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Unfortunately, with all the other calls on my time, some months I don't get a chance to take any stills, let alone play around with them. And I would never dream of insulting my digestive canal with anything sold by Starbucks.

I completely disagree and I am sure many others with me.

Just a bit of fun for Christmas. I shot this a while back but have only just got around to the edit, if you enjoy it please pass it on!

I have the A6500 and the Sigma MC-11 and I've used the 18-35mm briefly so far. Autofocus is pretty good however I've noticed lock-on AF is greyed out. My 18-105mm Sony lens does work much better - The Sigma just has a much nicer rendering of the image. Other little issues: - The Sigma can hunt a little bit and miss focus. - It's very front-heavy, much better with the 18-105mm for handling. Other comments? - The Sony lenses are underwhelming for video, hence why i still have EF lenses. - The 5 axis with the 18-105mm is great, good with the Sigma. - My wife's stills on the 700d wipes the floor with the A6500, side by side. Canon mojo is special! There's still something about an optical viewfinder I find more enjoyable to use! - The 4k in the A6500 (when steady) is better than the internal FS5 and A7S II 4k. It's very very nice! Onto topic, EF lenses are probably the best lens system to be instead in, due to adaptability. I thought of going all E-mount as I only ever use Sony cameras, but I don't like the E-mount lenses for video. Slow apertures and horrible fly-by-wire. GM lenses are very heavy, and make little sense on something like the a6500.

Commercials in my experience have the $$ so generally they want the more fully featured cameras. Remember until a few months ago, you could not load a LUT into an Ursa. On bigger shows the eco system is as important as the cameras look. I love Alexas a lot simply because of the way they integrate so tightly with the WCU4. You can change settings without having to touch the camera and no stupid MDR hanging off your camera. That stuff matters and that's where the more expensive cameras still have the advantage. Look at the EVF. It's actually one of the best EVFs I've ever used. It's very underrated however, it's impossible to use on a geared head. You can't get it back to the back of the camera. The wooden camera mod lets you address that sort of, but it's still not very elegant and kind of a kludge, and frankly a little flakey. Even on my own sets until the most recent shoot, the Ursa was a "C" camera and you're already grading it to match another principal camera. But I was pleasantly surprised at how great the Ursa can look when it's not pretending to be another camera. Having it as the principal camera meant I can make it work to its own imaging strengths. And that's where I think Blackmagic have done something really special with this camera. So bigger rental houses will only see it as an adjunct to other cameras. Trying to grade this camera to look like an Alexa or RED isn't the best way to make the most of what it can do. It's actually shooting with it on its own terms that its look comes into its own. Something I imagine few have been brave enough to do. Thus, you won't see it in rental houses. JB

Well, I guess I can literally say that Olympus has been so far up my ass, that they left an impression. I do remember laying in the colonoscopy room and thinking, "hmmm, I wonder what resolution that camera has? Hopefully the DR is good." BTW, John, in all seriousness, I'm trying to get an Olympus rep her in SoCal to visit a film festival I'm part of and do a demo of the EM5II and EM1MII during the event in January. If you got any idea who I can contact, much appreciated.

Like Andrew, I am a fan of blacks being black. That's how this piece was deliberately graded (in the link) I detest the LOG grades people seem to be doing these days. I haven't found that the camera is short any detail in blacks more than others of similar specs. Perhaps you're not liking their flat curve, and it sure could be bent a little more. But I think a very loggy image with an 8 bit codec doesn't work either when you try to put contrast back in. It's a fine line trying to stretch DR over 8 bits. Not many do it, but the Oly cameras also have their great curve editor so you can make your own flatter profile. Give it a try ! INterested if anyone has ? It's what I used to do before the FLAT profile. Sometimes it's good, but I find it's diminishing returns to try and put a nice look back onto the image. And yes, the EM5 Mark II is meant to be their "video" oriented model. But it does have a different sensor family. Personally for stills I very much prefer the EM1 Mark 2 and the video is a very decent improvement over the EM5 mark 2 for many practical reasons. 4K helps a lot too. Look at how far they've come within 2 models of suddenly waking up and taking video seriously. I have been active with Olympus and they really are listening and want to improve their video capabilities. They're never going to make a fully video oriented model, as photos and optics (and actually mostly endoscopes) are their core business but, I've been pleasantly surprised at how a they've come, and that's from sitting on the inside somewhat of product development. And they know what semi professional, serious enthusiast users want from video now...it's up to them to see what they can add, but they've always been true innovators. It's why I've always liked them. I've been shooting Olympus digital still since the E1 (Kodak CCD sensor back then) They don't get enough credit really when you look at what they've done. They have always been genuinely innovative. They created the ultrasonic sensor clean, they were the first to do live view, their cameras and lenses have always been smaller, lighter, robust and weatherproof. They just haven't been paying attention to video till recently. Now they've woken up. What's fascinating about Olympus is that the imaging division is a small part of their business however, it's R&D is what drives their innovation in their cash cow, the endoscope market, in which they currently have a stranglehold of something like 70% of all that business. So the R&D in the camera division means their medical imaging division stays so far ahead of everyone else. I'm a few weeks away from releasing some studio test footage. I'll do some Alexa side by sides and we'll see how that goes....:-) JB Disclaimer - I've shot Olympus cameras for years, but I'm now an Olympus Visionary and have travelled and met with the wonderful people at Olympus Japan for the purposes of bringing better video features to these cameras :-)

I got to play with the new Olympus E-M1 II today, a pro Micro Four Thirds camera they hope will sell for $2000. It certainly pulls out all the stops to imitate a miniature 1D X Mark II. This camera does NOT crop the sensor in 4K mode like the GH4. Instead, it over-samples from 5K down to 4K, using the full width of the sensor even with sensor-shift 5 axis stabilisation enabled. Featuring a 237Mbit codec, the image quality in Cinema 4K mode is outstanding with very little rolling shutter. Read the full article

I recommend a PC desktop for video editing.

It is OK for say a Smartphone due to the size of it, but I would not recommend it for anything above that. Mike quality is pretty much related to price. Ergo, no free ride.

This video looks soo good man. On the handheld technique...did you use a strap to balance it out with your neck or literally just hands close to the body? Or another method?

Yep, Canon STM lenses are preferable for situations that mic is close to the camera. You can also hear the noise from one of PB AF tests (11m20s):

It seems I only update this thread every couple of months... Shame on me. These last two months had some long awaited videos, so... check them out! ON A BUDGET - FLAPJACK LED EDGE LIGHT C-200L http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=9562 ANAMORPHIC ON A BUDGET - ELMOSCOPE II VS KOWA BELL & HOWELL http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=9194 ANAMORPHIC CHOP SHOP - KOWA B&H EDGE BLACKENING http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=9390 ANAMORPHIC CHOP SHOP - KOWA B&H MINIMUM FOCUS MOD http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=9590 ANAMORPHIC CHOP SHOP - KOWA B&H SHARPNESS TUNE UP http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=9592 ANAMORPHIC COOKBOOK - HFOV CALCULATOR V2.8 http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=13386 ANAMORPHIC COOKBOOK - DOUBLE FOCUS ON THE FLY http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=9610 ANAMORPHIC CHOP SHOP - JUPITER 9 EXTREME MOD http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=9505 ANAMORPHIC CHOP SHOP - MIR 1B EXTREME MOD http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=9516 Sure, the original thread with the mod is this one: I hadn't adjusted any of the lenses for that episode, so that might have somewhat affected the results, yes.

I've shot many broadcast hours on RED MX and that camera is realsitically only ISO 320 native and 1600 max useable ISO. I also just wrapped a show using 3 x Ursa Mini 4.6k that were used in very difficult conditions, including nearly two weeks of shooting in one of the hottest (42 deg average daily temp) and most remote parts of Australia without a single problem. This is the first time I've used them as the principal main camera on a TV drama series. They worked very very reliably. Only half my camera department of 7 had really worked on them and one of the focus pullers was very anxious about the camera. By the end she was trying to convert the DP on the next show she was going to to use them over a RED Weapon. We blew an SDI port eary on, most likely because of a fault with a wooden camera EVF modification. (The wooden camera EVF mod blew up). Ive had the same three bodies across a few shows now and they've now done more than a few hours. If anyone has looked looked through the back of an Alexa you'll notice it's a lot like the Ursa Mini 4.6k. You can see daylight through both of them. The back two thirds of an Ursa Mini 4.6k is just a big old heat sink. I haven't had twig problems with my Ursa, but strangely the same twig problem has happened to me on an Alexa. Grass stalk through the bottom of the vent caused a very loud noise mid take. Go figure. In fact I once saw an arri rep pour water through the back of the Alexa through the top and watched water run out the bottom to demonstrate that it was just a heat sink in there...like the Ursa Mini 4.6k. Jb

I shot a short with 4.1. Magenta was in the corners when shooting wider than 28mm. Hope 4.2 fixed that. The SDI for the viewfinder broke on set. I was shooting in the woods, the internal fan has no mesh covering, you can see right through the body. I used the camera on a low angle shot and a small twig jammed the fan, I had to shut down the unit and pull it out with tweezers. It creates an incredible image, but build quality is far away from what's needed. I would rather they raised the cost to $10000 and up the build quality.

Thank you very much! I'll tell your kind words to the artist!

Added it to the compatibility list. It should have been there in the first place but I forgot to add it. I went out and bought an LX100 again the other day as I am liking the results so much with the G85. LX100 is a little gem of a camera.

Well, yeah. Amazon is known for its extremely small profit margins and overworked employees (in warehouses at least), so it is reasonable to believe the finances of owning DP are being carefully monitored.

I see some people - bigfoot, mercer, viet bach, don't understand what's at stake This isn't me being a communist and bemoaning another site making money from advertising. Viet Bach, you say "as long as their reviews remain honest"... Well honesty is as much about what you DON'T SAY as what you do. Read my article, and what it has to say about self-censoring and PR jaunts. Looking at this purely from a business perspective now, it's bad for business too as readers get sick of it and leave. The watery opinions don't do anyone any good. The sponsored content is only the tip of the iceberg. From a business perspective, in my opinion it is better to to have very high quality premium paid content like books alongside the free articles and standard affiliate links than to compromise the creditability of your entire core business and your reputation with a ton of tacky advertising. Like if you agree.

I just ingest, edit, and grade directly in Resolve. No issues whatsoever.

its insane, i mean as a consumer its mainly annoying, but as a designer its appalling it may be ? im a stylus enthusiast so thats huge for me... i havent paid attention to microsoft in forever but i watched the whole keynote with this wild thing and surface book... i was really impressed wth! makes an imac look pretty pedestrian tbh

Did a quick and dirty lens test for illustrational purposes. An interesting thing a fellow Bolex-Ana owner discovered is the slight green-cast. Something that is also visible in this test.

All of our Canon L lenses and the 50 1.4 work fine. However they all make varying amounts of noise (50 1.4 is loudest). Canon STM lenses are silent (limited selection: http://explore-lenses.usa.canon.com/stm-lens-stepper-motor.html ). When close mic-ing to the subject, typically not an issue, however if using a camera mounted mic, it can be an issue.