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I love cats too. Maybe they need more camera tests made of them.
A camera hasn't been properly tested until it has shot cats. Well known fact.
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That is my concern, that NX1 bodies and lenses will have very poor resale value on the 2ndhand market.
Though I don't mind that if it means I can make it work for me in my favour.... ;-) By buying up one at a significant discount 2ndhand rather than getting it new, unfortunately it seems NX1 cameras can hardly be found second hand and not at any significant discount. Which makes this a point in the GH4's favour when it comes to buying one secondhand.That is because they are being sold almost as fast as Samsung can make them apparently.
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So reduser just deleted all my posts because of my thoughts that brand loyalty is bad for film making - and also that reduser is bad for red. The moderator told me that posting on reduser is like coming into red's living room and talking poorly about Red's wife. They are so crazy there. But it's good because spending all day on a message board is a waste of time.
Part of what is great about EOSHD is we can praise or trash talk any camera, lens, light, or anything and no one seems to care too much. They are all just tools and objects - sure someone might get mad if you make fun of their brand new car but really - this isn't about cars it's about a thing that records footage to tell stories. Like do you think people got upset if you made fun of their typewriter back in the day? No, you talk about what their typewriter writes.
As long as you praise my camera and trash all the rest, you are on the right track. Otherwise you are a misguided fool
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I've been playing with a couple of 1min h.265 clips downloaded from a friend who has a NX1.
these 1min h.265 4k clips take 20mins to convert to prores LT on my 4yr old macbook pro 17" 8gb ram. upgrading to a newer macbook will happen when apple release a haswell chip version... so still waiting for that.
i shoot 3x cam, multicam interviews, which normally run about 15-20mins.. so thats 20mins x 3 which means about 24hours of just converting before i can start editing.. plus at least another 30mins of footage of b-roll.. example here of what i do http://youtu.be/w9iG_FuUtZI
--SO... I'd love samsung to give us the ability to export to prores from within the camera, using the internal hardware chips. so during transfer to the pc/mac we could have a option to export prores or h.264 files down the usb.. so the converting is done inside the camera using its special fast h.265 chip.. and then we can download the h.265 as a backup to our HD later.
If samsung can do this, then I will grab three of these NX500 cameras.. if not, i cannot wait 24hours before i even start editing.. and keep on looking for other 4k cameras for my needs.
Thanks,
Tony.Those sorts of conversions are usually done by hardware encoders, and if the camera processor doesn't have them it can't do it.
The problem will go away when NLEs can edit H.265 natively.
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I wonder whether the 1/60s shutter limitation at 50 fps has technical reasons or whether this is a bug? Maybe it's really just a software issue that could be fixed easily?
60 fps means 60 frames per second. You can't have a shutter speed faster than that, because at 1/60s the shutter is open permanently. If the shutter is open for longer than the exposure all that means is that it will close sometime during the next frame, and you don't want that.
Your shutter speed always has to exceed the frame rate.
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About #1, 150Mb/sec or even higher bitrate shouln't be an issue for many sd cards. Cheap cards have been benchmarked at well over 20MB/sec.
That is maximum speed at burst. Actual speeds may be lower. If you just meet the maximum write speed on a card, chances are pretty good that you will have problems.
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It is valid as not many people buy these huge panels. Maybe in the states it is different, in UK, people stick to around 42", as the house rooms are just not big enough to accommodate a huge screen.
No one is saying don't shoot at 4K, I am..... Just don't expect every camera maker to jump on it quite as hard as Sony, Panasonic and Samsung, who have a vested interest in pushing this tech.
In North America anything under 55 inches is in the bargain basement cheap category. The standard sizes for mid level panels is 55 - 65 inches.
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The 7D Mark II is cool?
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Smartphones are not killing DSLR sales, they don't compete in the same market. The problem for DSLRs is that they are so good now that people don't really get significant gain from upgrading. Why bother buying a new camera when realistically you can't tell the difference from the old one by looking at the pictures?
To motivate the average buyer to upgrade the next iteration in the product line has to be able to do something that the previous model could not. That is the dilemma for manufacturers because it is becoming harder and harder to do that.
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4K ist just the new selling point in TV as it was 3D before. Most people don't care a lot in picture Quality as they still don't complain about TV Program in < Full HD.
And most people as well are sitting so far away for their TV they won't notice a difference to 4k, and I guess FullHD neither.
People all say this, and it might have been true years ago when the standard was 40 inches (and even then you could easily tell the difference between broadcast and BluRay), but now TV panels are much larger than that. If you have a large TV screen, and native output, 4K blows away HD.
Get with the times, it isn't 2006 any more. Technology has moved on. Stop dredging up arguments that are no longer valid.
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I really hope people dont go up in arms about the video on this camera. This camera is clearly directed at photographers. So video guys
However, this is a forum about video, so it is what we are going to talk about.
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Can't wait to see the specs, but am 100% sure there would be NO 4k in any of them (c100Mk II didn't get 4k so no way a 5d would)
If it has a Digic 6 processor inside a stills-centric body, it probably will not have 4k video.
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Apparently they'll also announce a new rebel camera (750D) next week - I wonder if the video specs on that are gonna be harbinger for the specs on the new 5d... it will obviously be lower spec'd but if it's just same old features that might mean the same old features on the 5d (for video). Who knows...
Since they are still using the Digic 6 processor, it will have HD 60p video at most. Probably it will shoot video similar to what you get from a 7D2 but without some of the more advanced codec features, in other words junk.
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First camera records noticeably better video than the second one.
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Patrick you are not reading the answers. There is no fault or problem. Recording 24p/25p there is "judder" when things or the camera moves. Have you ever watched a motion picture in theater??
You are forgetting that the footage is being watched on a monitor that refreshes at 60Hz. Something shot at 24Hz is not going to mesh well with that.
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Here is another video shot on an NX1 where you can see some exposure shifting or flickering of some sort beginning around the 1:50 point on. This may be unrelated, because I'm not sure if it was shot in Manual mode or with Auto ISO on, but it just seems like the camera can't decide how to expose and makes continuous distracting exposure shifts. The funny thing is the light does not seem to be changing much.
In this clip the center of the screen is roughly at the border of those black and white stripes on his jersey. He is bobbing around slightly, so the center is metering off black or white alternately, I think that is what is causing the flickering. Just need to figure out what setting is doing it.
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Here is a video that shows the same problem Ivar is having. This is shot with the Rokinon 12mm.
It looks like it is locking exposure of the whole image to the center point, so when you move the center over a bright spot, the entire image brightens. Something like this: The initial center exposure has a value (x), and some other point has a value (y) (varying depending on where exactly in the frame you are). Then when you move the center of the frame to a different point (the lamp for example) the center exposure is now (x + A), so the same correction is applied to the rest of the frame, which now becomes (y + A). That would create the effect you see in that clip.
If some people have the problem and others not, there is probably a setting somewhere that toggles that sort of behaviour, or a combination of settings.
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Ahhh...no.
This was an artistic decision by Canon. Yes, I agree the story sucks. Par for the course with Canon produced movies.
However, the Canon c100 Mark ll (with external) is the sharpest 1080p out of the box (no 4K down).
It can actually look too sharp if you don't know what you're doing.
I have a 1440p monitor. On my screen it looks blurry (as does all 1080 output).
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I love America and I think capitalism is the more successful way of life by far in terms of what it offers for innovation, wealth generation and quality of living. However in my opinion both ways of life will ultimately fail because they are abused. Communism was first drawn up in Manchester when Karl Marx visited the cotton mills. The aim of it was to improve the lives of factory workers, ultimately it has lead to their enslavement in the millions by a system that is capitalist for the rich and communism for the rest. But then Chinese culture is not synonymous with communism - it goes back much further and it's a beautiful culture. Every opposing system and culture can learn from each other. Our consumerist society has issues which a communist society doesn't have and visa versa. I think there's innovation in every system too and in every culture. It isn't a black and white, good vs evil situation. The crime rate in North Korea is virtually zero for instance. Despite the other problems in the country, that's still an achievement.
Communism or capitalism shouldn't drive a wedge between us and those ordinary people & other filmmakers, who just happen to live in Russia or China. People with strong beliefs need to learn to respect opposing beliefs better than they do currently. In Europe people are largely secular which is part of why the Norwegians, Swiss, etc. usually stay out of wars. Religion drives politics to a large degree in America. Many in Europe and the UK see the US as a fundamentalist religious state, with wars waged in the name of God. There may be a dangerous "divinity problem" in North Korea but so far it hasn't killed nearly the number of people that the things done in the name of western reglion has. Religion can be a wonderful thing but combined with politics it is a danger.
Actually, Karl Marx didn't draw up communism. He came up with a theory of social behaviour, other people applied that theory to politics and came up with communism.
By the way, the "crime rate" in many totalitarian states is "close to zero" simply because they don't report it, not because it doesn't happen. That is one of the advantages for a totalitarian state - they control the message of their performance in governance.
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Why do I want to leave? Because I think 70% of the users here are fucking stupid. How many times do I have to say it? Can you even read? THIS WAS NEVER ABOUT EOSHD'S CONTENT OR APPROACH TO BLOGGING. IT WAS JUST ME STATING THAT I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A LEGAL DISCLAIMER. I NEVER MADE ANY FUCKING DEMANDS. I STATED AN OPINION IN A POLITE WAY. IT RECIEVED NOTHING BUT SCORN. THAT BOTHERS ME. I NEED MORE RESPECT THAN THAT. ANDREW DOESN'T HAVE TO AGREE WITH ME - I NEVER DEMANDED THAT. BUT I DON'T ACCEPT BEING TOLD TO SHUT UP. WHAT EXACTLY WAS OUT OF ORDER ABOUT WHAT I SAID? AND PLEASE READ WHAT I ACTUALLY SAID IF YOU FEEL THE NEED TO REPLY.
Reid hasn't even got the curtsey to delete my account when I request it. It's a joke.
Dude....this is his house, you live by his rules. You are just a guest and in no position to make demands or have expectations. If you don't like what he says, then don't visit the site.
Is this too obvious?
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Too blurry. We have higher standards now. The C100 is a camera of the past.
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Part of the reason Ivy Bridge runs hotter even though it has lower power consumption is due to a less thermally efficient packaging system used with those chips compared to Sandy Bridge.
You only really need heavy cooling if you overclock your system (which you would probably be doing if you were building your own performance system).
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Haswell has an approximately 5-8% increase in processing speed over Ivy Bridge IIRC. Certainly it is no where near enough to be worth upgrading to if you had Ivy Bridge (or even Sandy Bridge for that matter), but if you have a much older processor and are building a new system, it is usually a good idea to get the latest generation of processors and support chips. The price difference is minor in the grand scheme of things.
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But the market is not how people used their cameras in the past, it is how they will use them in the future. And I think it is very obvious that the future is the integrated imaging system for all but high end professional cameras. Modern cameras will be expected by the average consumer to handle stills and video equally well.
Companies who don't buy into that are going to find themselves restricted to the professional market, while more forward thinking competitors will own the consumer and prosumer markets.
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You are confusing those elements with the quality of the camera output, which is not the same thing. Most of those shots were dark scenes without a lot of detail, so you don't notice the IQ issues as much.