Tim Sewell

PJ, above, says he's shot a lot of side-by-sides with the FX-9 which he'll drop tomorrow.

Potato Jet just got a sample of the 35mm delivered. Says he's going to review it soon!

I know what you mean - it'd save us all a fortune too! Sadly I find the physical act of filming or taking photographs on a smartphone utterly dispiriting.

In fact for me, the ideal camera would basically be my C100 mk1 with the only changes being a bit of HFR and external 'real' 4:2:2 10 bit up to 60fps.

I have an Olympus EM1 mkii that produces nice, stabilised 4K, but for video I've barely picked it up since I got my bargain-basement OG C100. The C100 still produces lovely organic-looking HD and coupled with a Ninja 2 (GBP200 off eBay) it's reasonably gradeable as well. My aim - as a hobbyist/would-be artist - has always been to create work that has that filmic quality we love and that aim is often in opposition to the ultra-sharp, high resolution video more modern systems generate. I have to do far more post work on my Oly video to get the look I want than I do to the Canon stuff. So I think you're correct, in one sense, @kye, although I don't know how much your proposition would hold true to people who are earning their living producing video for clients who, naturally, will generally want the 'best' they can get.

Thanks for the pointer - I'll check that out!

Thanks - I thought that was probably the case. I want to try the ACES route, but I haven’t yet been able to find an IDT for my ancient camera!

I should have kept up with this stuff, but I haven't, so I'm hoping for some pointers from the EOSHD hivemind. I've been shooting in OG Canon log on the C100 mk1, lately into ProRes 422HQ on a Ninja 2. I bring my files into FCPX and, when I drop Color Finale onto the clip, one of the options it gives me is to set the output target. If I set that to Rec2020 the image, as I'd expect of a wider gamut (am I right in thinking that's one of that standard's features?) looks much livelier. But what happens when I export that, in that, on my screen the exported file looks great, but if someone were to watch that on a TV, say, would it then look awful? Also, I have a bunch of film-look LUTs that take either log or 709 as input, but I can't find (at least, not with the same ease) similar collections of 2020 film look LUTs - am I missing the point, or is it a matter of the order in which I set these things? Help! Confused of Hove

No, I just happened to see the article yesterday and it was fresh in my mind.

https://www.redsharknews.com/akaso-brave-7-le-review-remarkable-value-for-money-and-outstanding-battery-life

I think this camera is definitely an attempt to eat Red, if not Arri's lunch - clearly aimed at high-end narrative.

Hours of use are very much a relic of the days of tape heads, when it really mattered. Remember, 3000 hours of operation actually only represents 300x10 hour work days - about a year and a half.

Feel your pain, but the cameras are already built - following a CML email thread I saw that John Brawley received his factory-built, final firmware unit yesterday.

I'm washing my hair that night.

If my family would agree to starve for a couple of months I could probably just about run to one of these.

Wow. That's an amazing image on Vimeo at 4K. Possibly one of the nicest I've seen. Those skintones glow. There's a 3D feel to some of those sequences which, I suppose, must be to do with capturing the focus fall-off of the lens at such a high resolution.

As an update I've decided to build a set from the Super Takumars and sell the Rokkors I've bought so far. The Rokkors have a lovely build quality, but it seems they don't have an option of a nice sharp 35mm - I got two different versions and both were unacceptable soft. The Taks, on the other hand, are beautifully built and render amazingly nicely. So far I've go the 28, 35, 50 1.4, 85 1.8 and 135 2.5 in my sweaty hands and am awaiting delivery of the 20 4.5 and the 200 4. Now I have to re-line one of my hard cases for them and set about getting focus gears made. I'm in 2 minds over de-clicking. A couple of these weren't cheap and I worry that de-clicking might hammer their resale value if I ever have to rake some funds back. Does anyone have any experience of that? As soon as those last 2 arrive I'll shoot a test of all lenses on the same subject for the delectation of EOSHD members.

Philip now has 8000 cats.

That could be rather sexy.

Why are they using Potato Jet's old studio?

Statement from Canon on Newshooter: https://www.newsshooter.com/2020/07/14/canon-issues-statement-regarding-eos-r5-r6-overheating-during-video-recording/ The whole sorry saga is obviously contentious

Come on. Has to be a parody.

Although surely one of the few genuine use cases right now for 8K would be precisely that as it would effectively give you 3 or 4 focal lengths in one shot for 1080 delivery.

Over on DVX User, John Brawley was suggesting that Olympus might be continuing lens manufacture.