Andrew Reid

Coronavirus isn't classed as a global pandemic yet. As the chart shows, it isn't killing proportionally more young people with a strong immune system like you suggested earlier. They are almost all 60+ You see this is what's great about watching the BBC (even in its current Tory government crippled form) you can come to the internet armed with the facts and not some bullshit. So you run out of high-spec DRAM and it has no affect on high-end cameras, how did you work that one out? No DRAM = no camera! A7 series is not small volume, they make tens of thousands a month! In addition each camera is a big memory hog - LSI, buffer, even stacked sensor, and it is fast stuff too. This is exactly what Sony is trying to mitigate. Cutting DRAM use across all ranges of devices, to keep the PS5 BOM cost down. Expensive wine comes in more expensive glass?! 🤨 🤨 🤨 🤨 🤨 🤨 🤨 🤨 🤨 Low margin product or low cost? Big difference. It's quite possible the A7S III is a low margin product and they are cutting down on the larger buffer, or stacked sensor DRAM, or some form of 4K/120fps that makes possible, instead sticking with 4K/60p and keeping the PS5 BOM under $450... And I bet it is not just one product they are making sure doesn't divert vast quantities of short supply DRAM away from the PS5. Probably the same decisions are being made in Sony's smartphone division.

Quite extreme conspiracy theories mate!! I think in the aftermath, China's government wished it away for 1 month and tried to get the doctors to shut up, and then the government really started to shit themselves once they realised the virus was a novel infection and incredibly dangerous. Of course they are trying hard to contain it, and other governments are as well. If they wanted to create some evil virus to destroy other countries, they'd make a vaccine first and give everyone in China immunity, keep the vaccine to themselves and let the virus loose, no need to kill 2% of the population with the flu. I am not sure why some of the world's citizens have this view of China as an evil non-people, when they are people just like you and I, working within a system and (mostly) doing their best. The Chinese government is immensely powerful and has flaws, no doubt, but it isn't set on wiping out the planet with a lab-made disease.

Cheaper and a lot more fun, alas we don't get to choose what our passions are in life, they choose us, apparently!

Panasonic loaned me the S1H so that was free! Unlike the Fuji! The S1H is going on a trip as well, so we will be seeing more of that The GFX 100 don't forget has a DCI 4K full frame crop mode from 60 megapixel sensor window. So if you love a particular full frame lens, put it on there... I am interested to see how the 4K stands up in full frame mode, quality wise against the S1H and @BTM_Pix's Pocket 6K. In this respect it is Fuji's first 4K full frame camera There is also a Super 35mm crop mode for people who buy a medium format camera, but want to slap an Arriflex lens on the front. Yes, I am one of those idiots.

It really is a nice image if you find the light and yes global shutter works well, but I'd consider the BM Prod 4K if I were you, it is probably $600 used now. The original URSA is just massive. Yes DR and highlight roll off not the best so take that into account, but it can have a lovely film like silky smooth look too, with great colour science. By the way whilst we're on the subject of old but good cameras... Why aren't you all over the 1D C yet?! BMPC4K 3840 x 2160 frame grab:

The OnePlus 7T is decent but image processor not on par with Mate 30 Pro. The oversampled 10MP from the Huawei are HUGELY detailed and clean, with natural textures, whereas the 108MP images on the Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro are a bit smeery and it has a soft lens, although end results still very good for a smartphone, they are really not 108MP worth of detail. I just think the Mate 30 Pro has the edge on processing and trickery. It really is quite amazing. DXOMark are a fun read, but results should be taken with a pinch of salt because for one thing they don't test RAW and for another they don't tell us the camera settings or picture profiles used for each shot! Still you get an idea though, it's a very helpful French resource

Panasonic S1H already doing 6K so not a huge leap to 16:9 tv standard "8K" which is actually 7.6K resolution horizontal. 5.5K 60p is about the same datarate too and that is here in 1D X III Smartphones may soon have 8K in very small, thin fanless encasings, with tiny thin copper heatsinks So yes it is very doable in 2020, but will it be any use or any good, or just a marketing label? We'll soon find out

To reflect reality the site name would have to change every month!

Don't make a gofundme for me, I'll just spend it on more cameras!

X-H2 anyone? With the X-T4 confirmed to be staying at 4K, a big 8K door swings opens for a higher spec hybrid camera from Fujifilm. https://www.eoshd.com/news/is-this-the-fuji-x-h2-sensor-with-12bit-8k/

I have the Techart one! As the camera will be as fresh as the UK chancellor, I probably won't know how to use it... just as he doesn't know how to use the economy. But unlike with my Blackmagic P6K if there are any problems I am sure I can just ask Fuji and we may in return have some suggestions for them... At least I don't expect Fuji's marketing man shouting at me afterwards saying I have brought the wrong tool to the job! I am quite the Fuji fanboy now in fact As loyal as a puppy, and super biased.

The original URSA with the flip out television screen on the side? Or the later one That 4K sensor was in the Production Camera and it is ISO 400 max. Yes it is a nice image if you keep the ISO very low and don't raise the shadows in post (a lot of fixed pattern noise) But the form factor... Awful.

Yes to Barcelona with its recent crime spree off we go... better disguise it as a Hasselblad Luna or something, nobody would want to nick that Bring your bluetooth hacks for Fuji

A good deal on an open box one came up so I snaffled it. Before I am officially bankrupt and have to sell EOSHD to Cinema5D, at least I get to shoot some medium format 4K Here is the plan... I got a bit frustrated waiting for the X-H2, with the will-it-won't-it exist situation. I have the X-T3, X-Pro 3, X-H1, X-Pro 2, all really are too similar. Why do I have 4? I don't know. I am an addict and need help. I'll sell all those and GFX 50S, which depreciated in price like a bastard. Going to sell it for about £2800, which at least goes toward funding the GFX 100. It's a terrible time to buy a new camera. So much on the horizon. But it's all full frame or APS-C. Yes the EOS R5, 1D X III, X-H2 if we ever see one, A7S III will be on my radar and will definitely shoot with them and review them on EOSHD... But they're not medium format! Do I need another similar camera to the ones I already have? Or sell em all and get something truly special... The look is different on the GFX 100 and it is a unique in the world one of a kind camera in 2020. Ok, the amazing 4K image may trickle down to a lower priced 50R II or something like that... But before that happens I will make sure I get out quick because I do not want to end up with a GFX 100 that is worth £3k on eBay. Until then, I'll enjoy the wonder that is the GFX 100 and wait to see if the EOS R5 is all its cracked up to be. Will the 8K be any good? Will it shoot 10bit? Will it have RAW? Or are we in for a disappointment? The GFX 100 is certainty of high-end video features and 10bit with superb Fuji colours, and it's here right now. Fast apertures and full frame lenses on medium format are a real pleasure too... I love the look and it's never been seen before a mirrorless medium format camera arrived. Those swirly edges remained a mystery. And yes... I need help!

It's a productive addiction unlike drugs!

Would rather have no 6K on the X-T4 than no X-H2. I'm not so disappointed as long as the X-H2 is coming this year. Fuji would be stupid not to. X-T4 is still a very good camera and a good upgrade to the X-T3 which didn't come out so long ago. One of the best cameras under $2k.

I can see a digital bolex style body which you slot your phone into. Shame the smartphone lenses are still quite clinical. C-mount mod anyone?

Here's a graded one instead (and a bit less camera shake!) Give it a good old pixel peep at 100%

How long before we get 8K RAW on a smartphone? Here is 7.2K RAW on the Mate 30 Pro (still DNG of course) Sensor quality gap is narrowing to enthusiast interchangeable lens cam Although something is wrong with how Adobe Camera Raw interprets colour

That "crappy" 5D Mk II and the Panasonic GH1 are why this entire forum exists. It's about the liberty and artistic freedom you get from the small cameras and a democratic playing-field. A wonderful thing. But with Blackmagic URSAs, overkill Pocket 6K rigs and old camcorders we seem to be heading the opposite direction again. Yes I get that clients want HUGE expensive looking pro rigs, and there may be some business sense in investing in an Alexa, or even a poor man's Alexa. But selling Fuji X-T30 to get an F3 just seems pointless to me. A fun experiment, but hellish in reality. I wouldn't like to be the one handling that weight and inconvenient ergonomics, and the image quality 'advantages' are pretty dubious. It's such an old camera. It was nowhere near an Alexa or F35 in terms of a cinematic look and feel. Now we are much closer to an Alexa's image with something like an X-T30 or Panasonic S1, and you want to shoot F3... It's bonkers. In the short-lived era of the F3 in-between the small chip EX1 and much better FS7, how many people would have killed to have a 4K shooting X-T30? GH1 was successful for a reason and only shot AVCHD WHY!?

Subtly brilliant. Seems to work with my Mate 30 Pro. The file that comes out of it is quite incredible really. Definitely cinematic.

Same guy at the Japan Times https://www.japantimes.co.jp/author/takashi-mochizuki/ Maybe it is indeed a load of old amateur DRAMatics

I hear there is a new virus coming from cameras, the first camera to human transmission has happened already with Red users. They say the species of camera which originally spread the virus is the GFX 100 so if you come across one of those at Map Camera you better let them know you have come to take it away. Don't forget to go in wearing a biohazard suit. Wild camera markets should all be banned and any remaining Iscoramas sent to me so I can disinfect them safely. There is a very small chance the virus may mutate into something even more serious which literally makes Blackmagic users brains go invisible. To stop that happening and to avoid a worldwide blackmagic plague, Grant Petty must immediately put an EVF, IBIS, autofocus and E-mount on a 6K Pocket camera, and hand it out for free to EOSHD users. The WHO agrees that is the only solution.

Saying Vespertilio instead of bats doesn't make you sound cleverer. Of course China had no intention of having this virus spread. I just view the infectious disease research lab in Wuhan with a bit more suspicion than a food market.

Much as I enjoy talking about death statistics on a camera forum... Just going to point this out and be done with arguing with you. 0.02% between 10-39 died. If you take people in their 30's alone, the percentage is even smaller and probably only greater than zero because China murdered a doctor. So when you say "Actually virulent virus tends to take out proportionately greater numbers of young healthy people" Maybe it's you who doesn't know what you're talking about. Which is a bit worrying if you really do work for big pharma! Either that, or it doesn't apply in the case of the coronavirus and flu. Which is what we're talking about here. Still - It is a disaster and a tragedy for China and for the economy. My thoughts are with all those affected - the sick and those livelihoods ruined, from the lone businessmen to entire trades (like tourism) put on hold indefinitely. As for camera manufacturing, everyone who relies on a supply chain of parts from China will be impacted not just Sony. DRAM is a problem for Sony, you can't deny it. It is in every camera they make. If the supply dries up they are fucked. But yes... It's all the slow processor's fault if A7 IV doesn't have a fast DRAM buffered sensor readout 🤨