Andrew Reid

  Bunny Suit - Weird Ballad live at Tempelton Studio, Berlin. Directed by Andrew Reid. Watch on YouTube. Berlin based band Bunny Suit (follow here on Facebook / SoundCloud) recently went into Temeplton Studio to lay down some tracks. We decided to shoot a live video of the recording which would then be synced up perfectly with the final mix of the tracks in post. The Sony A7S in this shoot is graded using the lovely "Manchester" LUT from James Miller's Deluts pack. But there were 6 other cameras backing it up. Can you tell which is which!? Read the full article

Wasn't that 20fps? Nikon are turning back the clock! Soon they will be giving us silent movies!!

Nikon 1 series is the camera nobody wants to buy and nobody wants to like and then Nikon wonder why!? Haha.

I laughed when I read that. Just proves how overrated this industry workhorse really is. The Red Dragon and Panasonic Varicam S35 are in a different league along with the Alexa. The difference is enormous. 8bit MPEG 50Mbit/s 1080p better colour than 6K Red Raw? Really? The FS7 stomps all over the CX00's image, which is why it is being promptly replaced. The 1D C is by far the more pleasing image rendering wise, being almost full frame. The A7S as well, renders with more panache with a variety of beautiful full frame lenses by comparison to the Super 35mm CX00 line. The GH4 and NX1 beat it soundly for detail rendering and come close in overall look and feel for $1.5k.

Here's what you get for wanting to help... Never before has someone been so rude and unprofessional from any manufacturer who has sent me something to review. Sending me something for a review isn't a guarantee that I will like it or be able to make use of it, especially if it is shipped in a state that is unusable. At the same time Mindaugas and Cosimo were using an 18 page thread on my own forum for garnering sales and customer feedback. It's deplorable. Thread closed.

Here's a clear way to think about it... The C100 and C300 image quality is no better than the A7S in APS-C crop mode. It's a bit worse in fact. The A7S is $2499 so cheaper than both and still cheaper than the C300 by a considerable margin. Really, what you are paying for is: Built in NDNative EF mountMore robust build qualityBetter audio and XLRFull sized HDMI and HD-SDIVideo optimised ergonomicsLonger run times on one batteryBUT with drawbacks of.. Worse EVFLarger and heavierNo stills capabilityNo speed boosterNo full frame lookThink that sums it up.

I think the Amazon page mock-up with 3 answered questions about a product that doesn't exist yet and dated 13th April is a little suspect. The dynamic range of 15-16 stops also seems like a rather big leap from 12 in just one generation of Panasonic sensor. But the biggest giveaway is that Sol says 4K is wider than in HD mode now because of the multi-aspect sensor, whilst saying it takes a 1:1 area for 4K like before. Therefore a 4K of less than 2x crop as he suggests wouldn't be possible, because the sensor is still 16MP. As for 'a mistake' to publish the blog post early. A mistake is one thing, to Tweet about it and Facebook it quite another He knows his stuff though! He is welcome to the extra followers, probably deserves it. Nice blog.

http://suggestionofmotion.com/about/ Definitely an A for effort though

Nice to know about the 0-255 issue. Switched to 16-235 in-camera and the problem has gone. Makes grading that bit more straight forward. Loving EditReady. It's a beast.

​Get the 1D C instead. I love it and can't even think of a way to improve the image it gives, aside from in the future global shutter. Practical side, yeah smaller file sizes and tilting screen with peaking would have been nice as would an EVF but it's lovely to use as a stills camera and easy to rig for video while keeping the weight down, still much smaller and lighter than an FS7 or C300!

Just get a GH2

  Magic Lantern just turned your 5D Mark III into a desktop computer. The cameras (running ARM processor and up to 512MB of RAM) are seen in this video booting into the Linux kernel, version 3.19. The development paves the way for third party apps to run on the camera and to control all functions of the device. Read the full article - http://www.eoshd.com/2015/04/magic-lantern-run-linux-os-on-canon-dslrs/

Canon C300 EF now $6499 at B&H Canon C100 (Mark I) now $2999Many people aren’t ready for 4K yet. These people just got the bargain of the century with a massive Canon price reduction on the old Canon C300. Read the full article

​Detail comparison would be a non contest, 1080p vs 4K. But internal 1080p (if you don't want to shoot 4K) is better on the D750. It's almost at the A7S level, but the codec is easier to grade from the Flat picture setting. You are not an idiot for considering the D750 but make sure you have some nice Nikon lenses. 24-70mm F2.8 AF-D is a bargain.

It's better than the GH2 in low light. The lens is very fast at the wide end and the sensor is newer. ISO 1600 perfectly usable.

Take it by rec.709 you are using a standard Canon profile like Portrait or something on your 60D. Well S-LOG is LOG so a different league. It flattens the full dynamic range of the sensor and packs it into the codec. It grades WAY better than the 60D or indeed any of the Canon or Sony rec.709 profiles because simply put, there's more to work with in the image. Nothing is burnt or crushed or baked into the image.

A short summary yeah, no footage. It's a big "no" from me for this camera, just get the NX1 instead.

​Compared to....

​No ProRes codecs installed? Do you have Final Cut Pro X?

Popular pro transcoding software EditReady now supports the Samsung NX1. This is my favourite transcoding solution, so great to see H.265 support. Read the full article

The only bad thing about the A7S's colour is people's limited grading skills

Would have to be a 2nd line rather than a replacement. Too soon to replace it. Low megapixel / high sensitivity version would be lovely! Can't see this being true though.

Canon have revealed a little of their broad future objectives in the company's latest annual report. Read the full article

Yes it is a bad decision. My NX500 went back to the shop because of that 4K crop. It's horrible.

Be careful guys. Looks like the firmware has an error, where they forgot the lock. The reason it isn't meant to work with the GH4 is because it can get physically stuck on the mount as happened with mine. The images are lovely, I shot this with the BMCC speed booster glass in the EF adapter... But there's another problem... often the focus is slanted so one half of your frame could be blurry, so bear that in mind at wide angle shooting a large flat subject frame-to-frame or landscape at infinity especially at wide angle like with the Tokina 11-16mm F2.8... that lens is a good way to test for the issue. If the adapter gets stuck on your GH4 mount you're looking at breaking the GH4 just to remove the adapter and it can damage the pins for AF. But if you're a brave one, enjoy!