Andrew Reid

No, I am not saying I don't believe him. I know and respect Simon as a friend and regular on the EOSHD forums. But not everybody's experience in Syria is representative of what is happening to the country as a whole. You have to look at the larger, geopolitical picture and try to save as many people as possible. If the mistake the US and UK made was to arm the opposition on the ground to the regime in Syria, causing a civil war, and Putin's airstrikes attempted to strengthen the regime, it's still fighting, it's still bombing, it's still an escalation of war and civilian death tolls. The US and Obama armed the opposition forces and civilians because they didn't want US troops on the ground. That's a strategy I can appreciate because US boots on the ground was a disaster for Iraq and Afghanistan. Really, what choice did Obama have this time? Indeed. I read the NYTimes interview. Very interesting stuff. Trump can say one thing one week, say the opposite the next week, and none of his supporters are worried by this. In fact they're so used to liars in government by now that they're probably completely de-sensitised to it and think it's just plain-speaking. It isn't even the outright lying that bothers me, it's Trump's inconsistency of beliefs... I think it stems from Trump believing whatever is good for him. He doesn't consider a broader picture. He does what is good for Trump, facts be damned. It's why he repeats sentences so often. If you repeat it, it feels true.

Strange, hope you get it to work as expected. I don't think the sensor or image processor is radically different to before, more RAM on the back of the stacked sensor perhaps so maybe that is causing more heat? But it shouldn't be doing what you claim it is.

Putin has some interesting things to say about Syria and what he said in this interview in particular strikes very true - The problem is I don't think his intervention has saved lives. It has only furthered the amount of bombs falling, the amount of people dead and the amount of destruction in general.

It is the most RIDICULOUS thing that Apple's flagship NLE doesn't have LUT support built in. If you're going to use the same LUT on every clip I recommend EditReady to apply the LUT during transcoding to ProRes. It will make your edit a lot smoother too than editing the camera files direct.

Yo Bro I also have sympathies with some elements of the anti-establishment candidates like Sanders and Trump. Some of their supporters even though they are at opposite ends of the political spectrum actually share a lot of the same opinions. Such as, Blair and Bush are war criminals, not liking the US intervention in Syria, not liking the hawkish war machine which Hilary would have continued with Obama did, despite a lot of liberals hoping he wouldn't. In the UK, I don't think Trident should be renewed and the money should be spent on small businesses, the science and the arts instead. All this military spending is a waste and we should be more like Norway and be more passive, we are not a world military power any more. Eat lobster and be happy. I am though a disaffected liberal. I don't like my side. I don't like the other side. I think both sides of Labour are inept and I don't like Trump's politics or his naive ideas. He's a climate change denying businessman who gets his political news from Facebook and whose government policy was knocked up in 10 minutes from some wikipedia articles. I don't think we want a US aligned with Russia. Putin's behaviour in Syria has been a problem. He will bring with him into the white house those who completely fail to recognise the contribution non-white people have made to American society, he will marginalise people and poison the discourse to the point where we are already talking about white supremacy more than climate change. He is threatening to shut down NASA's climate change research department and focus on sending a man to every planet in the solar system instead so the US can say to the Russians how amazing and powerful they are again. Good luck with that. I will fucking need to be living on Mars myself at this rate, there won't be a planet Earth left that is inhabitable. He says wind energy kills birds FFS. There are real pressing fact based issues facing humanity and he is just like the Brexiteers, part of a new anti-rationalist movement against the establishment. Much as I dislike the establishment, the alternative of popularism is not what we need. It deals with feelings, not facts. When you fact check what Trump is saying it all falls apart and looks childish. Most of what he was elected on the basis of delivering is actually impossible. Indeed what popularism does is to give the public the mandate to make decisions based on propaganda and misunderstandings. The referendum on the EU is a prime example because most people voted for an outcome they didn't know what would entail, they didn't have a clear plan, they voted against something they didn't understand, I don't think the public should be making decisions of this scale and complexity without the necessary understanding. We are not EU experts in the civil service. We don't have the knowledge to vote either way. It could be good to leave, it could be bad, we don't know. It is up to the government to research into the facts and then for them to take tough decisions. Throwing it out to an Ask The Audience is ridiculous and shows weak leadership. Democracy is being abused to cement power by the establishment. Deep down our PM knows the decision to leave is wrong which is why she voted to remain herself. A majority in the government under Cameron felt the same way and they know it will be a tough and hard Brexit. Yet the courting of popular opinion is so fundamental to their power and their existence and their careers that they will happily do the wrong thing for the country if the majority tell them to. And remember this majority didn't vote based on their amazing understanding of EU membership pros and cons, rather 'feelings'.

Does it still have the 3 minute limit in 4K?

I don't understand the video and don't understand why it is being given as a good example of cinema. This is mainly a cinematography forum, about cameras and shooting images. It isn't a content lab. OK you get 5,674,515 people to endorse your message, you move some of them, you get 48,000 likes and 179,000 re-tweets. I am sure the content must have some merit. But I am equally sure that it won't be remembered in 30 years like the work of great cinematographers is. There is poetry not just in faces, words, music, dialogue, messages, content, stories... Images are poetry. If you cannot grasp this point and think that images are meaningless without shoving some kid's story in front of the camera, then reconsider and go and see Koyannisquatsi immediately. Cinematography in the purist sense IS content and HAS a message. Incredible camera work, beautiful rendering, the lenses used - the medium is the message. Cinematography can also elevate almost ANY kind of content so that it has more impact and is more memorable. I am SICK TO DEATH of people saying that boringly shot content is all we should aspire to because hey... it works... of course it does... but it doesn't mean to say a cinematographer should stop speaking the language of cinema and go and become a writer or a one-man filmmaker instead.

Even though, I may follow Andrew on his X-T2 bet, well, some perspective(s) also will ;-) https://***URL removed***/reviews/image-comparison/fullscreen?attr29_0=panasonic_dmcgx85&attr29_1=fujifilm_xt2&normalization=full&widget=105&x=-0.07116278920634347&y=0.7982730037049333 https://***URL removed***/reviews/image-comparison/fullscreen?attr29_0=sony_a6300&attr29_1=fujifilm_xt2&normalization=full&widget=105&x=-0.07116278920634347&y=0.7982730037049333 On the other hand... https://***URL removed***/reviews/image-comparison/fullscreen?attr29_0=sony_a6300&attr29_1=panasonic_dmcgx85&attr72_0=4k&attr72_1=4k&normalization=full&widget=426&x=0.4260463692707934&y=-0.13237727523441808 https://***URL removed***/reviews/image-comparison/fullscreen?attr29_0=sony_a6300&attr29_1=fujifilm_xt2&attr72_0=4k&attr72_1=4k&normalization=full&widget=426&x=0.4260463692707934&y=-0.13237727523441808 As soon as the first 4K camera came on the market that interested me, the GH4, I stopped caring about sharpness any more. We have more detail than anybody can possibly notice when watching the film. Sharpness has become a pixel peeping tech spec curiosity rather than a really noticeable differentiator as it was with the 1080p cams. In fact too much sharpness is bad... high detail should be softer like on the 1D C in Canon LOG, with the option to dial it up with a sharpness filter in post. Yes there are still minor differences - some like the Samsung NX1 and A6500 over-sample from 6K sensors to 4K. Some from 5K-ish to 4K like the A7R II Super 35mm mode and X-T2. But seriously nobody notices when they see your footage.

Damn so close to the end of the article. One day you will bother to read the last 1%. Had you done that, you'd have read that I described Canon as "boring", that they will in future struggle to sell us the next improvements, that their approach to apps and Magic Lantern was complete wrong, and that it "pains me" to see the enthusiast market moving to higher-end longer release cycles as pioneered by Canon with the 5D line. Actually I am spending 90% of my time right now with a Panasonic costing under $800. Alas you were not to realise that, because you just seem to make assumptions without knowing very much and never ask or bother to find out what the person who writes EOSHD is really doing behind the scenes. Geeez. What an idiot and a troll. Carry on and you will be banned. Final warning. **************** Exactly, and good riddence to them. It's GREAT for the people who are actually interested in photography and picking up the skills necessary. No longer do we have the masses convincing the manufacturers that there is money to be made in crappy low-end DSLRs with food and baby modes. Look how much more they have concentrated on enthusiasts since the consumer market shrank. Look how many great enthusiast cameras we've got now and how many mid-range models have stepped up to be better featured. This is also a good illustration of why pros have a bright future. Before, everyone and his cat was shooting photos like the one on the left with their own Rebel DSLRs. Now they are stuck with the crap on the right and have to pay someone to do better. They have all sold their old cameras on eBay!

OK just tried it and yes you're correct. Mainly seems to boost the reds if I switch to AdobeRGB on the display with the wrong colour management in Mac OS. So perhaps if videos come out too saturated and with too much contrast, this could be a place for people to start checking.

There's some way to go before smartphones are as ergonomic to hold / grip as a mirrorless camera. Perhaps they need a cage, haha. No matter how good the software gets they will always be behind in terms of optics and low light performance too. I am impressed with depth effect from Apple but again, by no means is it capable of reliably working in every situation. You have to be within a certain distance of the subject for it to work. It will never work at longer distances because of the small sensor not delivering enough depth separation for the software to know which parts to blur and which parts to keep sharp.

Yes it sounds good on paper but in reality the detail has to be pixel peeped by us to be determined as different, for the audience they won't care. Ever heard of the Samsung NX1? That was doing a 6K readout 2 years ago, continuously for hours with no heat management problems. I just cannot see how, as a package, the A6500 is all that remarkable. Again it is a paper camera... 5 axis. AF tracking. S-LOG. Amazing specs until you realise none of them work very well. 5 axis is better at Panasonic and Olympus. AF tracking and LOG are better at Canon.

That's better. Would look identical on a $500 Panasonic G7 though. So what's it telling us? That it can indeed record 4K?

Peaking, zebras, etc. are for enthusiasts. Remember the difference between us and the rest. We care. They don't. So it is time to say to them, fine, keep your smartphones, maybe some of you will come round to the idea of having a proper camera and some will not, but in the mean time we are not going to make any money persuading you with touch screens and wifi shit.

I think if it were wide gamut and colour management they'd see less saturation not more. Maybe it is just taste. Bad taste. Liking stuff to look flat and grey. Who knows. That is in fashion at the moment after all.

Compression is bad in that sky. Looking at the uninspired-as-ever samples from the paid up press junket on the web, the focus speed on that CameraLabs coffee cup video is all over the place. Zero consistency. The rack to the background is nice and slow. The subsequent racks are jerky and too fast. What's up with that? I assume the AF sensitivity wasn't changed between the different racks in the same clip. I won't be getting an A6500. Seriously guys, get the X-T2 or G85 instead. Also people need to realise that to actually make use of this touch-screen AF on the A6500 you need to invest thousands of dollars in Sony lenses as good as the Canon equivalents you probably already have. I found it took long enough to build a Micro Four Thirds collection of any use, let alone going out and spending $1000+ on a Batis. If you stick with the manual focus stuff on a budget, then all this fancy AF technology on a consumer camera is wasted. I personally hope the GH5 comes in around $1500 and has phase-detect AF approaching Dual Pixel AF standard working with EF lens adapters, then we will be getting somewhere...

NOOOO. It is not going to make any difference. It doesn't matter if the camera connects to Facebook and prompts you to upload on pain of death when it detects your presence in the house, like a camera-style HAL... The will of the people just is not there. They have their smartphone for that. They do not know or care about F-stop, lenses, mounts and least of all separate devices that cost extra money and need an extra pocket. What's more they certainly don't care about the Sony PlayMemories store or the WiFi pairing and crappy touch screen implementations and a crappy OS you can't even bring up Facebook on. NO. NO and NO!! It. Will. Not. Make. Any. Difference.

All these things are nice. USB charging, wireless file transfer, etc. However they will not save the consumer market one jot. What average joe with a smartphone wakes up in the morning and says to himself "today I will run eagerly to a camera store and buy a Sony because it has Wifi, USB charging and a touch screen menu!!" They are just not interested. SO Let them bugger off is the crux of my article.

Although there's fake news on both sides of the political spectrum, I found in the UK during Brexit that there were a far greater number of people accusing the BBC and our prime minister of scaremongering, than the number of people reading fake articles... That's the bigger problem. People no longer trust the mainstream media and government, even when they are telling the truth. Now all the scare mongering turned out to be right and the pound is worth the same as 1 monopoly note.

Can you take a picture of your screen? I am convinced people have their saturation crazy high or something. Nope it is same on default levels. I find the X-Pro 2 and X-T2 absolutely great for places, things and buildings. It is just the people part this is the problem and I never remember having the same skintone issues with the older Fujis. I did a professional photoshoot with the X Pro 2 and the JPEGs were not great for skin. I should have mentioned it in the review but this was about video not JPEGs. Also I forgot to mention something else... the way you enter video mode is fiddly. You have to slide a lever through 5 positions and it is really tricky to turn, impossible in fact with one hand because it is far away on the left-top side. I still maintain though that this is going to be the best APS-C 4K mirrorless camera for most people. The skintones are probably fixable in the grade. I haven't tried because I switched to the 1D C for the photo shoot with the X Pro 2 rather than having to spend hours in post fixing the raw files.

I just wish the people who organised these PR events could think of more original subjects than live action sports, animals and bands. As for the A6500, the overheating, poor ergonomics, bad colour, bad white balance and terrible rolling shutter would be acceptable had it not been priced at $1500. Also the 5 axis stabilisation is way better on the Panasonic GX85. I encourage people to get that instead. OK I get that Sony want to drag the AXXX series out of the dying consumer market but this is not the way to do it. The body should have been redesigned to resemble the X-Pro 2 if it is going to cost this much.

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The BBC must be feeling a bit silly now. They basically gifted Amazon a trio of their best presenters and one of their top hits due to mishandling the show in the lead up to Clarkson losing his temper with the producer, and mishandling the fallout from that in the worst politically correct way possible. But more of a problem for the BBC is that almost all their 2016 output aside from Planet Earth 2 has been pretty shit.

Indeed, that's why politicians campaign in poetry and rule in prose. The reality of a Trump establishment will be very different to what his supporters voted for and he will have difficult decisions to make that will be unpopular no matter what choice he makes. There are good ideas on both sides of the political left and right, I just wish people would vote for good PRACTICAL ideas and not hyperbole. And no matter whether you are a conservative or liberal, good economic policy is good economic policy. Trump is an economic novice and his businesses have underperformed the market. True. But clearly a poverty of the mind is developing in the US and UK. Artist David Hockney - "One time, I was walking in Holland Park (I was sitting for Lucian Freud), and I stopped to watch some black rabbits playing. So I sat on a seat watching and then some magpies came down, black and white birds, and they looked rather good. I was sitting there having a cigarette and three girls come running by, jogging and see me and come: “Ow, ow… ” [wags finger]. And I sat there and thought: “They think they are very healthy, but they haven’t seen the rabbits.” And I thought: “Well, I’m healthier than they are." I think largely the Trump thing is a reaction to the sanctimonious liberalism and political correctness that I hate about Clinton and the left, even though I myself am centre-left in many of my political views. Trump is a big fat steak as opposed to a wet vegan salad. Exactly why it was important to have a decent voter turnout, there just wasn't enough passion for the wet vegan salad.

Let's have it out!!! Following on from Ed's thread about Trump here are my thoughts: 1. How's this for cruel irony - Both Trump supporters on the far right and Bernie supporters on the socialist left believe the same thing. That Hilary Clinton and Tony Blair are war criminals responsible for massive civilian death tolls in the middle east and the rise of ISIS. Actually the war started because of dictatorships there and were escalated under two US presidents both with the name Bush, furthered by decades of repression and poverty in places like Afghanistan. If anything Obama and Clinton tried to deescalate it from the Bush eras. Much as I love him, Bernie depressed the turn out for Hilary Clinton more than anyone else. His wide support is the primary reason Trump is in power, ready to join forces with Putin and accelerate the bombing of civilians in Syria. Young liberals eat up paranoid conspiracy thoeires and fake news just as much as those on the far right because we're living in a highly partisan post-fact virtual world where the truth is too complicated for a Facebook headline. 2. There is nothing wrong with democracy and here's why. The majority of people are now politically ignorant. They cannot be bothered with it. Therefore it follows they should get a president of the United States who is equally as politically ignorant. Look at this from the New Yorker magazine - "A voter with more knowledge of politics will, on balance, be less eager to go to war, less punitive about crime, more tolerant on social issues, less accepting of government control of the economy, and more willing to accept taxes in order to reduce the federal deficit. Voters ignorant of economics will tend to be more pessimistic, more suspicious of market competition and rises in productivity, and more wary of foreign trade and immigration"... Which camp do you think Trump and his voters fall into? Trump is economically as ignorant as you can get. Despite employing immigrants he sees immigration as bad for the economy and despite making things in foreign countries and importing from them, he sees foreign trade as bad for the economy, and despite being married to one he sees immigrants as bad for the economy and despite being born to one he is in favour of mass deportation. The US economy is going to go to shit. Could it be that Norway has a more politically astute population? They have a good economy, stay out of wars, are more tolerant on social issues, less punitive about crime and accept higher taxes.... It all comes down to how much interest people take in politics, instead of snapchat. 3. All Trump supporters right now -