Andrew Reid

Like I've already said (did you read the blog /P/?) it will be my stills DSLR as well, and a top end one it is. X-T1 can't do AF properly. D750 has a Nikon mount, can't use all my lenses on it. A7S can't do AF properly either! 1D X / C can do everything in terms of stills and allows me to sell the 5D 3 and quite a bit of other kit to fund the purchase. The 4K image from the 1D C is amazing. I love the NX1, amazing for the price but the 1D C holds onto a more filmic fine grain and has Canon LOG so you get more D/R plus it has the all important low light whilst NX1 does not. The A7S with Shogun is also great but sometimes I need to go without the external monitor or into tricky weather situations where the A7S & Shogun would simply die. Then there is the Canon colour... Yes I may still regret it but you only live once. I believe at it's current used price it's a bargain, bonafide Hollywood cam.

Christina and dahlfors thanks, I will look into it!

Two people I know sold theirs for even less than £5000, one around £3500 It's worth more than that but shhhh don't tell anyone. Hope more arrive on eBay soon. One I featured hasn't yet sold for £4800. C'mon people wake up to this... it's an amazing image. Better than C300 by a mile!

.MTS format = AVCHD. That's what the GH2 records, normally.

​Fair enough! And sure, most 1D C owners don't need the hack or the reliability headaches. But the 1D C should be hacked because it can be. Magic Lantern would be able to do some amazing things with it. I say go for it.

Some of the hacks don't allow playback in-camera which is what freaked you out. It's normal. Recording is fine unless it stops half way through a shot. Go for a hack with a lower bitrate, you'll have to sacrifice quality for reliability. Then give it up and get a GH4 already, it's 2015

Like I say I noticed it once and it went away after some menu changes. Sorry can't be of more help. I did shoot with a Sammy lens in the video, the 30mm F2.0 pancake. It behaved itself. Get the Nikon adapter and see if it does the same thing. If it works, then the lens aperture or something to do with the firmware is fiddling with the image. Here are the main things to turn off: Framing mode (adjusts brightness on the fly for live-view) Auto ISO (obviously) Check iris isn't moving during the problematic shot (look into the lens) Turn off auto display brightness Put metering on Multi Set Dynamic Range (Off) in stills menu and in movie menu turn Smart Range Plus + Off It could be a bug where a stills menu function like "Dynamic range" or "Framing Mode" is interfering with movie recording. In theory Framing Mode should only change the live-view display but it might impact the recording too due to a bug so turn it to off. Good luck! I know it can work fine. Just a matter of finding the culprit.

SO, getting back to more artist subjects. Artists want anamorphic, they want raw, they want a lot of nice stuff in their palette and they're entitled to it. It may be nothing but a business to some people but there should always be room for artistic expression and Canon should listen to us. Big Magic Lantern supporter here so be careful when you belittle them.

​Yes on a slow one

Raw 1080p for starters!

Could definitely be the lens. I strongly recommend trying a lens adapter and a manual lens on it to find that out. Does the 16-50 have an intelligent "i" button on it?

​The A7S bare bones has an EVF and articulated screen which help a lot. But you can't have the lens mount and 4K recorder hassling you all day with bugs or deficiencies. This invisible screen in daylight thing with the Shogun has really spoilt my enjoyment of it. Ended up using the A7S screen! The EVF is disabled whilst 4K HDMI is active so couldn't use that. Good job it wasn't really sunny. 1D C more reliable and simple but yeah the ergonomics are very much of a stills camera and not a hybrid like the GH4. But then if the image is so much better, which it is, then that has to be balanced against it.

Have you checked out Shane Hurlbut's 1D C stuff on Need For Speed. Nice in-car POV camera work and rigging. Film not my cup of tea but he knows his stuff when it comes to the production mechanics and the footage ended up lovely from it. 15mm Leica crash-cam http://www.hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/2014/03/need-for-speed-innovation-gear/ ​I'm using Lindy cables at the moment. Not tried them in the A7S cable protected yet though, but they are about as thin and light as they come. http://www.lindy.co.uk/cables-adapters-c1/audio-video-c107/hdmi-c109/0-5m-cromo-slim-high-speed-hdmi-to-micro-hdmi-cable-with-ethernet-p7228

Looks like something is on auto. Check all the menus and stuff for anything obvious. You're in M mode right!? If there's any lens optimisation like vignette reduction turned on that might be a culprit. Seem to remember I had the same problem with my Samsung lens attached when I first got the NX1 but I quickly turned off something and it went away. If only I could remember what

What lens are you using?

​Yeah for all the niceties and bargain prices we have on cameras like the GH4, if I can't focus them, or if the sensor is small, or other basics aren't right, then no point having a mirrorless mount or EVF and the other innovative stuff. AF for stills on the D750 with Sigma 50mm F1.4 is phenomenal wide open and I'm expecting the same or better on the 1D C with that lens and others like it. Every time I point my Fuji X-T1 or A7S at something moving the AF goes batshit crazy and can't lock on. For video the 1D C has the internal 4K and the flat profile, something the NX1 and GH4 doesn't. Plus the sensor is larger. So it's kind of unique. Always wanted one. Just couldn't bring myself to pay £10,000 for a camera without peaking

​I think the 1D C ends up being a lot more bullet proof. The A7S + Shogun feels a bit jellyfied, like it hasn't quite settled into a workflow. I took the A7S out today and the first thing that's wonky is the Metabones adapter. Buggy with the Sigma 35/50 1.4 and Tamron 24-70 2.8 lenses, and still not right with some of my Canon L stuff either. This is latest hardware and firmware so no excuses. The Shogun's screen had appalling visibility in daylight. I felt really let down by this after all the promise of the 4K recording. You'd think for the price they would have got the basics right like this? I am getting just 45 mins off the supplied battery. It is a light piece of kit but doesn't end up light when you need a v-lock battery to power it through a shoot does it!? The A7S is small but the screen is huge. Feels inbalanced. All in all a frustrating day.

​Turn off Dynamic Range + It acts as auto-iso. Cheers

If you find an Iscorama on eBay for £1300 Liszon please send it my way

29 mins on all models I believe.

​Would that moon base in 2030 have a dish washer!? I DON'T KNOW!!

From my cold dead hands

​Very good find. Thanks GMaximus.

What a nice post. But you're wrong! 4K is important on a DSLR because all of the sensors are >4K in resolution. Once you start throwing tons of image data away to get these high resolution photographic chips down to 2MP for crappy 1080p you lose a TON of everything else, colour included. Anyone want to go back to standard def by the way? Nope, thought not. So my message to the manufacturers is clear. If the 5D 4 is 1080p, it's a no buy from me, and I don't care if it makes coffee, it's still a no buy from me.

Talking of profits... I am never buying a 1080p camera again... why bother?