Andrew Reid

  I think you are confusing the ritual with Blackmagic ;)

It's live. You just plug it in, but instead of hitting record on the camera, hit record on the external monitor / recorder.   Sony A7S also has a record trigger for external devices... Meaning you can just hit the record button on the camera as normal to trigger the external recorder to start / stop capture, so you don't need to touch the device, just the camera. Nice feature. Unfortunately GH4 does not have this ability with current firmware. Hope they add it by the time the Shogun is released.

Michael Thames has been banned.   I took a relaxed approach from the start here but I've decided he's a malignant influence.   He introduced himself to me for instance with an insulting private message.   His posts so far have all contained some element of trolling, from passive aggressive to blatant flaming.   If you haven't noticed, you haven't had the misfortune to read everything he's posted!

Right, next person to insult me is going to be for the chop. I have had enough. This forum is not about YOU. It isn't about what you think of the site name or fandom relating to brand X over brand Y. It is a place to learn and share constructive camera info.

The post is tongue in cheek sanveer! It's not really an answer to the A7S. It's for telescopes.

That footage is stunning... hello colour :) Hello dynamic range... I will definitely be delving into the HDMI output of the GH4 further next week.

I'd go for the 5D Mark II with VAF-5D2b or Mark III (if you need extra low light and better performance in crop mode).   Better featured than the Pocket and better image quality.

I definitely have a knee-jerk reaction to bullshit when I read it!   I thought the girls loved your 5D Mark III Michael, why the sudden change of heart? Are you trying to impress a Micro Four Thirds lady?

I will be testing this with some Atomos gear before too long.

  So back on topic Michael...

2 hands maybe, but there are more than 3 types of customers out there.   Seems our troll Michael has gone quiet. Maybe he has had to go out to the shop to buy some more bullshit.

  This is a bit silly really... it is a photo sensor. The stills will be a huge selling point of the A7S.   Full frame is not a video standard. Doesn't make much sense to have a full frame sensor in a professional video camera. There's a reason Arri don't do that. Lens compatibility. Focus manageability.   It's not a NEX by the way... Right label is now Alpha. NEX is discontinued.

  ISO 12,800 has a very other-wordly feel at night     Here it is on the humble GH2.   Low light is about 'low' not 'no light'... Imagine lighting up a large forest floor with a single match... amazing.   The movement of light changes when you have less of it... becomes more magical...

  Hopefully one day we will get a 4K Ninja Star.   Just an improvement to the mounting of a larger monitor would be handy... I don't like spidery arms and top heavy rigs for handheld, so putting the monitor on top of a cage or on the hotshoe is a no-go for me. I'll be coming up with a different rig.

  Yes the dynamic range looks incredibly filmic. The way it handles the highs and lows... amazing.

The Sony A7S is the camera I am most looking forward to in the coming months and although it is a shame it lacks an internal 4K codec, it does promise much improved internal 1080p and 4K HDMI output. Here Yosh Enatsu has used the Blackmagic HDMI to SDI Ultra HD converter to a Hyperdeck Studio deck to record this test shoot in the dead of night. Read the full article here

Hey Stab   I know what is going on here... Had it on mine.   The mount is slightly loose to the Nikon Speed Booster so as you twist the lens barrel to zoom, it moves in the mount very fractionally and the aperture lever gets shifted around with it.   Try tightening it by levering out the mounting things* on the adapter.   * I have no idea what the name is for these!!

GH4 is as sharp as you want it or as soft as you want it.   It is however, more detailed than 1080p, because it's 4K. This is not hard to figure out is it!?     Download the above 1080p file Michael and take a look at the resolution from both cameras.   5D3 actually has a little bit more aliasing on high contrast edges.   Sharpness between the two is identical. The GH4 does not look 'over-sharpened' and those sloping edges are actually softer on the GH4 (top) to 5D3 (bottom, more jagged).     Facts are facts.   Personally I find a use for both. Prefer 5D3 for raw 1080p, GH4 for 4K video. Not better. They're different.   A7S I am very much looking forward to, for low light.   Each has a use!

Really? Link to Poplin's Bandcamp page was at the top of EOSHD.com, at the header of the article under the Vimeo clip, maximum exposure, and then again in the credit titles at the end of the video.

Nope, -2 shadows, +2 highlights - an "S-surve" gives higher contrast... and better colour.

  Doesn't have to be! Resolve 10 really flies with CUDA and rendering raw to ProRes. 40fps+, almost twice as fast as realtime playback to convert the masters to something widely editable.   The main problem for me is the temptation to keep the raw files... it's a very strong temptation and you feel compelled to give in... Resulting in a lot of hard drives.   What is needed is a way to offload the raw data to an external device while the camera rolls and have the external device transcode to very high quality ProRes on the fly.

A lot of people are viewing the GH4 4K material on 2.5K or 1080p displays and there's crude downscaling going on which results in an over-sharp image and even some heavy aliasing. A lot of the YouTube stuff looks thin and sharp because of compression and bad downscaling.   First time I graded the GH4 files I was pretty happy and yet we've only realised half the camera's potential so far. Once we get the Atomos Shogun we will be getting uncompressed 10bit 4:2:2 4K out of the HDMI port. DXOMark tested the raw output GX7's sensor (similar to the one in the GH4) and it rates for about 11.8 stops dynamic range, pretty much identical to the 5D Mark III.   The GH2 and 5D2 have been around for ages and the GH4 is a far bigger step up from the GH2 than the 5D3 is from the Mk II.   Michael - ignorance of the reason other people choose to shoot with the GH4 does not make a good debate. Also remember that the filmmaking world is small and you are using your real name on the forum, if you piss someone off, eventually it will come back round. There's no career advantage to behaving like a complete prat in front of half the digital filmmaking community.

The criticism may seem pedantic and eye-roll worthy but I think we can actually learn a lot from it as filmmakers.

 YouTube version Music by Poplin via the >EOSHD Music Challenge I've been trying some run & gun shooting with no rig, just a gorilla pod and GH4 all handheld. In the process I developed three image profiles for the GH4 which I've assigned to the mode dial on my camera. This is the first footage to show what the GH4 is capable of with the EOSHD Cinema profile. Read the full article here

  True. Apparently the licensing fee has expired on EF but not yet for EF-S.