Andrew Reid

It's hard to tell anything from YouTube, so compressed. A candle is not a good low light test either because you are either at full saturation of the pixel (bright flame), or barely nothing (black background). NEXT!

The 120p is very detailed. 1.28x crop though. Unless anyone knows a workaround

SPEEDMASTER F0.95 is a sharpness monster wide open. It's Leica-rivalling. And yes that crop is a 1:1 crop of the 4K image, ISO 1600. Classic Chrome, noise reduction not needed. Who needs 8K?!

Just picked up a Canon FD 24mm F1.4L and 85mm F1.2L also FD at Foto Mayer in Berlin! Have put them on the Zhongyi Turbo II for the full frame look. They are CREAMY and great manual focus. Aperture ring and hard stops unlike EF lenses. What a pair of bros... Click the shots to see sharpness (forum compresses to hell the inline previews) 24mm "Jerry": 85mm "Zowie": Those shots were all with the Zhongyi Turbo II (150 bucks)

Oh yes that one exists, but I've never been able to find one to buy. I'll have another look.

Yeah I'll upload some tonight. 10bit 400Mbit ALL-I H.265 is butter smooth to playback on MacBook Pro in Quicktime player BTW.

X-T3 in da house! Just a quick glimpse at the image, but I already have a feeling it's the best I've ever seen from a camera this price. Wonderful codec and detail. I am trying the Zhongyi SpeedMaster 35mm F0.95, which is also a positive first impressions, very clean bokeh and Noctilux-like rendering. I am letting that duke it out with a couple of cheap Speed Booster clones though, to see if it's worth the money over, say, a Minolta 50mm F1.4 + SB. Hey guess what - you can punch in to focus during 4K recording and the quality is incredibly detailed, unlike Sony. The EVF is better than A7 III hands down. I am using Film Simulation bracket-mode for stills which is right next to Movie mode on the drive lever, makes it a bit easier to switch. 1/50 assigned to "T" on the shutter dial. Just waiting for my B+W vario ND to arrive. It will be manual focus for now as I am away from my main base with all my fuji glass back there. Will be bringing this to Photokina with me and saying to Canon "why would I buy YOUR 1.8x crop mirrorless camera" GH5 just got beaten I think. All it lacks over A7 III is a way to get the full frame look with Canon lenses at the same time as AF. There needs to be a better range of adapters!

$30,000 for square-front LOMOs? I bought my square front 35mm T2.5 for 1000 euros. Ah, those were the days.

If this system turns out well, I am going to skip the Nikon Z7/Z6.

You can get a spare camera LCD panel for about 30 quid (I bought a Sony A7S one on eBay once). It's about the same size and weight of that mirror Now... imagine we take the LCD out of the camera and extend the wire. Put it on the end of that rod. There you have it, the perfect REAL articulated screen!!

Cheers. What is Aperture Shatter?

The 120p looks better than Canon's 24p!

Nice. Did you also try it in video mode?

I think we can safely put aside concerns about AF with a huge range of existing Nikon glass. That makes it a whole notch more exciting. Sticks like glue. Dual Pixel AF finally gets knocked off top spot? Frustrating thing is nobody seems to have a Z6! If that has the same AF engine in video mode then it will make sense to wait.

Being too close to the colour standards on a chart is what got Sony into colour problems in the first place. It was a 100% science based approach when actually colour is also an art.

Haha. I agree with Simon. Some people act like a know-it-all but he hasn't even read the Fuji website

Nobody has their pre-order yet. It'll be December for most of you.

That's interesting. Back when I first heard of the rumours Samsung were exiting the market, I wrote one of the first articles about it, and shortly afterwards I got an email completely out of the blue from Samsung's marketing person (quite high up in Germany and Europe), saying it "didn't reflect Samsung's position" and they wanted to rebut the article. Come a few days later, he just dropped off the radar and I never heard from him again. I think Samsung's marketing and PR agencies were amongst the last to know. I'd be fascinated to know if Samsung canned a full frame NX2. Stranger things have happened. I bet they regret it now, having had the chance to be first to the full frame mirrorless market after Sony and seeing the sales hike in the past 3 years. Smoothed out, 8bit look? Well I think 10bit at 400Mbit helps a lot for skin tones! If film grain can finally be enabled in video mode, that can help as well. We'll see some amazing results. 100% sure of it.

Well the best artists steal I suppose. And I totally see the logic giving a demo unit to someone with 55 subscribers.

Yes definitely 4K 25p isn't cropped. Only the 30p which is just slightly beyond the speed of the sensor for a full frame pixel readout. By the way @Charbax Really like your YouTube ARM devices channel, long time subscriber here Are you using the A7 III for the channel?

Low light performance and speed, and to segment it off further from a possible 30MP+ APS-C sensor they also probably have in the range. Yes that would be a good way to find out. Still hoping for a tear-down article somewhere though.

Hey Tom. Is there a way to assign 4K recording to the fn button? Or do you always have to move the drive mode lever to enter video mode?

I don't know what ARM processors Luke has researched. The mobile ones in smartphones maybe? There could be dedicated H.265 processors onboard, nobody knows for sure unless it's iFixIt.

How does the GH5 do 10bit 422 internal since 2 years ago then?

Only a temporary grade apparently. It's some good looking footage, which shows a very beefy codec in action. I just don't like purposefully 'dead' look to the skin tones, it looks like a zombie film.