Andrew Reid

The main thing for me is the lack of headphone jack and DAC options. The S8+ has a personalised EQ that adapts volume for your hearing, so if you're down on a certain frequencies vs others you can boost those frequencies and get better perceived audio quality. It actually works. I have tried it vs the Chord Mojo DAC. The internal DAC isn't as good as the Mojo but this helps. With the Audiofly AF180 IEMs it's a joy to listen to. Can't say the same about my dull sounding iPhone 7 with dongle. Music is important to Apple and yet all they have to show for their efforts is a dongle and Beats. They are nowhere near satisfying the needs of audiophiles. And on the OLED front - the S8+ delivers all I need there, why should I pay $1000+ to Apple just to get the same or equal feature I already have? It remains to be seen whether the front dual camera setup beats the Galaxy Note 8 as well, but I am happy shooting on the S8+ in RAW. Does the iPhone X have RAW in the built in camera app or does it need a third party app? 4K 60fps H.265 is one thing. Nice to see, but doubt it'll make me shoot more serious video on a phone. iOS is still better engineered than Android though. More secure and better under the hood. Attracts higher calibre of devs and apps on average. More innovative software for sure. But in day to day use, to be honest now Android is not far off in terms of the overall experience and battery life.

Yep easy to trap. "Please send to Ebrahim Saadawi, 1 scam street, fraudtown."

Someone is pretending to be me, trying to scam free products out of the DSLR video community. Huge thanks for this company for being smart and sending me an email through this site, to check it was actually me!! Previously also James Miller I think was a victim of this kind of thing as well, but the real victims are the small businesses who lose valuable goods to an imposter! (This is a message to the person behind this ruse: It's completely fraudulent and we will get the police involved)

Yes you can do that. Although I designed it to be an in-camera profile for video and JPEG, nowhere did I say it was for shooting raw

Thanks for the thoughtful comments OliKMIA. I didn't see the emails, were they sent recently? I was in a similar position to you. I've written for DPReview, had some friends there, but their main editor was a constant road block and the main driving force behind the new click bait led-approach there. I just never saw eye to eye with him. I actually started off writing a bit for DigitalRev before that, but you see - these places are actually making a shit ton of money and they pay writers peanuts. The best thing you can do is to use them as a step on the ladder towards starting your own blog or YouTube channel. The exposure they give you is more valuable than the peanuts they feed you. But eventually you will starve and have to eat something. When I look at NoFilmSchool, PetaPixel and yes FStoppers I usually find that 90% of the content isn't original. Certainly not in terms of camera reviews. The reviews section reads like a top 10 of YouTube videos. It is outsourced to writers like yourself who aren't paid enough and aren't part of a core team in a building. This is against my principals because I think it's bad business and bad for the internet. There should be more investment in talent like yourself and more campuses in all major cities where these sites invest in space for writers, reviewers and filmmakers. Perhaps the money required just isn't there, but if Patreon can raise $60m in funding for their site from investors, I am sure a site as high profile as Amazon can invest a little more in what they own - aka DPReview - and give something back to the photography community. FStoppers I am sure is a multi-million dollar business and instead of maintaining a high traffic volume through the current model of curating content, should be writing it in-house from scratch, and Google should be the ones who are curating the content, showing more of an editorial hand by moving good stuff up the rankings by hand rather than relying on clicks and popularity matrixes. The danger for DPR now is that their front page click-bait is drowning out the hard work of the core team such as Richard Butler and his original articles, reviews, technical pieces and opinion. It will attract a different audience and kill their core audience stone dead. The clicks will all be heading towards the reposts and sensational gimmickry, and away from what made them such a respected authority on cameras. As creators we are also users. I am a consumer. I'm a visitor of several other blogs and sites. The general feeling whenever I surf the net these days for camera news is sheer disappointment in the standard of content and I actually often come back to the EOSHD forum instead and ask a question or reply to topics, because you often learn more from your own community than you do from the broader industry one.

"It's now 2017 and the NX system is still alive and going strong. In some cases, the NX cameras still offer technology still missing from other manufactures to date. Think about how impressive this is? That's how ahead of the curve you were." Very true! The technology was an incredible achievement. If they wanted to just do an NX2, an update, I am sure they could swing the factories back into action. Problem is, they have to justify the business plan to the Samsung board and CEO, who has his eyes on sales numbering in the millions. I hope Samsung can see the advantage of doing a smaller scale brand prestige project with the NX2, ahead of a full frame camera launch in the future that grabs a big chunk of the market.

It seems to have taken some weight off the server that's for sure, quite snappy isn't it? If anyone has login problems just clear your cache & cookies.

Haha yes when a business model is broken to the point of behaving like the Stasi then it is going to get shut down some way or another, and I'm glad the rumours sites won't be able to ping my Amazon purchases back at me, whilst selling it around stuff they cut and pasted from someone's YouTube channel. None of those are advertising cookies though. The reddit one is because there's a Reddit post embed function built into the forum software. The Google ones are for fonts, visitor counters, some common scripts that speed up page loading and style sheets. Viglink is an affiliate link enabler offered as part of IP.Board (the forum software) but it is disabled on the EOSHD forum as I didn't want it automatically underlining every camera name with a link to B&H.... Annoying, and penny wise, pound foolish bullcrap.

Doesn't work for me. I'm arguing with the developer of the forum software as we speak...

Hey Eric It's amazing what you are doing. I'll make this post a sticky. Cheers!

Apple just did a very good thing - Who trusts some shady ad company with their internet browsing history?

You don't need to do the A-B G-M adjustments when using AWB. The adjustment is for getting the warm look to indoor light, like Ambient White Balance Mode does, on cameras that lack it.

It's not the same as a DMCA take down, it is someone referencing your post and videos - that is fair use. And I don't mind it But the problem is as I've already described. The issues are not copyright related. The issues are moral, cultural and about quality standards. And Facebook / Google / Industry should be doing more to uphold all three. A lot of what Google puts on the first page of their search engine is clickbait top 10 lists for instance, shit content, and even regular search terms for piracy. For example, type the name of some content in that's paid software or a document and you will get "free download" or "free PDF" after the keyword suggested by Google themselves, or indeed "stream online free" when you type a film in. How can that be right? This is what happens when you leave moral issues to machines... You are absolutely right.

Enjoyed this test, fun stuff Very impressive for the Leica X1 and GR to retain such nice colour in the highlights on the fruit. DP3 Foveon still best overall though

Yeah I'm dialing down the insane amount of white. Why is it nobody can design things anymore... UPDATE: Getting there now... made some more tweaks and I'm starting to like things more.

The Leica is nice but I can't believe DP3 (A) didn't get more votes! That was the one with a nicest all-round balance of character and minimal flaws for me. Not too perfect, not too rough. I think it would be interesting to try a blind test of video modes with baked in colours. Were these raw stills graded to taste?

@JeremyDulac Select the Deep Warmth profile and they will apply, then you can see which profile you like the most. Sony made changes on the A6300 and A6500 to colour. I find that even if the colour depth changes don't apply to those models under S Gamut, the changes Sony made more than compensate.

I've cleaned up the theme and it looks much better now. Let's see how it goes. Moving to new forum software is a massive job so I'll put it off for now!

The forum software upgraded from 4.1 to 4.2 and completely changed the theme unexpectedly. In fact I'm so annoyed at Invision about this that I may migrate the community to XenForo from the current ip Board software entirely. Any thoughts on alternative forum systems? Any other forums out there you enjoy using, with a clear and modern design but lots of features?

Here's a good site and article... https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2017/05/a-videographers-take-on-sonys-a99ii-and-the-yet-to-be-antiquated-a-mount/

Good deal on the S2 body there. Shame the lenses are so expensive still Does anything adapt?

Wow so few! Got any more?!

I like Goto's modded Df but if all his criticisms of his own camera are valid then why the hell wasn't he voicing them during development, saying 'the metallic feeling needs to be better' and so on. Nikon seem to do everything by committee. A Steve Jobs-type manager would have taken more control. That's what they need on the product side. The comments about pros not using Sony, Olympus, Fujifilm are laughable as well all well know! I am sure Mr Goto knows as well, not sure why he feels it's ok to lie about it! "I have considered many options. Mirrorless cameras can be made thinner body but without the mirror shutter sound and vibration are gone, although they can be simulated electronically. How to integrate these technologies and ideas is one thing, how to execute and to build products is another." Well get on with it then... or should I say, Goto it. Vibration simulated electronically? No thanks What are they waiting for? We need that Nikon mirrorless range. I think they should build a real competitor to their DSLRs with their prosumer mirrorless camera and not try and do a Df with some Leica-mimicing piece of fashion fluff.

Here's what needs to happen - Google and Facebook should take on more editorial responsibility, have actual humans boost quality content up the ranking, rather than leaving it all to machines. They don't even curate the front page of YouTube, it's all numbers, maths. Facebook should allow content creators to reach 100% of their followers for free with each post. Those followers are not for sale. I don't want to have to pay Mark Zuckerberg a cent to speak to you guys. Next up, the aggregator sites (Nofilmschool, 43rumors) should be demoted down the Google search rankings every time they post non-original content and the content they post should go UP in the search ranking. Eventually you will get the original creator on the first page of Google and SonyAlphaRumors on page 26. Finally, for privacy reasons there should be an opt in on every single banner ad on a page. If you go to SonyAlphaRumors and it has 27 ads on the front page, every one of them stuffing a cookie in your mouth to track what you do on the internet. Browsers should pop a dialogue box up saying OK / Confirm to tracking for every single one of those 27 advert cookies. The more ads, the more hassle for the user, the more people turn to cleaner sources of info. Finally, I'd like to see YouTube PAY FOR ORIGINAL CONTENT like Netflix. No, not $1 cent from a million advertising impressions... A real contract, written on paper, mega bucks. Otherwise, fuck the entire internet, it is going down the drain.

I would like to discover some new sites and YouTubers. I am going to delete DPReview and all the reviews sites from my bookmarks and RSS. Had enough of em. I miss Philip Bloom and his cats. I never thought I'd say that His blog was a brilliantly entertaining read but he doesn't do it any more really. I've found some great YouTubers and people on this forum who I follow the blogs and channels of. Now I'd like to know more. Who regularly updates on new camera news, gives intelligent opinions, actually uses the stuff, actually makes original content? Also is Reddit a good place for camera reviews? And even... Are there any Vimeors? People with regular and good camera tests, on their Vimeo account?