Andrew Reid

On the Nikon Z7 how much difference does 10bit N-LOG make? Is there a step up from the Canon EOS R when you record 10bit externally? How does the Fuji X-T3 compare in F-LOG at 10bit internally? All the questions and more I set out to answer here... Read the full article

Yeah of course it can be turned down far more, and in the Flat profile the micro contrast isn't as hard either. Max doesn't show that. For whatever reason. Speed of upload and all that. Yeah but beware the special sauce of that EOS R 4K.... It has... Something. I am not kidding.

Ich bin ein Berliner! Read the full article

You really do like to comment on everything don't you? Why don't you just moderate yourself A BIT? Every page, every thread, there you are and most of it's chat.

Yeah but when you look at the so-called "super soft" EOS R 4K footage full screen in normal way it looks tac sharp. The last thing it looks is "super fuzzy". When you enlarge a 100% crop to 400% like Max, yes it looks fuzzy. I say... So fucking what? That is not how people watch your stuff!

If places like YouTube have to scan all our user-generated content for advertising billboards, it will be so arduous they will give up and become Netflix instead. If I had to check every post and attachment on this forum for copyright, I'd simply close the forums! It would be impossible. That's the main danger here... That they are opening user generated stuff up to lawyers, making it risky to host it online anywhere at all. YouTube's thoughts on this say: "Article 13 as written threatens to shut down the ability of millions of people -- from creators like you to everyday users -- to upload content to platforms like YouTube. And it threatens to block users in the EU from viewing content that is already live on the channels of creators everywhere." "This legislation poses a threat to both your livelihood and your ability to share your voice with the world. And, if implemented as proposed, Article 13 threatens hundreds of thousands of jobs, European creators, businesses, artists and everyone they employ." "The proposal could force platforms, like YouTube, to allow only content from a small number of large companies. It would be too risky for platforms to host content from smaller original content creators, because the platforms would now be directly liable for that content." https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2018/10/a-final-update-on-our-priorities-for.html So in other words.. No more of this... And certainly no more of this... Myself and YouTube would be open to copyright claims from every single private premises filmed in that video of Berlin's streets. Even if they continue to allow it, if they have to run everything past an automatic CONTENT ID FILTER, that scans for copyright images within the frame, there's an enormous chance of false positives or it being too draconian and strict. Vodafone advert on the street? Take-down. Poster for a film in a documentary? Blocked. And so on. It's NUTS.

If you have ever taken a photo on a street or made a video in public, the European Union is opening you up to copyright claims by - get this - the owners of advertisement posters, shop fronts and building facades, as well as GDPR privacy violation claims from the general public. Is this the beginning of the end?! Read the full article

Pixel peeping is alive and well I see! Nikon Z7 is fine. It is a miracle in full frame from 8.2K down to 4K. Very nice detail level. Very good dynamic range and colour, which Max's test doesn't even touch on. Z7 in APS-C is similar but less aliasing / stair stepping - but we are talking 4K here, so at normal viewing distances you don't even see the aliasing in full frame mode, let alone in the oversampled Super 35 mode. The EOS R is soft. So what. It's 4K. You have more detail than you'll ever need unless cropping 4x into the image. You wanna know why I don't do tests like this very much anymore? 1. Nobody views your film or music video at 400% crop. The absolute sharpness level in 4K means JACK SHIT. What you want is a soft stable cinematic image - not hard digital sharpness. In fact it's an *advantage* to have a softer image for YouTube, when the player is scaling it down to fit any number of screen resolutions - especially a 1080p screen. It looks more natural when people view it downscaled or even on a 4K TV from normal viewing distances. In the first case the downscaling works badly with a digitally sharper, harder image vs a softer, more cinematic one. In the second case the natural downscaling from the human eye at a longer viewing distance makes a less hard 4K image at 1:1 look more natural and less fatiguing than a "harder" image which shows more emphasised detail. We have plenty enough detail in 4K as it is, even on the EOS R and to overemphasise it, like in Max's video, is a BAD THING. 2. The test by Max claims to be about image quality when he's only testing one small aspect of it and not even very well. He's actually looking 90% at the sharpening levels in the menus, rather than outright performance of the image. All the cameras apply a different level of sharpening to bring out extra detail. You can dial it down or up. So what? How natural and cinematic does that fine detail look to the real viewer? That is the real question. 3. Max's video tests just one aspect of the camera and seems to imply it's 90% of what makes a good image. A wide shot of a building with constantly shifting light at dusk so that not even the lighting conditions are matched on each comparison shot. It says nothing of colour, dynamic range, skin-tones, lenses, sensor size, rolling shutter, motion cadence, codec performance, macro blocking, mud, compression, grading, bit-depth, LOG profile performance and how easy or not it is to grade. These are the things that determine the final result. These are the important things and not ONE in isolation but ALL together. Go back and do a proper test Max that takes you longer than half an hour... But no, he's got subscriber numbers and viewers to chase so it must be done quick! Why the Z7 is singled out for criticism because of Max's test is beyond my understanding. It justifies the pricing over the A7R III because it is a flat out better camera in every aspect of image quality and handling. It justifies the pricing over the D850 because it adds video AF which actually works, gets rid of the mirror, fixes the ergonomics in live-view, shaves the pounds off and at the same time maintains the incredible video quality.

Maybe the battery door falling off is actually to tell us that the battery is at 5% and really must be changed now, even though the meter is showing full

Try giving it a wiggle in the locked-position. Sometimes it just doesn't detect the lens adapter is secured properly.

Hmm strange. Is shoot without lens enabled in the menus?

Look into the recent corporate changes at Vimeo and their parent company, you will see why the culture is changing there. They want to fatten up before going public, they have a new CEO from Harvard and they are chasing subscriptions. https://www.tubefilter.com/2017/07/20/vimeo-anjali-sud-ceo/ They are trying to go from 70 million subscribers to 100 million.

I think there's room above the Pocket 4K for the same image quality in a better built body with more features. Seems like a no brainer to me. People love the image and the back-end monitoring on the Pocket but it's never going to have the depth of features of a GH5 for the price it is - they would have to up the price to make it more ambitious. Around $2500 would bring us all sorts of goodies. I also wish the form factor would be more along the lines of a GH5 as well with an EVF.

Ah yes thanks for spotting that. Should say: "Until now my two favourite cameras for shooting 4K video with manual focus lenses have been the Leica SL and Sony A7 III."

Yes in next test I'll use a Panasonic. They could have done with telling us!!

It's the entire family's to share the burden! Yes nice dog-eye you have - he is indeed a saluki cross! Crossed with what I don't know. Possibly a chimp. We did a DNA test on him last week and waiting to hear the results.

You can assign an ISO button to a function button. It's just not called ISO in the canon menus LOL. It is "Dial-Func" I've assigned that to M-Fn button next to shutter release and now in one press I can have the ISOs on screen and choose with physical jog dial on top of camera.

It's confirmed at 47 megapixels not 42. https://cvp.com/product/panasonic-s1r-lumix

It says in that video Nino was also using the Olympus 25mm F1.2. Maybe it has a twat detection system?

Name the ways it is a lot better. I'm not really seeing it in this test.

Edvid? Edeo?

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An online portfolio is important for a filmmaker or artist or anyone in fact and it should be guaranteed safe, as safe as the files on your hard drive. Vimeo can't guarantee that. They could just remove the DMCA videos, but no - they had to go an extra draconian unnecessary step to satisfy whatever lawyer shit they found themselves in - and delete all the legal videos of that user as well. It's the worst policy... In the history of the internet

The 24-70 and 35 Nikon Z lenses are good optically but utterly charmless in the hand. Feel so cheap and you really are paying top dollar for just F1.8 and F4. I much prefer the Canon EOS R lens line-up. So that's a bit of a shame as Z7 body itself is superb.

I remove my car doors so I can get in and out faster.