Video Hummus

I’ve had multiple cordless impact drivers over 15 years. The size and weight has not changed that much compared to mains powered ones.

LOL, took a scroll through the comments section of the Tilta page. Other people pointing out the obvious and some people are triggered. OK, I’ve had my fun with this. Eagerly awaiting news on A7SIII hoping we will finally get a good FF hybrid camera!

I’m extremely doubtful of any pelter cooling solution. They don’t work with PC hardware they won’t work for this. If putting your camera in a fridge at 50F for 2 hours doesn’t improve performance this thing won’t either. There is also some questions about how its powered. The fact they didn’t mention you can plug it in the camera means you now need an external battery. Which means a bigger rig. Which means you loose weather sealing on your $4K weather sealed camera. It’s clever. It looks slick. Will it work? Probably not.

I probably wouldn’t care as much if the line-skipped or pixel-binned, or whatever it is, unlimited 4K24p mode didn’t look like garbage. You have many shitty options: 1) Don’t take any photos and get about 20 mins of 4KHQ video that looks good with amazing AF 2) Take photos and loose the ability to take HQ video. 3) Take photos or video that gives your heartburn when you remind yourself you pain $4K for it. It’s really too bad the R6 overheats in its modestly oversampled recording modes. I really wanted to have a solid FF mirrorless option. Still not here.

Canon has left hanger sized doors for the competition to walk through. Can Sony do it? Panasonic has almost everything except AF with the S1H. Can they do it? Can anybody do it?

I wonder if Matti snapped any photos with this thing at all? Maybe 500 photos in 30C weather caused overheating, 300, 100, no...around 30 and your camera is bricked as far as video is concerned. That’s astonishing. A really low bar. My family and I took a a leisurely hike up one of our favorite local creeks yesterday.. I took my GH5S to snap pictures and maybe catch a kingfisher on video/photo. I took about 50 photos and about 20 mins of video total (no kingfisher this time 😞 ). The R5 would have totally shit the bed in this less than demanding outing as far as video is concerned. It’s purely a photo camera. It’s not even a hybrid in my opinion, or to be more forgiving, the worst hybrid camera. The EOS R would have performed 10x better in the situation.

I have seen 16x20 and 20x24 prints from G9 and EM1 mark 2 (20MP) and they looked amazing. Most magazines are printing 20MP photos from 1DX and A9. They look good. Obviously if you start cropping 16MP stills from the GH2 you’ll encounter problems at 20x24 More generally, 20MP photos printed properly are more than enough for those sizes. Billboards have been printed with less. It’s all about viewing distance, printing techniques and the like. This guy has experience and knows what he’s talking about. M43 is fine when doing slight crops of an original. Ok, I don’t want to de-rail the topic either. But the perception that M43 isn’t capable at all is false. Obiviously having more MP is a “nice to have” but it is far from a requirement! /rant

The fact that Matti even put a professional mirrorless camera in the fridge and then recommends it is a sign the product has problems and the “review” was bullshit.. Did he do that with his EOS R? I’m sorry but they are blowing smoke up your asses. If he did that with any other camera from another brand you know he wouldn’t recommend it. This is the problem with sponsored reviews on YouTube. They are anti-consumer.

The issue is that the marketed, heavily, the video capabilities. IF they had just marketed as the best professional photo mirrorless camera from Canon with class leading AF then I don’t think there would have been much of feeling of disgust with what they did. You don’t have to buy the camera, of course! But many people were excited with what they marketed to us and then...this. I agree. We don’t see shrinking hammers, saws, or power tools. Make the tool for the intended job! Professionals want performance and reliability. Everyone made fun of the Lumix S1/R/H for its size...well no one will complain if you show up with an S1H on set. Show up with a R5 and you’ve brought a liability not a tool. Let’s put the pieces together. Mathew Allard said not even Canon employees tasked with briefing the reviewers/press before the release knew or disclosed of the temperature limitations. He said you had to attend multiple meetings of the same presentation for different geographical areas to get the full picture. This is sloppy as hell. The specs they touted the most was 8K and 4K120p! Go back and look at the information they released. It’s very video focused. The initial “reviews” of the camera were from canon ambassadors. As more “first looks” came out, with Gordon Lang saying in his video he wasn’t allowed to talked about rolling shutter, it began to become apparent the narrative was being heavily controlled by Canon. Even has preorders were being accepted for this cameras! Not one person, besides Gordon Lang, showed or discussed the quality of the 4K24p pixel binned mode! Why did it take so long, after so many people released their “reviews”, “first impressions”, and “previews”, for Gerald Undone to completely blow the lid off the incredibly limiting and frustrating aspects of this camera after a few days having it? Using the camera outside it typical weather shooting 30-40 STILLS and then not being able to shoot ANY video Except the now, to put it lightly, sub par pixel binned 4K mode...its completely unacceptable for even a family camera! Oh! Snap 30 pictures of my dog playing in the grass...OMG the baby is taking its first steps! Switch to video...overheated can’t record! Professional kit? Don’t think so... It’s worst than a cripple hammer. Like Andrew said, its defective and maybe deceptive marketing! Everybody wanted this camera to be good. There is no bias or Canon bashing here. I wanted so bad for this camera to deliver. After Gerald told us the TRUTH, it sucks...it sucks hard.

Thank god for Gerald. Respect. Tells us exactly what the limitations are so we can make informed buying decisions. Frankly, I’m done talking about the R5/6. With this latest news they are practically useless to me. Unless things change in the future we are beating a dead horse now.

I think the G9 is even slightly better. So something that is a 30% improvement on the G9 is the minimum needed if they continue down the road with DfD. I mean in some cases the G9 is on par or better than the XT-4, which currently suffers from a lot of AF issues. If they want to shake the stigma of bad AF they need to go PDAF and have something that performs with their competition.

Yeah, it transfers heat from the camera into your hands. Doesn’t work very well. Thank you! It was getting a bit tedious.

I saw those movies. What’s your point? They advertise comic books movies everywhere. There has been so many in the last three years it’s nauseating. Some are good. Most are more loosely woven together than Tom & Jerry cartoons.

I told them to remove the micro HDMI, because its worthless anyhow, and use the small port to install a tiny exhaust fan,

This smells like desperate marketing ”rumor” bullshit to keep people from canceling pre-orders.

For those interested in IBIS performance. I would argue the A6600 does not have “steadyshot inside”.

Canon released sports cars with a 0.5 liter tank.

This is one of the reasons I haven’t even stepped foot in a cinema. It’s just comic book movie after another. Last time I went was to see Dunkirk. Seems to me a lot of movies have gone the way of electronics or fast food...just consumer mass market trash with very little substance.

Thought this was interesting.

I really think the direction that Sony is going, having a gyroscope and accelerometer in the camera, instead of a IBIS mechanism, is the way to go in the future. They just have to correct for rolling shutter and start doing the stabilization internal as you shoot so no post workflow required.

I wonder what the two white boxes are blocking. MAybe prototype numbers to avoid being tracked for leaks...

I’m not cross in any way. I’m just saying the 1:1 4K from the A7S might be a problem for some that are use to looking at 4K from a 6K oversample (A7III Fuji Xt4...)

I don’t know about you, but if I was paying 3,500 to 4000 for a camera I would want a great 4K deliverable. As a GH5S owner, having a 1:1 4K readout hasn’t posed a problem for me. Technically, it might no be as detailed and “crispy” as a 6K to 4K oversampled but it’s all going to a 4K IBP deliverable anyway 98% of the time.

Maybe because they aren’t allowed to show comparisons of these modes because Canon is going hard to control the narrative while preorders are being made. To be fair the S1H is pretty big but not much more than the R5. Maybe they are practically the same size.

The accumulated heat, even after a 2 hour(!) cool down with lens off and battery out, is crazy. I have a feeling a lot of people that pre-ordered with their hands over their ears wishing for the best are going to be disappointed. Unless of course all you do is stills.