Andrew Reid

Yes 30 min limit and no 4K HDMI output to get around it. No mic socket either. I hope Samsung offers the same perks of firmware updates to the NX500 as we saw with the NX1... it needs it.

​It's "NX" mount. It does get some love from Ciecio7. His PL adapter for Samsung NX mount is superb. I use it with my Cookes on the NX1.

If that new sensor does 14 stops with global shutter enabled I'd be very surprised.

Also, best manual aperture control for Nikon G lenses / Sigma ART on E-Mount & Micro Four Thirds I've yet used. Very robust and smooth.

No, EF and Nikon lenses are bayonet locking. With a positive lock, this works like a PL adapter for cinema lenses. A locking ring locks around the lens, securing it with absolutely no wiggle like you get with a bayonet. So rather than rotating to lock the lens, you hold the lens to the adapter and rotate the adapter's locking mechanism around it instead... just as you would do when mounting a PL lens to a RED EPIC.

Above: Canon EF locking adapter for Sony E-Mount In my opinion these are some of the best adapters currently on the market for Canon & Nikon glass. They take a normal Canon or Nikon lens and turn it into a PL mount (positive locking) with no play between the mount and lens. Most of the adapters are currently in stock on eBay for your A7S / GH4: Canon EF locking adapter for Sony E-Mount Nikon locking adapter for Sony E-Mount Canon EF locking adapter for Micro Four Thirds Nikon locking adapter for Micro Four Thirds (Not currently in stock) And also the versions for Sony FZ mount (F55, etc.) and AJA Cion: Canon - FZ Nikon - FZ Canon - CION Nikon - CION Read the full article

Although we're still waiting for that 4K consumer DSLR from Canon, the company has announced an investment into Spartan Bioscience, a firm developing rapid DNA testing apparatus for the masses to have their DNA analysed for potential health issues. Read the full article

You are right, just look at the vitriol in damphouse's post above for a perfect example. ​I can't think of anything interesting to watch on the BBC at the moment at all. They really have caved into a very risk-averse creative culture.

The Olympus E-M5 Mark II can shoot pin sharp handheld shots at a shutter speed of 1/2 (half a second) at 50mm (equiv.) Here I took the camera down the backstreets of Manchester and shot it. Read the full article

My point reinforced again by Lammy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers Is it really that hard to stay on the topic the article raises?

​God there are some stupid people out there. It just proves everything I'm saying is spot on. That people get confused and take offence like in a massive game of Chinese whispers. Oh is that phrase racist as well? I am sure someone will complain about that next, because they don't understand it's use or even their own language properly. In a recent Saturday Night Live show that Jerry Seinfeld hosted he took a joke packed Q&A from the audience amongst them Spielberg, Ed Norton, Larry David and other stars. One of them asked why there were no black people on Seinfeld and Jerry replied joking "It is true that we did not do everything we could to cure society's ills!" We all know why Seinfeld was great, thank you VRVC you genius, and it has nothing to do with the lack of black cast members on the show, and everything to do with everything else.

Hmm. Well it's both actually. I'm all in favour of alternative fuels and cars, as long as they give you the buzz the old ones did and more.

Some interesting viewing...   Russell is almost spot on -   And you could make a nice headline out of this one - "F1 is homosexual" - Clarkson    

What's up Bob?

Hmm OK let's be a bit clearer here. Image quality is almost the same as the E-M5's video mode actually. Most of the time it looks identical. What has changed is the codec. It has a higher bitrate now, so less mud and it will grade a tiny bit better with a bit less banding, but it's still WAY behind the GH4 and others.

An EOSHD opinion Humour and creative risk taking are being pulled under by a faceless crowd of sanctimonious trolls. A culture is taking over, heavily pre-disposed to a savage online shaming game. As filmmakers and creative artists we should be aware of what is happening and try to prevent it... because we could be next. Read the full article

I think it's time to end this thread, it went south a long time ago.

Yes, all sent.

​Yep that's it in a nutshell. The jobs of countless people hanging by a thread because of a personal disagreement between just two people after a day of filming. What people forget when they unnecessarily lay into Clarkson is that they are also putting on the line the jobs of the entire crew and the future of the entire franchise. I believe talent should be cut as much slack as possible and salacious tabloid gossip should't be believed. Innocent until proven guilty. And if he did throw a punch, it was an isolated incident after years of hard work for the BBC. I believe in cutting people slack and managing strong personalities the best you can. You don't treat them like children and give them ultimatums or constantly slap them on the wrist for bad behaviour. The BBC is on the way to having almost zero presenting talent. Or indeed anything very much worth watching. Charlie Brooker is an exception rather than a rule, unfortunately. All the edgier comedy for example went to Channel 4 ages ago. What's the BBC about? My Family? The One Show? Give me a fucking break. It should be better than this, given the sum of its parts. What Clarkson is undergoing at the moment is a public shaming and a trial by Twitter. Some people on this thread are guilty of joining in. It shows a great prejudice beneath the surface and all sorts of confusion because they don't get the show or the humour. It's not really about cars, so much as the banter, the adventures, the tasks, the playing around, the humour and the personalities of the hosts. People who automatically correlate Top Gear with boy racers and a bone headed love of revving their Astras at traffic lights would, come to think of it, fit in perfectly well with the rest of the pathetic middle class elite who run the modern BBC. In the end Clarkson isn't about politics left or right. He isn't a political icon for people to pin their anti-Tory prejudices too. I am a liberal and even I am not stupid enough to stop laughing at Top Gear because the host made a flippant remark about climate change.

​Jimmy you are just not getting this. At the moment you're siding with the tabloid gossip. Wise? Let the inquiry publish the facts.

Like the well known man from history said: "I may not like what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your rights to say it". And for the sake of clarity - Clarkson was not calling somebody by that term. The joke was about the avoidance of the word in a well know nursery rhyme for children. Avoidance of a naughty word in a children's poem. If you can't see the humour in that, then one has to seriously question one's sense of humour. I'm amazed how many people thought that was equal to Clarkson going up to a black person in the street and hurling a racial insult. In terms of the "slope" joke, this was in the context of some Vietnam war era banter, as it would be in a film. None of them go around in real life saying these words. I'm amazed how easily people completely discard creative license and humour, because of the stigma attached to singular words, which are offensive in their singular form, but not necessarily as part of a joke inside a semi-fictional TV show.

The way some of you are carrying on in this thread is disgraceful, I should start a public enquiry into the fracas and sack you all!

It's not a 2.5K camera though. That feature isn't present in the final camera. It's true 4K with a crop - http://www.eoshd.com/2015/03/shooting-with-the-samsung-nx500-a-pocket-4k-cinema-camera/

This article is the first in a series. Stay tuned for more NX500 coverage on EOSHD. I am currently shooting with what I think might just be the world's most affordable interchangeable lens 4K camera. The Samsung NX500 in my hands is the final retail camera not a pre-production model. It's running the final firmware V1.0 as well and shoots 4K! Full article - http://www.eoshd.com/2015/03/shooting-with-the-samsung-nx500-a-pocket-4k-cinema-camera

All we have on a forum are words. Good job as there might have been fisticuffs otherwise!