Andrew Reid

[media]http://vimeo.com/52338565[/media] The Canon 135mm F2L is at the moment my favourite lens on full frame. For the kind of shooting I am doing here, I wanted to stand back from the scenery and punch in. How does it perform?

Could well be $25k, my pricing info was preliminary and I had it a week ago. What I was hearing was that the F5 was meant to compete with the C300 on price at $15k, but frankly they don't have to with specs like that. Maybe they will put it in the middle, around the 20k mark and drop to 16k in a few months.

Just gone official... More here http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/show-highend/resource.solutions.bbsccms-assets-show-highend-F5.shtml

[url="http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sony-f5-f55.jpg"][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sony-f5-f55.jpg[/img][/url] Sony are set to shake up the digital cinema market with a specs war, at less than half the price of the Epic and also at the C300 price point of $15k. The Sony F5 (priced to compete with the Canon C300) takes the compact form of the FS100 / FS700 but adds a Red-style modularity and the more logical control layout of the Alexa. The F55 has the same ergonomic design but even more importantly the more expensive camera features an utterly ground-breaking new sensor with a global shutter for the first time on a digital cinema camera.

[quote name='Germy1979' timestamp='1351385252' post='20456']So honestly man.. Did you think you were going to condescendingly pop up a 3 page long slap in the face of every aspiring filmmaker on here and not get a response? For starters, "whining" is a form of ventilation for the majority of us here on the forums regarding the overpriced, underperforming products of companies like Canon. We loved the Mark 2. We were loyal for a Mark 3 that kicked its ass... What we got was a 5d mark 2 without moire & aliasing for $1500 more... Along with a cinema line starting at $15,000 picking up its slack. While i agree that no one has to buy their cameras, you don't have to read our ticked off rants about why we're upset that the very demographic that made Canon a filmmaking revolution, has now been priced right the hell out of the equation. And they wonder why their profits have been pounded suddenly... [/quote] Well put. It isn't whining, it is customer feedback. Canon blamed their 42% drop in profits on a lot of things - the yen, the Euro, product delays - but not actually the products themselves.

I believe Canon have taken their eye of the products, and concentrated too much on the market and focus groups. The products aren't innovative or brave enough and they have fallen behind on the Rebel series, too many baby steps and not enough new technology.

[quote name='Dr. John R. Brinkley' timestamp='1351126729' post='20255'] Great interview. I loved the persistent questions and the remarks to the side. Well done. [/quote] Thank you, hope it was somewhat an antidote to the usual PR.

C300 / C500 / 1D C are all going to be completely smoked by what Sony have up their sleeve. Stay tuned.

[url="http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/canon-1d-c.jpg"][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/canon-1d-c.jpg[/img][/url] At Photokina Canon had their latest build of the EOS 1D C on display, a $15,000 DSLR which is heavily based on the $6000 1D X but has extra recording modes for 4K/24p and 1080/50/60p. At the time, Canon's product manager at Photokina (not a hired hand or a sales rep) to my surprise told me the main difference to the 1D X was just firmware and that the hardware was identical other than a slightly different selection of connectivity ports. Canon contacted me a couple of weeks ago to expand on and correct this from their side - there are other subtle hardware changes to enable 4K video, other than just firmware.

Get the new firmware here for the 5D Mark III The 2nd Alpha release of Magic Lantern for the 5D Mark III brings a very useful feature for anamorphic shooters such as I, a real-time anamorphic aspect ratio preview in live view. This is extremely useful for shooting bare bones with an anamorphic lens, or for those with no monitor / EVF that supports anamorphic de-squeeze.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/51618708[/vimeo] [url="https://vimeo.com/51618708"]Download the video here (Vimeo Plus members only)[/url] As well as having the coolest name for a camera ever conceived, this is a camera that kind of makes you wonder what the Japanese camera manufacturers have been up to all this time. Although the 720/120fps mode is shared by Panasonic, the GoPro team have smashed a number of barriers here in terms of 4K / 2.7K resolution and processing power in such a small camera, for a frankly unbelievable $400. EOSHD takes a look at the new HERO3 camera.

I can't wait to use this stuff on the Blackmagic MFT. By the way the aspect ratio on this project is an experimental one, it isn't technically correct nor is it meant to be... Rather an intentional creative decision to have a slightly stretched image. I'll write more about this once the music video is done.

[url="http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/dreamleaver-lili-niklas.jpg"][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/dreamleaver-lili-niklas-660x371.jpg[/img][/url] Above: Lily & Niklas magic hour amour, shot with OCT 19 LOMO 35mm anamorphic The OCT19 mount is a Super 35mm cinema camera mount from Russia, essentially was their equivalent of PL mount. Long time EOSHD readers will know I am in love with the look of OCT 18 mount lenses, but mechanically speaking they are very basic. OCT 19 lenses are improved mechanically, much more solid.

Ike007 simplifies too much but his main point is actually right. A very good fast prime shot wide open, if it is extremely sharp, really helps a camera which has poor resolution and a ton of aliasing. It is the deep depth of field wide angle shots where these cameras fall down, not so much the shallow DOF stuff. 5D Mark III is a different camera altogether with the 135mm F2L for example. But at 24mm F8, focused at infinity it sucks.

For me this is also all very disappointing, I think a cleanly resolved image is top of the list. If your stills are shoddy at the per pixel level, you don't rack up the sales, and so I have no idea why it isn't a top priority for Sony in video mode - especially when they went to so much effort on the general video orientated specs list.

[img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/IMG_3942.jpg[/img] Thanks to a chance encounter I was able to very briefly try a GH3 this week in Barcelona. The camera was on loan from Panasonic and not available to the public to try, it was part of the private beta test program but they very kindly let me give my impressions of it after a brief 20 minute play with the camera behind closed doors. Again this was not the final camera but it had some interesting tweaks compared to the models Panasonic brought to Photokina last month.

[img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Cinema_Camera_MFT1.jpg[/img] The Blackmagic Cinema Camera hasn't shipped in volume yet but already there is talk of quite an extensively revised camera according to my good friend [url="http://www.43rumors.com/ft4-new-blackmagic-camera-with-full-electronic-support-coming-2013/"]43Rumors[/url]. If this is true (and I stress - IF!!) then I have mixed feelings because I think it is WAY too soon to be doing a 'Blackmagic Cinema Camera V1.5' in early 2013, effectively making your existing cameras obsolete before they have even shipped.

[url="http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC03234.jpg"][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC03234.jpg[/img][/url] An exploded view of the A99 at Photokina Whilst I was able to record some footage from the Sony A99 at Photokina I didn't really have any spare time to do much with one. The camera to me seems a little bit disappointing on the image quality front with line skipping resulting in quite heavy moire and aliasing. Not acceptable in 2012. Johnnie (who I had the pleasure of finally meeting at Photokina) is a freelance BBC cameraman and editor based in Vienna. His comments on the new A99 are mixed (as are my feelings about the camera).

[quote name='galenb' timestamp='1349286780' post='19365'] Wow, it's weird how much we've been attacked lately. And it's not even to advertise penis pills either. ;-) Time to install capcha in the new user registration I guess.[/quote] There's already a capcha system in place on the new registrations. I'm open to people volunteering to become mods.

The solution for the MFT camera, as written in the article, is the same cage built around a cinema lens mount adapter (PL, etc). Please read it

I don't understand the strange comments about the aesthetics. It is striking and I suppose that divides people but I am on the side of the looks, it is beautiful. Show me your rare wood handles for your plastic DSLR made in China!!

[media]http://vimeo.com/50210718[/media] One of the highlights of Photokina 2012 was meeting up with SLR Magic, the small but nimble optics company based in Hong Kong. They brought out one of the first proper fast wide lenses for Micro Four Thirds (the 12mm F1.6) by listening to demand and acting swiftly. Now they are building high end super-fast primes which are optimised for filmmakers as well as photographers.

[url="http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_2523.jpeg"][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_2523.jpeg[/img][/url] Here's an ingenious cage solution for the Blackmagic Cinema Camera by my neighbours in Berlin - ReWo. Rather than a bulky cage which wraps around the entire camera, ReWo have chosen to form their cage around the mount tube. Yes finally that strange EF tube has a use! The cage provides mounting points for ReWo's wood handles via Arri rosettes, top handle, mounting points for accessories via 1/4" and 3/8" threads and a 15mm rods block.

I took some on my card at Photokina, full 1080p ALL-I 25p. Nothing very interesting, looks same as the 5D Mark III - didn't notice any moire.

Cleaned that up, no idea how they got in