Andrew Reid

Consider for a moment who the US government has as one of their national security advisors. Consider also how uncomfortable the FBI director looked during yesterday's grilling (for all I know he could have colluded with the Russians to get rid of the meddling democrats) I don't trust the NSA, TSA and the rest not to act politically. They have probably seen 'evidence', but it's probably a few idiots on the dark web fantasising. Politically expedient evidence though. And the CIA probably have a more liberal bias than the FBI. Just my opinion. If the evidence was particularly troubling and not just a useful political football, the ban would be a blanket one for all airlines and all countries.

That's the thing though. Guys like Bannon ARE engineering an invasion. The current administration wants a Christian vs Muslim war and they see it as divine destiny to win it. It's going to be your armed forces, men and women, who die in this, in far greater numbers than those who have been killed by "terrorist" wannabes, which are actually incidents of crime and murder, rather than acts of war and terrorism as the media and government portray it as. For example what happened in Berlin recently, was extremely tragic but the act of ONE SINGLE petty criminal murderer. Just because they have certain beliefs doesn't make them an army. No it doesn't make you white supremacists. It does make you a fearful paranoid bunch, unable to take responsibility for why people hate you. When these terrorist nutcases speak about defeating Christians, they're not talking about Canada and Sweden. Trump is making you a target. I can understand the US culture of gun ownership, it comes from protecting isolated farms and houses from a hostile lawless wild-west society. Those days are over if only you'd let go Tom! Fox News constantly spins this propaganda about Europe. There are not a million refugees on my street in Berlin or piling into bars in Manchester. It just didn't happen that way. 99% of the people who came over just politely blend in and just want to get on with their lives and bring up their children, then return to their homes once the fighting stops and the country of origin is ready to rebuild. Some will settle but that again is nothing new to Europe or the UK. The UK in particular has been a melting pot of nationalities for centuries. It gave us our best food, our best music, our best doctors and scientists. If only we could replace our lazy fat British chavs with refugees who actually have a work ethic, the economy would be even better. Merkel made a mistake by not controlling or keeping track of who came in but that's the price you pay for true freedom. Under Trump you're not actually free, you're not actually safe, sadly it's just an illusion. Trump and Bannon talk-up their Christian values all the time. Merkel did it as a good Christian deed and she did save millions of lives... I don't see Fox News praising her Christian values, or the fact she's an ex-quantum physicist whereas Trump has issues spelling the word 'tap' correctly. Yes, a few of the refugees who came in abused the situation and took advantage. A few more happened to do that and at the same time harbour mental illness. A few crimes occurred, as they do every day with people born here and raised here. Every single crime has been blown up in the media and put under the spotlight, because it's a foreign perpetrator. The media is heavily biased and has an agenda to get more clicks and sell more newspapers. That's how propaganda works. Look it up. It's fine to reject the globalist agenda You'll be left behind though Because it's a global world now, with the internet, out sourcing, mass production, consumerism and hugely beneficial trade links... You may not like it but you can't buck the trend of world history just by stomping your feet like a child and voting for Trump. It's not going to be rolled back long term over the next 200 years and next will come A.I., robots, and a whole other world order you can't do anything about... Leave a good legacy for yourself and your family and work hard. Alternatively, be remembered as that sad guy who got caught up in the short-lived wave of hysteria and supported a joke-president who is an even smaller footnote in the history books. Oh the irony. You have a 20th century European-style tyrant as your president and I assume you voted for him. So if anyone hasn't learnt from that it's you. LOL. This is Info-wars level batshit crazy. The global economy has pulled millions of people our of poverty and put food on their tables. Sony have camera factories in Thailand. Those factory jobs are NOT coming back to the rustbelt in the US. Manchester in the UK did not get the factory jobs back either. We adapted and went with a services based economy which is why there's now the BBC's second HQ there and a ton of film production studios. Who wants the miserable factory jobs back any way? We do have one thing in common - we both dislike political correctness. I'd like you even more if you were sane.

Feel sorry for the Saudi film crews who won't be able to put Li-Po batteries on the flight at all, because they can't go in the hold and can't go in hand baggage either. Keep fighting those nasty terrorist film crews Trump.

He's been watching Fox News. Had he bothered to travel, he'd have noticed Europe has a much lower crime rate than the US and is generally safer. Hardly any terrorist incidents. You are more likely to die in a lightning strike. Europe has prevented war for half a century... Before the EU it was 28 countries constantly agitating each-other. That's not political... Just the facts.

The people of 13 nations are no longer allowed to bring their cameras and laptops onboard flights to and from the United States. Read the full blog post here

No competition to the 1D X II and C300 II? Erm how about the Sony FS5 and FS7 II, which in the C300 II's backyard (rental) pummel it. The Nikon D5 is the main competition to the 1D X Mark II because it's a stills camera. For video of course the Sony A7S II and A7R II are the competition even though they are a different category of camera and much cheaper. The only area where there is not enough competition for Canon is with Dual Pixel AF, which I'd like to see perfected by Sony and Panasonic before much longer... They could have been quicker on the uptake with that.

It's a different sensor, you just need to look at the megapixel count (16 vs 20) There is a difference between 8bit and 10bit of course. Cinema5D's 'precise testing' wasn't so precise and they took it offline. How's it under your rock by the way? Cozy?

Bluetooth audio would be a good feature on future cameras because it would eliminate the need for the crappy 3.5mm audio jack and another cable coming out of your camera Monitoring on wireless headphones would be a pleasure There are some seriously good ones out there as well including the Sony MDR 1000X at $400 so sound quality would not be an issue, at all.

You can imagine how nice a 1D C would be if Canon got off their arses. They obviously didn't feel we were important enough a market and now their PR companies are warning them of the negative perception everyone has and they are trying to back-track by saying video improvements are top of our list, yada yada yada (while enlisting DPReview to come to their defence for money, churning out shit sponsored content video after video featuring EOS products) Time was when Canon did the only full frame video on the market, the best low light and the most competitively priced Super 35mm 24p starting from the T2i and now they have lost their status in ALL of that, in EVERYTHING apart from autofocus (Dual Pixel AF) which the others will get soon and Sony already has (though not to same level of reliability). For us at $3500 max, a 1D C style camera with articulated screen, the mirror and prism removed but still EF mount, the EVF from the Leica SL in its place, Dual Pixel AF, no crop in 4K mode, but the same ultra high quality stills body and functionality (minus the OVF, who needs that now you have Dual Pixel AF any way), rugged like a tank and of course full frame with beefy codec, would be magical. But that would take the world by storm and Canon don't seem to like too much excitement. Distracts from the much more important business of network cams It also takes INNOVATION and RISK, two things that scare the accountants who effectively seem to RUN THE COMPANY. I think they are headed for an obsolete status in the camera market long-term and they know it. They have prepared early by heading into other areas which are now more important. See ya darling, won't be missed.

Just a quick thanks for letting me know about this. Fixed now so emails should avoid spam folders more reliably. Thanks also... deleted the straggler.

That refers to the 1080p. The 4K is 10bit 4:2:2 from launch.

This is absolutely great. Does this feature get enabled with V-LOG only, or is it already in there? Does it just change the output of the LCD or is there an option to bake the look into the recording? It would be useful not just for LOG but for tweaking the Panasonic standard Rec.709 colour science AKA EOSHD Pro Color.

Wow that is sharp for F1.2, the replacement What focus distance was the panasonic logo shot at?

I added that for them

GOOD satire. He's too busy at the DPReview forums

Yes a lot for them to do. If anyone has the technology though, it's them.

The first actually useful GH5 review I've read comes from Amadeusz at the excellent Polish website VideoDSLR.pl (Google Translated here) He look at all aspects of the new camera in detail, including the quality of the promising 180fps slow-mo mode. Read the full blog post

Nah. It's not.

Even you who hate them this much has at some point handed them thousands of $ though. Canon is the one glitch in the matrix I wish they'd fucking fix.

So that's where my used one came from

That's exactly right, it's not just about me as a customer, it's about the millions of others who check this blog every year and want to get advice on what cameras shoot good video. Canon ignore them at their peril. Interest in DSLR and mirrorless video is not small. 4.6 million session on EOSHD last year from 1.7 million unique users.

It compares well. Much more bullet proof. The video quality isn't much a step up from the A5100 though, considering they are double and triple the price.

The 1D C telephone is actually what I am going to dial on to reach Canon. Some people just don't appreciate satire.

I've been totalling up how much money I've spent on Canon gear since starting EOSHD. Read the full post here

Well that is political bias vs science, and this is cameras. If only the camera review sites were weighted differently. They're pretty much all the same and doing the same kind of reviews with close relationships to the PR companies. That's understandable! Who says I told you to regularly buy and return? I just said try the GH5 and return it if you don't like. Regarding the Amazon deliveries unless you are regularly buying and returning porn videos, I don't really know what the fuss is about Amazon knowing you bought a GH5 and decided to return it. Besides the big USA Today logic fail is that the company already knows what you bought in the first place and shared that with a third party (it's in the small print). And even the regular return of any purchase is protected by law and rights of the consumer (distance selling regulations). The USAToday article is just downright paranoid and something you'd expect from Briebart - but hey - clicks. I wouldn't quit because of a single site dude....I'd quit because the industry as a whole in which EOSHD needs to exist is making me lose my passion. You shouldn't live in a bubble and ignore the rest. I have multiple stories about Canon's totalitarian PR as well... Slashcam in Berlin once got a 1D C and Canon were very over-protective of it. It's annoying as hell. At last year's BVE I was with SLR Magic and I went to talk to a Canon PR guy to try and get SLR Magic an opportunity to test the C300 II with one of their lenses. I said I was EOSHD and he says "oh, we know who YOU are" and gave me an icy stare. I don't think I'll be getting any demo units from Canon for the time being Despite being a 1D X Mark II user, a C500 user, a 1D C user, an ex-XC10 user, a 5D Mark III user, a 5D Mark II user, owning a ton of EF glass, and naming my site after them.... And spending all my own money on that gear... It's not enough... because I told it like it was with the negative aspects of what they do. Dishonest and unfriendly, in my experience. I don't think I've had a satisfying encounter with them... ever