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6 minutes ago, zerocool22 said:
Because they made the cameras who are already 6 years old look better then most cameras released today.
Yes, I have ML on all my Canon camera, this is great. My point is that they haven't released a final firmware of a recent camera over the past 5-6 years to I have low expectation for the Canon R. This is a turd and I'm not going to buy one hoping that ML may fix it in the future.
5 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:I think the problem is user-related than ML
They got 3.5K RAW out of the 2012 5D Mark III, and the response on here was pretty underwhelming. I wrote a big guide about how to get it working, and again, not much interest. The original raw video ML on the 5D III got a LOT more interest.
So I suggest, people should be more excited about this stuff than they actually are. Have we become spoilt? Have we just got lazy?
I don't understand why more of you aren't making use of that incredible 3.5K image.
Because the files are gigantic, because you need to transcode, because the 3.5k raw has crop. It's a great tool to have but not very flexible. And yes, I think we became lazy with the Sony and GH camera.
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I don't know why people get so excited about ML. They haven't released any final firmware for years now. The latest stable builds were for the the 5D3, the 6D, the 70D and the 700D... which are 5-6 years old cameras...
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7 hours ago, Mattias Burling said:
I don't get what the fuz is about. Canon have always been expensive with their top lenses. Its not like the MF Nikon 0.95 is going to be for free.
Btw, how much is Sony's 50mm f1.2? Oh that's right.
When my favorite Sony, the original A7 was released it was the same story. To few and overpriced lenses. So I wouldn't worry about it. Prices always come down eventually. Its just a problem if you have to have the latest stuff (which no one does).
Exactly, G Master lenses are not exactly affordable neither, the price of the RF 24-105 f4 is identical to the EF version. As much as I hate the Canon R camera there is nothing to write about that... Premium lenses sell for premium price...
13 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:The 28-70mm F2 which is useless in video mode... $3K!!
What vast majority of potential buyers for this lens are only going to take stills. Let's no fool ourselves here, we are a tiny minority of video people.
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2 hours ago, shorty15 said:
Why are people so pissed off about this camera? This is a photography camera. Its designed to take stills. Video is and should be an afterthought. Why are people using mirrorless cameras for video work? The form factor sucks.
This place is all about the DSLR/small video camera revolution, carrying a C100 is just not and option for obvious reasons. DSRL video has many advantages:
- Small and lightweight, great for travel and low profile stuff (nature, urban, )
- FF instead of S35 sensor (DOF, better low light performances)
- Can fit on a small gimbal
- Way less expensive than pro camera
- Ability to conveniently switch between video and still mode instead of carrying two cameras1 hour ago, Django said:I knew all hell was gonna break lose today and everybody is entitled their opinions but calling people morons for being interested in purchasing this camera, or calling it a rip-off is just wrong & uncalled for. People have the right to be interested in this camera and nobody is forcing them to buy it. We all have different needs & backgrounds. So let's just all settlle down shall we?
+1, nothing wrong if people like this camera. Good for them. Everybody has different needs.
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Very true. I have experience in the the high tech media industry and the travel industry, I would add:
1. Don't review gears from a company if you are some kind of brand ambassador or sponsored by this company. Seems obvious but I see it a lot...2. Refuse all these stupid trips, this is plain and simple bribery.
3. Sometime the system can be insidious. Two examples. In the travel industry, bloggers (Instagramer now, people are too lazy to read...) or influencers I should say are invited by agencies. Sure, there is no obligation to write a nice review after a trip or a meal but if you trash the place in your review you can say goodbye to your relation with the agency which owns the market in a city or region. So yeah, these influencers might be independent from the companies but they are deep inside with the agencies.
Let's also talk about the NDA. In the PC world, it's becoming a great marketing tool. Some brands like GPU manufacturers like make deal with media. They sign a NDA about a product and then the media can access the product early, but wait, there is more. The multi-stage NDA where the specs are announced over a certain period of time (X specs on july 15, then Y specs on July 30, etc.) so the company secure cheap coverage over an extended period of time.
I'm writing for a photo website and we can get gears from a big retailers. It's much better because the retailers doesn't care what we write about it. We just have to put a link of the product in the article directing toward the retailers website..Finally, the problem goes beyond press. The online influencers are much worst and I see so many people who try to "build an audience" just to get freebees (free trip, free gears, etc) so imagine what they would to for cash... And of course, they never disclose anything.
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They screwed up again, it was obvious from the leaked specs and I'm not sure why some people got excited about this camera knowing the horrible track record of Canon.
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4 minutes ago, PabloB said:
"Due to the crop factor of 1.67 in 4K, we found it a little difficult to shoot on a gimbal with their current RF lens line up, so we’re hoping for a new wide lens in the future. However, wider EF lenses are still an option using the adapter. "
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3 minutes ago, Yurolov said:
He says in the video the IS is better because the lens works with the body - combination IS. What does this mean technically speaking?
IS from the lens plus digital stab from the sensor (so there is a bit of crop).
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5 hours ago, Mokara said:
ML do more by making the camera perform beyond it's safe specs. You can do that with literally ALL cameras, but the manufacturers do not do it for very sound reasons that have nothing to do with crippling. A manufacturer has to consider liability issues for a start, particularly when delivering a product that cannot always meet it's spec. The operating mode they set up has to work ALL of the time and not fail/glitch out, which is something that can easily happen when the hardware is pushed beyond it's stable limits. They also have to consider the effect of returns as a result of unreliability or premature failure and what that costs them. One return will cost you the profit on some larger number of sales. Returns have a negative effect on the bottom line, and any manufacturer that produces a product where that happens excessively is probably not going to be in business very long even if they sell lots of product.
I don't have the impression that zebra, peaking or the dozen other little features that Canon never want to give us are straining my camera.
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6 minutes ago, webrunner5 said:
I am afraid people are hoping for something that is not going to happen, at least not on the cheap.
Personally, if Panasonic do a copy/paste of the GH5 but make it full frame that's all I need. A GH5 with nice shallow DOF and ISO performance would be great. I find 8k is useless at this point (and I don't have the space to store all this).
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Meanwhile at Sony
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1 minute ago, Eric Calabros said:
If it was cropped they would mention it somewhere as footnote in that pdf.
I don't think that I ever saw a canon brochure mentioning crop...
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2 hours ago, pureaxis said:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CAZOijAyrUJcOMWNHbjFpGq2CznrIAoN/view
full specs sheet, no ibis, no 4k60, or high speed shooting
Source:
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11 hours ago, Mattias Burling said:
My biggest complaint with th 6Dmkii is that its a fully articulated screen instead of a tilt, or Fujis Game Changing solution on the X-T100.
So 1 point to Nikon.
Personally I really prefer the articulated screen found on the 6DII and the GH5 (except to mount on some gimbal). Why do you prefer the tilted screen?
9 hours ago, Mokara said:It has nothing to do with protecting anything. They do what the hardware will allow them to do. If you don't mind a pair of leafblowers attached to the side of the camera I am sure that they would happy to provide you with a higher spec product..
Magic lantern showed multiple times that the Canon cameras can do so much more and I'm not talking about some exotic features that freeze the camera. It's clearing crippling.
8 hours ago, ntblowz said:I predict back single digit market share for Sony.
Let's wait for the final specs of the Canon system but no doubt that they will sell them by truck loads.
1 hour ago, Andrew Reid said:But their sensors are a laggard and their management are fucking idiots for letting the body specs drift along.
Why would they bother since people continue to buy Canon?
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36 minutes ago, Trek of Joy said:
Hey, remember when everyone said Canon was too late to the game and they couldn't bring a mirrorless that could compete?
First it's not about what they can do but what they want to release. I'm curious about the sensor (recycled based on the 5D4 or new sensor with the latest tech?).
Then, let's wait for the full specifications. History showed that Canon masters the art of crippling its camera with crop, disabled AF, pixel binning, weird codecs and so on.
That being said, if they deliver something decent it will probably sell like hot cakes (me included). Finger crossed. -
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13 hours ago, Joe F said:
Shot on a GH4 with the Sigma 18-35mm mostly. I'm more of a visual production guy so the audio is the weak link here but I was very satisfied with the result. Pouring your heart into a project is far more fulfilling than any payment, naturally this was a freebie
Nice video, I really like the combo GH + Sigma 18-35mm.
7 hours ago, Turboguard said:New stuff I did for Olay;
Cute lady
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Just now, webrunner5 said:
That was Really well done, even with the music.
Thanks mate
I tried to convey a kind of "cold" and mysterious atmosphere because it's Scandinavia. But both the city and people are very charming. .
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The beautiful city of Stockholm, capital of Sweden where the day never ends in summer (the Sun sets at 11pm and rises again at 1:30am, there is always light on the horizon). Shot with the Mavic Air and 6D for the timelapse.
- webrunner5 and Trek of Joy
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4 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:
Onto the Air samples he also has on his channel. I am impressed. The 4K holds up well on that small 1/2.3" sensor. Small sensors have got a LOT better in recent times.
Actually the Mavic Air is very good. Definitely softer than the Mavic Pro 1 but DJI footage is too sharp anyway. The only thing that bothers me on the Air is the noise even at base ISO. You must expose carefully. Here is a video I made with the Mavic Air. Most of the artifacts comes from the youtube compression (and from my flashing grading sometime).
1 hour ago, Cliff Totten said:Honestly, I think the Ambarella A9 image processor is literally the worst processor chip I have seen in 10 years. The more I studied it, the more garbage I found. Did you see the indoor tests? Funny thing is that people always blamed the h.264 60Mbp/s bit rate for all these problems. It never was that at all. It was Ambarella's horrifically bad temporal noise reduction all along. Do you see how it "flickers" every 15 or so frames? That's not long GOP IBP frames, that's noise analysis across multiple frames.
Perhaps, as I said earlier in this thread I used the Phantom 3 Pro extensively and I never encountered the image issue I had with my Mavic Pro 1. Both have a 1/2.3" sensor that max out at 60 mpbs so it might be something else. I'm not exactly a pixel peeper but I got rid of the Mavic Pro 1 just a few days after purchase because the footage and "compression" issue was pure garbage.
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9 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:
Let me see...
You've only ever made two posts on here.
Both about DJI products and both with links to their official online shop.
Give me a minute to work out what might be going on here...
And from a totally new user. This post should go to the spam folder..
7 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:Maybe instead of making marketing posts on my forum, DJI can give me a drone?!
Yeah but then you gonna have to sugarcoat the review to maintain your "preferred" relation with the manufacturer.
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Nice overview Andrew. First I must say that I was wrong about DJI since I didn't believe they could implement a one inch sensor camera on a Mavic size drone. That's an amazing achievement.
A few remarks:
- Range: the radio range depends of the background radio noise and depends of the location. In urban environment the RF pollution limits the range as many wifi and smartphone networks pollute the 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz band which are the two bands use by most drone these days (Autel used the 900MHz before but they stopped due to legal reasons). Also, DJI and Parrot (anafi) limit the power output based on the GPS location of the drone (CE mode is much weaker than the FCC mode) which is why many pilots in Europe can't even reach a 25% of the range of US pilots. There is a way t hack this relatively easily though.
Finally, the radio technology plays a big role. I recently review the Parrot Anafi and the Autel EVO and they can't do half of the range of the Mavic Pro. All of them are using 2.4 but DJI OcuSync technology has a much better signal treatment algorithm and noise rejection filter. So you can have big differences even when drones use the same band.- 120fps: I review the Air and Pro and the 120fps is pure garbage. On the Mavic Air the 2.7/60 and 1080/60 crop a lot so we'll have to check that on the Mavic 2. The 4k60 mode on the Phantom 5 is also not as good as the 4k/30.
- D-Log: DJI changed their Log curve many times on the Phantom based on the firmware update. D-log consistency is a mess and is often not very good. The Mavic Pro IQ was horrible (i sold mine after a week of use) due to the miserable bitrate and compression artifacts every 6 frames. Surprisingly the P3 video was much better with the same bitrate.
- Flight time: all manufacturer lies bluntly about flight time. I reviewed many drones and you can easily remove 20 to 25% of the official value. The Air is closer to 15-16min than 21min. The Mavic is 23-24. Same thing for the Autel EVO. Only the Anafi gets kind of close of the advertised value but not entirely.
In the end I bought the Air and I really like it (despite the bad Wifi radio technology and the check gimbal wheel on the controller). I did some great video and the IQ is not that bad. The 100 mbps helps but the lens is much softer than the Mavic Pro which was way too sharp anyway. The only issue with the Air is the presence of noise even at base ISO. Nothing dramatic but it's there. I'll try to get my hands on the Mavic 2. -
4 hours ago, austinchimp said:
Nice work. What stabilisation did you use? Loved the smooth tracking shots.
Thanks. Gimbal Crane for the video and handheld for the hyperlapse with a lot of post-stab in AE.
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Great article Andrew, by the way, I didn't follow the recent BM drama but I just want to say thanks for your work on this blog. I don't always agree with you but you've done a fine job over the years and you always give original insight. Cheers.