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1 hour ago, Gianluca said:

Xt3 have only face detection or auto but no touch tracking 

that's true, but you said only AF-S and no AF-C. Django corrected this, since the X-T3 has AF-C and face-detection with eye tracking. 

Take a look at the thumbnail/preview picture of the first video. He is using the 18-135mm lens but the display shows f/1.8

So it‘s clearly edited, either by him or Sony marketing. Doesn‘t change the rs though xD

5 hours ago, Mokara said:

a6500 body sells for $1198, while the a6400 body sells for $898. It is $100 less than the retail price of the a6300 even. It is clearly intended to replace the a6300.

Here in Europe the A6400 will be introduced for 1050€. You can easily get a new A6500 for around 1000€. So while the A6400 is intended to replace the A6300, it‘s competing in price with more powerful cameras. 

3 hours ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

I don't understand why the readout wouldn't be faster if its got the A9 processor in it. 

Because the sensor speed is the limiting factor. As @androidlad said, it looks like it‘s the same A6300 sensor

The real question is, why would you buy this camera, when you can get an a6500 for less money?

I just saw one of the vlogging videos which it seems Sony aimed the camera at. When he moved the camera the rolling shutter was insane. So I guess no or little improvement there.

But I don‘t think the camera is aimed at anyone who would come to this forum but the firmware updates do look interesting!

yes, it's normals as in
a) you can get a color shift, especially from cheaper filters
b) variable nd filters use polarisation filters and thus can influence reflections and the sky 
c) when you go too far and use a filter without hard stops, an X will appear due to the way those filters work.

Yes, fixed nd filters offer better image quality, but you loose the flexibility. If you go for different fixed nd filters you might take a look at the xume manfrotto stuff.

depends on what you want to do. What things are you considering, what will you be shooting and where are your limitation when it comes to size, weight and cost?

It a big lighter and thus feels a bit less sturdy than an X-H1, GH5 or higher end DSLR. But I haven't had any problems with Fuji hardware, not the X-T2, not X-H1 and not X-T3. I thought it was over when I dropped the X-T2 on concrete, but it only got some minor cosmetic damages and still works fine. So I don't really get it either. 

9 hours ago, thephoenix said:

Is it prores  ?  My bad... You select prores on the ninja  ? 

it records in either prores or DNxHD

I agree, the update was great. I also noticed a big improvement when it comes to panning. The camera no longer tried so hard to keep the image steady and then snaps when you pan, but does it much better. 

I also agree, it feels very much like the Olympus dual stabilization, which is probably the best on the market. 

it's called natural liveview and you can bind it on custom keys to toggle it. 

1 hour ago, Danyyyel said:

best evf

best? No. It's one of the sharpest though

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and back screen

yes. Nice backscreen. Better than the A7III

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very very good Full frame IBIS

yes

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very very good video autofocus

and mediocre autofocus for stills. For AF-C I'd even call it bad

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outstanding body construction (lensrental rivaling best DSLR ones)

with just one card slot and that one is XQD. Won't buy
 

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it beats the A73 in everything except native lens choice

no. It's autofocus is years behind the Sony and so is the continous stills shooting experience. It got one card slot which makes it useless to some. It has no option for a batterygrip yet and the list goes on. And no, I am no huge fan of the Sony, but for hybrid shooters I feel the Sony is the much better option. 

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I don't what some people expected, perhaps a coffee machine option

My coffee machine has better AF-C than the Nikon

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As for the Sony, when the next one comes out, then we can compare to the z6, because for now the z6 is in every way better.

? ? ?

From a hybrid shooters perspective I agree, the X-T3, A7III and X-H1 were great. Combined they would be even better, but that's not in the cards. (X-H1 Body and IBIS, X-T3 Specs, Color and pricing and A7III sensor size and battery)
Nikon made a nice attempt but for me it feels like catching up with 2 year old cameras and not matching what is available today. 
Canon? They pulled a classic canon. Underperform and overcharge. But they lenses do look nice. Canon has always been a great lens manufacturers, their cameras where what you had to use to use those lenses. 

I am really looking forward at what Olympus introduces in 2019, in 2018 they were missing. Seems like their market share is falling drastically ?

3 minutes ago, Django said:

Again, by using 2-way communication data of the gyroscope and lens IS info, the in body EIS is capable of accurately compensating shake/movement instead of just guessing it through an algorithm in post warp stabilization.

the only thing you remove is the need to calculate/guess the movement before correcting, the process is the same. 
But I'd love to see how it works, if anybody with an Eos R and a 50mm f/1.2 or adapted non stabilized lens could upload a few videos. That would be nice. Handheld, slow walking, so we get different types of movement. 

14 minutes ago, Django said:

As explained above, EOS R's EIS communicates with the gyroscope as well as the lens IS to give you a result close if not superior to 5 axis IBIS.

I'm not seeing that. Again, the picture is captured and there is shake in it. The camera then corrects the image by manipulating it. 
With any hardware IS solution you try to compensate without manipulating image data. You can of course do electronic stabilization as addition, but as only form of stabilization it's insufficient. 

3 minutes ago, DBounce said:

@frontfocus As for those that think a 5 axis hybrid stabilization system that accounts for lens geometry, gyroscopic data, speed etc... such as that in the EOS R is the same as post stabilization... good luck with that!

I'd love to see an explanation as to what is different. A white paper anywhere? What can the camera do in software? It can transform the image. And ofc it uses gyro data, since it's available and the camera is missing the horse power to analyze and transform the videostream. 
 

I am not saying that electronic stabilization is bad, I am saying it's no replacement for other forms of stabilization. You can electronically stabilize an already hardware stabilized video. That's what canon and others do when you attach an ois lens. 

electronic stabilization is nothing else than stabilization in post. Take the crop of a frame and transform it. 

And yes, in body IS is a game changer, but canon is not doing any stabilization in body, they are doing in software stabilization

The thing is, you can always do electronic stabilization in post. But if you don't have ibis, you can't stabilize in hardware. You can use ois lenses which can do some of the axis, but you can't stabilize roll. 
I am not saying that ibis is an absolut must have, on the contrary, I think it's overrated. But I say having is better than missing it.

Interestingly in his recent teardown of a Canon lens, Roger from Lensrentals says two things:

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Also, this will give the Sony fanpeople a full week to bash the Canon lens, because that does seem to be what they live for.

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Sonyfanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy with other equipment.

So it seems other notice too

why don't you just work with Prores or dnx proxies?

i‘d love to see a video of that, neber have I seen 10 bit hevc encoding lightning fast on pc components

3 hours ago, Ingerson said:

Kind of a noobish question here, but what exactly are the computer specs needed to edit and export the 10-bit HEVC files?

editing is fine with new hardware. Any 7th gen Intel cpu and modern gpus work fine. 
But 10 bit HEVC export is not hardware accelerated. Forget about that and think about other ways of delivery. It's just too time consuming. 

Personally I'd go for an iMac if you can find one for a good price or, if you go for a macbook, take the vega graphics. A 13" macbook pro or mac mini with e-GPU might be a great tool too. 
 

37 minutes ago, thephoenix said:

is there waveform on the xt3 ?

same with focus peaking.

no waveforms on the camera. Focus peaking: set the camera to manual focus. In the video menu look for MF assist and set it to focus peak highlight. You can change the color and intensity 

That link is great. Open it twice a day and look at the comments. It perfectly shows what the title of this thread is about ?

1 hour ago, webrunner5 said:

You really think all these company's are going to succeed?

Succeed in photography? No, that ship is sailed. There is no more succeeding there is just surviving. 

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Hell a DJI Osmo Pocket is good enough for 99% of the people in the world.

99% of 7.7 billion people. That leaves 77 million people for whom it's not enough. Wow, that 7 times what all camera manufacturers combined are selling at the moment ?

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And people are going to buy 3500 dollar Nikon's, a 2500 dollar GH5s by the thousands. Yeah right.

Thousands? Yes probably. The problem is, that you need hundred of thousands and millions of people to buy your product to keep a company like Nikon in the state it's right now. And since the market is shrinking, so are companies. And diversity is the key. 

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Who even prints anymore?

I do. That's the reason I own a camera. Also my clients probably prefer it this way to me shooting with a phone. 

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A Smartphone is more than good enough for YouTube, Instagram, vacations.

I absolutely agree

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Nikon, Olympus, Pentax stand a snowballs chance in hell surviving down the road.

While the future might be problematic for Nikon, it is so for all companies. It's not limited to those three. 
But with Japanese companies there is not just return of income that's important, there is heritage and the way they work. Often it's better to keep a non profitable part of the company running than to trash it. And companies like Olympus are very keen on their heritage. That's why the imaging part was able to loose money for years. 


But I don't get, what all this has to do with the thread title.

1 hour ago, andrew_dotdot said:

2.0 firmware is released. Anyone running it yet?

yes