Andrew Reid

Great! I'll put the footage on the front page of the blog if it looks nice

That's a good suggestion sir! XR is generally more punchy, more contrast, whereas the original tended towards 'safer'. Oops balls'd that up didn't I?! Yes it IS compatible with the old a7s. The cameras that don't work are the basic or old ones, that lack the advanced picture profiles. I'll let an FS5 user take up the baton on that one... Would love to see your footage!

I'm not too impressed with this reply either Jon! Will send you a DM to talk some stuff over!

I am pleased to announce that a year after the original, there is a major update to EOSHD Pro Color for Sony cameras. In addition to the new Pro Color, I am launching EOSHD Pro LOG as well. This takes all the advantages of Pro Color into an easy to grade C-LOG-like profile for your Sony camera. Pro LOG also comes with 25 EOSHD Film LUTs for an instant cinematic grade in post. Read the full article

Even more insane is the common crook who gave it to the store for £1700!!

Hasselblad X1D for £3500 anyone!? https://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=SDIGHASX1D50CBODA#.WbsaJ63My7Y

HDR codec and HDR10 display will make a difference. Is the H.265 10bit? 4K 60fps on a phone proves heat can be managed in such a thin device, and that Canon with their shitty DSLRs have no excuses remaining.

Looks clean as a whistle to me for ISO 1250. On many other cameras that shot would be fizzing like hell!

Did you hear of the man who tried to clean every last spec of dust from his Hasselblad? He’s dead now. But he has a cautionary tale from beyond the grave… Read the full article

Does it have a bigger buffer than the RX100 V? Seems unlikely to me as the buffer memory is part of the sensor, and they have the exact same sensor. I am actually surprised Sony bothered with this model... They should put it on a 2 year cycle with bigger differences between models. If the RX100 V style AF dramatically speeds up the telephoto end of that lens it will be a miracle as well

That's right you'd get higher resolution and a wider FOV by using 5K 4:3 mode with a 1.33x lens. There aren't many truly sharp 1.33x lenses around though, especially not at fast apertures. So that might limit your res.

Just on-topic according to thread.

Of course it's a detail improvement. Why wouldn't it be?! 3.5K is 3584 x 1320 with no binning or line,skipping. 1080p is 1920 x 1080

Interesting idea Snowfun, but a bit of a dead-end plot wise? I'd like to build the story out from her inner conscious, where some mysteries are buried, and create the two characters - Jewel and the Replicant, who carry forward the plot till the end of the feature... Keep the suggests coming! I have no idea what happens next yet

The dot projector that maps your face could be used for some interesting games and tech demos. The camera has a nice bump on the X The digital portrait lighting is very cool and something I wish all cameras would implement, especially for video! The new processor and GPU I am sure is very good I like it and good to finally catch up with Samsung, on the OLED front Apple however are generally more boring than they used to be and lack charisma under Tim Cook. The products are still solid, but there's something missing. Personality?

I think the evolutional purpose of human belief in God is that it's comforting... this turns it into something absolutely terrifying and nihilistic. Do you think the more enlightened Jim Carrey gets it the more of a suicide risk he is? It's already happened in the life of another great comic actor, Robin Williams... very sad. I think Carrey's a superb talent, unique... not to everyone's taste, but a genuinely interesting human being. He could be really onto the truth... he could be ultra enlightened... but there's a coldness behind his eyes, a cold stark reality to it somehow. Or maybe he's just goofing around with it... Trolling the vacuous celebrity machine at the fashion show and an insular, materialistic reporter. Watch the recent video on his artwork though, and it does seem he's actually living his newfound enlightenment and taking inspiration from it. Fine line between genius and madness! Yup, I'd agree with that. Maybe in Jim Carrey's attempt to shrink his ego, he's peered into the void. In the end it should be up to the individual to believe in what he believes... the problem is religion is too often forced on the individual from a young age or from peep pressure.

I am finding this incredibly useful at the moment: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/ There's some real amateur talent on these subs, and occasionally an idea surfaces that sparks off all kinds of brilliant writing. I suggest if you are feeling creative and want to write film ideas, to join in. I am writing one at the moment, which is partly inspired by Black Mirror: San Junipero. I found the build up in that episode a bit too cliched, but it turns into an absolutely killer idea by the end. Watch it. Very very moving! --- Here's my (rather long) film writing prompt if anyone wants to pick up on it... "DREAMS WE DON'T REMEMBER" A technology arrives which records our dreams and allows us to interact with our deepest unconscious characters and situations. Jewel, a student, joins a research company’s paid trial. It is disguised in the ads as a drugs trial but turns out to be run by the corporation behind the dream-recording technology. Jewel is invited to test a new version of the technology and after a particularly disturbing dream we don’t know the contents of and Jewel can’t remember, she is forced to reenact it vividly using a new experimental brain-machine interface which accidentally sends her into a coma. In the problematic dream Jewel is being turned from a human into a machine by a primitive 1970's computer engineer who stabs a screwdriver and soldering iron around in her open chest torn apart, her skeleton rearranged into a box-like shape to accommodate a rack of circuit boards and wires. Now inside the life-threatening coma, Jewel comes to believe she’s truly a computer. She feels the currents running through various wires inside her, her vision feels digital, like a flickering virtual reality headset and when she’s touched by the user, she feels their hands on her, pressing physical buttons and keys, to give her instructions on how to behave. She starts to develop an emotional and physical attachment with her 'owner', the man who is using her as his computer. She wakes from her coma and unbeknown to the doctors helping her, the corporation has been recording her hallucinations in the coma - all the disturbing details of it. They use the data to reconstruct a virtual version of Jewel in the form of a feminine machine, a cyberpunk replicant, to be used to satisfy the sexual urges of their own computer scientists behind closed doors. After weeks of abuse the replicant escapes into the real world and tracks down Jewel’s home where she’s recovering in the company of her close family and boyfriend. In front of her family, the replicant tells Jewel everything that happened in the coma and what the company has done to create the ‘virtual’ Jewel. The details of her deepest unconscious thoughts and upsettingly dark hallucinations create serious problems with her family and boyfriend, and it appears for most of the coma she’s fantasising about having passionate sex with her boyfriend's boss. Jewel is embarrassed and distraught, eventually alone and shunned by her family and boyfriend. With suicidal thoughts one evening, she steals the dream-recording machine from a research lab and tries to influence her dreams to repent for the sins in her unconscious. She fails to have a more positive dream and feels disgusted when watching back the recording, whilst immersed in the futuristic VR brain-machine interface, a tear falls cinematically down her cheek, just as the replicant Jewel puts her hand on her shoulder in a gesture of comfort... TBC

It was incredibly eloquent existential trolling, a great performance, and it gave everyone watching on E! News a reason to consider suicide

Yes but two things... 1. My logic is superior to yours 2. I actually own the 1D C So try again fat boi. Listen... They did not HAVE to make two cameras, they chose to do so, due to the different target markets and pricing.... between Hollywood and pro stills.... And smaller quantities of sales for the 4K filmmaking tool vs the all-round number 1. pro stills camera in the world. The sensor, and all the features are identical, they look the same, handle the same and weigh the same. It makes no sense to design two cameras so similar and then flippin switch all the insides around, new sensor, new motherboard, etc. It's nonsense. Also numerous Canon reps are on record as saying it was just a 1D X with firmware update... Until they were told to shut up about it and lie instead. Heatsink!! Erm!! Hot!

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At London Camera Exchange in Manchester they received one... ONE... A9 and it sat sealed in the box to sell, they didn't even get a demo unit to show to customers. So they couldn't show the benefits even if they wanted to. Maybe it is actually aimed at wedding photographers who read FStoppers and Petapixel instead. You don't know either! The focussing processor does not handle focus differently on the 1D C to the 1D X. There's barely any live-view AF or video focussing to speak of on the 1D C. The AF through the OVF is as fast as the 1D X... identical. So guess again.

Prove it

Yes, it's a good job Canon's competition has also made some really bad mistakes, this seems to be the latest one. They are not doing enough smart things to turn that market around. Canon and Nikon will continue to rule the pro stills market because Sony and Panasonic simply haven't figured out a way to change the status quo yet. Part of the problem is the lenses. It's a tricky one. I can't figure it out myself... still working through the problem in my head before offering any good solutions after years of thinking about it... My current feedback to Sony would be... "Erm, yeah, good luck!"

It's so poorly thought out, with such minimal effort, that the 1D C might have only been a project to fulfil a large Hollywood order or two, before being cancelled and a few more sales picked up in general circulation. Since they'd created this 1D X with a different badge anyway at the request of some high-level movie studios and DPs, I suppose Canon thought they may as well try their luck and put it into the usual pro-video distribution channels, and see how well it would sell... Not well enough obviously... Because $15k. Then $12k. Then $8k. Then $5k. Then $3k on eBay! That's how much the market hated this camera. So rather than pick up the pieces and start again with a new camera aimed at video / stills users, they just threw in the towel entirely circa 2013... Back then they didn't have the A7S or GH4 for competition let alone the latest Sony and Panasonic monsters. It was so complacent. So now they have just gone and stuck 4K on the 1D X Mark II with no LOG and no codec upgrade. Still complacent. But now they have major competition, yet the C200 codec debacle leads me to believe Canon remain WAY TOO complacent. When high profits and number 1 spot are pretty much taken for granted, very bad things start to happen to large companies... Look at Kodak, look at Adobe (subscription model has made them so lazy, Premiere's reliability is virtually falling apart at the seems). Look at GoPro. You might even be right in suggesting Apple are experiencing canoneering-related problems as well although it isn't close to showing in their bottom line yet. They changed one jack... That's about it on the hardware front. They might even be exactly the same in firmware terms, with the switch for 4K simply disabled on the 1D X (would be the most cost effective way) I don't believe the heat-sink story from Canon reps as the 1D C doesn't weigh enough extra over the 1D X for one to be included and there's no extra space anyway, also it would have to be mated directly to the chassis to dissipate the heat out of the sealed body. A big design alteration. Nope. All signs point to them being similar enough to make the firmware 2.0 port trivial... but since it was a mainly stills related update, they probably didn't see the point for the 1D C. True. But Canon will soon find out the hard way that they're not the ONLY successors. They did get out of the enthusiast video market, definitely. 5D2 & 5D3 stock video mode is a long distant memory and would have been even more distant if it wasn't for Magic Lantern!! They have hurt their pro market from not having the B-cams and brand presence in enthusiast and prosumer DSLR video market. There's also a bad perception building around the specs, being behind Sony. There's also a lack of goodwill building towards Canon, from pissed off customers asking why they're not providing what they want. You can tell with the 5D Mk IV. The reception was dreadful considering how long-awaited it was and how admired the predecessors were. Yeah pretty much, in the 5D Mark II and III times you definitely didn't spot many Sony or Panasonic cameras. Now they are EVERYWHERE in documentary, tv, etc.

Quite possibly. I've been out of touch with them for a year or so now. https://hdvideoshop.com/en/ Sounds like the start of one of Joe's Nofilmschool articles... "We have always taken pictures with cameras, a camera makes images."