Andrew Reid

The ones who are confused clearly were like me when I didn't own an XC10, just looking at the specs and even the JPEG resolution (for reasons only they can know!) and thinking that it is an expensive, odd product, lagging behind Sony in the specs race. Try one, get to know it, look at the images, you will be surprised like I was what a lot of fun it is and how great the images can be. I'll upload some footage, still shooting with it. Better all-round cameras? Maybe, but what if you want 422 internal 305Mbit 4K and 24-240mm zoom though?! Not much to compete with that in one-body for under $2k, especially not with the colour and ergonomics of the Canon.

It allows you to get a shot you wouldn't otherwise get, at a speed you wouldn't otherwise be able to operate at. In certain types of filmmaking (documentary, run & gun, mood pieces, street scenes, real life scenes) that is invaluable. I'm not saying you should stop carrying other cameras and just get one, either. I wouldn't replace my GX80 with the XC10 and lose the use of interchangeable lenses, etc. However the XC10 hardly compromises on the image at 305Mbit 4:2:2 vs 100Mbit 4:2:0 or the dynamic range (Canon LOG vs no LOG)

Sharpness: digitally applied Resolution: number of megapixels on the sensor Final image: a combination of sensor readout, image processing, compression, noise and all sorts of things - and yes digital sharpening in-camera or in-post People need to start noticing when an image has been sharpened so they don't mistake this for better resolution. Because it is preferable NOT to have it done in-camera.

The Canon XC10 is underrated on paper, not least by me! Having very little interest in one I decided anyway to give it a try. Glad I did. Read the blog post

I'd take the mirror out.

It does make a difference to a motion picture, as it allows a full frame look in 8K mode and maintains enough resolution (4K) in Super 35 mode for both looks to be utilised on a film. Don't just look at the resolution numbers. It's about lenses as well, the full system.

Everything he says in there is right. The DXL follows the Panavision philosophy to the letter from that article, of giving us true 4K from an 8K chip. It's very much like the difference a Foveon sensor makes to resolution and colour, or the reason the C300's 1080p was so good from that 4K RGB readout. Nice to see Panavision going purist from a digital film emulsion perspective. 8K on the Panavision DXL is all about the quality of the 4K, it won't be shown as 8K.

I didn't ignore it at all. Monitoring the hack process, opened a dedicated forum for it, took my NX1 to London in February and used it at BVE, shot with the SLR Magic PL anamorphics on the NX1 in Brighton and did a big blog post about it. The NX1 is as good in 2016 as it was in November 2014 and it will remain so for the next 2 years as well. Absolutely fantastic future proof camera. The 120fps looks improved from the first firmware in 2014. Quality looks similar to the X Pro 2. Not free of moire but nice and detailed.

Well, it looks like the Arri Alexa 65 has some competition. Panavision have revealed a RED-Weapon-like cinema camera which shoots 8K from a full frame 41 x 21 sensor, to r3d RAW format. Read the blog post

I'd rank them as follows, but my judgement on the 1D X II is a bit second hand so far unlike the rest which I all own (well, the A7R II is sold now but I used it quite a bit) 1. FS5 2. RX100 IV 3. A7S II 4. 1D X II 5. A7R2 Don't forget the Canon C500... a used one is a bargain right now. It does 4K 120fps half-RAW via dual 3G-SDI. It does 4K 60fps full res RAW even. It also does very crisp 10bit 2K at 120fps via dual 3G-SDI. The 12bit RGB 444 2K mode goes to 60fps. Above 60fps to 120fps are Slow & Quick modes not regular continuous recording.

1D C clear winner as it is much cheaper used!

I have both the GX80 and A6300, I much prefer the Panasonic so far.

You're certainly right about the 5D2/3 raw, it's a thing of beauty, some of the best 1080p you can get. If you want even more dynamic range take the OLPF / AA filter out of the 5D3. Should give you an extra stop in the shadows and the colour balance shift is actually quite pleasing, but would be easy to correct from the raw files. I'm thinking of getting a 5D3 again, in a way I do miss that image. I have the 5D2 and it's very good but the 5D3 seems to be where the current ML development effort is centred.

Cute bird I find the noise a lot better in 1080p mode with Canon LOG enabled, you can even go up to 6400 with that combo. In the other picture profiles not to much, 1600 is the max, 800 better. It's just not a good comparison anyway. The A6300 is a completely different kind of tool. It's an interchangeable lens camera for starters. The XC10 is a 10x zoom camcorder designed to be used handheld for the most part, whereas the A6300 is an APS-C stills camera that just happens to have a sensor which shoots very nice 4K video, it won't give a user experience to match the Canon, nor is it quite the shot-getter without the fuss but it will give you the look of Super 35 and all those different looks from various lenses. The XC10's lens is a good all-rounder but nothing special aside from it's small size and useful 10x zoom range.

The 1.3x crop 1080p HDMI from the 1D C is the best 1080p I've ever seen. The 1.5x crop Super35 1080p internally is sharp and detailed, but you can get that elsewhere too so it's not as unique as the 1.3x The full frame 1080/24p is similar to the 1D X and 5D3, almost identical in fact, i.e. mediocre, but would have come to life if Magic Lantern had developed raw for the camera. The 1080/60p is pure shit. So 1.3x crop 4K or the full pixel readout 1080p over HDMI is the way to go on 1D C and the quality of it definitely beats the 1D X Mark II, which I believe still pixel bins for 1080p like a $400 camera.

But is it as good?

Yeah unfortunately you have to turn the camera off for it to charge via USB and it always runs off the battery when switched on, not USB power. Hopefully Panasonic will change this in future.

The colour is very much like the 1D C / 1D X Standard JPEG profile and the files seem to feel nice and chunky this time round.

I swear Panasonic have tweaked the colour since the GH4. I am getting much more Canon-like results from the GX85. New image processor? What short cut would you propose? It's just stupid to have to go into the menu and set 18mm, then go into the menu and set 35mm right at the critical moment when you're trying to frame up a shot. And if you're doing regular zooming, forget about it. Just take my advice and use the Canon version! If you set the camera's stabilisation in the middle of the range for the Nikon version, say 25mm, it wouldn't work optimally at 18mm or 35mm, you'd get jitter.

If you have that kind of money for an OTUS or Cooke, you may as well also get insurance, rent them out and start a shop. I'm considering sending my Cookes off to a rental shop to use and we share the income. It doesn't make sense to buy them to use occasionally and as an investment which sits on the shelf and increases in value... unless you're extremely lucky as I was to find them so cheap used! A lot of people use the term 'investing' in lenses, because they last a long time for shooting... new cameras come and go for ages but some lenses can last decades. I still use my Contax Zeiss, Canon FD, etc. It's not an investment in terms of a return on your money but an investment in images.

The Canon version is necessary as the Metabones adapter needs to electronically transmit the focal length of the lens to the body for stabilisation to work with a zoom lens. With the Nikon version and no electronic contacts on the Speed Booster adapter, you'd have to dive into the menu to set the focal length manually every time you reframed.

F1.2 is not F2.4 and never will be. A large aperture has a distinctive look, especially F1.2 or faster. This isn't about sensor size. Also the lens is designed for the sensor size so you're not cropping into the middle of a full frame F1.2, you get to see the magic happen throughout the image circle right into the corners of it, just like with a very fast super 16mm on super 16 It's a shame people only seem to think of crops these days and multiply the aperture, it's just stupid, there's more to the LOOK of a lens than just shallow DOF!

A5100 is interesting. Seems like a better deal than the A6000 to me but was overlooked I looked into the image quality and it seems identical to the popular A6000 but with that all important touchscreen for the phase-detect AF. Sony are really silly not putting a touch screen on the A6000 and A6300, especially for the YouTube vlog crowd. No magnification during recording on GX85 sadly. Hoping GH5 will have this.

I'm very happy with EOSHD being about gear, it's good to specialise and to have a niche to focus on. I love the tech, always will. From my own experience, I'm just not sure how much real value can be had from online articles about the art of filmmaking, it's something you're best off learning by actually doing it rather than reading about it. NoFilmSchool built a mainstream audience that transcended the gear community by mentioning Kubrick and PT Anderson a lot in clickbate headlines - the content was ALWAYS stolen and by someone else - the aggregation of material in a massive way. Poor original content creators make nothing from exposure at all whilst the aggregators gobble up ALL the traffic and sell ads around it, in the case of NFS they even had US venture capitalists funding huge online advertising campaigns, expert SEO and very very large social media followings acquired the non-organic way, I don't even consider them as competition to EOSHD any more, they are something different and I'd never go to them for camera advice or for a singular voice. The whole site may as well be computer generated. Despite my temporary loss of appetite for blogging and the need to get some inspiration back in my filmmaking by moving out of Berlin, EOSHD is very strong at the moment, the forum has never been busier, the cameras have never been better and the visitor numbers are still as good as ever. Don't forget, we were first or one of the very first blogs to capture the community. That's why it was such a shame that the cat man Philip Bloom stopped blogging, I really miss his longer posts outside all the social media stuff. I didn't go back to the site at all when he stopped (apart from his very occasional reviews) because his forum didn't pull me in like it does here, there's still plenty to read on EOSHD when I am away. I think the forum could go on the front page actually with the best topics in the sidebar. It's a superb resource! The internet has changed though. People's reading habits and viewing habits are changing. Some movie trailers even now have 8 second trailers for the trailer, because of Facebook. There is definitely a race to the bottom going on in the content world. There's going to be some big victims too. First one might be Twitter.... it now has such a low engagement per post because the feed is a mess and each tweet it like a grain of sand in the beach, significant stuff is so easy to miss on there, even whole conversations. Personally I won't be focussing much on that from now on. I think Twitter is going to get sidelined by a lot of people and will eventually be superseded by an alternative. Facebook is a monster, it will continue to hoover up half the entire internet and make it worse. Already there are very active camera discussion groups on there... why people would use them over a proper forum I have no idea... it's so viral though because of the newsfeed and sharing element. The danger is that Facebook ends up siphoning off a ton of traffic from the better independent sites and selling ads around them, just like NoFilmSchool does, as the main 'go to' source for discussions and news Philip Bloom is now much bigger on social media than he is on his blog... in fact blogs are being hoovered up by YouTube and Facebook. He has a massively high profile on Facebook and Instagram with very regular posts and I only ever update the EOSHD Facebook page when there's a new blog post - I think that needs to change. There's a ton of stuff I'm doing behind the scenes which could go on social media but I'm not enough of a narcissist to really take it to the next level So if forums will be superseded by Facebook groups and blogs superseded by YouTube channels and Facebook and news aggregators, it will be a real loss for the internet because there won't be a motivation for anyone to create long-form original content any more or proper communities like this one, it will ALL be about 8 second trailers for trailers, gimmicks, clickbate headlines and trolling. Very sad direction for the internet in my opinion. The thing I am most proud of over the past 5 years of EOSHD are the regular readers and the EOSHD Shooter's Guides. I get a bundle of inspiration from people and I try to put some back into the pool too. I will get my inspiration back soon enough and EOSHD will have a bigger presence on YouTube and Facebook and Instagram. Thanks to those in the thread who have posted messages of support! Means a lot and really does get the fire burning again.

The manual is a bit badly worded. The in-body stabilisation is 5 axis. You can also choose to use the hybrid electronic stabilisation in video mode. That's 5 axis too. You should not bother. The Dual IS is 5 axis - 3 axis on the sensor and 2 axis on the lens. Either way no matter what mode you're in... one will get full 5 axis stabilisation on the GX85, just like you do on an Olympus body.