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    Requesting a 4K 5D Mark IV! Werner meets Canon in Germany

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    On May 8, 2016 at 1:52 PM, lafilm said:

    It is a fact the new Canon 5D Mark 4 will have 4K.

    Will it have 4K 60p, like the new Canon 1DX Mark ii?

    NO.

    Remember, the original 1D X was superior in image quality and low light to the 5D3.

    This will not change. Pony up the 6K or be happy with the Mark 4 with 24p 4K.

    And YES, I do believe in Santa Claus. 

    What's the likelihood ML will work on 5d4 (didn't Canon change their operating system recently?)

    New Canon 1DX Mkii Footage

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    12 minutes ago, richg101 said:

    actually of all the modern offerings the loxia are definitely my favourites.  If I had the cash I'd be all over them!  The problem with modern lenses is that they all seem to be over contrasty meaning they don;t render things like skintones quite as nicely as older lenses IMO.

    TBH, it might be that correct use of diffusers and netting might make canon L series more appealing to my eye, but the fact remains is that the lenses have been used extensively in non cinematic environments to the point where they impart a non cinematic look.  It's like the opposite of panavision lenses.  if you take stills with a panavision c-series lens the still looks like a frame from a movie.  when you shoot a movie with an L series lens it's like a series of still images taken by a newspaper photographer.  

     

    Thank you again richg101.

    New Canon 1DX Mkii Footage

    In: Cameras

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    4 minutes ago, richg101 said:

    For sony, You could fit panavision lenses if you wanted to.  But in the real world with a very cheap e-mount to oct18 adaptor you can fit lomo copies of the old arri 35mm format lenses.  at £100-150 a pop the oct18 lenses are the cheapest way to get the look I consider 'cinema'.

    for canon you are pigeon holed into using lenses that can be adaptoed to eos - so most 35mm motion picture lenses are not usable.  but IMO a set of old 1970's nikon adapted to eos are a good call.  or better, some leica summicron-r lenses.  The problem is that unless you're using the full sensor of the 1dxii (which you are not when shooting in modes where they take a full readout - full frame mode is mushy and lacking the image quality you get from the aps-c and aps-h modes), without having a full frame sensor area, you are then obliged to purchase an additional wider lens than you'd normally have to.  assuming a set of full frame lenses like a 35mm/2, 50mm/2 and 85mm/2 were in your budget they'd be great in full frame, but when in aps-h or aps-c modes you'll need to invest in a wider lens (25-28mm) whch will be more costly and likely not as good image image quality as a good 35mm/2.

    Thank you very much.

    You don't approve of Zeiss' offerings (Otus, Milvus, Loxia & Batis)?

    New Canon 1DX Mkii Footage

    In: Cameras

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    46 minutes ago, richg101 said:

    I assumed correctly they shot this on L series.  and it looks like also the L series 'cine' versions.  It's not the camera that makes this feel the polar opposite of the look of No Country for Old Men.  It's the glass.  If they'd had cooke s4's on the front of the 1dxmk2 i imagine the image would look like a real movie.  The fact that they can be in just about the most filmic location I can imagine and it still feel like a dslr shoot is because of the lenses.  

    Canon glass = photo journalist snapping a criminal after his day in court 

    Cooke glass = Hollywood.

    Shame Canon stick with their EF mount and stop people using real lenses.  If you want it to look filmic you need filmic glass.  An Alexa mini with an EF mount and L lenses looks just as non filmic

    In your opinion, which are filmic glass for use on Canon, and Sony?

    I'll be at NAB, what would you like me to check out?

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    1 hour ago, IronFilm said:

    Yeah.... not this year, and probably not next either. Not at any realistic or affordable price point. 

    As you can look at what is simply needed from the single / multi camera approach there is already and extrapolate, the leap is simply far far too big to have what you describe happen this year. Only can happen at a much higher price point (such as the Nokia OZO, which costs US$60K!). 

    http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/12/11395898/facebook-surround-360-video-camera-vr-f8-conference

    5D mark4 will be better at video than 1DX mark2

    In: Cameras

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    1 hour ago, Germy1979 said:

    Moderate bitrate internally.  4K.  Decent AF in comparison to the 1D2.  No C-log. And of course...  8-bit.

    (however the XC-10 has it.)

    I'm pretty much sold on the 14-bit raw image coming out of mark 3 & I don't understand why they don't take that and run with it.  

    Maybe the replacement for the 5D3 will be called the XC-1 ?

     

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