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David Bowgett

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  1. Probably not. As a rule, if you can open the battery door and swap out the battery on the G80 while it's attached to the plate, you should be good to go (the G7's compartment door is a bit bigger, but mostly in the direction away from the mounting point).
  2. The G7 also has its memory card slot in the battery compartment, as opposed to the G80/G85, which has a separate slot. For the circumstances you're describing that's probably not going to be an issue unless you have it attached to a really big locking plate or tripod head, but it's something to bear in mind.
  3. From the charts it looks to be about on par with the A7Rii in full-frame 4K in terms of moire and aliasing. Not bad enough to be a showstopper by any means, but enough to be a major pain given the right (or wrong?) situation. Then again, odds are most people will be using the M50 in 1080p mode anyway, and the footage from that looks absolutely fine. If anything, it's probably the lack of DPAF in 4K mode that'll be the bigger discouragement to using it. Good point about the Super 16 possibilities, though - I'd remembered S16 as having less of a crop factor for some reason. At any rate, it'd definitely be a more affordable solution than the Digital Bolex, and lack most of the pitfalls of the original BMPCC.
  4. True, there's no definitive confirmation as of yet. But when you compare the M50's 4K output to that of the G7 and D7500, which are both confirmed to output 1:1 from a 4K crop of their respective sensors, it's noticeably softer and more moire prone. I suppose it's possible that Canon are just using a really poor codec, but the upscale theory seems to make sense given that Canon employed it on their early VDSLRs. As to why they'd be doing that, could be any number of reasons from heat dissipation to "product segmentation." We can only speculate. No, the 1080p uses the full width of the sensor, so it's probably the pixel bin and downscale technique that's believed to have been used on their sensors since the 80D came out. It's probably higher than full HD, but not 3.3K.
  5. I could kinda understand it if they were upscaling on a full-sensor readout, since Canon do have form for that technique. But this massive crop and upscale combo just seems to be the worst of both worlds! Oh, and that's assuming you've got the camera's electronic stabilization features disabled. On the highest stabilization setting, you're looking at a 3.6x FF crop and roughly ~2.5K of resolution upscaled to 4K.
  6. DPReview just posted their take on the camera, and yowzer; that's some horrible moire in the 4K mode! Probably worse than on any 4K camera I've ever seen outside of the A7Rii's full-frame mode. I can understand not being able to put out footage as sharp as the A6300/A6500's oversampled 4K, but when it can't even match the G7 or D7500, something is clearly very wrong here (DPR themselves speculate that the footage is actually upscaled from ~3.3K).
  7. The A6300 and A6500 had a crop at 30p, but not 25p, so hopefully this will be the same.
  8. I don't know what it is about Canon, but they seem to have the opposite quality curve compared to most other companies. They actually produced their best 4K stills camera first, with the 1DC, then every release since then has gotten progressively more limited.
  9. The leaked specs have now been officially confirmed. Really can't understand the logic in pairing a new sensor with such an old CPU. It'd be like if Apple released a new Macbook with the latest graphics card, but a Core 2 Duo CPU.
  10. It's ten years next September since Canon's 18MP sensor was first introduced in the original 7D, and ten years this October since DIGIC4 showed up in the 50D. It'd almost be impressive how much longevity Canon have gotten out of those components, if not for the comparative lack of progress elsewhere since then.
  11. I would guess that Panasonic has reshuffled their line-up with this release, and that eventually they'll release a G90/G95 that's an update of the G80/G85 with the 20MP sensor added. But yeah, the GH5S is clearly the one they're targeting at video users right now. It sounds like, whether by accident or design, with the the G9 they've managed to produce a camera that has a similar set of strengths and drawbacks to most DSLRs.
  12. The specs actually do look to be pretty solid, but it's priced far too high. Unless you really need the higher photo burst speed (and can live with the loss of V-Log and, presumably, unlimited recording times), I can't see much reason to go with this over the GH5.
  13. Eh, it's not a bad upgrade per se, but it does kinda give the impression of something hurriedly put out to compete with the D850. Then again, Sony's really been killing it with just about every new mirrorless for the last few years, so I guess they had to stop and catch their breath sometime.
  14. Nobody said that the 5Div was worse than the D850 just because of the MJPEG codec. But when you stack the cameras up together in terms of both video and stills features (because let's face it, no-one buys a DSLR just to shoot video with these days), the D850 has higher stills resolution, better dynamic range, higher-quality video with less of a crop factor and a more efficient codec, a slightly faster shooting rate, an articulating screen, better autofocus and better battery life. The only advantages that the 5Div appears to have are DPAF, and arguably using CF memory cards (which is a less expensive and more readily available format) instead of XQD. And they're both the same price.
  15. Pentax even beat Panasonic to the punch on that count; they introduced it to their line about five years ago. In any case, it looks like UK pricing for the D850 is virtually identical to that of the 5Div. You'd think Canon would have to cut its pricing to remain competitive, but somehow I doubt they will. Weirdly enough, it looks like the 5DS and 5DSr are now the sweet spot in Canon's full-frame line-up, as they offer higher resolution than the D850 for a lower price (albeit being worse in terms of dynamic range and base ISO) and have pretty respectable video quality if you can live with only 1080p.
  16. The existing D810 sensor has a lower base ISO than that of the A7R or A7Rii/A99ii. Their photography users will likely call foul if Nikon produces a new camera that's worse in that regard, so they need to keep parity in that area, while being competitive in megapixel count with both its Sony competition and the 5DS(r) on Canon's side.
  17. Are Sony actually #2 in the U.S. market overall, or just the second highest-selling full frame camera maker? The article suggests the former, but Sony's own press release seems to suggest it's the latter.
  18. Honestly, even the simultaneously-announced 800D looks like a (comparatively) more exciting product, seeing how it also has DPAF and just about all the other major features of the 77D at a lower price point.
  19. I thought Nikon's 6D competitor was more the D610. It'd be cool if Nikon announced a 4K D760, along with a D620 that recycles the D750's sensor, though admittedly that's probably a bit optimistic.
  20. Well, if you really want to be precise, Pentax are actually the ones with the worst video among the DSLR makers; even the mighty K-1 has video that's almost as comically awful as Fujifilm's was in their pre-Sony era. Not that it really helps Canon's cause, having DSLR video better only than a manufacturer who's never bothered putting in any real effort in that area.
  21. That's because the A6300 oversamples from a 6.5K area of the sensor. By comparison, the A7Sii is natively 4K, and the A7Rii's oversample is only something like 4.8K.
  22. The weird thing is that going by that link, the Canon DSLR that produces the best 1080p image actually seems to be the 5DS(r). Which fits with the rumours that its sensor produces a ~2.5K video signal due to essentially being a jumbo-sized 7D Mk II sensor, and they just downscale that signal to get 1080p.
  23. It shouldn't make any difference by itself; the D500 has pretty decent amount of dynamic range (when using the flat profile) despite a roughly 2.2x crop in its 4K mode. If anything, it's the lack of C-Log that'll hurt the 5Div in that department.
  24. I was actually hoping that there'd be something to the rumours about Nikon buying up Samsung's photography business, but it looks like that was a load of hot air, unless Nikon are just taking their sweet time incorporating the technology into their range.
  25. The GH4 had an additional crop on top of the usual m4/3rds crop, giving an effective focal length of ~2.3x full frame when filming 4K. Presumably the GH5 uses the full width of the sensor.
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