Andrew Reid

  £1250 per lens :) I was just extremely lucky. They are $8k each new. I'd never pay that much for gear. Never.

  How hard is it to click Films, and browse the last 3 years of my Vimeo uploads? FFS

Above: A7R with the new SLR Magic "Anamorphot 50" anamorphic lens Micro Four Thirds vs full frame. America has answered this question pretty resoundingly - mirrorless sales are apparently down 47%. I don't think this will be a lasting trend because mirrorless is moving forwards in terms of image quality and features far faster than DSLRs are. The Sony A7R is the highest spec of all of them, at least in terms of the sensor and EVF. But does it have what it takes for Sony to erode the dominance of Canon and Nikon? Read the full article here

With priced to compete with C500 thing I had in mind the 25,000 original C500 price in Europe. This I believe has now gone down slightly, but it's still £20,000 inc. VAT at CVP, so not too different to the Amira, especially when you begin adding the necessary recorder for 4K video and 2K ProRes, better EVF and monitor, shoulder rig, etc., otherwise what is the point? You may as well get a C300! The ProRes, better codecs, very high quality EVF and shoulder rig is stuff which the Amira is designed to do pretty much out of the box without Zacuto's help.   So in my view, yes it the Amira price is competitive with most C500's out there, unless you were lucky and got one used or something, and haven't added much rigging to it.   In the US at the time of writing this article the USD pricing wasn't announced and it still isn't clear today exactly what the packages and prices are in the States.

Christopher Doyle (In The Mood For Love, Hero), Stefan Ciupek (Slumdog Millionaire) and Franz Lustig (How I Live Now) will be at the Berlinale Film Festival in February with a Canon sponsored workshop for aspiring filmmakers. Read the full article here

I don't think Arri clients mind about the price that much, be it $39k or $59k or $69k and 99 cents, they will use the damn camera.   On Twitter some people who hadn't read the article properly, insisted I was saying the Amira competes against the C300 in the low and mid-end of the production market!!   Nah - it's an all high end affair, but it still competes against the C300 and C500 because these were being used at the high end of the production market, due to smaller size than Alexa, run & gun ergonomics, etc. The Amira is designed to do that job and it will be the Amira which gets the job, over the Cinema EOS stuff at the high end from now on. Canon just lost some lustre.

  I have heard good things about the Zeiss zoom too, a '3D' look to it and lots of cinematic stuff going on.

  I remember seeing some older Cooke lenses from the 60's and 70's on eBay in Arriflex mount for £250 a-piece. The T2.0 stuff.   Worth investigating eBay for the older lenses, as the image is sublime.

  Man, one article on Cooke, one on the Amira. And I'm changing direction completely away from DSLRS!? I have D5300, E-M1, A7R reviews coming in a few days. Also with greatest respect Matt you are someone who has joined the forum quite late (and begun reading EOSHD even later?) so you're not in the greatest position to tell me what direction to take with my filmmaking and the site. Would you turn down high end stuff if you had the chance to buy it for a bargain price?   Back on topic and no more reverse snobbery!!

What is it that makes Cooke cinema lenses so special? Read the full article here

Good design costs nothing :)

  No 4:3 mode. Arri have angered the anamorphic gods.   It's such a simple feature to add, don't know why more cameras don't do it considering the competition consists of one camera, and some hacked DSLRs.   Anamorphic is IN!   When you have got your AMIRA on your shoulder JG come to Berlin and you can use my Cooke PL lenses on it :)

Full information on the AMIRA can be seen at CVP Looking at the Oscar nominations recently at EOSHD, with not a Red camera in sight, it's clear Arri are a run-away success in the filmmaking industry. Now Arri are gunning for the Canon C300 and C500 with a camera which could seriously erode the market for Cinema EOS cameras at the high end of the broadcast and single-operator videographer market. The Amira's pricing starts at 25,980 euros which puts it in the Sony F55 and Canon C500 range. What's the secret to Arri's success? Read the full article here

OK Belinda I will send it now. Cheers!

Thanks. Nikon mount.

  Didn't realise it was his test. "Crap" was a bit rude in that light. But alas, there's the problem with the internet in a nutshell :)

Are you setting focus then stopping the lens down?   Back focus / front focus issues can only happen when you change the aperture.

Facebook and Twitter logins can be used again.   I've sorted out a spam filter.

Crap test, focus point is way off. The Sigma is focussed on the red cushion and the Voigtlander on the yellow ribbons almost 30cm further forwards. Totally clueless and therefore - Null and void :)   The Sigma 18-35mm is the sharper lens, especially if you're gonna be combining it with a decent adapter - like Speed Booster.   I will do a test showing that it is as sharp as the very best primes, even wide open.

Grading doesn't count as CGI / animation.   I think a general mix of live action and computer animation or stop-motion would be fine, I don't think anyone is measuring precisely for 25% :)

The invaders have now been turfed out.   Please delete any PMs you got from spammers.   Sorry this happened, I wasn't expecting it. Basically a bot used the "sign in with Facebook / Twitter" to gain access to the forums and slam it with spam. These features have now been turned off for new users. If you want to register as a new user you have to set up an EOSHD account.   Cheers

I think you not only hit the nail on the head there Policar, but several at once, with one hammer :)

Good luck :)

Love the temples. How was the audio recorded? If that was onboard then well done :)

You can be anyone, open to all.   For the compression I recommend 720p H.264 at 7Mbit, which is similar to what Vimeo streams at by default. You can easily get 5 minutes under the 250MB mark in that format.