Andrew Reid

Give me 15 stops and I'm pretty sure I can live with applying a rolling shutter fix in post to 1% of my shots

It is really sad that John has to resort to such bad business practices. It is also against the law. What he is saying is false, it is damaging and that is the very plain definition of libel. That is the last I'm going to say about it because I don't want to wade in and blow it all out into a discussion... especially if there might be a law suit to follow. SLR Magic are really angry about what he is putting out onto social media. it isn't worthy of a discussion. We will SHOOT and not do politics on this forum, thanks for understanding.

No 30p in the APS-H 4K mode and the 1D C is definitely not the camera to go shooting 60p with, so it won't provide you in those respects I'm afraid...

Ha. This was the number 1 trigger which made me think "sod this", get a 1D C. The A7S being such a TINY camera, to bolt on a massive recorder which an invisible screen in direct light was just horrible. The 1D C is small but it also self contained and 'just works' unlike 5D3 raw or recorders that exhaust huge bulky batteries in 30 mins. I like simplicity!!

Thanks for the footage as ever Seb!! Will put it on the review along with my own footage which is now shot, just waiting to get clearance on the song I used on it, from a friend. Curiously I found taping the focus at around 50ft on the prime & kowa gave me a sharper image than sticking it at infinity. Probably because of the adapter (was using it on Speed Booster and infinity isn't aways right) Decided to use a Helios 44M 58mm F2.0 and Zeiss Jena 80mm F1.8 (M42 mount) for the taking lenses. The Zeiss in particularly is a well suited one, it is really small for a fast 80mm, compared to the Zeiss 85mm F1.4 it is tiny.

Lovely stuff Rich and Volker. The Iscorama will always be a gem. It is 1.5x though so quite a different look to 2x anamorphic. Imagine a single focus 2x version of the Iscorama. That is what the Kowa 16H turns into with the Rangefinder attachment First test went well, was sharp at F4, sometimes at F2.8 but definitely usable at all apertures aside from F1.4, but then the Iscorama is quite mushy that fast as well! It focusses closer than the Iscorama, as essentially it has a variable diopter on the front. The flare was very pleasing, oval streaks and blue hexagons. yum yum yum. No breathing either. Only weakness so far is the chromatic aberration, it is quite strong at close focus when you have a backlit subject. The light creeps in and puts a veil over the edges of your subject sometimes. And yeah, Iscorama still smaller - but the Kowa, ironically, is now easier to focus... butter smooth and light, no stiffness. PS - chances of Iscorama going down in price due to the Rangefinder = zero. It's still too rare and too good to depreciate. In fact it is now getting extremely rare compared to 2 years ago. PPS - I sent my pre-36 away to Van Diemen to be rehoused for more practical focus with gears along with some others like Andrew Wonder and we are still waiting for them to finish it, cost me £1800. SLR Magic have given me the close focus, easy focus, cine focus all in one small adapter for $599... and done it quicker than Van Diemen could even get the CAD drawing to us... Says a lot.

The faded grey is just some kind of age related reaction, a coating over the plastic and on mine it even scraped off after a while, though stubbornly. You can clean it up. It actually looks in very good condition. Optics clean and all intact even with the original detachable prime. It screws off that and you can use it on a better lens of your choice.

Seriously the 'sharpness' of the NX1 is NOT an advantage. 4K should be soft. There I said it... Otherwise it just looks digital and WAY too harsh for any kind of human being in front of the lens.

Hollywood wanted a 4K DSLR so Canon saw an opportunity and enabled 1.3x 4K crop video mode on their 1D X. The 1D C was born and the £12,000 price tag made sure nobody bought it. With the Samsung NX1, the consumer didn't want 4K H.265 but is getting it anyway, because Samsung wants them to buy that lovely 4K TV to view the footage with. This is called technological progress, where more powerful machines are thrust upon an unexpected public and everyone gets excited. Now the two world collide in this shoutout. Expect fireworks! The Samsung NX1 is currently on special offer for $1299 at B&H Read the full article

For the first time I now have usable AF with Canon EF lenses on the Panasonic GH4 and other Micro Four Thirds cameras. I've been trying out the new Speed Booster Ultra, which as well as the AF improvement offers new and improved optics. Read the full article

I have a test unit with me and it will be interesting to see how good AF is for stills

1D C stills are full frame though. 18MP is enough. 14fps burst. I've seen the 1D C go for as low as £3500 used. It is a stills camera with 4K video like the others, the FS7 isn't. That is a completely different class of camera. The FS7 by comparison takes ages to boot up and the menus are a way slower. Depends on your needs as always but I prefer the tiny 1D C by comparison, ergonomically. It is also lighter. You get most of the FS7's advantages like peaking, loupe over screen, zebra, etc. simply by adding a SmallHD 501, which is also a tiny combo by comparison to a rigged up FS7. Also... 1.3x crop vs 1.5x makes a difference. 1D C looks closer to full frame. And the stills are another reason to consider it, these being the best you can get (1D X level).

Looks good guys. I have mine set up now with the Kowa 8Z 2x anamorphic and Helios 44M, the infamous russian 58mm F2.0. It is tack sharp at F5.6 and plenty of lovely anamorphic bokeh going on. Shooting 4:3 on the GH4.

Suddenly clipped highlights, over sharpened, moire and aliasing, 60i and high compression. That is the video look Video look is not: deep depth of field, small sensor (super 16mm is a film look after all), though a crap DP can certainly make anything look like video if they try

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Well for a start a Kowa is $300-400, and the Iscorama is 10x that at $3000+ That is a reason. Also the Kowa is sharper at fast apertures than the Iscorama and vignettes a bit less so you can go slightly wider. Flare on the Kowa is better than on the multicoated (MC) Iscoramas. Quite evenly matched vs single coated Iscoramas. The only thing holding it back was the shit focus. Unusable. Iscorama acted like a normal manual focus prime lens. But still the Iscorama isn't as easy to focus as a normal lens. Usually the ring is a bit too stiff and travel is way too long for quick focus changes and run & gun. No gearing for follow focus either. A Kowa with Rangefinder should beat the Iscorama for focus AND match it for image quality... I am about to shoot with it so will find out as despite Van Diemen taking away one of my Iscoramas for what seems like a million years now, I still have my other Iscorama 36 MC to play with.

I find that compared to the 1D C 4K and Canon cameras shooting raw, most others tend to have trouble rendering warm hues on green trees and cool blues instead of grey. They all seem to have more capability to pick up greens (largest part of wavelength and important for resolution) than the more subtle reds and blues. I don't know if it is a colour science or image processing thing or a hardware difference on the sensor as well... but for example the NX1 on Standard definitely has a GH2-like green bias and doesn't look the same as the Canon 1D C 4K on Standard, let alone in LOG.

Hear that sound? It is sound of Iscorama owners rushing to sell their lenses on eBay.

Looks tasty

Rolling shutter isn't non existent in 4K but it's definitely less than on other cameras. Puts in a very respectable performance there. Best to explain with images so please wait for final review. HDMI is uncompressed 8bit 4:2:2 4K on both the RX10 II and RX100 IV... Yes 4K HDMI on a pocket camera

RX10 II footage is now shot and all done. Got the RX100 IV as well so will be doing review of that. So expect final part of RX10 II review today or tomorrow.

Shame it was deleted. Felt very helpful to finally have a date to go off. And nice to know I have a doppelgänger! --- Why are Panasonic handling the V-LOG situation so oddly? What is the indecision all about? Very strange.

Well done for defining "opinion". I am proud of you! When a situation is bad you have an opinion about it being bad. When a situation changes and is good, your opinion of it also changes. Amazing huh! No sign of that happening yet though re: Canon. Haha I agree. I think their marketing teams are trying to cover up for the weak side of each product (though the stills from the GH4 are a LOT less weak than video on the Canon rebels)

​It depends on the individual lenses. Some in the Zeiss range are actually much better than their Canon L equivalent. Hell even Sigma destroyed the Canon 35mm F1.4L with their version recently. A lot of the Canon L lenses are decades old now. Yes they are beautiful but some of the models are long due a replacement. If you take the Zeiss range as a whole especially the Otus and Batis lenses they DO blow Canon away in many ways. We are talking orders of magnitude here and sometimes it doesn't make a massive difference in the real world but the highest end Zeiss glass - OTUS - yes that is definitely currently a step ahead of Canon's equivalents.

Yes correct. Yep and gives them hard stops as well. Canon L lenses stand to benefit a lot from that! Correct. This is use I am most excited about on a personal level. Yes basically gives a proper cine focussing ring to any lens, even if they have no focus ring at all like the Nikon 1 series stuff. ​This one is right up there with Speed Booster as a game changer. Absolutely love the concept. Let's hope it delivers enough performance to make good on the promise. I wouldn't expect an entirely free lunch, i.e. as pin sharp at F1.4 as the prime by itself, but when you take into how much it could change, a staggering amount, I'm willing to accept some trade offs to get it, especially if it means turning this into an Iscorama beater with butter smooth cine focus & 3ft close focus for a mere $600...