Leaderboard

1. Show us a picture of your current most used camera and lens At the bottom is a rather unglamorous photo in my work shop of my Nikon Z6 with a Vizelex ND throttle adapter, and Zacuto viewfinder, and one of the set of Canon FD lenses I love to shoot the out and about hand held videos I often shoot and edit. In studio I use mostly Canon cameras. I've owned a BUNCH of them: C100, C100Mk ii, C300 Mk ii, C200, EOS R...right now most of my videos in-studio are made on the XC-15, mainly because of the good audio of that camera. Shooting handheld video with fast primes, especially on the long end---like the 2.8 200 mill on the Nikon in my photo, is difficult and a challenge. But what I lose in some shots I gain in others...and I love the freedom and spontaneity of hand held shooting. 2. Tell us a few facts about yourself! Began as a professional clarinetist. After years of university teaching I got involved in manufacturing and designed an entire line of professional clarinets for one of the three great French clarinet makers: G.Leblanc Corp. Began my own clarinet company in 2005 and we now produce clarinets of my design and send them to both professionals and advanced players all over the world--everywhere except Antarctica. In 2000 I wrote the first complete pedagogy in the history of the clarinet---my interest in education has never flagged. That combined with owning a business to promote lead to me producing now over 200 educational videos on every aspect of the clarinet. Learning video over the years got me hooked on it as a "Ding an sich." Since then I've done a lot of videos---working to wed music and images---with varying and marginal degrees of success. Quixotic as it may be I persist---I just love making stuff. Here's one I last fall with the Pani S1. 3. What's your favourite music, favourite sport / team, other hobbies Brahms, Beethoven,Schubert, Mozart---especially German Lieder. Hate the mostly trash I hear blasted at people everywhere. 4. What your hopes are for the future of EOSHD, what would you like me to cover - and the camera you are looking forward to most? You do a fantastic job, and you reviews have few peers. I just hope to continue to benefit, with my obvious limitations of time, from all you and the "video wokafile" pros share here. The whole video community owes you a continuing debt of thanks. 5. Tell me what you miss about your country and home town when you are not there My family, hands down. I'm glad most of my traveling days are over--for several reasons, not the least of which is it is getting to be an increasingly dangerous world. Though I do hope to visit my daughter and her family if we can get past this scourge. They live in....Barcelona, of all places. 6. The year you first started reading EOSHD Probably about 2013. Not sure when I actually gave myself an identity.

1. FS5 w/100 - 400 G master. Sometimes I'll run a 70 210 f4 FD or a 70-300 FD. 2. I eat, sleep, and breath, the sport of lacrosse. I hate video but I love color grading. College Sophomore. 3. I like rap/hip hop mostly but I listen to some 80s style synth occasionally. The breakfast Club and Top Gun are my favorite movies. 4. Please cover more lenses both vintage and modern, id like to see some stuff about the SLR magic primes and Zeiss CP.3s. Since ima Sony Fan boy A7siii or FX6. 5. Sweet Tea (if your from the South East US, you know what I'm talking about.) 6. I believe 2018.

1. It's not my most used combo, but the one I like best. X-T3 + Zhongyi Lens Turbo II (which is basically glued to my camera, rarely do I take it off) + Pentax M 50/1.8 (love this little fella, it's the best fifty I've ever had). During the past few years I've had the chance to jump between many systems (Canon DSLRs, Sony E, Panasonic M4/3, Samsung NX, you name it..), every one of them had some quirks. Then I got into Fuji (by chance) and something clicked. Maybe it's the camera, but maybe it's my attitude that changed. I no longer feel the urge to have the latest features, the best gear possible. Having said that, I still like to indulge myself sometimes. ( : 2. Well, I guess you could learn something about me reading between the lines. I'm a medical student, hopefully to be a doctor in 1.5 years time. I'm also more of a research-everything-extensively-before-you-do-anything kind of guy. Making a plan and then sticking to it. Everything should be in its place. To be honest, I think I have some mild case of Asperger's, lol. 3. Favorite music - you name it. I listen to classical music, movie soundtracks, rock, electronica, chiptune. Almost everything, apart from rap, jazz and blues. I don't support any team, don't follow any sport, though I really like backpacking and cycling. Besides that, I also cut stencils and spray paint them. Street-art was one of the things that got me into all the camera-related stuff, actually. 4. Some more challenges! Anything to make us creative. Sharing our thoughts about the craft / process would be great, too. BTS stuff, etc. Cameras are great, but they don't have the power to change anything you're trying to capture, the things you have in front of you. Maybe some DIY talks? 5. It's a difficult question for me, since I'm not really outside of Poland that often, maybe twice a year. And when I am, I rather try get to know and enjoy different cultures as much as I can. About my home town: all the people I used to hang out with and my family. 6. I guess it was 2018.

Honestly the XT-3 was already ahead of the NX1 in everything except ergonomics, XT-4 far surpasses that with IBIS, LOG, and far better rolling shutter performance. Only thing that the NX1 beats it at is the body design.

1: Between cameras. Was: XH1 + XT3 + X100F (plus a camcorder, Mavic Air, DJI Osmo Action). Hoping that for a season in the future, a combo of; XT4 (hybrid), XT3 (video), X100V (stills). 2: I have been alive to date for 49 years, married for 24 this year, a father for 15, a wedding photographer and videographer for 20. 3: I used to watch; F1 and rugby, but along with everything else... Not especially into any particular type of music. Gym/fitness ‘enthusiast’. I run, row, bike, lift and walk. Currently training to attempt CrossFit workout Murph by the end of this year. 4: Less political discussion. XT4 and X100V in the new short term. XH2 longer term. 5: I am a Brit living in SW France and am split in terms of both the best and worst of both. It’s easier to live in the UK (by far) but the weather in the Summer here is better and it’s less crowded. 6: Dunno without checking but maybe sometimes looked without participating for a year or so and then joined about 2 years back?

Shall we get to know each other a bit better so we can look beyond the opinion soup? How about I challenge you to a camera meet-up, forum style... 1. Show us a picture of your current most used camera and lens 2. Tell us a few facts about yourself! 3. What's your favourite music, favourite sport / team, other hobbies 4. What your hopes are for the future of EOSHD, what would you like me to cover - and the camera you are looking forward to most? 5. Tell me what you miss about your country and home town when you are not there 6. The year you first started reading EOSHD ***** To make each post easy to read please number the answers 1-6 ***** Go!

https://www.canonrumors.com/canon-u-s-a-to-host-virtual-press-conference-for-new-professional-imaging-products-and-technologies/ Virtual press conference from Canon HQ planned on April 20th. Should be related to "professional products", so eos C300 mkIII and hopefully the latest details about the R5. Really hope it's the day the Canon eos R5 will be officially announced (with all the specs, release date and price) !

I’m glad I live in a rural area. Lots of social distance in the forest.

1. Show us a picture of your current most used camera and lens EVA1 and Sigma 18-35mm. 2. Tell us a few facts about yourself! As a child, I was haunted by a ghost called Linford Pickle. 😂 I come from a family of artists and musicians. I was forced to go to church then realised it was all bollocks. My first ever video was called "Demon Boy". It was shite. I'm scared of baked beans and peas. I've starred in 2 televised music videos, once as the lead. I've got eczema and I hate it. I have 2 daughters. 3. What's your favourite music, favourite sport / team, other hobbies Manchester United - although I've got very disinterested in sport for the past few years. Music - As a teen was obsessed with Radiohead and Muse. Now I'll listen form anything from jazz to classical to synth-pop. Other hobbies - nothing. Filming and being a Dad takes up EVERYTHING. 4. What your hopes are for the future of EOSHD, what would you like me to cover - and the camera you are looking forward to most? Do more episodic video stuff. Do less on cameras and more on lighting! More interesting. Cover vintage lenses and weird shit that they do. Modified lenses. RED Komodo looks neat. Canon R5 and 6 I hope will live up to hype. 5. Tell me what you miss about your country and home town when you are not there Seeing people. Working with artists. My family. Having a pint and a laugh. Making shit. 6. The year you first started reading EOSHD I knew barely anything. Got a Canon 60d DSLR and started reading all this "complex" stuff people said like "10 bit 422". Read it over and over until I understood. Liked the way EOSHD focused on experimental stuff, cheap cameras and weird as fuck lenses. Think it was GH2 time.

I just bought a used nx1 body, but that's because I already own one and all of the samsung lenses. If I were buying today, I wouldn't buy into the system unless I was absolutely sure that's what I wanted or if I found a really good deal. I'd go fuji, sony, m43, or stick with the Nikon Z stuff. Honestly, I'll probably buy into Nikon Z this year or next depending on how the system evolves. I love the samsung stuff and the results I get from it. None of it is going anywhere at this point. The lenses are all very very good. The native lenses are one of the biggest reasons I'm still with the system. They are focus by wire, but the responsiveness is adjustable in the menus and I don't mind it. The autofocus on the S Zoom lenses and some others is pretty fantastic and has been my main way of working with the camera for live events and run and gun. There's some faults to the autofocus system, but once you learn it, it's strengths are there and are very strong. You can set up peaking and turn it on or off from the menu. Then, you only need to turn the focus ring to get peaking to show up. This works with native or adapted lenses. I've hooked up monitors view HDMI and it's fine. Not great, but definitely should work fine with the zacuto EVF. The EVF and LCD on the nx1 are both really, really good. I've been very content using just those. You can hand hold the camera, but again, 95% of the time I'm using the native lenses, some of which have good IS. I love the camera, it really has been amazing and fun to use and because of my situation and the size/depth of my NX collection, I doubt I'll ever get rid of it, but we're a long time away from these cameras being new and it was discontinued when I bought into the system. It's great for what it is, but buy the Fuji or something else that's still supported/manufactured unless you get a good deal and know that this is exactly what you want.

Hey Andrew, what a great idea! 1. my most used camera is the GX85 with either Fujinon Cmount 12.5mm 1.4 or boosted Canon FD 28mm F2.8. Most current camera is the Lumix S1 with different flavors of FD mount lenses like Vivitar 90mm Macro or Canon FD 20mm. Super fun focal lengths and lenses on the larger sensor. So here is a pic of my most recent camera which puts out an incredible image even in its 8bit 709 profiles, coupled with the Vivitar 90mm. 2. I´m a filming addict who needs his daily camera exercises. To this day I admire old school Eoshd articles and the film making essays of Tony Zhou, which are magnificiant for everyone who wants to learn film. Film making to me is a rather personal than industrial affair. I enjoy to be on creatively challenging sets with limited resources. Have been a gaffer for quiete a few gigs now and hope these guys don´t forget pay me back on my sets some day:) 3. favorite hobby is getting lazy and growing a belly.:) I love stills photography and used to love any kinds of sports. Favorite athletes are Katharina Witt, Mike Tyson and Zidane. 4. I am looking forward for EOSHD to stay welcoming towards different people, flavors and opinions other than mine.:) I wish for some friends to come back like @kidzrevil, @maxotics and others. I would love more articles of overseen gems and nerd machines like LX100, modded Sony A6000 or the Pentax lens which is a Zeiss. And most of all more film vignettes by Andrew Reid, the man himself! I would have loved a follow up blog post on the EOSHD 200EUR camera challenge. Would love more official and moderated challenges like that. 5. I miss certain things in culture, arts, solidarity, intellect, kindness and sensuality the most, since commercial culture and dull salesman blahblah and mentality have been pushing anything else aside. 6. First time reading Eoshd could have been around 2012 when reading about the GH2 on dpreview. Beautiful times! Now, interested in your posts, dear friends!

Stuck at home like many, so I made my daughter the actor and my wife the grip and script supervisor What have you all been up to during these strange times?

https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2033?locale=en_US

I thought this was interesting. http://thenewcamera.com/list-of-sony-sensors-to-be-used-in-upcoming-dslr-and-mirrorless-worlwide/ I know this is speculation central, but that apsc sensor looks promising. Of course no idea of readout and dynamic range, but 8k is coming for good or ill

Hello from the USA! Current camera Fuji X-T3, with my latest lens acquisition AF-n Nikkor 28-85mm f/3.5-4.5, And DIY lens support rails built with old chem lab hardware. I’m married with two boys in high school, retired. Favorite music: classical (Bach & Beethoven), and British ’70’s rock (Yes, ELP, Who, Tull, etc) Hobbies: playing an old grand piano, Hammond M3, Minimoog, Prophet, Rhodes 73, Peavey DPM-C8. Recording Multi-track (used to be Tascam 38, now Macintosh). Lionel train layout & miniature village, Old movie film production equipment & projectors in 16 & 35mm, Tinkering with various hardware & old equipment parts to do something new. EOSHD coverage: looking forward to new tips & tricks for mirrorless video, best vintage lenses, and comparisons of the new cameras. I found EOSHD early 2019 after getting the Fuji X-T3. My 1st DSLR was Fuji S1 Pro (great color! https://***URL removed***/reviews/fujis1pro, pictured with the same Nikon lens I used.) Next was the Canon T2i. But I did not use these for video and never looked at photography forums online. But Fuji X-T3 is a completely different animal!

Hoping that means Resolve support coming soon.

The 4/3rd IMX594CQR is intriguing. 41MP but only shoots 4K DCI. I wonder if it does 4K 120p. Panasonic, this most likely candidate for 8K, said they aren’t ready for it in 2020. So that either means no GH6 this year, or a non-8K GH6 with oversampled 4K which would be beautiful.

I've not got an X-T4 yet but it looks very good. Although it's not quite the revolution people expected. I'd rather get an X-H2... Who knows if there will be one though. I always preferred the X-H1 and NX1 handling and ergonomics to the X-T3 / X-T4 style body. The latter are also really well built, superb pro quality high-end feel in the hand whereas the X-T series always felt a bit lightweight. X-T4 seems to have some subtle improvements ergonomically But the NX1 nailed the "mirrorless DSLR" feel in terms of responsiveness and direct control. The NX1 image is amazing in 4K, stands up very well in 2020 especially with the high bitrate hack. It can't really do ISO 6400 and above though. In many ways it was 4-5 years ahead of the game. It is also an exceptional stills camera. I wouldn't swap my NX1 for the X-T4. I'd buy the Fuji first and decide if I like it, then go back to the NX1 if not.

Blackmagic fan detected.

The IMX671AQR (43MP APS-C) looks like a good candidate for a Fuji X-H2.

@kye great feedback, thanks man! Yes, the time limit hampered every element so was very interesting way of working. I think it was a case of wanting to limit the time so I finally (finally!) completed something from end to end and published it without getting overly precious. I overthink everything so it was a great way for me to "break my duck" so to speak. Great feedback on the acting. I think my bro did a phenomenal job given the time constraints, but sure he would also agree that we could have delivered so much more with better writing, more rehearsal, more prep time for me to fully understand the character and be able to communicate that etc. Seriously considering setting my self a short film challenge during this Covid lockdown madness. But the only problem is my girlfriend does not want to be in front of camera so I'm left with the cats... 🙂

Some more observations: I did try out RAW quite a bit and is quite impressive also in Resolve is easy to work with. I will probably use RAW more than what I first thought I would. I wish RAW 50/60 would still have AF but you cannot have it all… Other than for shutter speed you can pull a picture from the RAW file and it will be almost indistinguishable from a RAW photo (12 vs 14 bit), in some cases I will use a compromised shutter speed so I can get both video and stills. On Canon web site you can download the LUTs: https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/details/cameras/eos-dslr-and-mirrorless-cameras/dslr/eos-1d-x-mark-iii/?subtab=downloads-software For RAW you can decide how much highlight protection by either enabling D+ or Log (yes is confusing), be aware that if you record proxy to this setting will affect the proxy: As already said the menu with all the resolution/codec is super messy I wish you could enable only certain modes…. like disabling all the UHD modes, IBP etc…. Also the 100/120fps is another separate setting and once you disable it put the camera to FHD…. I find very good the AF that has various option for size like small, surrounding, vertical or horizontal zone etc.. a big improvement over the 1Dx II for video. I did try again the Active Track on Ronin S and if you set the tilt stiffness to >80 it has no problem with an iPhone on the hot shoe (1Dx III + 50 1.2 + iPhone X max) Some interesting comparison that I found on youtube (again these cameras are not really targeted at the same audience but still interesting to see): 1Dx III vs C500 II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab2pj8CEJzE 1Dx III vs RED Scarlet W https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUYGQFXlwXY For video a mirrorless version with flippy screen and the RF ND adapter would make an amazing camera…..

Nothing wrong with the first shot. It looks very good actually. I just finds the message a bit "naive", kind of an advert for UN or something like that (we are all one, share common issue, no borders, etc.). But that's just my feeling. Even-thought the purpose of the message nice and I agree with it, we saw a vastly different response in the world (most countries closing borders, competition between people and countries to find limited supplies). But that's a positive message, there is nothing wrong with it. And again, the editing and grading is top quality. Very good work.

@Jimbo Great stuff! My criticisms are more general in nature, and to a certain extent everything about it could have been "better", but I think there are a couple of huge caveats that need to be talked about. The first is limited time. 8/8/8 hours is a huge restriction on something like this, and everything about the final result was of a good standard. Not great, but solid. The editing could have been tighter, the shots could have been more varied, camera angles refined, sound more natural, VFX improved, etc, but for such an extremely short process these are all things that I'm sure you could improve given a lot more time. With the time limits involved I think you did very well. The second is that this is not an easy piece to shoot. What I mean is that the acting skill required was significant. I thought your brothers performance was quite good, but not great, but this is a world away from an easy role. It called for the main character to be distraught, drunk, partly incoherent, (literally) suicidal, and completely overwhelmed with grief. These are the emotions that separate the great actors from the spectacular award-winning actors, so combining the fact that there wasn't a month of rehearsals followed by a month of shooting I think you did very well. I've been on shoots where the main actor absolutely nailed the monologue on take 27 and that's the one that ended up as the crown clip in their showreel. Of course, this occurred at 3am when we'd been shooting for 6 hours and they'd also worked that day in their day job and part of the emotional delivery was sheer exhaustion on their part. We can always do better, but one of the main things you achieved was actually finishing it and publishing it. That's harder than it sounds

When I started making movies with my friends in middle school and all we had was a camcorder with no external mic at all, we would re-record our lines with the actual camera, just holding it close to our faces usually with the lens cap on. We'd have hours of "footage" just for ADR, lol.

Wow @sanveer maybe take it easy with the name calling, finger pointing and fascism? Your last post is truly vile and I don’t think you want to go down this route in this forum.