Andrew Reid

$858m from 94m views. Try replicating that on streaming services. Not going to happen. So a lot of talent going to be cut back, budgets slashed and diverted, it all trickles down to the grass roots of the film and cinema industry - small guys will lose their jobs too. Does anyone really think smaller, indie musicians are better off from streaming compared to CD sales, financially? Not a chance. So a big correction on the way if they follow the trend to streaming and away from ticket sales at the box office.

Here's how the music industry is... https://news.sky.com/story/nile-rodgers-calls-on-mps-to-tackle-unfair-streaming-system-12155250 Big profits for Spotify but talent kept completely in the dark. We cannot have our culture controlled in this way and pimped out over the internet whilst live audiences become obsolete.

Merry Christmas and a happy 8th December 🙂 Nice film Grimor. Cheers

I can't see it myself. Those with an interest in cinema have already bought all of that stuff. What changes? Just because Matrix 4 comes to streaming first, and you can't go to the cinema - you are not, as an average mainstream ex-cinemagoer, going to spend $3000 on gear for that are you? I disagree with that too I'm afraid. What is the point of a director at all if the customer makes all the decisions? (Yes The choice of viewing device is a creative decision) Sure, and they can already spend their money on Netflix, or whatever. I don't care. But depriving cinemas of content at a time like this is a bad move for culture. We need the rousing blockbuster social experience like never before. New Bond film at Christmas. That kind of thing. Short sighted beancounters at the studios risk killing that future. It's short term thinking. The math and damn statistics are nothing to do with it. Emotionally I can tell the difference between a big cinema screen and a TV! It's a completely separate experience. sounds quite charming to me 🙂 Music streaming has killed music. They are not paying per film. It's a monthly sub, creative cloud style. Do you want to tie yourself into 10 of those all at once just to get the same selection of studio content you would at any one time in one cinema? Sounds fucking expensive to me! I can just see it following the music industry to a tee. Smaller artists lose out from Spotify in big fashion. The pirated copies of HBO Max streams will be full HD, 1080p, probably identical quality to what you get from the paid service.

Best blockbuster of the year!! https://www.eoshd.com/news/christopher-nolans-fury-at-warner-in-streaming-controversy-they-didnt-tell-anybody/ And perhaps after the crisis, a real chance to reinvent theater-going.

If all these influencers are buying professional gear, why is Nikon in dire straits? Part of it is because Nikon was late to the mirrorless market. Part of it is that influencers and content creators are just using an entirely phone based workflow from shooting to editing. Might be a tablet in there at most. How many D850 shot Tik Tok videos are out there compared to the number shot on smartphones? Maybe 0.00001%? The industry has fucked itself. They have not been in the game. It is the fault of elderly out of touch Japanese management in their 80's. They haven't even yet got proper touch screens and OS. Let alone a successful App Store and foolproof connectivity. Some companies quite frankly deserve to be swept away in the change. I just hope the better, more deserving ones survive. Especially Sigma.

Did you see how many shitty compact cameras Nikon used to make? Masses and masses of them, for the masses. The market has practically vanished. They did nothing about it. Of course the market is getting smaller. Professional tools are a niche compared to consumer cameras. It is only high margins and expensive price tags that keep them from being completely unviable. Now that the camera companies have backed out from bothering to compete in massive consumer markets, they have dug themselves an even larger hole. Also remember with Nikon it is not just cameras that are the problem. Their outdated chipmaking business is about to hit the wall as well. It has about one customer.

Yeah. I agree The Photokina management have a lot to answer for. Just because it is not quite the corporate cash cow it once was... Also the camera companies should have saved it. Or at least put on some alternative of some kind. It's early days yet... Maybe we can get the industry professionals meet-up on similar scale going in another part of the world. Like all the great cine shows in the US. If not short term due to corona, then certainly by 2022.

Great choice. Hopefully Sony stays mute about it.

Yes, that's a good summary of the situation there Time was, when a trade show was advantageous for publicity and a useful place to make deals, meet distributors, network. Apparently all that is online now too. Solution...turn off the fucking internet.

End of an era! The historic photographic industry exhibition Photokina is over. Management blame the decline of the camera industry, and couldn’t even organise a show for 2022 (by which time it is expected the pandemic will be under control). This news is extremely sad, and hardly satisfactory that the camera companies and Photokina management couldn’t work something out. Here’s what the exhibition space CEO had to say on the situation: https://www.eoshd.com/news/photokina-show-terminated-after-70-years/

Our buddy is on the money again I think they are doomed! And not just in the camera business https://www.eoshd.com/news/nikon-facing-serious-crisis-in-chipmaking-as-well-as-camera-business/ But in the key lithography business, they are about to lose Intel who account for up to 90% of sales. Nikon lost half a billion USD so far this year, which is absolutely massive. Just at a time they need to invest big to save the lithography and camera business, update their tech, etc. NOT GOOD!!

New blog post https://www.eoshd.com/news/pro-camcorder-ergonomics-are-overdue-a-big-change/

I am going to do a comparison soon. Any other suggestions for tests welcome. https://www.eoshd.com/news/does-dual-native-iso-on-the-panasonic-s5-beat-the-sony-a7s-iii-in-low-light

The RX1R II on the other hand is a bit of a bargain. Grab one if you find it for under $1500.

Hopefully it'll be down to it's real price of £2000 on eBay in a about a year. I like the design and the image quality, great lens, ergonomics look nice. But the marketing people doing the Android bit and the price are as incompetent as it gets.

A terrible failure. Could have been so good! https://www.eoshd.com/news/priced-to-fail-and-shackled-to-adobe-the-zeiss-zx1/

Meh https://www.eoshd.com/news/sony-fx6-is-here-but-will-you-still-have-a-job-to-go-with-it/

That's the big question isn't it... The 8GB is shared between GPU and CPU. It is probably enough for everything but 8K RAW editing. https://www.eoshd.com/news/apple-m1-crushes-intel-beats-6000-mac-pro-2019-and-10-core-intel-i9-macbook-pro-16/

My take on the benchmark results: https://www.eoshd.com/news/apple-m1-crushes-intel-beats-6000-mac-pro-2019-and-10-core-intel-i9-macbook-pro-16/

Ah scrub all that. Buy one. I've just seen the benchmarks!

I am expecting 3x to 8x better performance in video editing apps over Intel at same class of CPU. The M1 is a ultrathin laptop CPU, so it will be 3x to 8x faster than an Intel ultra thin laptop CPU. Whether it will be faster than a top of the range Intel laptop CPU or iMac remains to be seen. I would get the M1 Mac Mini from amazon and return if it doesn't perform better than what you have. They are likely to be hard to get hold of anytime soon though. Stock issues. Also the GPU brute force processing power matters less, as there's a lot of custom silicon in there to take the weight off it and accelerate NLEs. Resolve 17 worth a look too, as that benefits from the M1. ARM is definitely the future for desktop CPUs and high-end. Intel will be stomped on and PCs will lose their edge to Apple in the medium term. Apple has been the only one willing to move the architecture on in a significant way. Maybe keep an eye on the first real-world performance reviews of the M1 in FCPX?

Read my take on it here... https://www.eoshd.com/news/down-the-rabbit-hole-view-the-youtube-front-page-as-others-do/ View the YouTube front page as others do: https://www.their.tube

Great that YouTube is finally in 4K in Safari. Not in the same version of Safari on Catalina however.

Is there any real difference between Safari 14 in Catalina vs Big Sur? Same version in both isn't it!