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I don't agree with this blog entry. Canon for example has all the technology to build perfect and modern cameras. The only thing you can criticize is that they limit the specs of their products to make people buy 2-4 different instead of 1 cameras, and try to set the prices as high as possible. This is exactly what Apple is doing!!! It's all capitalism and strategies of big companies with decision makers that are not complete idiots. I don't think camera companies have problems to sell their product because of a lack innovation, more likely it's the competition of smartphones and the consumer's old exisiting DLSR's that are still enough for them for years to come! In hindsight, even Apple had only detail innovations in all their product series over the years. They don't give you an open file system in an iPad (which makes no sense at all) and won't do that until they lose significant market share. I will not upgrade my iPad2 until they do that. If you look back from the year 2020, then probably Canon and Nikon came out with a GH4 and A7R2 competitor probably 3 years later than Pansonic and Sony. But so what? Mercedes just did release a competitor to the BMW X6 more than 7 years later. In former decades it wasn't like Nikon came out with an answer to a Canon innovation 3 months later, it took years. People are just too impatient now. Other than that of course I am also happy if the perfect camera is out tomorrow for little money. But a wish doesnt always become reality.

The innovation in the camera world that needs to happen is in the multi device communication. why can't you use an iPad to apply meta data to the clips in the camera? you can use an ipad to change setting. why can't wireless mics talk directly to the cameras? why can't cameras talk to each other? We have more and more recording devices on each set and its the editors job to sort them and figure it out but the cameras and the other devices could be doing a huge amount of the labeling, sync data, notes, circle takes, etc... I think there is a huge opportunity in an adhock wireless mesh networking in production. No one seems to want to bother.

So I took my Halloween night to shoot some f/1.2 Rectilux footage with Canon's 50 and 85mm. I really liked how it turned out, even though I fucked up alignment in some several shots. Also pictures of the rig there. (: http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=8292

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I am going to throw black magic micro cinema camera into the mix. You will be able to color grade the sh*t out of it. And the noise will be grain, wonderful.

dont know your budget but the d750's 1080p 60fps is pretty darn sharp and clean, it also has a massive DR

If staying with Sony colours then Sony A6000?

Kowa B&H, but close enough!

Loving these looks, will def. try them !

I bought mine for $2,000 from Canada and got a cfast 128gig 2.0 card for like $160 off eBay. Here's another quick clip. I think some of the wider shots are a little out of focus but I think a couple of the seagull shots look really nice. https://vimeo.com/146364062

Really? You think Windows 10 Mobile and the 950 are a bright spot? Microsoft has flushed it's mobile OS 3 times in the last 7 years. Twice, Microsoft attacked its own early adopter user and developer base: killing off WP7 (fucking over users) and WP8 (fucking over developers). Both Android and iOS have supported wireless displays and keyboards, with Android also supporting mice. So now they're shipping Windows 10 Mobile. Have you seen how buggy it runs? Have you seen how gutted the core apps are? What the hell has happened since WP7? I don't mind running beta software but even I reverted to WP8 on my 640. I honestly cannot fathom who in Microsoft thinks that W10 Mobile is ready to ship. What's the point of Continuum? What's the use case for someone having to connect their phone to a display, bringing with them a keyboard and mouse? If you need to be productive on the road, you use a laptop. Need to display something on a TV? Like I wrote earlier, iOS and Android support wireless display. Being able to transition an app from device to device sounds useful, but what app do I need to do that? Most of the apps I use sync to my other devices already (tabs from the browser, netflix for videos, google play for my music.) iOS Continuity is a far more useful feature. You sit down next to your computer or laptop and receive all your notifications on the bigger display. No dialogue screens, no physical connections. Just a seamless transition: your computer has phone features. And with regards to the 950. This is what Microsoft did to Nokia? Less impressive camera (since the PureView 808), regressive design (since the Lumia 700), complete lack of colors, and, and asking price of $600 USD for specs you can currently get for $300 or less (far less if you look at the Asus ZenPhone 2 and LG G3). 7 years later: dwindling user base, zero support by other manufacturers and an OS that is almost up to feature parity with iOS and Android. And this rant is from someone who loved the Metro design language. Someone who bought a new Lumia nearly every year because the phones were genuinely awesome, with competitive features and an OS that was on the cusp of becoming great. Someone who acted like a fucking marketer every time he was asked "oh, what phone is that?"

Thanks for the reply, I bought the eoshd guide and found a sankor 16c reasonably priced so went for that!

unfortunately you're not going to find anything within budget that fulfils your requirements. The iscoramas are not very heavy at all. pretty much everything else of a single focus nature will be heavier. unfortunately an iscorama is around 3x your budget. maybe a slr magic 1.33x? it's not 100% single focus but preowned should come in on budget. there are plenty of dual focus options that will fulfil the aesthetic and optical quality requirements. maybe look there (kowa, sankor, etc) then plan a purchase of one of the multiple focus units that are currently on offer. slr magic rangefinder, FM lens and Rectilux. get a good dual focus setup and then its just a case of saving for a focus unit.

Fascinating organizational insight in that Steve Jobs interview, I'd never heard that before but makes sense intuitively. But with photography companies, you'd have to understand the specific organizational process of each company. Because it seems to me that marketing would likely play a role in specifying cameras specs. After that, engineers are tasked with producing a product which meets that spec. Somehow I doubt that engineers at camera companies are these garage geniuses that come up with great products all on their own. Product development is too complicated for that. They have so many considerations to account for before the design is even made, like manufacturing capabilities, supply partners, etc. If anything, product design is probably a very iterative team process from across the company, which makes Jobs' explanation seem a bit simplistic.

No, they have OSX for their laptops and iOS for their mobile devices. If you want a tablet, you have to buy an iPad which doesn't let you run any full featured apps like Photoshop, FCP, Premiere, etc. If you do want to use those programs though, you also have to buy either a MacBook, or a desktop machine. That's two devices, and to transfer app data from the tablet to computer can normally only be done via iTunes, which can be an extremely painful experience. With a Surface Pro, or even a '2 in 1' like Lenovo's Yoga range, you get one machine that's a tablet and can still run the full featured apps. That's the advantage. And if you have one of their phones, it will be the same one OS again. A laptop won't fit in your pocket. Seriously, think of your average consumer doesn't do any high end video editing, photography, music or whatever. They just browse facebook, Instagram, do a bit of book keeping or whatever. These kind of people will now no longer even need a computer. They could do everything on the phone while they're out. Then when they're home, all they need to do is hook the phone into a monitor or their tv, grab a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and with Continuum on the phone running the full desktop versions of their browser and office apps, their user experience would be exactly the same as if they were on a desktop or laptop. And that's huge. Less environmental waste if people are only using phones, and much less confusion for older people like my in laws, trying to familiarise themselves with multiple devices. Why are Apple not doing this with the iPhone? If they're putting desktop performance A9 chips on their iPhones, why not let people connect them to monitor and run OSX? Possibly because they don't want to lose sales of their iPads and Macs? That's like Canon limiting the video features in their DSLR's so that people will still buy their C300 etc. I'm running iOS9 on my iPad, and apart from the different font they're using, the user interface is still the same as a 2007 iPhone. There's no way of putting a big slideshow gallery of my favourite photos on there like I can do with my Lumia, I can't put a big tile on there with a photo of my wife, or a Fitbit tile showing me how far I've walked and the number of steps, I can't put a big tile on there showing the latest posts in my blog reader app, such a new EOSHD post, or even a Flickr tile showing new photos my contacts have posted, and so on. You can't do any of this with iOS. All you get are boring icons, which if you're lucky, might have a number on them. Even Android users can do a lot more with widgets and whatever else they have.

Having lived through the PC/MAC years I don't remember it as a slam-dunk. Keep in mind that Gates did the same thing with IBM. Hindsight for all this is 20/20. I see the opposite with modern cameras. What they've been able to achieve in the past 10 years is nothing short of astounding to me. When I get into film in 1970s, the technology had been more or less the same for 40 years, the high end being 16mm and low-end 8mm. Think about that, if the tech we were using today was petty much the same as what we were using in 1975! Yet, I have a Panasonic LX100 in my bag that shoots as well as, if not better, than the quarter-million dollar cameras in "Phantom Menace" 15 years ago. Better WiFi would be nice, but keep in mind that an app can't access the password to the wireless network and the only real solution is to build a second transmitter and that's not up to the camera companies (it's up to the smartphone makers). That it works at all, given the constraints, is to be applauded. The number one problem all cameras make is light sensitivity (as it was in film). Software can only do so much. Anyway, there is a rich ecosystem of camera software out there, though not from the camera makers. Building cameras and building software are two different skill-sets, IMHO. The biggest problem today is people don't spend the time to experiment and learn how to use the technology they have. Most people put whatever gadget they have on "auto." There needs to be more respect, love, and FUN with THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY/FILM. This blog does a great job at that, except when it looks at the glass as half-full and gets into arm-chair business discussions that are better left to the nit-wit junior financial analysts down in The City

What's ironic here is that Apple are now the company with the monopoly in many markets who are no longer innovating. Look at what Microsoft are doing. They have one streamlined OS that works across all devices from phones, tablets to desktops. They've just released new phones (Lumia 950 & 950 XL) that you can connect a mouse, keyboard & monitor to, and use as a full functioning computer with desktop apps. Their Surface range also continues to get better and better. Of course, they also have that Hololens technology that looks quite impressive from the demos I've seen. And what do Apple release? A big iPad with what is essentially the same OS as what the original iphone was running back when it was first released.

Here is an impromptu short film a friend and I made on an eos-m. It really was just a scene for something else that never materialized, so I used the footage to create a short and to learn the basics of FCPX.