The Chris

​Sony has 11% of the market and most of its imaging profits come from sensor production and the pro video division - not the E-mount. Canon is far from done. The A7rII filled the spec sheet, but at $3200 it isn't going to be a big seller. For landscape and 4k shooters its a nice option, but Sony's crappy flash system and small lens lineup compared to the big two isn't going to get a lot of people to dump Canon or Nikon anytime soon - especially since this sensor will find its way into the next D8xx and I'm guessing Nikon will roll out 4k with the new flagship. I've said all along, I bet the 5d4 will have 4k as well.

Glad to see Sony finally putting all its best tech into one camera, but 4k and BSI means its twice the price of the A7II and NX1? And still no 14-bit raws? Only 5fps? Meh. Most FE lenses are grossly overpriced as well. $1600 for the 35/1.4 when my Nikon Sigma cost half that and is actually smaller? My D750 body weighs 5 ounces more than the A7II, the whole small/light argument for mirrorless is gone. Hopefully the next versions of the A7s and the lower MP A7 get all the new toys and don't cost over three grand.

The A7r2 and the RX1004 gives you one hell of a portable 4K setup. Good times.

I'm preordering the RX1004 and waiting for early adopters to unload their A7R2's at a significant discount over the winter. If I can hold out...

​Does the Novoflex control the aperture in the lens or is it one of those with the aperture inside the adapter? Thanks in advance.

Anyone know if this has the crappy built in aperture that vignettes or does it actually allow you to control the aperture in the lens? 

​Great summary. It looks like R12 had expanded the NLE capabilities beyond 11. Looking forward to 12 being released.

Cant wait for it to be released. Most of my editing is pretty basic, but I shoot with a number of different cameras and I've been using premiere for years. I'm still on CS5 because I shelled out for the full suite and then got burned with the 5.5 update a few month after FCPx came out. Outside of Lightroom, I'm not buying another Adobe product if I can avoid it. Resolve will serve as my NLE and grading app. Kudos to Blackmagic for making it more full featured.

Love the music video with the Hoff and a vintage Lambo Countach. Awesome.

​I don't see how that's even possible, the worlds largest digital distributors - Nexflix and iTunes - have almost no 4k content and 4k TV's are still a few years from being commonplace in the home. Its still a very small, niche market because there's virtually no readily available and cheap content. That $600 Samsung player with the preloaded BS isn't moving the needle, neither is a 4k version of that crappy Spiderman movie Sony is constantly pimping. There's no cheap 4k DVD content anywhere and its not likely to take hold anytime soon because the market is already completely saturated with DVD/Bluray and the next-gen stuff seems to be skipping physical media and moving to streaming. Japan, Korea, U.S., UK and others at the cutting edge of broadcasting are not even true 1080p yet. DVD sales have cratered thanks to VOD and digital sales. Phones and Tablets have taken a big chunk of the viewing pie, 4k is overkill on those devices as well.

Large corporations are only interested in one thing - profit. If an overwhelming majority of your audience is living in a 1080p world - nobody is turning up their noses at content because its not 4k. I'm sure it can't hurt to have 4k, but in no way is anyone limited because its not. Next year isn't going to be any different than this year, a few 4k shows/movies on Nexflix and such, but little else. 

If you read the whole presentation - not just the few slides SAR posted and his half-baked analysis - a lot of that is happening above the A7 in the pro broadcast realm, not on the consumer level.

That's bad. I've only used the VF when shooting handheld so OIS is always on.  Off to try it myself.

The S8 has 4 steps of counterbalance and a long plate to find your balance. I ordered one to test for my needs. The one downside of trying to go too small/light is the lack of decent counterbalance and nice, fluid damped movements. To go light you lose some of those features or they're less adjustable. The 502 has the tilt lock knob on the right side- which is un-intuitive compared to most fluid heads that put the lock on the left. It lacks the adjustments I want as well. I don't use my tripod enough to justify twice what the S8 costs - I just want carbon sticks, the ability to go low to the ground and a decent fluid head. My last setup weighed 12 pounds and had an annoying mid-spreader that I couldn't remove, this one is a couple less and no goofy spreader. Any lighter than about 10 pounds and you're usually talking flimsy sticks or small heads at this pricepoint. I wish there were more options in the sub $1000 range. Good luck with your serach.

Where did you find this? I haven't seen any official documentation about new bitrates. But its nice, a slight bump with UHD 24/23.98p and a massive bump with all the 1080p framerates below the red box.

Missed the adjustable MF, got caught up in 120p and all the AF improvements. Nice.

Before updating remember to log settings, the update resets the camera. I didn't, duh...

What's your budget?

I've been looking at the Benro S8 for a decent lo-budget option since I don't use a tripod very often:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1026242-REG/benro_c373fhs8_s8_video_tripod_kit.html

There are a few good videos on Youtube, it looks like a good DSLR weight head - leveling ball, adjustable counterbalance/drag and with a set of CF sticks for $625. The AL version is cheaper, but I shoot in the sun a lot and AL sticks get really hot to the touch.

Manfrotto has some nice performing heads like the 504 HD, but it doesn't look any better than the S8.

Sachtler makes great heads, some of the best. I had the FSB-4 that accidentally got left behind at a shoot.

No experience with Miller.

Its free to sign up, in a number of the posts diegocervo talks about just using Gamma DR and keeping everything at 0. His results are really, really nice.

I used this one in the past, I keep going back and forth with AS plates because I hate stacking a couple components that essentially do the same thing, just adds weight and more stuff to fiddle with.

http://www.reallyrightstuff.com/Shop/Lever-Release-Clamps/B2-LR-II-Lever-release-clamp.html

The lever QR works really well and doesn't have the issues some of the knob release models encounter when mounting on a video tripod - since some of the knobs extend below the bottom of the clamp. Don't know if there are any cheap knockoffs, RRS doesn't come cheap.

I've been using gamma DR and everything else at 0 after seeing this thread on DVXuser.

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?334819-Samsung-NX1-Log-Gamma-Dynamic-Range

The look diegocervo is getting in the various stills posted is what I shoot for, very nice. 

​Your lol-filled argument makes no sense whatsoever, APS-c sales completely trounce FF. And it isn't even close. APS-c isn't going anywhere, because its the dominant force in the market - plain and simple. Even Steve Jobs' corpse is smart enough to see that. Don't know why you can't. If that's your imaging division's major source of revenue, rest assured that's a top priority. APS-c/S35 is also where all the innovation lies with the big 3 (excluding m43 since canon, Nikon and Sony don't produce m43 cameras), internal 4k video, high fps stills, dual pixel AF and more are all finding their way into APS-c/S35 sensor cameras before FF. One could counter-argue FF is dying because more of the innovation is going to APS-c.

You're pushing your own uninformed opinion as fact, when Amazon sales are in fact a measure of where the market is going. Even anecdotal stuff - what cameras are available in large retailers such as Best Buy and Walmart - low end APS-c Canon's and Nikons. FF has not seen mass adoption on the level of APS-c and it never will because costs put it out of reach of many casual users - and that's where the sales numbers lie.

Pros make up a very, very small percentage of the market and have specialized needs that are served by small-volume niche products - hence cameras like the 1dx, D4s, FS7 and so on that use bits and pieces of other models to leverage the costs of development across multiple lines. If you have actual facts to back up your argument, and not just your opinion please provide them. 

Cheers

I have the 4k GoPro too and I can't decide whether to get one of these gimbals and defish 4k footage or get one of the larger gimbals like the Nebula or Pilotfly H1. The 4k is pretty impressive out of the GoPro, which make me think I can get by, shooting people is the only worry for me. Only thing that jumps out is the video is a little bouncy at times, gotta smooth out your steps.

Because I'm bored at work, and to add a little support to why APS-c is clearly not dead, I took a quick look at the Amazon top 100 cameras - there were 33 large sensor cameras in the top 100 -- 31 were ILC's, 4 were FF, 1 was M43, and 2 were the black and silver versions of the X100t (APS-c) see the list below. APS-c clearly dominates both mirrorless and DSLR's. Its the reason why Canon and Nikon crank out new versions so often and why the bottom end E-mount cameras get such quick refreshes - that's where the biggest sales numbers lie. I'd be genuinely shocked if CaNikon wasn't selling 10 APS-c bodies to every FF body, there are just far more people buying $400 kits compared to $2500 bodies.

Top selling ILC's with the overall ranking, asterisks precede the 5 cameras that aren't APS-c:

6. T5 kit

7. D3300

8. Another T5 Kit

15. Another T5 kit

18. D3200 Kit

26. T5i

28. D3300 kit

29. Another T5 kit

42. A6000

44. T3i Kit

45. 70d

*46. 5d3

*47. 6d

54. T5i kit

*56. GH4

59. D7000

68. D3100

71. X100T silver

72. D7100

76. 70d kit

77. T3

79. D3300 kit

*82. D750

83. A3000

85. X100T black

86. Another T5 kit

88. D7200

89. D3200

91. A6000 kit

92. T5i kit

*93. D810

100. Another T5i kit

​Not me and I currently own two FF and two APS-c cameras, and have owned a few m43 as well. The beauty of APS-c is that it really falls in the middle of M43 and FF -- smaller/cheaper lenses than FF, bigger sensor and higher IQ/DR than M43. APS-c isn't going anywhere, look at the Amazon rankings for ILC's, all of the top sellers are APS-c. There's a small advantage with FF in terms on noise/DR - though not much and in many cases there's no advantage at all (Canon FF vs. Sony/Samsung APS-c). DOF is really the only place FF has a clear advantage, but even then its only one stop. And geez, look at the size/price of the new FE 35. 

FF has its advantages from an IQ standpoint, but lenses are more expensive and much larger. Depends on your needs and budget, but APS-c is the biggest part of the ILC market because it offers the best IQ (talking stills) for the money. A better test from your original post would be to put the FE 35/1.4 on the A6000 and the A7, so you're comparing two 24mp images with the same sensor bloodline. Fuji and Sony are so different because of the X-trans rendering. The A7s is the outlier in the discussion because of its crazy ISO's, but you're limited to 12mp and below 3200 it isn't anything special compared to any current FF and some APS-c sensors when you downsample the images to 12mp.

APS-c is the midsize sedan of the ILC market - bland and boring, but sells better than any other segment.

Stupid comment and hardly a uniquely American phenomenon. I live in The U.S., 70 million people visited my state last year including tons of selfie stick brandishing individuals from Asia, Europe and South America - most notably Japanese, British, German and Brazillian. A couple of idiots don't represent an entire country. 

Not sure if this has been posted, XC10 short, lots of gimbal footage.

BTS

A 10-cent rubber bracelet or a fat rubber band (free in many cases) will cure any lens creep. I know is fashionable to bash Canon on this site, but I don't get why people have so much hatred toward this camera, nobody's forcing you to use it. Its all about the image - and if it looks great people will buy it - Canon gets the last laugh. Looking forward to seeing one in person and tinkering with it once Best Buy has it in stock.