johnnyd

Well, its been a while and its changed quite a bit....
But this is your official 7 day countdown for pre-orders opening on 12/12/19.
As the festive season is approaching then in true advent calendar style, open this thread every day for more stuff.

PBC Tease 1.mp4  
 

I like it when rumour sites give a rating to the veracity of their own rumours.
Its pretty much the equivalent to people ranking their own farts.
My new favourite is when they are self important enough to announce the countdown to the unveiling of a new rumour.
"I'm going to announce something that is highly likely to be untrue but by ramping up your anticipation and making you wait for the announcement this gives it some degree of importance so you are far more likely to believe it to be true".
Which reminds me, when is the Tory manifesto being released ?
 
 

They can, by offering Red the license fee for compressed raw or some sort of cross license deal that Canon and Red have done, or wait til Apple win the suit.

We shot this as a two man crew over two weeks in Georgia. Was a whirlwind shoot driving up mountains to track down nomadic sheep herders and trying to get access to shoot in Orthodox churches and dance clubs. This is what we came up with.. would love to hear what everyone thinks.. we took a different direction on this piece than we normally do.
 

Just read the thread, what a rollercoaster one.

Just waiting for the revelation that the real patent holder for internal RAW is Ebrahim Saadawi.

Their CEO posted somewhere that it's a new sensor made by Red like all their previous ones.

Their CEO posted somewhere that it's a new sensor made by Red like all their previous ones.

Yes, right, like when the Hydrogen project went down it was some Chinese's fault, when everything goes well is 100% Red..
Do we even believe this guy anymore?

just in time to punch all the a7r4 and a6400 buyers in the dick. that's so Sony.
 

ok so in the spirit of eoshd togetherness I have decided to share this video to see what u guys think. maybe it will inspire zach ☺️
let me explain:
i made this short at the end of last year, but I never completed the edit/fx/etc 100%. Got busy with other stuff, and I was working up my gumption to come back to it with a fresh eye.
then my iMac broke, and I have a new ‘puter on the way, but I’m anticipating the nightmare of opening resolve and Siri saying ERROR: NO MEDIA FOUND, because my files, ALTHOUGH BACKED UP, are super disorganized, there might be a few things missing, but at the very least it’ll be a big pain in the ass to relink everything to get going on this again
aannnyyyway I always feel bad for posting literally zero videos but numerous dog pics and I was like Screw it, its not perfect, but here ya go.
this is not the best file, its the one I had in icloud, there could be a better render, etc etc, and its getting murdered by youtube compression, but my first reaction watching it after not messing with it for a few months was…. …Hey~! Its not too bad! ☺️ not bad for a first film i made all by myself! imagine if I had a crew, a budget… ?
so, if youd like to see, pls check it out, and if you have any helpful feedback that involves changing/adding things, that’s great, but I do NOT have access to the actors/locations any more and there is almost no chance of me shooting additional footage, so as long as suggestions don’t involve me spending any more money on this project, I’m all in ?
at best, I think this is a cool example of what one person can do with a 5d3 in 2019 with no budget, crew, or resources whatsoever... as indie as it gets lolol
 

The expectations for the A7Siii are so high and very unrealistic. 

Good idea for a thread @kye
Quick one with a non-calibrated laptop monitor so not sure how it looks ? WB adjustment, some LUT and messing around in Lumetri CC. Might try again once I get to my work computer and a decent monitor!

And he calls this video a "reality check"!?
Read the full article

I remember thinking to myself a short while ago, “The current camera so damn good, Do we really need anything better? “
It seems many in Hollywood are taking note. I recently read a article which can be found here in which they state that the new movie “The Haunting of Hannah Grace” was shot entirely on the Sony A7S2. 
Granted, they rigged it up pretty good. But at the heart of that rigging was a Sony A7S2. 
So the day has come... hell has indeed frozen over. A humble prosumer camera can be used to shoot a Hollywood feature. Now if anamorphic lenses would follow suit, we would really be in business.

Pleased to announce that my Pocket4K app for Android is now complete and is with beta testers so barring any calamties will be available from the Play store on the 21st of December.

Here is a screen shot with a quick run through of the features from top to bottom :

Across the top we have the controls for Aperture, ISO and shutter angle.
Next up we have the colour temperature and tint controls, the preset white balance selectors, the Auto White Balance button and, of course, the Record button.
Beneath that we have the 8 snapshot memories which you can use to store and instantly recall 8 different custom settings of ISO, Aperture, Shutter Angle and White Balance. To store the preset you long press on the memory slot that you want to use and to recall it just short press. Haptic feedback is given to indicate that the preset has been written and the currently loaded preset is denoted in orange (M1 in the shot above). Presets are stored in non volatile memory so are always available in any session.
Next is the focus controller, which is operated using the slider and/or the fine tune buttons. A long press of the button moves instantly to closest focus and infinity respectively. The AF button in ths row activates the single shot auto focus.
To accompany the focus controls, you then have 6 memory slots (A to F) to store focus points and you can switch instantly between them by simply pressing the required one. In addition, next to these are the controls for A-B-A focus transition and the speed control. Again, all focus points are stored in non volatile memory for use in any session.
Finally we have the controls for applicable MFT power zoom lenses with the same interface as the focus controls (including long press for instant minimum/maximum zoom) and 4 non volatile memory positions for later recall.
There is another function that it can do that I'll let you know about closer to release date and I will put up a little demo video of it in action late next week.
 

I'm not saying you're not on to something... but the A7SIII rumors have simply been all over the place to the point of it reaching unicorn status.
Sony themselves have sort of admitted going back to the drawing boards and postponing its release.. 
It's one thing to have a great sensor but materializing it into a stable/viable camera is another.
As for sensor data sheets, I don't want to argue with numbers but they don't always reveal the full picture (no pun intended). 
Many claimed A73 > A7S2 in low-light but really the cam got there by "cheating" with heavy use of NR at high ISO values.
Getting back to 8K i think it will be put in the Mark IV Sony cameras, just in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
That is the roadmap deadline the Japanese tech industry has set for 8K consumer product roll-out.

Was that even 8K sound at all? :-P 

That video was amazing, for not being able to do anything right.
 

For the sake of everybody who might buy one, I hope I'm right and it doesn't come out until 2030
 

Care to elaborate on that? I have not seen you talk about the source for that anywhere?
Also, why not just answer the question? Or better yet, just tell the source on the same post with those spec sheets and rumors you post. Not trying to hate on you, I'm just genuinely interested what the deal is with all this stuff.

True ? 
Still remember the fs700 and axs-r5? Shot once with that setup and I can tell you it wasn't pleasant ?

 

Still waiting for that super dumper Sony announcement, oh wait it was one week ago.

@androidlad where you getting this info? I also asked you TWICE for a source on your "leak" about a 4k 12-bit/2k raw canon rf mount camera on the eos r thread and you don't seem to have an answer. Seems like you're pulling this stuff out of your arse mate..

Maybe the a7Smk3 will record to a AXS-R7 !  

Knowing Canon something like that is way more likely to be used in a C-series camera.

I don't think this is the right camera for you.