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On ‎10‎/‎1‎/‎2016 at 1:38 AM, SR said:

What about the Sony A7RII and A6300? I don't think they suffer from oversampled sharpness.

The A7R2 does not oversample in FF mode, which is why the crop mode has better quality. Also, an image may be oversampled, but unless it fully reads a 6K image it will not be able to reproduce full 4K resolution after debeyering. The Sony cameras, even in optimal modes, do not reach the resolution the NX1 does, so they are probably using a smaller pixel set, or the downsampling is being down in a crude manner (probably because of computational limitations, which we know places limits on the Sony processors.

1 hour ago, SR said:

 

We really ought to start a new thread discussing the various methods of adding softness to neutralize the Samsung's sharpness.

 

I am on -10 always, but it's always been too sharp even then.

It is not sharpness, it is resolution. It is due to the NX1 sensor being oversampled, which allows it to outresolve most other cameras out there.

On ‎9‎/‎16‎/‎2016 at 11:44 PM, Lintelfilm said:

The official Canon intro video does demo and talk about this feature specifically as great "for vloggers" with no mention of selfies.

Im a C100 and XC10 owner extremely bored of hearing the video-shooting minority complain about the quality of video on Canon's stills cameras. Most people think it's Canon being money grabbing and pushing users to the more expensive Cinema line to get decent video. However the more benign explanation is that it's always been part of Canons ethos to honour existing customers by not making their purchases obsolete every 5 minutes (*cough* Sony *cough*). As you say, stills is their focus outside of the pro video segment.

The M5 is big news because it means Canon are clearly phasing in quality mirrorless cameras, which has been a big question mark over their heads. But "phasing in" is the key phrase here. They are still market leaders so they have no need to hurry. A big part of the reason they are market leaders is the brand loyalty and respect they command, which comes in part from not ditching existing customers for the sake of winning the latest and greatest spec war.

 

 

If existing customers are only shooting stills as you suggest, then adding advanced video features to a new model is not going to make their current camera obsolete.

Adding specs does not ditch existing customers.  

5 hours ago, Jaime Valles said:

Anyone?

You might want to wait for the camera to actually be sold before getting impatient about no one responding to your questions.

Nope. I would guess that 99%+ of video is shot on smaller sensors anyway. The "FF" look is for techno-snobs who are looking for some feature to differentiate themselves from the common people, but does not have a whole lot of relevance in the real world

On ‎9‎/‎27‎/‎2016 at 8:15 AM, DaveAltizer said:

Wow. This is a killer. 

 

Apparently DJI don't approve of free advertising.

On ‎9‎/‎25‎/‎2016 at 9:14 AM, jpfilmz said:

I rented the 5D4 for a wedding shoot yesterday to go along with my other cams.  Used a 512gb sandisk SD card with gave it about 128 minutes or 4K shooting.  The lowlight is not as good as in full frame mode but it's not as terrible as everyone is making it out to be if you shoot with fast lenses.  

Resolution is not great.

Btw, what is up with the pans? Did you have stabilization turned on?

44 minutes ago, gatopardo said:

1080P is said to be good. But I think they didn't test artifacting issues I guess. But 4k is not too bad. 

It seemed a bit soft and mushy to my eyes. Definitely not going to win any resolution contests.

Because most of them are sitting in more or less in one spot in front of the camera. You don't need the camera focussing on what is behind you when you move a bit.

On ‎9‎/‎26‎/‎2016 at 8:14 AM, Sedazin said:

70D and 80D are used for vlogging because they provide the excellent Canon Dual Pixel AF which is important for one-man shows, especially daily vlogs. Panasonic GX85, Olympus E-M5.2 provide better image quality and stabilization but do net get the AF-job done. The CDAF implementations are simply not reliable enough. You do not see the focus hunting in the small flip-out screen during recording. Of course there is obvious stuff, where the camera focusses on the background an is not willig to change but the problem are the small, nearly unnoticeable glitches, when the face tracking loses the face for a fraction of a second. Once back at the NLE you realize that it looks awful but today's episode needs to be pushed out ...

Vlogging is a growing business, pobably understimated by poeple that are not used to it. A lot of money is involved when the number of followers get over one million and while content is still king the quality level is quite high.

Most Vloggers are sitting yammering on about whatever their beef is in one position in front of a camera however, and you don't need DPAF for that (in fact, autofocus of any kind is probably a disadvantage).

16 hours ago, Policar said:

The only thing you need to be a professional is a client.

Being "professional" can be compared to being a chef. Just because you are paid to cook food does not mean that you are one. I think we can all agree that the person who cooks food at a five star restaurant is a chef. But the guy who flips burgers at MacDonalds is not. Both however are paid for preparing food and make their living that way.

Photography/videography is the same. Just because you are paid to do it does not make you a professional. There are real professionals and then there are the "burger flippers" who are doing it simply to make a buck to get by.

6 hours ago, Policar said:

It doesn't have to be.

Watch Casey Neistat's channel. 

That is not how most is shot however. Typically it is a static camera with someone sitting in front of it.

Once you learn English you might understand better.

There will be variability in how effective the heat transfer is from unit to unit. That is pretty normal for anything that has a high performance processor in it.

That does not look good for the 5D4 then. At best a mediocre performer.

The basic problem and deal breaker with the a6300 is that it has "Sony" on it's name plate.

Well, it will probably be 5 or 6 months before you can buy one anyway, so plenty of time.

Even though the GH5 will probably edge past on video, the NX1 kicks it in stills, so is still very competitive as a hybrid.

According to the specs on the DPreview first looks the highest bit rate is 35 mbps, as I suspected. In other words the video will be similar in quality to what Powershots shoot.

The screen tilting downwards is probably clearance related.

Using the touchscreen to move focus while looking through the EVF.....does that mean your cheek selects focus points for you? I think that feature is not going to be all that practical.

4 hours ago, mercer said:

Yeah, it seems quite good. I hope the pricing rumor was true. 

BH has body only preorder price of $979. I need to hear more about the specs before I commit. Hopefully, it matches the 90mbps bitrate of the 80D. Am also hoping you get full access to the IBIS with EF lenses... And also manual lenses. If it's nearly as good as the 5-Axis on the XC10, then it will be amazing... Even with a crop. 

It records as mp4 files, so the bit rate will likely be lower. In the GX7MII these files are 35 mbps, and in the 80D they are 60 mbps.

1 hour ago, MattH said:

Lackluster HD when viewed on a HD monitor. In 2016.  Come on man. They've got dual pixel going for it, but for me its so close yet so far.

Simply stunning.....NOT! It looks even worse on a 1440p monitor.

From a video point of view this camera is not going to compete with any current model.

19 minutes ago, cantsin said:

Believe it or not, Blackmagic cameras - including the Pocket - have active sensor cooling (which BM officially states on its website, "internal active cooling for the cinematic sensor") for a reason. And the 2.5K cinema cameras have bigger and heavier housings for the same reason.

Active sensor cooling, finally, is the reason why the BM Pocket eats up batteries so fast.

Their sensors are being read at the same rate as everyone else's, so that is BS. The cooling is for the electronics overall, the primary heat source being the processor. The sensor needs to be kept cool, but it is not what is generating the heat.

17 hours ago, andrgl said:

The Pocket was announced April 2013, the Micro was announced April 2015.

 

Wild speculation: we're roughly 6 months away from the next April (2017) reveal.

 

If you were Blackmagic, what would you add, keep or remove to the Pocket / Micro?

The next camera they announce will be the Nano Studio Camera. So small that you can't see it. And all for the low, low price of $3k.....a total bargain! Get your preorders in now, or you might be the last Jones in the block to get one!!

59 minutes ago, cantsin said:

Here's a prediction: raw video in consumer cameras won't happen any time soon because of the steep requirements for fast storage media. Companies like Canon cannot afford, like Blackmagic, to list only a few SD cards as being fully compatible to their cameras, and deal with resulting user confusion and complaints. (Even Blackmagic's own forum is full of people complaining about frame drops and corrupted recordings, and it turns out every single time that they ignored the list of recommended storage devices.)

Conversely, Blackmagic can't upgrade the Pocket and Micro Cinema with a higher resolution sensor as long as the existing 2.5K sensor (of the orginal Blackmagic Cinema Camera) has too high cooling requirements to be put into a small camera housing. Unless there's any 1" or MFT sensor on the market, or announced, whose power consumption/heat dissipation is on the same level as the existing Fairchild 1" 1080p sensor, a small camera with higher resolution won't happen. (EDIT: Blackmagic could use the 1" 4K sensor of the Micro Studio Camera for a Pocket-like small camera, but the gain in resolution would come at the price of a significant loss of dynamic range.)

It is not the sensor that overheats, it is the processor serving it. Uncompressed RAW output would have the smallest thermal profile....the problem is that with high bit depths and resolutions you can't store the data fast enough.

The sweet spot in terms of compression and storage limitations are codecs such as MJPEG and Prores. If you use more efficient compression you fry the processor, if you use less efficient compression you can't store the data fast enough.

3 hours ago, iamoui said:

First comment from that article:

"Your Samsung prototype picture is a Nikon mirrorless rendering from an old Nikon Rumors article
You are being ruthlessly ridiculed on most other websites for this type of reporting... !!!
Is this really the kind of reputation you want ???
In fact you are still being ridiculed for your Samsung / Nikon conspiracy theory."

Easy enough to determine if it is real or not if the patent application number is known. Anyone could look it up and see for themselves then.

8 hours ago, Jimmy said:

Why does Canon always get a mention?

Sony have been able to do 4K/120p Raw for years via the FS700, yet they still churn out crappy 8 bit 4:2:0 in their DSLR/Mirrorless range. Nikon don't even have a high end, yet still also churn out 8bit 4:2:0

If Panasonic push the boundaries of the GH5, it is because they are aggressive in that sub sector, not because of some $20k codex recording camera.

All these companies should understand that they could make amazing DSLR video and alot of people would still buy their pro range for the NDs, XLRs, Ergonomics etc (and also buy a few of the DSLRs for B/C cams)

I'm sure all of the camera companies can do 4K RAW in all sorts of output modes. That is not the problem. The problem is storing the output. If it has to be encoded first then the processor will choke at a certain point (which is why most cameras have limitations on the quality of their output), but with RAW that will not happen. Then it becomes a question of how do you store so much data fast enough, that is the limitation for RAW output.

5 hours ago, mercer said:

Yup. Olympus was beating Panasonic before it had 4K video. Now, why stay with Panasonic? But I would love to see some Raw video trickle down into any of the brands feature set. Just give me 1080p 24p Raw and I'll sell off all my lenses, buy the 12-35mm 2.8 and be done.

I know Raw video is for a niche market, but I can't believe how the majors just allow BM to monopolize it. If Panasonic was bold enough to put 1080p raw video in one of their consumer/prosumer cameras, half of BM users would probably switch over in a millisecond.

I think it would be a much more valuable feature than 6K video at this point. I can just imagine the commercials... Little Billy's birthday party with the depth and clarity of a motion picture. Billy cuts into the cake with his bare hands. Everyone laughs. Voice over... "Life's raw moments deserve raw video."

It would be cool but it won't happen. 

RAW is overkill in the consumer market (even the vast majority of the professional market). Even treasured things like 10 bit or 4:2:2 are not necessary, because for most applications it has little or no impact on the appearance of the footage and how it is used. On the flip side RAW has considerable resource requirements and presents handling issues for non-expert users who have neither the time nor inclination to muck around with the nuances that are required to make it look even semi decent.

On ‎9‎/‎6‎/‎2016 at 8:46 AM, NX1user said:

I'll give that try. Thanks!

 

The throw depends on focal length as well.

9 hours ago, lucabutera said:

Samsung patent 70 200 f2.8 full frame lens!!

http://digiarena.e15.cz/samsung-zrejme-pracoval-na-plnoformatove-bezzrcadlovce

You know that the icon you are using is a Sig rune right?

On ‎9‎/‎10‎/‎2016 at 4:19 PM, Tiago Rosa-Rosso said:

In terms of built, precision, ergonomics, color it beats most of the contenders..

I would dispute that. Not saying they are bad, but they are not ahead of others in those departments either.

3 hours ago, iamoui said:

If you follow the link in the rumor to the website you will find the original post. After google translate you get this:

"Just go back to sleep a sleep , dream saw EOS M5 empty body price is $ 899 magnesium , magnesium sale price is $ 799 . $ 199 with 15-45 lens plus magnesium , so pricing is $ 1098 magnesium , magnesium sale price is $ 998 . If the match is 18-150 lens, pricing and pre-sale price is $ 1198 magnesium.
Dreamed this price , I cried in a dream after a while decided to buy the A6300 ."

This rumor comes from nothing more than a dream, literally. 

What? Is that not good enough for a rumor?