Avenger 2.0

11 hours ago, Shell64 said:

Canon eos m raw w/ experimental builds vs canon 50d. What is better and more stable for raw video?

I find the Eos M more stable. Canon 50D wasn't really made for video and will overheat. And not sure the 50D is actively supported at the moment.

15 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

What a masterpiece of thermal engineering ?

 

Indeed. Can't understand why they don't make a good weather-sealed bigger pro body. Are they afraid they will hurt their partners to who they supply their sensors?
So they just release small (not good weather sealed and overheating) concept bodies to show off their sensor technology?

1 hour ago, Cinegain said:

So... did they just steal a bunch of LUTs they've found online and trying to sell 'em in a bundle?

If I see this domain whois info, I think you might be correct:

https://www.whois.com/whois/coloristlibrary.com

How about an aftermarket hotshoe parasol for Sony owners ?

14 hours ago, PolarStarArts said:

I could see Black Magic entering the fray with one or two stills-oriented cameras that can shoot video as well.

They better work on auto-focus then. I think the still market is too crowded and hardware wise way more complicated (weather sealing, ergonomics, battery life, etc).

4 minutes ago, Mako Sports said:

How is affinity? I really want to switch off the adobe train

I like it a lot. Less complicated then Adobe stuff and almost as powerful.
But I guess if you are a heavy Adobe user, the switch may be painful. But for casual Adobe user Affinity switch is easy.

You should steer away from those 2.4GHz solutions. The band is just too crowded and range too limited. Thanks for the warning, would have expected better from Rode.

23 minutes ago, Skip77 said:

You don't think Sony can create and release a new processor since 2014? That's 5 1/2 years. In camera time that an incredible amount of time. 

Indeed. Even Canon did release 2 new Digic Processors since 2014 (digic 7 in 2016 and digic 8 in 2018)

3 hours ago, TheVicinity said:

Have a look at Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher, software you pay for and own, the three programs are incredible for the cost and have just been used by Apple to benchmark their new Mac's (using Affinity Photo).

Indeed. Rarely need and use them, but they are easy to learn and cheap to buy/own. They don't release new version every year but keep updating the current one. When they do release a new major version, I will upgrade just to support them. There should be more firms like these.

Adobe Lightroom is a good example. Luckily I still use the last perpetual license. It's only available now in an expansive plan with Photoshop which I never use. I downloaded the last Lightroom Classic Trial and I'm shocked to see that there are no major changes in the 2 year it was out. From what I can read on the Adobe forums, Ligthroom 6 is more stable than any version after that including the last Classic. Pay monthly to be an Adobe beta tester. No thanks!

I think Sony is even worse. Excluding sensor design, Canon does have some slight innovation. Think of touch-bar, lens control ring, drop-in ND-filter adapter, etc...

I think they will still release a 7D III with everything unlocked (clean hdmi, dual sd, uncroped 4k, joystick) without flippy screen and a 90D after that with single sd card, flippy screen and some limitations on the video features (compared to 7d III). Would not make sense to release a 90D with all 7D III features for a 90D price point.

1 minute ago, Kisaha said:

At some point Canon has to be competitive, X-T3/30 and a6400/500 are a lot better than anything Canon has to offer right now and m43 is a lot better in video and competitive in stills, while FF mirrorless are getting cheaper and cheaper..

It is hard to believe some of these rumors though..sound more like wishful thinking than real world possibilities, but on the other hand, I believe they exhausted on sales the abilities of their hardware. Now they need to compete in every segment they can.

Not sure about that, we are talking about Canon here. The 80D did sell very well and was released with only soft 1080p when all the rest had already 4k. Release this 90D with slight MP bump, 4k and dpaf and it will sell. Everyone who went to Sony or Panasonic for more advanced and better video will now not sell everything to go back to Canon. They lost those customers.

Not sure what they will do. But highly doubt the 90D will be a mirrorless EF mount camera. That would effectively hurt their R mount platform and lenses.

Another rumour is that this 90D will replace the 7D2 and 80D, have dual sd card, clean HDMI and 4k cropless recording. Kind of feels to good to be true for the 80D price point. Would indeed hurt their full frame as the new sensor and specs would be better than the much more expensive 5D4.

1 hour ago, drm said:

Panasonic is supposed to be working on TOF focus systems. I suspect within a generation or two of the cameras we will see that feature added. Those systems will be superhuman accurate. When those kick in, it will give the hybrid cameras like the S1(mark 2 or 3) a distinct advantage over the cinema cameras. 

I'm not sure TOF focus systems will be the complete solution. See all sort of problems with rain, glass, bars, etc fooling this system.
How will you do calibration? How about an event with multiple camera's that have a TOF focus system? Will they not interfere with each other?

Looks like the Sony a7R iV has the same skin tone problems if you look at the preview video (and user comments):

https://***URL removed***/videos/7728812164/dpreview-tv-sony-a7r-iv-preview

Bought one at HobbyKing in the past for my RC battery charging (where you can specify cut-off voltage) and modified it with NP-F battery plate to do this.

10 hours ago, buggz said:

The YI M1 mirrorless MFT camera with 12-40mm lens is now on sale for $150 (the original price was $499). The technical specs are:

20MP Micro Four Thirds CMOS Sony IMX269 sensor

3-inch LCD touchscreen

5fps

ISO range: 100 - 25.600

4k/30P video

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth built-in

https://photorumors.com/2019/07/19/here-is-a-4k-20mp-mirrorless-mft-interchangeable-lens-camera-with-12-40mm-lens-for-150/

Video quality is not that good unfortunately. Last firmware luckaly gives manual control in video.

Can the S1 do 10bit V-LOG on both memory cards simultaneously (for backup) or only one?

7 minutes ago, stephen said:

Here is my grade. Took me 3-4 min more for than my regular workflow.

Have no preference in terms of color / color science between Canon and Sony.
 

But if you count 3-4 min more for processing 1000 pictures (typical wedding day) that would be almost a week of extra work...

Aliens will certainly vote for Sony ?
Both are protecting their higher end cinema camera's, but in a different way.

Canon -> Good color, crappy specs

Sony -> Good specs, crappy color

Making sure you will not use these 'cheap' body's to replace your cinema camera's.

1 hour ago, Andrew Reid said:

So let's get this straight.

They spent millions developing a sensor which shoots 9K 24p and 8K 60p but didn't bother implementing either in any end-product?!

I guess to get this sensor sold to other firms, you have to make sure you're reference product doesn't have the best specs...

Wouldn't it be fun to try to match up camera & lens to footage if we submit everything anonymously?

32 minutes ago, kye said:

So....  who is posting first?

I think everyone is afraid to be last and lose their camera ?

6 hours ago, kye said:

If someone manages to get a BM camera that shoots RAW then they'd have to really stuff things up to not be the winner..  even if someone else manages to get 4K!

Would be kind against the spirit of this contest (same reason ML raw is not allowed). Then one could also use an external ninja recorder with other camera's. I think the contest is to just use internal h264/etc of the camera.