Andrew Reid

The design of the E-M1 is hideous. What on earth is going on at Olympus?

 

Grip looks like it is glued onto an existing EM-5 shell they found in the lab. Rear d-pad looks so cheap too!

Nice to see Alexa in same shoot as 5D Mark III raw. Promoting to blog post.

I put a lot of time into reading this forum daily.

 

If I am reading the same crap from peederj again and again, it reduces the enjoyment I have in running a blog like EOSHD.

 

I've tolerated it for months, provocative and annoying comments.

 

High quality posts from now on will be promoted and low quality posts will only be tolerated a few times before the members gets their posting permissions removed.

 

That starts now with a 7 day holiday for peederj.

5D Mark II with Mosaic Engineering VAF filter is the better option if you can't afford 5D Mark III.

 

The D800 has one too - http://www.mosaicengineering.com/products/vaf/d800.html

If someone came to me and said they want to be a filmmaker I would hand them an RX100 with a small pistol grip and a removable ND filter and tell them to go out and make something. Go ahead and use the auto everything mode if they want. Or they could use an iPhone and a $13 collapsible 5-color reflector. And by stripping away all other concerns they would be trained to focus on what matters in art, and be able to do the maximum number of iterations per year creating things, because they weren't wasting time transcoding crap in Resolve.

 

No one in the audience cares about your camera. Boo hoo. Fellow camera enthusiasts are not a meaningful audience. Pick something easy and use it. A lot.

 

Peederj, you are so out of step with what the EOSHD community is about. It's trolling, pure and simple.

 

You shoot with a C100, yet you'd tell a beginner to go off with a piece of shit like an iPhone and shoot. It strikes me as rather condescending.

 

Why are you here?

 

Resolve, raw, lenses, large sensors are all critical learning tools for any cinematographer, and most filmmakers. There are filmmakers who don't care about the camera, and that's why they need a good DP because left to their own devices everything would look like crap and have no mood.

Shoot with what you have. Quit buying stuff. Borrow or rent as needed.

 

It doesn't matter if you're poor...it does matter if you have no talent or can't bring yourself to use and develop what you have. If you are suffering from Gear Acquisition Syndrome you will never, I promise, never be satisfied enough with your equipment to decide now you are finally ready to be seen and judged.

 

No one in the audience cares about your camera. Boo hoo. Fellow camera enthusiasts are not a meaningful audience. Pick something easy and use it. A lot.

 

Ah the Pro Video Man On A Job speaks.

 

Zzzz. Heard it all before.

 

Suffering from 'gear acquisition syndrome' has nothing to do with lacking talent and finding solace in the acquisition of gear. There's nothing wrong with being a gear-head, in fact it is better that one takes a keen interest in the tools than a passing glance at the rental shop. Kubrick got his hands dirty. Gear can separate you from the crowd, which is why he used the F0.7 lenses supplied by Zeiss. It was a creative choice, which enabled him to shoot in such low natural light, nobody else had done the same. He experimented with different technology a great deal, like we're doing on this forum... Well... Most of us.

 

It DOES matter if you are poor. Renting won't help you if you are poor. No point renting an expensive piece of shit and equally no point renting a cheap piece of shit when you may as well spend the same and buy the damned thing.

 

It does matter if you have no talent. No amount of practice and development will help.

For editing raw directly, you need an Nvidia chipset for Resolve. I recommend GTX 560 Ti minimum. 1GB+

 

If converting to ProRes or CineForm you don't need a fancy graphics card at all.

Dual ISO isn't in the book because the quality isn't yet good enough for video. It is useful for stills but not video.

 

They took WAV audio out due to the sync issues. It will be back at some point I expect.

 

File spanning is already mentioned in the book. MLV as far as I know isn't yet implemented? Still a work in progress.

 

There's a few minor updates coming to the book. Existing customers will get the V1.1 emailed to them.

I don't believe this is different camera. It's just FS700 with 4K firmware/hardware upgrade already done in factory. They just gave it "R" designation so that if someone is buying a new FS700 they would know "R" stocks are already upgraded to 4K. 

 

You could well be right. We'll know soon enough as I might see it before IBC at IFA in Berlin on 4th September.

I tried that as well on my 7D, but forgot to try it on the 5D Mark III where some say it covers full frame at 35mm despite being a APS-C lens.

 

It seemed great on 7D, took a few shots with it, will try and get more time with one.

 

I'm in a dilemma over which one to get. If it wasn't for me using full frame so much, 18-35mm on GH3 with Speed Booster would be a no brainer.

Not enough time with the focus ring yet but seemed fine. It has no hard stops though.

 

Can't compare the new Leica M glass as they don't go on a Canon mount!

I had a hands on with the new Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG HSM ART today, and compared it to my Leica Summicron-R 35mm F2.0, a $1200 lens.

[url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/11000/sigma-have-beaten-leica-dg-35mm-f1-4-vs-summicron-r-35mm-f2-0]Read the full article here[/url]

Anyone read Japanese?

Here's an article, 4000 reasons why this guy likes 4K raw on the FS700, but sadly not one of those 4000 reasons alludes to anything concrete, i.e. how good it is compared to non-raw.

 

http://provideocoalition.com/sony/story/4000-reasons-why-i-like-the-fs700

 

I shall have to find out myself!

"Best" camera? There's no such thing. Best camera for someone who can't afford $8k isn't the FS700!

 

Also the 5D Mark III in raw has better looking 1080p, though I'm keen to find out how the FS700 does in 4K raw.

 

Consider a used FS100 on a budget - when I shot with both, I preferred the 1080/24p on the FS100. Less aliasing and less noise.

Here, finally, is Canon's answer to Angry Birds.

[url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10987/review-video-game-arkanoid-on-the-canon-7d]Read the full article here[/url]

I'm not sure the FS100 and FS700 sold well because the ergonomics were more suited to computer keyboards than cameras. C100 and C300 sales probably had them for breakfast.

 

A shame because a lot more tech under the hood on these than on the 'not even 1080/60p for your $15,000' C300.

 

Ergonomics not that wonderful on the C300 anyway. Top Gear bloke used one for a run & gun sequence. Hated it.

 

What Sony need to do is put a decent video chip in their upcoming NEX full frame stills camera and take the market by storm. But they won't.

The Sony FS700 hasn't been out for long by pro equipment standards - around a year. Canon haven't updated the semi-pro 7D DSLR for nearly 5 years!

But Sony are planning an updated FS700R and FS700RH for later in the year, likely to be announced at IBC in Amsterdam this September.

[url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10982/sony-to-launch-updated-fs700r-at-ibc]Read the full article here[/url]

This was on the EF camera, but you can use the same M42 mount lens (Helios) and same anamorphic on the MFT camera for the same results.

Hi Dicky. It is a digital PDF download, and the email was sent as soon as you ordered. If you haven't got the email let me know and I will resend it. It goes to your PayPal email address.

It isn't normal behaviour. Looks like a workflow issue. More details of that please!

 

Also, try a copy of Resolve Lite and see if you have the same artefact with the DNGs in that.

Didn't get mine from eBay, they're all crazy prices on there.

Sensor size Oli. The Nokton is designed to cover a smaller 2x crop area compared to the full frame sensor in the RX1.

John has used the Pocket Cinema Camera on his commercial work but likely can't release the material.

 

Where Blackmagic are going wrong is they have no Reverie marketing piece, not a lack of test shots.

Not impressed. I think I will wait for a SATA (or similar) port on the NEX 5,6,7 etc or CANON M, which is one easy step that the Japanese giants can make to kill the PCC at a stroke. 

 

Yes please. E-sata and a SSD mag in a battery grip. I mean, this isn't hard or expensive stuff we're talking about here. Just a direct tap on the sensor's raw data in the memory already in the camera, out via a $5 chipset.