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    ntblowz reacted to Stanly in A closer look at the Canon EOS R5 lower quality 4K mode to avoid thermal cut-off   
    Not only by Canon fans mate, Sony shooter here. Criticism comes not from being a Canon fan, but from double standards.
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    ntblowz reacted to kye in The editing thread. What are you editing? How is it going?   
    Welcome to the forums Jim!
    How is your editing going?
    I feel your pain.
    I used to also be like this, but what turned it around for me was two things.  
    The first was Resolves new Cut page.  I'm not sure if you've edited in Resolve, but the process to review footage was a bit painful previously.  You had to double-click on a clip in the Media pool to load it in the viewer, then JKL and IO to make a select, and I set P to insert the clip into the timeline.  Then you had to navigate with the mouse to load the next clip.  I could never find how to set keyboard shortcuts to get to the next clip.  I suspect it might have required a numeric keypad, which my MBP doesn't have.  
    Then Resolve created the Cut page.  Theres a view in the Cut page that puts all the clips in a folder end-to-end like a Tape Viewer.  Then you can just JKL and IO and P all the way through the whole footage.  No using the mouse, or even having to take your fingers off those keys, and can do it completely without looking.
    It sounds ridiculous but those extra key presses were adding enough friction to really make an impact.  Looking at my current project, if it took 5 seconds in total to take my hand from the JKL location to the mouse, navigate the cursor to the next clip, double-click, then put my hand back at JKL, and I had to do that 3024 times, then that's 4.2 hours just navigating to the next clip!  Thinking about it like that it doesn't seem such a small thing!
    My suggestion would be to try and optimise your setup to have as little friction as possible, as even little things will be adding up unconsciously.
    The second thing that I had forgotten when I stalled in editing was how lovely it was to look at the footage.  Not only did I get to re-live my holidays, and only the best bits of them at that (we don't film the awful bits, when you're cold / hot / tired / grumpy and things are smelly etc doesn't come through).  Also, I've found that though the sheer quantity of footage I take, the lovely shots are inevitable and finding them is very rewarding.
    I do find frustrating things sometimes, like when I was in the boat in the wetlands and I missed the shot of the eagle swooping down and pulling the fish out of the water because I was filming something else in some other direction, or when I get out of sync and record the bits in-between the shots and don't record the bits when I'm aiming the camera at something cool, that's frustrating!
    The other thing to keep in mind is that for our lives, and family or friends, the footage actually gets more valuable as it ages, not less valuable as it does for commercial or theatrical footage.  In that sense, keep shooting because sometime later on you might pick it up and go through it.  Or someone else might.
    I don't know about you, but if my grandparents or great-grandparents had vlogged, or recorded videos of holidays, or whatever, I'd be very interested in looking at that footage.  In a sense, our own private footage is about history, not the latest trends.
    Also, the longer it has been since you shot the footage, the more objective you will be in editing it.  Street photographers often deliberately delayed developing their film because the longer they delayed the better they were at judging how good each shot was, rather than remembering the sentiment and context around it.
    Hope that helps!
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    ntblowz reacted to Video Hummus in Canon EOS R5 has serious overheating issues – in both 4K and 8K   
    Product segmentation, perhaps?
    I think there has been 4 important aspects of the R5 release:
    1) internal RAW took a baby step to becoming mainstream.
    2) 10-bit 4:2:2 Log recording is the new baseline.
    3) 4K HFR (anything higher than 60p) is the new slow motion benchmark.
    4) You no longer need gloves in the winter when operating your mirrorless camera.
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    ntblowz reacted to UncleBobsPhotography in A request - help find the EOS R5 / R6 "4K oversampling on/off" menu option   
    https://youtu.be/PvU4WNb6-J4
    This video should give the answer around 15:05. They turn HQ off and 24p is still available.
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    ntblowz reacted to Trankilstef in Canon EOS R5 has serious overheating issues – in both 4K and 8K   
    Not so much a joke... After I left canon for Sony a few years back, and getting tired of waiting for the 10bit 422 at least from an external recorder, i switched back to an EOS R, so I experienced Sony and Canon autofocus. Now I own an S1H and it feels like going back to the good old 5d MkII days where you had no choise of getting the focus manually. I was a bit scared to going back to ONLY manual focus, and frankly it's not that bad. it comes back naturally if you've been used to do it manually in the dslr days, and now I don't complain about it so much. 
    Sometimes on a few occasions on a shoot with clients I may miss the focus a bit, and I need to do another take, but it is way less problematic than I thought.
    What strikes me with the S1h is the quality of the footage, the ergonomics, the unlimited recording with no overheating (I even never heard the fan start !), all the options etc. The drawbacks are lack of affordable native lens selection (but except for my 24-70 S Pro sometimes, I only shoot video with a 5 lenses Samyang cinema kit), and the continuous AF where it would have been of practical use sometimes).
    Not to say I'm not waiting for the Sony a7SIII announcement to make a definitive choice (because you have a very good choice of lenses AND a very good autofocus), but for now the Canon EOS R5 leaves me a bit cold. Happy with what my S1H produces.
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    ntblowz reacted to MeanRevert in Sony A7S III   
    So basically ZCam?
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    ntblowz reacted to kye in The editing thread. What are you editing? How is it going?   
    Just finished a first pass on footage from a trip late 2018.
    Over 18 days I shot 3024 clips totalling 5h37m, but somehow after I've gone and pulled my selects into a timeline I for a minute there I thought I still had 1984 clips totalling 2h35m!  Using the Source Tape view in The Cut page of Resolve it looks like I was half way through when I marked an in point but didn't mark an out point and then did an Append to End of Timeline and so I appended every clip from my in point to the end of my footage to my timeline.  Oops!
    After fixing that little surprise, I now have 839 clips totalling 41m - much better!!  I was thinking how many of the really cool shots I was going to have to cut and getting quite sad about it!
    I must say that I am really enjoying the new Cut page in Resolve.  Especially the Source Tape view (despite the above snafu) as you can just use the J-K-L keys across all of your footage without having to manually go to the next clip.  Combined with I and O and then P to append the range to the timeline I can edit with one hand and have a drink in the other 🙂 
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    ntblowz reacted to Marcio Kabke Pinheiro in Canon 9th July "Reimagine" event for EOS R5 and R6 unveiling   
    I guess that it is impossible to build a camera without one or two flaws (not saying that is the case of the new Canons, they have more than this). And even only with one or two flaws, will be people calling the camera "completely unusable".

    If Panasonic release a GH6 with 4k120 no crop 4:4:4 12 bit ProRes RAW, clean ISO 12800, Ibis with 15 stops, S35 sensor and $2000 price, someone will shout "but it is not full frame, it's crap" or "I need 4k240 ALL-I, it's crap".

    Best (at least in my point of view) is to wait for the real world reviews, with real people using it for real jobs, which know what they are doing. Now it is only paper specs talk and sponsored reviews.
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    ntblowz reacted to newfoundmass in Z-cam releasing ToF module   
    Saw this on the Facebook group from Kinson Loo. 
    If you want to applaud a company for innovating, applaud them. They're pushing boundaries and delivering. 
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    ntblowz reacted to Mackeral_Fillet in My thoughts on the Canon EOS R5 8K monstrosity - 1TB footage per 50 minutes   
    Sample 8k, 24p RAW footage. 
    15 seconds. 5.12 GB
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1puJviism7-VlEgq3QHc1M-vx26LTQifU/view?fbclid=IwAR1T5usi4w20J7Db6B-NE0DE4MoAGMiqDCOLIQ7S7TygIhrGt3sSVak9JSk
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    ntblowz got a reaction from Avenger 2.0 in My thoughts on the Canon EOS R5 8K monstrosity - 1TB footage per 50 minutes   
    I got C200 & C100II for those long boring interviews, the R5 is for more exciting stuff!
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    ntblowz reacted to Trek of Joy in Canon EOS R5 has serious overheating issues – in both 4K and 8K   
    This thread is insane. All this over a chart without any actual tests.
    I remember buying the a6300, a7s2 and a7r2 despite the internet overload about overheating, single card slots that no professional would ever use, 8-bit 4:2:0 video with blotchy zombie skin tones, crop on everything that's not 24p, only 4k30p and so on. I live in Florida and never had any issues despite using it on a gimbal all the time in the sun and shooting longer takes, it doesn't take much to swap batteries or turn the camera off when not in use, or not leav it sitting out in the sun all day. I took them to Africa on safari shooting thousands of frames and hours of video, also took them to Dubai, Egypt and Israel in August when it was upwards of 125f. Now we have a camera that shoots 8k raw, 4k120fps with amazing AF, class leading IBIS and can even shoot 45mp stills with bursts of 130 raw images or infinite jpegs if that's your thing, and its trash because you can't shoot an entire wedding in one take?
    Wow.
    Can't wait for the shitstorm with Sony's cripple hammer on the a7s3 and the pendulum to swing back to the R5/6 and how "I can work around the issues, its worth it for raw and 120p." This reads like a Sony Alpha rumors post.
    LOL!
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    ntblowz reacted to Video Hummus in Canon EOS R5 has serious overheating issues – in both 4K and 8K   
    While 20 mins overheating times in certain modes are a bummer and could be a problem for some people, I for one, am glad they took the “lets put the feature in” versus saying “heat limitations wouldn’t have allowed it” and released something less exciting or groundbreaking. They would haven been lambasted for it either way.
     It’s a lose-lose for them and they made the better decision here in my humble opinion.
    Wether the headline is “R5 falls short: only offers 4K60p cropped” or “R5 has potential to overheat when recording 8K RAW(!) 4K120p(!), or oversampled 4K from 8K HQ mode(!). The later headline is forgivable!
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    ntblowz reacted to BTM_Pix in Canon EOS R5 has serious overheating issues – in both 4K and 8K   
    Sounds like this camera would turn them into an omelette if they did.
     
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    ntblowz reacted to MeanRevert in Canon EOS R5 has serious overheating issues – in both 4K and 8K   
    Watch Sony overheat at 21 minutes just to one up Canon.
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    ntblowz reacted to ajay in Canon EOS R5 has serious overheating issues – in both 4K and 8K   
    Maybe Canon will come out with an ice pack option:

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    ntblowz reacted to Andrew Reid in Fuji GF 50mm F3.5 review on the Fujifilm GFX 100   
    A peerless medium format lens for the size. The images are lucid and autofocus superb on the GFX 100.
    New blog post
    https://www.eoshd.com/news/fuji-gf-50mm-f3-5-review-on-the-fujifilm-gfx-100/
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    ntblowz got a reaction from BTM_Pix in Canon 9th July "Reimagine" event for EOS R5 and R6 unveiling   
    I been hit by artist.io on every freaking youtube video i seen in the past weeks, make me want to boycott them instead!
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    ntblowz reacted to BTM_Pix in Canon 9th July "Reimagine" event for EOS R5 and R6 unveiling   
    I have noticed actually that after ages of Squarespace, WIX and Monday.com plaguing me with ads on YouTube that most of mine in the past month have been from Canon so maybe they are really embracing marketing through the "Yo guys, smash the like button" avenue.
    To paraphrase Travolta, tomorrow might be a case of this.

     
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    ntblowz reacted to MeanRevert in H.266 Codec Released   
    Weissman score 2.89, highest ever recorded.  Amazing.
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    ntblowz reacted to Emanuel in Arrivederci Maestro... RIP   
    After a fall where broke his femur a few days ago... : ( With his gift, the music he made cinema is not with him anymore, belongs to all of us.
     
     
     
    (in a personal note, unforgettable to have seen him personally in a live concert... in Rome, a decade ago)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-19626787
    https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-ennio-morricone-dead-legendary-22307636
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ennio-morricone-wrote-the-perfect-soundtrack-for-a-time-when-we-miss-movies-more-than-ever/2020/07/06/3da3926a-bf8f-11ea-b178-bb7b05b94af1_story.html
    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ennio-morricone-dead-prolific-italian-composer-was-91-858358
    https://variety.com/2020/film/news/ennio-morricone-ten-essential-scores-listen-1234698965/
     
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    ntblowz reacted to kye in Canon 9th July "Reimagine" event for EOS R5 and R6 unveiling   
    Do you mean 10K as in a sensor 10,000 pixels wide?  I'm not surprised by 8K video but that's crazy!  That would make it, what, 75MP??
    Or go cheap and use FF lenses..  I use an FD 70-210/4 with 2xTC on MFT to shoot my kids sports games.  Even the GH5 IBIS struggles with that - 840mm equivalent.  
    Or here's the same optics on the Micro:

    I haven't used this setup yet, but when the sun starts to come around where I can see it hit the horizon again, I might return to my sunset project and record some RAW video.  1209mm equivalent!!
    At that focal length even the solid limestone wall I use as a tripod can't protect the image from people walking nearby.  The GH5 in action.

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    ntblowz reacted to BTM_Pix in Canon 9th July "Reimagine" event for EOS R5 and R6 unveiling   
    On the face of it, that 800mm f11 lens is a weird move as its more akin to one of those £50 ebay jobs but it is weird enough to make me curious.
    I still think f11 is going to be a drawback from a subject separation point of view though, even with it being 800mm.
    I shot a lot of sport with the Sigma 300-800mm f5.6 before it attempted to kill me at Le Mans and even at f5.6 the extra reach was often offset by the lack of separation.
    Shutterdial lets you search Flickr based on exif so if you look at examples of 800mm shots at f11 on this link 
    https://www.shutterdial.com/#/search?s=Any&f=800&a=15
    And then compare them to shots at 800mm at f5.6 on this link
    https://www.shutterdial.com/#/search?s=Any&f=800&a=11
    You can see how, whilst its not impossible to get decent separation, you need to be a lot more careful with your backgrounds, which may not always be possible.
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    ntblowz reacted to Simon Young in Canon 9th July "Reimagine" event for EOS R5 and R6 unveiling   
    Saw this in the canonrumors comments...
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