Andrew Reid

To be fair there were NO specs in the press release not even megapixel count. It was just Nikon saying "we're making a full frame mirrorless camera". So that's no-way an indication of lack of 4K, which is in all the leaked specs present and correct. Video has not been an afterthought at Nikon since the D750. They woke up. Sony see the demand for 4K enough to do a separate model for us - A7S - which has sold well - and Nikon see the same market demand and same data as Sony do - so they will provide the video specs we need... Maybe not to the extent of a dedicated model, but certainly building on the D850 spec. There's a lot of speculation that it will be a damp squib vs the mighty Sony benchmark. Well actually the benchmark for a full frame mirrorless camera is the Leica SL in some respects - best EVF on the market, best ergonomics, largest grip, highest build quality. Some of that photographic heritage is there at Nikon as well. And they will bring it to an A7R III-like body, what's not to like about that? I say give it a chance, because I know a lot of people are deeply indebted to Sony and invested balls deep in Sony gear, so it's hard to get your head around the fact there may be a second choice that wasn't there previously. If the Nikon ends up outperforming the A7R III, I am sure Jon will switch like he did from GHx to A7x and change his mind entirely about his previous kit. Just imagine IF... The IBIS is as good as Olympus/Panasonic... The EVF is as big as the Leica SL... The 4K is as good as the D850 but with extra options like HLG and Nikon LOG... And the AF is Dual Pixel... That would mean the Sony A7R III would be beaten and it would leave the A7 III to win on price but not much else. They already are though! Sigma for one. Given the Sigma lenses for Sony FE-mount are as large as the DSLR mount versions, you may as well use the Nikon F mount adapter and the existing versions on the new camera. Given the way the autofocus on the latest Sony cameras, it bodes well for the Nikon in video mode.

It's gorgeous stuff, how can anyone complain this is ugly. As for the mount... if it falls off, we will know about it, but until that fateful day, who cares about the number of screws Anyone can tell this is going to be nicer in the hand than the A7 III and A7R III Bigger and more tactile. Just like the 4K files will be... Thicker than Sony. At least until the A7S III comes along (maybe).

Yep, the non-bayer design of the Sigma is outstanding with how cleanly it resolves resolution. I have one and should finally get round to finishing that 2nd article about it. I'd put it at around A7R III level of detail, so not quite 50MP but very very clean and very close for the price. It has a lot of other weaknesses along with the mirrorless version of it, however, so it's a special purpose / occasional tool, not a full on replacement for anything else.

At launch: X1D body RRP $8995 GFX body RRP $6499 Those do not include tax. At current time, the X1D has dropped $2500 because nobody bought it. It's still more expensive than the GFX at B&H. Maybe at some shops around the world, it is the same price... because of lack of demand and a glut of stock. They got the pricing wrong and they know it. 63mm F2.8 for the GFX is £1359 new. This is a 50mm equiv. focal length on the GFX and X1D Sony CMOS medium format sensor. The Hasselblad system only has a 45mm and 90mm, nothing in between! So that is 35mm and 75mm-ish, right? No 50!? And how are we doing for pricing on that 90... Yours for only £2899, a complete bargain... not. The autofocus is crap on top of that. I bought mine used. Used, they are going for £2000 less than the X1D. For me, that is reality my friend. I.e. how can I get the camera for best price possible and still with 12 month warranty. I got mine from London Camera Exchange for £3800 with the 63mm F2.8, which effectively made the body cost £3000. The cheapest I have seen the X1D go for used is £5800, and that is only in the last few weeks after the massive price drop on the new bodies. If you bought the X1D at launch or just a few months ago, you'd be seriously fucked-off with that kind of depreciation and price drop on the new model. Yes it does. I can shoot medium format at F1.4 I can get full coverage from Minolta full frame lenses and even some Contax Zeiss gems on the cheap. The creativity is endless and the looks never before produced. Possible for the first time with the GFX 50S. For video? Yes. For AF? Yes. For 50MP photography and dynamic range? No. Don't try and simply my argument until it no longer makes sense! "Best image quality" is more like "exact same image quality" in case of X1D vs GFX. There are plenty of other cameras with a leaf shutter and high speed flash sync BTW. Hardly makes X1D unique.

Transcoding the H.264 to ProRes really helps fluid 4K editing. It helps more than upgrading the system. To answer the OP... Yes the upgrade is worth it, 100%, over the 12" MacBook. But you will still need to convert the 4K H.264 from the A6500 to an editing codec to see the most significant leaps... Or switch to FCPX.

30p is a crop, so the lens correction wouldn't reveal the very bottom edge of the sensor readout. Looking at Caleb's video, the stretch is certainly enough to push the bottom of the frame out of the picture where the blinking pixels occurred. My theory is that Sony discovered some units shipped with a hardware fault causing corruption on that bottom scan line of the readout, and only way to fix it was to hide it with firmware fix, rather than do a recall. Why else would it be stretching the picture? It has no purpose and is an unlikely "bug" (would be the first bug of its kind ever in the camera industry). It is a full pixel readout in 4K/24p/25p of the entire sensor top to bottom, so yes they are scaling from 5 or 6K down to 4K. I don't think that's the issue. They have done it before, no problem. Wonder if A9 has same stretch?

Although we shouldn't worry too much about this because it's barely noticeable, it's an interesting mystery to test and solve for Sony. Read the full article

For the money I bought it for there was no better stills camera than the GFX 50S. Next jump would have been the 100MP Hasselblad H6D which is £20k+. I could pay £3000 more than the Fuji for the X1D for no benefit at all, and have to invest in all-new medium format glass. Besides my 13 year old Hasselblad H3D II has faster autofocus, better viewfinder and similar resolution. OK. OK. Let's get a reality check. Leica SL is £4500 brand new, £3700 used. Hasselblad X1D is £12,000 with one lens! I have not seen it for less than £7000 body-only either new or used. Besides the cost of the X1D lenses, you can use all sorts of stuff on the Leica and Fuji GFX...Also AF is much better on the native SL mount, as well as the fact it does 4K video whereas Hassy does not. Specs are out there and unless proven to be wildly wrong, suggest it is very capable. Of course "reality" after the camera is out, is a different matter, which is why I said "on paper". Since when has a mechanical shutter mattered on a camcorder?! "Intention in same category". No. One is a photo-camera, one is a camcorder. You're not comparing even remotely the same tools. Unless DJI target different group of customers entirely, X1D will never compete with A7 series.

Sometimes I feel we go over the same arguments again and again for the benefit of people new to the thread or the story and who haven't done their research.

That's the thing... A joke is not a statement. It's not even real. It's not an actionable intent. It's an act. Said it time again. Learn to tell the difference between fiction and reality. Or you'll be stoning comedians on stage at this rate.

Why would one buy it over the GFX 50S? It is a hip design but far less practical and much more expensive, with no advantage in image quality over the Fuji! Plus you can't adapt glass to it very well, it lacks a mechanical focal plane shutter and the electronic shutter has more rolling shutter than a A6300 shooting howl's moving castle. Panasonic G1 was mature and very refined straight off the bat. Leica SL was and is a much better all-round system than the X1D. Nikon's first gen full frame mirrorless looks on paper to be superior to latest Sony stuff. In Cinema EOS land, C300 was a first gen product... and took over the planet. So it's not the case that no company has never made a great first effort, starting anew. It might. It might not. A bit of blind speculation there... I'd bet on it remaining a very expensive one-off rather than something to take on Panasonic, Sony and Nikon.

It depends on the region. I see far more Fujis in peoples hands around UK and Europe than Pentax DSLRs, that's for sure. The shops have far more room dedicated to Fuji's cameras than Pentax, and the unit shipments don't take into account the fact higher priced models ship in smaller numbers, but might take a larger proportion of the market by value than by unit numbers. Of course Canon and Nikon getting into mirrorless is a severe storm for Fuji, Panasonic and Olympus. They are going to get squeezed. It should prompt all 3 to go full frame, so we win in the end.

Do Fuji, Panasonic, Olympus and Pentax really fight over just 13% of the market between the 4 of them? The numbers seem a bit off to me, given what we know about the strong Fuji sales in particular.

The great advantage of medium format lenses is that you can stop down for insane detail and resolution, whilst maintaining a dreamy full frame fast-aperture look. The F2.8 GFX lenses for example look like F2 on full frame but MUCH sharper and better optically. The other advantage is the dynamic range - no matter what DXO Mark says or how good the full frame sensors are getting - I saw for myself with the GFX 50S how realistic the image looks when graded for maximum dynamic range and how much quality information comes out of the shadows vs my full frame cameras. Hasselblad deserve criticism for their handling of this YouTuber situation in-person, with the reps, although the YouTuber's account of what happened could be biased or exaggerated, we don't know what really went on. Hasselblad also deserve some flack for the X1D mirrorless camera, which came out with quite the showcase of bugs, and is hobbled by terrible AF performance. That was a very important category to mess up and at the price you expect a whole lot more. I love the H6D range though and the 100MP model is total cutting edge tech. The ergonomics of the Hasselblad H3D through H6D have to be experienced one in a life-time... they are different. I love the modularity and HUGE view-finder. There's not many other things you can find a 48mm wide Kodak CCD sensor in that feels as nice and costs £2000 used.

Canikon probably won't let a mirrorless camera completely out-spec their top-end DSLRs, so the D850 is a much nicer benchmark to aim for than that wet fish, the 5D IV. Also there are important differences between Nikon and Canon when it comes to video... Nikon has no pro-video division profit margins to protect. If the Canon mirrorless is going to be a full frame M50, with 5D Mk IV sensor and 4K MJPEG, I ain't buying it.

Disney empowering fascists.

Could be like a D850 with dual pixel AF in a mirrorless form factor. 100% perfect compatibility with F-mount lenses and a range of new ones. May introduce a Nikon LOG profile and extra video goodies. Ergonomics look nice. A lot to be excited about but it has a high bar to match in the cheaper A7 III

Nikon have patented their own version of dual pixel autofocus. https://www.diyphotography.net/nikon-mirrorless-camera-may-dual-pixel-autofocus-tech-according-new-patent/ We could well be seeing that in the new mirrorless cameras. If you assume the leaked specs and price are correct, there's no need to think it will be anything approaching a 'lite' mirrorless camera. Leaked ad campaign looks good. It's a Chinese one with a very famous actress. Not much unusual about that. If you want to read that much into a leaked BTS photo from one ad campaign because there isn't a serious pro photographer holding the camera...well... haha. Maybe if the leaked specs didn't mention a $3000 price tag and full frame 46MP sensor with 4K video. It's great that the Sony monopoly on full frame mirrorless cameras (Leica aside) has come to an end. There will be the Canon offering before too long as well, and then maybe Olympus / Panasonic will jump into the full frame mirrorless wars. More competition = better cameras.

I am curious about what they do with the more affordable model in the region of 24MP. Whether for example it apes the A7 III full pixel readout in 4K and Sony's on-chip phase detect AF. If Nikon doesn't copy Sony there, then the A7 III will have quite a nice advantage, especially given the price. On the 46MP model, which is probably going to perform similar to the D850 for 4K, again it will be interesting to see about AF in video mode... But I fully expect the 4K to be pixel binned in full frame mode, so the question is... will it look as good as it does on the D850 pixel binned? FX mirrorless cam = D850? I reckon so. Nikon have tended to standardise video quality very well between models... D3300 vs D5300 = same. D750 vs D810 = same. On the D850 you can barely tell the pixel binned full frame 4K apart from the full pixel readout in S35 mode, it's that good. If Nikon let the mirrorless models fall behind their own D850 or the A7 III for video, then of course it is much less attractive, no matter what kind of ergonomic niceness it'll bring to the table, which is much needed as Sony are still charmless here.

I think maybe it was intentional to put a famous actress in the ad campaign they were shooting ?

It's not retro, but I like the design. I wouldn't call it ugly. It is less utilitarian than a Sony body, with more curves.

Why don't they shoot the ad campaigns AFTER they announce it An easy leak this one I hope it is in shops before Photokina. Otherwise the temptation would be too high to run off with a demo unit in my loot bag.

Putting my Sonys on eBay as we speak

He should get both. C100 to look like a pro in front of clients. Just keep it turned off and use GH5 to do the actual shooting

Wow Hasselblad reps letting the company down big-time there. However.... ? Given the opportunity to play with an H6D-100 (which does 4K raw video as well), the review from Usman was total drivel. Shot a soft toy with it. Moans about the price. Erm....yeah that's about it!