Andrew Reid

What he means is that the sensor outputs all pixels (4K) for extra RGB data when producing the 1080p image on the processor.

Maybe we should listen to both sides of the story and make our own minds up without changing our minds about the people giving each side... or demonising one person or the other. Maybe it's possible to separate a standpoint from the person making it, you know, like in the old days before the internet. Unions - in the UK politically these are quite militant. They're so powerful they have a big sway actually in who the Labour party (our Democrats) elect as leader. For two successive leaders they have elected completely unelectable people who they think can look after the interests of the unions, even though they're completely out of touch with the voters and have no chance of putting the party into government. I think union leaders have a lot to answer for. In the case of B&H I don't know enough about the politics of it all to comment... I just want the best for their workers and for the company to treat them fairly.

100Mbit/s in 4K. The bugs are being worked on but they also need to step up the quality of the codec in my opinion! Other than that FS5 is a nice camera. Great slow-mo. Decent 4K. Good future upgrades like raw (though wish it was internal 1080p raw not external 4K - file sizes too big). The FS5 is almost as small as a mirrorless camera when you remove the top handle, screen and grip and just use the EVF. The old Blackmagic 4K sensor isn't great... noisy past ISO 400! A7S II is a big upgrade from the GH4. Full frame sensor, much superior low noise. Consider the 1D C. Best image of the bunch and easiest to grade, yet remains small and relatively easy on the battery. Files are big but you can always convert to ProRes LT.

Good news all round.

Ebrahim have you tried the Nikon 14-140mm VR on the D7200. I did but only briefly and for a cheap lens I was impressed with how the stabilisation and sharpness stood up - the VR on this lens is quoted as 4 stops!! That's almost as strong as a E-M5 II. I could do some pretty nice moves with it and the jitter for static shots had been damped pretty well it seems at first glance. I am tempted to sell all my expensive crap and just get the D7200. I have the D5500 and LOVE the image but the build quality is yukky and I have the D750 but it's much bigger with a decent FX lens compared to the APS-C cameras and to be honest the image is no better, not even in low light. Such a smooth codec and sensor they have on the DX range right now!

It'll be a non-modular version of the S35 I bet, but I don't expect the price to come down too much.

For me there's two kinds of docs, the ones which hook you visually and the ones that pull you in through a gritty ugly sense of realism, presence and story. Take David Attenborough's nature films on the BBC (Africa series certainly) as a good example of the visually spellbinding type, where the camera work is so important they attach 30 minutes to the end of each episode to show how they did it. In that case the cinema aesthetics are mega important (and sound) in terms of building tension, mood, poetic struggles for survival and drama. Take Koyaanisqatsi as another example - that's a poetic 'earth' doc shot in a visually mesmerising way, zero dialogue just spellbinding cinematic imagery and a Philip Glass score. No way would that have had the same effect on me if it had been shot sloppily by a news crew with a small chip ENG. And for an example of the polar opposite kind of docs, well there's plenty of those. Ed is right, in this case the visuals matched the content and it didn't matter about making it cinematic. I highly recommend the Nikon D5500 and D7200 if anyone wants to get out of the rat race of specs. They look just as good as the high end stuff in terms of style, with none of the hassles or expense of editing & storing 4K res footage.

I disagree. The 1080p of the D5500 and D7200 is very solid indeed with the Canon LOG style flat picture profile. D750 as well, very good!

Looks great. I've been toying with the idea of doing something similar to this for S-LOG. Would your LUT work with the 1D C - it's for Canon LOG right?

The Revenant is an obvious candidate for one of the most cinematographically spectacular films of the past year. Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu had a documentary crew following him from the start of principal photography in October 2014, following a gruelling shoot, 20th Century Fox have uploaded the entire 45 minute documentary to YouTube.

I don't know maybe we'd be better communicating through fridge magnets?

Very strange. Got to only hope the software version up solves this Jones.... Anyone else with issues too do make yourself heard!

OT, you're back Jones, did you get the forum issues resolved with the cookies clear out? Would be good to know what was causing the text box to deactivate.

Typo sorry, meant film grain simulation. The film simulation (colour, contrast) modes are alive and well in video mode like I said at the top of the post, that's one of the main reasons for getting it!

Looks nice and small to me. Bit of a strange announcement date, 2 months from NAB (why not do it at the show?) Shame they don't take that sensor and put it in a more affordable camera for a bigger market though, I have a feeling the price will be enormous.

I am really pleased to say the video quality of the X Pro 2 is seriously impressive. It's not 4K but it's enormously satisfying, sharp and detailed. What's great is that now we can finally shoot moving images with Fuji's superb film-like colour science, without having to worry about image quality. Read the full article

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I heard from a trusted source that this is bullshit!

He delivered it alright. With incredible skill. You not liking it is not the same as him failing. Get it?

The only way Inarritu can 'let you down' is if he owes you something you're entitled to. He doesn't!

I see you don't like my joke, and are probably reading a lot into it like 'typical stereotyping' and sexism. I have to say I don't appreciate that. Your kind of response reminds me a little bit of this shrill tone, in a review of The Revenant - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/17/revenant-leonardo-dicaprio-violent-meaningless-glorification-pain?CMP=share_btn_fb ISIS video style violence, really?! A case of maybe reading far too much into what isn't there. I enjoyed the new Star Wars film. Only just seen it. Wasn't in a mad rush, because it had not really been part of my childhood like it had been for so many. In fact I was really into many films at all when I was 3 years old at the time Return of The Jedi came out and subsequently I didn't really get into any of them on VHS or on TV. Didn't need to. We had the BBC. At risk of gong off topic... There are definitely a lot of modern politically correct undertones in the new Star Wars franchise. For the first 10 minutes I enjoyed Rey. Great character but a very two dimensional one with a lot of overly expository lines lacking in wit, almost all of them saying "I don't need the help of a man". Well put the boot on the other foot and if all the male characters in the movies said "I don't need a woman" it would kill a bucket load of stories stone dead wouldn't it? To be honest Lara Croft In Space is not exactly original either. It's time escapist mainstream entertainment stopped worrying about modern gender and racial politics and got on with plain old storytelling. That new droid though... very cool.

Absolutely agree.

If jhnkng's suggestion doesn't work, I'd suggest that would be the only way. The lock is probably a Canon thing and not to do with any standard file system. Maybe take the card into a rental shop and beg them for a 1D C for a couple of mins?

If the 1D X Mark II would be so video orientated and just around the corner you'd think Canon would have discontinued the 1D C completely by now. I think the rumours look a bit too optimistic for video. Remember all the D5 rumours shouted 4K and it turned up with major limitations. Since 22MP is 5.5K, that full read out at 60fps in a relatively small and battery limited DSLR seems extremely unlikely to me. Maybe they can only achieve it from a small 4K crop of the sensor. Canon's dilemma is thus... If they put Cinema EOS beating full frame 4K 60fps image quality in a $6k camera, it would dilute the appetite of a portion of the market to invest heavily in dedicated Cinema EOS cameras. Wedding photographers who do video as well could just buy one camera for stills and video, and then Cinema EOS cameras would be limited by their ergonomic appeal alone not just their better image quality. Also at $5999 it severely limits Canon's ability to mark up any future 4K Cinema EOS camera aimed at roughly the same market. That is a very low price for a full frame 4K 60fps camera from Canon.

I quite enjoyed it when all the dialogue faded away and we were left with the survival stuff. Fun to be an observer in that situation, albeit a sadist one!!