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I was bored so I put together some A6600 S-Log-3 footage I had hanging around from earlier this year and graded it with the help of Tom Bolles's new CinePrint 35 powergrade. I'm definitely liking the colours and he's simplified the node tree somewhat, making it a lot easier to tweak.

8K via YouTube won't look true. It will have been manipulated by your display for a start, downscaled to fit. Compressed to hell. Any sharpness in the original image will look worse. I miss the days when people were a bit more savvy about pixel peeping. Downloading the original files from Vimeo... Looking for signs of aliasing. And in-camera colour science was more important prior to the everything being shot in LOG format.

I am way past the pixel peeping days, any camera produced in the last 5+ years from any vendor can produce fantastic image quality. Just get what works best for your workflow and if it doesn't live up to your expectations then find something that does because I guarantee you something out there will.

Any look can be manipulated in post, it is very easy to turn down sharpness by using a different lens, different color grade, possibly even in camera via the settings, or in post. I certainly would not make any purchasing decisions based on a single video. It is also possible they sharpened it in post. That particular video to me looks like its straight out of camera with a CLOG2 to Rec709 grade with no attempt at a "cinematic" look. Any modern camera can be made to be so sharp it is crispy or so cinematic it looks like a Hollywood production via lighting, lenses, camera movement, and post processing.

There is a chance to go past 3" screens on the larger mirrorless cameras. All they need to do is reposition the joystick and get rid of the large jog wheel. Then the buttons below the screen can be screen icons as touch screens work better 5" rather than 3. When the screen is flipped out, it won't be any heavier as we'd use an OLED panel and titanium frame. At any rate it would definitely still be much lighter than a smartphone as it is just the panel, no internals like battery. So it shouldn't unbalance the camera when in use, and I'd prefer it to flip out rather than twizzle out anyway. Why haven't we gone past 3" do you think? Lack of demand, cost, or something else?

Yup, night and day ;- )

But great news if you want a big built-in screen and minimal physical buttons... the camera already exists and is fairly affordable, especially when on sale. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera

8K with that firmware update for 500Mbit 10bit 422 is what the a1 is all about The super 35mm mode is your usual 5.8k downsampled to UHD... That has been around since the a7r II. No complaints with it but the full frame 8K is stunning. When the R1 hits $2000 on eBay as pro cameras tend to do... and Sony a1 comes down under $3k used, things will start to get very interesting again for enthusiasts.

Ready for mainstream : ) However, doesn't beat Filippo Chiesa's GH5s entry to promote such a GH series camera release IMO (BTW, as you've recently recalled, dai...). https://www.promirrorless.it/pro-mirrorless/filippo-chiesa-a-lavoro-con-panasonic-gh5s

Dreamy, dreamlike*... is another kind. *where 24fps is only part of the equation - EAG :- )

@zlfan trying not to hijack the R5II thread... The final short film

haha but it's that infamous 50fps you were used to praise here, remember? ; ) I like to have it at disposal though... lots of details, opens a bunch of distinct routes such as hybrid use for fashion, large format print, etc., straight from video stream to also stills use at same time, for example. Motion blur and softness (for some reason people are addicted to bokeh) is key for cinematic outcome anyway. - EAG

r5ii 8k is too sharp to my eyes, like news. I feel a little uncomfortable. no good legend looks much more cinematic. not sure which takes were done with gh7. not sure if they did filtration.

I thought camera opinion videos were getting a bit obsessive when that guy a few weeks ago left his kids alone inside the holiday cabin as he couldn't possibly wait another minute to get on the porch and share his thoughts on a camera rumour with the wider world on YouTube but..... Well, this is on another level. The moral of the tale is that even when staring down the long tunnel into the abyss he still stands by his decision to buy the Z8.

For me it was always the lenses, using adapted Canon lenses kept AF from working at all with the S5. not sure if it is the same with the S1H. AF is very important to me, I literally never know what I am shooting or what situation I will be in when I get to a new type of project so I need every tool that I can get to ensure I meet the client's expectations. Canon's AF is supposed to be one of the best out there and I've still ran into situations where it struggles. I also just never felt the same shooting photography with the Panasonic. Canon has never had an equal for me when it comes to photography and I have tested Nikon, Sony, and Panasonic at the display cases in the store. For photography I actually use the full 45MP, my clients frequently need both portrait and landscape versions of images; landscape for their websites and portrait for social media, with 45MP I can losslessly crop to both resolutions while leaving headroom when filming to meet both requirements. I feel that way too, if you shoot a wide variety of paying projects especially both photography and video it is easier to understand how the very strong features for both that the R5 II and Canon ecosystem offers are very appealing. The new R series cameras literally offer something for every scenario you could possibly face in a single body. Is it the absolute best at photography....no. Is it the absolute best at video....no. But when you only want to carry one body and you need to satisfy your paying client regardless of the project it is good enough 95% of the time. The Canon ecosystem also offers a very natural progression into cinema/longform content via the C70 where you can easily match CLOG3 and now with the R5II CLOG2 between a hybrid body and the C70. Canon is definitely pricey, they are certainly not without their controversy (cripple hammer, overheating, etc.) but I do feel like overall they cater to the do it all acceptably well category better than any other vendor except maybe the Nikon Z series which I don't know much about but which look fantastic on paper.

Well that went tits up... First the fact that 26mp medium raw is not compatible with any current batch editing software which meant shooting everything at 61mp which was not the plan. Then the thing keeps locking up. Or rather not switching on at random times forcing battery out, battery in, which is hardly ideal at key moments. It has happened now 2-3 times on each of the 3 shoots I have used it on. Not good enough. Plus it just is not as good in low light as the Nikon Zf/Z6II or any of my 24mp Lumix cameras. It just isn't. So I'm returning it and selling everything Nikon and Tamron. For what? My trusty fave camera of all time, my S1H which has a ridiculous trade in value of around €700. OK, I need to buy a couple of lenses and I have to compromise on my stills camera set up going back to between 2.5/3kg in my hand, but it also puts €6k+ back into my account. Lesson learned. L Mount is just the best system for me so I need to stop dicking about with any and everything else. Samyang 35-150mm f2/2.8 arriving next week in time for my next shoot and Sigma 28-45mm f1.8 on preorder for my indoor and low light lens. Oh well, I tried. S9 arrives tomorrow and was going to replace one of the S5II's which in turn replaced the S1H which was going to be sold, but it's simply a case of repurpose the S1H back into being a stills camera, a role it has fulfilled before superbly. And will once again. Maybe an S2R or S2H next year, but for the rest of this one, probably not. S5II x2 in a static role for video + S9 run & gun + S1H stills. Done. For now...

Something tells me the R1 is not the last 1 series EOS R camera to come... https://www.eoshd.com/news/hint-wait-for-the-canon-eos-r1x/ After all, back in the day they did split the 1D and 1DS didn't they?