Andrew Reid

Thanks for posting. I am safe. My thoughts are with the victims of this atrocity and the similar one in Nice, France earlier this year. Was at the same Christmas market just a few days ago and it's near my girlfriend's place. I just hope that all of my friends here in Berlin are ok. The market where it happened is right in the middle of the busiest shopping area of Berlin, in the west side of the city. The Christmas market would have been packed at this time of year with families and friends after work. There's a children's merry-go-round there, crafts stores and food, pancakes and mulled wine, German bratwurst, it's a very good natured place full of nice people and my heart goes out to the people killed and injured tonight.

Ah I haven't tried the Stereo Mic, only the X so can't answer that yet. Perhaps someone else can chime in?

I upgraded from the GX85 to G85 and don't regret it... it's like a 4K Olympus body with better screen. Practically an E-M1 II without the price tag. GX85 was good to begin with and a total bargain... This is even better. Watch this space Video Mic Pro is a mono shotgun mic so you point it in a certain direction and it captures what's in front of it, but little else. The Rode Mic X is stereo X/Y to broadcast performance levels, very impressed with the build quality too, the main purpose for me is capturing immersive stereo ambience. Dialogue on a boom mic and everything else on the X. As well as the 3.5mm output it has two mini XLR jacks as well with phantom power!

Micro Four Thirds is increasingly going up-market and into pro territory, but unfortunately new Panasonic and Olympus cameras are getting more and more expensive by the day. Thankfully the G85 is a pro camera without a pro price - it represents a genuine advance over the Panasonic GH4 with cleaner low light performance and better automatic white balance. Read the full review!

You are 100% right that even if the compromise is subtle, integrity is undermined. I can't say for sure what is motivating them - greed or just a business decision to survive? But it's tacky and actually not even so subtle in many ways... Plastering sponsored content into your blog roll feed is not subtle. Too right. I will NEVER turn this site into either of those just to take it to a mainstream audience. Nofilmschool is all clickbate. The headlines and the way it is presented, it's knocked up so quickly there and it's always somebody else's content they are selling their ads around. Cinema5D is a corporate platform and not representative of the passion enthusiasts have for making personal work and learning cameras. I have taken to watching Dave Dugdale on YouTube and The Camera Store TV for fun, the rest of it is just boring, DPReview included, sadly. It's a shame there are not more people putting good content out there.

I see some people - bigfoot, mercer, viet bach, don't understand what's at stake This isn't me being a communist and bemoaning another site making money from advertising. Viet Bach, you say "as long as their reviews remain honest"... Well honesty is as much about what you DON'T SAY as what you do. Read my article, and what it has to say about self-censoring and PR jaunts. Looking at this purely from a business perspective now, it's bad for business too as readers get sick of it and leave. The watery opinions don't do anyone any good. The sponsored content is only the tip of the iceberg. From a business perspective, in my opinion it is better to to have very high quality premium paid content like books alongside the free articles and standard affiliate links than to compromise the creditability of your entire core business and your reputation with a ton of tacky advertising. Like if you agree.

Thanks for the support. If people don't agree with me on this, then I will at some point also cave in and do a run of big advertisements splashed on the site and regular sponsored articles. But if my readers say they're NOT fine with this, I won't. Simple as that. So speak up for the indies... not many advertising-free places left now on the internet. It wasn't supposed to be this way online.

You can read my opinion about this here: http://www.eoshd.com/2016/12/dpreview-introduce-sponsored-content-canon-truly-disappointing/ I don't like it one bit.

When I worked for them I had my suspicions they would try and suppress the strident tone of my reviews when it came to Canon's shortcomings in video. Now it's plain for all to see what is going on there - https://***URL removed***/articles/9717214609/filmmaker-scott-dw-trades-his-pro-video-gear-for-canon-eos-80d-watch-the-results I will be sure to get my fix of Canon PR marketing there from now on and of Ebrahim's latest forum frauds.

Investing in a team is much harder and more risky but it is the right decision.

People didn't try to do everything on their own in the professional video field of old. For interviews it would be a team A sound guy, a camera man and the actual interviewer. If you're doing all 3 jobs and find it hard, no shame in that... it IS hard Being a camera technician on top of the other 3 roles is just too much. Get an Ice Light 2, keep the GH4, keep the tripod and lav, dump the rest.

Emailed Richard Butler at DPReview. But since he's on so many sites, it would really help to somehow get a wider audience to know what he did. REVENGE!!

It really is time this guy gets called out on other sites. Blog post? Is he still active on DVXUser?

We need to hound DPReview until they remove the criminal https://***URL removed***/members/9734214696/overview Tactics?

6K!

The most filmed tribesmen of the wilderness, ever.

The white balance seems better. The sensor is much cleaner in the shadows. Much less noise at ISO 800 and above, better colour saturation too. I think Ed's mention of the tube lighting is intriguing, it's something I've wanted for ages, much better form factor and softer spread of light than traditional rectangular LED panels, also the colour accuracy is meant to be superb on the Ice Light 2. Super portable as well. Just wish the pricing was a bit less hot! Ouch!

Blacks are crushed.

Best new camera is the one I am reviewing right now, the Panasonic G85. The new sensor is way better than the GH4 in terms of image quality. The stabilisation is amazing. The ergonomics just-so. The price a bargain. I love everything about it. Best Panasonic camera since the GH4 and LX100. GX85 earlier in the year also gets an honourable mention! Best lens of the year, hmm... so many to choose from. It would have to go to the Sigma 50-100mm F1.8 but it's just so damned big and breathes a LOT. So not that. Let me think... Sigma 20mm F1.4 ART... or is that last year?! Ice Light looks interesting. Worth the money? Do you have the Ice Light 2?

Is that a 4:3 aspect ratio clue Mr Neumann?

Furthermore if the sensor supports 6000 pixels width images and doesn't cheat, say upscaling 5K to 6K on the image processor from a lower resolution sensor, then this sensor must be different to the one in the Olympus E-M1 Mark II and with a higher megapixel count, which nobody really wanted or asked for as it comes at the expense of dynamic range and low light abilities. Also why would Olympus go to all that trouble to do oversampling from 5K and incredibly low rolling shutter on what is predominantly a stills camera, if that sensor wasn't also designed for Panasonic? Indeed didn't Panasonic actually make / or design the sensor in the original E-M1? The E-M5 was a Sony chip but I remember a tear-down that revealed the E-M1's chip to be a Panasonic CMOS.

People were referring to an 18MP or 20MP sensor, or even the 20MP sensor already out in the Olympus E-M1 II as being capable of 6K because they read this on the Panasonic website about 18 megapixel = 6K I suggest you check the aspect ratio of 6000 x 3000, which is indeed 18MP but heavily letter boxed compared to what is needed for 3:2 or :4:3 photography. In actual fact you will need to go to at least 24MP in total for 6K video AND 3:2 photos. Very few photographers will be ok with a 2:1 aspect ratio! So I find it highly unlikey the sensor will be a total of 6000 x 3000 in such a wide aspect ratio as it is also sold Panasonic's flagship 4:3 stills camera! If take the Panasonic 6K photo press release info literally you will be mislead as to the true nature of the sensor and megapixel count.

It is just recalculating the render time based on more information about how the render has been going so far, it has absolutely nothing to do with cooling. What kind of video is it - 2 hour with heavy FX or something?

It's all fixable! Don't worry about anything. Also you are not leaving anything behind just because you might switch from DSLR to a pro camera. EOSHD is about both and I was an FS5 owner earlier this year. I just prefer small cameras, for me they are LESS complicated and get out of the way of the artist, far more so than a big complicated cinema camera beast. Variable ND or standard? V-lock power is a major pain in the arse for pro cameras too not to mention having a heavy brick to haul around on the back of your not so mini URSA MINI GH4 is much more simple. Blackmagic were on the right track with the Cinema Camera and Pocket Camera, but they never got the internal battery side sorted out... the cameras were too hungry for juice, lacking the economical processors and sensor of the Panasonic 4K mirrorless cameras. Not much has changed with the URSA Mini and on the RED / Arri side it is the same too. One of the reasons why the C300 was so popular for day jobs... easy on the power, easy to power, easy to carry anywhere without so much hassle. You might try investigating the C100 Mark II with Dual Pixel AF if you want total convenience and everything built in. External ProRes 422 is always meh because the HDMI is heavily compressed, not real 422, not real 10bit in my opinion. The next step up from 4K 100Mbit 4:2:0 internal is the 500Mbit 4:2:2 MJPEG on the 1D C and 1D X Mark II, then you have to step up to RAW. When I use ProRes it is only in transcoding after the shoot to get files that edit smoother in 4K. XAVC-S and H.264 can be quite heavy going when you start grading them in Premiere and having multiple tracks going. Another reason to keep things simple and not bother with ProRes externally. Keep the GH4, lights and NDs, dump the Pocket Cinema Camera and extra power / monitors. Simply the shoot so you can concentrate on the content. Stop down the lens for easier focus and maybe see if you still need NDs when you have lit for a slower aperture like F2.8 or F5.6. Interviews rely on good sound so keep going with the Rode gear. It's very good quality stuff.

The hand of the artist is the most important and underrated thing in all arts and this is why I will always try to maintain as much control as possible over my own camera work. As soon as he takes his hands off the tool and gets the CG artists to copy his style, something of his personality gets lost in translation. Subtle things like whiskers, a fur, a few lines out of place... And then comes A.I. based animation...even worse!! A classic scene in this where he lets rip at the creators pitching the technique to him. Just goes to show, even with so much technology out there and even AI, CGI still has a long way to go to touch the human soul in terms of the visuals of the best hand-drawn animation (especially movement related aspects).