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It's been a long wait for the Sony A7S III. Maturity takes time. 5 years for Sonys cameras to develop into tools that feel like cameras. I never had the inspired feeling picking up a clinical Sony before. However the A7S III is a huge improvement... at a price. New blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/news/sony-a7s-iii-first-impressions/

Have smartphones overtaken the best medium format cameras for dynamic range? This is a comparison that should worry everybody in the camera industry. Full blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/news/fuji-gfx-100-loses-to-huawei-p40-pro-plus-smartphone-for-dynamic-range/

Or don't buy. Just rent. Get a cheap, used M43 camera with a zoom for scouting shots if needed. Charge everything else to your customer. Keep your money and buy me a beer. 🙂

Here is my entire wish list for DaVinci Resolve 17....it's a long one: - Make the Fusion tab as stable as the edit tab...ok that's all

Respectfully, it’s not. The lens is just one part of the equation. You can put great glass on a shit camera and it’s still a shit camera just as a shit lens on a great camera is still a shit lens. A great photographer with an average camera will always out-shoot a complete muppet with uber-expensive kit. I will put skills before kit every time. But phones, some of them are looking a bit good and I’m one of those people that went to just using my phone over a camera...but gone back to camera despite the ‘inconvenience’. Can’t deny the capability of some phones these days in the right hands however. There’s some great stuff in another thread on this forum.

Lenses can be matched in post if you're willing to put in a bit of effort. Here's an example where I match a Samyang to a Lomo... unedited: and matched: If you put a look over the whole film you'll also help to even things out too.

Thanks BTM, personally I can't see myself using this for focus pulls between static objects. Im more interested in seeing how the unit and focus motor deals with moving objects or when the camera is moving like on a gimbal. I look forward to seeing more examples with the Tilta motors soon as that's is the only think keeping me from ordering. Keep up the great work.

- export prores on windows - better graphics support jpg, png, psd without jagged lines etc - auto color correct clips to each other (manual matching cameras kinda sucks without a color checker) - better render quality for h264

Any camera will go blurry if you put a plain white piece of paper in front of it, cameras need some kind of contrast to achieve focus. Cell phones aren't as obvious because they have really wide angle lenses but they would go blurry as well. For your setup my tips will work perfectly. Before putting that paper down, make sure there is something with texture and contrast like the desk or an object for the camera to focus on. Press the shutter button half way until it achieves focus, then flip the lens switch to manual focus. You will now be able to film everything and it will all stay in focus as long as you follow my other tips. Trust me, the GH5 is way overkill for this project, you just need to learn more about how to get the most out of it and how to set it up for this type of project. It will never be a point and shoot type of camera like a cell phone. The nice thing is, after you have it all setup, if you never move the GH5, all you will need to do is press record for future videos.

Yes it does all the tricks on the fly. Video dynamic range is very similar to the stills mode. Doesn't shoot hybrid LOG gamma like the Xperia 1 II though.

Here are some frame grabs from my first feature length film Bad Decisions. I started on the GH4, then shot some scenes on the GH5. I will finish this next year with the S5 and S1H if COVID-19 doesn't turn into COVID-20. 😬 I'm probably going to go straight to Amazon Prime. My budget thus far has been $10K and I have another $3K or so for the last two scenes. As so many of you know, no ifs, ands or buts about it; filmmaking is fucking hard! This is probably why this is my last one. I've been discouraged so many times that I had pretty much decided to delete the whole film and just quit altogether. But looking at these grabs, and knowing that I lit that, I blocked that, I wrote that, I shot that and I directed that gives me the courage to complete what I've started. It would be nice if I break even, but even if I don't, I can say that "Hey, I did that!" And boy I didn't do that alone! I had so much help from friends, family and complete strangers that it's too much to even count! They were angels, there just when I needed them, and for not a moment longer, There was one scene, that I was shooting straight guerrilla style. I needed to shoot on three city blocks at night, and I had to light it, and there was a gun scene that kinda made me nervous for the safety of the cast and crew. We have no permit process in my city, so I went to the police department, and explained what I was doing that night, and they were like "Ok". As soon as it got dark around cast and crew call time was at 6pm. We went to the neighbors houses and let them know what we were doing. We started blocking, and laying down markers for lights tripods and actors. It got dark at 9pm, and we started shooting. We were shooting in moving cars, had special effects, and every scene was lit. We even faked a window getting shot out. We wrapped that scene at 5am the next day, right before the sun came up. Do you know for the entire time we were shooting, not a single car drove up any block visible? It's like we rented 100 homes, paid everyone to stay inside and blocked off the area for a 1/4 mile radius! God was most definitely on my side that day, and it was one of the best scenes in the entire film!

Yes of course it's multiple frames at different exposes fused together. Tap the shutter button and it's done for you, by a neural network no-less, with AI. And certainly more than just 3 frames fused together, due to the speed of the sensor. The GFX 100 burst isn't fast enough for this to work. It does show that small, fast smartphone sensors can overcome shortcomings like dynamic range, with computational photography. They have never been able to beat a medium format camera, massive 44x33mm sensor with 100 megapixel before. The Huawei is the first to do this.

Isn’t the smartphone just doing auto-magic photo bracketing? Which could be done manually with the GFX 100, albeit with a lot more work. Seems kinda unfair to the GFX 100 merely on a technical standpoint (not on a user experience standpoint). Which means the smartphone took more than one photo, perhaps up to 5, compared to the GFX 100’s 1 RAW. It’s surprising to me camera companies have not embraced this “in camera” processing more, even for special “auto” modes where the user just wants the camera to do everything. Regardless, this is a good example of why camera sales have plummeted in the consumer market. It all comes down to the user experience and the smartphone, in this case, clearly provided the better user experience. If you were to repeat the test and bracket 3 RAW photos from the GFX 100 the results would be superior.

Funnily enough, we have some new firmware for the PBC that adds a couple of things, one of which is to be a wireless relay display for the AFX. So anyone who wants it will just be able to buy a PBC and then attach it to the wheel like it is in this example. It can be switched to display camera settings or distance (metric or imperial) The AFX is a multi client server so it will support more than one PBC relay in this mode.

Before you invest in a Sony or Canon (which is recommended for better autofocus) it's worth trying a couple of things with the GH5 to see if the autofocus behaviour improves: 1. Update to the latest firmware as AF behaviour has been improved, slightly 2. Shoot at 60 or 50 frames per second (60p or 50p) instead of 30p or 25p 3. Experiment with AF speed and sensitivity in the AF menu 4. Make sure focus mode is set to "continuous" You might need to consult the manual to figure out how to do some or all of these things.

It depends on the stiffness of the lens but although the motor has a USB power input so can be powered from 5v it can actually take up to 14.8v which improves its torque to help this situation. Tilta make a P-Tap to USB cable to enable you to do this and the extra power increases the torque from 0.65N-m to 1.00N-m.

Something more stable than 16? 15.2 was solid for me. 16 crashes all the effing time for me. I turned on live save because of all the lost work.