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https://vimeo.com/67529528   Little weekend project. Mainly an excuse to have fun with the kids, and to start re-familiarizing myself with shooting and FX after a long hiatus.   Taking lenses were old Canon FD 28mm and 50mm.

C500 is overpriced! C500 is overpriced! It just is.

Here we go again with more Cinema EOS propaganda from peederj. You're heading to the door, because I am frankly SICK of reading it.   All sensors output raw data at various video frame rates even your iPhone. What the Magic Lantern project proves is that Compact Flash cards and cheap consumer electronics are capable of writing that data internally, without an external recorder.   Yet the $25,000 C500 cannot do this, and doesn't even have an SSD slot. It's a failed product design. A version 0.5 camera.   Needless to say, I'm not targeting EOSHD at people who have money to burn on a C500.   It's very simple...   I'm interested in what gives me the most cinematic image for under $6000, as an ownership prospect not rental.   That isn't the C100 I'm afraid.   C500 isn't a sensible ownership prospect nor does it have a good specs sheet. I was renting I'd go F55 or Epic.

It's so much fun pushing your buttons peedrj.   But in all honesty, I can only compare my BMCC footage to my Wife's 5D3 in stills mode. To my eyes, the BMCC DR advantage is pretty apparent when shooting in bright sunlight.

Huge thanks go to A1ex, g3gg0, 1% and the whole Magic Lantern team. I have no other words to describe it - this is huge news. Magic Lantern have done the seemingly impossible and given us a continuous raw recording mode on the Canon 5D Mark III. Once activated in the menus the 5D Mark III becomes essentially a full frame Blackmagic Cinema Camera and amazingly mine has not yet exploded. No more short bursts of raw, this is the real thing. Read the full article here

I had the pleasure of testing the new Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art (on a Canon 100D...). Focussed on photography, but the results are amazing. Even at f/1.8 it is really sharp, I'm sure it will even beat many primes. It's pretty crazy actually!   [url=http://www.eoshd.com/comments/gallery/image/527-sigma-18-35mm-f18-18/][/URL]   [url=http://www.eoshd.com/comments/gallery/image/528-sigma-18-35mm-f18-18/][/URL]   [url=http://www.eoshd.com/comments/gallery/image/529-sigma-18-35mm-f18-18/][/URL]   Here you can find 78 sample pictures for download in full resolution. In the first slideshow everything is at f/1.8! http://www.digifotopro.nl/content/exclusief-%E2%80%93-testfotos-sigma-18-35mm-f-18-dc-hsm-art       I did a very small video test, wanted to see if it's parfocal. I think it is!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-agLVS4MP_c   This will be killer on Blackmagic EF-mount camera's (if it will work?), Canon aps-c with raw... MFT with speed booster, if a electronic EOS version ever arrives...   Pricing of the 18-35mm is TBA...

I know everyone's flipping out about RAW right now, but I thought I would submit my latest real-world work: MTV True Life, I'm Starting a Business with Friends.  I shot this whole episode on Sony Rx100's.   I wrote a detailed blog post about my shooting and editing techniques. Will post a link to video as soon as MTV releases it.  Until then, enjoy the blog!   http://rungunshoot.com/how-i-made-an-mtv-reality-show-with-two-pocket-cameras-and-a-macbook/  

Raw from the C100 sensor. Now there's a good idea.   Over to you Canon.

  Nuts.   People need to calm down on the auctions, more money than sense. if they'd waited a week or two they could have bought one for $1600 less on a Buy It Now deal.   Let's not have these hyper inflate to the point where it's no fun any more.

    Yeah, just lick them off and get high :P

  "Traces de champignons mais ça se restaure."   "Traces of mushrooms but can be restored."   That was a chuckle.

I don't think this is really BMPC footage. Whilst on this subject anyway, I think it is a good idea to mention this:   Asus 4K LCD monitor is here!     http://www.asus.com/News/L9xTPmmMwTlPMq5l

That's a pretty good point about storage. For that $300 on CineForm you're saving 90% on storage costs.   7D users...   Next logical step for 7D users I think is to get a 2nd body, a 50D. Then you can use your EFS lenses on it and try out raw, see if it is for you, then if you feel it is working out, later upgrade to the 5D Mark III. There's no point holding out indefinitely for a 7D version of raw recording as the quality is unlikely to be any better than the 50D.

Andrew, I can't thank you enough for keeping up with all this. eoshd has been one of my go to sites for quite some time and especially so during this raw "frenzy". Your site has provided among the best info on the web for raw-related facts, processes etc--well besides wading thru endless posts over at ML. And you've presented it all so clearly. Thanks.

Could you post some Cineform raw files to play with? $300 seems a bit steep but being able to save the raw files in the cineform raw sounds pretty amazing to archive with. Can you edit a Cineform raw inside Photoshop or Lightroom like the DNG files?

Oh great, Another quality real world MTV series to look forward too...

Hi I recently got a Panasonic GH3 it is my first DSLR and I'm not sure how to transfer my footage to final cut pro 7. I shot in 1080 24fps and in .mov mode. i put the dslr card in and imported into fcp but when I play it back it appears choppy. I would greatly appreciate any help, sorry for the newbie question lol.

My eyes have been glued to EOSHD and the Magic Lantern forums all day. So damn excited. Looking forward to seeing Andrew's findings.

Depends on your needs, but I don't care about yours, only mine - and for me, that rules it all is the image.