Andrew Reid

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6er83ene6o Quite an eye opener on the recent decline of the film industry.

If The Stig is a tame racing driver then they are the domesticated pet camera salesmen.

I still think if the uncompressed true raw look is what you're after... get the Sigma Fp-L with an SSD and set it to 2x crop mode. Digital Bolex / Magic Lantern without the hassle!

The Ninja Star was relevant in the old days when electronics needed a larger box and more power simply to do a 1080p ProRes recording, Now we have such insane power in our portable cameras and even iPhone, the market for this has completely vanished. In fact it wasn't really much there in the first place because with the Ninja Star - yes you got ProRes - but no you still didn't look proper at work, because you'd be turning up with a tiny GH2 and no chonky cabled up gigascreen to pimp it out. So it didn't sell very well and that's what makes me think that the codec capabilities offered by Atomos were never the main reason for their original success... It was the $500 bolt on that gave a basic rig vague credibility on a hire.

The product is becoming irrelevant On the codec side, the camera does it all now. There's no gap for Atomos to fill, not even ProRes RAW. On the monitoring side, we could do with going beyond just 3.2" screens... So it's still nice to check focus on a bigger screen. This is an ergonomic benefit, but speaking personally I have always disliked the trade off... It feels like one step forward for focussing, 10 steps back for balance, size, handling, battery life, simplicity, stealth, reliability, weather sealing, robustness and weight. So I'd rather just eyeball the EVF instead. I am convinced that Atomos customers mainly bought into the product because it was the cheapest way to make a mirrorless camera look professional in front of a client. The actual practical benefits are very questionable in my experience. So can Atomos now pivot from the dying market, into a big growth area, or will Jeromy be captain of a sinking ship? It wouldn't be the first time he's been on trouble on a boat.

The whole shilling irony is that the main product they are shilling is themselves, it's not even about the brand... it's all about attention, and if shilling for Sony or some other big giant gains them that notoriety then it's all fair game. Whether or not this debases and devalues the entire medium, doesn't enter the conversation on either the side of the creator or the side of the following flock. So we have a situation now where the journalists are silenced and the shill has taken over, and the medium has turned into cable TV, with a few good quality late night niche channels, but the mainstream ones are just a big sell. Chris and Jordan started off in my view as quite objective, and all about the cameras, but have become more and more about themselves and spinning their cult of personality to a wider and wider audience. This is a problem the traditional journalist doesn't have, because he sits behind his pen and paper, the story is the notorious thing, and the writer gets to stay in the background. This prevents the kind of conflicts we see now between the clamour for attention and personal appeal, at the expense of the quality and honesty of the content.

I really enjoy this series at the french blockbusters

I'm genuinely interested to hear Atomos customer's opinions and feedback in the comeback of Jeromy. Good or bad? Indifferent? Their Apple recruit Estelle was treated extremely badly if you read what was reported in the media. In my opinion Atomos gear owners must feel a bit like those who have bought into the whole Tesla trend, spent $$ on a car, only to have Elon out himself as a drug addicted far right incel. It would make me want to sell it. Whether it be alleged substance abuse or bullying or sexual assault at the top of an organisation that relies on team work - THAT is a recipe for a serious downfall. Look at the declining fortunes of Red Bull's F1 team since the Horner sex abuse controversy. Staff CVs been going out all over, the team moral is on the floor. We of course only determine stuff second hand via journalism so I don't know what happened with Jeromy for sure other than the covid law breaking incidents that are a matter of absolute fact. None of us were there, but it leaves a very bad impression that he has been allowed back into the fold especially parachuted back into the most senior role there is.

The Xiaomi 11 Ultra, yes. Superb video quality. Superb sensor. It would be a very good candidate, but the ergonomics are never going to be great with a hefty (by smartphone standards) piece of glass on the front.

Leica have always walked a fine line between the money you pay being for the engineering and design, and the money being for the branding. They've got to be more transparent about when they are using software correction on a very basic cheap optic made in China.

An interesting mod, looks irreversible - but still worth it. The Xiaomi 12s ultra would be a good candidate for this too.

They must be involved in some way! Hopefully they'll be honest enough to admit that it wasn't entirely a "creative choice"?

$7K is an absolute joke. You are not getting a Leica, it's a Panasonic. The 28mm lens on the normal Q3 is really terrible, it's worse than a toy and relies on Panasonic's correction to get rid of the massive distortion and vignetting. Leica just need to be more honest... what is the $7K getting you in terms of engineering from LEICA? Cutting edge lens? No. It's very misleading marketing in my view. Leica Q 28mm RAW: With the built in software profile applied in-camera and Adobe Camera Raw:

4K/120fps but not much overall I don't think, the iPhone 15 Pro is better value now.

Sounds like you did the right thing and that's what matters. It's a pretty big red flag when mods of a site start to protect the manufacturers at the expense of their own readers and forum users, to act as cover for defects, which is the opposite of what journalism and community are about - to expose the truth. I could understand if you set out to criticise DPReview from the get-go and not Canon - but you were criticising Canon in a constructive way and campaigning for them to fix a genuine issue, much as I did with the R5 overheating malarky. So I'm sorry you had this experience with DPReview and yes... It is a dying site. Gear Patrol at the end of the day are in the business of advertorial not journalism.

I am curious how he came back to head the company? After all that's happened.

Fuji X-S2 or Sigma Fp-L For the most cinematic results. If you go even smaller, you have to make some compromises and go with a high-end compact camera... If you're doing that, it might be better to go with a high-end smartphone instead as the iPhone 15 Pro has an incredible codec now, and really good auxiliary lenses especially the 5x zoom.

I can see a Canon C80 type thing from RED / Nikon. I expect they'll follow the Cinema EOS playbook more closely than the past RED script. Being a corporate Japanese company now, and all that. Which means yes, mirrorless Z mount cinema cameras and hybrids.

It is crazy that they'd use a DOF adapter on a high-end production like this. The ground glass doesn't work very well and introduces all sorts of softness and corner blur. If that is the look they are going for, why the fuck are they using 50k ARRI primes? I can only assume it might be a specially modified iPhone from Apple with an interchangeable PL mount for modern Super 16mm lenses.

I seem to remember it doesn't work... It was designed to fit the Pocket sensor housing VERY snug. I have many a non-Pocket micro four thirds camera with war scars from putting that thing on it. The 0.64 XL T on the other hand should be much more flexible.

Holy crap did he put some effort into that. Quite amazing really isn't it? A bargain a7 iv just popped up for 1400 euros with the kit zoom... A may have to snaffle it up. Have you noticed that very few people have actually SHOWN the difference between the old and new colour science, or the old 8bit and new 10bit codec in any meaningful way. Could be an interesting comparison between the a7 iv and a7r iii to do a dive into that on EOSHD.

Going for today's small chip low-fi digital look, just as they did with the original 28 Days Later in the 90s. https://www.wired.com/story/28-years-later-danny-boyles-new-zombie-flick-was-shot-on-an-iphone-15/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Years_Later https://theasc.com/magazine/july03/sub/index.html But then... what's with the huge cine lenses on the front?

This is part of the reason Gen-Z are turning to old compact digicams, for a less processed look. The HDR smartphone look has become a boring cliche. I shoot RAW on my iPhone 15 Pro Max to get past the heavy handed processing. But Apple have always been better at doing realism in their processing than the Chinese smartphone makers, so by far not the worst offender! If Nikon is right and smartphones are leading into more camera sales, could we see the return of smaller high-end compacts?

What was wrong with it... mechanical issue?

Canon are a different company to who they used to be, they are closer to a Chinese OEM manufacturer now than a Japanese industrial giant in my opinion. How is it that such a mature platform as EOS R which launched in 2018 is having not-fit-for-purpose issues like this in 2024, when Canon has so many decades of experience in camera hardware to build on? It is because the engineering core of the company in my opinion has been gutted by accountants and clueless managers prompted from marketing areas, along with their best people retiring. You only have to pick up the EOS R5 series or R6 to feel from the look and finish of the materials that they are cutting major corners inside and out.