Andrew Reid

It always feels like their reviews are a greater service to Johnnie's ties with Sony than to their readers. Johnnie goes to Japan. Johnnie gets into feedback session. Johnnie gets a loan camera. Johnnie is the oracle to consult if Sony want advice. Johnnie is holding camera and looking serious in every review shot. Johnnie is documentary filmmaker. Johnnie with his bumbag on being PRO. Johnnie writing boring piece of shit review that looks like it took 12 minutes, that didn't tell me anything whatsoever that I didn't already know, that nevertheless everyone reads as it turns up on SonyAlphaRumors due to special friendship between two hacks. That's more like it.

What's causing the heavy macro blocking in the sky and general soft compressed look?

To compensate from the resolution loss from debayering you would need to oversample from 8K to 4K perfectly like the F65. Anyone got a spare $300,000?

It has 'something'. No matter what the politics. There's Trump's gold elevator. And there's California's new age videos. The US really is different to the rest of the world.

I now watch this video at the start of every day to put me in a calm, meditative state.

Standard Panasonic picture profiles are not designed to turn into 'flat mode' and if you dial down contrast this might give the appearance of more dynamic range (as the lows get a lift) but actually it does nothing to increase the dynamic range of the final graded material. You're just crushing the blacks back down again in post and reducing the tonality of the image in-camera, less colour information due to less contrast in an 8bit image.

Why explain further if you can use your eyes. Cary is right.

Well since the E-M1 II already oversamples from 5K and is very very close indeed to the A6300's 4K the answer is yes. GH5 will have a flood of high detail. I long since stopped caring about the sharpness of 4K though. More sharpness is the last thing we need. 10bit, dynamic range, colour, less aliasing, less moire, less rolling shutter are all more important when it comes to 4K, which already has too much detail according to most of the cinema audience reaction to it being projected.

Looks like you've found the reference image Sony's engineers used for skintones. Maybe Magic Lantern can hack the pizza and reverse engineer the cheese to make it look more appetising? Then Sony can take delivery from the pizza boy and start all over again.

I am impressed with how little rolling shutter it seems to have in 4K. A much better option than a Sony A6500 for handheld shooting, I think.

Interesting the 5DS and 5DIV are on there. ML isn't The 5DS actually shoots quite nice 1080p. It will be a contender if they end up porting ML RAW to it.

He has $100k and he thinks my C-LOG profile is too expensive at $15. And then he expects help from my forum.

I think he should spend it on a green and yellow spinach & mozzarella. Tomatoes probably too magenta for him.

Jesus christ, some people are so cheap. When Sony first introduced S-LOG they charged something like $5000 for it. And you think $10 is too much. Go spend it on a pizza instead fat boy!!

IBIS moves the sensor and if the lens is close to vignetting on your A7S II, as the sensor moves the vignetting will move as well. So maybe try a longer lens with the anamorphic. And be careful to dial in the right focal length. This might be the source of the problem actually as an anamorphic changes the field of view only horizontally, and the camera won't expect that. If you have the IBIS focal length set to 75mm, try a wider setting such as 50mm.

Yes but a couple of dusk shots I had to go to 8000K with (on both) You can leave it on AWB if you like and still use the EOSHD Pro Color profile just fine, it's just I don't trust AWB do always do the right thing or give me the optimal tones. Plus nice to have control especially indoors to warm or cool the image in-camera.

Yes that looks pretty accurate. Fixed the sound cutting off half way through the video -

I got to play with the new Olympus E-M1 II today, a pro Micro Four Thirds camera they hope will sell for $2000. It certainly pulls out all the stops to imitate a miniature 1D X Mark II. This camera does NOT crop the sensor in 4K mode like the GH4. Instead, it over-samples from 5K down to 4K, using the full width of the sensor even with sensor-shift 5 axis stabilisation enabled. Featuring a 237Mbit codec, the image quality in Cinema 4K mode is outstanding with very little rolling shutter. Read the full article

Fucking YouTube. Reuploading AGAIN!!

For those asking for sample videos - http://www.eoshd.com/2016/11/eoshd-pro-color-samples-shot-sony-a7s-ii/ Even I am surprised how well it held up.

Fine on the a7S. The oldest camera, the A7 doesn't have Picture Profile support though does it.

I expect it would work in Picture Profiles but how about the custom white balance settings? Do you want to beta test it on your X70 for free? Davey - no it is not just about SLOG, it is also a REC 709 fix for colour straight out of the camera. Much more Canon like and it solves lots of other stuff as well like the blue highlights freaking out, clipping and the horrible yellow cast to night shots. Examples coming soon... difference is big!!

EOS Utility 3 works with all the new cameras. Just make sure the Movie/Stills switch is in the Stills position when you connect the camera over USB.

I think this was the case with the IV as well. In fact RX1000 series has for a long time done a full pixel readout from the 20MP sensor, even for 1080p. I call that 'oversampling'. There's still a slight crop in 4K mode compared to full sensor width too, no? From what I have heard... I have not yet tried the camera and not sure I will bother. Unlikely AF system contributes to heat New sensor and more DRAM on the back, maybe. The other Sony cameras do that too. Super annoying as it means you can barely see the screen at all in direct sunlight. They should have put the whole thing in a slightly larger LX100 style body with larger battery. Does it really need to be so small and fiddly... NO. Or maybe in a new model 4 months later. GRRRR

Same problem in Britain with Boris. A blithering idiot who one week says the UK should leave the EU because it's bad for our country, then on a visit to Turkey the next week campaigns for the Turkish to join the EU because it would be good for them to do so. So if it is good for Turkey, why is it not good for the UK? And does he realise that when he campaigned for Brexit and won, most of the advocates for leaving simply ran away from the situation, leaving the remain politicians to step up and deliver on their impossibly complicated campaign promises such as remaining in a customs union with the EU whilst being outside the free market and freedom of movement. It's fucking ridiculous and it's time people learned to recognise a con when they see one, recognise what is a feel-good conspiracy and what is a difficult fact to swallow, get acquainted with reality and vote based on facts not feelings.