Andrew Reid

Thank you. Indeed we must be realistic. DPReview always put an overtly positive 'spin' on things. It's the job of an independent blogger to add balance to any given set of facts. The facts: - No low light improvement over the 2012 model - Colour is more muted - Less detail in JPEGs at high ISOs - 4 years since the predecessor Dynamic range still behind Sony and most Nikon sensors. DPReview wrote this: "Like the EOS 80D there's a big improvement in the camera's dynamic range. Canon's move to a design using on-chip analog-to-digital conversion allows less noise to be added before the signal is converted into digital values" Which in my opinion is highly questionable. The way DPR tested the dynamic range relies on the sensor being ISO invariant - i.e., maximum dynamic range at base ISO, exposure achieved by underexposing by as much as 5 stops to protect the shadows. This technique completely changes the distribution of your histogram and kills tonality / skintones / colour, all 3. If you wanna shoot like that be my guest but it's not a viable technique if you want to maximise image quality. Canon didn't move to on-chip A/D conversion with the 1D X Mark II. The original 1D X has on chip A/D, so that's flat out wrong. "Big improvement" to dynamic range. By any measure it's not "big". So you can drink their cool aid and be happy, or you can be properly informed and less happy. Your choice. I know which option Jimmy would choose!

Is it some kind of Japanese conspiracy?

Has Canon moved on from 2012's flagship? The results of DPReview's studio test scene might surprise you. Read the full blog post

I had no involvement in this. So feel free to send the moderator a private message. Starting a thread about it isn't the best way to go about it, since it has nothing to do with cameras.

What event would that be oh mysterious one?

Yes, to stop the forum turning into a spam bucket of Russian and Chinese viagra offers.

Forget the Nikon stuff. Keep a DSO handy. Meanwhile, the best of the 'modern' organic looking lenses combine high contrast with funkiness - an x-factor which is difficult to describe. Those that have it are: Batis 25mm Zeiss 28mm F2.0 Canon 50mm F1.2 and 85mm F1.2

Sony need to be careful how far they push the prices up. I think the lens prices in particular are difficult to justify for many people. And A6300 a much more expensive proposition than the A6000. They have kept the original RX100 and A6000 for the bargain bins, when really perhaps they should have upgraded them and given us an A6300-type camera as a separate line. Outfit an A7R II with a couple of decent Sony FE lenses and you're easily looking at $5k+ for a consumer camera.

Nice footage there, what was the grade / LUT? High bitrates looking great.

You're absolutely right about Canon spinning, they highlight the 80D's strong sales in their financial report, but it's barely been on the shop shelves for more than a couple of weeks. Furthermore in Berlin, one of the 5 largest capital cities in Europe, neither of the two largest electronics retailers stock it yet, it's only there in small quantities in the specialist photography stores and they haven't exactly seen it flying off the shelves either. Worldwide, sure I expect it to sell well but for how long? Every Canon camera sells to a large loyal customer base upon release and shops expect to sell a lot of them, so order a lot of them, but I just sense that the reason it hasn't hit the major stores in Berlin yet hints to an underlying decline - that they still have so much 70D left to sell, it doesn't make sense for their buyer to contact Canon about getting a bunch of 80Ds in yet.

It's important to pay attention to the facts in this case. The world economy has issues, with slowing growth in China and stagnant growth in Europe. Even Apple just posted a 13% decline in quarterly sales, their first in 13 years https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/26/apple-iphone-first-revenue-decline-13-years So although Canon are facing tough headwinds, the Tesla comparison isn't comparing like-with-like. Of course you can't expect a company making the size of investment in technology they are in terms of completely new reusable spacecraft, new kinds of factories, the largest lithium ion battery plant in the world and automotive technology to make a profit during such an ambitious growth phase lead by outside investment, laying the foundations for future profits. They are creating a new industry. Canon are simply coasting along in an existing one and their products have matured fully. Canon's specific problem is this - (And it is backed up by the facts and figures, when you look at their sales numbers) Interchangeable lens products mature, not enough innovation or reason to upgrade. 6 year old 5D Mark II still serves most people well enough. Compact camera market facing extinction and obsolescence, due to lack of consumer desire for an offline camera in era of smartphones. Office equipment sales down mainly due to economy slowing in places where previously sales had spiked (developing countries) Canon recognise that the imaging market has matured to the point where it will have to change completely in order to grow fast again, so they see more profit in business to business endeavours, broadcast, cinema, network cameras - stuff with very high margins and potentially very high sales growth. Unfortunately for Canon it already HAS changed completely into an online world lead by Apple and Google. In the coming years I think Canon will become what I always predicted, a company that moves away from the consumer camera market and becomes parts supplier to other more innovative companies, until eventually time will pass them by and they become Kodak with a few office equipment products and sensors.

You are in the running for the biggest Canon apologist on the internet at this rate. Hmm, electric cars. No profit in those he says!! Bit of a sweeping statement and very wrong indeed. You haven't noticed the future direction of the market, a bit like how Canon didn't notice the future direction of the consumer camera market for about 10 years and now here's the payback. My prediction - in the future Apple and Telsa will make as much profit from selling electric vehicles as Ford. And it isn't just the disruptive newcomers, the whole car industry is in on the act, gearing up for their own mass market electric vehicles.

It’s just a matter of how you shoot it, says Lee. Read the blog post here

Apply my NX1 LOG LUT first as the input LUT then the DELUT as output LUT. http://www.eoshd.com/samsung-nx1-video-settings-guide-tutorial/

Plenty of good gear at the show but Ed's right. It's definitely the most boring NAB in recent memory. Several major products cancelled and not a single interesting major new camera from the big manufacturers. Kinefinity Terra looks good but we needed new stuff from Canon, Panasonic, Sony, Blackmagic, even a surprise announcement from someone like Nikon, JVC or RED and didn't get it!! I think the industry in general has reverted back to a boring pre-DSLR revolution focus on broadcast and high end production kit. Just look at Blackmagic!

I'd love to get back into this soon. I've started a thread for people to post regular summaries of the latest progress regarding the hack, since it can be time consuming to read so many posts in the dedicated forum for it, to get a general impression of where things are at. So guys, hit me with the latest news....

Beg to differ!! Raw cameras are the minority at the moment.

You won't need the expensive Sony recorder for raw, image above shows a direct branch from the camera's port to the Odyssey, OR a direct connection to the Sony AXS. You can use either.

With all due respect to YouTube bloggers, a field I do enjoy sometimes actually, it's not my circus, not my monkeys, I don't care if they buy a million 80Ds, it doesn't make it a successful product for those with a more cinematic, higher image quality benchmark in mind.

Blackmagic Design have announced an affordable 4K recorder and 7″ monitor. Unlike the existing solutions on the market, the View Assist 4K records to UHS-2 SD cards and costs under $1k. Read the full blog post

Nothing new of note for us, aside from the FS5 firmware update. Going to be a very boring pro-broadcast industry orientated show this year I think, with the prosumer and consumer market shrinking back.

Also adds an 'auto' setting to the electronically variable ND filter. Released May 2016. Read the full blog post

Why does Apple do such a bad job of their media player, not just on Windows but on both platforms. Still terrible on a Mac with many unsupported file types, dreadful AVCHD support (throwing error messages when there's no MTS files present to play is something you'd expect from a very early alpha version or school programming project). Apple is nuts.

You can wait until October / November for a 5 axis IBIS GH5 with VLOG and 6K, plus upgraded EVF and body or you can get the bargain GX80 with the older sensor now, either way it's a winner

FFS It's pathetic. They could have at least tweaked the control scheme. And they waited till NAB to reveal 'this'. Camera's been out a year! Having said that any firmware update or added functionality is very rare from Canon. Maybe they are going to get better at firmware updates and follow Sony's lead from now on. Hopefully it won't lead to more bugs in the version 1.0 cameras as a result.