Andrew Reid

Yes very annoying. And very stupid. The solution is not to use Samsung's lenses until they fix it. There's no excuse for having to enter the focus menu to enable MF every time you want to shoot a take... and at the worst possible moment as well - i.e. seconds before the take starts. Worse still, in order to have the magnified focus assist work, you have to be outside of movie standby mode. So you can't just stay in standby mode with MF enabled if you want to check focus that way. The auto-focus is very poor... hunts around and does not do what you want it to do.

No sorry you miss the point of the article! I own a 70D! I am not laughing at people who use the cameras in the bundle deal... I am laughing satirically at the kind of people who might fall for the pathetic marketing ploy of an old camera in a new box with a very basic mic.

​Of course it matters! Are you seriously suggesting it doesn't matter that Canons are pegged at line skipped 1080p in 2015 while Sony is giving us 4K and 250fps 1080p with no moire IN A COMPACT CAMERA!?

​Don't think it has the variable frame rates but shutter speed can go slower than 1/24 in video mode if that helps and for time-lapse @ 1-24fps you don't need the video mode just the intervalometer. I think the A7R II has 14bit raw. Still slightly compressed though. Sony are aware of requests for lossless.

It is an 8.3x zoom (24mm x 8.3 = 200mm). 25-250mm would be 10x zoom for example. 25-400mm well that is 16x. If you just want the zoom range and 4K on 1" sensor and not the fancy constant F2.8 aperture or slow-mo then the FZ1000 is seriously worth considering over the RX10 M2, it is also considerably cheaper.... especially in Europe where it is 750 euros vs 1599 for the Sony! No SLOG or built in ND though!

​Yes you need the U3 card for the 100Mbit/s bit rate settings. These are cheap on Amazon, nothing special thankfully. The RX100 M4 will only go to 5 minutes continuous for 4K before it has to stop and cool down. If you try and make it go again straight away you will only get another 2 minutes before it stops again. And from then on it may shut down altogether. This is a heat limit of the little compact, it does get very hot, poor thing. The RX10M2 doesn't have the same restriction so if you plan to do long interviews, YouTube selfies or live event filming you know which to choose.

You are free to call it tit for tat. I will call it technological progress. Sony are set to own the imaging sensor market and define image quality for CMOS for years to come. That means they will be able to dictate their own destiny and the image quality of their competitors like Canon and Nikon because these companies will soon have to buy Sony sensors just to compete. Tit for tat is one thing...how about Canon just try competing? Do they have an answer to the A7S for low light or an A7R II for high end mirrorless photography? No! This is not tit for tat, it is how enormous markets are won or lost in the long run. By the way the GH4 has sold just fine. It did not just fall off a cliff the moment the A7S came out. The LX100 is a completely different prospect on the market, not a GH4 competitor. It's a fixed lens compact for starters! And I am confused as to how you think an NX500 replaces the NX1 just because it is newer! You say that after years of R&D you have a few months to get units shifted before the next flavour of the month comes along (often from the same manufacturer)... that just isn't true. Consumer product cycles are often 1-2 years and they share the market with a host of competitors in that time, that's the way it has always been since the first affordable digital cameras. This is not something that has only just happened with mirrorless models.

​No, I mean why did they stop being interesting.

It is tongue in cheek satire making a point that Canon have released merely a new box as a whole new filmmaker package and charged top whack for it at that. It is making fun of the kind of idiot who would fall for this kind of cynical marketing ploy... and yes there are plenty of them. Hopefully not too many on here but sometimes I have my doubts

​The real irony seems to be a bit lost on you. But let's address your made up irony first... I have not "sacrificed" raw, 10bit, 422, colour science and other aspects merely for resolution. I still treat the image as a visual whole and not a mere number. I have shot with the Digital Bolex - lovely raw and tip top colour... I have shot with Blackmagic for 10bit ProRes and of course 5D Mark III raw, and could go back to any one of them any time I please... in fact it would make my life a lot easier not having to cover all these cutting edge new cameras that just so happen to be 4K, for ungrateful bastards like you.... But I don't and that is because the current 4K cameras look lovely. 14bit Raw or 10bit 422 and the best colour science is a spec like any other... and it is rather overrated itself. For example the highlight roll off is smoother in 8bit SLOG on the A7S compared to 14bit raw on the 5D3 - go and figure. Indeed I prefer the 8bit 422 LOG image from the 1D C to Blackmagic's 12bit raw for colour. Again, go figure... Hands down my favourite image at the moment is the Canon 1D C so I am not a brainless 'Canon basher'. Those you will have followed EOSHD for a while or those in the know will get the satire... others won't... If you don't get it, then hopefully it will tweak your interest in the current state of play enough to research into the subject a bit more.

Why did they stop?

​Erm! Ever heard of satire!?

Profit from the "Audio visual" business at Panasonic does not = profit from cameras. It has a whole host of crap dragging the profit down... cameras were not one of them. The reason Panasonic made 3 times more profit from eco-solutions is because of a strong demand for that but more significantly a fall in demand for certain audio visual products like their TVs where are unappealing both on specs AND price compared to Samsung & LG.

​You sound like you're arguing against your OWN interests here! Whose side are you on? Canon's shareholders or the filmmakers!?

Canon is repackaging a selection of their DSLRs to appeal more to video producers. Writ large with the phrases "FULL HD" and "SELFIE" the bundles come with one of Rode's cheapest mics and a 32GB SD card. The standard kit zoom (18-55mm) is provided as normal. Prices are anything but low end though with the bundles ranging from a hefty $899 for the T5i to a GH4/NX1 busting $1649 for the 70D. Read the full article

​Interesting post that one! The year 2001 was really a pre-digital era as far as the mass market was concerned, as affordable DSLRs didn't really exist until 2005 with the Canon 300D. 2012 was something of a peak because it was just before the mass market decided their phone was 'good enough' Good enough aside from the zoom which is why crap like the G3 X exists!! The DSLR is heading back to base. At the base are waiting a lot of enthusiasts pissed off at Canon for ignoring them. Most of them are moving to Sony. When Canon and Nikon lose their footing in the consumer market, we won't be there to patch things up.

Yes, well, film sets are one thing... but I at EOSHD always had an eye on the enthusiasts and consumers more than with the established film industry. The GH2 was for a long time the only camera we cared about! Cheap! Great image! Sure the C100/C300 strategy could be seen as "smart". But it is a totally separate strategy to what we're really in need of, which is for Canon to start playing the game again in that very significantly sized DSLR/mirrorless video market. If only idiots would stop buying over priced and under specced Rebels and get a clue, Canon would react and improve the breed I am sure.

​Yes will do that but there's really no comparison, the 120p from the Sonys is in a different league.

Image Sensors World spotted an interesting development from Panasonic in Japan which features 120 GH4 bodies assembled in an array to capture a person from all angles before software is used to develop a photo-realistic 3D sculpture of the subject. Read the full article

Market research from 2014 has surfaced from consulting firm FutureSource. The year-old report suggests a swing of 50% from DSLRs to mirrorless cameras in 2015 (for pro video users). The report predicts that in the coming years 4K mirrorless cameras will dominate the market for video relative to DSLRs and that sales of large sensor professional camcorders (such as the Canon C300) will continue to grow and occupy roughly a third of the pro video market with the mirrorless camera share at a respectable 20%. Read the full article

​Good question. I'm going to cover that in the final review.

  The slow-mo capabilities of the new Sony RX cameras are groundbreaking. I've been shooting at 100fps to 1000fps and everything in between. Here is everything you need to know. Read the full article

​That is a totally different mount.

C-mount and M43 don't go to Samsung NX mount.

I bet it has S-LOG 3 and 4K 60fps. Minus some of the other drawbacks of the A7R II... less rolling shutter, better in low light, crisper full frame 4K. But the Super 35mm APS-C crop mode likely will be worse!