Andrew Reid

[quote name='Paul' timestamp='1348166282' post='18730'] I'm no hardware engineer, but what's to stop the ML guys from downloading the firmware from the 1DC, making a few tweaks, and loading it onto the 1DX? Missing a headphone jack still, so kind of worthless as a documentary or run and gun camera, but for narrative or studio work it would be fine. [/quote] It is likely [i]very[/i] encrypted and protected by other methods too.

There might be a different AA filter design on the 1D C but other than that, same camera hardware, just tweaks and firmware added.

[quote name='Orangenz' timestamp='1348140930' post='18674'] So that means...? I guess it means he wants to prioritize quality over functionality, ie. no multi-aspect sensor? Great interview. Cool to talk to someone who doesn't speak your language but is clearly a very brainy person. [/quote] Yes that is correct. Image quality was priority over multi-aspect. He was incredibly intelligent, his notepad left me almost speechless at the end.

[url="http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_3569.jpg"][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_3569.jpg[/img][/url] I had a hands-on with the Canon 1D C today and was allowed to shoot some footage. I also had a improtum talk to a Canon Europe product manager who was very open and honest about Canon's approach with this camera, but what he said rather shocked me.

I have a LOT more of Pocahontas thanks to SLR Magic's new prototype F0.95 lens ;)

I wanted to ask him about electronic ND filters too but I only had 30 minutes notice of the interview, so wasn't be to prepare much. Will seek him out again today and present him with the L1 I just found in Cologne :) He designed it!

[url="http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eoshd-gh3-inoue-interview.jpg"][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eoshd-gh3-inoue-interview.jpg[/img][/url] Above: Inoue helped conceive the GH3 and was a mechanical designer on the well regarded Panasonic L1 (inset) Yoshiyuki Inoue is the senior engineering planner at Panasonic. A mechanical designer on the Panasonic L1 back in the Four Thirds days, that camera is now fondly rememberd for a beautiful optical viewfinder, Leica M style build and cutting edge design. Inoue also worked at Minolta before joining Team Lumix. I caught up with Inoue yesterday at Photokina to ask him about the design and technical workings of the new Panasonic GH3 at Photokina in Germany.

Man... I thought he'd shot it with an Alexa. Was stunned when he said GH2. Wasn't even hacked. The 720/60p mode on that camera is probably the best there is. But also all credit to him, his shot selection and choice of lenses was extremely good.

It is definitely not soft. But the aliasing is a bit D800-like and a worry.

[quote name='miseducation' timestamp='1347895279' post='18354'] No headphone jack on a 2k camera is despicable. [/quote] Totally bizarre isn't it?

[quote name='alanpoiuyt' timestamp='1347997855' post='18500'] Wondering if Telecrop mode has been improved noise-wise and if accessable when using hdmi out. Thanks for all your hard work. [/quote] Good points! Will test this tomorrow.

HDMI is uncompressed 4-2-0 I didn't have a Ninja with me to test, the Ninja was busy beating up Philip. Nor did I have my Zacuto EVF to hand but this is pretty solid info - Slashcam guys know their stuff http://www.43rumors.com/gh3-info-no-multiaspect-sensor-uncompressed-hdmi-out-with-420/

[quote name='Simco123' timestamp='1347995174' post='18485'] Was there a punch up with Bloom :mellow: [/quote] Yep. I won. :ph34r: [img]http://www.eoshd.com/comments/uploads/inline/1/5058df312bcdc_bullybloom.jpg[/img]

Clone me and I'll consider it. As far as the filming of reviews go. Philip is very good at that, his reviews are almost an event in themselves. But I prefer to write, I find often coming across info on the web and not having the time to absorb a video. It is quicker to read a blog post.

[url="http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/G44C0207.jpg"][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/G44C0207.jpg[/img][/url] Panasonic's Philipp Wolf showed me the inner-workings of the new GH3 at Photokina today. I was then let loose with the camera to shoot some test footage in 1080/25p ALL-I and 50Mbit 1080/50p mode. This camera was running firmware version v0.4 and so by no means final yet. What I found impressed me.

[quote name='nigelbb' timestamp='1347870717' post='18304'] I suspect that Nikon & Canon just got the same answers from the extensive marketing research & focus groups that these vast corporations use to find out what consumers really want. [/quote] Or hire a Steve Jobs. Much better.

[url="http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gh3-official.jpg"][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gh3-official.jpg[/img][/url] Described by Panasonic as a semi-professional 'creative HD hybrid' and a flagship model for the company, the Panasonic GH3 is finally here - 2 years after the GH2 arrived. The official unveiling answers some of the mysteries too.

[img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/canon-6d-full-frame-dslr.jpg[/img] The full frame Canon 6D has just been formally unveiled as Photokina opens for the press. A competitor to the Nikon D600 (also to be unveiled today)Â this is a near identical camera to the 5D Mark III in many respects especially video it seems. But like the 60D compared to the 7D, it is cheaper and smaller. It features a new 20MP sensor but a similar (if not identical) DIGIC 5+ processor of the 5D Mark III. It has built in WiFi and GPS unlike the bigger brother. The only real compromises seem to be in the AF system, lack of 100% viewfinder, lack of headphone jack, slightly slower burst rate for stills and lack of left side button panel.

[quote name='KahL' timestamp='1347865857' post='18297'] No it did not and that bit of strong misinformation was further perpetuated by this site as well. [/quote] More like it was perpetuated by people misunderstanding the article and all the words. Misinterpreting information is very common. At no point did I say on the blog that the GH2 was technically superior to an Alexa, Epic or F65 in the Zacuto shootout.

[quote name='Chrad' timestamp='1347860864' post='18295'] Probably just run of the mill mild corporate espionage. There's no way that in this day and age Canon and Nikon would be able to hide such major projects from each other. [/quote] If it is 'mild' espionage in terms of solid evidence that one of the companies is producing a certain kind of product, then yes.

[quote name='Zach' timestamp='1347853648' post='18292'] what exactly would be suspicious about it? [/quote] Canon and Nikon are supposed to be separate companies. Everyone who knows about their cameras as they are being planned or developed are under an NDA. As far as I know, a company doesn't make a massive product decision based on rumours or whispers so if a Nikon guy came to a Canon guy in a Tokyo pub and said "hey we're making a cut price full frame DSLR!" I don't think Canon would suddenly create a 6D. But it could just be a coincidence. They are matching each other at every step. It seems the D800 caught Canon unawares in the high megapixel territories - they don't have an answer to that yet.

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[quote name='markm' timestamp='1347800106' post='18251'] Cameraboy Some speculation. Would that lead to the sort of softness we see in Genesis do you think? Maybe its got a filter for moire and aliasing that adds to the softening we have seen? [/quote] I am amazed people don't know the difference between 7Mbit and 72mbit. VIMEO IS A 7MBIT STREAM!! It was 720p even, until yesterday evening. Of course it looks soft and macro blocked and crushed.

And GH3 has a quad core CPU. Impressive.

The Olympus OM-D E-M5 Sony sensor is 16.1MP effective, 16.9MP in total.