Comment on the forum Have smartphones overtaken the best medium format cameras for dynamic range? This is a comparison that should worry everybody in the camera industry.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjIqTLa97rs Comment on the forum Download an original 700MB file at Vimeo (Plus or Pro membership required) On the Nikon Z7 how much difference does 10bit N-LOG make? Is there a step up from the Canon EOS R when you record 10bit externally? How does the Fuji X-T3 compare in F-LOG at 10bit internally? All the questions and more I set out to answer here…
The RED Helium 8K (approx. APS-H size sensor) just leapt to the top of the DXOMark charts with a score of 108.
DXOMark have tested the raw sensor output of the GH4. Raw stills have 12.8 stop dynamic range vs 11.7 stops on the 5D Mark III, illustrating just how far ahead almost everyone is on sensor performance over Canon.
Above: my Blackmagic Cinema camera with ReWo cage – a shootout with the Red Epic is coming soon BlackmagicUser.net recently did an interview with John Brawley, the cinematographer close to Blackmagic Design and main tester for the cinema camera. His experience exposing the camera goes along with what I am finding, that the Blackmagic Cinema Camera works best when you ‘expose to the right’.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/47013561[/vimeo] New Blackmagic Cinema Camera footage is in the wild, and this one is downloadable in glorious high bitrate 1080p. Although it isn’t the original DNG or ProRes rushes it is the closest we’ve come to a representative video yet.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/42589604[/vimeo] Above: 240fps at 120mph by Bill Totolo shot on the FS700 Adam Wilt over at ProVideoCoalition has done the first really comprehensive look at the Sony FS700’s image quality with a lab test. So far we’ve had field reports but nothing that goes into depth about image quality. How does it perform?
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/28596419[/vimeo] Occasionally you stumble on something completely unexpected. It’s great when this happens. The 5Ds and 7Ds, workhorses of the DSLR world, have nothing more to give; the lure and mystique of those early days in 2009 have all but vanished. The Sony NEX 5N however is different. A tempting new mistress who has yet to remove her makeup and demand you clean crusty left-over fries from the oven. I’ve only…