leeys

Nope. Only difference is it doesn't hunt when it snaps onto focus, but it snaps on a lot slower than the best contrast detect AF and is hopeless in low light.

 

What are you hoping to use it for? If it is casual holiday snap shot video time, then fine it works well. If it is filmmaking, then no, you need MF. And if it is stills forget it, just look through the optical viewfinder instead.

I don't know, I really didn't find it that much slower than the GH3. I timed it with a stopwatch and passed it around a couple of people to make sure reaction time wasn't an issue. It's not a lot slower.

I've used my GH3 in a few commercial videos for corporate clients and the AF works well enough. I disable continuous and use a remote to start AF. It's mostly fairly static stuff, with some simple focus pulls.

And it's really hard to use the optical viewfinder when the camera is on the floor. I usually don't fancy putting my face on most floors. ;)

I've never had the need for 14 stops of dynamic range in stills. For video, yes, which is why I'm a big Alexa fan, but for stills I just haven't found the need for more than 10 stops, 5-6 for most purposes. But I grew into the Mark III shooting 4x5 Velvia, which has 4-5 stops of dynamic range so I come at this with a different approach from most, I think.

Basically, if you don't post-process heavily, you might not see the difference, but if you do, wow. Cameras with less than 12 stops of DR usually get found out (at least for me. As an extreme example, I have a Nikon 1 V2 and boy that was really unpleasant the first time I got back after a shoot. I've learnt to shoot with a different style and technique with the V2, but that does mean there's less flexibility with that particular solution.

The only time this doesn't apply is in a completely controlled environment where you've setup the lighting to take into account your post-processing edits.

I just feel goofy carrying around this awesome 18-35mm f1.8 Sigma (and 11-16mm Tokina) and having no camera to use them on, except that dreadful EOS-M I’m now trying to unload. Which, btw, has surprisingly great image quality, significantly exceeding the 7D… but it’s basically unusable due to poor AF.

You could get a speedbooster and a GH4. :P

What surprises me the most about 7D2 is not the lack of 4K ( half-expected it ) but lack of low-light capability. Right now D4s, D810, Df and A7s are radically changing photographic conventions by delivering acceptable noise-free ISO1600 images.

 

You're seriously not comparing a 7DII with the above cameras, are you? All those are FF cameras! 

Usually these don't work very well, from my experience. I haven't seen this particular brand before though, and at US$10 you can give it a go and see if it works!

And dual pixel AF is too slow for stills, too unreliable for filmmaking.

Is it that slow? I sat down with a 70D indoors at a food court (someone else's camera) for a full 30 minutes and compared it to my GH3. For stills the speed difference isn't that much, though it cannot do lowlight AF as well as the GH3.

For videos (not filmmaking), I'm the guy that uses the GH3's AF from time to time and am happy with it. I'm sure the EOS 70D will be more reliable with phase detect, no?

The 60D lacks MFA, I believe, and the Rebels lack MFA and 1/3 stop exposure increments.... 

 

70D looks pretty nice right about now, though...

Rebels could always do 1/3 stop exposure increments, I'm sure! Unless this is specific to the Rebels only, but that'd just be weird.

What's funny is that Canon has crippled its products in pretty obnoxious and obvious ways... but no one here seems to care about their legitimately obnoxious omissions. On the still side leaving out 1/3 stop increments and MFA is a big deal and unnecessary. For video it's worse: AVCHD instead of XF Cam on the C100 is a significant and unnecessary downgrade, the lack of 60/720p confusing, but much, much worse is the lack of HDSDI/timecode and the horrible viewfinder... 

Canon has always done some kind of dick move just to create marketing distinctions, but I'm pretty sure you can make exposure changes in 1/3 stops since forever, and MFA has been around since the 7D/5DII days.

Rectilinear lens options!

There is 55" OLED TV on the market already costing little more than A7S camera: LG 55EA980V

Seems like the price of two A7S's. Still promising though.

Does that mean there'll be a 32-36" 5k OLED monitor in the future? Because that'd be really nice for work.

I still don't get it - you mean a porn production was so desperate to get a Nikon D750 they'd pony up the extra money for what is likely to be an engineering sample? Even in porn, I'm sure they're professionals, and which pro would take a risk on that?

More budget for better audio is always good. People underestimate the importance of good audio. If you're not in a hurry you can see how the new cameras fare first.

Lots of weird links popping up lately!

I thought getting OLED to large sizes was the problem?

The only meaningful answers are the ones you get from the top guys like Masaya Maeda, and as you can see in the dpreview interview, they are also mostly talking shit. 'Canon sensor is the best', right. 'Canon is and has been very serious in the mirrorless market' - uhuh!

That bit cracked me up:

We’ve actually been serious about it since the very beginning.

 

Cue the EOS M. If that's serious I don't know what half-hearted will look like.

Exactly - the local Nikon subsidary barely had their cameras for a fortnight, from what I could gather!

Hey guys,

Just a head's up the new Nikon D750 is superior to the D810 for video. I saw proof of this in person. Sorry I cannot show you the footage. It wasn't mine and was used on an adult vid. Both cams were on the set.

I know they say porn can be on the forefront of tech but wow that's really fast; the camera's barely out for a day!

It ended with him saying within earshot of me and in a bitter tone "who's next" as if his time was better spent talking to some kind of 'yes' man.

You know, that's probably who Canon want. Outside of the very large media movers and shakers Canon won't give you the time of the day.

I should do a post on my own experience with Canon's PR agency, which I'd say was the hardest to work with.

I don't think it is good enough to reverse a halving of DSLR shipments in the last 2 years though.

 

A lot of 7D owners have already upgraded. 6D, 70D, 5D Mark III, or if they're a video user then a Cinema EOS camera, and if they can't afford that they many of them will have already jumped ship from Canon altogether for a GH4 or a Sony A7-something.

Even if it was super fantastic the price point it's at means it won't do that either - I'd say 70-80% of DSLR shipments come from your triple digit EOS cameras and D5x00s and below.

The problem right now is that really, for the mass market, image quality is so good people have no reason to buy another camera... and some are downgrading to smartphones because it's so much easier to use, edit and share images and video with.

The issue with high end APS-C stuff is that it has reached the end of the road, certainly with regards pricing, because why shoot APS-C if you can get a full frame camera for the same price?

 

The AF system is just about the only thing it has going for it and even that's a minor difference to the other high end Canon DSLRs.

Well, a GH4 costs as much as a FF DSLR, why would people buy that, right? It's about having the right set of specs and features, and that goes beyond the sensor size.

The AF system and frame rate is a big deal for still action shooters though; the 6D's AF system is simply miserable in comparison.

So I am not expecting any low-priced 4K camera from Nikon soon, if anything it will probably be a Cinema Nikon and $10k!

Of all the things to copy from Canon, that's the last thing they need. 

If he's left eye dominant then he wont be able to do this, if he is right then he is already,  so this is a redundant sugestion.  I'm left eye dominant and can literaly not se with my right eye through a veiwfinder unless i completely close my left eye.  Which I dont do because my vision is blured for about 5 mins after I open it again.

I'm left eye dominant as well but use my right eye. The disadvantage comes in not being able to keep both eyes open. Very useful when keeping tabs on whatever that's outside of the frame!

Ooo, a 5K screen is where it's at. 4K + toolbars. I like.

Wasn't there a report for 2014 that the trend's reversed? DSLR shipments are dropping faster than mirrorless, and there's been a slight uptick for the latter somewhere.

Personally I prefer the grip on the D750 than the D600s. The grip itself is deeper so feels nicer.

Ok let's try and be more helpful. What price do IPS 4K monitors start at Leeys?

My point was, I won't cheap out and get this. Sometimes it's just not worth the money (think of cheap bargain "fluid" heads that don't quite work, or rigs that never fit right, or tripods that are just that wee bit unreliable).

Some of the arguments here remind me of stills photography over a decade back, when people were starting out and raw capability was starting to be available. Fast forward ten years and no pro would want a camera without that capability, even if they shot JPEGs 90% of the time.

We're back at this stage with these cameras - I'd love to see raw video implemented with sensible software options like we have for stills. That'd really shake up the market, me thinks. Unfortunately the hardware isn't there yet. I don't think there's a sensor readout and bus transfer that can deal with that on a cheap enough basis, is there?

This is a video site, so it's going to be reviewed that way. While I don't think it'll be received poorly (I'm confident still buyers outnumber video by 10:1) for people on this site, there are better options.

No IPS, no sale. I cannot stand working with TN panels. Would rather stick with my 2.5k screen and activate panning mode.