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LOG For me there is no substitute to What You See Is What You Get. Whenever I shoot LOG I tend to forget to look at tonality and contrast. Sometimes even a limit on dynamic range is useful because it forces you to prioritise which part of the frame to expose for. Whenever I shoot LOG I tend to get lazy and forget this. I do use a view assist when available or load a LUT onto the camera, but then you are postponing the judgement of what works for a scene to post. And what a fucking nightmare it is choosing LUTs and grading every shot differently in post, when you could have got it all right in camera, in the moment of the shoot! So LOG is overrated and a hinderance. RAW on the other hand, that's much nicer. You don't even need to grade RAW, you can just let the meta data handle it. If there is a white balance change that needs doing, you can do it without weird results. RAW is all about ultimate image quality so give me that over LOG any day. IBIS IBIS is king of ALL the lazy unmotivated camera movement we see today. It's a huge convenience doing away with a tripod, as well as the biggest single loss of the last 10 years! There is simply no substitute. Floaty, warpy, too smooth, too robotic, IBIS has it all in equal measure. The least cinematic camera feature you can choose beyond shooting it all in 30fps! Also when you are sticking something on a tripod that doesn't have IBIS like the Sigma Fp you are actually locked down into one frame. That really makes you think about the composition and refine it, because you're stuck with it! All my early stuff was shot on a tripod. I never recaptured that shooting style with IBIS. Even the slightest small movement detracts from the calmness of a locked down shot. With IBIS you can only fake a locked down shot and everyone knows you couldn't really be arsed to do it properly! 10bit It is hailed as the biggest new feature of modern times and everybody shits on 8bit, but whenever I put the final images side by side from a decent 8bit codec and a modern 10bit one, why do they always look the fucking same? AF A bit like IBIS autofocus is a great shot getter when you're rushing and making a hack of it. I used to use a single S-AF to grab focus before locking it on the GH2 and recording the unfolding scene with the focus not moving. Short of hiring a professional Hollywood focus puller that is the best any of us can do, because as soon as you hand things over to the camera you may as well call it a home movie and be done with it. Oops it's shifted to the background. Oops it's wobbling. Oops the subject has moved but the focus hasn't. Ooops that's not what I meant. Autofocus is an affront to filmmaking. The best AF is too perfect. Nails the subject in focus with no human intention behind the focus pull. If I see another gimbal shot with autofocus I will kill myself. So just to sum up... Maybe we could have an EOSHD challenge... No LOG, no 10bit, no IBIS, no AF, just a tripod, you, a manual focus lens and a camera like the Sigma Fp or Samsung NX1? Let's see how the results look compared to the next day when we all go back to the usual modern style of shooting! And pick the best!

More a case of IBS rather than IBIS as I'm sure he has been shitting himself ever since.

FP options = Lumix 24-105mm f4 which has OIS Fotodiox adapter with any EF-L Mount lenses and there are both zooms and primes from at least Canon & Tamron with OIS. The Fotodiox adapter with built in ND is great so I’d look at pairing that with ‘your focal length ef Mount Canon or Tamron prime, or just going for the Lumix zoom?

Panasonic 24-105 and 70-200 both have IS as do the longer Sigma zooms but thats about it. However, the very practical two in one solution for the Fp (or anyone that doesn't want to take the risk of unpredictable and uncorrectable image artefacts from an IBIS system) is the Fotodiox EF-L adapter which lets you use the plethora of EF lenses that have IS, retains the AF capability and also includes a variable ND built into the adapter. For reasons unexplained, but which come with dire warning from Fotodiox, just don't ever ever ever put it on a Leica camera.

So I bet, many of you have heard or read of the Iscomorphot 8 1.5x anamorphic adapter, which is a tiny and single focus gem. It was built for Super 8 cameras and even works for S35 but with inherent flaws regarding resolution, since it was built for Super8. Here is a beautiful video in its own right and vertical use of the anamorhot, which means that camera was rotated by 90 degrees. Camera was a m43 Zcam, so the sensor was in a 3 to 4 format position after rotating it by 90 degrees. Taking lens was a 90mm Voigtlaender. This should give us a 3x1.5 to 4 format = 4.5 to 4 = 1.125 to 1 ratio! Enjoy and happy hunting for the Iscomorphot! 🙂

My thoughts: I would say DO IT! First publish your OM1 comparison tonight if that was your original plan, as I’m dying to see it. And then we would all love to see that comparison! Seriously I eat up your camera articles, I miss them and that has always been a HUGE appeal to the site. I believe the same held true to many others!

It refers to the reflexive and tedious whataboutery responses on forums when someone mentions a camera that doesn't have some or all of the features listed in the original post. In most cases the dismissal of the camera in question based on these omissions is also based on zero actual direct experience with it.

But her emails ?

I colossally messed up my OM-1 vs E-M1 X comparison which is bad because I put the OM-1 in a cardboard box at the end of it and took it to the post office. So don't think I'll be reshooting that one any time soon. The OM-1 was somehow set to digital stabiliser mode and so all the images are a bit cropped and a bit soft. Also although I checked several times it was in OM LOG 400 the resulting files don't look anything like LOG, so there's that. I don't really regret my decision to keep the E-M1 X instead and save some pounds. As where pounds are, shillings follow! Yes another case of overhyped new camera by the usual shills again. Not to say it isn't a great little camera (although it can't really do ISO 3200/6400) Not to say I didn't like certain aspects of it like the new EVF which is very good. But I think Panasonic S1 and Sigma Fp trounce it for overall image quality to be honest.

Talking of 10bit, it is a very low bitrate in 4K/24p, something like 77 mbit. I did a comparison with the E-M1 X if anyone is interested it will be on blog tonight. The spoiler is I sold the OM-1. And the AF was better on E-M1 X as well which is big surprise. Maybe they are going to get the most of the new hardware with an OM-1 X instead for more pricey sums.

HLG seems like a good alternative for S1R users. Could even do a CST in Resolve to get it into log space.

How viable do you think manual focusing on the Sigma Fp’s built-in screen would be? Using that Fotodiox adapter paired with both the Canon 24-105 and the 35mm IS would be nice; two great lenses both with image stabilization, as well as singe shot AF if I want to film myself.

Ah, you never know what peoples thresholds are. When the person that shoots IMAX and the person that shoots RX100 both look at a 1DXmk3 the IMAX shooter sees an RX100 and the RX100 shooter sees an IMAX camera! Yes, everything is shades of grey too, but sometimes people have hard limits due to certain criteria as well, such as fits in their bag or they can carry it around on their wrist all day without getting tired, etc. A GoPro doubled in size is still a 100% increase, regardless of how large it was to begin with. Yeah, due to the nasty hand-held scenarios I find myself in I need some form of stabilisation, so if it's not IBIS then it has to be OIS or I'm left to shoot short SS and stabilise in post. I'd prefer not to have to stabilise in post as non-IS setups will have more rolling-shutter issues (that aren't cheaply compensated for in post) and my recent OIS experience not stabilising rotation also leaves that option a bit lacklustre. I was surprised when I went to B&H and searched FF + L-mount + OIS and got almost no results at all. Disappointing. The other challenge I've realised if I switch from IBIS to OIS is that lenses with OIS are likely to be focus-by-wire and that's not so good a MF experience, plus the FP isn't the best AF (and AF is still stupid sometimes).

I find the 4:3 5k mode of the S1r very attractive. It seems that is uses a 21.5mm x 16mm crop of the sensor. The few clips I've seen on YouTube look good. Am I correct that the S1r doesn't have V-log? Does this mean the dynamic range in video mode is limited relative to the S1 and S5? I wonder if there's any benefit to using an external recorder with the S1r. Do you use the HLG gamma with the S1r? I think I'll try to go into a used camera shop and shoot a couple of tests comparing the S1 and S1r.

I had one a long time ago. I did a test with it that was actually featured in a blog post here, though I can't find the link. I found this lens to be terribly soft until f5.6 or so. Mine had the crazy "cleaning marks" on the front element, and I actually spent way too much money sending it off to have the front element resurfaced (and recoated? I can't remember). Which did not help at all. I did some tests with it after I got it back and sold it shortly afterwards.

And do not discount the S1R… These are now exceptional value on the used market and the 10 bit 5k 25/30p internal flat profile footage is seriously underrated. As in just about nobody talks about it, because just about nobody uses it. But as long as you don’t need to record for longer than 15 mins and don’t need slo mo (or if you do, the 4K 50p 8 bit is excellent), it produces beautiful image quality. There is some kind of special sauce in that 47mp sensor only shared with the Leica SL2 and Q2.

The sub forums are gone but the posts are not, they were moved into the main forum, as I'd like to start discussing raw shooting cameras, anamorphic lenses, right bang in the centre of the forum rather than tucked and hidden away in a sub-forum. I think this will help the amount of activity in the main forum and the diversity of topics. Anamorphic sub-forum had been around for entire history of this forum, but I always felt the topics didn't get as much attention as they deserved, so sometimes having a sub-forum on anamorphic lenses hinders the general chat about anamorphic lenses. Now when you post about it in the main forum they stand out and everyone sees it regardless of whether they duck into the sub forums from time to time or not.

Ha ha! I had one of these to mess around with back in the midst of the anamorphic craze. Picked it up for peanuts, knowing nothing about it as I think there was almost no info online at the time. It gave usable results for sure! Here it is on my 5D2.... 12 years ago now!

You need to go with an Android phone to get the best results., Very little of all of the "aftermarket" apps or programs work on an iPhone. Raw is really the way to go if you want a lot of control. Be even some Android phones don't work well. Sony phones and some Samsung phones are not the thing to have. Some older 150 dollar ones work pretty well surprisingly, but the later models are best.

I still have an iPhone 11 Pro Max but my main gripe is how over-sharpened and brittle the image looks. I don't mind shooting with super deep DoF but it's just not a "thick" image like I get with a mirrorless camera (which are also often artificially sharpened). I watched some reviews of ProRes on YT when the 13 came out but I didn't see a huge difference (I think many people pretended that the codec will make a difference, when it's actually more the processing before that). I'd wish we could deactivate sharpening in FilmicPro even further, like it's possible on Android. So personally, I'd rather get a less processed image that's smoother/organic than more dynamic range at the cost of it looking hyper digital.

Heart would choose/have chosen, FP. Head though, S5. Easily. Especially if you do not wish to rig it out. Pulsing can still be there if you; A: use AF all the time and B: don’t tweak your AF settings. Mine are -1 and -3 respectively. How I use all my Lumix cameras these days is to use AF to acquire focus and then immediately flip the lens to manual focus. If the camera is on a tripod and I am tracking and need reliable AF, ideally a native lens plus f4-8. These are of course ‘workarounds’ and it’s really only in faster/fast paced forward tracking there can ever be an issue with the subject actually remaining in focus, but used as above, works for me.

I can't blame you for wanting to downsize from a Z6 with Ninja Star, but I question if the FP will do what you hope it will. Firstly, the FP has limitations on what resolutions/frame-rates it can record internally, with an external SSD required for the rest (violating your size / rigging criteria). Secondly, the FP screen doesn't articulate so depending on how you shoot you might require an external monitor. There is an EVF but it's an add-on. Also, there are very few lenses in the L-mount system that have OIS, and the FP has no IBIS, which means that if you go down the route of not having either then you would most likely require a larger rig to get steady enough shots. The FP is a bit of a specialist tool in this sense - the image is spectacular and codecs potentially glorious but it's not an all-in-one shooter that will fit around you and your needs like many other cameras are. It's a bit of a diva.

Picture I took with my new OnePlus 9 Pro in the Night Mode. It was not a timelapse just a snapshot. Pretty amazing, bordering on Sony A7s stuff. There was a full moon out, so I am sure that helped a lot but there is no light in the front yard, streetlight across the street. You can see from the stars how fast it was shot.

Something that does work is the NX-L so it is full frame now. With the magic of some bluetac to fool the OS into thinking there is a lens attached (no "shoot without lens" option) A RAW frame to peep at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fPLD7KVWjpLdC9gQEAUjda4vkAdrlweZ?usp=sharing Bluetac trick:

Here you go: