Andrew Reid

It sounds like you'd be better looking at Nikon Z6 with Fringer EF adapter. It's practically an EOS R6 for autofocus and 4K recording... But dead cheap. Other than that, C200, C500 II, might be options? I did It's just that nobody watched or read it Most Canon users live in a state of constant denial.

That's another reason why it would be great to have a modern S35 2.5K or 2.8K sensor... 240fps without a crop or pixel binning... in BRAW. They really missed a trick going straight from 1080p to 4K. In fact the entire industry did! Not everybody needs 4K, even now. What we DO need is a cinematic image better than 1080p. When 8K comes with the EOS R5, it'll be interesting to see if people are still using it after 1 week.

Rather than go full frame as has been rumoured (let alone 8K), I think Blackmagic should bring back the old BMCC 2.5K sensor for a $999 model and do an updated Pocket 6K with same S35 sensor, but mirrorless L-mount or E-mount. Then they should go to work on the body and make a proper camera, not a potato, and sell for $2000. Minimum standard: Build quality to at least Panasonic GH5 or X-T4 level Large built in EVF like the competition Fully articulated screen, even if they have to make it smaller IBIS would be ideal Fix the battery life. it's completely unacceptable on the single Canon battery PDAF would be nice Then we have all the makings of a giant killer.

With the decline of retail stores, the tech industry has found a replacement for shop salespeople. YouTubers and reviewers. In fact these are far more effective with much greater reach and they don't even need to be paid actual hard cash. With the general public currently hypnotised by the lifestyle aspects of these channels (i.e. Philip Bloom style glossy videos), it's an easy sell. For this all to work so well, the public have to be in their current online addicted narcissist state. I really like Stewart Lee's take on this, it is the absolute truth and bloody funny. I was reading a few takes by the usual camera press on the Olympus situation recently. To determine how high the level of control is over the press, even a dying company continues to hold reviewers in a rapture. This Imaging Resource piece for instance, where they compare the transfer of Olympus imaging to vulture capitalists JIP to Sony buying Minolta!! Don't forget these are top editors with links to almost every PR person in the camera industry. https://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2020/06/25/can-olympus-thrive-after-the-sale-madavors-photo-editors-talk-it-through It isn't up to me to tell you whether it is outright lying or just complete denial / delusion! But it is one of the two. "Wes Pitts (Outdoor Photographer and Digital Photo editorial director): It could be a good thing in the long run. Olympus has struggled for a while now. Though it's not a totally analogous circumstance, this "carve-out" reminds me of the sale of Konica Minolta's image assets to Sony. That move eventually led to Sony completely disrupting the traditional DSLR market and emerging as the leader in mirrorless" William Brawley (Imaging Resource senior editor): Good thinking, Wes! I sure hope this new "Olympus Imaging company" does indeed follow a similar Konica Minolta-Sony path. It has also become clear that there is an orchestrated cartel of YouTubers, probably with agencies and managers pulling the strings. The occasional comment, the occasional share, it is not organic but completely pre-determined by a promotional strategy. A quid pro quo situation. 'You do this for me and I'll do this for you, and it boosts both channels' I think it is sickening the amount of shilling types out there and the way buyers are being manipulated.

In the latest issue of FDTimes there's a very interesting interview with the Japanese director behind the Sigma Fp short-ish film https://2stxv23ezngh2b8peu3esf6u-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/103-FDTimes-300-SIGMA-fp2.00.pdf Worth a read

It would be great if Blackmagic put an BRAW FPGA in a small Ninja Star alike module, but have it powered via USB C rather than a brick of a battery. Actually scrub that. Put the chip in an USB C SSD, and have it convert the uncompressed 12bit RAW before it gets written to the drive. NvME size if possible.

I turn a blind eye to the AF as well. You should give it an AI eye add on Apparently according to Kazuto 30% of Fp sales were body only, indicating that manual focus lenses and adapters will be getting a lot of use on it! Autofocus, IBIS, built in EVF and tilt screen... Blackmagic Pocket 6K lacks them all! And so does the Fp. It’ll not be the A7 III replacement for the specs sheep. But just look at the images. 12bit BRAW 4K vs 8bit Sony XAVC! I may get the viewfinder loupe for it. And gorilla pod for handheld work. You can argue it would look less weird than IBIS if used nicely this way.

In my opinion the camera industry could learn a lot from the open source community. Having so many exclusive patents and licenses really hurts the entire industry. Every single company would benefit from an open source compressed RAW codec. I think it is also what keeps us from better integration of the external solutions as well. We are never going to progress from a HDMI cables, because as soon as an external recorder connects more directly with a camera body, it probably counts as internal recording and thus violates the RED patent. It stops more modular designs. I would love to know what ideas and products RED's patent has killed off and whether this actually makes RED money in the long term. I don't think it does. Fair play to Mr Nattress. His work deserves long-term, rich reward. But come on. It's time to push forward together as one industry.

Considering the price difference to the Amira, the S1 and S1H hold up very well in comparison, a cinematic dynamic range is no longer the exclusive privilege of ARRI MAVO LF and Pocket 6K are also on a similar level in that test. So yes, the URSA G2 dynamic range, if it is better than Pocket 6K, is not distributed very far down in the blacks that's for sure.

I agree. Well, real RAW sensor data is RAW sensor data so it can be converted and displayed as LOG format footage on the recorder. Will have to see what the Ninja V is capable of doing with it and whether LUTs work. Your last question - are you referring to the output of the Fp HDMI port for ProRes RAW recording or something else? The Sigma Fp outputs 12bit RAW data over HDMI. ProRes RAW codec compression is not done by the camera of course - that's the job of the Ninja V, so there isn't 8bit ProRes RAW over HDMI. In fact there is no such thing as ProRes RAW over HDMI as it doesn't originate in the camera. It is RAW sensor data over HDMI and ProRes RAW in your external recorder. It's just easier to phrase it like the former, ProRes RAW via HDMI.

BRAW could have a great future if they license it to other manufacturers. Bit of a pain having to buy an external recorder for it. Here is the choice for Blackmagic... Do they have the most successful RAW codec on the planet in all sorts of cameras by Sony, Panasonic, etc. and massively well adopted NLE (Resolve) or do they reserve BRAW for some Pocket potatoes?

It's that one. Any plans to get a Ninja V?

Like this?

Yeah 1080p only for HDR video mode. It will be interesting to see what dynamic range benefits it brings and how it is doing it. Look at all that moire and line skipping in the 4K RAW. Terrible isn't it!?

Indeed not all mirrorless lenses are digitally corrected for distortion, vignetting, etc. And I wouldn't want to correct for vignetting anyway, I prefer my lenses to have some graceful fall off in the corners wide open (not a hard vignette you understand, of course) The Leica Q is an example of a heavily digitally corrected optic. I have found nothing this extreme amongst full frame mirrorless lenses. Simply shoot RAW and open the file in an app that doesn't apply the corrections to find out.

OK fair enough then! A bit odd to announce it and then unannounced. But I guess they'll have to save something for the Fp 2. Imagine that for a moment - an Fp 2 with 10bit LOG, IBIS, EVF, articulated screen. In the meantime since they have fixed the fluctuating black gamma I'll look at doing Pro LOG for the Sigma Fp and some LUTs. Will have to see how it performs though so no promises.

Nice colours. Did you try the new HDR mode too?

Still better than no RAW at all from Sony. I can't find his quote anywhere though. I saw the product planner saying LOG was coming. Not the quote from him saying they cancelled it. Feel free to screen shot it for us.

I see the dilemma Panasonic had over costs, small size, and so on. What I don't understand is how they can justify such a stripped back G100 in 2020, but give us a superior-for-video GX85 in 2016 for < £500 with IBIS, it's small, cheap, minimal crop in 4K with an old sensor, I feel the parts donor for the G100 just isn't right. It should have been the GX85 with latest firmware features and fully articulating screen for vlogging. And if they wanted to go super-small, it should have been LX100 spec. Not LX100 II with the extra 4K crop. Instead they went for GX9 in even smaller body. Wrong choice. IBIS is a crucial unique selling point for YouTubers interested in Micro Four Thirds!

I will ask Sigma about it as well. Let's see if this is actually correct, as we don't know if the source C5D asked is a senior engineer or someone in sales.

It is first item in the quick menu so one button press and you can change ISO on the dial. I do agree that you should be able to configure ISO to a different button though.

So does the ARRI Alexa

Yes but it still looks amazing and is half the price of the 6K S1H, which is the only one to do the full 6K RAW output. To say it has line skipping artefacts is a big exaggeration in my opinion. The image is very nice. I am curious to see if the Super 35mm mode works in ProRes RAW / BRAW. Something else Sigma could look at in the future is a 1.3x crop mode for native DCI 4K RAW without the downsampling.

What a TERRIBLE camera! R3D or at least the overall compressed RAW patent. Would help out the industry a lot.

Interesting take on the Olympus news here: http://www.sansmirror.com/newsviews/2020-mirrorless-camera/good-m43-news-bad-m43-news.html Particularly about some of the statements Olympus made in the run up to this decision.