Andrew Reid

For me the master of deep depth of field photography is the iPhone. On a large sensor, the whole point for me is fast apertures and that subject separation even at a distance. Very three dimensional. I wish somebody would do another Digital Bolex for when I want deep DOF cinema. Maybe, maybe not. What if it's all just coolaid marketing from Sony... And the real reason for the no-show, is that the A7S II didn't sell all that well compared to the others and cannibalised some of their FS sales too. If that's the case maybe Sony are just not giving the project the priority it deserves, which is why it's taking so long. Who knows... Just have to wait and see. It's very disappointing to have to wait 4 years though... Given the innovation showed by others (Fuji, Panasonic, Blackmagic, even Nikon.) It's a nice list isn't it... Reads like our unrealistic dream wish lists from just 2 years ago. Here's how Sony can add to it: Better AF Built in ND Erm. That's about it. I don't need 8K. I am not sure what else they will bring in the A7S III that will be more useful and practical than being able to focus and expose properly without hassle.

It's not a first world problem, they have the same problem in the third world as well, a casual acceptance of people like Bradberry... which has got us to this point. H3H3's response is exactly the fight back that's needed. Not like they weren't famous in the first place anyway. Jake Paul had far more subscribers than H3H3. Parodying them is ok, it's satire, the subtext is - look at these psychopath jackass idiots and how deluded they are and that they don't deserve any respect whatsoever. Another thing I have noticed is that if someone doesn't like the behaviour of an idiot in public, or if they're being anti-social, and they call them out for it - the snobbery card comes up. "You're just a snob, don't tell us what to do"... If for example, I told @thebrothersthre3 to stop watching anti-social idiots for his own entertainment on YouTube and to instead read a book, I'm sure he'd think I was being a first world snob... When actually, it's fucking good advice.

I-Frame capable... So an ALL-I codec then? If so, 240MBit is pushing it a bit. 10bit LOG in 150Mbit Long-GOP would probably look better. Yes correct the 10bit codec on the S1 is same as EVA1 offers... However the EVA also has an ALL-I option I believe. Netflix probably want hassle free editing and workflow, without computational overhead of a Long GOP codec.

eBay and PayPal are next for the chop. Suggestions welcome. Could open my own online camera shop without too much difficulty at first. Scaling up, needs full time employees but everything's doable.

Sounds interesting. I will hop on Amazon and see if they have it. I remember the time when I just wanted to turn off every screen and every light in the house and read a book by candle light, to help my sleep. I did so, and then immediately discovered I had no candles. So what did I do... I went on Amazon for candles. Then 2 hours later I was still there. So much for the dark hours.

As part of weaning myself off monopolies this month, I'm beginning to move EOSHD to self-hosting video embeds in reviews and blog posts. The advantages have been pretty clear from today's experiment. 1. Poster frame / thumbnail quality much improved vs YouTube 2. Playback responsiveness better than Vimeo 3. No content ID claims to worry about 4. No advertising 5. No Vimeo DMCA hell to worry about 6. Files stay safe and under your control 7. No YouTube comments So I am serious about doing this full time now after the first experiment today for just a few hours. Unfortunately the server burned through nearly 1GB per minute while the video was up... and that's just one video, in one article!! It could easily amount to over 10-20TB per month for a site like this. I'm looking at Amazon S3 file storage. But cannot make head-nor-tale of the pricing calculator. https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html Potentially it could be cheap. Let's suppose 100GB of space, 10TB per month of bandwidth served... The price I got was $20 per month but I probably didn't enter something correctly. Seems too low for me. For regular users, it shows what a good price Vimeo is... Even if they suck. And I can't even begin to imagine how much bandwidth YouTube sucks out of the internet. Save the planet!!! Turn it off!! On the Wordpress side, I am using a nice HTML5 player plugin, which scales the embed automatically to the page width, provides a cute little download button for the original file, and even converts the video to different resolutions allegedly and supposably uses HLS buffering... whatever that is. The foundations to making our own Vimeo are right here my fellow EOSHDers. Just need to make it cost effective. Maybe a subscription like Vimeo will help me launch it in a bigger way, and not just for myself and my own embedded videos. PS - Does anyone know why YouTube's thumbnail is so badly compressed and low-res? How do I change it so it uses the high res poster frame?!

Nice. It's not easy to switch after.8 years of muscle memory in a certain piece of software. Adobe is an industry standard and a couple of weeks learning something new isn't going to compete with 8 years of using a familiar industry standard. But time is now, it has to be done. I am using Resolve full time now, both to create LUTs and to edit. I am exploring Capture One for RAW stills. Affinity for Photoshop replacement.

I swear that is a GH2 with some ex-tele shots in the mix. Could be wrong. Looking forward to when everybody reveals what they used. Keep em coming!

And now we have a hip hop wannabe gangster with a monotonous drum machine and a vocoder. I better get on and read this one first Have only just started. Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) has an album called Amused to Death. I highly recommend listening to that while reading the book. That's even more light summer holiday content for the masses that is

To look at a lot of the BBC output you would not think they have exacting broadcast standards. Andrew Marr show for several years used an old B camera for interviews that looked so different to the main camera, you'd think it was broken. The quality of the broadcast as it ends up on most screens is usually moire-ridden. C300 is used a lot and that absolutely PALES in comparison to what the S1 is capable of. Netflix on the other hand do have much higher demands on technology. The BBC will say they do and do the big ritual and test, but when it comes to the output you only have to look at it. The cameras they used on Top Gear a few years ago in-car were terrible for instance... and now they are using GH5S. So I am sure the S1 is good enough... even if Alan says No.

Not just dumbed down, I think our ethics are slipping as well. And the music.

Well said!! At the end of the day, it's pure greed driving the consumer market... for a company like Canon 8 billion is nowhere near enough. It's planetary conquest, empire building, constant growth and maniacal greed.

Just downscale the 4K in post. Done. But really it boils down to viewing it right. Complaining 4K of this standard is too detailed is a bit like scanning film and then complaining the scan is too good!

Abuse pure and simple. If it's abuse and anti social behaviour dressed up as experimental comedy on YouTube, and even if idiots like @thebrothersthre3 think it's 'funny tho'... Still abuse. He's a level of psychopath up from Jake Paul. There's a line between abuse and a prank. Ask the woman in the first video believing she was about to be gang raped. And any so-called-entertainment with this level of ethics doesn't deserve our attention anyway. Even if the whole thing's faked (it's probably not, more like a mixture), I am surprised he hasn't been sued several times or even jailed. There are way too many people in this world making light of gutter behaviour, thinking it's entertainment... Reinforced my point 10x what I was making in the original topic.

FUNNY BRO Funny, as in funny, I could have sworn he was an obnoxious little attention seeking psychopath with no empathy, borderline criminal, with a major personality disorder. If you genuinely think he's funny, I'll look at you as well and resoundingly shake my head. Maybe you're part of the whole problem and people like you. I mean it.

I think it's an updated sensor compared to the similar 24MP one in the A7 III. It's certainly very good... No scrub that, it's spectacular. Dynamic range, colour, low light, speed, everything. With an internal codec this good, I don't want 4K raw over HDMI to tick a box, I want it internally. Yes, I am spoilt! No, I don't want to use an external recorder. Nice of them to try it though.

Another horror show... Check this one out And I thought Jake Paul was bad.

I don't really see what the difference is between the Alexa and S1 from a Vimeo clip. In fact I'd say they were closely matched looking at the above. But you have to compare like with like. The lighting is very soft throughout as well, which helps. The grading is soft and contrast is soft. My test with the cars in bright sunlight converted to Rec.709 looks very crisp in comparison to a softly lit face in a studio with an almost ungraded flat file. Take an S1 and Alexa on same shoot and then find out what the difference is.

You'll have to trust me on this one, not your screen. The footage off the card has a low micro contrast, gentle fine detail, not hard edges or too sharp, video-look. And if you wish for a softer look there are a million $0 ways of going about it with 4K. One of them is simply to shoot 1080p and upscale to 4K. But that would be missing out on the full bandwidth this sensor and codec providing.

Foreword from Amusing Ourselves To Death, 1991: We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian Nightmares. But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Country to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As we saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. What well feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared that the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions". In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell was right. Some much recommended light Summer holiday reading.

You don't need to, just understand the principal behind what I'm saying.

At least we'll have some good new material for a sci-fi film soon. I agree. Elite athletics is another subversive area. I'd wager that 80% of the next generation looking at teaching careers don't want to go into technical areas, they will want to get involved teaching sport, for the lifestyle hotness. It's like in that other topic, the medium is the message. You're absolutely right it's one circular mind fuck alright. When you have people's time and actions dominated by social media, people are then controlled effectively by a network of machines.

No, it's just what happens when you scale 4K in an embedded player over the web, especially on a phone screen or a 1080p laptop. If you play the original 10bit H.264 on a 4K laser projector, you'd change your opinion of the camera.

Whenever I feel depressed about the state of YouTube I have a laugh at Ethan's channel. One of the best at lampooning the worst of YouTube behaviour. The medium, being a computer based algorithm, is not much cop at curating a culture. So of course it has convinced people that fakery and lies are real... the biggest prank of all is Brexit. It would be interesting to know which channels the young generation are aspiring to be like... Pewdiepie probably comes close to the top. Professional Fortnite players on Twitch maybe. It's not got much humanity in it... It's all very machine driven. After all, it's a machine driven medium. Fake lives are now real lives. Fake news is now shaping the real agenda. And in the eyes of the next generation, those pedalling the fake lives may as well be superstars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message Any old dated shit for an idea gets attention on YouTube if it has a hotness factor. 15 million views Do you think next generation see themselves dicking around in posh house with a swimming pole making casual fair like this. Do you reckon our culture is fucked? Or am I just having an old man moment?

Bullshit