Andrew Reid

S1R is like a different camera to when it came out. Here's what I like so far. The 10bit 5K does indeed have enormous mojo. Almost worth not bothering with full frame for! For anamorphic shooting it is seriously nice as it is 4:3. For normal shooting, a nice easy crop in post to whatever aspect ratio you like. It is crisp as heck. Colour is stunning. Particularly in the Neutral profile, it reminds me of the similar 5K mode on the similar Leica SL2 for 5 grand! Low light is far better than expected. Dual gain sensor. ISO 12,800 perfectly usable. ISO 3200 and 6400 very clean. I have included some sample clips shot in full frame 4K 8bit and 5K 10bit at 12,800 and 6400. https://we.tl/t-baorfLanyd Quick toggle between 4K FF / 5K S35. It can be assigned to a button, which you can press to instantly go between 8bit MP4 mode (full frame) and 10bit MOV mode (S35). Very handy for that second tighter framing in 5K or to go from 4K/60p to 5K/24p and so on. Colour science. I really like it. I put it at top. Canon move over. CFExpress slot. Was XQD. With new firmware now it is CFExpress and takes same fast card as my EOS R5 does. IBIS - seems to have the best performing IBIS I've yet seen although was to be expected coming from S1. AF in stills mode (with L-mount lenses) - it is MASSIVE improvement on S1 and earlier firmwares. Not just fast but reliable too now. In video mode yet to try it but not expecting it to be as good for movies EVF - it is larger than EOS R5 to my eye, just all round better. Back screen - Never felt so confident manually focusing without punching in or activating peaking! 65:24 mode and L.Monochrome mode = XPAN style 9K stills shooting 🙂 All in all, I think it is more unique than S1 and a total bargain for £1500. The S1 doesn't have the 5K, isn't as good in S35, cannot do full frame 4K/60p and doesn't have a pixel-to-pixel crop mode for Super 16mm c-mount lenses. On the stills side the S1R has a superior sensor, much higher resolution and better AF. The only thing I might miss is V-LOG but the S1R's Flat profile seems to have very good DR for my needs and is much easier to grade. There is also CineLikeD and Hybrid LOG Gamma. The S1R is two steps... an E-Mount and Good AF away... from being 99% of people's go to mirrorless camera. E-mount there is no denying is just far more established and AF too important to compromise on for most people's needs. But for me, in that beautiful 5K mode with a bunch of manual lenses, it is perfect and different to a whole host of identikit camera bodies. (S1 will be on eBay tomorrow if anyone wants it!) It is also a Leica SL2 killer! FOOTNOTE: I am rocking the Fotidiox Leica Killing adapter with built in variable ND. It is EF mount so quite versatile. Takes M42 stuff and Contax Zeiss for instance. The electronic side works as well although you can pretty much forget about reliable AF! And before you say "but whattabout R5" that doesn't do 5K S35 anamorphic or Super 16mm crop and costs rather a lot more!

Strange I wonder whether any of us see colour and contrast the same way. It looks fine on my MacBook Pro m1 screen which is best screen I've ever used. I was looking at some Digital Bolex clips and it really looks very similar to the skin tones in that.

Just keeping the E-M1 X, original plan was to upgrade but have to be careful with the finances at the moment. I like the E-M1 X pro body design and in the hand feel, a really solid camera that can take some rough and tumble. OM-1 is great but just didn't quite do enough better to make it worth selling the E-M1 X especially as E-M1 X only goes for about £850 used now, so over £1000 cost difference after selling it. I also still have GH6 on loan from Panasonic and that does more than both of them 🙂

Ah missed your post on previous page, I see it now.

Do you mean hypothetically or there is this actual app X which does it. I have never heard of any software that can take ProRes RAW and convert it to CDNG.

You can convert ProRes RAW to Cinema DNG? It's already debayered.

Cinema DNG still looks and grades better than BRAW and ProRes RAW for me, which look like glorified ProRes 🙂

@FHDcrewThink please about being more economical with posts, 3 separate posts one with an eBay link, then another one with an eBay photo and then yet another saying "crazy good deal" - it can all be put into a much smaller space within just one post. Thanks. I am selling my own F5 at the moment in the UK. £2225 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125465850228?hash=item1d3658f174:g:rLgAAOSwqrli-sZL I'd point people to that before some unknown seller.

Surely last thing you want for skin is a ton of contrast and definition exaggerating blemishes and uneven tones.

Motion JPEG was perhaps under appreciated, but more so Canon's colour science I think peaked with the 1D C. It's actually gone a bit more clinical since. I still don't miss 500Mbit/s huge files but nowadays it feels a little bit more manageable than it did in 2014! Somebody should buy 20 1D Cs and take the internals out, put them in their own cinema camera with an E-mount and sell it for $6k each!

It could just be the R7 is cripple hammered. But I have a hard clip on almost every camera I own because the OS or NLE doesn't interpret full range H.265 / H.264 properly. If you'd like to try the fix DM me 😃

I remember @Emanuel raising the possibility of using Micro Four Thirds glass on Fuji cameras. Well I asked RAF Camera to make a prototype for EOSHD and here it is. So in past year I have been experimenting with a lot of M43 glass on the Super 35mm sensor of the Fuji X series cameras. We see beyond the usual 2x crop image circle! Here's what I found: - X-T4 has a Micro Four Thirds 2x crop mode in the menus. So you can use anything on that, basically. - The adapter doesn't have any electronics capabilities (maybe later?) so I have only been trying manual focus lenses - Voigtlander super fast F0.95 primes look lovely on a Fuji! - Some M43 lenses even cover the entire Super 35mm sensor - X-H1 is 1.7x crop in 4K so that works well, as it is closer to the 1.86x crop of the GH2 or multi-aspect sensor Panasonic bodies - The affordable Meike cinema lenses work brilliantly as these are all Super 35mm lenses just different mounts (they come in Fuji X-mount versions and Micro Four Thirds, with same optics for both) - SLR Magic stuff very tasty with it especially on the X-T4 in 2x crop mode - Focus to infinity is fine (sometimes slightly over even) So I am wondering, how much interest would there be in an EOSHD branded adapter for Fuji X cameras, that enables you to use Micro Four Thirds glass? This is the only adapter in the world of this type. I have been wondering how many of you have both Micro Four Thirds mount glass and Fuji cameras, maybe you switched but didn't sell all your GH5 lenses? Maybe you are just curious to turn your X-T4 into a GH6? Or interested to discover the unique images made from one of your exotic Micro Four Thirds mount lens on an X-H2S? Also rather than buy separate lenses for Fuji and Panasonic you can use one set on both systems (as in Meike 25mm T2.2 for instance!) If there is enough interest in the adapter I'll put RAF on notice and finally start that Indiegogo up!

Ah yes remember you had some. Is the 5K full frame or a crop? And it’s 4:3 only? Tried the new L.neo colour profiles? basically Panasonic film styles

Not seen colour this nice since the Digital Bolex! Think I may need to pick one up

Thee camera that shall not be spoken about. It got a HUGE firmware update. Now does 5K and is basically a Leica SL2 for half price. I seem to remember AF works a lot better on S1R especially in 4K/60p full frame than in 4K on the S1 and S1H. Anyone tested this? I don't think it can do V-LOG? But it has HLG now. And it is one of the very few full frame 4K/60p cams for under $1500 used. So maybe it should be more on our radar than it was?

Highlight roll off is a common problem at the moment. Try this with it, I'll give you a free copy https://www.eoshd.com/dynamic-range-enhancer-H264-H265/

Cheers for posting, very detailed. Did you notice anything like a crop mode, for 2x or Super 16mm lenses in 4K?

Yeah I have the Beastgrip one. Problem is it needs an extremely close minimum focus distance and doesn't work well with larger smartphone sensors, especially in the corners where it looks like it's gone ten rounds with a cat loving workshop host. Yes everything would be smaller. Ground glass could be smaller, lens is certainly smaller. I would ideally like to go crazy and dismantle a smartphone, take all the gubbins out and put it in a GH2!! Or at least as follows... Detach lens from main sensor. 3D print holder for the sensor and mainboard, put it behind the hollowed out GH2's mount Detach the screen of course and have that on a hinge at the back. It is definitely not easy but surely doable with a few precision tools!!

Thanks for the latest, good stuff. Since 2014 you have been giving us these so that is commitment to say the least!

It's ok they are already re-shooting with it themselves!

As I said OM-1 went in cardboard box at post office after so it was a bit difficult to reshoot

Might be a couple of things. Strong AA filter in the camera. Thicker filter stack glass. Does it only look this soft at fast apertures or at F5.6 as well?

Scrapped it.

Just a thought... It would be great to modify a smartphone so that it has only a sensor with no lens over it, and on the back cover a screw mount for C-mount lenses. Then it really would play in the same league as the Digital Bolex in RAW. It would need a lot of machining and new metal parts on the back to make it work and hope your OS doesn't notice that AF is missing! But not beyond the realms of possibility is it?

Proof that 10bit is almost pointless 🙂