Andrew Reid

It's not that these things matter. It's only the battery falling out during a critical shot. Let's get it out the design room lads, we've done our job!!

Does it come with a free bit of tape to keep the battery door closed?

24hrs?? How do you download 10 years worth of uploads in that space of time? Do you get a refund for the Plus and Pro yearly fee or is that down the drain too? Surely under law you can request ALL data they hold for your account. It is your data. Stuff like analytics, video viewing figures, comments and user feedback, private messages, etc. Is there a way to back this up? Pretty serious situation I think.

It's a very anti-customer move. Sorry to hear of your experiences! I am moving it all to YouTube but I will seek out an alternative host for embeds with no ads and original file downloads. Keep the suggestions for those coming.

It is a really refreshing change after D850. Couldn't use much on that! I think the Z7 is flat out great. Once you dump the bulky FTZ adapter and old Nikon lenses and go with some more exotic stuff, it takes on a new life. Z6 should be a bargain when it comes out. Expect good things.

Well done @Jerome Chiu @noone @MattH Leica M9! Close guess on the 50mm Summicron. It's the "Japanese Summicron" - Canon 50mm F1.4 LTM (M39 thread to Leica M) I am amazed such an old 10 years+ CCD sensor and a 60 year old lens gives this kind of image in 2018 - looks pretty modern doesn't it? High contrast. Superb colour and dynamic range. Hardly any noise. If you have the chance to pick up either one - be it that lens or the Leica M9 - DO IT

Buh bye! Tomorrow I will start to pull all my videos from Vimeo and transfer them to another platform. That's not because playback performance remains a problem after half a decade. It's because Vimeo cannot even assure the safety of my account any more. It could be deleted at any moment. Read the full article

Yeah I saw that on the BBC iPlayer the other day. Was surprisingly tough questioning - he clearly knows his cameras!! I honestly hadn't expected it from a BBC tech journalist, but he was giving the Canon guy exactly the kind of hard-time I would have done!!

Kai has put it right now with the proper review. He's always done both stills and video side in the videos. The point is, initial info was missing during camera launch, swept under the rug by the marketing machine. Only now are we finally aware of several major flaws. Too late for those 2 million viewers, in my opinion. What kind of bullshit comment... You contradict yourself in the same breath. You're right, it's not a valid comparison. So why make one. Unless the pan speed, FOV and video mode are identical on both cameras, you may as well post a picture of a teletubby.

4K/30p isn't APS-C on the M50. It's 2.5x crop.

Nope. Not cost effective for 4K and high traffic.

Due to a couple of old DMCA claims against my Vimeo account from 2016 and older, they are terminating my account if another one is made. As these are quite common and often made in error, I no longer consider Vimeo a secure place for my channel and EOSHD embeds. I am looking for alternative pay-monthly video hosting sites to replace Vimeo. Must have no ads obviously! Support for smooth 4K playback and original file downloads. Any suggestions? Is there a way to pay for a YouTube account upgrade for my videos on there, so that the user experience is better for viewers regardless of what YouTube account they have? No ads is a must.

Yes there is shoot without lens in the menu but unless you are going to tape up the lens contacts nothing is going to help EF-S lens using 60p shooters here in terms of workarounds.

No you do not get 1.8x in 60p either. You will have to shoot full frame for 60p, and use the digital IS to crop-in to 1.2x and approx. 1.4x. That latter mode may get your Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 into service in 60p but beware the softness and artefacts from DIS. EF-S lens users are completely out of luck for 60p. As soon as one is detected, it locks the camera to 1.8x crop mode, 30p max. You cannot disable the 1.8x crop mode with one attached. IN SUMMARY: Full frame lens: FF 1080/60/50p and 1.6x crop stills. 1.8x crop 4K and 1080p up to 30p EF APS-C lens (Sigma): As above EF-S lens (Canon): 1.8x crop 1080/30p max and 4K/24/25/30p 1.8x crop In no mode can you actually record 1.6x crop video. The 1.6x crop mode is ONLY for 12MP stills. There is also a "Movie cropping mode" in the menus, but that is 1.8x as well. It is either: Full frame 1080p 60p / 1.2x crop DIS / 1.4x crop DIS+ 4K 1.8x crop 30p max 1080p 1.8x crop 30p max

No it's digital.

You win! Nikon Noct can go to hell

First clue. Combined age of camera body + lens is 70 years old.

Nope!

Nope.

Nikon Z7 just got a lot better

It's good news and bad news. Yup. Greys out 1080/60p/50p in EF-S mode and Movie Cropping mode. 1.6x crop mode is only available for stills. 4K and 1080p crop is 1.8x. In 1080p crop mode it appears to use the 4K sensor output, downsampling to 1080p, along with 1.8x crop when you attach an EF-S lens. That's the bad news. The good news is I think the image looks a bit better in the EF-S mode...1.8x crop 1080p mode seems sharper.

Click to download the big full res version Guess the camera... Clue it is better for stills than video.

The thing with that is grain is usually the first thing to go when compression kicks in. It would be very hard for Fuji to keep the exact same grain in video mode as they have in JPEGs. Probably better to add it in post or shoot raw video.

Good luck recovering highlights in LOG, it doesn't really work like RAW. You have to make sure to underexpose to protect any highlights that are important to keep and use zebras. Also different cameras will have different metering in LOG, like a Sony for example where you expose two stops to the right, is thanks to a shit metering system. On a Fuji X-T3 you can expose bang in the middle and it will be correct for F-LOG. So exposing to the right is not a universal rule for LOG.

Found this about Cinelight: "You can just export them as DNG files and that is how you "copy" the data, for 15 minutes it takes about 30 minutes for me to copy all the footage. Which is reasonable." https://forum.dji.com/thread-47560-1-1.html As long as no processing is applied to the DNGs like lens correction, noise reduction, etc. then it is apparently 15 minutes to export 512GB. Not bad. Then to transcode in Resolve to ProRes takes a surprisingly short amount of time on a good rig, as Resolve is ultra efficient unlike Cinelight.