JurijTurnsek

YouTube compression has been getting out of hand recently. Don't what else to call it, but I notice a lot of "ghosting" artifacts - residue jpeg blotches where movement was rendered between full frames.

Had the same request from a friend a month ago, but he was looking for a birthday present so used was not an option - he was stuck choosing mobile camera sized sensors.

Go for used and you can get something decent for that money, unlike buying new.

2 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

FINALLY!!!

I grabbed my Samsang NX300 this morning for the first time in ages and the battery was flat, but not a big deal! Didn't need to find a charger, could just grab any one of my many many USB cables I have lying around and charge up the NX300!  Very useful. (and this is not even counting the handy feature of using it with a USB powerbank, as an external battery)

Made me wish that every camera had USB charging, why isn't this common place with all cameras??

USB charging has been a feature on Sony bodies for a while now. I think that the mark II series was the first to allow charging while in use too, so many people used a power bank for longer shoots. Mark III has microUSB and USB-C and you use both to charge (depending on the cable you have available) or you can use one for charging an the other for some sort of camera control (intervalometer? tethering?).

This thing shits all over the D850 and will probably beat it at video. Where is all the hate coming from? GH5 is competing with the a7S line, but it cannot hold a photo candle to the a7R line. Leica is a niche product with a price to match. I guess you are all about the color science and even that is said to be improved on the a7RIII, so wait and see, this thing is impressive:

Yes, WD My Cloud products should be very easy to use. Someone else could comment on their speed.

Why not use a NAS, since you upload speed is so fast? Setup a FTP server and this way resuming is possible too.

Waiting for the GSM arena studio shots to make any conclusions. Worth noting is that while the camera module has stayed the same from S7 to S8, the latter looks much better in studio comparison shots (iPhone 7 does not look stellar, but 8 has a bigger sensor). I think that Note 8 has the same sensor again, so not much hope there, but iphone 8 should now be on par. S9 could up the ante I hope.

So, ideally we could have a small sensor with huge DOF and depth perception to make it variable, but then you still have the issue of low light and different focal lengths.

Some phone manufacturer should implement two periscope zoom camera modules and implement depth perception so that a smooth zoom would be possible.I wonder why the light L16 didn't just cram 4 of these in their design.

I've condensed my thoughts on social media/internet content over-production/consumption in a short article if anyone is interested: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/liking-physical-media-jurij-turnsek

We need to slow down and up the quality and again establish the authority of "editors" and "curators"

11 hours ago, Damphousse said:

Just get this while waiting on a phone...

https://petapixel.com/2017/08/04/heres-first-81-megapixel-photo-light-l16-16-camera-camera/

I've been following Light camera for a while. Too bad they didn't choose to make it a phone. If I am going to lug around a second device, it is definitely going to be an APS-C sensor.

Just wanted to say that I look forward to the day when the bigger mobiles phones will feature a 50mm, 24mm and 16mm prime camera modules giving us a good "standard zoom" = offering zooming or using them as primes exclusively. I doubt going for the 75, 50 and 24mm would make much sense, since the 70mm module would need a thick optics module.

Any phone can shoot amazing stuff if you light it properly (get exposure to base ISO). DXO is a poor benchmark. Study studio scene comparisons and come to you own conclusions. Ed, you are killing me.

iphone wide angle is the same as all other smartphone cameras (really, all of them) - the only GoPro equivalent fisheye-wide cameras can be found on LG G5, G6, V20 and V30 ... this thread is a mess

1 hour ago, Axel said:

People miss one thing here: the dawning of HDR. 

They say the display is capable of HDR (whatever that means). HDR metadata can be embedded in HEVC (check). New Apple TV advertizes "4k HDR now! (check). 2017 iMacs deliver 800 nits (check). High Sierra will use HEVC as the new standard compressor (check). 

As I understood, right now there is no real standard for HDR. Apple may have made the decision.

HDR screens already implemented and supported by Netflix and Amazon on LG G6 and Samsung S8.

A smartphone cannot "kill" an action camera. Totally different tools. I dear you to use is with a clip-on fisheye and strap it on any helmet. /thread

As far as run and gun camcorders go, these look very good: 4K60p, 1" sensor, ND filters, Dual Pixel AF and then the rest of their Vixia features. How come no MJPEG codec here, huh Canon?

So the iPhone X has been leaked to feature the following video specs:

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1080p HD at 240 fps480 MB with 1080p HD at 240 fps

4K at 24 fps(Footer) 270 MB with 4K at 24 fps (film style)(HEVC Footer) 135 MB with 4K at 24 fps (film style)

4K at 60 fps(Footer) 450 MB with 4K at 60 fps (higher resolution, smoother)(HEVC Footer) 400 MB with 4K at 60 fps (higher resolution, smoother)

No word on 720p480, but at least HEVC will have to be broadly supported now. I believe this is the last Android flagship generation without 4K60p, however I have no idea if the Snapdragon 835 simply can't handle it or there is any other bottleneck. Anyway, Samsung S9 will have to have it.

12 hours ago, DBounce said:

From Wired...

"Both have super-bright f/1.6 lenses, and 10-bit HDR sensors."

Wide angle is f1.9 and with fixed AF.

Yup, that aperture probably knocks down the maximum performance back to regular action cam levels when the light levels drop down.

http://us.yuneec.com/comm-en-e90-overview

Yuneec announced a serious drone, that cam looks nice.

Regarding battery life: check out the Moto Z phones with Moto Mods that you can replace on-the-fly (no need to restart the phone). They've got 5.5 screens too, so that's nice.

Poor Sony a99mkII - a victim of its own mount.

14 hours ago, Mattias Burling said:

Looks really nice. Very detailed indeed.

Btw, read the article, and I know we are talking "real" cameras here. But the Nokia 1520 actually got 4K video added in firmware

Hehe, well that iteration of Nokia went down the shitter quick (probably due to the OS, but still).

7 minutes ago, Mattias Burling said:

Maybe they wanted to clearly segment it to the X-T2. And now when the dust has settled they can add it without loosing the customers that already bought both.
I think a 4K X-Pro2 from the beginning would also have stopped many from going the X-T2+X100f route.

This is exactly the reason and it should anger their customer. They should've just released both cameras at once, 4K on both.

What a bummer really. Hopefully they limit the recording time severely and claim overheating reasons, since they will admit to severe product crippling in any case. Adding minor tweaks regularly is one thing, but this is canonizing your product and blatantly admitting it.