Andrew Reid

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.

That is 2700dpi on a panel that size dude. Why would you need more?

An eye for an eye. Shipping from April 25th, the Gratical Eye is something I've been waiting a long time for, to pair with cameras like the Panasonic GH4, Canon 1D C and Sony A7S II - a super compact EVF which rivals the beautiful new Leica SL EVF for image quality. It features a very large 0.61" panel (similar to the Leica SL's 0.66" EVF) and packs 5 megapixel resolution versus the 4.4MP of the Leica SL's. Read the blog post

It's just a rumour. Let's see.

Sure will be doing!

Is the top one 80Mbit and second one 160? In the top one the sky is still macro blocking quite a lot.

Hope so. It's listed as "GX80" in the UK though, where the euro tax law also applies. So I assume it is more a PAL / NTSC region distinction. GX85 seems to be a German thing. They are weird. It is also G70 and TZ101 instead of TZ100. Very confusing for the customer I think.

Summary of the differences: GX80 Dual IS and Sony A7R II with OIS lens 3 axis on the sensor (X,Y, roll) and 2 axis (yaw / pitch) on the OIS lens GX80 BIS and Olympus E-M5 II 5 axis on the sensor, with any lens including the vintage stuff (however warping from yaw and pitch movement may appear in videos) Canon OIS lens 2 axis on the lens - yaw and pitch. Does not correct for roll. Cannot lock down the shot on X and Y axis but does reduce camera shake caused by yaw and pitch jitter.

5 axis... X Y Roll (rotation - this can be done mechanically for stills, or digitally with crop in video mode) Pitch (tilt up / down correction) Yaw (tilt left / right correction) I can see roll, pitch and yaw being done digitally with a crop in video mode or via OIS. It depends if the mechanical sensor movement covers all 5 axis, or just X, Y and Roll, using the lens for pitch and yaw (like Sony's system) Does the Olympus system correct by tilting the sensor pitch and yaw? I think it probably does. If so then Panasonic might be doing the same thing - all 5 axis on the sensor. Then it would work with manual lenses with no electronic contacts, just like the Olympus system. Or it may be that in video mode the electro-magnetic IBIS compensates for 3 axis (X, Y and roll) but uses electronic image shift with small crop to achieve pitch and yaw correction in 4K video mode. Maybe roll would be electronically compensated too. OIS usually compensates for yaw and pitch. EDIT: it looks like they do indeed have 5 axis IBIS so the sensor can move on the X and Y axis, plus rotate, plus tilt horizontally and vertically. So same as Olympus. What they do with the OIS is probably improve the yaw and pitch control by switching the IBIS to 3 axis and doing the other 2 on the lens. This might reduce image warping especially with wide angle lenses. This was an issue with the Olympus system in video mode