Andrew Reid

I think I may extend it a few days, not too long, but people who were first to post their videos, definitely have bonus points in my eyes.

Huge congrats to the entries so far. As there are still a lot of people who haven't submitted theirs yet and deadline is very close, I might extend it for a bit longer. What do you guys think? 24th original end-date is this Wednesday! Indeed! I saw what has been happening in HK. STAY SAFE and prosper... You have all of our support for your gem of a city. I have been to Hong Kong before and found it really inspired me creatively, I loved its independent spirit. You made something good out of the dark weekend regardless The colours and dynamic range came out incredibly well. Is it a 4K cam or just 1080? Yes it is, unless we extend it for a couple of days... Let's discuss it, and I'll consider any requests from people who did buy a camera, but are late shooting or editing.

I can't wait to see what this camera is

A codec is a codec. Job of a codec is to encode (hence the name) an image. Compression is a form of encoding an image. No need to separate the terms. H.265 is a codec, simple as that. Not helpful to say it's not a video camera codec when it's used in video cameras. It has hardware acceleration on a GPU. That doesn't make it exclusively a computer GPU codec. Stop reading what ever you have been doing, because it's a load of twaddle. It's designed for delivery and acquisition... Acquisition of high resolution with small file sizes, especially on smartphones, and delivery of the same. Makes no sense to say it is designed for only one part of the job. If it is doing something it isn't designed to do, it's doing it pretty well. Like H.264, these things aren't designed with just the decoding and streaming side in mind, they are designed for acquisition and encoding in a device as well.

Where are you getting this idea from?

When the fakes are more imaginative than the actual cameras

I recommend putting 2 entries in. One 4K camera, and one in the spirit of the rules

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY!

MC-21 doesn't support AF-C or video, so how?!

Nikon's big mistake with the Z6 was one XQD card slot. The media is much rarer and much more expensive. And everybody goes batshit over lack of dual slots!!

And in my experience too. It's up to the camera to set the right As Shot white balance and Hue for instance, when it comes to RAW... Otherwise, it's off to the RSI doctors for you.

Even if they made their own Z-Cam-Mount with adapters to all sorts, to avoid infringing on anybody's patents, it would be a superior option to just EF and PL, and keep the size of the camera down as well.

The beauty of it for me is the modular main Pocket Controller... I really liked how BTM_Pix just plugs his different tools into that and it acts as a clever wireless bridge to the camera. The manual follow focus dial, shirt pocket size, was lovely to use as well. It's also amazing that LiDAR, once reserved for the military and sciences, can now be so widely applied and affordably! Just don't mention the price of Arri's system!! Pocket 4K users will love it.

The X-T3 had the most bangers in there, but must admit he seems to flatter it even more in terms of the model's better poses. Or maybe the Fuji, because it actually feels like a camera, got the best out of HIM?!

Time of Flight / LiDAR continuous autofocus is really quite remarkable technology. There are rumours Panasonic will implement it on future cameras like the GH6. Don’t you wish the current autofocus-challenged cameras like the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K or GH5 could have amazingly smooth Dual Pixel AF-like performance? Well, you could soon be in luck. Time of Flight Autofocus is a reality and I’ve seen it working. With this prototype add-on, a Time of Flight sensor sits in the hotshoe and talks wirelessly to the Pocket 4K. The autofocus motors in the Micro Four Thirds lens are commandeered based on real-time depth sensing information from the LiDAR beam. I met up with CDA-TEK’s Ian (BTM_Pix on the forum) this week in Manchester to take a look at what he’s been working on. Read the full article

Very keen to try the 4K 160fps internal recording and upcoming RAW codec. https://www.eoshd.com/2019/07/the-2000-z-cam-e2-gets-upgraded-to-4k-160fps-with-firmware-update-raw-coming-later/ S35 version should definitely take a leaf out of JVC's book and be Micro Four Thirds!!

With 7 hours work done to it? ?

Hopefully it won't be another $3500 camera without even 10bit in 2019.

Yes very tragic Some real nutters in the world! That short clip is a total work of art by the way.

Nada, nothing. They don't seem to reply to emails. I suppose we'll have to keep an eye on their website for firmware update news.

Not without RSI. To avoid that, picking up another camera instead that doesn't have broken colour would be as easy as 5 seconds. So it's all unnecessary ball aches.

See, even the big Sony fanboy admits it. You don't even have to try to make Sony's colour look bad. It just is bad. It made me laugh on the other thread, when a guy said I must have tried really hard to make her look that bad... When that was how the RAW looked straight after I opened it.

Opposite way round my friend. Took around 5 minutes? Now multiply that by 1000. You fix my photos. I'll pay you $1 for the lot. Still short of the Canon anyway. Exactly. White balance is baked into S-LOG 2. Then people put a totally different colour temperature on it with a LUT. No wonder it looks a bit weird. I remember that Sony recognised this was a problem and on the FS cameras you get to choose S-Gamut White Balance Color Modes like 5300K! Problem was, then you lost your usual AWB system and had to dive into the shitty Sony menus to select a preset. The Leica M9 is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. You open the RAW in Adobe, and then 2 seconds later, it's done. No fiddling or 5 minutes to fix problems. Do the same thing with a Sony and no matter what, people look like they have big red bags under their eyes, yellow shadow under their chin, magenta rashes and zombie-dead flesh where a nice healthy glow should be. It's much easier to fix greens and blues in landscapes if needed, than it is to fix skin. Skin is very complicated and you rely on the camera to get it right.

Yep. Just don't judge it off YouTube adverts.

I shot it and I know the light isn't the issue. I can even find two more similar shots, one Sony and one Canon, and you'll see EXACTLY the same skin issues with the Sony. Do you remember the Pro Colour video as well? Yellow cast in every lighting condition not just daylight. Appalling. Looks like The Simpsons. It took Pro Color to fix it and give it back any sense of reality, with the golden warm glow of the incandescent lights and real skin hues.