Andrew Reid
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17 hours ago, ntblowz said:
Interesting is if you use it for external HDMI it can still overheat
I guess it is really for vlogging camera.
Where's the chart from? Is it Gerald?
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Speculative, but wonder if Blackmagic reserves a higher quality proprietary BRAW debayer for their own cameras, and uses a less advanced method for everyone else?
I am curious to see how the S5 II is for moire vs the A7 IV, Nikon Z9, and the X-H2.
The S1H internal recording in 6K is really nice and OLPF great to have. It's one of those camera that's just absolutely great straight out the box bare bones.
Just be careful updating firmware as when I went from V1.0 on my S1H loan unit from Panasonic to 2.5 it bricked it!
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What REALLY happened to DPReview?
- ntblowz and John Matthews
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2 hours ago, IronFilm said:
In a blink of an eye we're going to enter the "Web 4.0" era within a few years, when there is more AI written content on the internet than there is human written content. And you won't be able to tell the difference.
Wunderbar.
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It might not be the right target group for those uninterested in video here.
Photo Camera Review on the other hand...
https://www.photocamerareview.com
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It just has to be kept to a realistic level of operations. Why does DPReview for example need to be based in Seattle with such expensive real estate and offices, not to mention massively inflated salaries!
It would be better of with an HQ in Manchester or Berlin, and a modest office with 5 or 6 very talented employees.
Also a big cost for DPR is all the custom software engineering that powers the site and forum. That doesn't make much sense, you can use off the shelf solutions that are far better than their custom forum software anyway.
At the end of the day I don't think Amazon gave it much thought. They are cutting very deeply into non-core stuff and lumping things in together. They don't consider it important enough to even sell it. This is all about making 18,000 people redundant and saving money in a recession, after they hired too eagerly during covid.
Those mega bucks profit at the height of human suffering during lockdowns did not go into a bank to be saved for a rainy day at any of these corporations. It's all been spent and a lot of it has gone into the pockets of shareholders!
So they have nothing to get them through a rainy day.
Also rockets are fucking expensive.
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Well the A7S III has been out a while now hasn't it? Is it 3 years? Crazy.
So they're not exactly putting the latest tech in it. You can get a used A7S III for around $3K too don't forget, although $2500 for this new is a very decent deal if it turns out to be ergonomically well designed and with some new advances.
A7S IV I am sure will be 8K not 6K. The current sensor in the A7S3 is already actually a quad bayer, I think it is 48 megapixels binning to 12. They'll probably use the same sensor! Just open up the 8K mode and keep the 12 megapixel as a 4K mode / low light mode.
They could also do a HDR trick with quad bayer.
As is already present on smartphones with quad bayer sensors.
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On 3/21/2023 at 4:20 PM, Kino said:
All this proves is that NRAW may not be optimized yet in N-LOG gamma on Resolve, as other users have reported much greater DR using different gamma profiles
Sure it's early days, N-RAW might get better software support as we go along... H.265 certainly did.
On 3/21/2023 at 4:20 PM, Kino said:It is a very new raw format and not user friendly just yet. Your article also fails to take into account the impressive color depth of NEV files, which Resolve lists as 14 bit RAW. Is Nikon secretly giving us 14 bit RAW? All I can say is that the NRAW files display rich color and tonality that I've rarely seen on other mirrorless cams shooting 12 bit RAW
I don't think it does 14bit RAW in video, it'll be 12bit to achieve the higher frame rates especially above 30p.
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Sounds like it'll sit between the A7C and FX3.
Probably the A7C form factor but no EVF?
Not expecting a mechanical shutter. I reckon they will go all electronic like Sigma Fp and FX30.
Would prefer if they give it a similar body and ergonomics to FX3 and FX30, but it being more a ZV range vlogging camera I expect it to be more of a rebadged A7C with the A7S III sensor.
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My Leica M-P 240 got sold last month due to needing the money to keep EOSHD afloat and new gear coming in. Was sad to let it go but need to sell a LOT of my inventory to keep the wolf from the door at the moment. However before I let it go, made sure to do one last shoot with it, alongside my Canon 1D C and Leica M9. As far as colour science goes, I rate the 240, M9 and 1D C right at the top of the tree. The M9 has a special look with CCD but 1D C and the 240 are very very close, and much better in low light.
It got me thinking, what other cameras like the 1D C better known for video, are actually really really good stills cameras?
Panasonic G9 springs to mind with the amazing EVF and very responsive performance, fast bursts, all-round very big feature set for stills. E-M1 X I think is also underrated, it feels lovely in the hand, controls are fantastic, every bit the pro Micro Four Thirds camera it set out to be. Olympus colour science and white balance always nails the look you're after.
But I think the Panasonic S1H takes the prize.
It's better than a Leica SL2-S.
Better battery life, better screen, more features.
The main strengths for stills are the best EVF on the market, even better than the S1R and GFX 100. It's enormous and 5.76m dots!
AF is absolutely fine for stills in S-AF mode, decent light, native lens. It's very fast and reliable. Sure it's rubbish with Canon EF adapter and in 24fps video mode but don't mind manual focus with Leica M lenses on it - much nicer, and less heavy.
Dual native ISO full frame sensor, absolutely rocks in low light. 6K / 24 megapixel is enough resolution for me and makes for much faster performance, more responsive, smaller file sizes when shooting a lot of stills. It also has XPAN style wide aspect ratio settings, one of my favourite shooting styles so you can accurately compose in these modes, looks fantastic in black and white. Picture styles even have a film grain setting.
Built quality is amazing, the huge top panel LCD great for checking settings at a glance whilst leaving the back screen completely free of clutter.
Shutter mechanism feels so premium, better than Leica.
What's more it cost me £1800.
And that's before you even factor in the FX6 level video camera thrown in for free 🙂
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Nice, didn't realise you could narrow Google down to certain URLs within a domain like that. Very useful to know
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Amazon told them in January, some left the very next week and got a new job.
During these last 3 months, it appears absolutely nobody in charge has made an effort to save the site or kick up a fuss, let alone sell what is a very valuable asset for certain other companies.
It's ridiculous that Amazon isn't considering a sale.
Jeff must be a bigger loser than even I imagine him to be.
Although not quite as big an idiot as that guy who wasted $44bn on Twitter, the likes of which can't seem to find even .00001% of that amount to preserve 25 years of photographic gear culture.
- ntblowz, Kisaha and newfoundmass
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The more I think about all this the angrier I get at the current staff there.
Nearly all scurrying off the deck of the ship like DPReview is nothing but fit for the bin.
If they had stuck with the site for longer than a few months it could encourage the sale to a new owner.
Instead they jumped like rats off the deck and have nearly all got new jobs already.
Meanwhile we're left with an empty shell of a website pending deletion.
It is an absolute disgrace and a total disregard of the global camera community.
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Why can't they be more honest and upfront.
DPReview TV is not closing then is it? It's getting a new logo.
If I were them I would have gone indie. I don't know why they feel they have to be freelancers for a .com blog
Let's face it, YouTube is bigger than Petapixel isn't it?
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5 minutes ago, markr041 said:
We have a prediction! But, DPreview is a money pit, with no revenue sources. That is hardly a financial asset.
Perhaps! Chris and Jordan seemed very keen, almost begging for more subscribers so maybe the pressure was on to monetise the channel. On the other hand DPReview's main website has a small head count, all the gear comes on loan for free from the camera industry and they run sponsored content as well as advertising.
So if it is a money pit it is a very small one especially from the perspective of a company like Amazon.
5 minutes ago, markr041 said:And, btw, I would bet that hardly anyone posting on DPReview bought any equipment, certainly not cameras or lenses, from Amazon. I bet few here do either.
DPReview was a charity. Maybe a donor is needed, not someone looking to make money from an "asset."
It was obviously valuable enough to be bought by a company the size of Amazon and it's a key strategic part of the camera industry so the likes of Canon will be keen to make sure it stays around.
In my opinion they are fishing for sympathy and a buyer. It won't be closing, just changing.
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1 minute ago, newfoundmass said:
I suspect a new site will open, but I do have to wonder if all the content will be carried over. It will be a damn shame if it isn't, and there will be only one party to blame for that: Amazon.
Amazon might not be to blame.
Why would Amazon block the sale of the asset or content carrying over to a new domain?
After all it feeds Amazon.com with thousands upon thousands of sales leads and affiliate links from Google and social media.
They will want that to stick around and will probably help with the sale.
1 minute ago, newfoundmass said:I think Chris and Jordan are probably in a more advantageous position than most of the DPReview staff. Most of the stuff they tested came from The Camera Store anyway, so I doubt little will change for them in that regard when they start their own channel. Plus I imagine they'd probably be welcomed back to The Camera Store in general.
It won't impact them in the slightest.
Found it interesting they chose not to mention Barney Britton in their big thank you section of the video, he is after all pretty much their boss.
Chris and Jordan will simply carry on - I don't know if they are employed as freelancers or not, probably are.
The main losers in this are not any of the DPR staff actually, it's the users.
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Just now, Django said:
Honestly I'm shocked. No real explanation either which seems like a giant slap in the face of their community.
Indeed. No real explanation, it's all very fishy. Watch them bounce back in a week miraculously the site is saved and is going to continue under the ownership of Smugmug as Canon's in-house magazine!
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They won't close.
It's a big asset and will have a lot of buyers. Current staff might go over to the new non-Amazon site or they will leave and do something else, which for me would be a good thing as they're not really up to the job.
DPR has a ton of camera info that would be very sad to lose from the internet, the database of specs, and historic reviews are part of the camera world's culture and it would be vandalism of the highest order if some idiot decided to delete it all rather than keep it online. It costs almost nothing to keep a website online and I am surprised Amazon is making such deep cuts at all, as DPReview is hardly likely to be a huge loss making part of the company.
What are the REAL reasons the site is closing? It surely can't be due to money. Perhaps a big fall out at the top between the DPReview management and Amazon?
If Amazon really are looking to save a few thousand dollars running DPReview which drives a ton of traffic to Amazon for camera purchases, then how bad must it be at Amazon?!
They were hiring like crazy during covid, big profit boom, then suddenly they can't afford to run a camera blog?
Even I can afford to run a fucking camera blog.
I smell something fishy.
Either the news is fake and they already have a buyer lined up. Chris and Jordan seemed really chirpy in their jokey closing video.
Or they are all hired already by a new site and will simply rebrand the existing one.
There is simply no way they will delete it.
The SEO and Google links alone are worth redirecting to a new site domain.
Why bin it?
They're not telling the truth.
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Canon EOS R5C
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On 1/22/2023 at 11:51 PM, Django said:The other alternative is Sony since I'm also invested in that lens ecosystem but the only options are FX3 which has no EVF so no good for my style of shooting and A7S3. 12MP stills, 4K max resolution and no internal RAW are too severe compromises though. Crazy because Sony is number one in the industry yet so behind tech wise in the mirrorless world..
What about the Sony a1?
It is definitely not behind mirrorless tech wise. Stacked sensor, 50MP, 8K, 10bit 422, and 4K/120p.
It blows the R5C away.
The AF is far better too.
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Interesting, so they fixed this in version 4 - maybe!
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On 3/16/2023 at 10:01 PM, PPNS said:
its pixel binned since that sensor isnt natively 3.5k, so you should actually be missing quite a lot of info right?
The 5D III doesn't pixel bin in Magic Lantern 3.5K RAW
It is a S35 crop of the sensor (1:1 readout) with no binning or line-skipping.
And yes, it's bloody amazing.
Sony lack of firmware updates is getting completely ridiculous!
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I'd rather they DIDN'T turn the A7S III into a ZV-E1
Nearly all the new features are a dumb bag of shite designed to help people with no effort to make better vlogs!
What do you want from the ZV-E1 that isn't in the A7S III that you really need?
As for the reason behind a lack of firmware updates, it's because the A7S III is still selling well and is already feature-packed... so it doesn't matter what Gerald says really, if it is selling well, they don't need to change it.
They'd just give me a PR line and mention the firmware updates they have done, like the a1 10bit 422.
I agree with you Sony is lazy when it comes to nice firmware updates vs the others, but the best option is to sell the camera and buy a Panasonic or a Fuji if you are unhappy with it. Best way to get Sony to change.
On the other hand I do think the A7S III is hardly lacking in features?