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I'm going to let fate decide. I'm getting on the plane to London in an hour. If the person sitting next to me is a man then I'll take the sensible route and get the Fuji. If its a woman then I'll take the Zeiss path. Stay tuned...

I have the 28 f2.8, the 50 f1.7, the 135 f2.8 and the 28-85 f3.3-4 which I've built up over a few years if I see them cheap. The one I've been after for a while is the 85 f1.4 but never found one cheap enough to make me cave in! Until now.... Well, until tomorrow at least. I've found one in London but the same place has also got a used Fuji 23 f1.4 for a silly price and which would probably be more useful (but I could easily persuade myself otherwise !) so I've been agonising over it as I can't get both. To break the impasse, I thought "I know, I'll put my Sigma Art 35 f1.4 on the X-T2 with the Lens Turbo and do a few shots and see if I can dissuade myself of needing the Fuji so I can get the Contax Zeiss....." I took the Lens Turbo out of the ever growing box of adapters I've acquired, went to put it on the camera at which point one of the elements promptly dropped out and smashed on the floor. I don't know if this is God's way of telling me to get the Fuji (because there'll be no speed boosted Nikons for a while now) or the Contax Zeiss. He was telling me to get both wasn't he? Yeah, lets go with both.

Cool, go for the deep-end!! Can confirm the X-T20 is a beast Here's a 4K frame... Lovely codec and colour... Super detailed.

I agree, its my favorite interchangeable lens Fuji of all time. Very nice and intuitive. Gets out of the way. Plus it made me look pretty cool on the cover of a newspaper this weekend

Hallo Tim, I am a Austrian x-t2 User..my Englisch is not good - Sorry The ideal combination is absolutly two x-t2 I have sold my C100 + 7D and many Lenses..and Chanced to Fuji. My change to Fuji I have in no way regret. Property still have an xc10 - this I will still sell and still buy an X-T2. Unfortunately, my English is too bad for me to contribute here in this discussion better.

How about using some of the very early EF lenses with the lens regain as an alternative half way house? Things like this 35-70 from 1989 have a certain, erm, 'charm' to them https://www.flickr.com/groups/605152@N24/pool/ And the 35-105 from a couple of years earlier as well https://www.flickr.com/groups/2049731@N22/pool/page1

I love this camera. I even sold my X-T2 to buy it. And honestly, I much prefer using it for video over the X-T2 (mostly because of no need to switch drive mode). And that was despite not having a tilt screen or 4K. Well, soon it will be one less drawback. http://www.fujirumors.com/major-fujifilm-x-pro2-kaizen-firmware-update-will-add-4k-video/ To bad Ive sold it PS. Speaking of Fuji listening to polls on rumor sites, "..In fact, it was your feedback and negative poll results, that killed the monochrome X-Pro1.." What a big f...ng shame. I would have soooo bought that. I loved my Leica M Monochrome but couldn't justify it when I also shoot film. Something more fuji priced would have been sweet.

I don't think you get arrested for not putting it on the pan bar its just the usual place for it There is a benefit there for not physically touching the camera to reduce shake and it gives you the option of someone else pulling focus remotely as well of course but neither of those might be applicable to how you're working.

This is ridiculous, it was one of those automated e-gate jobs so we still don't have a winner ! We now go on to the hotel receptionist gender then. At this rate it'll be Bruce Jenner and I'll have to buy both.

Allow me to decriminalise myself! Classic Chrome Highlight Tone -2 Shadow Tone -2 Color + 2 Sharpness -4 No colour grading in post on that shot. Lens is the Fuji 23mm F1.4.

Hey, me too Like I say in the review, The Quattro saved my ass at work when a Nikon DSLR broke un us. I used it to shoot full figure portraits and then print them in 1:1. The quality was great. Tomorrow Im getting one last 1:1 print of a person that another guy shot on a Fuji X-T2. Sooo, I will be able to pixel peep 1.85m tall color prints from both I know, after a certain point the larger the print the less resolution needed. But I also printed some regular A3 size images of the dog at home... boy.. so crisp.. and those fu..ing colors man... For the cutouts I used a vintage flash. Worked great. Result. Excuse the crappy smartphone shot, it doesn't do the prints justice. Big Foveon junkee as well. I love and use my DP1 classic all the time. Again, excuse the quality, my forum picture host sucks ass.

Fuck. In an aisle seat with a man on the right and a woman on the left. I'll go with the gender of whoever checks my passport at the other end. Update in 2 1/2 hours !

No excuse not to get that cheap 50-110 now then, you know you want to ! The mirror delay is a good option when you're hand holding to offset any issue with the slap/thump/seismic event of the mirror. You might want to get familiar with cleaning the sensor by the way as it draws in shite like no other camera I've ever known. Possibly due to the air displacement caused by the shutter

I think this is the first proper digital film camera, for stills at least. 2007 was a golden year for the sensors. Panavision Genesis. Sony F35. Kodak medium format CCD in the Hassy. First impressions are... Smaller and lighter than expected, really no hassle to use. The shutter is ridiculously loud. Biggest viewfinder I've ever used. I like the modularity and the fact the battery doubles as the grip. There should be an Olympus version of this... A miniature, modular M43 camera. Easily matches detail of my A99 II 42MP raw stills. Can't say that about many 2007 cameras But the main thing I am enjoying is the perspective of the 80mm... It brings things in nice and close, whilst appearing wide-ish, around 56mm on a full frame camera but with the perspective and depth compression of an 80mm. The OLED screen on the back is... Interesting. Not up to todays standards obviously but great colour and contrast for the time. Must be a very early OLED for that time. Works with 64GB UDMA7 compact flash, when I think the norm for the time was 8GB UDMA1... However it has locked up twice... I think I might need to invest in an older CF card! Thanks for the spot on Park Cameras BTM_Pix!

True but you're pretty damn close to a complete set anyway, so if you take the plunge you can finish it off. If you sell your 28mm, that will get you 25% of the way to the Hollywood or the 35mm 1.4. Then you could probably sell off two other complete sets of lenses because why would you need them when you have a complete Zeiss set? Then the proceeds from those lens sales will pay for multiple Fuji lenses. Plus, Fuji deals will pop up more regularly than a Zeiss 85mm 1.4 deal will.

Well according to FujiRumors, feature updates are largely driven by what Fuji read on their site so maybe we should register 200 fake accounts and ask for it.

The Hassle has arrived! This is now my oldest camera... 2007!! The images must have blown peoples heads off in 2007.

Set it in stills mode to one of the 3 custom ones and then you can select that one from the Q in video mode. Daft that they couldn't make it follow through to the video mode for setting but it seems to be because it uses the shutter button. You can go through all the motions exactly like when its in stills mode but then there is no way to set it when you have the square over an area you want as the shutter button does nothing! Unless it uses another button to set but I can't see which one it would be and, of course, I can't possibly countenance reading the manual

Let me be a voice of Peace and understanding I believe Daniel was not attacking Luca's design or glass... He was referring to the fact that if you have a canon EF mount camera and want to use a old FD lens there is a "Shitty" glass adapter you have to buy to make it fit. And it was notorious for making the FD lenses less sharp and a stop or so less light. I believe thats why in the 5D MK2 Revolution days everyone was getting old Nikon glass because you didn't need a adapter with "Shitty"glass($30) to make it fit. This has nothing to do with Luca's design its just one of the negatives in EF mount's design maybe back in the late 80's canon did this on purpose to force everyone to buy new lenses? Fake News? Tin foil hat?

Ah, EISA, didn't that go something like...

just lack of words :v

Well, you saw my X3000 videos above. Now I have the Yi 4K+! And I took advantage of the 4K 60p to shoot a video (with gimbal). I think the main advantage of 60p (at high resolution) is that you can slow down the action and still retain high resolution. This is particularly useful for when you move with the camera, although it also makes subject movement more dramatic. So, here is the 4K30p video shot at 60p:

By page 5 it starts getting really interesting. Hmm. When I woke up yesterday, I had no intention of buying any Zeiss lenses, but then I saw those deals. I'm looking to build 3-5 small sets of lenses. For me a small set could consist of a zoom and a Prime or two primes... a wide and portrait. So as I sell off a bunch of tester lenses, I want to rebuild with more quality. I have my Canon set up and I have my Tokina zooms. I also have a half ass Nikkor set which consists of my 28mm f/2, a 35mm f/1.4, a few Series E lenses, a couple old non-ai 50s and a Nikkor ai-s 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5... every review hates that lens but I find it has some interesting character and I bought it new for $50, so I may just keep it and the series e 50mm and sell off the better Nikkors. I don't know. my 28mm f/2 will be a difficult one to list. Another 2 lens setup that interests me is the Leica (Minolta) design 35-70mm f/3.5 and the 50mm Summicron. I have the Minolta 35-70mm, and I love it, but I no longer have a camera to use it on. Sorry, just thinking out loud here, in print...

Well, GH5 rules above all of them... LOL Give me some other one to let you have 4K60p or internal 10bit 4:2:2 in that range ;-)

It's almost as if they created that category especially for Panasonic. They got it wrong in many categories. Huawei P10 is soundly beaten by the camera on the Google Pixel XL and Samsung S8. I am not sure the A6500 qualifies as best prosumer mirrorless with so much competition out there like the X-T2, and I guess A7R II is too old to be voted for again Interesting the Nikon D7500 won a category. I thought everyone hated it! Why not D500?

Whew... as I scrolled down and didn't see the GH5 under best mirrorless category, I was awaiting the shitstorm that was gonna follow... but then I saw the best hybrid category. Of course the NX1 isn't on there, so it's still not safe.

The biggest problem I see is it's harder to match focal length to digital intuitively (should be fine if math is involved) And then the perspective difference if you just crop in to the top half of the image vs center it in camera. So you need some nifty math to correct perspective for the reframe. Less of a problem with longer focal length tho. It also depends on your audience. If you use wide angle ppl would end up with long faces for example.

My wife is shooting xpro2 right now for a gig. She's b-cam. If I have time I'll upload some footage. We're on the Isles of Scilly, so some nice beachy images...

The flickr pool for that lens is quite interesting. The first few pages are dominated by a single shooter (seemingly on a holiday to New York) and the processing is not to my taste but its all shot on A7Rii so its interesting to see from a resolution perspective. The content gets a lot more people-y towards the bottom of page 6. It's a shorter range than the 28-85mm that I've got but its a bit smaller, lighter, sharper and usually cheaper.... I'll see you on ebay https://www.flickr.com/groups/1571522@N25/pool/

Set Gain in the first node to 2.0, that will fix the black subtract issue.

Yeah, instant backs are cool too! I have the Fuji instant back for my 4x5 Sinar f2. I wish they still made the film, I would use it. I used instant frequently, it scanned okay too. Always wanted a giant 8x10 system...

Pentax 645Z is supposed to be quite DSLR-ish to use. I don't know why they can't get DSLR performance out of AF on medium format cameras and lenses... it is 2017 after all. Digital Bolex CCD had to be exposed different to CMOS... In the end the dynamic range was similar to the BMPCC, just differently spread.

Hey Glenn, have you seen my last post on GH5 footage from Atomos coupled with? That's my fav cinema camera...

My tests were with the Black Magic Video Assist, which doesn't allow you to bake the image in. I picked up the Assassin this afternoon, so will head out and get some delicious test footage on Wednesday. The video is missing from the topic you posted, but does it basically say to get the LUT baked in is the way to go? I was planning on using it that way anyway, for a quicker turn around, or if someone else needs to edit my footage. One of my client's workflow doesn't allow time for colouring, so I've previously tried to get it nice in camera, but I'd rather have log files for backups. This way, I can do both! I'm already loving the 'straight to hard drive' workflow. It's certainly a fun thing to play with and get ready for a day out haha.

For the sake of all of us here waiting for the 5 inch... Please PLEASE go ahead and purchase the 7"

1dx > ____ Looks clean, crisp and rich straight out the can. 1dc owner. I will opt for the 1dxmkii if I had the money.

Hey Dave, you know I just wrote a lengthy reply going over the pros and cons of both cameras, but then I realized you're probably more aware of them than I am, so I decided to watch some of your videos again instead. And to be honest, I was floored by your earlier work, especially Picnic and Porcelainia. You did such an excellent job with that documentary, and to think it was made on a 7D with CineStyle. Really remarkable. I actually have to thank you because your Picnic video helped to lead me down the ML Raw path... first with the 50D and now with a 5D3. Now I understand that your work requires a level of tech to sell yourself. So in today's age, it seems 4K is probably a necessity but I must say I would love to see some of your 80D work. I think I am one of the few people that believe the 80D has some untapped mojo and in a lot of instances more than enough for most online work. With that being said, the 1DXii probably makes the most sense for your style. But I would think a rental of both cameras may be in order to make a final decision.

Ive used it. But only with a Canon EF lens with a pretty noisy focus motor and an adapter. I suspect there are much more quite lenses. Like a native Sigma art without regular focus gears.

I know you didn't ask me... but I've been using this camera since December and love it. Since then I've had like 3 upgrades, which is a great sign. Obviously this 422 one is the best and you can really tell. I also regularly use an FS5, and honestly, I prefer working with the JVC.

Wow, this is awesome! EOSHD community supporting one another! Slow pan and quick one, one on fore,-middle- and one on background! Now I am getting greedy. With IBIS, with DualIS, one without. Hot darn, Grimor, you must be very brave to offer this!:) Anyhow, would be great as you like. Awesome. Thanks!

Salut les copains, Here is my first test of the Focuser 8 from Aivascope Shot on a GH4 in 4k 24p with cineV profile Anamorphic lens is Möller Anamorphot 32 2X Taking lens is Canon FD 50mm 1.4 (f4 and f5.6)

How are you viewing these files? While Jon's video is not terribly smooth, it has zero jitter. Can you take a file to another computer? (preferably swapping pc to mac or vice versa and swapping playback resolution and player). Also, try recording at 50p/60p in HD and then conform to half speed. Smooth playback means the original must be smooth too. Also, try play back on a TV with 100Hz+ refresh.

Taking the liberty to post the trailer for a short film we shot a week ago.