Andrew Reid

OK let's look at it this way... They do 4K 60p RAW, USB SSD recording, full HD 5" screen, CFast, BRAW, Resolve for free, anamorphic updates and then... Go and let it down by using the wrong BATTERY?! And forget that people need to be able to see the screen IN DAYLIGHT I still think this was Steve Jobs real genius, forget the creativity, the ideas and the founding of Apple... It was his ability to see the BLOODY OBVIOUS and call people up on it before it was too late and the product was out. According to GlassDoor, Grant Petty makes all the decisions and no department moves an inch until he signs stuff off... So there you go... Somebody take Grant out on an actual shoot with the Pocket 6K and get him to realise what a pigs ear it is to use, then maybe, just maybe, Pocket 8K will have a proper battery and LCD backlight in it.

It shoots semi-LOG! Good for all those Instagram filters. Mate 30 Pro... 40 Megapixel quad bayer sensor... How do you think ISO 1600 looks with all those megapixels on a phone? Well, quite good actually 🤯 Pixel peep it full screen - Where is the traditional smudgy noise reduction?! The fine detail is intact and I don't know how they achieve this. You guys are going to wish your President hadn't banned it

That is seriously impressive. Useful! And USB-C charging Makes a good camera even better, even if it is still fundamentally 90% a 2016 model I may sell my E-M1 X and E-M1 II and just get the Mark III. Wish they'd put a new EVF in there though, 10bit and anamorphic mode. Maybe Panasonic do their firmware and said "no" 😂

Engineering challenge Problem = Battery life is atrocious. Solution = ??? Engineering meeting at Blackmagic = ?????????? CEO of Blackmagic = ????? You're promoted Outcome = Battery life is still atrocious. Actual solution = A larger and better battery! Who would have though that? Certainly not normal people like me, way beyond my intelligence. Bonus information OLEDs are actually far more power efficient than LCD. No backlight.

If anything is doing weird AI upscaling it is the iPhone! (Mate 30 Pro left, iPhone 11 Pro right)

Very heavy crop... looks good for a phone, to me

Pop-up EVF aka RX1R II and for the other feature the hint is in the lens used to take this...

To be fair to Canon... (and I am the first to call them out over hype) This time they do genuinely deserve some credit. First the 1D X III and now this... The first ever full frame mirrorless 8K camera. And a big shift in policy to maximise video on their stills cameras, rather than protecting Cinema EOS lineup. This part is not hype. Internal RAW and 10bit on the 1DX 3 is real. EOS R5 will surely get a high video spec as well. There is always the usual hype from the usual suspects when it comes to any manufacturer. At the moment it's worse with Sony people.

How is that offensive? Pointing to a spare part on ebay? You are a very weird man 2018 standard was the iPhone X with HDR OLED panel, very bright and visible outdoors. Samsung S7 AMOLED is from 2016, would be a massive improvement on what Blackmagic provides in 2020 on the Pocket 6K. All I am saying is.... It's a joke. An absolute joke. We are being diddled or they don't know what they're doing, one of the two, or even maybe both!

Canon were first to 4K in a stills camera as well... 1D C in 2012. Panasonic we tend to appreciate because they are first at accessible prices. Sony are usually second with even better specs, but lately seem to have forgotten whether the accelerator pedal is on the left or right of the car. Canon clearly had the technology for 4K from an early stage and it seems they have repeated same step up with 8K, early too. Being "early" isn't often associated with Canon, but R&D department seems to go a lot faster than the marketing and actual camera releases seem to suggest. The big unknowns are: 4K crop factors and frame rates Internal RAW or not? 8K rolling shutter and frame rates (as well as any crops - could be 2.35:1 for all we know) In what modes Dual Pixel AF works and when not Spec and pricing of R6 (if it is 1D X III video spec and internal RAW I would go for that over 8K instead, even if more expensive than the R5) Codec type, bit depth and bit rates There are MANY areas where the cripple hammer could come out but looking at 1D X III which was remarkably unscathed, unusually for Canon, it bodes well!?

Surprised Blackmagic haven't considered the screen from your Alcatel yet Samsung S7 screen costs $50 at retail if bought in bulk, far cheaper for Blackmagic if you are ordering 1000's in a business wholesale arrangement. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000046577679.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.7fc822667Gjhv8&algo_pvid=2b301ae6-b9d3-45b6-ab7b-e8631e2ea891&algo_expid=2b301ae6-b9d3-45b6-ab7b-e8631e2ea891-9&btsid=0b0a050115816967028701506e0e24&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_,searchweb201603_ Specs: 2560x1440 5" AMOLED At least 900 nits So why are we stuck with the horseshit that is the Pocket 4K and 6K LCD panel?

The iPhone 11 has a bog standard LCD panel with no HDR. The iPhone 11 Pro is the one i am talking about http://www.displaymate.com/iPhone_11Pro_ShootOut_1P.htm This is a modern high end smartphone screen. This is what cameras should have. It's that simple. It shouldn't be that your $800 smartphone has a better screen than your $2800 cinema camera.

So it is 625? Or 1290?

iPhone 11 screen has a peak nit brightness of 1290 in HDR. http://letmegooglethat.com/?q=iphone+11+nit+brightness

I've spent weeks wracking my brain on how Matt Granger made it to 661,000 subscribers And I just can't possibly figure it out. But it has happened and Matt is one of THE authorities on cameras. Although sometimes he gets confused about the concept of a mirrorless camera. "It shoots up to approximately 20fps with the mirror up" THIS explains everything, including why I always had problems with that imaginary mirror in my GH5, it always seems to stay up out of the way and never make that satisfying flippy flippy sound. Then it REALLY got me fhinking... why is it called a mirrorless? The world is a really weird place, very confusing. So I often turn to YouTube for the sheer quality of talent on there and the expertise to enlighten me in dark times... With the gift of knowledge. In fact I envy the man. He is one of the biggest and best commentators along with the Northrup's and their whiteboard. Who can say they don't deserve it.... The 5 minutes he spends quibbling over the difference between 19.1fps and 20fps is pure entertainment. I have subscribed and smashed the notifications button.

Matt Granger is a Sony shill and he looks like he's shit himself. Not even sprinkling porno into his videos will save him now. He's headed for the dustbin of irrelevance along with his A7 III.

Especially after so long telling customers that 1080p is good enough and they don't need 4K! As U-turns go it's pretty huge.

The display on a modern smartphone (very high nit and OLED too), costs in the region of $80 https://www.eetasia.com/news/article/18032605-galaxy-s9-plus-dissected-bom-revealed Although this is mass produced in very high quantities and in-house at Samsung, a big part of that cost is down to it being cutting edge and curved at the edges, custom made for one product and not an off the shelf part. All we ask of the Pocket cameras is a brighter panel - not even OLED and certainly no need for curves or cutting edge manufacturing. Even if you double the cost of the display, you're probably not going to have to raise the price of the camera significantly in order to absorb the cost at retail... Perhaps by $50. And your sales will go up because it's a better product you're giving people. Blackmagic has plenty of suppliers in Asia that can provide them with a good enough screen. Look for one yourself and tell me the price, you may be surprised at what you find. The more you order, the lower the price, so factor that in too. Order a batch of 1000 and see how the price falls. I just don't think it was ever a priority to see the Pocket's screen in daylight, the thought didn't pass between the ears of Blackmagic managers. It it were a high priority, they'd have spent the dosh and sorted out the problem. Instead we have a near uselessly dim view of our image outdoors. And we're stuck with it on both the 4K and 6K, nothing changed in-between to justify the doubling of the price (apart from the new sensor and lens mount). Does Blackmagic's office have doors without hinges and they climb through cat flaps? Common sense doesn't seem to be their forte. Otherwise said screen would also have a hinge like in the DIY mods. As the old saying goes... if you want something doing properly DO IT YOURSELF

I still prefer to shoot with the X-H1 😂 Hopefully X-T4 will be an X-H2 down to the millimetre and even the exact curvature of the nice deep grip.

Canon making their own sensors is a big advantage on the others who tip-toe around with half a foot in the door of the design process and 100% of the manufacturing contracted out to Sony who have a virtual monopoly. Fuji, Nikon and Panasonic all have their own designs, Panasonic even has the organic sensor tech with TowerJazz and there are other manufacturers like Samsung capable of matching or exceeding Sony's capabilities, but I think it's an insane risk to have CMOS sensors from one supplier (Sony) in nearly ALL the current mirrorless models! Canon took a while to bring their new manufacturing plants in Taiwan online but now it appears to have paid off. Sony will have to go lower on price with the A7S III or do something surprising like the FS5 e-ND.

Truly the lightweight camp with me as well, I never want to pick up an Alexa, it's a camera for a crew on a set. It isn't for documentary or one-one man auteur projects. Going down in size to something like a C200 isn't even my cup of tea. I want a picture in the palm of my hand, nimble as the human eye, with minimal controls and no clutter to distract from the art of filmmaking. More and more filmmakers even on Hollywood projects are attracted to this style of shooting for the B-cam and alternative angles.... I find it personally liberating for my kind of style. If only the Blackmagic Pocket 6K was fully integrated with the brighter screen and EVF. Just the brighter screen would have cost $20 more in manufacturing costs per unit perhaps, thus covered by a $40 increase in the price of each unit. $40 to see the screen in direct sunlight. Deal? Come on Blackmagic... Do this concept justice. Amazing price, amazing image, amazing UI but lazy execution as a whole.

I don't want to make my mirrorless camera look like a cinema camera, it's that simple. You can't grab shots in public as discreetly, make mood pieces (like moving street photography), and on a music video shoot it is a PITA to babysit a second device, with second battery and second boot-up time. Then there is the balance of the rig, the centre of gravity for handheld work, the wobbly HDMI cable I absolutely can't stand. The actual camera movement is impacted by the lopsided top heavy mounting of a monitor. To balance the weight you have to add more weight. Before you know it, you have a spider rig that weighs more than a fully integrated, dedicated camera camera and that for me was the total opposite of what mirrorless cameras were supposed to be. I started EOSHD to get away from all that. I am 100% anti monitor, anti external add-ons.

I miss the old A7s Nice and small, very light, and simply one of the best 1080p images ever for the time.