Andrew Reid

Meanwhile at the Pentax product meeting...

Everybody think Nikon started the DSLR video revolution with the D90 in 2009 but actually it started in 1988 for Nikon With a stills-video camera that you put floppy disks in the back of... https://www.digitalkameramuseum.de/en/esvc/item/nikon-qv-1000c-1988 They also had a very snazzy 10-40mm F1.4 zoom lens for it. $15k for the black and white (monochrome sensor) version. Before that there was the infamous Nikon Color Video Camera fuck-up. https://imaging.nikon.com/history/chronicle/cousins20-e/index.htm In the early 2000's they got to the twisty grip XC-10 point, ergonomically, long before Canon! No 10bit 4K though. If pro cine cameras are still going to be a no-go for Fuji, then they should at least do this with the X-H2... - Internal electronically variable ND like FS5 - Same small body design but larger and clearer display to focus off - Detachable EVF like GFX 100 - Wider than APS-C sensor (multi-aspect) - 4K 120fps Or failing that just the ND and larger screen with X-T3 sensor, thanks.

Key part from the DeepL translation: "The X series offers a range of cameras with different features to suit different shooting situations and styles, while maintaining the same image quality. That's why we want the X-H series to be a camera with a distinctly different concept than the X-T series. The camera is intended for users with different shooting purposes and scenes, including video functions. There is no point in having the two series coexist if they are simply different in design and operation. We are currently looking into this and other matters, so please give us a little more time." So it sounds like the models became too similar in features and functionality, and they need more time to differentiate the specs sheets. It is likely the X-H2 will be a power house, with RAW video, maybe even ProRes, I am sure they are studying each aspect and asking what pros want. The problem is the pricing... APS-C doesn't really allow much headroom beyond £1500.

Is it coronavirus?

The X-H1 seems to be £699 brand new at the moment and I don't see how Fuji make any money at that price. It's such a well built and high-spec camera. The shutter mechanism alone is one of the most advanced mechanical designs in any modern camera on the market. If I were them, I'd have released the X-H2 already and bumped the price back up, getting shot of the old one. I thought it might have been discontinued at one stage, but I think they are still making them and sales seem ok? I'd argue with Fuji that the difference in design and operability alone does allow it to coexist quite happily!

The X-H1 was nigh on perfect, Fuji should just put the X-T3 sensor & 10bit in it and get it out the door. I don't see the need for any complete re-imagining to be honest, although some sort of electronically variable ND glass over the sensor would be nice.

Just an experiment really. I had a visible light cut filter for my lens and wanted to shoot the piece only in infrared wavelength Also had memories of taking out the AA filter from the 5D3 back in the day which let some more IR into the image, when mixed with normal light it gives you a nice warmth to certain colours and brings up the shadows.

Back in the 1960's most people consumed films at home on really awful pokey black & white TVs but Kubrick did not decide to downgrade his camera as a result

Has anybody tried taking the IR cut filter out of their GX85 yet I did for the EOSHD low budget camera challenge I broke mine but second attempt went well on a body I found for under £200. Should really share that footage some day

Hello Fred yes I am back in England, back arguing with the forum members Thanks for asking. I made it back on a rescue flight, after nearly 2 weeks stuck. Not a bad place to be in quarantine though. Barcelona was handling things very well.

I'd like to hear more about Fast Cinema DNG and the Rec 2020 results in ProRes. I find grading LOG a lot easier than DNG. Smaller file sizes, faster editing, more fluid playback, less demanding on the system, yet pretty much identical image quality. RAW is a great recording format because nothing is sacrificed. Then you can throw the most powerful image processor you've got behind it - your PC - and come up with creamy 10bit ProRes 4444. Back when I had a Blackmagic camera, I used to shoot ProRes 9 times out of 10 rather than RAW. RAW is a great way to get LOG out of the Sigma Fp whilst it lacks it in-camera too. But ProRes is what I want to edit and grade.

Well you know where to discuss it

Yes still different entities. But still no medium format Alpha to compete with the GFX 100! 😂

What were you going to shoot on?

Thanks for your opinion. So just to be clear... No more 5-6 videos per post. Just select 1, a good one. Or better yet, get your camera out and help others to figure out that particular model and what works well with it in terms of lenses, workflows, etc.

Yes light years ahead... But still no 10bit mirrorless camera!

I don't mind a few things, if they are of GOOD quality and informative. The problem is when people just dump any old shit into the thread just because it happens to be on the same topic. And I can't tolerate flooding every thread with clips and bumping posts with YouTube shit, for many reasons - firstly, that it encourages people to leave the site and watch stuff elsewhere, and not contribute, thus killing a topic here.

I agree we should bring the Sigma Fp thread back on topic. I'm going to clean it up.

This is not the YouTube Video Digest Can we cut down on threads where there are 3 or 4 youtube clips in every post? How about making or OWN content rather than reposts?

"Output Color Spaces: sRGB, Rec.709, AdobeRGB, Rec.2020"

Videos like these are just superb. The Canon 55mm FD F1.2 SSC Aspherical is a big improvement over the older version. Would be good to see him test that in a follow-up. I like what Kipon are doing. Don't like the images wide open from the 40mm though, sadly. Draws a lot of attention to itself and it ain't cheap! I'd go for one of their BavEyes adapters instead and vintage glass.

Fuji did an interview with MapCamera in Japan. Translation: https://www.fujirumors.com/fujifilm-manager-talks-x-t4-and-more-we-want-to-make-fujifilm-x-h2-fujifilm-x-t3-firmware-update-under-consideration/ "The mere difference in design and operability does not make it possible for the X-H and X-T series to coexist. Fujifilm is currently studying these issues" So this could explain the delay and rumours of cancellation. It seems Fuji want to segment the lines more strongly. They have also added so much video functionality into the X-T4, it makes their life harder when it comes to the X-H2. It would have to be borderline pro-camcorder now, to avoid 'coexisting' with the X-T series. Which makes me think they will reinvent the concept? Like a XC10 type body? Or even as a pro video camera to challenge the FS5 II? "Fujifilm would like to make the XH series a camera with a clearly different concept from the XT series" "Fujifilm wants to continue with the concept of the XH series, which is different from the T series" So they don't want to cancel, that is the good news. But they don't want to give it the same specs as the X-T4 but a different design and 'operability'. Finally some good news for X-T3 owners... "Fujifilm X-T3 firmware update is under consideration" "Certainly, it is physically possible to add new functions to X-T3, since the sensor and processor is the same of the X-T4"

Thanks for starting the new thread. How about a utility or app that converts Cinema DNG to ProRes in rec 2020 space, which you can then edit and grade in Adobe Premiere? Has this been covered yet?

Yes I am fine with the technical talk. But we don't need some ultra dry conversation about Resolve hijacking the thread for 20 pages. It's time to move on. Thanks for opening a new thread for it @Lars Steenhoff But first I have a story to share with you about Mr Hook here. When I used to be a Blackmagic user myself, I blogged this article: https://www.eoshd.com/news/blackmagic-respond-eoshd-supporting-existing-cameras-audio-levels-histograms-way/ A pretty positive piece on the whole but it does do a bit of investigative journalism as to why the firmware updates and black hole fixes weren't out for existing cameras yet and why Blackmagic introduced URSA before fixing the existing cameras. The article clearly reached Blackmagic HQ and a damage limitation exercise began. This was 2014 and the reason for "CaptainHook" joining the forum. His first comment? To lambast me for basic journalism. I had taken a screen shot of one of John Brawley's public Vimeo clips demonstrating how the black hole problem was fixed with an update. And here was Mr Hook trying to hack away at the article and get content removed from it. Let me tell you all I do not put up with hostility like this from camera companies where it concerns freedom of speech. And I don't react well to someone implying my article was shit and that nofilmschool covered the announcements better. CaptainHook then flounced off the face of the earth for the next 4 years without a single contribution to the forum or PM to me. Not once has he ever been in touch or at all friendly to me. I guess that is the job of the PR guy, huh?! CaptainHook may say he is here 'on his own time'. And it may look like to you guys that he is helping Blackmagic pocket users "directly" with his high level of expertise and knowledge. Actually it is purely marketing. The guy is here to make Blackmagic look good. And perhaps 'more connected' to their user-base. They even have a guy spamming me Blackmagic news tip offs by email. I do not accept advertising and sock puppets in the community especially not ones who are rude to me straight off the bat from 4 years back, or ones disguising themselves as an oracle or 'here for the users'. If Blackmagic want to communicate directly with their users, there is a place for that. It is on their own website. It should NOT be in the Sigma Fp topic on EOSHD.

Most people come to learn more broadly about the camera, but we've had pages and pages of this now and it's really dragging on. It should be a separate topic. CaptainHook please forgive me, it's nothing personal. I just absolutely hate the company you work for.