Andrew Reid

  Hmm I don't know! Human vision!?

  Since when is a whitepaper from Sony on their real, actual technology 'hype'?

  Why? Because it does OK with stills (nowhere near the quality of an A7R though) and really shitty with video unless you shoot raw and have 10 million terabytes to spare?   And A7S in low light is another matter... way better stills than the 5D mark III can even dream of!

  Nope it's not as good as that.

http://www.eoshd.com/2013/01/sony-f35-reaches-12000-on-ebay-from-250000-in-2008/

  AF for cinema?... WTF? And it isn't actually bad at all. Pretty fast for stills given live-view on a full frame sensor. You want to see Canon's live view AF speed?... have fun with that.   And what Canon are we talking about here exactly? A DSLR? They have terrible ergonomics for video. Fine for stills.   When an idiot wanders onto the forum... I'm always wondering why they say the things they do... must be a reason. Weird.

  You got something wrong. I believe you didn't read the post properly, that may be where the error lies!

  So what's your point Matt, is it that 36000fps is useless?   I can tell you it isn't. In science it has tons of applications. And it isn't "inert" if you have an exploding missile shell in front of the lens.   It will capture motion so fast that it would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye.   That's why I think the sensor has two markets. Cinema at 6k, 240fps, 20 stop DR and the scientific market in a high speed camera. And who knows the 1" sensor might even enable clear low light pictures on a smartphone one day.   Good job Sony is pushing the boundaries, because Canon are not.

  It probably won't be outside of a scientific device but I expect Sony will sell this sensor to the science market as well. Anyway, the number is just a measurement. The take-away is that its a damned fast sensor. Let's not get caught up in the exact figures. 240fps in 6K is much more usable and a sensor this fast can do that....great.   Also it might be that at the very high speed modes, they are black and white & designed for science. It is the active pixel color sampling modes that are of most interest to me.

They are pushing the boundaries of what's possible creatively with this sensor. Look beyond the specs, impressive though they are, to what they will enable.   Completely agree with Rich... its going to be wild.

I am absolutely sure this sensor is a video sensor and not for stills capture. Why? Find out below... Read the full article here

  It's distinctly dead from my perspective! Still not working.

I'm going to change the annoying name of this thread. Bit fed up of seeing the word Messiah now :)

  Yes, renowned for its reliability.   Haha.

The LX100 does flare, and not very nicely. Green splodge. Sometimes it is as if I need to call Ghostbusters.   However, still enjoying it very much. A lovely experience.

  Because Canon have taken great pain to separate their cinema and photography range. Cinema EOS was a big investment in marketing and R&D for Canon. Convergence is not yet part of their strategy.   This may change in the future of course.   But I cannot see their DSLRs being allowed to challenge Cinema EOS in any respect, for the time being.   Sony is different, they have always pushed the consumer electronics to the maximum performance. They are a consumer electronics company. That is their core business. At Canon, photography is their core business. Different perspective.

  Whilst there's some truth to that, image capturing and creativity is about a lot more - and part of that is the ability to keep rolling, for a long time. With raw you can't do that. And if you shoot a lot of stuff over months and years, you simply have no choice but to start deleting raw files, thus losing vital masters and all the advantages of raw in the workflow.   Artistically, it's utterly spellbindingly beautiful, but practically - not on all projects but some - it is a problem at times. The A7S is close overall and in some aspects even better - in low light and for highlight handling (it has a smoother roll off). The A7S doesn't need me or anyone else to be an apologist for it. What's to apologise for? It's a superb machine and we're very lucky to have it. If it was left to Canon, we'd be paying $10k or more for it.

  Thanks sandro.   I am in two minds whether to get the NX1. The sensor is looking very noisy. DPReview weren't allowed to publish anything shot above ISO 1600 at the request of Samsung. I have no NX lenses or adapters, whilst most of the functionality I already have with the GH4 including 4K. The H.265 codec will be great in the future but at the moment the lack of editing support means a lengthy transcode to ProRes or H.264 before I even begin to edit the files, and with that transcode you lose the space saving advantages that H.265 is meant to give in the first place!

  Either trim isn't really enabled despite what the software is saying, or you have the kext signing security feature turned off. Can you find out?

Thanks for identifying the sensor. Yeah DR looks on the low side. AltaSens is a wholy owned subsidiary of JVC so it's kind of an in house effort of sorts. Maybe they'd have been better off buying a Sony!

It's working for you because Trim is disabled, or your particular brand of SSD doesn't use trim and instead the firmware uses a different type of driver. If Trim is simply disabled it is likely your SSD performance will tail off over time, as Trim keeps things organised and tells the OS where the remaining free space is. There's a good explanation from huge Apple fans Samsung here: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/us/html/about/whitepaper04.html If the Trim kext is loaded, in my case it could be that booting my MacBook Retina 15" with my iMac drive played with some settings... But that doesn't explain why so many others are having the same problem and that Larry & OWC are sounding off about it. How do I disable Trim anyway, or check if the kext files are loaded / enabled?

  And therein lies the problem!

Quite surprising how little C100 2 footage there is out there. You'd have thought filmmakers would be all over it. Perhaps they're all too busy shooting with better stuff, from Sony and Panasonic and Arri and Red.

Remember to read this too guys... http://www.larryjordan.biz/caution-ssd-drives-and-yosemite/   And this by OWC's CEO - http://blog.macsales.com/21641-with-an-owc-ssd-theres-no-need-for-Trim   Not all SSDs use Trim which is where the unsigned driver problem occurs.   It could also depend on the Thunderbolt controller / caddy chipset, etc. I am not sure. But I am sure it doesn't work on my system.   iMac 27" late 2013. Samsung Evo 840 500GB SSD in Buffalo Thunderbolt caddy.

  What brand of SSD are you using?