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    tellure reacted to kaylee in They did it! Fuji GFX 100 first to bring pro video specs to medium format with 10bit 4K at 400Mbit, F-LOG and IBIS   
    omg theres a few stills samples on fujis page
    warning: LARGE jpg
    https://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/gfx/fujifilm_gfx100/sample_images/img/index/ff_gfx100_001.JPG
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    tellure got a reaction from webrunner5 in Sony A9 vs. Sony A7SII 4k Video   
    I shot a few tests last weekend on the A9 to test object tracking in video with the new firmware and it was really impressive.  I was shooting my wife at ~35mm f/2.8 from a few feet away up to less than half a foot, so fairly shallow DOF.  She was moving forward and back, left and right, and the tracking was keeping her almost perfectly in focus the whole time.  Only when she moved almost out of the frame did it start to lose her, but regained focus in less than a second.
    I'm excited to try using this in some more real-world situations like on a gimbal, but so far it looks to be what I've always wanted - awesomely accurate tracking AF with touch-focus.  Huge kudos to Sony for adding this in a firmware update. Now if they would only add picture profiles so we could get an EOS HD color profile on the A9...
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    tellure reacted to Emanuel in Resolution-wise sample shot on 12K from 8K export   
    by Phil Holland:
    " (...) rigged the system with 3X RED Weapon Monstro 8K VV cameras, which once processed creates stunning 100 megapixel motion picture images with a sensor size of approximately 645 Medium Format Film "
     
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    tellure reacted to Amazeballs in Live Focus Video from Samsung - a computational bokeh for video!   
    Well, it was faster then I thought. Waiting for upcoming tests. Yeah, I know that is looks artifical from this video, but it is a start. Who knows where we will be in 5 years from now. 
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    tellure reacted to Andrew Reid in Back on the ball - a word about the lack of updates at EOSHD recently   
    I'm going to be back up to full throttle on EOSHD starting today. For those of you who are wondering where I've been and what I've been doing, here's a glance at what I've been working on...
    Read the full article
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    tellure reacted to OliKMIA in Anyone shoot time-lapses?   
    I shoot a lot of timelapse. Let me know if you have any questions. I'm not too bad at it.
     
     
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    tellure got a reaction from webrunner5 in Camera upgrade to shoot mountain biking   
    Since the environment seems like the biggest determining factor for getting great shots here (shooting a fast-moving subject in a natural environment) I would suggest focusing on cameras and gear that work best for those kinds of shoots, like Snowbro recommended.
    BTM_pix posted this info about the Wiral LITE wire rig that looks like it would be great for mountain biking:
     
    I recently bought a GoPro Hero 7 black and would definitely recommend it for the new hypersmooth stabilization (check out the many YouTube vids / comparisons) if you're doing any POV stuff or ride-along shots.
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    tellure reacted to Flogbox in Camera upgrade to shoot mountain biking   
    Yeah i already have a hero 7 and i have done POV to death. I've also got a couple of hero 4s with gimbals, chest plates, ronin s, zhiyun v2(for a lighter setup), gimbals with remote control panning. I already have the wiral lite cable cam which just arrived. I also have 10 race drones mounted with a variety of hero 7s, session 5s, insta360 one, insta360 one x (i don't use DJI drones as you can't send them through trees and expect them to live). I've got a fair whack of toys lol.
    It's the A6300 colours i wasn't overly liking. The supporting gear i have is pretty cool.
     
    FWIW this is my POV footage using gopros -

    MTB Canberra snaps.mov  
     
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    tellure got a reaction from Snowbro in Camera upgrade to shoot mountain biking   
    Since the environment seems like the biggest determining factor for getting great shots here (shooting a fast-moving subject in a natural environment) I would suggest focusing on cameras and gear that work best for those kinds of shoots, like Snowbro recommended.
    BTM_pix posted this info about the Wiral LITE wire rig that looks like it would be great for mountain biking:
     
    I recently bought a GoPro Hero 7 black and would definitely recommend it for the new hypersmooth stabilization (check out the many YouTube vids / comparisons) if you're doing any POV stuff or ride-along shots.
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    tellure reacted to kye in Behold, The Nokia 9 Pureview - True Innovation   
    You're probably right, and it stabilises movement between frames but it doesn't stabilise movement during the frame, so if you're in low light and bump the camera the stabilised shot you get out of it looks like you had a very steady hand but at the moment of the bump everything in the frame will turn to a mush of motion-blur like all of a sudden the universe had a tiny little seizure.
    It works for action cameras filming at very short shutter speeds but doesn't really work for anything other than wide-angles in sunlight.  As soon as the sun sets or you decide you want to use that 50mm or 80mm lens (with its tiny aperture, tiny sensor, and poor ISO performance all pushing to slow the shutter speed) then it's universe-seizures the whole way.
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    tellure reacted to kye in When Will Camera Companies Make HDR Video Like This?   
    Interesting.  So we've essentially got two sensor technologies here.
    The Panasonic / Fujifilm one here that has an organic layer that acts as an ND, enables global shutter, and can make the well-capacity of each pixel far larger which will increase DR.  This sensor still has a sequential readout like traditional sensors.  Panasonic has been able to build one, and says that 8K60 is possible.
    Then there's the Sony one which has one ADC per pixel, enabling different ISO per pixel to increase DR, and providing a global shutter as the ADC is done in parallel.  This doesn't have a built-in ND capability so in very bright situations an ND would still be required.  This design adds lots of complexity and Sony has only managed to build a very low resolution one so far.
    Is that right?
    I wonder what the DR of the Panasonic one would be.  They claim a light-well capacity of 10X previous designs, so keeping the same overall noise levels equal that should mean an additional ~3 stops of DR.  That method seems to be the better one, at least in the short-term as the extra DR of the Sony isn't worth the lack of ND, plus the fact that the Sony sensor still isn't 1080p yet ???
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    tellure reacted to wolf33d in Canon EOS RP specs leaked, features 26MP sensor and 4K video   
    You can talk your shit all day dude, show me your photography work, I’ll show you mine. You might be surprised. For sure for your cat pictures you are right you won’t see any difference in DR.
    I have had FF Canons Nikons Sonys. The real life usable DR difference between Canon bodies and Sony/Nikon is INSANE for landscape work. Night and day. 
    This camera is another epic joke from Canon that performs less than crop bodies in every single way but lowlight performance. When they decide to release a body that has similar specs from other cameras released this decade, I will be the first to buy one. I have 0 brand loyalty. Just shooting loud what we should not accept which is a lot in the today’s Photography market owned by a couple of old-fashion Japanese.
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    tellure reacted to DBounce in Shooting with the Panasonic S1 in Barcelona   
    Until half your shots are out of focus. I think Panasonic dropped the ball on these cameras. Great AF has to be part of the equation for any new camera... for both stills and video. 
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    tellure reacted to PannySVHS in Shooting with the Panasonic S1 in Barcelona   
    @Andrew Reid Hey Andrew, great interview. I really like the introduction. Awesome that you had a such an open talk and constructive  time with the Lumix S1 team and its leading gentleman. The current codec choices are Lumix G7 territory, which would not make me consider to buy this camera. I hope for GH5 codec choices, ALL Intra included and full VLOG. Then this would be my first full frame video/cinema camera. All full frame GH5 with full VLOG and without artificial sharpening and good battery life- here is my money! For now these codecs area available, which give Lumix G7 and GX85 quality.

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    tellure reacted to Inazuma in Sony a7 III discussion   
    hey guys, here is a behind-the-scenes type music video I made earlier last year for my friend's band. I decided to shoot it with a mix of a Hi8 cassette camcorder and the Sony A7III with a mixture of profile settings 
    Lenses
    Sony 50mm f1.8, Sigma 17-35mm f2.8-4, Tamron 28-75mm f2.8
    I hoped to do more with this band but they're quite on-off with different band members coming and going
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    tellure reacted to kye in What tech advancements do you think will eventually come to prosumer video?   
    20dB would be just fantastic!  What bit depths are they talking?  No point having 20 stops of DR and then only having 10 or 12 bits - by the time you convert back to a standard gamma curve it would be banding central.
    Could you post a link to your source?
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    tellure reacted to OliKMIA in Fstoppers moved to Puerto Rico. Have you had the desire to move?   
    Seriously this is great for them. I love Puerto Rico, a beautiful underrated island. Unlike many Caribbean places, the island is quite big with a lot of diversity. Not much tourism beyond San Juan and a few stupid places. You can totally find beautiful pristine beaches with 3 people standing there. There are jungle, coast, mountain, lakes, surf spots, rivers, etc. The food is delicious and the criminality is not bad for the region.

    As a US territory, it has the best of both world: the relative good infrastructure and service of a developed country (highway, stores, emergency services) and the exoticism of a tropical island. No need to deal with customs, immigration and shipping tax. The island is very well connected by airlines with plenty of cheap flights that deserved many cities in the east coast (Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, NYC, etc.).

    Hell, I would go there to if could. They got plenty of tax incentive for their business and they probably got this mansion on the beach for the price of a 2 bedrooms in a major US city.

    I did this short video showing the island lat time I visited, super cool place
     
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    tellure reacted to webrunner5 in What tech advancements do you think will eventually come to prosumer video?   
    Pretty much eliminates Rolling Shutter and helps with Banding. Two of the big gains.
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    tellure reacted to kye in What tech advancements do you think will eventually come to prosumer video?   
    Motion would be great, maybe a base that leans the camera left, then upright and right, then upright and back left again...  It would move vertically a bit, but they don't need to be kept level, so that might work.  Probably your bigger issue would be keeping it from moving if it was on a long pole.  You'd also want to keep it away from objects in the foreground too, as they would show off any camera movement there was, unless everything was moving of course.
    In terms of the edges, they used to not be that great but they're pretty darn good now.  Have a look at this to get an idea of it.  
    There are a few times you notice the edges, but it's basically seamless.  You don't want to crop in that much TBH, because it has to fit the entire 360degree image into the 4K / 8K / 11K resolution, and also into the bitrate.  An 18mm lens on FF has a horizontal angle of 90 degrees, so a quarter of the width and something like a quarter the height depending on aspect ratios.  This would mean that your frame has only 6% of the bitrate of the full capture.  That's why they're only currently usable for really wide shots, and even then the compression is still really obvious, even when put through YT compression.
    If you were concerned about the edges of the lenses then you could just turn it around so that one side of the camera is lined up with the main shot you want, so the stitching and pixelation etc is towards the edges of the frame.  Obviously if you're carrying it around freehand then you'll end up using the bits on the edges of the lenses, but if you just plant it for a static shot then it wouldn't be too hard to pay attention to which way it was facing.
     
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    tellure reacted to Mako Sports in What tech advancements do you think will eventually come to prosumer video?   
    8K with more efficient H265 codecs
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    tellure reacted to kye in What tech advancements do you think will eventually come to prosumer video?   
    I remembered another possible use for 360 cameras.
    360 cameras + 8K (or higher)
    360 cameras might make a great second angle for professionals who shoot events or weddings, especially if you put them on an extendable pole and put them up high.  I think they'd make great wide shots that would look like static drone shots but could be gotten in places you can't feasibly use a drone.  Eg, a wide shot of the crowd at a concert (either looking towards the stage, or back from it) or at the back of a wedding ceremony for a wide view of the bride walking down the aisle, etc.  This wouldn't be too hard to use either, just mount the camera on an extendable arm and mount it to your tripod (or a separate one), then whenever you setup your camera, hit record on it, extend the arm, forget about it and get your normal shots, then retract the arm, hit stop, and deal with the rest in post.  You don't even have to watch the footage it gets, just knowing what shots you want from it and scrubbing back and forth to find a good snippet is enough.
    A second variation would also be possible:
    360 cameras + high MP sensors + crop modes
    If they implemented modes where you could crop into the sensor to reduce the resolution but up the frame rate then it would be a flexible camera to get specific shots from it, so it wouldn't be a one-trick-pony and wouldn't be limited to allocating its bitrate to the full 360 angle.  Like the P4K / GH5 / Sony/ RED cameras that can can downscale the whole sensor or can do a 1:1 crop, and can trade-off resolution for frame rates, imagine if you could have a 360 camera where you position the camera, connect with your phone, engage the crop and frame rate you want, adjust framing (I'd imagine crops would be limited to certain areas of the sensor), then hit record.  This would enable the full bitrate to be used for 4K120 at perhaps a 16mm equivalent or 28mm equivalent focal length.  You'd get that epic wide shot of the crowd bouncing, the band screaming, the lighting peaking, and the pyrotechnics flaring, but you'd get it well framed, in slow-motion, with plenty of bitrate.  Or if you framed the wedding from within an autumn tree you could get that moment of the bride laughing, the guests reacting, and the autumn leaves falling in the wind all in slow-motion.  Those are hero shots that would define a style, like how every wedding photographer needs a drone now.
    Plus these cameras are silent, unobtrusive, and would be pretty small.  Imagine if the Insta360 One X was three or four sided, and each had 30-50MP sensors, had the crop modes, and could write 90+MB/s to a microSD card.  It would cost more than the consumer 2-camera version and be larger too, but it would still only be the size of a small drone, ie, semi-pocketable.  When those sensors are in smartphones none of that tech will be that special, it will be the combination of them that creates the potential.  
    It's also worth noting that the Insta360 Titan can do 11K30, 8K30 in 10-bit and 3D, so the beyond 8K tech isn't a dream either, it's here for pros now.  Hell, even if it had four cameras and four microSD card slots and it just recorded full resolution from every camera to each slot and you had to use a merging program in post, that would be fine too if it gave you the quality required.
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    tellure got a reaction from Kisaha in What tech advancements do you think will eventually come to prosumer video?   
    Let's hear your ideas, people!  Some of these might be things you expect to happen in the next few years, or maybe as far out as the next 10 years.
    Personally I am super stoked for the next 5-10 years in camera video tech.  We're all used to improvements on the hardware side and that will continue of course, but with more and more image processing advancements happening in software I predict we'll start seeing a lot more features coming from advanced processing techniques combined with new hardware, like the GoPro 7 hypersmooth.

    Ok let's get started.  I've chunked up my predictions into some major categories but feel free to add your own if they don't fit into these:
     
    AutoFocus:
    There's been a ton of innovation in AutoFocus over the last 5 years and I think we'll continue to see more, including more stills AF features making it to video, like runtime eye-AF which is now shipping on the Sony A6400 and upcoming A9 firmware update.
    Face registration with priority This is another existing stills feature that we don't have in video yet (to my knowledge) 3D Focus tracking? Generating 3D models from multiple high resolution stills (photogrammetry) is tech that's in common use right now in a variety of fields (e.g. Google Earth) It's reasonable to imagine that with enough processing horsepower and good software a camera could build a 3D AutoFocus model of a subject (rotate around subject to get data) With a 3D AutoFocus model it's possible we could have highly accurate tracking even as a subject moves / rotates in space  
    Sensor / Resolution
    I'm not super well versed in sensor tech so below are some of my layman's predictions.  @androidlad, wanna chime in here?
    Realtime HDR? High-res quad bayer sensor which combines short and long-exposure pixels into an HDR frame.  This is a feature on recent smartphones (see EOSHD thread) Sony's STARVIS Micro-4/3rds sensor does quad bayer HDR already for video Full-readout 8K with 4x Clear Image zoom? The Sony A9 can already do 2x Clear Image Zoom without any noticeable loss in quality (example) With a full readout of an 8K sensor (33.2MP) downscaled to 4K, we could get 4x Clear Image zoom while still outputting a full-res 4K signal Imagine being able to use, say, the 24mm 1.4 GM as a 24-96mm 1.4 zoom lens.  Sounds pretty sweet to me  
    Stabilization
    In-camera image-processed stabilization  (a la GoPro 7 hypersmooth) I've got a GoPro 7 and this stabilization tech truly lives up to its name.  All done in-processor in realtime in 4K right now (albeit with a much smaller sensor readout). Bringing this tech to larger-sensor cams seems like a big win  
    Codecs / Compression
    10bit 4:2:2 / higher bitrates / blah blah Already here in the GH5, only a matter of time before it trickles down to more cams Lossless compressed RAW (a la BlackMagic RAW) I could see some other manufacturers making their own version of this type of codec, and maybe selling it as a paid firmware update on prosumer cams for those users that want RAW 120p 4K 4K 60p is already here on APS-C, 120p seems reasonable in 5+ year's time with enough processing power / heat management  
    Realtime encoding features
    Realtime hyperlapse Already on smartphones and the GoPro (which works great - example) Simulated Depth of Field This is already a stills feature on modern smartphones and it works pretty well (Google's Pixel portrait mode explained). Not super exciting for those of us that like real bokeh from fast lenses on large sensors but I could see some smaller action cams / vlogger cams making good use of this.  
    Ergonomics / Body / Usability
    Smartphone touchscreen performance It's a travesty that we still don't have this level of performance in our camera touchscreens given how long smartphones have been doing this well Smartphone-style touchscreen interface / usability Again a travesty that $3500 cameras are light years behind a $200 smartphone UI.  Leave the legacy UI mode for people who want familiarity but give us a proper 21st century UI. In-camera ND This already exists on higher end models like the Sony FS5.  Obviously this is a much larger body with an APS-C sensor and I'm sure the current system wouldn't fit into an A7/A9 body, but maybe we'll see some miniaturization of this or some kind of on-sensor ND tech. Clear Image Zoom on focus ring Ok this is a small idea but imagine being able to swap the functionality of your focus ring (since many of us are using AutoFocus) into a Clear Image Zoom ring, so you can zoom smoothly while recording.  Could even give it a power-zoom mode where you twist to zoom in/out at various speeds.  
    Connectivity / Net features
    Realtime bluetooth video feed and camera control over for all settings over Smartphone This already exists to a large degree on the GoPro.  The live video feed and changing of camera settings works well although they can't output the video feed while recording.  
    What are your predictions?
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    tellure reacted to kye in What tech advancements do you think will eventually come to prosumer video?   
    Cool topic and interesting predictions.
    Innovation tends to come from the intersection of technologies, less from a single technology reaching a threshold.  Here's a few combinations that might be interesting:
    360 cameras + AI with face-tracking + AI video editing
    This could create a camera that consumers just take with them to events and it automatically records video, frames shots in post, and edits them together to deliver a finished product or products (photos and video).  This might even be free if FB / Amazon / Instagram think the data gained by spying on you is worth the hardware costs, but if you willing to pay for it then they'll happily take the data and your money.
    Electronic variable ND + better ISO performance (or dual ISO, or Triple ISO?)
    This combination could create a camera where we control the creative parameters (SS, F-stop) and the camera manually exposes using only non-creative controls (ND, ISO).  This means you can set whatever aperture you want, 180 degree shutter, and then take exposure off your plate and think about more creative aspects of shooting.  The "cinematic vlog" crowd might help with this as there's a ton of them and they care about SS and F-stop but want fast-paced shooting, and will be adding their voice to the pros who also want built-in NDs.
    NLE + AI face-tracking and shot analysis
    Not something people talk about, but there might be benefits to NLEs being able to analyse your footage.  Immediate benefits would be logging footage by reading slates (if you have them), detecting takes (visually similar shots repeated over and over), tagging of shots with which faces appear in them, etc.  Combined with smart bins this would save a lot of leg-work, especially in doc work where you have huge amounts of footage.
    For the less serious users (some people felt that FCPX was really iMovie, so Apple are trying to reach these people) you could also have expression detection, framing detection, and other ways to rate clips.  The existing 'choose the best shots and make a sequence' technology could be incorporated, creating a rough-cut with a single button.  More advanced features would be to watch you through the webcam as you view shots and further refine based upon your reactions.  
    This could be huge as people are recording video and photos all the time, and editing your photos and choosing the best ones has been made easy but video editing is still something the average person doesn't even attempt.
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    tellure reacted to kye in Sharp's new 8K M43 camera   
    8K - the only way to get a true 4K image!
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