Andrew Reid

  You can't speculate with facts! The sales are down. Fact. Fact you have a 7D still after all these years, only reinforces my argument.   Please try better to argue the next time :)

After a while now shooting with the Sony A7S (final part of my review coming soon) I have found it's better to shoot video outside of the Sony movie mode on the dial. Here's how to set up the M stills mode on the dial for movie recording and get two important advantages over Sony's movie mode. Read the full article here

Sony UK have posted this teaser video featuring various video pros and directors of photography, claiming the 'next pro camera' is coming September 12th. I believe this to be a Super 35mm 4K XDCAM with E-mount, positioned around the $10k point to take on the Canon C300. The timing of the announcement coincides exactly with the start of the IBC pro video trade show in Amsterdam.Read the full article here

Data from CIPA, via Personal-View For years on EOSHD I've said that if Canon and Nikon don't innovate with their DSLRs and transition to high end mirrorless technology they risk jeopardising their business. This advice has been met with an arrogance built on a decade of increasing sales. Now in an era of falling shipments both companies have blamed smartphones and the world economy. This is completely unacceptable. It's the products. They're just not good enough. The peak sales periods in each year are normally June and November. According to data from CIPA overall yearly shipments have halved in two years. 800,000 DSLRs in June 2014 of all makes but mostly Canon & Nikon shipped from factories compared to 1.2 million the year before and 1.6m in June 2012. Meanwhile sales at mirrorless system camera manufacturer Olympus are up 22% year on year. There's something even more telling from Olympus in America, previously a market where mirrorless has been a failure, sales in this region saw a huge 70% gain for the OM range. This is despite massive competition from Sony with the A7, etc. Panasonic and Fuji's X range. Read the full article here

  That camcorder though, has a smartphone sized sensor. It doesn't do the same job. I have shot with it and didn't like the image. Large sensor interchangeable lens cameras are a league apart so the pricing of the small chip fixed lens stuff won't have a bearing.

Really nice shots sir.   Looks to perform pretty well. Mine has arrived, will check it out soon.

Following in the footsteps of their highly successful 12mm T1.6 wide angle lens for Micro Four Thirds mount, SLR Magic based in Hong Kong have developed a 10mm T2.1 lens, optimised for cinematic use. I'll be reviewing the new lens very soon on EOSHD, the sample unit having arrived today. This has the potential to be a great wide choice for the GH4 especially in 4K mode where every millimetre counts on that smaller recording area. As for image quality, I have high expectations for the new lens. The existing SLR Magic 12mm T1.6 is a fantastic lens, very characterful, it will be interesting to see what character and performance the 10mm exhibits. Stay tuned to EOSHD to find out. Read the full article here

Interested to see what product Canon uses this for, considering they are supporting it.

They are successful because they hit the sweet spot of boring industry workhorse tool where outright performance (i.e. higher bit depth than 8bit, higher frame rate than 30fps, larger sensor than S35, specialist features like support for anamorphic in 4:3 mode, global shutter, etc.) matters much less than the quick client turnaround from small file sizes. As long as it has a Canon badge, EF mount, S35 sensor, ok low light, ok colour, ok ergonomics, then it hits the sweet spot for a lot of pros - even though overall it is rather a middle of the road camera and not actually that special.   What Canon set out to do is make 'a really good HD camera'. They did that.   The next step is to create a really good 4K camera.   I'm also still waiting for the really good run & gun large sensor camera, because the ergonomics of pretty much everything out there sucks for that.   Manual focus needs a revolution so it is more usable on the small cams.   After all this time I am still waiting for a really good full frame camera that you can focus properly in video mode.   I am waiting for a camera with a decent built in screen which is large enough and high resolution enough to nail focus in 4K from without resorting to a slow magnified focus assist or a dreadful peaking implementation.   I am waiting for a camera that has a built in electronic fly by wire follow focus control, ergonomically integrated to the rest of the camera grip, without having to add a follow focus via your rig.   Ergonomically, cameras are rife for a revolution, so let's have it...

  Why does it have to be such a binary decision "letting all that go"? You need both kinds of understanding to make a film.   And without 120fps this video wouldn't have worked at all.   So you can go on all you like about 'gear not mattering' fact is it does!

  Yes. Hype, brand appeal and the momentum built by Canon in DSLRs, plus a total lack of decent competition in the first two years it was released. And also, the price - $15k upon release - was considered 'entry level' by the pros who bought it, thus it's cheap.

  So global shutter and a lower price are supposed to win it for those cameras over the Sony? I'm not so sure about that. URSA is a mega heavy crew camera, ISO 400 native so needs a lot of light, no real slow-mo capabilities certainly not FS700 240fps level and URSA as a docking station for a different camera head is again a very different tool for different jobs. So I'm not sure they are really competing head to head... maybe for 10% of jobs. The Cion shares the same BMPC sensor so again, good luck shooting above ISO 400 with that. The file sizes are also huge. 4K XAVC is very manageable in terms of file sizes. This is very important.

  Latest shipping Metabones Mk IV adapter works fine with my A7S. Just received it. They have squashed the bugs.

Great video, great eye at play, but the interpretation of it is a bit wonky, think of the great shots the iPhone can't do as well as what it can. Camera technology in phones has come a long way and that's great, 120fps is lovely. I take a lot of my stills on the iPhone because I have it with me and it's quick. A great shot getter, a capturer of moments. There's no denying the difference is look though the difference in application, between a phone and a camera like the GH4 or A7S.

  What about the pancakes? Nikon E-series 50mm F1.8 is one of the best lenses for the Iscorama.

  I guess most of the F5 user base didn't initially need 4K and the ones that did went for the F55.   However times change and I think now is the time for all new cameras that can do 4K to have that ability!   Nice nod to the curved film camera design by the way Sony :)

  Nope, it isn't possible on an EF mount camera.

The image leaked by a Chinese site (Filmaker.cn) shows what looks like a 4K XAVC recording FS700 successor. Via RedShark News Leaked blurry smartphone images are all over the web yet again! This could be the FS700 successor, although in reality we don't know anything beyond that it records 4K to an internal XAVC codec and appears to use E-mount lenses, the leak offers some tantalising prospects... Read the full article here

  Reasons... I dunno... Why don't you try saving my limited time by reading the article to find out!? APS-C mode on the A7S reduces rolling shutter from some of the most severe on any camera, to around the level of a dedicated cinema camera like the FS100. So if you have a shot that benefits from the full frame look but also requires less skew from the rolling shutter, switch to APS-C mode and attach the Speed Booster.

Also the MFT version is designed to cover a smaller sensor. The Ultra is designed to cover APS-C not MFT.   Maybe a FAQ blog is in order!   But for now I'll hand it over to the other blogs, who just love so much to take news via EOSHD and without credit to where they heard about it, sell all their B&H affiliate links around it...   http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/metabones-announces-the-new-speedbooster-ultra/

EF to MFT does not have the same optical design, it's a totally different product line and bang up to date. It isn't old. This replaces the January 2013 Speed Booster for E-Mount.

The Speed Booster ULTRA has new optics and is available for E-Mount and Fuji X-mount (APS-C or Super 35mm sensors). The adapter has the latest evolution of optics from Caldwell Photographic in the US. The new optics bring an increase in performance, with sharper corners and better contrast. The new design is an extremely advanced 5-element / 4 group tantalum based optical formula. The old version of Speed Booster will be phased out. Read the full article here

If you want your Iscorama to join an elite of less than 20 in existence - high performance ones with greatly improved handling and construction, then you have until Tuesday 2nd September to join the EOSHD / Andrew Wonder group buy! Email EOSHD here to join the list. The modification made in the UK by cine lens specialists Van Diemen will build into the lens a brand new focus movement, for a shorter throw of 150 degrees. Much better for follow focuses and quicker manual focus by hand. Close focus will come down to 3 ft 6 inch with the aim of this coming down even further when engineering begins. Along with robust metal housing replacing the plastic housing of the Iscorama, the new lens will have the ability to add a lens support for those using 15mm rods. Read the full article here

H.264 can go up to 960 Mbps you mean.

What do you mean?? Flat in terms of the picture profile? That has nothing to do with the codec.   XAVC = H.264 at 50Mbit/s. That is all.