Tim Sewell

I’m excited - got my camera cage sorted and ready to go! 
 

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.

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.

I'm washing my hair that night.

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.

That's a lot of testing but do you want to know what I do? I have a GH5 also, I shoot nearly everything in 8bit 4:2:0 LongGOP 4K 60FPS and deliver every project in 1080P with a 16MB/s or 8MB/s bitrate and not one paying customer has complained about the video quality. I used to go through the same hand wringing over quality until I realized I'm not creating Hollywood blockbusters, my footage is going to be totally trashed by YT compression, and my clients will never notice the difference; they care about the content and have no idea where the quality could have been better.
I also have a C200 and have never shot a single project in RAW...everything is 4:2:0 LongGOP and my clients love it. For both cameras I avoid WDR scenarios whenever possible, I perfectly white balance the scene, and I shoot CLOG3 with the C200 and CinelikeD with the GH5.  Sure 10bit and RAW give you more latitude in post....but in most situations I have found that highlight rolloff and white balance are the two things that will make your footage fall apart in post if you are shooting 8bit. If you can get those right in camera you won't have any problems in post.
 
If I ever get a big time paying commercial gig in the 5 figure+ range then sure, I'll switch the C200 over to RAW and happily invoice the client for the extra storage and post processing time required or I might even go and rent something even fancier, but until then there is no way I am wasting my storage space, time, or equipment to improve quality that is impossible for the average viewer to see especially when 90% of them will view the footage on a tiny cell phone screen.
 

They'll be releasing the Pocket16K before I finally get that fucker out.

Why are they using Potato Jet's old studio?

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

Why are they using Potato Jet's old studio?

Come on. Has to be a parody.

Why are they using Potato Jet's old studio?

8000 cats, no wonder the EOS R5 pet detection is overheating

Philip now has 8000 cats.

Why are they using Potato Jet's old studio?

That could be rather sexy.

Why are they using Potato Jet's old studio?

Why are they using Potato Jet's old studio?

Why are they using Potato Jet's old studio?

Why are they using Potato Jet's old studio?

If you like parody, you like cheesy fun. I loved the ad. Dunno why. I should ask the gods of Olymp. Tomorrow at dawn.:)

Just stumbled across this..
Self shot, self made music video (shot on GH5). Pretty freaking creative. Looked like a lot of fun.
So maybe pick a song and we all make a music video.
Perhaps with camera restrictions and a focal length restriction. Just an idea.

Image quality of S1 is astonishing in VLOG and 10bit. Unparalled until now in a Hybrid. AF for video fans look somewhere else. Imagelovers and filmmakers should check it out. Sensor of z6, s1/h, a73 has been mentioned a lot of times to be the same by Sony @Super8 don´t be sold unless you have done some filming with it. Anything else is second hand knowledge. Just like mine. We are always grateful for ones own footage. You can check out some test footage by me in the S1 thread.
Back to R6, if it shoots hasslefree pixelbinned 24-50p 4K 10bit 422 with same usuability and roughness as S1, then we have an impressive contender. I´m interested to see how CLOG 1 holds up compared to VLOG. Cannot wait to see some tasty footage with the Canon. Great footage is a rather rare thing these days with these impressive hybrid cameras though. Like Leica owners taking pictures of flowers.

The S1H second hand is a lot cheaper than this, you'll find them for 2700 USD or so.
It has an internal fan, all anamorphic modes you could think of, VLOG. External recording for boosted settings, but plenty of good internal ones including a 6K mode for big plates. Excellent colour and DR, it's wonderfully usable.
The only down sides are shit autofocus and the battery life could be better. The stills are amazing too.
It doesn't yet have raw recording because something is up behind the scenes, but it's designed to work as a pro camera, and is the model of how a hybrid camera should work, for me.
If you want a balanced hybrid for professional use, it's the best all-round choice right now. If you want raw for cine-style use with a bigrig, there's the Sigma FP which is phenomenally specced.
The new Canons look like more of the usual "we can't make this too good or no-one will buy our camcorders" rubbish from Canon. Same old same old, looks great on paper before it's released (cue ridiculous YouTuber wide mouth wide eye infantile thumbnails) and turns out to be hobbled in order to make you buy a more expensive model.
They want you to buy a C300 MK iii. It's where all their great new tech is, including their own version of the Arri dual-gain architecture.,
Fuck em.