Andrew Reid

Glad to hear it. New blog posts coming soon!

My goodness, it just gets worse. Whilst I was Italy I did read some of what went on and thought the community handled it brilliantly and thanks to my mods too like Andy Lee. Hopefully we can move on from this guy and get back to sanity.

Indeed. Always best to actually login to PayPal and see if the transfer is present, then transfer it to your bank account, and if you're feeling extremely cautious even wait for it to turn up there as well. What's the recap on Ebrahim, has he refunded people or is it still ongoing? In 5 years of EOSHD I have never seen something this weird from an established DVXUser member like he was, and a regular poster here and at RedUser. How was this handled over at DVXUser? Did anyone consider that maybe with all the termoil in Egypt, something happened to the real Ebrahim at some point and his stuff stolen. It could even be somebody completely different behind the screen. There's no need to not trust anyone ever again - just exercise simple, basic caution when sending money to someone especially if they are outside of your country or in an unstable one - and always use your PayPal account and not a wire transfer.

Canon have the colour-path and codec nailed to perfection on the XC10. I am also impressed with the dynamic range of the sensor, even in the most contrasty picture profile it rarely struggles no matter the light thrown at it. I have also been enjoying the stabilisation, very impressive. Shot for 3 weeks in Italy with it and editing now.

Listening is one thing, doing is another. Anyone have a test of the rolling shutter yet?

I don't think it will happen because the market has spoken and said 'we prefer the C300 form factor' Also the 1D X II doesn't appear to move on the technology from the 1D C in any way to warrant Canon basing the Mk II on it aside from adding Dual Pixel AF. I don't think they could bring out a Cinema EOS camera in 2016/17 with an MJPEG codec I await to be proven wrong, however a new 1D C back at the old price of $12k has very little appeal to me especially if they just add H.264 to the 1D X II body and don't change the ergonomics. The 5D Mk IV is what I have my eye on... fingers crossed for an interesting Photokina!

Also please remember to stay safe when transferring money for any item, no matter how good the reputation of the seller, you can't be sure who is actually behind the keyboard. Ebrahim's account could have been hijacked. I am checking the IPs used and whether it shows a sudden and consistent shift to a different pattern. This goes without saying but NEVER use Western Union or wire payments and ALWAYS use PayPal. Whenever it is a wire payment as was the case with 'Ebrahim' that should be a massive warning sign. Another EOSHD moderator chose to ban Zach's account as his behaviour was becoming increasingly erratic and we had concerns he was making the forum less productive as a result. I have no hard feelings against the kid though. If he gets in touch I will consider allowing him back. However, he has not. Hi Ebrahim as you can appreciate this situation is more serious than just the damage to your online reputation. If you do not disclose the truth to us about what happened I will have no choice but to report the situation to the police when I return to Germany in a few days. The refunds must be sent immediately, even if you have to sell one of your many cameras. Thank you for your understanding.

Hey guys First of all, really sorry for what has happened here. I'm still catching up on things, as I am literally in the middle of nowhere shooting in Italy. I am going to investigate at my end and be of any assistance the best I can. RedUser, DVXUser, perhaps we can all get together and share evidence. I'll return with a more detailed reply later. Cheers - Andrew I have access to Ebrahim's entire forum activity including PM inbox / sent items.

A 6K readout does not automatically mean massive jello, it depends how fast they scan it.

Yes just $599 more than the A6300 for a camera with better ergonomics, better EVF, weather sealing, better colour science, better styling, better menus and seemingly no major overheating issues with the vertical grip.

The GH4 also rated for 13 stops at DXOMark, so it's hardly earth-shattering especially considering you will barely see more than 10 stops in 4K video on the 1D X II due to it having no LOG profile

I have thought about renting my Cookes and C500, the only equipment I owe that can take the rough and tumble. People really do wang rental stuff about. I'd have to have insurance, or give it to a company and allow them to take a share of the profit, but it's still a worry.

Careful, you are showing too much intelligence for the internet Ebrahim How about the Polaroid Cube for a round of tennis?

Yes it is the bad pre-amps, general audio quality via the ext. mic socket. The lack of XLR adapter doesn't help either and in-camera audio features are only basic. Would have liked to have seen an 'audio scene' setting like the Canon XC10, an XLR adapter like the GH4 gets via the YAGH and high quality internal circuits / pre-amps. Real shame the NX2 won't ever arrive. I still love my NX1, it is fantastic ergonomically and a bargain for the image it provides.

The Panasonic team in Osaka have been very good to us over the last few years. Now the GH5 is imminent, EOSHD takes a look at what makes the series so great and what to expect for the new model. Read the full blog post

Fog with LOG maybe 10bit is a good LOG recording bit depth. I still don't see much advantage to it on the GH4 though vs the 8bit.

@jcs The link to the 5DR vs Phase One test proves nothing. They have no depth to the scene they're shooting. It's just some girl sat in front of a wall If you want to see a proper test watch Kubrick's scene from 2001. I am amazed at the willingness of people to learn such important stuff from non-entities on YouTube. The guy spends 90% of it comparing resolution and is then surprised to find out two 50MP cameras resolve similar detail!!!! This is a typical full frame shot and shows nothing. The background is completely creamed out. The subject is punched in, with nothing around it but thin air. You can't show the full way in which a lens and sensor combination renders a scene from such a dull shot.

What I love about that shot is there's way more of the background vista actually visible than would be on a full frame camera at 135mm F2, or so, where this shot would be cropped in and creamed out with silly shallow dof. The 180mm on medium format has an uncannily wide look given the long focal length and a lovely slow roll off when it comes to focus Then there's the obvious advantage that the leaf CCD sensor is a total beast... enormous dynamic range, amazing colour and incredible resolution. I still think Hasselblad will manage to overprice and overfuck the mirrorless cam up though... let's hope not

As for full frame vs medium format... I can 9 times out of 10 tell the difference. The lenses and larger sensor have the following advantages: - 45mm is wide, yet close to the subject, perfect rendering of a human face, perfect focus fall off from the eyes to the ears, it's beautiful. You can't test it by shooting a 5D on a stick like JCS - 45mm will have lower distortion than 28mm - The longer lenses for medium format portrait shooting, i.e. 80mm, gives extremely gentle focus roll off - it isn't about a more shallow DOF - it is about the all-round rendering of depth. You see it in both the clips from 2001, and The Master that Nikkor posted previously in this thread. Hard to put my finger on it, but I notice it. Every aspect of the lens is Gradual and smooth... the bokeh, the vignette, the focus, the micro-contrast, the resolving power, it is all buttery. - A large sensor can increase resolution whilst maintaining very large pixels with a wider dynamic range and lower noise than a full frame sensor - There are some lovely medium format lenses - punching through the centre-only of these on a full frame camera won't give the same look - Yes sure there are a lot of nice full frame lenses too and their apertures are faster, but like I said above, it isn't all about shallow DOF, more about the overall image.

Instead of reputation points, I am replacing the forum system with e-penis points from now on.

Agree on your medium format image observations, the look is truly special and different to full frame. The 4K from 50MP isn't impossible. Remember the A7R II for $3k does pixel binned 4K from 42MP. And it actually looks pretty ok, with less rolling shutter than the native 4K Super 35mm crop.

To be honest even with 10bit YUV I can't tell much difference in the grade to 8bit. RAW or RGB is where it's at

Germany, Swedish, Europe, all the same thing these days really

Some observations about the Europeans right now... Their engineering base is dwindling and they find it hard to complete on very complex projects. Berlin's new airport. Leica SL's LOG output. They are transitioning to a softer services economy like the UK. This means Hasselblad, like German companies and Leica, are full of marketing people (even though they're a Swedish company - the same applies right across the continent!) It seems from the rumours that they have put a 50MP medium format sensor from Sony in a mirrorless camera, I sincerely hope it is more engineering driven than marketing puff.

This assumes the NX1 and all other mirrorless cameras apart from the GH4 output 10bit, they don't. It's still 8bit to the View Assist. Storing 8bit as 10bit doesn't give you the extra luminance information to work with. The difference is quite small. We're not talking raw-style noise grain. It's still a blockier chroma-noise style noise, not like film-grain. True. Only in true 10bit or RAW is this the case.