Andrew Reid

I am pretty sure the a7C will be back but if they can't get just one critical component for 2 years, they've got no choice but to terminate it I can't see Sony redesigning the PCB and making big changes. They will just go straight to an A7C II instead This could be the permanent end for Sony APS-C stuff though.

Is this the end for affordable Sony cameras? A7C, A6600, A6100 all cancelled Due to a major chip shortage, Sony has announced it will cancel the production of several recent models, some permanently. Sony are themselves a manufacturer of semiconductors, can't they just make more? Of course it isn't that simple. Sony use thousands of third party chips in their products... Read the full article on blog: https://www.eoshd.com/news/is-this-the-end-for-affordable-sony-cameras-a7c-a6600-a6100-all-cancelled/

Yeah they are going on sale apparently. No prices yet The plot thickens!

I can see that happening. the Z6 Mark III that is 🙂 If this place becomes like the DPR forum be prepared for me to go bye bye again!!

Good to see you back! More YouTube coming soon That should annoy Peter McKinnon all being well

EOSHD investigates... https://www.eoshd.com/news/whats-the-story-behind-schneider-kreuznachs-return-of-the-iscorama/

It's Spring time for EOSHD.

Hello to everyone on the forum! A Merry Christmas from me! I hope you're looking forward to having a good break over the holidays and are ready to welcome in 2022. Talking of holidays - I have been having a break from EOSHD for a few months. I went and sat on a hill and finally had time to reflect on my work which is this blog and the community around it. The last video had a lot of support, it's made me really appreciate what I have in a more positive light. I'm mega appreciative of the people who took the time to say how EOSHD has helped them over the years and that they want it to continue. So that's what we'll do! EOSHD is back. Read the full blog post here

The most important question - Is Peter McKinnon switching?

You might struggle, with such a large sensor. The Iscorama 54 has a very big rear element, and if you don't mind some soft-ish corners and fall off (not a hard vignette) you could try pairing it with a vintage full frame lens on an adapter for the GFX 100. You just wouldn't get away with 50mm like on full frame... Would need to go longer... 85mm perhaps. Don't bother pairing it with the modern Fuji G lenses. Won't work. Needs more simple optics behind it. Maybe a Canon FD 85mm F1.8 or something like that. I plan to take a deeper look into this next month. There's a lot I haven't got round to trying. Do you have an anamorphic lens at the moment, or are you looking - if so what's your budget and aims? Cheers

Thanks for the kind words everyone 👍

Is N-RAW = intoPIX TICO RAW? What settings are in-camera? What is available at launch in terms of ProRes RAW / bitrates / ProRes 422 flavours? I have a look into it here but more info welcome in this thread from quality sources. https://www.eoshd.com/raw-video/what-are-the-details-of-nikons-new-cinema-8k-4k-raw-codec-on-the-z9/

Looks like they are using the same raw codec for both stills and video mode then? 6:1 and 12:1 compression modes 500Mbit in 1 bit per pixel 12:1 compression for DCI 4K 60p. Which could mean 4K/24p cinema at under 250Mbit!! 1000Mbit in the 6:1 mode (4K/60) 8K is up to 4000Mbit in the highest quality mode. Not sure which of these Intopix configs they have actually implemented on camera so if anyone finds some more info from Nikon or a good source do let me know

Looks like Apple may have a custom chip, which didn't exist before. Low power, works in a thin chassis. The iPhone 13 Pro and now the Z9, something seems to have happened with ProRes encoders...

Much better than expected all round. Probably a bit overkill even. But ProRes and that insanely fast sensor with very little overheating even in 8K makes it unique. I am impressed. They are saying the sensor rolling shutter is as fast as a mechanical one.

They won't work. You need a mirrorless camera with the shorter flange and big space for the lens barrel to slot into. I'd open the thread up to recommendations about really good lenses for the Pocket 6K EF though... Contax Zeiss 28mm F2.0 Hollywood got to be right up there on my list.

The Leitz phone is basically that Sharp phone with a different back casing (both Japan only as well) On the other hand I highly recommend the Mi 11 ultra once you dial the look in and use it in Pro mode.

Leica need something to do now Huawei kicked them out of bed. I am still surprised they chose Sharp, but rumours are Xiaomi may get the Leica treatment next. The trick here seems to be to go really wide at 19mm to fit the lens in the phone. Which means pretty much every normal shot is going to be a 60% crop of the sensor. The Sharp's 1" sensor cannot however overcome the rubbish image processing and colour science. I wonder if the Leica version of it has a few extra colour profiles thrown in for your 2 grand?! At least it got released. I am still wondering where that Sharp 8K camera went!

I always thought it was weird how this ended up being so much thicker than the complete RX100 body. And now for the sake of a few millimetres of extra phone thickness we get a $100 smartphone lens on a $1800 handset. Sony make much better 1/1.28" sensors for Huawei than what they've stuffed into the Xperia Pro I. Quad Bayer, 50 megapixel, RYYB, and most amazingly of all the lens fits it

That can be useful but they always make some clangers you need to watch out for... - Usually they don't bother testing the actual focal length of the zoom optics. For example some test shots at 4x when the periscope optics doesn't get used until 5x. I've seen entire reviews from them which ignore a whole camera module. - They don't even bother changing the default settings and picture profiles. So if a result looks like an oversharpened HDR mess, that's why. The Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra has controls for dialling down sharpness, contrast and saturation. The HDR mode is usually best turned off too. - They seem allergic to testing RAW. It's like if DPReview only showed you dynamic range in the JPEGs. RAW Is a good way to bypass the over processed look of a smartphone. - They don't really make proper judgements on colour and skin tones, the artistic side - The overall scores are a bit off, some better phones too low down and some new models too high up.

THE camera for spray and hope lunatics. Specs are ridiculous. Just a way to grind another 6 grand out of people. And here's me still waiting for a Digital Bolex relaunch and wondering what vintage lens to get next 🙂 It will be aimed at sports professionals, like D5... but 8K/60p and 120fps photo sequences will be a massive amount of data to go through after for very little real world gain, and aren't these guys usually needing to turn in results very quickly?

It doesn't stack up today because the computational photography, quad bayer and high-speed readouts have overcome the shortcomings of smaller sensors. That's pretty much why, when the iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max came out, nobody could tell the difference in the images! That's despite the 12 Pro Max having a considerably larger sensor. Quad bayer is an important step, makes bigger difference than upping the chip size and pixel size. Currently the best image quality in smartphone land is: Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra Huawei P40 Pro Plus In that order. I have the Xperia 1 II and it's got a decent main sensor in it and natural image processing. It's nothing all that special though and the other camera modules are very middle of the road in that. I can shoot 1/5 at ISO 100 in low light on the Mi 11 Ultra, in RAW, and the shots are pin sharp. The reviews didn't do it justice, they don't know how to do anything but point and shoot. It's got a lot of unexplored options and a Pro mode, and if you turn HDR to manual, most of the time it's better off off. Also for the best JPEG/HEIFs you need to disable RAW. Anyway it is interesting to see where this stuff is going. With the Cinema video modes and such advanced photo features. Still looking to branch off my interest from EOSHD and mirrorless cameras so I should get into enthusiast smartphone camera reviews because the existing guys aren't photographers, they're tech social media influencers and that is a different skill set - marketing and presentation. I don't think they even talk about RAW in the reviews and the phone review sites don't bother testing it either, because again they're not really that knowledgeable about photography. Anybody who is, point me to them and I'll reach out.

You can shoot this on the Oneplus 9 Pro for 800 euros don't forget

Completely unhinged pricing. Plus they took away the periscope optical zoom module, which is on the cheaper Xperia 1 III. New adventures in profit margins for shabby Sony. And a straight flat out lie about the sensor size too. It isn't a 1" sensor if you can't use it.

Yes more choice of profiles, more combinations of creative style & white balance tricks that shift the image to a less clinical zone. The picture profiles fix all of what the old Pro Color did and of course the main thing is they are tested and designed with the latest cameras in mind because Sony changed their colour science 2-3 times in the past 4 years. For your A7S II the main advantage is now the extended guide and larger range of profiles rather than the one fix.