Andrew Reid

Speed Booster gives it a larger than Super 35mm sensor so I really don't think that's a problem.

Our source mentioned "10bit/8bit". I would suspect the lower bitrate recording options are 8bit and top settings for 4K are 10bit. Another possibility is that 10bit is just via HD-SDI for external recorders and it does 8bit internally. But AVC-Ultra definitely supports 10bit internal recording.

  Well you could rewind Bloom's argument to the standard def era and say you absolutely must have 1080p but don't need it, shoot 480p.   Practical considerations over creativity.   Creativity is about discovering the new technology and applying it in interesting ways. I can see that if you turned up for a spec shoot for a client and they only needed a 480p master, it would be silly to take your 1080p camera to the job and that is really what Philip Bloom is getting at. Nothing more.   What Panasonic need to do is move way beyond the GH2 hack era. Get rid of the need for Vitaliy (he's awful!) give us reliable high performance out of the box. The GH3 didn't go far enough from the GH2 hack in terms of image quality. To have a community based around a Russian hacker rather than your own camera features is nuts.

  Why? AF series ergonomics are outdated. Small cameras is where it's at. Just look at the Epic. Easier to rig and easier to customise. More stealthy too. The only thing I miss from the AF100 is the built in ND filter. Exposure is important. Every camera should have it.

Compelling Panasonic GH4 rumours have come in from two good sources. Disclaimer: I'm not a rumours site but if I was I'd give this a high rating. That said, it's still a rumour! Nothing official has been announced by Panasonic. The model has a pro-range product code. It will be dubbed the Panasonic AG-GH4. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/11371/detailed-panasonic-gh4-rumoured-specs]Read the full article here[/url]

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1D C owners have to send their camera to a Canon service station because they don't want to release the firmware to the public domain.   Now you may ask why...   It seems the only obvious answer is they don't want Magic Lantern getting the firmware and putting 4K on the 1D X.   This proves more than ever to me that the 1D X and 1D C are essentially the same thing.

Finally! Very useful. I hear Nokia are also working on a Lytro style focussing method too where it takes multiple shots in quick succession at different focus distances. Not the same technology as Lytro obviously but simple to do.

The good thing about the GH3 is the files are easy to handle if you're shooting a lot of stuff and to a tight deadline.   And often a lot of paid work doesn't need to have the ultimate image quality.   In terms of cinematography as an art form and shooting paid work you have to balance the artistic choice of tool with the practical realities of using them.   Raw is not that difficult in reality, you press a button, record, fill the card up and put a new one in.   The problem is when you are shooting 7 hours worth of interviews in raw and have to edit a cut together by lunch time the next day, especially if you don't have the hardware required to crunch through it and store it.   For raw think ProRes but with a transcoding step.   You don't have to edit raw, you can convert to ProRes but it takes time.

  This is a good point, it is the quality of the colour and detail in the shadows, mids and highlights that a wide dynamic range goes towards improving.   There's no point having 13 stops of dynamic range if the shadows are ruined with noise, banding and compression. No point if the highlights have a sudden roll off. No point if the mids have about 12 colours in them. No point if the grading is poor or shooter error.

  This is not the right thread for discussions about the art of filmmaking.   We don't go on scriptwriting forums to talk about how important 14bit raw is at the expense of story discussions, so I won't tolerate the derailing of camera tech and cinematography discussions with that tired old obvious argument "content is king". Nope! There's no such thing as ONE most important aspect in filmmaking, it all matters right down to the details.   It isn't that I don't want discussions about content and ideas creation on the forums, it is just that I don't want it derailing the camera discussions!! So put the right debates in the right topics please people.

In the end people are free to make their own choices and choose the right tool for the job. I can just put the information out there and show it how it is, as well as stating my own opinion because EOSHD is a personal blog as well.

  Anyone tried the FS100 handgrip via LANC on the Pocket camera yet?

  More useful tips... sigh.   Don't forget to use actors, words and to take the lens cap off.

On BMCC should work. Might have soft edges or vignetting on the GH2 though.   GH2 is APS-H with Speed Booster. That's larger than Super 35mm, for which the LOMO anamorphic is designed for.

  Bottom of the lot for the stock video quality overall.

[media]http://vimeo.com/77268402[/media] 68GB worth of material was used to get a studio based test this finely tuned, with the cameras matched in post as close as possible. This effort to remove the variables of grading and camera settings leaves behind a truer picture of the differences in hardware capabilities. The 5D Mark III raw (from Magic Lantern), if it were a film stock, would be Fuji. Warm vivid colours which may need taming a bit in post. The Blackmagic is more Kodak, cooler and more muted, it often requires the opposite treatment in post to the Canon cameras. The 7D is totally back from the dead - with Magic Lantern raw and the Mosaic Engineering VAF-7D tested here, it offers lovely image quality from a Super 35mm sized sensor, at a similar price to the Pocket Cinema Camera. The Panasonic GH3 - best of the standard system cameras out of the box without modifications does a good job keeping up with them. The scene was lit three ways to test resolution, dynamic range and low light performance. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/11350/depth-test-5d-mark-iii-7d-raw-vs-blackmagic-pocket-vs-gh3]Read the full article here[/url]

There are two camps, and since the DSLR one is the biggest, crop factors vs a full frame sensor has crept into the cinema lexicon hasn't it. Doesn't help that people are using Canon full frame glass on Cinema EOS either :)

  Yes maybe time to spill the beans on this one...

  If Canon were smart they'd make two 7D Mark IIs. A video orientated one and a stills orientated one.   However I have a feeling they already did this and the 7D Mark II Video Version costs $15,000 and is called the Cinema EOS C300!   And stills guys think they have it bad on price sub $1000!?

Knowing Nikon it is probably 'new' because the AA filter counts as part of the sensor now on the spec sheet!   Removing it = new sensor.   However they do seem to have squeezed 1080/60p from it with the new Expeed 4 processor.   Looks like an interesting camera for sure as D5200's sensor did a very good job of video in 24p mode.

  Nice overview Jordan and welcome to the forums.   The A7 looks at 7.27 to be doing some funky stuff with your hair.   I am not sure if it your haircut or the camera :) But definitely not moire free. The VG900, A99 and RX1 had terrible quality video compared to the 5D Mark III and the previous Sony 24MP full frame CMOS sensor was in those. Could it be the only change is the addition of phase detect AF pixels and the new microlenses?   Now the D800 and D800E did much better with their Sony 36MP sensors.   When you changed to shooting on the A7R for the last section of the video, I noticed the quality jump a bit.   I'm curious to see how video compares between the A7 and A7R as they have such different sensors.   Not looking like it will challenge Blackmagic or Magic Lantern at this stage on image quality I have to say :(

HDMI is 10bit on the $999 Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera so no excuses Sony!

IS on the RX100 and HX9 was very good by the way. But still would have been good to see the full 5 axis in there.

Yes, all to do.   Expect a lot of coverage.