Video Hummus

The 4KLQ mode is fine to use in a pinch if you can't film in 4KHQ mode. The OLPF (or whatever canon is doing) helps with the line-skipping and pixel binning and a small amount of sharpening in post cleans up the rest. So in good lighting, 4KLQ looks pretty good. Way better than EOS R ever did that much is for sure. If it's going on Youtube and you're not zooming in 200% percent on your image YouTube will make it look like trash regardless. I also find the 4KHQ mode upto 128000 ISO is quite amazing for 45MP sensor. I'm also wondering if the RED Komodo is using the same sensor but with a global shutter. If you do the math for the crop the megapixels come out exactly.

The CR2 "rumor" rating is worrisome, along with words from the head of Canon's imaging division. This camera needs Clog3 with real world improvements in DR in 4K modes to stay more competitive. We already kinda get CLOG2 in 8K RAW mode. This would be awesome but I highly doubt it. It will be interesting to see what they do with the rumored R1 1DX replacement. Latest rumors is it has a 45MP+ sensor and will shoot 8K. Sony as well with their A9III. I guess high MP are coming to the sports cameras.

Very interesting about the color. I haven't done any formal tests but the 8K RAW on the R5 just looks so damn good. More than just the resolution. It's insane data rate makes it a very specialized tool for me (which I have no problem with). I also just watched CVP's video about the EF-RF 0.71x speed booster on the R5. Will only be a matter of time before people start playing around with R5 + Speedbooster + vintage medium format glass (Mamiya 654/7, Bronica, Pentax 645, etc...) in 8K RAW mode.

While a bold statement, its 8K RAW certainly can punch above its weight class, so to speak. Pretty good for a non-video 8K video camera that people aren't buying for video...🤔

Just turn the color matrix in the log settings to "EOS Original". As per Canon's own R5 manual: "EOS Original reproduces colors equivalent to those of the EOS-1D C." How true in practice it is, I don't have a 1DC to test. Maybe @Dave Maze is interested in looking into this?

Canon EOS R5 owner to Canon... I bought the EOS R5 based on its video performance AND photo performance. Your subsequent firmware releases for the R5 and R6 seem to contradict the wishes of your imaging division general manager, Tsuyoshi Tokura, despite reality. I agree with Andrew here, this man shouldn't have a job.

@Oliver Daniel has one. This will probably be another important benchmark camera that sets the bar for quality for price. It will be interesting to see where Sony places it with the new market realities. I feel like Sony has a lot of compression going on in their product line with a A7IV <--> A7SIII <--> FX6. I feel like they will cripple the A7IV in the 4K HFR department and heaven forbid the 10-bit codec department. I would be more excited for a A7RV and wether they push the megapixels up and up or start including 10-bit oversampled video options. Personally, I would prefer better video recording out of a new A7R but they probably feel the pressure from medium format on the high end and would want to compete there with their high resolution FF cameras.

Totally agree! I'm already set for 2021 and beyond. I traded in my GH5S for an R5. The crop mode in the R5 is a hidden sleeper feature for those that care. Feels like a S35 GH5 w/ amazing AF without anamorphic and a few other bells and whistles. Oversampled 4.8K (in DCI) or 5.1K (in UHD) 4K up-to 60p. I'm more than happy with it. I have had zero issues with overheating after the latest firmware update and with taking the time to turn the camera off when I didn't immediately need it (reposition, brainstorming, etc...). The countdown timer is annoying and anxiety-inducing but I've just learned to ignore it. My M1 MBP arrived today as well. It cuts and edits footage from R5 wonderfully with no transcoding or proxies and with FULL playback quality in the viewer, even with Rec.709 LUT applied. I don't think I would have gotten an R5 if it wasn't for the new M1 Macs to be honest and I would still recommend a C70 to anyone that just doesn't want to fuss with the overheating potential. Wishing everybody a more productive and healthy 2021!

I would be surprised if we see anything from JIP Olympus that wasn’t already developed or prototyped before Olympus sold to JIP. In a shrinking market inside a shrinking market (MFT camera market) I would be surprised they would invest anything. Maybe Panasonic looking to partner could invest or buy off patents or licensing agreements from JIP? You know that certain AF technology.

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I think it’s safe to say with modern LongGOP implementations the image quality between it and ALL-I is insignificant. If your videos in the end are exported to YouTube, Vimeo, or DVD disk your workflow funnels through a LongGOP encoder in the end. So image quality with respect to LongGOP vs ALL-I isn’t very important. ALL-I main advantage is in the amount of work your decoder has to do to playback, slice, change colors while your editing it. With all that being said, and with storage being relatively cheap, I prefer ALL-I and only shoot LongGOP when I need to fit more on a card.

I wonder if it will work with R5 in its 1.6x crop mode? You will still lose DOF but gain back FOV and get 1 extra stop of light.

There has been very little on it so far. I wonder if it is a availability problem or lack of interest. There have been reports that the speedbooster works on the Komodo.

Simple answer: too early to tell. AV1 has a long way to go before it is well supported. A good sign is that both major graphic card companies have AV1 support in new or upcoming products. AV1 will require hardware acceleration for it to be useable for anything, especially encoding. Another key player is Apple, which I'm sure would like to not pay licensing fees for its multi-billion dollar iphone devices. I expect they will be the first to promote and push AV1 in their Apple Silicon line of products (if it isn't already built-in?). YouTube (ie google) is a key developer as well but they won't move on it until there is widespread hardware acceleration for it. They, perhaps more than any company, will benefit from AV1's increased quality at very low bitrates. Amazon (twitch) as well. At higher bitrates AV1 is similar to HEVC in regards to its efficiency. With all of that said. I would postulate that AV1 will be pushed heavily because of its royalty free nature. All the companies developing it are out to rid themselves of the patent licensing pool nightmare that is HEVC and MPEG-Part 2. It also seems most of the major camera companies refuse to license ProPres or BRAW or any other edit friendly codec for video capture, except in their higher-end cinema product lines. So we will probably be stuck capturing in compressed delivery codecs for awhile. Which, with proper hardware acceleration, doesn't bother me too much. Saves on my storage requirements and with 8K and beyond it will require some kind of compressed codec to be practical. If only we could have compressed RAW!

nice! Are you using the 8K mode as a high frame rate capture mode for photos? So Delkin CFX Type B is good for 8K RAW. Any slow down in startup times? Currently I have a 256GB Angelbird but I’ve heard the bigger capacity Angelbird cards increase camera boot times for some reason. Might have to take a look at the 2TB Delkin. So far my biggest annoyance is the custom profile doesn’t save the active card slot setting so when switching custom profiles, say 4K 24p to SD to 4K 120p it gives a warning about cant record to SD. I then have to use the quick menu to manual switch slots. Worse when I switch back it just stays on CFExpress.

I would only recommend M1 Mac if you edit in FCP at the moment. Resolve works but would benefit with more VRAM. We will see more powerful M1X or M2 series chips in Apple products by the end of 2021 with more RAM and more powerful GPU. Those machines will most likely bring 8K editing to laptops. On the PC side I would wait for newer chips from Intel and AMD with dedicated decoding/encoding hardware.

It's kinda odd indeed. The Z6II is a pretty solid camera. However, the Z6II is the camera Nikon should have released from day one. 8-bit internal only is not a deal breaker since Nikon has great color, imho. Also, the whole ProRes fiasco felt half-baked and l'm sure left a sour taste in many peoples mouths waiting for it.

This can be really time consuming but I think it’s absolutely amazing to do for old photos, especially really old large format photos. Really brings them alive. Even super subtle movements like a parallax and say a small object in the scene moving in a natural way can really make a connection between the audience and the subjects in the photo.

Doesn’t matter what Panasonic does with their image they will always be at the mercy of Sony Semi. produced sensors. Sony imaging will always get first pick of the best sensors. Look at the landscape today. We have 4 companies using the same 24.2MP FF sensor in all of their cameras. Panasonic S5/S1/S1H, Leica SL-2, Sony A7III, Nikon Z6ii. Im sure I missed some too! Guess what company will get the new 36MP FF sensor first? It will be Sony with the A7IV. And then they will open it up to the rest of them after they sold half a million units. As long as Panasonic cameras are perceived to have worst AF then their competition they sadly won’t make it. Everybody is 10-bit now with decent to excellent near unlimited ALL-I recording modes. They have to improve their AF and do other things to set themselves apart and capture people’s attention. Maybe focus entirely on video? They have made almost no in-roads in the photo space with professionals.

Product segmentation. Panasonic cameras with custom view assist is the closest thing to a dedicated false color mode in a mirrorless camera.

There are false color LUTs with a opacity to the false coloring. I don’t find it they useful. I usually use the false color before I record to dial in exposure for skin tones and then turn it off and record.

Yep. View assist LUTs for Vlog (.vlt) You can do false color (my favorite). The only thing I wish they allowed was being able to bind a function key to a specific view assist LUT so you can quickly toggle it on and off. Currently you can only bind the menu and then you have to scroll to find the LUT. And then back out of the menu.

More people might work in Final Cut if Apple added more useful features natively. If they push hard with their new M chip based macs and Continue to update and improve final cut they have a very good chance to eat into Premiere Pros “indie” pie. Especially if you can buy a $1000-1500 computer and edit 4K, 6K, and 8K footage off of a $200 SSD drive on the go. The indie market is huge and growing. It will take much more momentum and time for it to push back into the industry in any meaningful way. You can see they are trying with the $30K Mac Pro and the ProRes acceleration cards.

I’m saying they might have with a mk2 body. Takes time to gain traction in a market, especially the camera market.

I'm going to go with...pleasantly surprised. But since I'm now a Canon user: It sucked balls bro compared to my rig.