Andrew Reid

  Tolerance is a good word. Mine just ran out.

Yeah, I agree Magic Lantern doing a fantastic job at that.

  Bruno please don't be naive. The production ramp up time is long for a complicated device like this. Do you really think they have any idea when they will get the cameras to customers? If it were a few weeks, the production line would be already going. They'd be able to tell us a firm date. Neither seems to be true. They can't even give B&H an ETA let alone customers!

  I don't think Blackmagic got cash advances from dealers from the preorder stash. Some dealers didn't charge a deposit. But I'm 100% with you on the sentiment. I can't support what Blackmagic are doing here and I'm seeing some very concerning cracks open up in the lines we've been fed. To deliver 12 months late is one thing. To look for all the world that they might do so for the 2nd year running on 2 more products is even worse. Delivering below spec is absolutely the cherry on top of my dissatisfaction with the way they are doing business. If you are holding out for a raw firmware update on the Pocket which you have paid for, just bear in mind that the BMCC has had no significant features added since it was announced, not even audio meters.

  Sometimes just a default conversion job is what's needed, and the option to go above and beyond that into advanced settings could be there anyway.   In the end convenience wins. A lot of people just want a better image than the default video mode and to edit ProRes.   I propose 10bit LOG because then at least you can apply a LUT in Resolve and still have some flexibility to change the image.   Add to that an option for non-LOG output but a slightly flatter image to bring up the shadows and recover some highlights, a nice debayer, a bit of de-noising and the ability to fix some quirks of the image would be very welcome.   Then the simple Fast Color Corrector in Premiere can do light grading, add contrast, or do whatever the user likes.

  Yes it can flare up but there's moire and false detail on almost EVERYTHING on a Rebel! It seems to happen less frequently on the 50D, the pattern you need to get the red / blue / green errors and false detail is much finer.   Yeah some of it comes from the debayer. ACR has a certain trademark flaw in the debayer and you can see it sometimes even with 5D Mark III raw video. Not a problem with stills though.

  Raw2DNG has a lot of yet untapped potential. Depends what direction they take it in. What would be great is a quick way to demosaic the raw files with AMaZE, output to ProRes quickly.   Raw2DNG could have controls like Rawtherapee, even false colour suppression, but work from the raw files instead of the DNGs, cutting out a transcoding step, and give us ProRes to edit from.   It could also have an option to output flat LOG ProRes to make it more gradeable.

The moire and aliasing on the 50D is nowhere near as bad as it is on standard Canon DSLR video modes.

  A good way of crystallising why I think Blackmagic are in the wrong here.   Last year it was different. Sensor supplier made an error with the dirty glass, Blackmagic helped them fix it. Or so the story goes.   This year it is nothing but a complete balls up, and I'm not talking about the Pocket camera delays - we'll see on that one at the end of the month - no I'm talking about the fact that even a year after it was due to be in stores, the original camera is still made in low quantities and the MFT version is only just starting to ship, again in small quantities. It is an abject failure.

Hopefully the faster new SD card standard will encourage future DSLRs to have faster card controllers, and possibly higher quality video out of the box - 10bit LOG in ProRes 4444 format would be just fine.   I don't absolutely need a raw workflow for everything (much as I would love it) but I absolutely DO need the image quality it is giving me. It's incredible.

No the 12-35mm is very good, just as sharp as a prime. You said it yourself - versatility and never shoot lower than F2.8. The main reason to go for a prime is the fast aperture.   If the 12-35 was a low end lens I'd say go for the prime but it isn't.

It covers Resolve Lite workflows and others which work with FCPX like ProRes and CineForm, extensively. Nearly half the book is about workflow.

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  Well we already can do that pretty much, and it won't affect Red because they are catering to a much higher end market.   Talent, ideas and creativity is still the dividing factor. It always was. That doesn't mean to say gear doesn't matter. It does, and it is a fantastic opportunity we've all got as filmmakers to make use of these $400 or $1000 cinema cameras.   However you must take into account marketing and promotions into account, and the online world. Your film can be as good as you like but if you can't make money from it and nobody sees it, that's a problem.

Install Magic Lantern and use their crop mark masks, you can also make your own in Photoshop.   Works with normal video mode as well as raw.

  Indeed. The silence speaks volumes.

  You may want to look at WHY they are trying to cover their ass.

"Every variant", and said in context of a discussion about the Pocket Camera.   If he didn't mean that he's free to correct me, but you can't exactly blame me for my interpretation of English.

The new 14-140mm F3.5-5.6 is very nice. It can be had cheap with the G6 in a kit, if you sell the G6 body and keep the lens.   I paid £750 for the kit at Manchester airport, granted duty free but not far off prices you can get elsewhere.

  Really? B&H has every variant of BM camera in stock including Pocket and 4K? Very strange comment, from a strange new user.

  Not sure if you noticed but Magic Lantern did 2 months ago.

Had to divert to Canon land for a bit. I'm still working on it. Will be released within a month.

2nd year running! Completely unacceptable.   Blackmagic are risking serious reputation damage with this.

  Shit, meet fan.  

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