Andrew Reid

Very nice work!

Today had an email from Ben Pilling at Sony saying the sunspot issue is being analysed for a firmware fix. Good news! http://www.eoshd.com/2015/11/sony-confirm-a7s-ii-25p-sunspot-bug-firmware-update-to-come/ Very quick reaction from Sony and thanks to everyone else who have tested for it.

You can assign magnify to the centre button using custom keys in the main menu. They do indeed have work to do on ergonomics though. Samsung got it surprisingly right with the NX1, a few quirks aside.

The Leica SL has hit Berlin already and retail units will begin to ship in just over a week. I took the final camera in my hands to suss it out from a video point of view. Read the full article

I have weird issues with audio in Resolve 12 as well, on the A7S II material audio stutters and crackles like a post apocalyptic radio.

Dude! Read the thread or even the top half of the article. It's a genuine problem in 25p. The 24p / NTSC is unaffected. To be clear because it seems this needs repeating!...There's other people experiencing with the problem, more user reports all over the place and on other forums if you can be bothered to look. It's not just my unit. The good news is, when I reported it to Sony they took it very seriously and the engineers in Tokyo are now investigating. I'd expect a firmware fix for sure.

Thanks Don nice post. Meanwhile on a Mac I recommend to simply use EditReady, transcode to ProRes 422 LT and you will be able to playback full quality full res 4K on a laptop. There's no quality loss from XAVC-S. The only way you can lose quality from XAVC-S is to go backwards significantly from H.264 100Mbit/s and that is quite hard to do

Requirements - has to be cheaper. Gimbal must be separate to camera. Should support small camera like RX100 IV or Sony QX1 smart camera with 16mm pancake. Show us what you got!

Is 4K raw on the X5 a 2.3x crop like the GH4's sensor?

My belief is the raw module works with OSMO. The OSMO is just a controller stick. All the image processing and storage to memory is on the camera gimbal. All the OSMO does is connect to the base of that. In fact you can see where it connects to the base of the X5R in the pic above. My enthusiasm for the OSMO got slightly curbed upon seeing the sample footage on YouTube this evening, couldn't they have got some decent filmmakers to shoot something less tacky? The X3 small chip look doesn't look nice. Any close up on a person and they are softer than the background. No AF system. Wasn't needed in the air, now it is. It may be a wide lens and a tiny chip but you still notice that it is fixed on infinity. It is a weird look for close-ups. People are definably just slightly out of focus. The colour and dynamic range doesn't look nice either. Unless one lands on my lap to review I think I will pass on it until the X5R drops in price. This thing really does benefit from the larger sensor and interchangeable lenses. The sample footage of the OSMO with the X5 is WAY better.

A bit of bounce vs no shot at all. I know what I'd rather take. Here we go again You're right of course. But they're empty words without your own ideas of how you're going to do that... let's share the knowledge...

What about in 10bit? That should solve your complaint with solid colour and gradients.

Imagine if after all this time with shallow depth of field and static tripod we just wanted to get stuff in focus and move the camera... Read the full article

Or maybe they haven't a clue!

What separates the colour science of photography companies like Canon, Nikon and Fuji from the approach taken by electronic engineering firms Sony, Samsung and Panasonic? EOSHD has a theory. Read the full post

How was it graded and what pic profile was used though?

By the way, check out this review... extremely detailed http://www.lauschsicht.com/canon-eos-c300-mark-ii-review/

Let's look at the good old 5D product cycle to predict when it will arrive... August 2005 - 5D announced September 2008 - 5D Mark II announced (holy shit that was a good camera for 2008) March 2012 - 5D Mark III announced (boring for 2012!) So 3 years the gap usually It is overdue 3 years was March 2015! I think November would be a good time for it to hit before Christmas 2015. Otherwise it could be any time in 2016, preferably before NAB if Canon wants to get back into the DSLR video market at all.

Just installed V-LOG L. Will give it a spin! Looks a lot noisier on the screen than S-LOG 2 on the A7S II even at ISO 400. What ISO do you guys recommend for it?

Ah you have both cameras! Try the same sharpness on the picture profiles. Raise detail from -7 to 0 on the A7S II S-LOG profile and maybe try a prime, I doubt the mega zoom is that sharp even stopped down. Looks closely matched in the grade. Did you shoot Canon LOG 2 and S-LOG 2?

S-LOG 2 is the gamma curve. S-Gamut is the colours. I find S-Gamut 3.Cine better for colour but it's still tricky to grade!

Best review of the C300 II I have read so far, very too the point and based on a lot of real world shooting by Joe Simon http://www.newsshooter.com/2015/11/05/is-the-canon-c300-mkii-worth-it-joe-simon-tries-it-out-and-tells-it-straight/ Interesting to hear Canon LOG 2 is flatter and more like S-LOG now. LOG profiles should be named after the bit depth they are designed to be used... it should be S-LOG 8bit and S-LOG 10bit. It depends though... 120fps on 2.7x crop sensor or 120fps on 2.2x crop sensor with Speed Booster to make it 1.6x with interchangeable lenses? I'd say the 120fps of the A7S II has a high chance of "shitting on" the RX10 II and RX100 IV if shot right The 240fps on the RX cameras is nice but you can slow the 120fps 50% with Twixtor to mimic it pretty well.

30p... right. This is a 25p-only issue. Try 25p 4K full frame and see. Thankfully S-LOG 2 is nice. I don't know what Sony were thinking putting S-LOG 3 in the A7S II and FS5 with their 8bit codecs... when would it be useful? Never!

The kind of noise and colour is perfectly normal, for any camera, if not exposed right.

Cooke!! But the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 is my current favourite S35 lens for realistic prices