Andrew Reid

I ignore all chart tests for colour. Lab accuracy doesn't equal best colour science!

It is still as photographed, except for some of the screws rolling off the table and into my vacuum cleaner A real adventure taking that apart. I did at least manage to defeat my laziness and put the other one back together. do you think WEX will mind if I put the other one as-is, in a bag, and return it under their 30 day policy?

Keep an eye on the video above today. Blackmagic will live stream "Camera Update" and "Post Production" news later. Read the full article

Going to feature this on the blog post! But when I embed it says the privacy settings don't allow it. Weird! Any way you can change it?

Some great stuff here. I'll go through it and add them to the vote. Blog post soon! I'll let people submit until midnight tonight (7th August 00:00 UK time)

LOL. It's not the camera. What problem with your computer / display do you have? What player did you see the moire in?

Canon has Peter McKinnon, but maybe they need the combined bullshitting power of Peter AND gelaxstudio too. GELAX... is that a lubricant or a condom brand?

A fraction behind the ultimate 6K -> 4K oversampled image on a chart, but better in real-world due to larger sensor, would be a better topic title ?

A complete troll of a headline, from somebody who doesn't even know what he's looking at. He's crudely re-scaled the screen grabs... Looks like they are off his phone! Here are the full JPEGs from DPReview. Click, download, crop in and look at 100%. Sony A7 III Panasonic S1 The Fuji X-T3 is the best resolving camera on the market at the moment. However the difference is very minor. The chart is designed to show even minor differences that vanish in normal viewing conditions when not pixel peeping, or on a normal subject. Viewing footage in a cinema, the small differences would also vanish due to viewing distances. And we've had the argument before with the EOS R that pin-sharpness is not what you want. It isn't cinematic. You need a natural looking image, which you can add sharpness to in post when needed and 99% of the time it isn't. Also Dpreview did the chart test before the V-LOG codec upgrade came out and the don't specify their sharpness settings. The S1 doesn't have a moire problem and it resolves 4K as well as the top 5% of cameras DPReview have tested over the years.

Let's set a final day then, I'm too impatient Can't wait to see the bargains and unusual finds you guys have come up with. So the final day to post your video will be Monday 5th August at 20:00 GMT+0. Then we can start voting and then later in the week the big reveal of kit.

What's the source for the info? Would be interesting to get more details about that. I suspect because HDMI video is YUV and so the 12bit 444 is debayered in-camera first, thus not RAW. The RAW data can be sent over the LAN protocol of HDMI if it's fast enough for it. And if it doesn't infringe any patents in Wild Wild West US OF A. I don't think that's how 12bit 444 works, it's not a stream of RAW sensor values, it's a processed, demosaiced image with white balance and stuff baked in. Probably conjecture, but depends who the source is? You can still do RAW from a pixel binned or downscaled sensor output. So 6K full frame on Z6 -> 4K RAW is perfectly possible. For example - Magic Lantern manage 1080p RAW without a crop on 8 year old hardware! For me I need internal raw above external. But I would like to get what was promised, and soon. Very curious to see what the image is like.

True but Leica were at death's door in 2004. In 2005 Dr Andreas Kaufmann put them on the path to digital, and that got Leica back on their feet. Cooperation with Panasonic helped too. The luxury goods market is almost as fickle as the consumer one, just more robust in an economic downturn. If normal people, whether rich or poor start leaving their cameras at home, eventually they forget they need one and they'll be out of sight, out of mind, a big cultural and fashion shift away... I know people who just "aren't in that game anymore" when it comes to desktop PCs for instance, and once these people leave, it's very hard to get them back. Japan needs to face the growing crisis head on. The enthusiast market alone is just not enough to sustain the level of investment necessary. Hate to be a doomsayer, a gloomster, but it's the truth. I only hope the next generation who start on smartphones, graduate to something a bit more exciting later. The young are our only hope.

What a load of shit this video is.

Thank you. Yes seems the threads at end of July 31st were affected and some older ones. I'm looking into it. Definitely don't want to break the site!!

Attaching those A6500 pics again as previous ones vanished! What a masterpiece of thermal engineering ?

Just ran a process on the forum software to migrate the images and attachments (8 years worth) to Amazon S3. The server had nearly ran out of space! Unfortunately it seemed the forum software needs fixing because there are now multiple broken images. If you spot a thread with broken images, please list it below and I will show them to the forum software support people so they can look into what happened. And if you notice any other bugs please let me know, for instance your last post not clearing from the text editor properly.

A race to the bottom and not legit. Thread closed.

Probably Q/A process is fucking pedantic at Nikon. Nevertheless, why don't they just come out and give us an update and a new ETA. It's a bit strange. They are ominously quiet about it.

Companies that are as specialised in a field as Blackmagic are don't usually take that big leap to a different one, but I could see them putting better stills capabilities on the future Pocket cameras, certainly... Or hopefully, a new concept which is a bit more inspired and featured packed than the Pocket 4K was.

Having taken apart an A6500 before, I can see why Sony have such bad overheating issues. Internal layout is a pile of pants. They need to take a lesson from Panasonic & Sigma. Very thin heat spreader on the processors and RAM. No heat pipes. Heat spreader backs onto the warm rear LCD, trapping the heat. The Sigma Fp solution with proper heat sink sandwiched between the processor and screen but vents at the side in open air, not to the back of the screen, is much cleverer and shows you can still keep a thin, small camera, but manage heat effectively. Laptops show you can have a thin design with heatpipes. Sony just can't be arsed.

They found space in an E-mount camera for one already. They may say that, but by "better" are they going to play a numbers game for no benefit to end user... pixel binned 8K nobody wants, bigger numbers on the box, all about specs... Or are they going to deliver a proper filmmaker's tool instead?

Ha. It's a non-starter. No home connection would be good enough even fibre, and fair-use bandwidth would be too limited. Upstream is too slow. And server would be very slow to communicate with some parts of the world internet backbone too, and when you start playing Fortnite, even worse

Backblaze looks interesting. Will give that some thought.

Not saying everyone and everything is bad on the internet. Try to focus Emmanuel. Try to focus on the topic. The tangents and poems are charming but I wish for once we could keep things on topic!!

Missing the point, much? All you can blabber on about is how entertained or not you are. The real issues is ethical. Embarrassing people in a coffee shop prank to further your egotistical little immature youtube channel, for instance, is an unintelligent psychotic thing to do and if you get a kick from it, if you laugh and you don't get a bitter taste in the mouth, you need to seriously look in the mirror, and not just at yourself but at your country and your culture. Oh that makes it ok then! Tell it to the girl who thought she was on the verge of a rape and will remember that particularly salty 'prank' for the rest of her life. But it's ok because Bradberry is failing his way to the top of the media world. It's ok, a glittering YouTube career awaits and massive influence over youth culture. Wonderful. I don't know what that has to do with YouTube or idiots like Bradberry at all. People from all social classes work hard. It doesn't come down to class, it comes down to how hard you work. Some are doing more positive work than others, that much is pretty fucking evident. And some people have much less tolerance for unethical bullshit than others as well.