Andrew Reid

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The Sony AX100 takes the relatively large 1" sensor from the RX10 and puts it in camcorder form factor with built in ND filter. However it appears that in reading out all the pixels on a 20MP sensor, Sony have created a skew-monster in rolling shutter teams. What's remarkable about this video is that the panning and trains aren't even moving very fast. This is some of the worst rolling shutter I've yet to see on any camera available on the market. Read the full article here

  Slow pan!

Wow that is bad. Not fit for purpose. Why do Sony think people will accept such severe rolling shutter?

  Completely agree!

Just made a quick update to the article. Odyssey 7Q does not actually accept the 4K signal from the GH4.   It has no 4K capable HDMI input.   You need to use the HD-SDIs on the YAGH with the Odyssey 7Q.   So the hunt is on at NAB for a 4K HDMI recorder...

18MP compared to 8MP. It's actually quite a big step. If you looked at it like photographers would look at the difference between a 8MP DSLR and a 18MP one that is.

  Considering who it's aimed at, I hardly think that's a problem.   External batteries aren't exactly unusual on a Hollywood set with Epics.

The KineMAX is a Super 35mm raw shooting 6K camera with 14 stops dynamic range, increasing to 16 stops in 3K mode, native ISO is 800. Impressive. I contacted Jihua of Kinefinity recently to talk about a few remaining questions I had on the recently announced KineMAX as well as the updated lower end model, now dubbed KineMINI. Read the full article here

I am amazed what other blogs (PetaPixel, Planet5D) consider as front page news.   This kind of stuff generates clicks. Brain dead, but it is click bate nonetheless. That makes money in the long run.   I am so sick of this kind of gimmicky, zero fact or imagination based click bate.   I hope Blackmagic refuse to replace the camera on principal. The guys posting this have lost Blackmagic business and it might not even have been a legitimate battery fault.

Picture: EOSHD Forum, by Orangenz Panasonic have confirmed that the GH4 (quite amazingly) outputs 10bit 4K 4:2:2 from the onboard micro HDMI port without the YAGH external HD-SDI unit. However there are still benefits to using the HD-SDI outputs. Here I have more details on how this whole thing works and what external recorders might be in the pipeline to offer 4K recording on the GH4... Read the full article here

You know what I dislike most of all about when people have their camera explode and make an annoying video like this... they never explain the circumstances. If there is a serious problem, pity Blackmagic trying to find out what caused it! Did he have it plugged in? Was it under hot lights? How old was the camera? Who knows!?

If you were paying for features then you would have a better spec than the C100 for your $5k.   You are paying for the fact the C100 is perfectly suited to commercial work. The people it is for can all afford it and justify the investment. There's no point being upset about that either. We have some nice options now for cheaper.   Let's not pretend we are paying $5000 for a built in ND filter though.

  Video quality on the J1 and V1 wasn't actually that bad for the time. Not as good as D5300 now, but not far off.   https://vimeo.com/36214357

  None of them interchangeable lens cameras. All small sensors.

Most of the German friends I have mentioned this too actually think it's ridiculous as well that you can't be free as an artist to shoot in public spaces without the risk of someone making trouble later through the legal system. It is not the society most German people want to live in actually, it is almost a police state kind of rule that is out of step with modern life.   I am very respectful with how and where I point my camera. I do not go round shoving it in unwilling peoples faces.   There is something else going on here beyond the privacy issue, as I outlined in the article, it is the hatred of tourists that is driving a general bad atmosphere in Germany with regards to DSLR shooters on the streets.   I'm going to give Berlin a break this summer and explore new territory. I will go back to Taiwan and Japan to continue my earlier work there as they are beautiful parts of the world and very friendly. I don't plan to stay in Berlin for the rest of my life. I have enjoyed my time here but maybe it is time to try something new.

Thanks for all the submissions so far. I'm listening...

  I'm not sure how you guys came to the conclusion that the Mauerpark area and Prenzlauer Berg are 'undesirable quarters'. It's yuppie central!

  The technical reason why the German law is not correct is that it defies basic logic.   From such a logical bunch of people and such an intelligent culture, I am really surprised at some of their directives and government practices.

  Maybe I need to move!

  Exactly, ridiculous is the word. Extremely limiting of freedom of expression and artistic expression. Yet I've been in Berlin 3 years now happily shooting away and will continue to do so, ignoring this nonsense concept of total personal privacy in public spaces. What matters is respectful distance, respect of the subject, and most of all respectful use of the material. Unless someone has behaved in a way to void their rights to respect. If someone has a problem with me making them look cinematic and filming completely innocent street scenes which they happen to be part of then that is their unpleasant psychological difficulty and I'm not responsible for it.

  Look up the definition of public. Public is the opposite of private. A public space is by definition NOT a private space. Yet Germany tries to pass a law that makes it like a private one. Then maybe you can see why I have a problem with the logic of it.   What do you do at a gig or concert with faces in the crowd? Is the crowd allowed to sue the videographer shooting back at them from the stage?   Nutty or what?

  96fps on the GH4 in full 1080p.

  You Europeans and your laws. You have some absolutely nuts ones. I'll seriously consider taking my blog out of Germany and back to the UK if I was ever stopped from practicing my arts by tree hugging personal privacy nuts.   It's just unpleasant, which is why I don't really want to talk about it on the forum.   I was once out with Slashcam testing the Canon 1D C and testing the lens for focus breathing by racking focus some shrubbery on my side of the pavement to a woman stood smoking on the other side of the road, at least 25m away and out of earshot. Guess what, 2 mins later she was stomping down the U-bahn steps after me and demanding I format the card. Horrible encounter with a nut job. Some people just need to chill out. It is not the era of the Stasi secret police any more, it is the modern world we live in.   The funny thing is these politicians are always banging on about the freedom of artists and freedom of expression then putting laws in place which diminish freedom.   Dear Berliner on the street with your finger up... My freedom begins where yours ends. Don't overreach yourself.

Yeah it uses the full sensor area and samples at that resolution. There's no crop.