Andrew Reid

Samsung has made the firmwares for their NX camera available to download on their open source site. https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=hybrid Calling all Russian hackers by name of Tester13. Unfortunately no Galaxy NX (Android APS-C mirrorless camera) file but the NX1 is there. Could get interesting for those who know what they're doing.

Developer options can be enabled so will see if it can be rooted. You could argue this is what the back of most cameras should look like in 2022.

Yeah still got it. Only downside it is Android 4.4 or something so no Motion Cam raw video or newer apps. It would be a great thing to try and root and to install a modern version of Android on it, but have a feeling might be bit complicated as it probably has a lot of custom hardware, especially the APS-C sensor side of it! May pop the NX-L on it and a full frame lens and take it for a walkies

Speaking of attempts to bridge the gap... This definitely should have had more legs than it did! Lovely huge OLED screen. Full version of Android. SIM card slot. It was priced crazily high when it came out and photographers stuck their noses up at it because it didn't have a joystick. Normal people just couldn't afford it or justify it. But I reckon if they had kept this concept going and made a new slimmer mount than NX, with some nice lenses to go with it and full frame sensor, this would have been a long term winner from Samsung. That QX thing was definitely ahead of its time. I can see why nobody bought it though. Not good enough for enthusiasts. Not slim enough for consumers to pocket on a night out.

Indeed that had since around 2014 to do something about it, but when you look at how long Canon and Nikon milked DSLRs, it's easy to see something as radical as a shift to connected devices and apps might be a bit beyond what their management understand. Sony had Super 35mm size CMOS sensors back in the high-end R1 with live view and back of lens really close to the sensor like a mirrorless camera, all they needed to do was a mount! Instead they badgered on with DSLRs for 5 whole years until the NEX system came out then didn't bother doing a "proper" mirrorless camera until the full frame A7 in 2013. From 2005 with R1, to 2013 with A7 that is a lot of time lost dicking about isn't it? I am surprised there is not some sort of dock that in 10 seconds makes a Facebook size proxy of all the shots on your mirrorless camera and puts them in a folder on your smartphone via USB C. Fast, easy, charges both camera and phone whilst you wait!

Smartphones have done a quiet revolution in the past couple of years with the much larger sensors and huge dynamic range. DR in GCAM computational DNG RAW files rivals the Fuji GFX medium format cams. If I had my crystal ball out I would say there is going to be a very nice growing filmmaking and enthusiast scene around high-end flagship smartphones. Super 16mm is back. I completely agree. Would be nice to turn back time, but of course we are where we are. I think a few things are going on... Shift to social media posts, shorter content, YouTube. Big shift to personalities, clickbait, TV style content, away from magazines, articles, blogs. Shift to Facebook groups instead of forums. Shift to phones instead of laptops. It all encourages a lower quality of discourse and content. The shills and PR industry completely control the popular influencer scene which in itself gobbles up 90% of the attention in the camera community online. It is a dreadful state of affairs. Then there is the fact that not just the consumer camera market has fallen away, but the entire enthusiast sub-$1000 market as well has gone. In fact there will be no more interesting new cameras under $1500. Lines like the Fuji X-T stuff will soon be over $2000. The existing kit is all really capable especially if you look at eBay. So the Sigma Fp and Panasonic S1 for £1000 is now what enthusiasts on a budget will go for. Not new models. Nothing new can compete with that for same price. So that market is completely gone now. It has been killed by phones AND by itself! So the days of the $1000 Panasonic GH1 being more creative and better looking than small chip expensive pro camcorders where a one off special era. Nearest modern equivalent I suppose would be to go and buy a Fuji X-T4 instead of a Cinema EOS camera... It isn't the same kind of creative choice. They are both so similar in terms of the image. So with the affordable stuff dead, and new stuff will be at $2500, $3500 and $5000-$6000. So enthusiast/pros, pros and pros. That is where the manufacturers are all now concentrated on. It is a high ticket price for entry now to a new camera system with cutting edge new technology. The other thing is that there are much bigger gaps between camera releases now. GH1 was on a yearly cycle, then 2-years. Now it is not uncommon for 4-5 year gaps. So behaviour of average enthusiast is probably along the lines of... Search YouTube for general topic, like what is best camera for weddings and video. Salesmen disguised as photographers will advise. Customer will go to B&H or Amazon via an affiliate link and buy the camera. Then talk about it on Facebook and post all the results from it on Instagram. They will not go so deep as to visit a forum like this. It's a shame but that's the way it is. Behaviour of a pro is more along the lines of, I already know what I want pretty much... Time to upgrade from Nikon D850 to a Z9. Or EOS R5 to R3. Locked in by huge investment in existing lenses. Might occasionally drop by on a blog to read a long article from a fellow professional. Then too busy working and making money to contribute to a forum. Gear and technology fully established and nothing new. Even guys like John Brawley probably don't have much new to say about Blackmagic cameras for the time being. They are definitely less engaged with the regular user online, than they were. Perhaps also partly because of not being able to take criticism or alternative views to their own 🙂 So future for this site? I don't want to do social media much. Find it boring and frivolous. Prefer to get stuck in to an obsessive big topic and really go for it. Go deep into it. Write a book about it. You can't do that in 180 characters or whatever. It is a drip drip of stills. YouTube is a treadmill you can't get off. I am not sure what future has in store for my livelihood, going to be a big hole in it if EOSHD is obsolete. Yep, but we always want more, never satisfied or fully settled. It is just that with the sheer image quality and capabilities we have now it seems more and more silly to want the next great thing, and we are taking incremental steps rather than seeing any big changes in concept now. Yeah true. The community around that camera was amazingly varied wasn't it? So many subjects to discuss. Whereas I feel with the newer cameras it is always about shopping advice and which one to pick.

Hello everyone. Forum is 50/50 sharing EOSHD with my content. So half the traffic goes to posts on the forum and half goes to my articles and content. I would like to make some changes to EOSHD to make it more sustainable and grow again after a difficult period. 1. Definitely want to keep in touch and talk to my mates here on the forum. So not going to close the place down or suddenly let it go dark. How do people feel about a Reddit group or a Discord server, which are more smartphone friendly and a bit more about realtime chat and problem solving compared to a thread on a forum which may stretch over many pages and takes a lot of time to delve into? Maybe a better medium for lighter discussions and chat? 2. Financial side of EOSHD is not good at the moment. The forum might have to make way for the blog to put the attention 100% on my content. I can't see a viable way to make money from the forum. I don't think I want to put advertising everywhere either. If you can suggest a way to fund the forum and keep it going, I'd like to know your thoughts on that. 3. Small number of regular users are creating most of the content. We need to grow. Any ideas related to this very welcome. I can't really get my head around it. A very busy forum has crossed into that dangerous territory where a very small minority of regular users are making 99% of the posts. We need a more diverse range of topics and to not have the few interesting pieces flooded with 20 pages of armchair opinions 🙂 4. How the forum shares the domain with my own content needs to change especially on smartphones. If anyone can suggest new forum software that integrates seamlessly with a blog I am all ears as cannot seem to find any at all. 5. If forum is to come to an end after 11 years, it will because all replacements, shake-ups, redesigns and all ideas are exhausted and it becomes financially unviable for me to run it. I didn't agree at all with the way Cinema5D suddenly dumped their forum. All that info and all those posts in the bin. I didn't know what the rationale was behind it at all. Selling it to Mitch at Planet5D was a complete dick move. People (and their opinions) are not pawns to be traded around for money. So I am all for constructive criticism on how we can make the forum grow again, be more interesting again and be financially viable. How can we get some of the members back we lost? Why are they not interested in posting here any more? Is the general topic of cameras and video in decline? And let's look to the positives of this place as well. What works best? How can we play to our strengths and be relevant? Over and out. Andrew

The E-M1 Mark II does 60fps RAW. You get very short clips that you slow down to about 2 sec. max. Didn't really bother repeating the experiment as you're better off using Magic Lantern or a Sigma Fp. It has no legs really. There are so many better options available in 2022.

It actually has a S16 crop mode in 4K

Sorry I don't see why it can't be discussed? There is an actual thread for it. This one!

I sold my A7S III and got the A7 IV instead. For me it has a bit more mojo. Colours, and the new sensor at 30mp. Can shoot S35 and S16mm crops without killing the image quality. 10bit, better codecs than A7R IV. Low light pretty alright, at the ISOs I need it, but not A7S III level. I am curious to compare it to my S1 next and see which wins the image quality battle in video mode. There are a LOT of variables though which makes these things a bit more tricky than in GH2 vs 5D Mark II days

And I have the perfect place to discuss it 😉

Main post for all things Sony A7 IV related

Sticky topic for the Nikon Z9 and related topics such as RED's legal action vs ProRes RAW in firmware 2.0.

July / August 2022 Smartphones and their growing threat to mirrorless cameras – 2022 edition https://www.eoshd.com/news/smartphones-and-their-growing-threat-to-mirrorless-cameras-2022-edition/ 2 years later – Canon quietly removes fake overheating limits of EOS R5 in firmware update https://www.eoshd.com/news/2-years-later-canon-quietly-removes-fake-overheating-limits-of-eos-r5-in-firmware-update/ One step closer to WWIII – Throwback to my Taiwan footage and experience living there https://www.eoshd.com/youtube/one-step-closer-to-wwiii-throwback-to-my-taiwan-footage-and-experience-living-there/ (Shot on Panasonic GH2 and Samsung NX5) Thoughts on the Fuji X-H2S https://www.eoshd.com/news/thoughts-on-the-impressive-fuji-x-h2s/

Filmic Pro is bettered by mcpro24fps on Android in my opinion. But neither are the same proposition as Motion Cam as neither shoot raw video, which is its own thing entirely. The way the image looks, the way it bypasses the phone's processing, the way you grade it, is all totally unique to raw.

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9mm F1.9 prime on Super 16mm is considered a decent lens. That's what the 12 Ultra has. The telephoto has a deep DOF, which is quite useful actually as you can get a lot in focus whereas 135mm on full frame, it is more challenging to not just see the subject and nothing else. At closer focus distances you have a very shallow DOF regardless on both of these lenses. You can also buy a DOF adapter and use DSLR lenses on it.

Sensors in smartphones are getting larger. Much larger. The progress in the last 7 years is remarkable (as my chart above shows). Smartphones have caught up and surpassed Super 16mm. Is Super 35mm next? New blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/news/smartphones-and-their-growing-threat-to-mirrorless-cameras-2022-edition/

Maybe it is time to forgive the EOS R5. The inanimate object that is. Not the decision makers behind the omnishambles that has been the last 2 years of unreliable firmware.

The results seem to show the image is identical on both cameras, but the EOS R5 is cheaper, has IBIS and better AF, also boots up quicker. They didn't test the overheating though?

Canon LOG showing an advantage here for me. Less noisy than Canon RAW and the GH6. Falls apart much later than N-LOG. They should have tested V-LOG on the S1 though as that is the budget full frame king for dynamic range.

It was all a fake limit!!

You must have been doing very light use and very short shoots in those modes, especially 4K HQ. The question is why didn't the camera perform like this in the first place 2 years ago? Why only fix it now? 2 years!

Eh? Where did I say it was "burning hot"? There are two separate discussions going on here. What type of overheating do you still think is the problem? Do you really think to avoid skin burns the camera needs 1 hour cooling off timer set in firmware plus arbitrary timers for 2 years upon release, then quietly removed with no explanation? First discussion is about what the camera hardware is capable of. The hardware we pay for should be fully usable. Are the operating temps of the CPU and image sensor ok under sustained load. As you see from your GPU or CPU these peak temps are reached within minutes, then stabilise. Is the same with the EOS R5. The temps stabilise and the alloy housing acts as a passive cooler to dissipate the heat to the air. Second discussion is the external temp in contact with skin and how hot is too hot or against consumer regulations and whether it can cause skin burns. If Canon is trying to avoid this, then why remove the limitation now? Did the rules change? I don't think so somehow. Then there is the related discussion of Canon segmenting the market and whether they wanted EOS R5 to be used in place of R5C and C70 for pro video production. All three of these were planned at same time with staggered release schedule. What capabilities are fully reliable on which models is a question of firmware not just hardware. So to answer discussion 1 - We proved way back in 2020 that the EOS R5 hardware was capable of running for long periods even in 8K with the EXIF temps never going above 65c and the battery pull + screw in the battery door trick was possible to reset the 'overheating' timer counting down in firmware. It was capable of restarting a recording immediately - but remember the old firmware had a lengthy 45 minute to an hour long 'cooling off period' which was clearly bullshit because it didn't even take into account actual temperature sensors in the camera. For example the camera being in a fridge recording 8K where it would cool to room temp within a couple of minutes after stopping. It still had that arbitrary timer blocking you from the features and not allowing the use of the hardware you paid for to the full potential. I was contacted by a class action lawyer in the US during these discoveries, and the whole thing was talk of the town. Canon were really on the back foot PR wise. All their own fault. They had created the perception of an unreliable but expensive flagship camera, and that their new hardware was overheating. So rather than recall it and change the firmware, or even just apologise to their users who had spent the money on a defective cripple hammered camera, they enlisted their client journalists to say nice things about it and brought out a faux-fix firmware update that did barely anything. So that was the situation for EOS R5 owners for 2 years until this complete U-turn last week. I don't. I have no use whatsoever for "unlimited" recording times. I just want normal predictable behaviour from a camera especially for £4000. 30 min limit is fine by me, I am not an event shooter. Remember how severe the problems were with the original EOS R5 firmware - you could be in the menus or just shooting a few stills and an hour later the camera would be locking you out of the high quality 4K mode and 8K. So by my standards I only have to be able to use the camera normally without being blocked by fake timers. I kept saying all along after the magic screw trick, it was a firmware restriction, not real overheating. Nobody would listen. Even Magic Lantern were saying it. Nobody listened to them either. Now the lifting of the firmware timers proves it. But still people's minds don't change. All I can say is I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.