Andrew Reid

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.

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

  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.

  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.

  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?