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  1. Andrew Reid
    The Nikon Speed Booster will take the 50mm F1.8. It takes all Nikon glass not just G. They all have a standard Nikon F mount, the old AI/S glass as well. The difference is with the G lenses that the aperture needs to be controlled by a ring on the adapter or via the camera body. The Nikon Speed Booster has the ring on the adapter. It has no electronic contacts.
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      It isn't the same.   The situation is that people have waited almost a year for their orders to be delivered, and just after they ARE finally delivered they knock $1000 off the price and they come into regular stock to pick up off the shelves. If you can't appreciate how frustrating that is for some people, then you're a lost cause.
  3. Andrew Reid
      Very interesting, thanks for pointing this out.   This might be how they get less aliasing on the GH3's sensor compared to the older GH2 / G6 one.   But the low-pass filter needs to be stronger as they now have more moire.   The other possibility is that the new sensor is actually NEW and in the GX7 for the first time and maybe it will have killer video performance and the sensor is by Panasonic, will end up in a GH X1 which shoots ProRes. That would be sensible.
  4. Andrew Reid
    1. Yes. Look to Hot Rod Cameras or Ceicio 7 on eBay for the adapter   2. Active mount has advantage of being compatible with all mFT glass that has electronic aperture control or fly-by-wire manual focus or stabilisation. None of the Lumix or Olympus lenses work on the passive mount. Only SLR Magic and Voigtlander manual stuff without electronic contacts work on it.
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    They're from ReWo http://content.rewotechnic.de/?page_id=81
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    For Nikon G glass you need the Nikon Speed Booster. For Leica-R and CY you can use those via an adapter on the Metabones EF Speed Booster so that is worth waiting for if you plan to use a variety of glass, including M42 and Olympus OM too.   Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 might be beautiful on the Speed Booster. I will try it out soon on the Nikon version + GH3.
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    Compressed raw will be Cinema DNG 2:1
  8. Andrew Reid
      Great solution! OH hang on where did I put my sensor lab, firmware programmers and last but not least my spanner.
  9. Andrew Reid
    In day light I prefer the 5D's image in raw as well. Full frame rendering of the glass, smoother fine detail and less false colour speckles, less moire. Rolling shutter isn't as severe either, and crop mode comes in very handy when you want to grab a quick telephoto shot on a standard prime.   Both are a league ahead of the usual DSLR video quality though. Hell they are a league ahead of FS100 as well.
  10. Andrew Reid
    Lots of duplicate threads on this topic now, so locking one.
  11. Andrew Reid
      You are right, and same thing murdered the TV industry.   Most people are happy with what they have.   Tiny little incremental product updates year-on-year give people no reason to upgrade!
  12. Andrew Reid
      How does this in any way effect your 5D Mark III purchase? They are quite different cameras. The 5D Mark III has a much larger sensor, better suited to the EF mount glass you will use on it. It is much cleaner in low light and the form factor is better. It is much lighter, runs for hours on a tiny internal battery, has no fan, uses small CF cards, gets constant firmware updates and takes 22MP professional quality stills. Blackmagic have their work cut out to compete with it.
  13. Andrew Reid
    Blackmagic CEO Grant Petty has today mapped out the company's camera roadmap. The Blackmagic Cinema Camera has a new aggressive price point. A drop of $1000 to the price of a Canon 6D - $1995. Active mount version of Blackmagic Cinema Camera mFT on the way, making existing model obsolete Next firmware V1.5 will add new features [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10931/blackmagic-price-drop-by-a-third-on-cinema-camera-and-active-mount-mft-camera-on-the-way]Read the full article here[/url]
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    The dual-CPU Canon 7D is one step closer to the tantalising prospect of raw video today. The main developer at Magic Lantern A1ex has found the raw buffers and silent pictures are working. Further work is required to port the raw video module. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10925/magic-lantern-raw-video-in-development-for-canon-7d]Read the full article here[/url]
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    According to CIPA, Japanese shipments of cameras are down 47% year-on-year. That's a bleak figure, although there aren't the kind of big product releases so far this year that there were in the first half of 2012. However I think it's too easy to blame smart-phones or to mention product cycles as the reason for this decline. What about the actual cameras? In my opinion everyone seems to be making strange product decisions that I doubt serve either shareholder or their customer. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10907/on-trying-to-understand-canon-and-blackmagics-strategy-on-cameras]Read the full article here[/url]
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    Looks nice.   Great to see someone put 2 years of effort into an iPhone app rather than 2 minutes worth :)   Either Apple will buy his code, or the will simply put an embedded JPEG processor in the next iPhone and a faster camera module. 20fps burst modes with electronic shutter are already possible even in smartphones.
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      Image quality doesn't just come down to sensor size and bitrate.   In this case it will depend on how the sensor is sampled.   The GH3 does a good job of downsampling the sensor and the Panasonic image processor does a good job of processing / debayering it.   On the NEX cameras this capture process is mediocre to say the least and there's a lot of aliasing and moire. Check out my NEX 5N vs GH2 comparison on Vimeo.
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      Ah hold on. In that picture the Contax Zeiss pancake is mounted on a 4/3 camera not a Micro 4/3 camera. The adapter for mFT will add a good 40mm or so to the size of the pancake. Not ideal.
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    It does matter when you have a bigger lens hanging off the end of the prime. Short and stocky prime is the way to go.   The Zeiss looks good on mFT.   Pentax K 45mm F2.8 or 50mm F1.7 if you have Canon (you will need to mod the lenses to remove the aperture lever that hits the mirror). Nikon 50mm F1.8 E-series is also a good pancake for anamorphic.   Feel free to keep adding more...
  20. Andrew Reid
    The Pentax 45mm F2.8 is the best at doing this. It is unbelievably thin on a Canon mount.   However it vignettes with almost all anamorphic lenses on full frame.   I recommend it on APS-C Canons. On mirrorless you may as well use a native lens as the adapter bulks the whole thing up
  21. Andrew Reid
      You can get a slight slow-mo from it - right click the clips in Premiere's project window and interpret footage as 24p.   Straight 30 to 24 doesn't really work very well, too much jitter from uneven frame skipping.   Curiously I found the crazy handheld work suited 30p more than slow-mo at 24p.
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    Do the solutions pointed out by Bruno and JHines support OSX or is it a case of bootcamp, Windows 7 and lot and lots of freeware to force it to work?
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    Since the advent of very high speed ports like Thunderbolt many have speculated as to when external graphics adapter cards are coming to laptops. Well with $250 worth of parts it is possible to do already. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10908/thunderbolt-external-nvidia-graphics-comes-to-macbook-air-sort-of]Read the full article here[/url]
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      I'm not suggesting you get one. Was using it as an example of stating your needs.   Do you actually know your needs?   Low light important? Size / weight? Lens choice? Auto-focus? Stabilisation? You've got to give us a clearer idea of what you want and what features are attractive to you.   I'd recommend GH2, but you might say low light is important, and therefore the recommendation would change to D5200. You see what I mean?
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      The advantage over software solutions is that you have a steadier shot in the first place to work from, which doesn't need as much of a crop to steady further in post.   Check out the back of the tram shot with the taxi in the background, and the sweeping pans - everything is shot handheld with one hand on camera grip and one hand on the focus barrel. There's no other stabilisation system either in the lens or in the camera that is as effective.   Even combining this with a Z-finder, a stock or minimal shoulder rig, let alone something like MoVI would result in even more natural looking movement.
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