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Which is strange because isn't it Sony why people are waiting for firmwares and complaining? Sony always makes those groundbreaking cameras that tend to have issues. Panasonic atleast makes them rocksolid.

The 5d 3 in RAW is a BEAST in low light too. I need more capitalization than my keyboard can give me, that's how much of a BEAST it is If that thing does better (not the noise reductioned blurrs the sony fullframes give out) then I will eat my shorts and pants and hat.

I don't know what I should be seeing in those images? I have a calibrated monitor and the blacks look ok to me? If there is a problem it's probably because the blacks are raised up. If the normal profiles of the camera look ok then it is operating normally right?

I bought a cheap Lenovo Y700 model with an SSD. I have now edited several commercials on it, one of them during the shoot too.

How can you trust any reviews? Take the gaming community and gaming websites. They get revenue from... advertising from game companies. Does that make it easy to review games as the people who fund your site are kinda paying for it? The other option is to get ad revenue from getting eyeballs to the site which just causes these "let's make a horrible review of a game to get mad people clicking on our site". Then next week redact the review with another one from a different reviewer. Clicks clicks clicks, gotta be smart in the game

And not just adverts. Modern internet content is based on emotional "click-bait" articles. You need views to generate revenue. As Charlie Stross summarised: "If your business model relies on ads for income, you require eyeballs. Easiest way to get them is to generate outrage/emotional kick. Hence clickbait news sites. Hence internet rumours. Hence paranoia. Outrage draws eyeballs to ads, it’s as simple as that. The ad networks don’t care about truth, honesty, accuracy in reporting, public discourse, or democracy. Just eyeballs and CPM. Trying to build a business on ad revenue is like building on quicksand. FB and Twitter are huge; have to keep growing or die. So FB/Twitter are driven to escalate, become more addictive, push the dopamine reward button harder all the time, to keep selling ads. Traditional TV/newspaper news didn’t continually escalate emotional engagement because ad space was a rivalrous resource; barriers to entry were steep. New media know they can be killed and eaten in months by upstarts. So the competition to be the most addictive is fierce." In a funny turn of events, Andrews article is actually making people visit Dpreview, so they'll just see traffic going up. Though I am kinda wondering why is Andrew singling out Dpreview and leaving out...basically every other site out of the equation? Who isn't doing sponsored content nowadays? If they are not in the "sponsored by" business, then they are in the "let's make clickbait and emotional reviews" net.

Why are people angry? I've always liked Canon (even versus the ancient 5d iii) better than those sony variants 1DxII definitely ticks a lot of boxes, one of my friend is shooting with it and it makes considerably better videos/stills than sony/Panasonic models. Depends. For me Sony hasn't even passed the 5dmarkIII yet. And that's a gazillion years old. They've passed it specs wise but ... not image quality wise. Gimme a 5d mark III and an a7sII and I'll get better results with the 5dmkIII - aslong as I have magic lantern and unless it's a very, very bright day, slog works wonders in keeping highlights.

I don't get it. I've had great contrast since I bought a Pioneer Kuro plasma ages ago. Soooo... I'm supposed to buy a shitty lcd with a lower contrast to see "hdr"?

So I guess you could just use 1/3" sensors then right?

Why are you guys comparing Full Frame and APS-C? Why not something with a bit more different 'aesthetics' like ... Medium format and 1/3" sensors?

So we shot this one saturday afternoon, mostly 5d mark III RAW uprezzed to 4k and a bit of Sony a7s ii and a6300 shots thrown in (all 4k). A couple of DJI shots there too. This time our plot was excellent.

That looks like interlacing. Or someone shot it at 50p/60p and uploaded it in 30/25p causing the software to create some interesting interpolations.

They are still using lights. Look at the image. She is lit. Yeah ISO is up and there is a bit of noise but even a lit image with ISO 3200 looks better than 3200 with no light.

If the camera is under the sun it will heat very quickly. My a6300 (with updated firmware) heat up in LA direct sunlight in about 10 minutes with an overheating warning.

Different sensors. I have the RX10 ii and it has visually apparent RS in 4k but when switching to 100/120fps HD the RS is very small, negligible really. Also that video was pretty much an infomercial. They didn't test RS at all.

Because they are using lights

Looks like temporal noise reduction. It tends to create those artifacts. A lot of cameras have those turned on, for example the a7s and the a6300 turns those heavily on after the ISO goes up but they are still there with lower iso's too.

Google Sony LSI sensor, what do you get? It's a company. Sony LSI Design. It does sensors, it's a company spun off from Sony. So when Sony says things like "Sensor readout speed has improved significantly, and the company has developed a new front-end LSI that contributes a lot to performance. " in their press release, they are not talking about chips. That is the definition of marketing buzzwords. They seem to be using LSI just as a word for "anything". So if they just add DRAM more (to get more buffer) they'll just spin it two ways. One A) We have more DRAM! and B) Better LSI means more buffer! The exact same thing. The buffer is increased by DRAM ergo memory. You can't increase buffer any other way because buffer is technically just memory waiting to be unloaded into the SD card. So LSI is just a word. A word that could mean anything. They say it's a "chip" but it's really not. I bet the technology inside the a6500 is pretty much the same as in a6300 except more dram for buffering/different software menus/IBIS. LSI usually means (in technology terms) large-scale integration. It's just a bunch if circuits. I mean yeah, technically adding more DRAM into a circuit is "improving the LSI". Funny. We have developed a new LSI = we added DRAM. That's pretty much it. I can't be 100% sure as I am no engineer but as nothing else seems improved then yeah. Probably.

Because the sensor is the same as in a6300. Same sensor = same rolling shutter. DRAM helps with memory issues like buffering. LSI is just a marketing buzzword

At iso 3200 you think the BMCC has more DR? I mean the 5d raw is no slouch in the darkness. Yeah the BMCC can hold onto the highlights better but that's because it basically has zero shadow capability (in the dark, daylight is great for the bmcc).

Until you go up in iso when the 5D starts to have considerably more DR.

Congrats the 5d3 raw is a beast!

If a camera uses the same sensor as a previous camera, odds are that the rolling shutter is 100% same. They could basically just invent words for their press releases and we would not be any wiser. Instead of BSI it's HBI or instead of copper interconnects it's gold! But I've never seen the same sensor operate with a different speed in different cameras. They could speed up the RS but only by skipping fields or cropping in.

Well 'technically' the 5d RAW is better than a C300. Also, a DNG workflow is a not a nightmare, lots of films for cinema (and narratives in general) are starting to shoot RAW.

Why did you sell a 5d mark III to buy a GH4? Sounds like some really bad advice haha.