Andrew Reid

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.

Let's be honest here, the Nikon V1 video quality is poor. I've seen footage myself, and it is nasty. The only measurement I've seen is from digitalcamerainfo in 2012, which measured the V1 to have 600 lines of resolution in bright light, and 450 lines in low light. There is no way the V1 is reading the entire sensor for video and downsampling in a reasonable manner.

 

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

The Panasonic DMC-LX7 from two years ago does 720p120.  Many action cameras have 720p120, including the Panasonic HX-A100, the GoPro Hero 3/3+ Black Edition, JVC XA2, and Sony HDR-As100V.

 

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...

Berlin is a 3.5m population city. There are precious few cities of that size that don't have less than desirable quarters.

 

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 idea is that your privacy is your own, and no-one can rob that from you. Basically, this is very similar to how things work in the States, with the big difference that in the States, being in public spaces automatically means that you have no expectation of privacy. That's not the case in Germany, and there's no technical reason why one law is correct while the other isn't.

 

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.

The norm and the law in the US is that recording in public spaces is A-OK.

 

Maybe I need to move!

Yes, if it's the law then it's the law. No argument there. I can't even imagine how you could enforce that in the States. At a Starbucks, someone takes a group shot and you're right next to the table... what are you going to do, jump up and demand they delete the photo? You're walking on the boardwalk and everyone is snapping selfies.. you happen to be in the shot, are you going to flip them off? When I go surfing people are taking photos from the parking lot.. what am I going to do, flip them off and scream at them to delete their photos? It seems ridiculous.

 

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.

Germans value their privacy. It might be a foreign concept for someone from the promised land of CCTV, but Germans take it very, very seriously. You might not like it, but you should at least respect it. And if you can't, then you shouldn't live there. There are plenty of places on earth where there isn't really any concept of privacy when you're out in the public. They might suit you better. When in rome, do as the romans. I've lived in Freiburg for a couple of years now, and that simply means that street photography isn't really an option for me at the moment here, because it's too much of an hassle. But I won't blame the Germans for it. I chose to move here, so I'd damn better respect the way the natives want to live their lives. Different folk, different strokes, and as long as no-one is forcing you to live in Germany, I don't see the problem.

 

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?

I don't get the 1 system at all..... 120fps is cool I guess................... I don't think it will be long till Panasonic offers the same framerates though.

 

96fps on the GH4 in full 1080p.

Andrew, You've got it totally wrong. In many European countries, according to the law, it is the other way round. Before you start filming or taking pictures, it is the person who is holding the camera who must walk towards and talk to the people in the street, and ask permission to use the camera on them.

 

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.

NEW: Discover the EOSHD Music Challenge - find up-and-coming songwriters and bands to accompany my videos


The Nikon V3 will be the first mirrorless camera to feature 120fps HD slow-mo at 1280 x 720 resolution. Also available are 400fps and 1200fps at lower resolutions. Nikon have added an electronic stabilisation mode (called EVR) and 1080/60p to round out the spec.

As a stills camera the V3 has been redesigned completely and retargeted at Nikon's prosumer and professional DSLR base as a 'second camera'. Gone is the ugly V1 design and the distinctly odd V2 - but gone also is the built-in EVF - that is now only available as a separate add-on.

Read the full article here

Andrew, I will suggest that you will make this as a separate, stand alone article, on eoshd.com first page and not leave it as just one more forum's thread. It is an, at least, very interesting and promising idea so to be hidden... There are many nice things that can be happen/created...

 

Promising start.

 

I will promote it with an article once a few more suggestions have come in.

No joke. This is a camera forum. I am not entertained by legal speak and unpleasantness. Cantsin, take a holiday. 30 day ban.

But whatda about the Berliners? I need a break. I need to get out of here and point my camera at some friendlier people in Taiwan or somewhere.

At least not British ones. A) I still have my camera and B - I did not bleed out.

My dream: 4096x4096 square sensor.

16mega stills, no more vertical grip needed, the flash stays always on top of the sensor, no horizontal crop in 4k video mode, shallow dof, better wide, better low light. Theoretically all the lenses should cover the area.

Shooting square photos is fun, someone ever tried a 6x6 film camera?

Who knows when and if that dream will be true!

 

Good idea. Why in 2014 do we still have to physically rotate the camera body to do a portrait shot? It should be done with a button press to change the sensor crop.

The footage looks great. It definitely seems like golden hour with haze and subtle detail in shadows holds up better in raw than in most compressed formats.

 

I spent a while looking online to try to find an answer, but I couldn't-- has there been any progress on the resolution for 7D raw footage, or is it maxed out at 1728 x 972? I also recall there being some luck with getting higher resolutions in crop mode on the 50D and didn't know if that had worked for the 7D as well. Information online about Magiclantern Raw more recent than last fall seems to be fairly scattered.

 

It's 1728 x 972 and I upscale it to 1920 x 1080p in the transcode from raw to ProRes in Resolve. Simply exports at 1080p.

I would like to give my platform to up and coming musicians around the world to showcase their music through my cinematography to an audience of around 250,000 people per month. This is the EOSHD Music Challenge.

Readers act as DJ - they can pick music from up and coming singers and bands, with suggestions that might suit the mood of my cinematography and future camera tests.

Cinematic music is really important to me but I haven't been satisfied with The Music Bed or similar resources so far.

How does the challenge work?

1. Suggest a band or musician on this thread. They have to be up and coming not signed to a major label or already huge.

2. I investigate and do the contacting of those which I like and credit you for the find!

3. If they agree to let me use their music, they will find a new audience through my blog and hopefully sell some tracks on iTunes from a link on EOSHD. You will be designated as the discoverer of talent and winner of the challenge.

4. You can have fun with this challenge and play DJ - use your taste to select the right standard of music to fit EOSHD and in turn you might discover new music yourself which you really enjoy listening to.

5. My cinematography at EOSHD is purely an artistic endeavour and experimental, non commercial and does not make any money but for all videos featuring unsigned acts I will consider enabling the Vimeo Tip Jar and sharing the proceeds with the musician 50:50!

This is a new idea and it will start off as a trial. If it works then great! If not then we will swap things around until it does, because I am determined to find new music and up and coming artists.

Good soundtracks are really important for filmmakers and I believe in finding new talent. Perhaps you know some artists yourself? Perhaps you are one?

http://vimeo.com/88826657

>NEW: The EOSHD Music Challenge - pick tracks from up and coming singers and bands to suit the mood of my cinematography pieces and future camera tests!

In my opinion the Canon 7D is currently the best budget solution for shooting raw video. There's plenty of used 7D bodies here on eBay for around $750 - and that is practically a steal for 14bit raw video from a Super 35mm sized sensor... Stills camera is a mere bonus!

So to the big question - does the Mosaic Engineering VAF-7D filter completely cure the 7D's raw video of moire and aliasing?

Read the full article here

Many might be interested in this little tid bit...and I also hear Atomos may be bringing a 4K HDMI recorder to NAB.

 

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No uncompressed 10bit 4K over the GH4's micro-HDMI port, you need the 10bit HD-SDI box for that.

Exciting pricing, Andrew! Thanks for keeping us up to date. So for us anamorphic nuts, shooting with a 2x ana lens on a GH4 with an S35 chip will yield what aspect ratio? Or is the frame 16x9 regardless of the sensor?

 

Frame is 16:9 regardless. There's no 3:2 or 4:3 anamorphic mode on the GH4 unfortunately! Still to much of a niche for the majors to consider, or even Blackmagic whose sensors are 4:3 native aspect too. Should be an easy thing to implement, it's a shame they haven't done it yet especially with it being such a popular pro shooting format. Hawk anyone? Maybe Vantage and Panavision need to have a word in Panasonic's ear rather than leaving it to me?