Andrew Reid

I don't read the site so not sure what's going on there… I do however know we are coming to a point where 99% of the internet is recycled material re-posed and re-posted ad infinitum. My RSS feed this weekend read like the contents of a junk mail folder. One black friday deal after the other, with the occasional cut and pasted news article. Not a good sign for the future of the internet. Censorship? Just the tip of the iceberg my friend :)

Interesting, thanks for that. With the new Speed Boosters, maybe by bringing the glass closer to the sensor you improve efficiency. Or maybe not. Image certainly looks very bright to me. Time to get the light meter out :)

I just did a quick explore of low light between the D5200 and new Panasonic GM1.   The GM1 actually is now on par with the D5200 in low light at ISO 1600 and 3200. An improvement on GH3 to say the least!   It's also just as cheap.   It resolves more detail, has a more flexible lens mount and is more feature packed.   The small size is slightly crazy but I highly recommend it. For those undecided on D5300 check it out. With the MFT Speed Booster on this thing you will be getting a D5200 bettering image for sure.

  It won't go, I just did a little exploratory test and got nowhere - the sensor housing blocks the optics and you can't mount it at all. Certainly not something to try forcing. It's a no-go. Same with the other MFT cameras. What the BMD specific boosters have done here is to absolutely make use of ALL the bigger available space around the sensor and mount on those cameras.   The MFT Speed Booster is not superseded, not replaced, not old… It is optimised for the larger 2x crop and 1.86x crop sensors in the GH3 and GH2 and other MFT cameras so if you have those cameras don't think twice about picking one up. The image is beautiful. Especially with Contax Zeiss 50mm F1.4.

  For depth of field just multiply the aperture by the crop factor vs full frame.   So APS-C has a crop factor of 1.5x over photographic full frame.   Therefore a F1.4 aperture X 1.5 crop = F2.1   There's two ways to think about the Speed Booster effect...   You can either multiply the lens aperture and focal length by the Speed Booster factor, say 0.58x for the pocket camera version...   That turns a 50mm F1.2 into a 29mm F0.74.   Then apply the normal Super 16mm sensor crop of roughly 3x on top of that. So in full frame terms you have a 87mm F2.22 - very shallow DOF in other words.   In terms of actual BRIGHTNESS - a F0.74 is an F0.74 regardless of crop factor though.   And the other way to think about the Speed Booster is to apply the 0.58x, 0.64x or 0.71x to the sensor. So 2.39x crop on the BMCC  becomes 1.53x and then multiple your 50mm lens by that.   Forgetting all the maths, all you really need to know is that the aperture brightens up over 1 stop and your field of view changes to become APS-C on the BMCC and 1.76x crop just a bit wider than GH2 on the Pocket.

  Thank you. The video that is subject of this article was 50% shot in raw on the Pocket camera. The quality is good, can hardly tell it apart from 2.5K raw on the BMCC.

I have a comparison video coming up between the standard M43 Speed Booster and BMPCC Speed Booster which should help answer your question.

Sorry this is junk. Thread locked.

  You will need to go to a 35mm lens.

  No there isn't one yet. And you can't adapt EF lenses to a Nikon mount adapter, or Canon FD, Leica R, etc. Also EF lenses need electronic control of aperture, sometimes even focus.   To the person who asked about IS above - yes Metabones EF adapter for E-mount is active and lets you use IS. But there's no Micro Four Thirds version just yet.

  Yes of course it will. It's designed for the 1.50x crop of APS-C photographic sensors (i.e. Nikon D5300, Canon 7D, etc.)

  Leica M glass has a short back focus distance to the sensor and doesn't leave enough room for the Speed Booster optics. It would likely be impossible I'm afraid!

  When I reviewed the D5200 it was indeed the best camera for the money in terms of low light performance.   Not any more. The Pocket Cinema Camera with Nikon mount BMPCC Speed Booster is.   A lot has changed since last year.   D5300 is a known quantity. It's a D5200. With 1080/60p.   Same image. Same features.   I already tried one out earlier in the thread and closely compared the codec and image with the D5200 and convinced it's the same. What more do you want?   It just doesn't excite me. There's now a big gulf in image quality between cameras like this and cameras like the BMCC / Pocket with ProRes or 5D Mark III with raw.   The D5300 isn't even that hot as a video all-rounder. The GH3 and G6 have better features.   That's my opinion. You can take it or leave it. D5300 might make sense for some of you. I can accept that. You are all welcome to talk about the D5300 here, analyse it, that's what the forum is for.   But please no more dragging the thread off track by lambasting me for having a different opinion or different focus on the blog. I shouldn't have to take crap from people for not validating your potential purchase and not singing the praises of Nikon when actually they're not really offering anything significantly new. When they have something genuinely a leap forward from their old model I will buy one and use it, then there will be an article.

Today Metabones release two new Speed Boosters for Blackmagic shooters. I've been using some demo samples for this special review and I'm absolutely stunned. Metabones and Caldwell Optics have given us a Zeiss / Kubrick / NASA special! These adapters are completely new and purpose designed to fit only the Blackmagic cameras. Offering super bright apertures as fast as F0.74 and finally some great wide angle possibilities, I put both new adapters through their paces... Read the full article here

Just buy one from Amazon, return if it you don't like it. I am sure you will love it, judging by this thread so far.

  Wrong I'm afraid. 5D Mark III, D5200, D5300 are moire / aliasing free in all real world situations, unless you're talking about charts and then every camera has it even the Epic.   It's easy to avoid. GH2 does it for very little money on a sensor only slightly smaller than Canon APS-C (1.86x crop vs 1.6x crop).   A pixel mix on the sensor is all that's needed.

So just because I think the D5300 isn't much different to the last model, I don't share your cinematic aesthetic...   Bizarro.   So you want a clean, detailed image (although to be honest not that detailed) and good at high ISO… D5200 is a great buy. If you also need 60p, get the D5300. I honestly cannot see anything more in this guys...   If you want me to validate your purchase by wasting my time on reviewing a cynical yearly update from Nikon barely any different to the last model, you'll be waiting a long time!

I still haven't seen a single good test or side by side with the D5200, so until then I remain convinced it's virtually the same!

  Really nice job dude, and the one before it.   Any chance you can tell us more about how these were graded?

Said it before and I'll say it again, if any of those criticising EOSHD for not lavishing attention on a small incremental update from Nikon can PROVE that the D5300 is a significant step up from the D5200 in terms of the image quality in video mode, I will take a closer look at it. Until then, it's just a tweaked D5200.

70D is not the same sensor. It's a new one.   Michael has done a good review there though - I share is frustration with the video side 100%!

  It's the very essence of Berlin.

Indeed, bloody Europeans. Vote UKIP!! :)   You'll need an external recorder to break the 29 minutes limit. So it is possible. But an hour of ProRes isn't exactly small in terms of file sizes relative to a camcorder.   Also I don't think the AF is quite quick enough to replace a camcorder.   But when you need the zoom, the range, the built in ND, it definitely has a purpose!

  The 25p MP4 option isn't 24Mbit, it's just 12Mbit. Not much difference in quality to the AVCHD though.   No tele crop like GH2.

Is it an old silver Sonnar like this? http://www.ebay.com/itm/CARL-ZEISS-CONTAREX-85MM-f-2-SONNAR-WITH-CAP-/111223304302   Looks nice.