Eric Calabros

A little simple device the whole Japan camera industry couldn't make

I started using bing since the day they fired the guy. Not that Microsoft is any better, but I don't want to use their services anymore. I wish a Chinese or Indian startup make a YouTube rival then I will be G-free. Thanks god Telegram rocks in my country so I rarely need to use email. 

It was F mount. Maybe making dramatic focal length reducer is easier with large flange distance. 

Stupidly full HD 120fps is not selectable.. you just activate the slow motion mode. So expect it to be short, and badly implemented. The only good news is extended 4k recording time with external grip. 

Nikon's CEO thinks the only way to survive smartphone aggression is pushing 8k video!

https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20170819-00000005-asahi-bus_all

Is more pixels the reason people are supposed to upgrade from iPhone to dedicated camera? Even so I don't know why they think 8k is off limits for smartphone. Yes its too much for "one" tiny sensor, but soon they put "four" 4k camera modules close to each other and with some deconvolution algorithms extract a descent 8k video out of that. Then what?

I bet old men in Sony and Canon headquarters are also thinking like Mr. Ushida. More pixels, higher frame rates, high bitrate files, many core processors, larger bandwidth.. that we enthusiasts love to see in our next gear, but they should know that.. this strategy is like having no strategy at all. 

I didn't read anywhere that 30fps 8MP is raw

Another proof that binning is not the problem, processing is. 

If they wanted to make a A99II clone, why didn't tweak the already available 42MP sensor instead of fabricating new one that naturally will be more expensive? 

1 hour ago, AaronChicago said:

Yeah but I'm sure more people view the Apple store than your site.

Does website traffic play a role in this? I don't think its like average Joe comes to Apple store to buy a cable and suddenly says to himself Wow, look at it, a $15k cinema gear.. lets click add to cart! 

EVF speculation was a joke.. to project a high-res digital image through an optical finder prism, you need an OLED screen that doesn't emit light in straight line, but angled! Which needs every single pixel to be equipped with a micro mirror. Possible to fabricate, but way too expensive for a high volume DSLR, and God knows how questionable would be its performance compared to a conventional EVF. 

D850 should be the best "DSLR" they could make, and then start the serious mirrorless journey. 

16 hours ago, meanwhile said:

I have no idea at all why you think someone writing an article that technical doesn't know what a curve is just because he doesn't discuss them in an article where they are largely irrelevant to the point being made 

I didn't say he doesn't know what a curve is. I said he seems unaware of curvers applied by default when opening a raw file which affects the look of the image and histogram. And also these converters change hues based on intensity of light, based on their interpretation of "correct color". So comparing highlights of two raw files in Adobe raw converter to judge the performance of two sensors is almost pointless, unless you know what exactly they do to the values, and undo all of them. 

21 hours ago, jonpais said:

Fair enough. I suppose if I'm pixel peeping a film at the movie theater, the movie must be pretty awful.  

Resolution is addictive. Once you consume a highly detailed image, you start demanding higher. 

13 hours ago, meanwhile said:

 

..Then there's the issue of highlight spil and roll-off, which none of the test sites even consider, but which have a huge impact on "aliveness". Film and foveon sensors handle them more or less as the eyes does, which is their images look better when highlights are in frame

http://www.13thmonkey.org/~boris/photos/Foveon2/foveon-highlights.html

 

Amazingly he didn't say anything about white balance in that article, which can make undesired look in saturated areas, and apparently is not aware of the curves raw developers apply when you open the raw file, which push some highlights closer to saturation point. 

22 hours ago, jonpais said:

2K looks fine in the theater.

"fine" is very relative term for describing the amount of details. 

18 hours ago, meanwhile said:

Yes. The point of larger screens is that you are supposed to watch them from further away. An 85 might show problems with 4K if you shove your face against it... But that's not what you are supposed to do!

New generation used to shove their face against it, because of...gaming! 

On 7/26/2017 at 11:06 AM, Mattias Burling said:

85inch is pretty tiny compared to a movie screen. And the content has been ready for that since the 20ths.

2k falls apart on 85 inch. Even blueray quality 2k. 

Forget full sensor downsampling.. its not going to happen. 45x30 is 1350 mega pixel per second! Its even more than GH5, but in a FF sensor! .. no, its impossible for now. 

they unapologetically and unashamedly show that they use RED for their anniversary short film  

But 0.08 bit per pixel is around 20Mb/s for 4k@30. I'm sure h.265 is already producing a pretty clear image at this data rate. 

China is investing huge money in TV panel industry. They want to make 65inch panels as cheap as today mainstream 42inch. So next step will be descending the 85inch from luxury segment to mid-range. Our content should be ready for that. 

Potential A9R buyers won't come back to DSLR just because of D850, and Nikon knows it. They just had to announce something because user base wanted them to announce something. I guess the reason behind this delay is they haven't received enough number of sensors from Sony yet. 

14 hours ago, IronFilm said:

Welll.... that is one way to misinterpret it and put a massive negative spin on the situation! 

All they're doing is further expanding the range of D750 that they're accepting back.
That is *not* the same as a recalling it for the 3rd time.

 

PetaPixel used the "3rd time" in its title. DPReview word was "expands". We know which one is more interested in clickbait. 

The good side of it is that they took the issue that could only affect a few number of users very seriously, and replace the shutter even if warranty is expired. The ugly side is the range of this expansion, which is nearly a year, that brings a question how its even possible to NOT notice new batch of component has same problem of the previous batch, for a year! 

21 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

 

What worries me for Nikon is that Fuji only do mirrorless and only have to work with a very limited - and recent - range of lenses and they still can't get it right enough so can I expect Nikon to get it right first time?

Its a lot to ask really.

At this point introducing a new mount is stupid business wise. Nikon announced only 4 new lenses this year and rumored to release another one before Christmas. So only 5 in a year. While its not a bad record at all, this capacity is far from adequate for supporting a completely new system. Unless they manage to make a perfect adapter. But even a perfect adapter can't solve the problem DSLR lenses have: their AF mechanism is not designed for CDAF. 

DxO score can't even represent their own testing. Here is actual DR comparison:

The difference is more than one full stop, but not at base ISO. Something happens at ISO 400 that needs a IP licence Samsung didn't have. 

CMOS is a matured tech, read noise on these new sensors are ridiculously low, so we are limited by noise generated by randomness of light. which we can't do much about that. 

42 minutes ago, mercer said:

Sorry if I change the subject, not my intention. These discussions become ever evolving and a lot of times I skip pages and respond to specific posts.

As a whole, I agree that Canon's progress has been slow and I also agree they're missing out on a market but I wouldn't be so hyperbolic to say they don't innovate at all or will go out of business because they haven't included 4K in enthusiast and consumer lines of cameras.

But to address your specific points... okay it was $12,000 and it was in 2012 but it was still 2 years before another company offered 4K in a DSLR form and arguably still has a better 4K image than its competitors.

DPAF is a pretty substantial development and probably ate up a lot of their R&D budget over the past few years.

Your other points I agree with, in fact, I agree with most specifics of every argument and point you made in your post. I just disagree that the lack of 4K in their consumer line will have lasting effects on their sales.

They are a frustrating company because I love a lot about their cameras, or what was pulled from their cameras, but I also want some modern conveniences like peaking, zebras, IBIS, etc... especially since when Canon gets around to implementing these features, there's no doubt in my mind, they'll work better than their competitors variants. For example, focus peaking on the XC10 and the EOS-M models is the best peaking I've used.

Out of curiosity, when you were asked to review the 5D4, was it inferred they were looking for a fluff piece? Or were they genuinely interested on your take of its video? Did they seem open to suggestions, or just looking for online coverage?

If EOS-M focus peaking is the best you've ever used why its not available in your even more expensive EOS-non-M camera? Its not hardware limitations. 

19 minutes ago, Mattias Burling said:

But they still kick the ass of all mirrorless in terms of auto focus. Both stills and video. So its not all black and white.

Both "still" and video? And how its tested? Mostly wide slow lenses can't show how AF is good for serious still shooting. 

1 hour ago, Tim Sewell said:

All I can say is that out of the ~20 people I know who own Canon DSLRs only 2 or 3 have ever even tried their camera's video mode.

Its was 0 when Nikon introduced DSLR video in D90. 

2 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

 

And if Putin is involved in giving us Trump, which is strongly hinted at in episode 4 of the interviews by the body language, it's a big disgrace.

They can't change election result even in their puppet state Iran, let alone America. Russian power is overrated.