Andrew Reid

[html]Yes they said it in the DPReview interview. TV production crews don’t need 1080/60p. It isn’t the massive issue some make it out to be. [/html]

[html]danyyyel – Why does not having one small feature disqualify it from costing $20,000? It is too expensive, yes, but not because it lacks 1080/60p for slow mo. [/html]

[html]And support. I agree – specs aren’t everything. [/html]

[html]Ouch indeed! The good news is you don’t need em! [/html]

[html]Wow… unbelievable!! This is it: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/07/magma-introduces-thunderbolt-pcie-expansion-box/ But can you really use the external graphics card as your main card to power a display and the OS instead of the internal one, or is this still just a theory? Is it as easy as selecting it in the Display control panel? [/html]

[html]Agree go for the 15″ quad core MacBook Pro. The Air isn’t fast enough. [/html]

[html]They really should offer an option with RAID SSD drives in place of the DVD drive now. That drive can be connected via USB anyway. I never use mine. [/html]

[html]Native AVCHD. [/html]

[html]Sandy Bridge on the latest MacBook really does negate the need for CUDA. [/html]

[html]Huge difference in timeline playback with CUDA enabled on that CPU? You must be doing some very FX heavy work. [/html]

[html]Apple sticker? Do you miss the more obvious engineering advantages altogether? The engineering and design is why I went to Apple, I couldn’t have cared less about the brand in fact I actively used to despise the aloof brand until the iPod came along. A Mac gives you an integrated design, integrated peripherals, complete lack of hassle, no need to update drivers, far better UI, better mail app and FaceTime, iCloud, TimeMachine, better display, no need for anti-virus crap and when Final Cut Pro X gets serious again it is capable of running it. OSX Lion is still the best OS. I’m sorry but Windows 7 just isn’t in the same league. [/html]

[html]All great apart from Windows. [/html]

[html]Coffee shop credibility is important, not. Thunderbolt and OSX are worth the extra in my opinion. Thunderbolt is an investment for the future, a big one. [/html]

[html]Rather than doing second hand research, my on-unibody MacBook experiences are first hand. It did fall apart. Lose screws, widening gaps, enlarged bolt holes, flexing, the lot. I had to bake the logic board in the oven last month to even get it to boot. It had the 8600 card from Nvidia but passed the Apple test meaning it was a more general logic board failure. The stories are all over the web, it is a common problem after 1-2 years on those machines. The unibody models are a big step up. [/html]

[html][url="http://www.vimeo.com/33047750"]http://www.vimeo.com/33047750[/url] [url="http://www.eoshd.com/anamorphic-guide"]Find out more about anamorphic shooting in my book, the EOSHD Anamorphic Shooter’s Guide 2nd edition[/url] I was in Shanghai for most of November. Shanghai is a monstrous megapolis of concrete really and not quite what I was expecting. It is FAR rawer than Tokyo or Taipei and a lot of the old cultural relics have been swept away – but it was a very interesting place to visit and to film footage in. Down the road there was the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Buddha_Temple"]Jade Buddha Temple[/url] in Jing’An district which is part tourist destination part temple of worship for the local Chinese, I took a look inside… [url="http://www.eoshd.com/content/5963/shooting-anamorphic-in-shanghai-with-an-iscorama-and-20-lens/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]

[html][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/5dmkii-wave.jpg[/img] Does $2400 buy coverage on nearly every DSLR related website? And do ads need to be honest? [url="http://www.eoshd.com/content/5753/exposed-the-2400-5d-mk-ii-viral-ad/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]

[html][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/RGB-Table-small.jpg[/img] This is big. Samsung has begun mass-production of a new screen technology which is also sensitive to light like a digital camera. It has hybrid pixels which display an image as well as sensing it. It represents the start of a complete merging of display and imaging device. The surface of the 40″ panels contains optical sensors in every pixel. The panel is not just a mix of sensor and display, it is both at the same time. [url="http://www.eoshd.com/content/5787/samsung-starts-production-of-touch-screen-that-can-see-like-a-cmos-sensor/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]

[html][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/woc-board-of-education.jpg[/img] [url="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/912442812/the-board-of-education-a-documentary-film"]Please back Jared and get this film made![/url] Even if you just want to buy the Fader ND or monitor – you will be supporting a great cause and a great filmmaker. Jared Abrams from Wide Open Camera asked to interview me recently and I was happy to chat about all things DLSR video. I’ve also decided to become a backer on his film [url="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/912442812/the-board-of-education-a-documentary-film"]The Board of Education[/url] which I really want to see made. [url="/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]

[html][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/canon-4k-dslr-rear.jpg[/img] Canon’s Chuck Westfall has [url="http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/4/2538910/canon-eos-c300-1080p-chuck-westfall"]said[/url] the new 4K concept DSLR will be on the market within 12 months. He made the comment in an interview with The Verge magazine. The rear of the camera gives us some other clues – it has a wide 16:9 screen rather than the usual 4:3 or 3:2 screen on normal DSLRs. [url="/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]

[html][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/olympus-Hisashi-Mori-scandal.jpg[/img] Olympus have admitted to illegal accounting practices in a news conference held in Tokyo today. The company used over $1 billion to hide huge losses from bad investments since the 90′s, sweeping them under the rug by making spurious payments to dummy entitles, the largest of which was over $670 million (or 2 years profit) in 2008 to a Caymans Island entity which disappeared 2 weeks later. [url="/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]

[html][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/tokyo-taxi.jpg[/img] Above: Tokyo shot on the GH2 with Olympus 12mm F2 I am in Japan right now for a short holiday. This place is incredible, a blend of high tech and high tradition. The Japanese also have impeccable politeness that spreads a feel good vibe over almost everything you see or do. The countryside and mountains have a zen-like calm and minimalism, the city of Tokyo has a Bladerunner-like futuristic buzz to it but actually Shanghai is more like a bustling Bladerunner dystopia. Tokyo is very ordered and utopian. [url="/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]

[html][url="http://www.vimeo.com/28912003"]http://www.vimeo.com/28912003[/url] I have always believed a film shot on a DSLR would one day win an Oscar. Shot in Afghanistan on the 5D Mark II by Danfung Dennis – Hell and Back Again – seems to be going all the way. It is one of just 15 documentaries which will advance to the final shortlist vote for the Oscars 2011. The feature length documentary has long been known by us in the DSLR community, and gives an incredibly immersive and intimate view of war never before captured. [url="/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]

[html][url="http://www.vimeo.com/32520456"]http://www.vimeo.com/32520456[/url] I decided to give my GH2 a tough challenge a few days ago – replicate the look of Blade Runner in the rain, in the side streets of Tokyo. The GH2 isn’t a weather proof camera but on this occasion I felt it may as well have been, it really did get that wet. At one point I had condensation inside my Voigtlander Nokton 25mm F0.95! The weather had been fine for the whole week I was in Japan and then it all went south with a vengeance which was perfect. Tokyo looks incredibly cinematic in the rain. [url="/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]

[html][url="http://www.vimeo.com/31835141"]http://www.vimeo.com/31835141[/url] [url="http://www.eoshd.com/gh2-guide-book"]Go deeper into the GH2 with the 164 page EOSHD GH2 Shooter’s Guide[/url] Vitaliy Kiselev revealed his latest version 3.63 GH2 hack yesterday. In it is a innocuous patch that removes the ISO limit (3200) in video mode allowing us to go all the way to ISO 12,800. Now at first I didn’t think much to this, since the image would be unusable at ISO 12,800 right? Well it turns out I was wrong. “Seeing in the dark is an understatement, it is like having Infra Red!” was overheard on Vitaliy’s forum so I went out in a hurry to test it and recorded the footage above at ISO 12,800. What I found amazed me. The amount of detail still present in the image is just astounding. No noise reduction is applied to the footage, and it is turned off in-camera. Not only that but noise has a very fine film-like grain because of the accompanying high bitrate hack. The look of the noise is similar to the Nikon D3S’s video mode at high ISOs but with far more resolution. It doesn’t look like digital noise, it is more like 8mm film at ISO 800. [url="/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]

[html][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/00000003.png[/img] UPDATE: New slide above shows 3 cameras. The DSLR with the silver mount could be just a prototype as could the other 3 during development of the C300. [url="/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]