Andrew Reid

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.

23 hours ago, ArashM said:

Thank you for the post, wondering how you feel about the X-H2 Vs X-H2S

Prefer the X-H2 as the X-H2S is quite a bit more and the 4K/120p comes with a heavy crop. Also AF seems better on the X-H2, although I believe the latest firmware update improved matters on the X-H2S.

New blahg post.

https://www.eoshd.com/news/whats-best-out-of-the-new-releases-comparing-the-canon-eos-r7-r10-fuji-x-h2-panasonic-s5-ii/

On 3/14/2023 at 12:13 PM, Kisaha said:

Still, I see the reaction in U.K, some protests in Greece, and the big ones in Israel, and I hope not all is lost..I can only be moderately optimistic at the moment

Speaking of protests there are massive strikes in the UK and hundreds of thousands of people on the streets. Very little coverage of these people parading through the streets of London demanding better pay. Yet during Brexit, Nigel Farage could turn up with 12 people and a dog, and be all over the BBC News. "Man of the people" that he is.

The BBC has a problem.

It's main role is to report factually, objectively yet clearly some facts are too political and too inconvenient to air.

If the BBC came out and objectively labelled Boris Johnson a compulsive liar, it would be a statement of fact.

Yet they won't as it will obviously be seen as a political opinion.

Regardless of whether certain people are proven liars and lawbreakers, facts seem to cease to be impartial when they're about the personal.

Does GPT4 still think I sold a faulty 1D C to Dan Chung and murdered seven of Philip Bloom's beloved kittens?

In fact try it for yourself - ask "what controversies has the filmmaker Andrew Reid of EOSHD been involved in"?

It's hilarious what it comes out with.

Just one of many many reasons never to trust AI.

5 hours ago, Kisaha said:

Ergonomically NX1 is still unbeatable (see you get rid of yours..what a pity!)

Only getting rid of one. I have 3 of them.

S5 II incoming as well.

Will be interesting to see how the AF is with MC-21 EF adapter

On 3/14/2023 at 6:37 AM, MrSMW said:

Pros: I prefer (love) the form factor of the S1H. It is my favourite, almost perfect camera though I would prefer it to be about 10% smaller and lighter ideally.

The S1H if it were just a bit bigger than the S5 II, and with lovely huge top LCD info panel intact, would be quite lovely.

I'd rather it wouldn't drain the battery when it's switched off too.

S5 II is on my list. It seems Panasonic now have the basis for a perfect camera.

S1 II should be a blast.

The only thing I don't like about the S5 II is the small EVF and slightly uninspired Sony-style ergonomics.

Imagine a Leica version of that, would be fantastic.

I think Canon have been forced to up their game on the standard models due to the Sony A7 III and A7 IV which has been eating their dinner.

EOS R7 is a kind of 7D, a rare APS-C camera that comes along every so often and does everything quite well. I still think the Fuji X-H2 is outright better in terms of spec but it was unthinkable a few years ago to have oversampled 7K -> 4K 10bit C-LOG 3 on a £1350 Canon body.

They have finally caught up with the 2014 Samsung NX1! (Just joking)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/eoshd

Take a look especially if you're in the UK!

Noticed when I had the EOS R3 before sending it back, the stabilisation didn't work properly with manual focus lenses. It does let you dial in the focal length into the menus but the performance just wasn't there, lots of micro jitters.

I see it is the same with the R7? Cripple hammer strikes again!

I wonder if they are using gyros in the lens rather than in the camera body?

RF lenses and some EF lenses seem to be fine.

Anyway, I am still thinking of giving one a go as it is quite cheap for what it does and all the results I've seen from it so far seem to suggest the colour mojo is there.

Also there is now a C-mount adapter for EOS R mount which I am keen to try on this as it does approx. 2.8x S16 crop in 4K/60p crop mode.

Shall I pick one up, or stay clear?

3 hours ago, hyalinejim said:

Ha ha! Even 6 is enough for most uses. During lockdown, to give myself a project I bought a few 300Ds and 400Ds on eBay and sent them around the country, asking people to take self portraits which I then edited.

This first shot is spectacular.

Bet it looks even better in full res with the fine noise texture.

@QuickHitRecord mentioned a Sony A350 above.

This was my first ever non-Canon DSLR back in 2008.

I now have two. My advice to everyone is go and seek one out before they're gone forever.

It has one of the final Sony CCD sensors ever made, and is pretty high res for the era - about 14 megapixel

Image quality is just flat out gorgeous AND it has live view AND phase-detect AF in live view 🙂

It is better than the Leica M8, has even more mojo.

And it is $90!

There is just... something about it...

https://www.eoshd.com/news/a-look-at-the-pentax-k-1-why-im-not-over-dslrs-for-photography/

The idea of editorial independence was enshrined in the BBC’s founding Royal Charter in 1927, which stated the corporation should be “independent in all matters of internal control.” This was a way of ensuring the BBC’s coverage was not subject to political interference or pressure from any external sources such as the government.

Now the editorial independence of the BBC is at best completely neutered by the Conservative Party. Many talented journalists have left. In many respects the best news organisation in the world has taken to sourcing stories purely from Twitter and social media.

https://www.eoshd.com/news/controversy-at-the-bbc-and-impartialitys-true-meaning/

The dark mystery of folder 999_FUJI

https://www.eoshd.com/news/why-does-fujifilm-cripple-my-memory-card-in-other-cameras/

When our music turns rubbish and our language ugly we know there's trouble ahead. Filmmakers and photographers seem to be on the way out, to be replaced by something altogether more homogenous - the "content creator" or simply "creator". Why specialise when you can just "create stuff"?

New blog post:

https://www.eoshd.com/news/creator-replaces-filmmaker-meet-thy-creator

It's learning...

Might sell them my 1D C first.

This was the answer when I asked again after training it!

48 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said:

 

Who the fuck is this "intelligence" actually modelled on?

Boris Johnson by the looks of it.

 

🙂

It is interesting in that it won't write a naughty poem about Trump, but it will write all this about me.

Some "fine tuning" needed?!!

Clearly overhyped, but with strong long term potential to destroy the planet, AI natural language chatbots have taken 2023 by storm. I admit, it's an entertaining spectacle.

They're fantastic at certain things and it's nice to see a new type of tool born, but I can't help feeling it is capable of wildly fantasying about things that never happened. I also think there is no way a large company like Microsoft or Google will truly let this technology off the hook and it will be incredibly heavily censored. This means first prize in AI will go to a startup and you better sell your Google shares right now.

But should you trust it? EOSHD sets out to find out, by putting it through a camera nerd exam.

https://www.eoshd.com/news/hows-ais-camera-knowledge-unhinged-chatgpt-stalks-eoshd-and-makes-up-controversies

(It doesn't go well)

Quite the eye opener 🙂

6 hours ago, Llaasseerr said:

Recording log 4:4:4 ProRes is still an amazing option though that is basically indistinguishable from raw, but it seems to be an endangered species.

That is because ProRes 422 HQ in LOG looks just as nice, with smaller file?

ProRes on the Nikon Z9 is my next thing to test... Would be interesting if that comes out better than N-RAW wouldn't it!

4 minutes ago, Caleb Genheimer said:

It’s also why I’ve avoided external “raw” recorders for the S1H, it’s borderline snake oil, you don’t get any benefit from it.

True, true.

15 hours ago, cookietub said:

This is a superb article! Very, very useful. Would it be possible for you to upload the camera original clips somewhere? I would love to play with them in Davinci.

Will do, I might reshoot the Sigma Fp-L in 12bit first to give it a fair crack of the whip against the more expensive bros.

You could say it's a bit of a dogs breakfast?

500Mbit in HEVC is like having 1000Mbit in H.264, so that A6500 (which I still have btw) was 100Mbit and still stood up well, so the a1 truly has some thick files going on.

X-H2 ProRes would be an interesting comparison.

I love the idea of RAW but it never seems to compel me to use it that much.

Sigma Fp-L 12bit needs a test though...as does the 5D3 Magic Lantern as that truly was proper RAW!