Andrew Reid

Mediocrity is the new gold standard.

Just bought a GFX 50R by the way 😆

Yeah into the consumerism swamp we go. A big shame for our culture, or what's left of it.

I can see what you mean but from my perspective it does indeed matter other the guy is doing, especially as they are fucking the life out of the internet as a viable business, as well as normalising bribery and reducing the viability of my business model at EOSHD, at the same time as taking 80% of my audience away. The whole internet is only going to be fit for the dustbin and we won’t have any community left.

I am demotivated. In fact, I have come to believe it is the audience and consumers who are to blame for the current situation, as much as the shills. Speaking not about you guys but more generally in terms of the interest in cameras, perhaps best epitomised by Philip Bloom's followers - A lot of people simply don't value the principals which drive a free and open internet. A lot don't even understand what they are. As Steve said in his video, he started reviewing cameras as a hobby. When a hobby stops being fun there is no point to it, or it becomes a chore to keep up with paying the bills which is what EOSHD has currently become to me. The reason the ad dollars and shills have won the entire internet is because followers let them.

These posts always go badly and end up in a shit show. This one will eventually too. Just watch...

Sorry to hear it. I stopped using Vimeo a while back and went to YouTube for exactly this reason. Felt like they were holding a gun to my head that could go off at any time.

Wonder if Felipe used a Sony? Fucking reprehensible.

Yep. Thoughts are with them. Xelmus Anamorphic are there. It's absolute evil in our time.

Yes, the intro no longer is appropriate given today's events. Going to re-do the video and post it later when had more time with the camera.

Pretty close in low light I'd say. GH6 is worth upgrading to I think. Will do a proper comparison between those too. As I need to decide whether to keep my GH5S or sell.

Not a review yet, just initial impressions.

What impact if any does Color Chrome Effect have on this in the Fuji menus? Is it possible Fuji's processing by default blurs the chroma channel so that dialling in certain film simulation settings brings it back and changes the look? It must be on purpose they have done this.

I prefer the OM-1 body design and huge EVF, in terms of having some photography DNA aka Leica, it does well, and AF system looks promising. I prefer the specs sheet of the GH6 for video and anamorphic shooting. But I am so far beyond just specs these days.

It doesn't have a quad bayer sensor. It has some sort of quad pixel AF. Not looked into that too deeply yet as still waiting for somebody who isn't a complete shill to handle the OM1.

There is absolutely no doubt it is a sweetheart Sony deal not a public tender. The giveaway is how specific the tender is. "Eye tracking. 24-200 equivalent lens. 15 frames per second/no blackout." A tender shouldn't be this specific about a compact camera if they really had any intention in making a deal with companies other than Sony or even hearing from all the camera companies at all.

From memory I don't think it improved with Metabones EF adapters in that update - the limitation is more on the adapter side than the camera side. I could be wrong, as was ages since I tested.

Yep it is infuriating, but maybe it isn't Panasonic's decision. It's possible that Sony just refuses to grant them the license, knowing it will be the death of a major rival's camera division. Sony will give a license to OM System and Sigma (Fp-L) as they know these are more of a niche system. But Panasonic and Leica they seem to want them pegged. Is it a 6 months wait then? That's a bit of a pity. You may want to wait and sell the old cameras later, because at this rate nobody is buying a new one! There's going to be some big shortages and limited units manufactured. This will push up the price of used cameras a lot in the coming 12 months, by my reckoning.

To be honest you don't really need 10bit unless doing heavy grading with LOG, and even then very good image processing can overcome the limitations of 8bit to a degree. I can see why Olympus, or OM, or JIP or whatever it is designing this camera chose 8bit for Olympus picture profile colour science - same as JPEGs and nobody is going to notice a difference to 10bit because it will be a good codec and a high bitrate in 8bit. A big fan of the ergonomics (from the look of the body anyway) and the huge EVF. 0.83x at 5.76 million dots is on par with a GFX 100! The computational photography modes are really welcome. Wish live ND could be made to work in video mode for 180 degrees look at fast shutter speeds. I didn't think the OM1 would generate much excitement in the full frame world. Especially as E-M1X reception was lukewarm to say the least. Nobody seems to like big expensive micro four thirds cameras, they go against the grain. But maybe with the quad pixel AF and the rest of the camera being such a big upgrade, maybe they are onto something. Time to sell my E-M1X and E-M1 II.

The Fuji 18-55mm F2.8-4 is due a sequel isn't it! I am a big fan of the Sigma 17-70mm 2.8-4 on EF mount, it makes a nice do-it-all lens on X-mount with the Finger adapter. But a native 18-50mm F2.8 would be superb, or even an F2.0-2.8 like the famous Samsung 16-50mm S lens.

@Attila Bakos Do you mind if I draw attention to your video on the blog's main page? Let's get Fuji's attention.

Might be fixable if it is. I remember on E-M1 II which also has phase-detect AF, actually it could be quite decent in stills mode with EF lenses... But in video mode, it all went to shit. Which is probable, when you consider the limitations of the EF lens bandwidth and that the adapter probably needs to do a lot of translation on the fly or can't use it as optimally as a native EF camera can. I'd be curious to see if the OM1 is the first M43 camera to give us MC-11 like performance with Canon glass though. That would be huge. I'd dust off the Speed Booster for that!

If only there was a lens adapter to use Micro Four Thirds lenses on Fuji X-Mount? 😉 They just need a 24mm F1.4 in the mix now and a telephoto F1.4 prime, 135mm equiv. Wonder if Sigma will jump on the GFX bandwagon later too? Their 85mm F1.4 EF lens already covers!

And he was I thinking 2x crop sensor cameras are dead at £2K!! I may have to order an OM-1 as well.

Photo is the perfect analogy for GH1 / GH6! Even down to the colour scheme. At the very least they should make a motorised tray that retracts into the grip, and slides out over the sensor when in use. The tray will have the ND glass in it. The glass could be of the E-ND type. If a Fuji X100 can do clever things like sliding an EVF into an optical viewfinder, and it costs under £1000, I am sure it must be possible to do a similar thing with the sensor glass!