Andrew Reid

Not too bad...
RX1 OG: 700 euros used
RX1R: 900 euros
RX1R II: 2000+ euros
The Mark II price is only going to stay high and may even go up as it has features the Mark III removes such as the articulated screen, oops. The old pop-up EVF is more premium and funky too.
I think the hiatus was about protecting E-mount, as for some people a fast 35mm is all you need, and the return is about trying to out-Leica Leica on profit margins. Sony are a very numbers driven company.
I have always liked the RX1 series as it was one of the very few options if you wanted a full frame sensor and beautiful fast 35mm Zeiss lens matched to the sensor, in an overall package that is smaller than even Micro Four Thirds.
Hands down one of the best compact cameras ever made... the Contax T3 of our times.
The successor was never going to be cheap, but the price escalation in the camera industry really makes me an unhappy customer. I haven't bought a camera "new" for years.

Not too bad...
RX1 OG: 700 euros used
RX1R: 900 euros
RX1R II: 2000+ euros
The Mark II price is only going to stay high and may even go up as it has features the Mark III removes such as the articulated screen, oops. The old pop-up EVF is more premium and funky too.
I think the hiatus was about protecting E-mount, as for some people a fast 35mm is all you need, and the return is about trying to out-Leica Leica on profit margins. Sony are a very numbers driven company.
I have always liked the RX1 series as it was one of the very few options if you wanted a full frame sensor and beautiful fast 35mm Zeiss lens matched to the sensor, in an overall package that is smaller than even Micro Four Thirds.
Hands down one of the best compact cameras ever made... the Contax T3 of our times.
The successor was never going to be cheap, but the price escalation in the camera industry really makes me an unhappy customer. I haven't bought a camera "new" for years.

Same sensor as the Nikon D4.
I had a play with the Sigma BF recently, and the controls are quite frankly batshit.
I came away a bit underwhelmed and it's definitely not an intuitive camera when you first pick one up. Some very strange decisions by Sigma going on with it.
It does look pretty though.

Not too bad...
RX1 OG: 700 euros used
RX1R: 900 euros
RX1R II: 2000+ euros
The Mark II price is only going to stay high and may even go up as it has features the Mark III removes such as the articulated screen, oops. The old pop-up EVF is more premium and funky too.
I think the hiatus was about protecting E-mount, as for some people a fast 35mm is all you need, and the return is about trying to out-Leica Leica on profit margins. Sony are a very numbers driven company.
I have always liked the RX1 series as it was one of the very few options if you wanted a full frame sensor and beautiful fast 35mm Zeiss lens matched to the sensor, in an overall package that is smaller than even Micro Four Thirds.
Hands down one of the best compact cameras ever made... the Contax T3 of our times.
The successor was never going to be cheap, but the price escalation in the camera industry really makes me an unhappy customer. I haven't bought a camera "new" for years.

Do you have those clips that I did with it?
Because I’m fucked if I can find them anywhere !
I’ve got some frame grabs from them (with the base then the different ARRI LUTs applied) when I was moaning on here about the warpy IBIS on the S5ii but not the actual clips.
Not that they are a great loss to the world !

I was on a very, very slow internet connection this morning so YouTube was loading in instalments.
It loaded the titles but the thumbnails were a long time coming and it’s interesting how much more appealing a lot of the videos were to me when just looking at the title but how much less so they were when the thumbnails eventually loaded.
I’m probably missing out on a great deal of good content by my inner “oh fuck off you absolute tit” dialogue when I see the content creators stupid gurning shock faced bullshit.
Whether the narcissism that infects so many of them would allow them to just do a content relevant thumbnail is the big question.
I can hear the ”But the algorithm makes us do it” whining from here.

For once I'll give you all a reason not to get a new camera 🙂
The thing with the Komodo is you have to believe it's worth the hassle, in terms of cinema magic. Special sauce. And so on.
The colour science is tip top, we all know that the codec is pretty special too.
But cinema cameras are tanking in the lower-end of the market for a reason.
They are clinging onto the sensor in a box concept without the convenience factor of a stills camera.
They are still designed to be rigged up into something unwieldily, heavy and slow to operate.
And in the past it was worth it for the image.
But now that internal RAW video is commonplace on mirrorless cameras and you have a sensor as good as in the Z8 or EOS R3, the special sauce is right there along with the small body, small battery, power economy, EVF, IBIS and so on.
Which makes cinema cameras completely obsolete.
They now serve only non-creative functions like impressing clients or fitting existing workflow expectations.
ARRI is still a bit special in terms of the cinema magic in the images, but you can't really say the same about the Komodo vs a $3k mirrorless camera.
In fact I dare say the Sigma Fp-L has a more cinematic look in uncompressed 4K RAW mode.

I can only assume MPB must have now seen this thread, because they have given me nothing but radio silence on all channels since a week ago.
The CEO himself Matt Baker, has now ignored 3 emails after starting off all chipper.
A Sony RX1R which was described as having a bit of dust on the sensor (easy to disassemble and clean, I have done it before with one), turned out to have a laser damaged sensor with a string of damaged pixels.
So if you do purchase from MPB make sure you are luckier than I have been.

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Has anyone noticed with some of the biggest tech reviewers on youtube like Hardware Unboxed or MKHB, there's a trend at the moment for deadpan anti-hype style reviews.
Be careful with that as well, it's a style-change to counteract the falling viewing figures caused by them overhyping everything every day for the past god-knows how many years, as people catch onto it and get bored of it.

Has anyone noticed with some of the biggest tech reviewers on youtube like Hardware Unboxed or MKHB, there's a trend at the moment for deadpan anti-hype style reviews.
Be careful with that as well, it's a style-change to counteract the falling viewing figures caused by them overhyping everything every day for the past god-knows how many years, as people catch onto it and get bored of it.

Is the last sentence intended a a joke?  Lightroom-only subscriptions are $12/month.  That's $144/year.
In 2017, Lightroom cost $150 and you could use that copy of Lightroom for as long as you wanted.  If Adobe released a new version with features that you didn't want or need, you didn't need to buy it.  And this might blow your mind, but... about 95% of the "features" that Adobe have added since going to the subscription model are things I don't need, want or use.  
https://fstoppers.com/apps/creative-cloud-it-time-ditch-adobe-200441
Unfortunately, the version from 2017 has no chance of opening any files that I take with my modern cameras.  Previously, I would have probably bought a new version of Lightroom every 2-3 years, as needed, to support my new camera.  Now I have to spend 3 times as much to continue using my photo editing software.  And again, many of the features that Adobe add are completely disjointed from what I would want.
Making me pay 3x as much to keep using the software to support the development of features that I don't want is not a consumer-friendly practice.  I'm not sure what malfunction you're having that makes you think that Adobe wouldn't have developed things like better denoising and debayering algorithms if they released new versions of the software that people had to pay for.  In fact, they might have spent more time on those things.  And if they released a new version that didn't improve that and only added, for example, AI object insertion, I could punish them by not buying it and continuing to use the software I already had.  Now, punishing them is also punishing myself because I have to learn to use entirely new software, transfer 20+ years of images in a catalog, and find new plugins (which sometimes don't even exist, such as SRDx which I use to clean up dust from film scans and only works with Photoshop).
Do you work for Adobe?  You seem really motivated to say how paying more for their software so that they can develop features that many users don't want is somehow good for the users.

Surely the main point is that if you can afford to shoot ARRI Alexa 35 you are not quibbling over software licensing fees over the week(s) long duration of a shoot.
Whereas with Adobe they scavenge £ from grandmothers and students for years and years.

Surely the main point is that if you can afford to shoot ARRI Alexa 35 you are not quibbling over software licensing fees over the week(s) long duration of a shoot.
Whereas with Adobe they scavenge £ from grandmothers and students for years and years.

According to a book, Dutch company ASML got into a big fight with Nikon a few years back.
They both make lithography tools for semiconductors industry. ASML's optics supplier is Zeiss.
To pressure Nikon into a settlement, they had to take the patent fight to them in cameras.
So ASML got Zeiss to make them a camera.
It also doubled as a marketing adventure, shown off in stores but rarely really ever in stock.
Until one day this popped up on my radar, with the serial number XXX XXX.
The AF wasn't working, or the manual focus (fly by wire), lens stuck at macro 30cm.
So I cracked it open, mopping sweat off forehead.
Inside is 256GB SSD, final release model was bumped to 512GB.
Android 6, with Zeiss test suite of apps onboard including FCC certification test suite 🙂
A music player.
A Dutch full frame 36 megapixel sensor with some analogue colour.
A Zeiss 35mm F2 lens (but different optics to the Sony RX1), 4K video (Super 35mm crop) and an EVF.
And some weird prototype issues. I'll make a YouTube video on it.






Sample shot
And I still have no idea how I fixed the AF.
Just wiggled the lens and sensor ribbon cables a bit and it started working properly, but there was no sign of either cable being loose in the first place!
It is quite a fun tool, and a bit different. Android is decently snappy on it, the camera app is well designed, the physical dials are lovely but it doesn't have a joystick or command dials... So a lot is on the touch screen, but it's well done.
Shall I root it?
Update to 3.0 production firmware? (Risks bricking it).
Given the rarity factor... I probably won't!!

How I would love to see uncompressed 14bit Cinema DNG on newer Canon.
Perhaps the R7, would be a perfect candidate.
Let's hope they focus efforts on supporting the stuff beyond the DSLRs and older EOS M 👍

According to a book, Dutch company ASML got into a big fight with Nikon a few years back.
They both make lithography tools for semiconductors industry. ASML's optics supplier is Zeiss.
To pressure Nikon into a settlement, they had to take the patent fight to them in cameras.
So ASML got Zeiss to make them a camera.
It also doubled as a marketing adventure, shown off in stores but rarely really ever in stock.
Until one day this popped up on my radar, with the serial number XXX XXX.
The AF wasn't working, or the manual focus (fly by wire), lens stuck at macro 30cm.
So I cracked it open, mopping sweat off forehead.
Inside is 256GB SSD, final release model was bumped to 512GB.
Android 6, with Zeiss test suite of apps onboard including FCC certification test suite 🙂
A music player.
A Dutch full frame 36 megapixel sensor with some analogue colour.
A Zeiss 35mm F2 lens (but different optics to the Sony RX1), 4K video (Super 35mm crop) and an EVF.
And some weird prototype issues. I'll make a YouTube video on it.






Sample shot
And I still have no idea how I fixed the AF.
Just wiggled the lens and sensor ribbon cables a bit and it started working properly, but there was no sign of either cable being loose in the first place!
It is quite a fun tool, and a bit different. Android is decently snappy on it, the camera app is well designed, the physical dials are lovely but it doesn't have a joystick or command dials... So a lot is on the touch screen, but it's well done.
Shall I root it?
Update to 3.0 production firmware? (Risks bricking it).
Given the rarity factor... I probably won't!!

Might be time to release my version for free then!
The download link will self destruct in 48 hours.
Until then... enjoy!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z60UNsWHuc6wFmgEOlp0VgDlucHoutip/view?usp=share_link

Works on Panasonic S9, S5 II, GH7 as well as all the new cameras.
I'd welcome any questions, feedback, help making a guide for regular folk, or even comparisons to the official ARRI LOG profile, or even the odd ALEXA. Sample shots also welcome!!
@BTM_Pixhas shot some nice stuff with it already. If you're ok for me to share it?
And the ARRI LUT library is available here https://www.arri.com/en/learn-help/learn-help-camera-system/tools/arri-look-library-app
Installation is via SD card as a real-time LUT so it sits in-camera, next to V-LOG and the regular picture styles.

According to a book, Dutch company ASML got into a big fight with Nikon a few years back.
They both make lithography tools for semiconductors industry. ASML's optics supplier is Zeiss.
To pressure Nikon into a settlement, they had to take the patent fight to them in cameras.
So ASML got Zeiss to make them a camera.
It also doubled as a marketing adventure, shown off in stores but rarely really ever in stock.
Until one day this popped up on my radar, with the serial number XXX XXX.
The AF wasn't working, or the manual focus (fly by wire), lens stuck at macro 30cm.
So I cracked it open, mopping sweat off forehead.
Inside is 256GB SSD, final release model was bumped to 512GB.
Android 6, with Zeiss test suite of apps onboard including FCC certification test suite 🙂
A music player.
A Dutch full frame 36 megapixel sensor with some analogue colour.
A Zeiss 35mm F2 lens (but different optics to the Sony RX1), 4K video (Super 35mm crop) and an EVF.
And some weird prototype issues. I'll make a YouTube video on it.






Sample shot
And I still have no idea how I fixed the AF.
Just wiggled the lens and sensor ribbon cables a bit and it started working properly, but there was no sign of either cable being loose in the first place!
It is quite a fun tool, and a bit different. Android is decently snappy on it, the camera app is well designed, the physical dials are lovely but it doesn't have a joystick or command dials... So a lot is on the touch screen, but it's well done.
Shall I root it?
Update to 3.0 production firmware? (Risks bricking it).
Given the rarity factor... I probably won't!!

MPB 😂

The book is highly recommended 🙂
Or as they call them in the Netherlands... Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooek

According to a book, Dutch company ASML got into a big fight with Nikon a few years back.
They both make lithography tools for semiconductors industry. ASML's optics supplier is Zeiss.
To pressure Nikon into a settlement, they had to take the patent fight to them in cameras.
So ASML got Zeiss to make them a camera.
It also doubled as a marketing adventure, shown off in stores but rarely really ever in stock.
Until one day this popped up on my radar, with the serial number XXX XXX.
The AF wasn't working, or the manual focus (fly by wire), lens stuck at macro 30cm.
So I cracked it open, mopping sweat off forehead.
Inside is 256GB SSD, final release model was bumped to 512GB.
Android 6, with Zeiss test suite of apps onboard including FCC certification test suite 🙂
A music player.
A Dutch full frame 36 megapixel sensor with some analogue colour.
A Zeiss 35mm F2 lens (but different optics to the Sony RX1), 4K video (Super 35mm crop) and an EVF.
And some weird prototype issues. I'll make a YouTube video on it.






Sample shot
And I still have no idea how I fixed the AF.
Just wiggled the lens and sensor ribbon cables a bit and it started working properly, but there was no sign of either cable being loose in the first place!
It is quite a fun tool, and a bit different. Android is decently snappy on it, the camera app is well designed, the physical dials are lovely but it doesn't have a joystick or command dials... So a lot is on the touch screen, but it's well done.
Shall I root it?
Update to 3.0 production firmware? (Risks bricking it).
Given the rarity factor... I probably won't!!

Might be time to release my version for free then!
The download link will self destruct in 48 hours.
Until then... enjoy!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z60UNsWHuc6wFmgEOlp0VgDlucHoutip/view?usp=share_link

Works on Panasonic S9, S5 II, GH7 as well as all the new cameras.
I'd welcome any questions, feedback, help making a guide for regular folk, or even comparisons to the official ARRI LOG profile, or even the odd ALEXA. Sample shots also welcome!!
@BTM_Pixhas shot some nice stuff with it already. If you're ok for me to share it?
And the ARRI LUT library is available here https://www.arri.com/en/learn-help/learn-help-camera-system/tools/arri-look-library-app
Installation is via SD card as a real-time LUT so it sits in-camera, next to V-LOG and the regular picture styles.

How I would love to see uncompressed 14bit Cinema DNG on newer Canon.
Perhaps the R7, would be a perfect candidate.
Let's hope they focus efforts on supporting the stuff beyond the DSLRs and older EOS M 👍

Does Android 6 have Camera API 2.0?
I'll try it out