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Canon Cinema EOS C70 - Ah that explains it then!
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RIP C200! -
Canon Cinema EOS C70 - Ah that explains it then!
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My bank account is empty after EOS R5. -
Canon Cinema EOS C70 - Ah that explains it then!
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Canon can go and fuck themselves. -
It's the youtube shit content merry-go-round again. May as well not talk. Just carry on pressing CTRL-P
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Canon EOS R5 / R6 overheating timers, workarounds, and Magic Lantern
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Time to make a new topics for your SSD talk. Thanks. -
A7C.... No 10bit! Pana S5... No AF! YouTubers only slate the Panasonic.
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Canon Cinema EOS C70 - Ah that explains it then!
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1D C .... APS-C edition. -
GoPro missed a great chance to branch out and diversify into other types of cameras. Just action cams? Missed opportunity.
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Why are you stripping the https://www from YouTube links... Embed them with the full URL. Cheers
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The Sigma Fp and even Canon RP is lighter than the A7C In some of the marketing Sony outright say "smallest and lightest full frame camera" as if their own RX1 series never existed. So much for honesty
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Yeah. E-M1 Mark III makes for a much better vlogging camera in my view.
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On the UK Sony site the small print is: "The α7C is the smallest and lightest full-frame digital interchangeable-lens camera with optical in-body image stabilisation" A weird confusion going on in the heads of marketing people there of optical IS and mechanical IBIS.
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So this comes from Sony itself? It's basically an outright lie?
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Of course. It should be a free market. There's anti-trust laws against collaborative market fixing and segmentation, nobody wants cartel behaviour. But what's going on here is not a balance and it's not even really a free market. It is a destructive race to demolish other Japanese camera companies, and Canon / Sony are the number one suspects. A race to appeal to the masses at the same time as significantly raising margins and pricing the average consumer out. A race to lock-in customers to specific lens mounts, and charge extortionate money for optics. If the consumer could freely choose more innovative products, and more countries and more diversification and more niches were catered for, then it'd truly be a free market. It's about less diversity, less competition, this isn't a win for us. If Sony and Canon succeed in killing Panasonic, Nikon, Fuji, Olympus, Pentax and even Sigma's fledgling full frame camera business, a duopoly will be created like AMD vs Intel. Personally I don't want this. I don't want a camera as dull as the A7C to kill APS-C Fuji X-Pro sales. Fuji X-T4 and X-Pro 3 offer so much more innovation than the A7C. They are strangling themselves. The camera range the A7C kills is the A6000 series. By using the A6600 form factor for the A7C, Sony is sending a message. That range is going full frame, more expensive, higher margins. But no new specs because they have to maintain the high margins. Same specs as the old camera (A7 III). Little investment in it, not even in new menus (crazy). Sure I am all for the concept of small, full frame, compact mirrorless cameras. Look at the Sony RX1R II. So much more innovative than the A7C. Look at Sigma Fp. Making an interchangeable lens high-end RX1R II with pop-up EVF is one thing. Slapping a bigger sensor in an A6600 and calling it quits, just to kill off other Japanese manufacturer sales, is quite another. And the prices of the Sony lenses is quite self defeating. But it is the soulless clinical blandness that bothers me the most. In this industry... Do we really want to end up with a dominant Sony and their soulless shooting experience, boring ergonomics, and Canon with their marketing games? Just those two? Rather than do something genuinely interesting in the APS-C market like Fuji has done with their rangefinder style mirrorless cameras, Sony has simply slapped a full frame sensor in one of the most unergonomic and boring bodies, it's the most unimaginative, most risk averse way to kill the crop sensor market I've ever seen. Customers will likely buy it instead of an X-Pro 3 or X-E3, because hey it's full frame and Tony Northrup likes it.
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From the third department of PR at Sony... Sorry, I mean DPReview: "The Bionz X processor is also borrowed from the a7 III, which unfortunately means that all of the fancy new menus and touch functionality from the a7S III and its updated processor aren't included here." LOL!! "In the hand, the a7C feels incredibly solid, thanks to what's called a magnesium alloy monocoque construction. It's sort of like what US auto manufacturers call 'unibody' construction, and the result is a camera that's free of creaks and flex and exudes a sense of quality." Exudes quality!! Finally a $2K camera that is free of creaking noises and doesn't bend. Had been waiting for this moment for years.
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More bollocks here at Imaging Resource... "World's smallest and lightest full frame camera". No that would be the Sigma Fp!
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When the Sony A7 III was released it allegedly damaged the appeal of more expensive $3000 mirrorless cameras, not least of all Sony's own. In my opinion the electronics giant is now doing the same to affordable APS-C rangefinder-style mirrorless cameras, effectively ending their own APS-C line as well - an even more destructive move than last time. I am minded of the Nikkei Asian Review in July. "Smartphones are not the only reason [for the camera industry's decline]... Japanese industry, which has a penchant for competing against its own products, can also blame itself." The article goes on to quote Hiroshi Hamada (ex-CEO of Hoya / Pentax): "Digital camera companies intend to strangle their rivals through excessive competition, but in the end they'll strangle themselves" https://www.eoshd.com/opinion/opinion-why-the-sony-a7c-harms-the-camera-industry/
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I always got 15 mins with the original firmware. I don't think I remember it showing 20 minutes once! Not sure what that's all about. Try the date/time trick and happy shooting.
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Nobody asks. Sony delivers!
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Seems like the most unnecessary camera release ever! A7 III is just fine at affordable full frame prices. And they want $2K for this ugly monstrosity?! Wouldn't A7000 make more sense for the name as well.
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Canon EOS R5 / R6 overheating timers, workarounds, and Magic Lantern
Andrew Reid replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
It is a mildly warm camera... Simply adding a cage with wooden grip would allow you to shoot handheld without touching any of the hot parts - if that is, it ever went above 43C. No evidence it does. Also, the aluminium cage would disperse the heat, radiate it to the air, and the wooden grip wouldn't conduct much heat towards your hand - so that kind of simple cage is a win-win all over really. -
Canon EOS R5 / R6 overheating timers, workarounds, and Magic Lantern
Andrew Reid replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
If CFExpress card is a problem... erm, use an SD! 4K HQ and 8K all yours to enjoy with an SD card! If the external temp gets a bit uncomfortable a cage would help. Aluminium would spread and disperse the heat and allow it to more or less go away, it acts as a radiator. In my opinion, until I see evidence, this low temperature burn PR line is simply more half-truths from Canon to cover up the cripple hammer You only have to look at the kind of site they chose to voice the bollocks through to know that it is a PR front. Not heard from an engineer yet have we? -
Canon EOS R5 / R6 overheating timers, workarounds, and Magic Lantern
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Even if it turns out Canon's PR person isn't actually bullshitting us via a rival site that seeks to discredit their own customer's research at every turn, what is pretty much indisputable is the arrogant off-colour way Canon has handled the situation from start to finish. The time to offer an explanation for the overheating times was much earlier, and directly to customers like me. Instead every statement they come out with is a PR disaster. Admitting in the latest they designed a camera which comes close to offering low temperature burns? If temps above 43C on the external casing are a problem, or voltage chips get too hot over 70C, I've had no evidence to support this as a user, even after 1 hour of 8K recording. I will never have a practical use for recording 1 hour of 8K, so the real test for me is 4K HQ. If in that mode I get burnt by the camera or it crashes and melts... I'll happily hold my hand up and say "Canon - you are right and not full of bullshit after all".