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Andrew Reid

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  1. Are any of these tests showing the difference between the Pocket 4K and GH5S? Are any showing the actual benefits of RAW vs H.265? It's all just eye candy. I want to know what the actual image quality is relative to the competition (X-T3, GH5S, Z7, Magic Lantern and A7 III).
  2. Funny, I also had my hands on the EOS R at Photokina and could have sworn it felt like a cheap $500 mirrorless camera with poor ergonomics and really dated video mode, but then I don't have 700,000 hungry Canon viewers on my YouTube channel to feed.
  3. 2012 called. It wants the last few posts back!
  4. As long as the DJI and Blackmagic employees do it under their own (real) names and logos, I'm fine with it. Pretending to be customers, not so much.
  5. A new year, a new day. Sales looking strong at the Canon store!
  6. I think it would be against UK and US law as well not to mark it as sponsored content. If these posters / companies own up now and come out of the closet, I'll consider the matter closed. If not, there will be hell to pay.
  7. I wouldn't say the GH5S is not "all-in" for video. Seems balls deep in video to me. Well, it's great it does RAW and ProRes, but the GH5 and X-T3 have a longer list of video focused features in total. The GH5 including some very major features like an EVF, anamorphic mode and IBIS. I don't see what is wrong with 10bit 4:2:2 either, maybe I am missing something. It is time for this Pocket 4K hype to get a reality check. Probably as soon for most people as they open the box.
  8. Yeah WHAT A GREAT CAMERA! A total steal at just $2400!
  9. It's like the Speed Booster never existed isn't it? Sigma 18-35mm F1.8? F2.8 full frame zoom on Speed Booster? And now there is the upcoming F1.7 Panasonic zoom! Hang on is that the sensational fast aperture telephoto for Micro Four Thirds?!?! I thought Micro Four Thirds was just saddled with slow telephoto lenses!
  10. I guess Sigma are ok for now making Nikon F mount lenses which work on the Z flawlessly through the FTZ adapter. But Canon and Nikon should be more like Panasonic and Sony and share the mount, that's for sure.
  11. This thread and quite a few others have some really bad taste comments in it which lower the tone of the forum, not just a bit but a lot. And it is almost always you involved @jonpais I will have to decide Jon whether you are still welcome or whether it would be better for the community if you used a different place. You have no idea how tired I am of it. Final warning.
  12. It's been noticed in the back-end of the site that some new users are joining in order to future the agendas of PR and marketing at some companies. It's a tricky area for me to deal with, but I'll get some advice on how to better detect it and prevent it from happening in the future. Whilst I know it is happening, the evidence as to what exact company is responsible for which posts isn't solid enough yet to go naming them. But rest assured if I do find out, they will be named and shamed on the front page of EOSHD.
  13. If Fujifilm can be doing so well with both APS-C and medium format at the same time I am sure Micro Four Thirds can survive full frame, it has done since the start. I once chose the GH1 over the 5D Mark II remember! And I will never part with some of the more unique c-mount lenses, micro four thirds lenses and anamorphic glass - the anamorphic on full frame is, shall we say, more challenging.
  14. Let's keep it to the X-T3 with the footage please Jon.
  15. Original file is available to download on Vimeo (click the video title above). Want the absolute best cheap low-end camera for 4K shooting? You're looking at it. I think the E-M10 III at $500 might just be the best value for money 4K camera now available, but it's easy to lose sight of that. With the recent price race to the top, I'm starting to wonder how monied you have to be. A certain "DSLR video" blog currently features an Alpa cage on a Hasselblad H6D 100C! Anyone got a spare $40,000? Read the full article
  16. If you get yours this month, have an X-T3 on standby if you plan to shoot paid work on it.
  17. I respectfully disagree Long flange allows for cross-platform compatibility and quality is still great. There's a reason so many of us are still using 1970's lenses on a mirrorless camera I can't bring my Z mount glass anywhere apart from 'home' on the Z7, so I will not be buying very much of it. Thankfully, I am sure Canon EF adapters will come along and a lot more besides. There is already a Canon FD adapter and medium format 'speed booster' both of which I am going to be using soon, if I can get hold of them early! The FTZ adapter is meant to work very well too. It is a Nikon in-house-adapter so no reverse engineering or bugs. It just "works" and great AF like a native lens (or so I believe - yet to test my F mount lenses myself on it). The EOS R lenses seem pretty BIG considering they are supposed to be short flange.
  18. Yes Canon probably sells so many EF lenses for other cameras, they may as well be a lens company that does cameras on the side!! All these fancy Z and E and L and R mount mirrorless lenses are all very pretty but they don't commute!
  19. When BM first got into camera market they had excuses for 'bad behaviour' such as unfinished cameras being released after long delays with the contents of a mouse's dinner behind the mount cap. I am not sure I want to go through it again. Such obvious BS. Why sacrifice EVERYTHING nice about something like a GH5 or X-T3, for JUST RAW? What is it doing for you that 10bit LOG doesn't? Let's get a reality check before people burn their fingers. I need to talk to BM and as respectfully as I can tell them to really think about the way they are handling this camera release...from design, to manufacturing, to shipping, to even marketing, it's all flawed and off-putting. Still a very interesting option but c'mon. Sounds like a bit of an excuse for them that does! A heat sink cannot be separate to the stuff it is cooling, so if water or whatever (spiders!?) is going in that massive hole on both top AND bottom it is going to meet up with vital stuff.
  20. So we are comparing it to the EOS R are we It is 4k60. EOS R doesn't even do 4K60! No-additional crop in 1.5x Super 35mm 4K/24/25/30p. GH5 isn't 1.5x crop. It's 2x crop. Quite different. Speed Booster = full frame. On GH5, close but no cigar. Codec - FAR superior to EOS R. Rolling shutter - FAR superior. Build quality - superior. Low light - superior (yes, really). Handling - superior. EVF - superior. Price - $700 less!
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