Andrew Reid

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.

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!