Andrew Reid

Can you tell me how to go to EOSHD.com ? I have never heard of that site.

Magic Lantern have hacked the Canon M50 today, in a surprise move, since it was previously thought Canon had blocked the M50 from loading any scripts. Features of the first version of Magic Lantern for the M50 dubbed "Hello World" include 6K RAW video (using pixel binning) and animated wallpapers. Read the full article

You were both a big fan of the R until now, bit of a u-turn if you ask me. Maybe get your facts right in future before advocating for one thing over the other?! It is true the 50mm F1.2L has grown in size at every generation. FD was smallest EF grew fat R is just ridiculous. And funnily enough the FD is my favourite for image quality and sharper than the EF version! That post frame on youtube really does sum it up. Awful cheap de-pad feel and too small. Stupid lack of dual card slots. Weird on/off dial in weird place wasting space on top of camera. And don't get me started on the m'fucking bar or complete lack of mode dial.

Yeah you don't pay close attention, that much is evident. Big grinding heavy element moving around and you don't notice?! Customers like you are the reason Canon wins and innovation fails every time. The focus on that one is even worse. It has the cheapest possible moving front element in some kind of plastic that extends very far outwards especially when macro focussing, prone to wobbly and damage. It makes the cheaper Canon EF 35mm F2.0 IS look positively space age. That does have internal focus, whereas Canon didn't think to add it on a mirrorless camera lens where it's most needed.

It's greyed out in the menus in stills mode. The only way to enable it is to assign a custom movie mode to C3 movie mode and then assign C3 to the record button. So you cannot shoot in 4K Canon LOG, in the same stills mode you are using for stills, unless it matches what you previously assigned to C3 movie mode. Do you really think this is ergonomic? There were people who used to shoot 720p in the 1080p era for various reasons (60p for example) and I certainly don't begrudge you your preferences, it's a personal matter... Right tool for your job is clearly 1080.... But you're kinda implying 4K isn't relevant in 2019 which is a bit tin-eared... the vast majority of us are interested in the highest possible cinematic image quality and resolution, and want to take advantage of technology. No rolling shutter? In 1080p it's still there and in 4K it's amongst worst on the market. Another FHD shooter. Not too demanding on the technology are you? KR's review can go to hell. The external movement is on the front element, reassessed in the barrel and exposed to dirt. My lens is brand new from Amazon. It is noisy. It is not internal focus. It is basically dated technology on the mechanical side and just not worth the £2200 it cost me. It's going back. Just to ensure you don't think I am doing an April fools Proof enough?

Several problems there. Stills mode is full frame, you cannot accurately frame for 4K video in stills mode, unless you cripple stills mode to a low resolution APS-C mode. Canon LOG is unavailable when shooting video with the record button in a stills mode. A work-around is to set the record button up to trigger custom movie mode C3, but these preset settings may differ to the stills mode you're using in the moment. I have my C3 movie mode set up in Aperture priority but if I am in manual stills mode, bye bye exposure when I hit record (and a completely different FOV). Visa versa, C3 set to manual, what if I want aperture priority mode for both stills and video? I have to deep dive the menus and reset all my C3 settings? It's ABSURD. Switching to fully fledged video mode is a sub-menu job and if you don't assign your preferred video mode to C3, the record button in stills mode will shoot movies without Canon LOG. Compared to established non-crippled usability standards on the competition this is ridiculously bad. Dave Maze's cracked in first few weeks. It's delicate non-reinforced cheap plastic. It is not internal focus. I have the lens. You don't. If you had even even used one, you'll see (and hear) the grinding, heavy front element moving significantly forth and back as it focuses and you can even feel the weight of the glass shifting forward and backwards as you go about shooting. The lens is on loan and is going back, by the way. I have no interest in keeping it. So you're saying it's good for an extremely limited range of filmmaking then. It does have warping... all sorts of motion artefacts in fact. I also find that EIS can get confused by motion in the scene and move the entire frame according to a moving object in the shot! You will see how superior the E-M1X is when I review it this week sir.

Similar architecture to the Sony-Fuji 100MP medium format sensor? Personally I don't need 100MP stills but the technology is interesting as is all forward progress, it leads to an interesting future and is better than staying the same, otherwise we'd all be shooting 720p and 8MP stills

I agree that it's not always helpful to get hung up on specs and that ease of use, reliability, feel, ergonomics are more important. Here's my opinion: the EOS R is a dog in this regard. It's not easy to use, it's not reliable and it's not got good ergonomics at all. The crop harms usability because all your videos end up looking different to stills, or you have to use a zoom to compensate for the different FOV, or step backwards yards and completely re-frame. So if you're doing a video/stills hybrid shoot, it's a poor choice. The rolling shutter is a problem for anything that isn't a static subject. Lack of effective 5 axis IBIS hurts it for hand-held video work and the digital version warps and crops even further, on top of more distortion from rolling shutter it is not very natural or organic. Reliability - that top LCD is a serious weak spot. Cracks very easily. The lenses have externally moving elements for focus on the most part - even the expensive 50mm F1.2L R. Dated and noisy, and weather sealing isn't up to professional standards. Switching quickly between video and stills mode is a fiddly chore and Dual Pixel AF is no longer the best especially with the 35mm F1.8 R and 50mm F1.2L R and their grinding moving front elements. Needs lenses with internal focus to work at its best and quietest, which it rarely does. Yes, the image in C-LOG is nice, colour science is good, as is white balance and the codec. Like you I prefer to have an image with no excess digital sharpening and don't mind soft, cinematic 4K that doesn't fatigue your eye when the picture moves. It doesn't lack for detail unless you're a pixel peeper using a chart and not watching the film or content. So the image isn't so much the problem - the rest is. But the E-M1X is a far superior hybrid camera.

Still external, still crap ergonomics with a recorder, still a wobbly HDMI cable. I want INTERNAL raw recording.

Nice grading. You have the colour spot on with the Jaguar. Car shot is Voigtlander 50mm F1.2 Aspherical (the new one), Leica M mount. It's a gem. https://www.wexphotovideo.com/voigtlander-50mm-f1-2-aspherical-vm-nokton-lens-1670173/ The anamorphic shot is the humble LA7200(!) on Leica 23mm F2 pancake with autofocus-through (Super 35mm 4K mode) but needs very large unobtainable diopter for close focus. I've always had a soft spot for the LA7200 it was my first anamorphic adapter.

I've had some rabbit holes, Stax L700... Meh.... Hifiman HE1000... I don't regret the H1000 but the cheaper Ananda is just as good, and Sundara unique in it's own way... A total steal at £300 when it was on sale last month at Amazon. HE1000 were closer to £3k when they came out!!! Then there's the DACs and amps.... One of the reasons I disappeared from EOSHD for long periods at a time was because of my audio obsession!! Check Zeos out here... He gets a bit too excited but he's almost always RIGHT.

Yes I think perhaps that's true about the GH6 but they have been pretty generous considering 95% of the market for the S1 is stills! What they need to watch out for a bit is Sony and Nikon because they are doing all sorts... Z6 does autofocus well, S1 doesn't. Sony do autofocus well on a wide range of models, starting cheap (if unimaginative). Nikon will be first with full frame RAW and I had expected Panasonic to do that. So Panasonic better do a proper video S model along with a GH6, just doing a GH6 might not be enough. They also need to embrace Phase Detect AF sensors.

Interesting take on the E-M1X. I had forgot about the LiveND altogether but for stills I imagine it would be great... Having that real-time moving slow shutter shot to accurately shoot at slow shutter speeds handheld with the stabiliser is going to be unique and very creative indeed. I like the chunky chassis, original Four Thirds Olympus E-1 was a very comfortable DSLR! And don't forget Olympus OM-LOG and Cinema 4K! And I can confirm it works great I would love to upload more videos, unfortunately where I am living at the moment there's not much to shoot - a few sheep, a few hills and some drunk locals. I am in transition between the Berlin artist life with plenty to shoot and plenty of content, to seeking it all out from scratch in the UK again... Will take me a while to get back into my stride, but when I travel - say to Italy or Spain or back to Berlin I always bring 5 or 6 current exciting models with me and shoot there. I have a lot from my last trip to Berlin that I've not uploaded yet. I better get my arse in gear and get round to it.

Not necessarily, as it's converted back to RGB data before it reaches the DNG file. I have the P20 Pro and that had a Quad Bayer sensor, with a-typical RAW sensor data, and my image processing app Polarr supported the DNGs straight off the bat. I expect similar this time. In DNG the images are incredibly natural with no Chinese processing whatsoever and dynamic range is exceptional. Has anyone had the chance to use multi-frame RAW on the Pixel 3 and seen the dynamic range advantages of that yet? Do you watch Z Reviews on YouTube? He's taught me a LOT about headphones. I saw his review of the Alara. I have too many existing cans now though, so I've peaked with my Z Review related purchases The favourites of that odyssey were: - Mr Speakers Aeon (Closed) - Hifiman Ananda and Sundara - Beyerdynamic T5p for portable use - Focal Elear (open, very good for the price) - ZMF Aeolus Also the old Denon D5000 and EMU Teac variants have a unique sound signature, very enjoyable. The Hifiman stuff is so good I am selling my Audeze LCD X and Sennheiser HD800S. Best thing is Hifiman aren't a rip off, either.

Or shoot RAW DNG which doesn't have any sharpening whatsoever. I have upgraded with EE! Cost me £30 for the phone on a £53 per month tariff with 60GB of data. Not bad. Considerably cheaper than most of the high-end iPhone tariffs at £70-£90+!! It is shipping in about 7-10 days. At the moment I have an iPhone XS Max and very happy with it, but increasingly I've been splitting my handset use between iOS and Android devices. I have an LG V30 which I use for the quad-DAC headphone output as my DAP with a variety of headphones. I have my original P20 Pro when I want to shoot RAW and the iPhone camera doesn't cut it. Most of the time I use the iPhone XS Max as my main phone, and have been mightily impressed with the camera especially the new Portrait mode but the P30 Pro looks like it's in another league. Time of flight camera?!?! 40MP!? 50x zoom (5x of it optical!) Bring it on.

If you're worried about the bitrate why aren't you complaining the Nikon Z6 "only" shoots 140Mbit H.264 8bit? Surely 140Mbit equivalent H.265 in 10bit is superior to that. And definitely superior to the A7 III 4k H.264 at only 100Mbit. In addition the small file sizes are a benefit, especially for longer shoots. The lack of fine detail and water colour rendering is not what I'm seeing at all. There's a ton of fine detail in the image. At higher ISOs it may be worth doing a comparison with the Blackmagic BRAW codec on the Pocket 4K with noise reduction at various levels in both cameras to see how noise is handled. You can't complain about a lack of grain texture at ISO 200 on a full frame sensor on the Jaguar E-type shots. Clean images are what we EXPECT from a full frame CMOS. Colour science is looking good on that shot but the lens clearly has an issue with the wheels, lots of chromatic aberration! It was however, shot wide open at F1.2. The Voigtlander 50mm F1.2 Asph in Leica M mount is a beast... Look how sharp it resolves!!

Very impressive. Loved shooting RAW stills on my P20 Pro. The aperture of the telephoto has taken a bit of a backward step though hasn't it? And the DXOMark score doesn't seem much different. When does it hit shops in Europe?

I have done a small test, by comparison to the Nikon Z6 it falls short, but it wasn't as bad as I expected. I only have the 24-105mm Lumix and Leica 23mm F2 to try AF with though and it will vary depending on the lens. Since I don't plan a £10,000 investment in new lenses for just one camera, I won't be using AF much on the S1 regardless of how well it works anyway. It's the AF performance with adapted Canon lenses that I'm most interested in. We'll see how the Sigma MCE-11 adapter does... Not very well I suppose!

The 4K full frame S1 is on my desk at EOSHD HQ and for the first time it's the final released camera that is shipping to stores, with firmware version 1.0. I couldn't offer any original files from my shoot in Barcelona as the firmware back then was version 0.7. So now's your chance, if you're wondering how good the initial 10bit codec is at just 72Mbit or how well it grades, to download my files and have a look for yourself... Read the full article

I'm going to be back up to full throttle on EOSHD starting today. For those of you who are wondering where I've been and what I've been doing, here's a glance at what I've been working on... Read the full article

This week I should have the V4 of Pro LOG out so hold out for that, it works fantastically.

Ah right. You can only search within a selected thread on a desktop browser, not mobile. I didn't make this forum software, not much I can do about it.

It is on my phone, tap the magnifying glass icon at top bar

Hope you're feeling better Kaylee!! 30's (if that's where you are now) are a real treat, much more productive than 20's.... it's where things finally start to come together. I am sure you will start to see that soon. I didn't even start EOSHD until I was 30!

You can get Pro Color 3.0.... Unless you need help setting up the menus / codecs / video modes /etc, then the shooter's guide comes in handy.