Andrew Reid

Hard to verify news if you never post source.

There is nothing on the press release site Samsung Tomorrow about the new sensor and the photo @androidladuses is of the old sensor... I did a google reverse image search on it https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-launches-industrys-first-28-megapixel-aps-c-cmos-image-sensor-for-digital-cameras

A7S III at 12,800 is very clean because this is when the dual gain ISO kicks in for S-LOG 3. It comes in earlier for Pro Color. Try the Venice profile and see how much cleaner it is than S-LOG 3 at ISO 10,000 for instance 🙂

Yes I believe so, as the Panasonic firmware update page mentions you need it for some of the updates modes like Hybrid Log Gamma.

There are some things in life that are only highly rated in your head and yours alone. You stand drowning in a sea of indifference, trying to convince the resident Kanye West mouthbreather to listen Dream Theater's first album. With cameras for example, I've stood in the sea of indifference myself for a long time with the waves of stupidity lapping at my feet, making my socks all damp, as I try to convince the mainstream that Sony is not your best buddy, despite what Gerald says and that Canon is not the messiah but a very naughty boy! So here are my top 5 most under appreciated cameras of the current era. Please read on. Reading is also very underrated! New blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/news/what-are-the-5-most-underrated-cameras-for-filmmakers/

Would have been interesting to see the C70 in there with the dual gain architecture. I think the DR is superior to C500 II on that. Still only 5-10% better than a $1500 Lumix S1 though. So I would never spend that much on a camera. After GFX 100 and Leica SL2 I will probably never buy a very expensive creative tool again because the depreciation and overkill is really quite upsetting. Going back to a humble S1 is itself a humbling experience for a $10,000 camera owner.

Still not as good as Panasonic S1 though Why even think of getting Z Fc for $1000 when you can go on eBay for an S1 at $350 more?

I would be in the market for one as well if it's done well. Nearly got the Df when it came out but decided not to in the end. May try one out one day! Or might nick yours in Valancia@BTM_Pix!

Wow the S1 holds up well there. Just shows it is a match for Alexa / Amira when you nail exposure correctly. Great colour science. I see the main flaw being that the skin tones go green in his ETTR test and then there's the banding after that, so not quite as flawless as the Amira there but then it isn't shooting ProRes or RAW in his test. Just internal V-LOG I think

I'd recommend the latest version. Although if you DM me, you can have both for the price of v5.

Fuji X-T3 had the serious tech specs, build quality and enough metal to get away with being designed for hipsters. The Z Fc doesn't pull it off... Too much plastic. Granted it is better looking than Z50 though. Olympus PEN-F digital micro 43 camera was a pretty one... but again, had enough functionality and heft to pull it off. I think Z Fc just looks cute as far as film-camera knock offs go but I just can't get the Minox comparison out of my head You can say that the top plate on that is a classic design as well, and it is. But...

Yeah I had no idea they broke it for it was like that for a good few months! Good point about loan cameras, you are reliant on the rental house updating them then. Anyway hope you enjoy the profiles once they started working again. I have added a note about compatibility to the Z-LOG purchase page to the effect of "Z6 II and Z7 II are supported only with latest firmware update". I'll also upload the docs and instructions in the guide that come with it. Cheers!

Thanks for the forum post... I have fixed the contact form now (Google Recaptcha decided to stop working for no reason) I have sent you a DM with the new download link. Cheers!

2 weeks with the error without realising? A quick 10 second test clip would have revealed it. Also you should always make sure your cameras are running the latest firmware update. If Nikon's engineers accidentally broke their own custom picture profile support on two new camera releases, I am not responsible for that. It was up to them to put it right, and eventually they did so. Not very good though is it Nikon? Phone their customer support line and make your voice heard so they are able to put out more reliable tools.

Maybe Nikon thinks that for the type of customer the Z Fc is aimed at, 16-50mm F3.5-6.3 collapsable toy zoom with plastic mount is a big step up from a smartphone. Except it really isn't any more.

Yeah GF1 was a nice little camera. Sometimes simple is better. Something about that first model had quite a solid build quality to it and the white version had a very high quality gloss finish, almost felt ceramic like. These materials, finishes, looks all matter to me which is why the Z Fc is only just about nice looking on paper - Then you realise it is a cheap plastic thing with worst specs than an X-T3 from 2 years ago, so why bother?

It doesn't have any authenticity. It's a fake. A replica. A Minox.

Nikon today launched the Z Fc. Formerly the Df retro plastic camera, Nikon has improved the concept with even more plastic and a smaller sensor. You can feel the retro authenticity during each buzz of the power zoom and the flappy plastic concealing a port used for live streaming. It's every film camera shooter's dream Minox Nikon! --- What did Df stand for anyway? What does Fc mean? Fruit cake? Football club? Are you OK Nikon??

Can you just ease off on the sycophantly for one second and appreciate that I can say what the damn hell I like on my own YouTube channel. In one sentence you are telling me what to do and how I should perform on a YouTube channel, and in the next moment it's nauseating praise. I find it creepy and highly annoying both at the same time. I don't know how you manage it, it's quite an achievement. So just my two cents. If you can address more broader subjects than just me in every post that would be fantastic. Otherwise anti-stalking cops going to have to come and put you in a jail run by Matt Granger. Do enlighten us on those!

The world is full of people telling other people what to do. Don't be one of them.

Some of you guys seriously need to get a sense of humour.

Found the Matt Grainger fan 🙂

Nice find with the FAQ. Maybe it's my misconception about Gerald. I can agree with him about corporate work not being all that interesting enough to share (and often there's no permission for that anyway) and I can see why he wouldn't want to do any more of that when he's got a successful business with the YouTube channel. It's not a personal thing, only an observation, a suggestion that I'd enjoy his channel more if it had visuals, images, photography, short sequences to set the mood and cinematic moments. We are too eager to see the binary Me vs Them, when the point I am making is more about the consumerism and the dubious creative need to switch cameras so often. I watch a YouTube channel about headphones. I ended up with an addiction and 20 pairs of expensive ones. I am also a nerd that also likes playing with cameras as much as I like shooting with them. When EOSHD started the snobby pros were constantly asking searching questions of me - where was my pro work, paid work, client work? All mine was my own creative projects, self funded, I travelled the world under my own steam to make my own stuff and practice the art of cinematography and photography. I was pretty much attacked by the Cinema5D crowd about this all the time - if I wasn't a professional making money from commercial clients - I was nothing. An amateur, a fool, a "tester". I still think there is a Canadian manager though 🙂

You can't take the human factor out of it. The charts, math and science are all entwined with the creative side in filmmaking & photography. Anyway, I feel you misunderstood the gist of my video which is about the circle jerk becoming like a cartel and all quid-pro-quo boosting each other with mentions and it is all intentional and coordinated in my opinion. You are being played by a cartel-like community of online marketeers disguising themselves as camera users or filmmakers. The point I made in the video about Potato Jet hyping up an Alexa one day and then a C200 the next, is about the pure consumerism and marketing aspect of that - people watching who are dazzled by the object of desire on display. What does any of this have to do with filmmaking? Cinematography? Photography, and beautiful images which is why we need cameras in the first place? And does the talent of the person giving the advice matter at all?! To me it does. I would sooner take advise from Roger Deakins than from Peter McCanon. If this hypothetical guitar guru who promises all sorts of wonderful sounds turns out to be unable to play it and it just makes very mediocre sounds in his hands, just seems wrong. Will Gerald ever pick up a GH2 from years back and show us his images with it? I'd love it if he did so. Perhaps there is not enough views or not enough affiliate link money in it? Ask yourself why hasn't he done something like this yet in all these years, or gone into classic gear like vintage lenses? Why has he never been an EOSHD reader or even acknowledged that we exist as a community of 11 years, or that Magic Lantern exist, all that history of the DSLR video revolution he has just kinda glossed over like it never existed. Fucking poor, man. It always seems that the gist of his video is BUY this new thing... and on a very rare occasions, he'll snub something like the Sigma Fp, with the overall message being BUY something else!

So by this same token, can you have a guitar guru who knows everything there is to know about guitars but has never picked one up to make music? It's a bit absurd isn't it.