Andrew Reid

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Sony's next E-mount Super 35mm camera shoots 4K XAVC and has a 180fps slow mo mode, with an ergonomic design much improved and closer to the Canon C300, with top handle, top mounted LCD and built in ND filter. It really looks like Sony are going after the C300 market with this and it's arguably going to be a much more capable tool. I'm impressed!! The camera will be announced today (Friday) at IBC in Amsterdam. Picture from Philip BloomRead the full article here

Dave Dugdale has published his Sony A7S review ahead of time. In it is an enlightening video review of the differences between the Sony A7S and Panasonic GH4. Read the full article here

Time to upgrade my friend ;)

  John Brawley uses the 12mm T1.6, he's quite a fan.   There is definitely the demand there but it will depend a lot on how it performs.

  Ok going slightly off topic but any interest in a FZ1000 review? I have it in Berlin. Tried it out and quite impressed but wondering whether to spend the time on it or not.

The E-M1 does a 2.2x crop anyway due to IBIS so a nice match to the 4K recording area on the E-M1/GH4 sensor.

  I popped in there once too, in Bollington? Nice guys and good shop - bought my Acratech levelling base from there.

Hong Kong, China (September 12, 2014). SLR Magic will present a new CINE lens to the public from the APO-HyperPrime lens family in the upcoming Photokina 2014 fair in Cologne at the SLR Magic booth (Hall 5.1, L-011). The SLR Magic APO-HyperPrime CINE 50mm T2.1 is the first lens of the family. It achieves outstanding images under challenging lighting conditions. When taking pictures with many image-dominant, open light sources, it is common for correction defects to show up. Because the SLR Magic APO-HyperPrime CINE 50mm T2.1 is an apochromatic (APO) lens, longitudinal chromatic aberrations are corrected by its unique optical design and special selection of optical elements. The color defects are therefore significantly lower than the defined limits. Bright/dark transitions in the image, and especially highlights, are rendered with no colorful artifacts. Read the full article here

  No, there's no way to do it like that unfortunately.

  The image above apparently shows the new 4K movie mode of the Olympus E-M1. And for the first time I can reveal the source for this worked as a second unit assistant director on Iron Man 2. Please note, this news until it is official from Olympus, we have to classify as a rumour but I really do believe this firmware exists.   Read the full article here

Thanks for the feedback David.   Keep it coming everyone...

Looking for feedback from users on this...   The blog has been very successful in seeding the forum we have today, which is nice and busy.   However many people have requested comments to be enabled on the bottom of main blog posts.   I originally turned these off due to low quality of comments (and the commenters too, you might say ;) and channelled everything into creating a community.   So the question is - If comments for articles were enabled on the blog posts (Facebook login required) would you use the forum less?

Glad it works in Opera however the layout and font is wrong. Maybe a bug, I'll try Opera and see what the issue is. See the attached pic for how it should look (Google Chrome / Safari on right vs Opera on left) PS if anyone wants to help debug with screen grabs, the attach files on the forum option for attaching pics is under 'more reply options'

  Why does it look so different? The front page / article header looks very different on your screen grab to how it does on my display. Totally different font for starters!

  Thanks, good point but I think you'll get used to it though ;)

  Thanks for the feedback. Lower than 1080p screens - What models are we talking specifically here - are you using a Macbook Air?   Cheers

Canon's last great camera, before the era of microwaved meals like the 7D Mark II.

  Yes but that's a leak, it isn't the final v2.0 release.   I suspect they could have two firmwares. One is going in a new camera or the silver E-M1 only and the other will be for stills guys and existing E-M1 owners.   Let's wait for the official announcement next week and find out.

The old 5D Mark II has had an outing on the long-delayed new Mad Max movie as a "semi-disposable stunt camera". The DSLR was chosen as a proven work-horse crash-cam despite being released way back in 2008. Principal photography for the film completed in December 2012 but ended way over budget and recently underwent various re-shoots, pushing the release date from 2013 to May 2015. The 5D Mark II is a very old model by 2014 standards but I'm actually not surprised it still gets some very nice work in the film industry. I'm working on updating my 5D Mark III raw shooter's guide with the intent to provide a version for 5D Mark II users and in the process discovered something very interesting about how the models compare... Read the full article here

Just done some research on the Mad Max pics.   No E-M1 only E-M5. The Canon DSLR is a Mark II or Mark III. If it is a Mark II they are clearly Mad :)   The main A camera is of course an Alexa or 12.

  Great pics.   Do you have any more on this story?   Source I believe was a stunt extra on Iron Man 2. If he is involved with Mad Max it is likely to be as a stuntman or stunt coordinator.   This rumour is one of his best stunts yet though ;)

  He's not the beta tester.   He just knows the people doing the testing on an unspecified production he's involved with.   Throughout this the source has not asked us to link to him on twitter or his production company website. So what's he got to gain from lying?   43rumors has seen a photo of the firmware with the 3840x2160 resolution options, etc. but the source isn't allowing them to publish it.

  Thanks Kirk.   Vimeo embed by pasting the URL into the post worked for me on your video   '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>   Anyone else having issues? I will have to look further into it.   Cheers

  This is a test post.