Andrew Reid

Of the Sony lenses I own, I have the Zeiss 55mm F1.8 FE, Zeiss 35mm F1.4 ZE, Batis 25mm F2 and Batis 85mm F1.8. Can highly recommend them all, but the Sigma ART lenses are WAAAAY better value for money. The advantage of the Sony ones is generally.... smaller, lighter, quieter, no adapter needed (obviously) but the optical performance is similar to Sigma and no giant step up even on the best lenses. In fact the Sigma 85mm F1.4 ART is better than the G-Master from Sony!

Who didn't you realise was in business anymore?!

1. It doesn't take C-Fast. It is plain 1000x compact flash. 2. Alexa and RED don't have AF either! Right tool for the job and all that 3. So many people have a Canon DSLR. Why not trade it in and get a better stills camera - one of their absolute best in fact - and have a cinema camera thrown in for free. Sounds like a bargain to me. The image has to be seen to be believed.

Well this is what is so confusing. Image framing on a multi-aspect ratio sensor goes wider when you select a wider aspect ratio. To support this vs GH5, the GH5S sensor should be a bit wider than 17.3mm... more like 19mm wide. Then, if we do 36mm / 19mm we get 1.89x crop factor horizontally, which would make sense as you see more of the lens than on the 2x crop GH5, yet apply the 0.58x speed booster and it should be a 1.1x crop horizontally compared to full frame... and it just isn't... the field of view is significantly less wide horizontally. So something is weird...

Burned? Not sure about that mate. NX1 owners are a very satisfied bunch. I should know, I am one. And the 16-50mm F2 is the best S35 zoom I own. Would do it all again in a heartbeat if they brought out another camera.

Lots of convincing detail in the rumors post. USB C with DisplayPort enabled for 4K video output is a good idea, for instance. The gyro shutter thing is interesting. I have no idea if real or not but one thing that strikes me as strange is that the NX1 is was never based around one chip (like the Exynos) and instead had lots of different custom hardware, dealing with separate tasks, like AF tracking, video encoding, etc. So not sure if building a prototype around one chip even makes sense with NX1 architecture the way it is (or was). Also to develop a brand new sensor for a prototype seems like an expensive thing to do if they have no intention on releasing it. Would be amazing if Samsung made an NX2 as a tent-pole of some kind to say to the world - look what we can do in cameras, now buy our S9 for a taste of the same specs.

Silkypix?!

It's a shame. Adobe are a shame, rather. Not Apple's problem! They did a superb job of the Mac Pro hardware. Next one going to be a stunning piece of kit.

Good point However on the other-hand it has some advantages. Sigma 24-35mm F2 ART becomes a 30-45mm which is quite useful with the extra reach you are almost getting a 28mm wide angle and 50mm prime in one.

Nikon do not manufacture sensors. (You agree with that). They may design them, but to what extent they are custom designs is open to question. You are quoting a rumours site like it's fact! Nikon have no history of using TowerJazz fabs. Only Sony and Toshiba logos have been found printed on the sensor boards in previous cameras.

I still think something is wrong with the crop factor maths If 4096 is 1.796 that would make my BMPCC 0.58x speed booster 1.04x crop, i.e. hardly any different to full frame, yet as I have already tried, much to my surprise this is not the case, looks more like 1.2x. And the XL (I have that too) is 0.64x, and looks like 1.3x crop not 1.149x. Maybe the sensor is only 17mm wide after all?

"Make" - to manufacture, build, assemble "Design" - to spec, plan functionality of Nikon do not manufacture sensors. They may design them, but to what extent they are custom designs is open to question. Sony is likely the manufacturer of the sensor, because it shares so much functionality, architecture, manufacturing processes and pixel architecture with the 42MP BSI CMOS in Sony's cameras.

In general a lot of reliability is going backwards because the big companies seem to hiring the wrong people or something else has happened... But I have noticed it a lot especially Adobe and Microsoft.

Film looks good! nice shot. I'd encourage you to take another look at the D850 and shoot it with the Flat profile designed for video. Add a simple gamma curve adjustment to that in post and you can leave the colour as it is - it's perfect. Amazingly detailed, thick files, high-ish bitrate but nice balance between file size and image quality, super colour, easy to grade, Super 35mm mode is MEGA detailed oversampled stuff and full frame looks better than I ever thought possible from 46MP. It is superbly impressive. Peaking, good audio options, high internal mic quality, plenty of manual controls, great high ISO, flippy screen, huge choice of lenses, great auto white balance and more. Definitely more a stills powerhouse than a video-orientated camera like A7S or GH5 but the image in both modes delivers like hell, believe me.

Yes of course.

My Windows 10 PC just updated... I say it just updated, I have been sat here for 4 hours. It went through about 9 differently designed update windows and dialogue boxes, numerous messages, and there are TWO control panels... One called SETTINGS and one called Control Panel. How is that good design? Then there are my taste issues with the way the damn thing looks. There are inconstancies in colour schemes constantly whacking you in the eyeballs. The default screen savers are literally from the 90's. The wallpapers are cliched bollocks. The toolbars, status bars, window outlines, fonts, themes and start bar are dated, ugly, glarish, shitty. There are too many people who say this doesn't matter, who laugh at Macs for their 'simple' UI... It does matter, we have to live in it, day to day. When you spend so much time looking at something, why not make it nice to look at? It's not superficial. "Apple is a phone company"... LOL The iPhone is more of a computer than it is a phone The app development community is stronger and more creative on the Mac OS and iOS side vs rival Windows and Android. Better tools, better development culture, better dev platforms, better SDKs, less complexity, less need to support numerous hardware combinations A high proportion of Mac OS and iPhone users are on the latest version of the OS. In Windows and Android land the number is probably below 20%. For those who keep updated and the system well managed and well tinkered with that's not a problem but it sure as hell is a problem for software developers. So much legacy OS stuff they have to support. And it is a problem for the users as well, because their performance and reliability goes down and the security situation frankly stinks - not just on Windows, but on Android as well. What if you don't care about that and just want it to WORK and be FAST and be RELIABLE for 5 years straight whilst you edit videos? I can't count the number of times my Windows 10 PC has interrupted my flow with an update request, a driver issue or another problem. Yes, when a PC works it can fly. But the Mac flies ALL. THE. TIME. And it does it with 200% more style. FCPX thrashes Premiere for performance by the way... and is a Mac exclusive. ProRes. EditReady. List of exclusives go on.

There are some around, but I have no experience of them yet Anyone has experience of these on the A7R II or A7R III? Any good?

You can use any 1080p HDMI recorder for that. Yes Ninja 2 would work. Ninja Star as well (to keep small form factor).

Sony colour is perfect for horror! Don't dial contrast low on a standard profile. Didn't you use the Flat profile instead? It's like c-log! Couldn't touch it all, well that's a bit dramatic I'd say. When both are graded they end up with very similar dynamic range. Nikon's colour science is excellent. S-LOG 2 is good to have, but I prefer rec2020 colour mode and HLG on the A7R3 to S-LOG2. Was it a zombie film? Yes D850 autofocus is undead. Video at least. Stills, it's best on the market and level with D5! If you had blackmagic as A-cam and A7S as C cam, what was B-cam? Was it 5D raw? Did you also have D cam, E cam, Z cam too?! (Z cam = zombie cam). So many cameras. You must have more than even me!

It's pretty good, better than 5D3 internally, benefits from Canon LOG too. In 1.3x 4K mode it does the best 1080p you've ever seen out of the HDMI to recorder. It's just... stunning. More cinematic than C100. One of best stills camera available today. 1D X basically. 1D X Mark II image is practically identical, just adds Dual Pixel AF. I had a hunch that the 1D C image is less plastic looking than 1D X Mark II, because of off-board A/D conversion rather than moving to on-chip (in-line A/D) on the 1D X 2. Not sure if I am right or not as not gone too deep into testing it, because they are so similar. It's definitely got mojo, that's for sure.

I seem to remember El Capitan or earlier had patchy support for 4K 60hz I don't think it's a hardware issue because the Mac Pro graphics card and Thunderbolt 2 definitely support 4K 60hz, even 5K. A lot of grunt on that side. So yeah I think it was the OS. I grazed this issue myself briefly and I think an update fixed it. Hazy memory though. In the end I squashed the romantic notion of the Mac Pro 2013. I love the unique form factor, how small it is, how quiet it is, how reliable, how the power still holds up today, how so many idiots write it off even at half the price it was, I think it's a cool little beast. However the iMac 2017 is just boringly... better value for money. Due to the more up-to-date graphics and Intel Quick Sync it will too often outperform the Mac Pro 2013 and I picked up a Apple refurb from their UK site for £1900... It is the 2017 27" iMac 5K, P3 display, i5 3.8ghz which runs cooler and quieter than the i7 4.2ghz but with very similar performance, 580 Pro graphics which has 8GB memory (huge!) and runs on par with the desktop GPU, so you are basically getting a top of the range professional 5K display for £900 and the computer for £1000 whereas the Mac Pro 2013 deal I was considering was £1900 just for the machine. I plan now to maybe sell the LG 4096 x 2160 display and just use the iMac. The Hackintosh will go into PC gaming mode and sit next to my racing sim rig in another room. If I want to as well, can run Forza 7 in bootcamp on the iMac and save myself the hassle of spending another £400 on an XBOX One X. Plug the iMac into the LG OLED and bang you have a 4K games console. The D500 wasn't powerful enough to achieve 60fps in most modern games in 4K, unless I am mistaken - they only recognise one and not the SLI config?

Absolutely the best image you can get in 2018 on a pure 4K quality basis (if you don't mind 1.3x crop) and an absolute monster of a full frame stills camera. It depends how you are going to use it though. Manual focus only in video mode, stick it on a tripod and hit record. Ok. Handheld with IS lenses...hmm... ok-ish I suppose. Anything more elaborate than that and the ergonomics will hurt you. The lack of articulated screen, EVF, audio functionality and HUGE file sizes are the complete opposite of your C100. Long recordings on this baby are a no-no unless you love buying MANY large CF cards, MANY batteries and transcoding to ProRes LT before editing. Absolutely the bigger brother in terms of image quality but the smaller sister in terms of literally everything else haha. 2500 euros with 1 year support is a superb deal At least if you don't get on with the handling, you could sell it on eBay for more and buy something else. The ones to consider are: D850 A7R3 GH5/GH5S with Canon EF Speed Booster XL

Talking pure 4K quality alone, the picture seems to have an edge on the D850. Shooting a comparison now, including the GH5S and it's clear. The D850 has less moire and aliasing, more solid and convincing detail, which doesn't have as much false detail on fine patterns. It's a small but significant difference. Codec and colour seem to have an advantage on the D850 as well. I'm surprised. It's like a 'Nikon' 1D C. I wonder why Sony put all their latest tech into Nikon's 46MP sensor and stuck with the slightly less capable 42MP sensor themselves? There are other differences though... A7R3 has proper LOG modes not just a flat profile. I've yet to test dynamic range, will do soon. In low light, I realised I made a mistake in the last test that focussed on the GH5S. The D850 had noise reduction completely off. It really does seem to turn it off and give you a fine noise grain. Need to retest the ISO 12,800 vs A7R3 and see the impact of noise reduction on both cameras, and whether it turns off completely on the Sony (or not) and which has the most capable system of reduction. We all know the A7R3 noise reduction in full frame 4K is pretty much magic. Does the Nikon do a similar job? If we're talking video features and form factor it's a non-contest... A7R3 cleans up across the board especially with it's superb video AF and stabilisation.

No the edges are still quite soft. Depends a heck of a lot on the shot whether you are going to notice though.

Hmm, something is off with my crop maths. Compared to Nikon D850 looks more like a 1.2x crop. Still pretty nice but the corners are a mess. Might go back to the XL.