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Actually, I just  changed the hard drive caddy I was using to read the drive and it worked fine. Must have been a dodgy one. 

16 hours ago, Video Hummus said:

Make sure the SSD is formatted and is using the ExFAT file system.

How old is your Mac and what version of MacOS are you using?

I think it's formatted in the format. I format the drive in the recorder. I'm on OS Catalina and 1 generation old MacBook Pro. 

When I format my hard drive in the Atomos Ninja V my mac can't write to it. It records fine but I can't write things to it like LUTs or firmware updates. If I format the drive in the computer then it works normally but can't be read by the recorder. This has happened on both SSD's I've got for the recorder. Ideas?

Solved it.. When shooting at ISO 100 on video it sets clipping at 80IRE for some reason.. 

I was getting clipping at 80 IRE last time I used my ninja V recorder with an eos R. No LUT applied shooting canon log and prores 422 10 bit. Any ideas why? 

19 hours ago, androidlad said:

It's a known unresolved issue for many years, Atomos applies a forced data range to video range scale regardless of the actual range of the source, clipping highlights and crushing blacks, making the images look more contrasty. Fortunately the range can be mapped back in post, as demonstrated in previous posts.

I wonder why they do that? That's what it looks like to me, blacks are crushed but can be drawn out later and still, it's where I'd have taken the log footage anyway. Does this mean it doesn't really record log footage? It's pretty confusing..

I'm seeing something similar on the Canon Eos R. Shooting Canon log, it seems like canon log looks closer to neutral profile on the recorder. 

If the sensor is 36mm wide and there's a 1.75 crop on 4K doesn't that make it a 21mm wide chip which is only about 12 percent smaller than a super 35mm chip. Am I missing something? 

What's the equivalent sensor size of the EOS R in 4K crop mode? How does this compare to super 35mm film and the Canon C series?

On 10/27/2018 at 12:52 AM, Andrew Reid said:

Agree with you but like I said in the first impressions, it is a jekyll and hyde camera. It is at once badly specced and in the very same instance, a superb image to look at. Go figure.

And there it is. If specs are most important to you: Don't buy Canon, if a good image is important to you: Buy Canon.

1 hour ago, Mattias Burling said:

I tend to agree, thats how good the AF and EVF on the EOS-R is. Its twice the price if course, but other than that it has it down for counting.

I still haven't had time to use it much outside of professional use, so a review is still a few weeks away. But Im already playing around with titles. Im thinking along the lines of "EOS-R - Can it save the mirrorless camera?"

BTW.. shouldn't your tagline be: 4K is for people who's clients ask for 4K?

5 minutes ago, Mattias Burling said:

No RS what so ever in my handheld HD footage. I use the IS at all times and still the footage looks awesome when done.
I also watched some of it on my 42" Samsung LCD which has its sharpness turned down, but still in true Samsung fashion ads a lot of it.
Soft and/or low detail are not words I can use to describe it. Its sharp and detailed.

Skin tones.... Pure class.

Yes, it's not quite the camera we were hoping for, nothing from Canon ever is but it's a way better camera than the specs may suggest. 480MB data rate at 4K too..

12 hours ago, ade towell said:

I hear you, they've all got their quirks - I just feel I've been waiting far too long for Canon to give me a reasonably priced hybrid camera with decent hd to work alongside my C100. Not so fussed with 4k or 50p, just decent hd with clog - they should have been able to offer that years ago, tech has moved on

What makes you think it doesn't have decent HD? 

Just now, ade towell said:

I don't wave the camera around either but RS is a real irritant for me that I feel shouldn't be so easy to provoke on a camera costing well over £2k in this day and age. 

Yes it's not ideal but it's not something that I think will be a problem in real world usage. You do have to just pick your poison though: Sony, color isn't so good, AF isn't as good, tonality for me and "thickness" is lacking, Panasonic GH5 which I used to have, bad color, over sharp in a digital way, BMPC footage hasn't bowled me over, Canon R rolling shutter and no 60p in 4K. C100, no 4K, C200, great but expensive and big, C300 same as before, Alexa, big and heavy and a bit slow to work with, Red, don't like the footage and un reliable and expensive..

All of these are just my opinions of course, there's no good or bad color or tonality, it's just preference and these are my preferences. 

4 hours ago, ade towell said:

but the terrible rolling shutter makes handheld a real issue. From what I've seen the sharper looking hd on the EOS-R uses the crop mode which has bad RS

I guess you pick your poison. I've not had an issue with it. Depends on what kind of hand held, I generally don't wave it around in front of vertical structures, that would be a problem but in real world use it's not been a problem. 

I used to have the C100 and now the R and it's not soft. It's like a small C100 that does 4K. No 60p in 4K which sucks but you can't even get 60p in HD in the C100. Huge upgrade to the C100 to me. 

I think this camera is a disaster, except for the fact that it makes the best looking footage. Best color, best tonality, but the specs are terrible. I guess if all you care about is the best looking footage then it's great.

Great options, thanks!

Hi, first post.. So how do people review footage on set? I'm currently shooting GH5 1080p footage which is really slow playback on macbook pro.