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https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/rogue-one-godzilla-gareth-edwards-201500503.html That was an interesting read about how he go back the indie root of film making. I totally agree about the huge bloated cost of blockbuster now, and the cgi still look crap.

For ages they had the mirrorless market to themselves. Now Canon DSLRs are finally dead, the mirrorless market has a new leader https://www.eoshd.com/news/how-panasonic-and-sony-let-canon-steal-the-mirrorless-camera-lead/ Canon! I take a look at how this happened.

Yeah, just a little frustrated about the whole world seemingly taking digital cameras and giving them a bunch of crap that is increasingly fringe and specialist at the expense of simply having nice looking images. Everyone loves how the Alexa looks, even the original, but then when it comes to what features we demand in a camera, somehow image quality comes last, with all the BS somehow being more important. Non-cinema cameras have worse image quality now than they did in 2013. No-one stopped to ask... if the first 2 million pixels looks like crap, why would I want to have 62 million more?

In terms of shooting LOG, the native HDR is actually rec2020 (I believe) which is sort-of LOG and fulfils the same purpose in many ways. The biggest difference between rec2020 and a log format is the level of saturation, where rec2020 has more saturation. This means that 1) rec2020 will clip colours sooner than a real log space, and 2) rec2020 has much greater fidelity with the colours that are not clipped. The challenge with iPhone shooting is to control the processing that the camera does - especially the sharpening. I spot insert clips from smartphones and action cameras in larger productions and it's always because of the texture, not the colour grading - they are always way sharper than the higher quality footage. I have talked about colour grading the iPhone here: https://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/74148-making-the-most-of-the-iphone-gx85-and-gh5-and-shooting-in-the-real-world/ And am on a journey to counteract the sharpening here: https://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/76313-optimising-resolution-sharpness-in-post/ I think that if you colour grade it properly and counteract the over-sharpening then you'll probably be surprised by the results.

I also from time to time intercut to (R5, R5c) iPhone footage, you can spot it but most of the audience does not even notice. I even intercut 360 reframed content that is even more lower quality. But is more important to get the shot. As you said not everywhere is easy to be there with a R5 type of rig. I also started to record with the iPhone on top of the R5c as I tend to use really long lenses in the 300mm to 600mm range so I can have a second view much wider with the iPhone (77mm). I have a 13 Pro Max and contemplating a move to the 15 Pro Max for 3 reasons: 120mm instead of 77mm, satellite emergency (I can skip the Garmin and its subscription) and the most important for me the workflow as the lighting (non really lighting speed 🙂 ) is a huge pita. Hopefully with direct SSD/CFexpress reader support I can record directly or quickly copy to an external storage. I use to use Filmic Pro but is now a robbery and also the UI imo was a bit cumbersome especially when I'm in hectic places so I went back to the normal camera app. I just installed the Blackmagic one and it seems ok but I need to test it out more. Overall I truly hate filming with the iPhone but it get the job done when it would be hard to have a bigger camera. Btw my R5 in 8K RAW never overheated but I had once the iPhone on top in 4k 25fps overheating and shutting down 🙂 It would also be cool if you could use it directly as a wired monitor..... but for Apple is too much to ask...

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Agree 100%, about the look and I'm not the only one. In terms of why that look seems to have disappeared, I have a theory..... https://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/52175-are-sony-sensors-ruining-video-with-the-sony-look/ Every camera we can name that doesn't have a Sony sensor is known to look incredible. Just sayin'