off anything, doesn't even need an amp. Very efficient for planar magnetic. Fostex TH-900 and Beyerdynamic T1 are the other very good high end headphones, I really rate them. I only ever owned one pair of Hifiman cans and it was the lowest end model, but it sounded great - Edition S. The build quality though was pretty poor on that one. Oh and an outsider tip for value for money - Monoprice M560. This is the closest you can get to the planar magnetic wonder of LCD-X at super cheap prices ($200 instead of $2000). And it's nicer IMO than the more expensive $300 model, the M1060. Some of the wireless bluetooth headphones are now doing a good job - Check out the Sony MDR 1000X.

I'm doing a huge shootout of headphones on EOSHD soon. The Sennheiser HD600 are a superb choice even still, and the Audioequest Nighthawk if you prefer a darker sounding set, but less neutral. The accuracy of the HD600 though cannot be disputed even if I prefer other cans for music enjoyment. The best budget option is the Philips SHP9500... Superb, you just cannot get anything better for the price ($60 to $120 depending on region).

I do. A workflow is not just about one app. It's about the whole ecosystem. The user interface stability and design is also important and an area where Windows doesn't meet my needs yet. It's flakey. People who aren't familiar with Mac OS tend to think it has a dumbed down UI but actually it has huge depth and most importantly enforces a CONSISTENCY across all your apps, rather than the wild-west of Windows where the basic UI conventions are scatter-dash and random across the board. Unix is also a fundamentally more secure and efficient core technology than Windows, and it evolved from NEXTSTEP which was more advanced as well, along with better memory management and better drivers which aren't as bloated and don't need to be constantly updated (with the risks of something breaking when you do). The drivers on Mac machines only need to work with a small subset of hardware chips whereas on Windows they need to support bloody everything ever made! Apple has also been careful to strip away the legacy bloat in their OS, whereas Windows still clings to ancient things at the core of it.

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Ah makes sense, thanks Are people seeing much benefit going from a 1000x card to the newer faster ones, in terms of reliability? The komputerbay cards sometimes bog down at the start of a shot.

Why is 1.1.3 better?

Seconded.

PLEEEASE SOMEBODY try the 10bit and 12bit at 4K All this 3K stuff looks great though.

Careful it has been known to go out of stock

Here's how it arrives

Max height is 1920 but of course depends on bit depth and card speeds Still some questions for you early mavericks out there - Does the lossless 58% JPEG compression mode work in 3K and 4K? How's the quality of 3840×1600 at 10bit? Any DNGs to share? You can pop the plastic back off to make most EF-S lenses fit the 5D and 1D C. I have used the 18-135mm EF-S on my 1D X Mark II with no issues.

Before the 14bit RAW with ML was pixel binned 1080p This is like cropping a full res RAW still, 1:1 pixel readout It is not just going to step up the sharpness and detail.... The dynamic range and noise performance should improve as well. Astounding work.

That frame I could have sworn was from a Hollywood movie but it's actually just somewhere in England isn't it Well it demonstrates everything I love about 5D Mark III 14bit colour. Is there any reason why you're shooting in 2x crop 3K and not the 1.5x crop UHD? The 5D MK IV would actually be rather tricky as these ML modes work from a crop of the sensor. Rather crop 3K and 4K from a 22MP sensor than a 30MP one. Canon should make an official ML special edition 5D3 and they'd sell a boat load and share the profits with a1ex.

That's right they did the same thing with the crop mode feature. I love how none of the usual blogs like c5d have run the story because they lack the capacity to figure things out... non-users will have a hard time believing this for a few days. Try the 3840 x 1600! 1.5x crop is much easier to work with than 2x crop on EF mount as you can use the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 for wide angle duties. None of the higher resolution modes above 1080p do Canon live-view, so it will be a low frame rate B/w image. I will be reunited with my 5D Mark III on Thursday, until then hopefully we can answer these questions on the forum.

I'm not a huge fan of the Tokina 11-16 either. Sigma 20mm F1.4 ART is your friend Closest you can get to 28mm equivalent for 4K 1.5x crop without losing 'the full frame wide angle look'. I'm kinda interested in the new 1080/60p mode - quality a big step up from earlier with 3x3 binning, right? And how about the 14bit JPEG lossless compression mode? In 4K are people finding that they have to drop to 10bit / 12bit from 14bit to get the data rate under the card limits? A lot of stuff to experiment with and plenty of ways to get the data rate down... I like it. Did they bust through the earlier 90Mb/s limit with the new faster CF cards or did the card controller stop at 100?

Yep clarified, that's how it works. Crazy I know.

What about the HDMI output? Does that offer a workable preview while the camera records 4K?