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60 fps AF/AE calculation implies that it's maximum focusing speed is faster than Canon's DPAF (0.03 sec). A quick calculation suggests that the focusing speed of the A9 is 0.017 sec. It is intended to be a professional stills camera, so not really video orientated although obviously it can shoot video as well.

Keep on saying that. Yes, but if you look at the CIPA data for the first two months it is clear that unit growth for MILCs over the two months exceeded revenue growth (all though both grew by a very large percentage). Based on that the number of bodies shipped was even more than what that graph suggests.

Agreed. The NX1 was the first really competitive product that Samsung put out, and they had already started withdrawing from the market before the camera was even released. It was never given a fair chance with proper distribution and marketing. The people shooting video with cameras like this usually want more DoF, not less, and typically shoot in good light, so FF has no real advantage for them and lots of disadvantages.

APS-C cameras are by far Canon's biggest sellers in the DSLR market. The people who buy those cameras use the video function, and they sure as hell would appreciate better quality output than what they currently do. Just because they buy those cameras and put up with the crap video output does not mean that they want crap video output. The failure of Canon to provide decent video in their consumer cameras is the single reason I personally abandoned the brand. I am sure that there are many others like me, and those numbers grow by the day. Now I have a Samsung, some Sonys, even a Nikon (each with their own specialized application), but until Canon get their heads out of their ass and start providing competitive products that meet my needs, I will not buy any of their cameras. I have a NX1 as my general all purpose quality camera, a pair of RX100s (M3 and M5) as travel/blog cameras and a P900 as a specialist portable telescope. I still have my G30, but I rarely use it nowdays as the IQ is hideous compared to what the NX1 and RX100 can do. My T3i is retired, along with all of the lenses I had for it. They are sitting in a box at the back of my gear cupboard.

144 mbps apparently.

Well, for a MILC, AF performance should correlate with the sampling rate, so you would expect 60p to be better.

Dude....just tape the Canon logo over the name plate and all will be fine and the footage will look fantastic. Really, its that simple! They are not misquoting you. They are disagreeing with what they understood you to be saying. If you meant something other than what they understood you to mean, then perhaps you should rephrase it to make it clearer rather than attacking them. You are the one who is acting defensively when faced with someone having an opinion different from yourself.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Replacing the nameplate with "Canon" will probably help you get past those reservations.

Try adjusting the sharpness up or down. That may correct it. The artifact likely comes from smeared data on edges as a consequence of debeyering and the sharpening setting.

Keep in mind that some cameras oversample from a 6K image, so that would be 18 mp resolution required for the lens.

And you missed my point. With the inherent focusing speeds available with current cameras, the bottleneck actually lies with the lenses, not the cameras themselves. Even with multiple focusing points available, a holistic focusing solution is going to be strongly dependent on the computational capabilities of the camera, and in that respect Panasonic are the leaders. Even Sony are behind them in that respect. Canon on the other hand are a distant last, beaten by Nikon and everyone else. Their processors are primitive. Canon cameras might track well on their DSLR models, but those use relatively few data points hardwired on the mirror system, not DPAF.

Doesn't look like everything is in manual, because there is a big change in exposure when you pan from the window. Also, the camera is having trouble focusing, which is resulting in perspective changes. Those will change apparent exposure as well. The only difference between 1.40 and 1.41 is compatibility with the phone app.

Rolling shutter will not get worse. There is a hard limit on how bad it can be due to the need to start the next frame, which for 30p is about 33 ms. The sensor of the 5D4 is likely being fully read anyway, but only some of the data is actually used since the limitation is heat generated by the processor. Less data = less heat. The 5D4 can't do H.264 encoding for 4K since it has the wrong processor for that. It would need a Digic 7 to do that in hardware, and doing it in software would be too much for the processor. There won't be space for a bigger heatsink, nor is a fan practical. The camera's body is the heatsink. The only thing they could do to improve the thermal envelope perhaps would be to replace some of the materials inside the camera with stuff that has better thermal conductivity. More likely the servicing is to disable or replace the internal sensors that trigger the overheating warnings.

It will come at a thermal price though. Overheating will become a problem.

Canon's DPAF focusing time is 0.03s, while Sony's most recent systems focus in 0.05s. That is not so great a difference that a casual viewer could tell the difference, so your soccer moms would not react the way you think they would. They might choose a Canon, but DPAF would have nothing to do with it. Don't underestimate the value of being able to shoot 4K in 60p either. It will result in smoother motion, something your soccer mom is going to value much more (since she is likely going to be shooting at small apertures anyway, and focusing speed is less of an issue).

You probably have some auto mode activated that you are not aware of, and it is not fully manual. Mine is on 1.41 and there is no exposure "drifting".

Probably not that long. The new a7 mark 3 cameras will very likely come with a new processor/sensor, and that tech will filter through to the next a6500 variant. The a6500 successor will probably be an extremely capable camera. It is impossible for 30p to have rolling shutter delays slower than 33.3 ms, because that is the time delay before the next read commences. Likewise rolling shutter on 60p can't be any slower than 16.7 ms, and 120p can't be any slower than 8.3 ms (which is why RS on the NX1 is at that value, since the sensor is probably being read at 120 fps even though it is outputting 60 fps).

Pretty much everything, even toy cameras, will be miles better than your SX1.

If you are recording dance and theater projects you will probably need to be shooting for some period of time, so avoid the cameras that can overheat if you are planning to use 4K at some point. The small Sony cameras have this issue due their limited thermal envelopes.

The reason is more likely because at the higher ISO he is losing some detail in the image, which allows the compressor more bandwidth for areas which normally might be compressed to accommodate detail elsewhere, such as the sky. Essentially by using the higher ISO value he is spreading the compression more evenly around the image rather than in specific areas. This seems to be the big disadvantage of H.265 over H.264 btw. Using higher bit rates should minimize these sorts of artifacts.

I agree. IMO it would have been a great collaboration, with Samsung leveraging their tech resources and Nikon their marketing resources, they could have produced extremely competitive cutting edge products doing that, that I am sure would have done very well commercially. The big problem with Samsung was that their tech was amazing but their marketing effort was abysmal and completely inappropriate for the market they were trying to sell into. They treated the cameras in much the same way as their cell phones, where marketing is largely done by the distributors. But that is not how it works in the camera business, so their efforts were an epic flop (since they basically did nothing to try to sell the product). I remember back when I got my NX1, just finding someone who sold the thing in Canada was a challenge, and Samsung themselves were no help in that regard. When asked, they would direct you to distributors who sold washing machines or TV sets. Even their own Samsung experience stores did not sell the camera, and in fact the people working there had never heard of it. The only place I could find that sold the NX1 was not one of their distributors, and their distributors did not sell the NX1. It was very bizarre and a crazy way to do business if you had half a thought of actually succeeding. My theory is that they had already decided to get out of cameras even BEFORE they started selling the NX1, and essentially what they were doing was selling off what they had manufactured to recover some of the investment. But they didn't tell us that, because if we knew then no one would buy the cameras at all.

Actually, H.265 is not included in PP by default, it is only installed when you actually make use of it (most likely, as you said, to minimize royalty payments). You get a pop up message telling you this the first time you ingest footage encoded in H.265. If Adobe can do this seamlessly and painlessly, then so can Apple. IIRC some of the streamed output from game boxes is encoded in H.265, so it is not just the NX1 that is generating content in that format.

If you are taking it on your honeymoon I imagine that you will want to shoot stills as well. Keep in mind that although the XC10/15 can shoot "stills", they are a far cry from anything that a hybrid can do (since those are real stills cameras with high end video functionality included). The XC cameras are essentially video cameras, not hybrids. As I said before, you don't need to get the camera right now, wait a few months and you probably will have some excellent hybrid alternatives.

Sure, they can get some off the shelf processor, and that is what those companies do, but they are not going to be as competitive or cutting edge as the dedicated processors that Sony and Panasonic make. That is what we see right now. Canon's processors can't even handle 4K hardware compression without a fan to keep it cool, while Nikon have to use a crop without oversampling. The consequence of that is that it does not leave them with a whole lot of headroom to do other tasks on the fly, and as a result the capabilities of the systems are lacking compared to what we might see in a current model Sony or Panasonic. Mirrorless do require significantly more processing power than DSLRs, because of the display demands. That is a disadvantage of a MILC relative to a DSLR, but on the other hand a MILC is inherently capable of adding way more tools to the camera than a DSLR (again, because of the display type used). When processing power reaches a certain tipping point, MILCs will simply be better than DSLRS period. IMO we are rapidly approaching that technological tipping point and when that happens we are going to see a sea change in the industry. The only question will be who is surfing that wave and who will miss it and be left behind.

No, that isn't what I am saying. Canon are quite capable of making video cameras, but when it comes to ILCs (and compacts for that matter) the core of the camera and where future development can result in big strides in capabilities is the processor. Both Sony and Panasonic have heavy investment in processors due to their involvement in other electronics markets that are dependent on processing power. So for them, investments in processors as a whole are leveraged by those other markets, and the results get incorporated into their cameras. All of the other companies who produce cameras don't have that underlying broader infrastructure and as a result they are always going to be a dollar short and a day late when it comes to the inherent capability of the cameras they make, and this is only going to get worse with time. The future of cameras will be planted squarely in constant improvements to the processors that run them. This is an evolutionary change that will press forward relentlessly. Many small changes each of which will result in Sony and Panasonic getting that little bit further ahead, and eventually that will result in the extinction of the companies that can't keep up. So shoot at a higher shutter speed then. You are not forced to use 1/50. Considering that many if not most of the major companies are promoting frame grabs as a means of selecting desired stills, with all due respect I have to say that you are way off mark on this opinion.