Andrew Reid

The raw is debayered. They added a DNG encoder as well. They just need to dump it from buffer to card. I say just. It is probably very complex.

  I felt the ergonomics of the C100 were better than my FS100 but missed the E-mount, Speed Booster and 1080/60p. It felt smaller and more like a DSLR than I had expected. However there are too many buttons and not enough dials. To search for that ISO button then use that horribly small joystick on the handgrip, and to use that el cheapo wheel on the handgrip for other important stuff like aperture really threw me at first. The ND dial is also very cheap feeling considering the price of the camera. I felt the image was good but not very exciting and not a big enough leap from cameras like the FS100 or GH3 to justify the extra investment.   I toyed for a bit with selling my FS100 and replacing it with a C100 as I do like the built in ND and feel of the camera but then I don't think I'll be shooting with either once the Blackmagic Production Camera comes out.

  I think there's some substance in this theory.   1080p has been dragged out for so long now and there's no way a camera like the 5D Mark III needs to cost as much as it does, let alone the 1D C.   I am sure Canon have great stuff in the pipeline. How much more crap do we have to buy before they give it us...   I want to shoot good images now not in 5 years.

  Slightly unfair to ask for a green screen test considering the firmware has only been out for 3 hours!

[media]http://vimeo.com/64917111[/media] Is it any better? Rather than spoil the surprise please do go ahead and watch the short test video. You can download the original file at Vimeo. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10233/5d-mark-iii-uncompressed-hdmi-sample-footage]Read the full article here[/url]

DNG is uncompressed raw so requires no image processing like compressed video does, the debayering is already being done on the camera and results in a usable image, it just needs to be dumped from buffer memory to SD card memory.

Magic Lantern have uncovered a Cinema DNG output on the 5D Mark II and 5D Mark III. At the moment it doesn't record video but it is expected to be capable of 24fps. The Live View Raw Buffer on the 5D Mark II allows for a 2040 x 1428 Cinema DNG stream, and the team are researching the same feature on the 5D Mark III. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10221/magic-lantern-discover-2k-raw-cinema-dng-stream-in-live-view-on-the-5d-mark-iii]Read the full article here[/url]

  I think it is mostly marketing, but the image is good if you can work around the terrible ergonomics and rolling shutter problems. Clearly Hurlbut would be better off with a F55 on Need For Speed but it is up to him to decide. I doubt the 1D C gets much to do on the set apart from as a POV cam.

Download here The long awaited, year in the making uncompressed HDMI feature has now been added to the 5D Mark III. The firmware has been leaked from a Canon service station and is now available to download before the official 30th April release date. I've installed it and I'm testing the HDMI image quality with my Blackmagic HyperDeck Shuttle now. Article will be updated with my findings shortly...[url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10217/canon-5d-mark-iii-uncompressed-hdmi-firmware-update-v1-2-1-now-available]Read the full article here[/url]

It has been leaked https://www.wetransfer.com/downloads/f1ec39c00766fbe44a5a2d22a4307d4820130426180027/1dfdb0   I'm going to give it a quick test and see what the image is like. Don't have high hopes but let's see.

It is made for Shane Hurlbut. That's all.

I'm starting to believe more in the merits of 4K but the 1D C was horrible to use. Such a shame.

I feel a folly coming on.   There are much better options than the Sigma. The Samyang 35mm F1.4 is only a bit more money and is way sharper wide open. The Sigma has no hard stops on the focus ring so cannot be used with a follow focus. You can get the cinema version of the Samyang. Why get the Sigma? It doesn't make sense.   The Samyang 35mm F1.4 is also a full frame lens and has a physical aperture ring unlike the Sigma which is APS-C or Four Thirds and over 5 years old.   I have both the Lumix 20mm F1.7 and the Sigma 30mm F1.4 which is on loan from a friend to test at the moment.   The Canon FD 35mm F2.0 is sharper and smaller. The Lumix is sharper and smaller too. Is there a unique reason for considering the Sigma?

[media]http://vimeo.com/64879501[/media] Iscorama anamorphic on the 1D C and my test footage at Vimeo I shot with the Canon 1D C and Canon C100 Cinema EOS cameras recently with SlashCam in Berlin. The 1D C is the most Jekyll and Hyde camera I've ever used and a difficult camera to review. The 1D C is a marriage of beautiful 4K images and an unwilling partner who hasn't shifted an inch to accommodate it. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10179/the-canon-1d-c-review]Read the full article here[/url]

Get the Lumix. The Sigma 30mm F1.4 is nice when stopped down to F2.0 but needs the rather pricey Panasonic adapter to work properly on the GH2 and when you go into magnified manual focus assist the lens always goes wide open to F1.4 which is really damned annoying.   The 20mm F1.7 is sharper, smaller and has better AF.   Have you considered a Canon FD or Nikon AI 35mm F2.0? Certainly advantageous if you don't need AF.

  That would be interesting to try with 1D C footage. Stutters in Premiere but fine in FCPX or when converted to Prores.

You see how much confusion bad marketing causes?   Stills shooters would not put up a JPEG compressed to hell as representative of the camera's outright image quality, so I have no idea why these YouTube uploaders feel it is good practice to put broken video samples up and not provide the original files.

I've never seen a single YouTube 1080p stream that looked anywhere near the original camera file, so for me all the YouTube uploads are invalid. Vimeo streams too are only 7Mbit. Much better to wait until people with a clue get hold of the camera :)

No chance for the CX stuff. No focus ring, it is all done electronically.

    It's coming.   Have you tried the Touch AF options?

No not hackable yet, though Vitaliy is working on it.

The Panasonic G6 has been announced and to be honest it is a bit of a surprise, culling very little in the way of features from the GH3 and quite possibly taking video to new levels on a mid-range camera. Based around the GH2's multi-aspect sensor (18MP total, 16MP effective), the sensor is larger than the one in the GH3 (1.86x crop vs 2x), the new camera updates the AVCHD codec (adding 1080/60p) and even focus peaking, something the GH3 doesn't (yet) have! [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10172/gh2-sensor-goes-into-impressive-panasonic-g6-adds-108060p-and-focus-peaking]Read the full article here[/url]

The 14-50mm is nice and sharp but there's a step in aperture when you zoom and the lack of hard stops on the focus ring means it doesn't work with a follow focus properly - it is a weird fly by wire focus ring that varies in how much it racks focus depending on how quickly you move it.   The optical image stabiliser works pretty well though in video mode, for an old lens!   You will need the Panasonic Four Thirds adapter for that to work.

Here's a more technical description of the new sensor http://www.vlsisymposium.org/circuits/program.html#pro03     A 1-inch Optical Format, 14.2M-Pixel, 80fps CMOS Image Sensor with a Pipelined Pixel Reset and Readout Operation, H. Honda*, S. Osawa*, M. Shoda*, E. Pages*, T. Sato*, N. Karasawa*, B. Leichner**, J. Schoper**, E.S. Gattuso**, D. Pates**, J. Brooks**, S. Johnson**and I. Takayanagi*, *Aptina Japan and **Aptina Imaging, Japan A 1-inch optical format, 14.2M-pixel, 80fps, digital-output CMOS image sensor that employs a row-shared dual conversion gain pixel is presented.  To achieve the 80fps readout rate, a pipelined pixel reset/readout scheme named "nesting scan" has been introduced, where the charge sense node inside a pixel is reset during the previous row. Readout noise and maximum handling signal charge of the sensor are 1.7e-rms and 16ke-, respectively, and the ratio of column FPN to readout noise is lower than 0.03 in all gain conditions.   -----   Also note Panasonic are developing an organic sensor with a similar effect on colour as an OLED panel has on an LCD display.     An Ultra-Low Noise Photoconductive Film Image Sensor with a High-Speed Column Feedback Amplifier Noise Canceller,M. Ishii, S. Kasuga, K. Yazawa, Y. Sakata, T. Okino, Y. Sato, J. Hirase, Y. Hirose, T. Tamaki, Y. Matsunaga and Y. Kato, Panasonic Corporation, Japan We developed an ultra-low noise image sensor in which an organic photoconductive film (OPF) is laminated on the entire surface of the pixel circuits. In order to suppress the kTC noise in the pixel circuit of a three transistor configuration, a high-speed column feedback noise cancel circuit is newly developed. An ultra-low noise of 2.9 electrons during the horizontalblanking period of only 5 μs has been achieved.

I watched this, was OK but felt a bit let down. Basically it doesn't really enter into much of a debate between the filmmakers who are pro digital and those who are pro film. Most of the time it is just explaining, explaining, telling us the obvious. Reeves is a bit insipid, doesn't seem to hold any conviction as a story teller. It has a few nice lines from the interviewees, for example David Fincher on the rushes in the film days and not knowing what you've got until you see it days later and sometimes you'd be happy and sometimes it'd be "What the fuck", that made me chuckle :)   Ah - could have been amazing, with that number of famous faces in it, would have been fantastic to have them all in one room arguing about film vs digital.