Andrew Reid

The quality of 1080p had barely been made film-like before being cast aside for 4K and now manufacturers are racing to make 8K a reality, which is in the region of 36MP, before 2018. It seems the megapixel race has truly come to filmmaking. Read the full article

That was never a 2 part review Phil.

There's at least one major London based TV channel using Nikon D4s in the studio... can't get much worse 1080p quality than that but they seem to love it. Tape up the Samsung logo and just tell them it's a Nikon. It will be soon officially anyway!

Camera factory or sausage factory? Which is more advanced. And other stupid questions by Trifin Only kidding dude... By the way I see you are still shooting with the 5D Mark III. Raw?

Yes coming soon, just has been jostling with a lot of work. There's a ton of stuff coming up on EOSHD including DJI OSMO review, RX1 II, NX1 firmware update and lenses, Sigma 20mm F1.4 and a lot more! Anything else people would like to see?

The "acid test" has already been done tugela and the effects proven. I really suggest you get a bit more of a clue about what you are talking about, before embarrassing yourself.

Brian (designer of the Metabones Speed Booster optics for those who don't realise) is 100% right And I see it with my own eyes when I use the latest Speed Boosters, especially the XL-T on Micro Four Thirds. I will likely be selling most of my native Micro Four Thirds lenses soon, unless the manufacturers wake up!

Not with H.265 PS - if Panasonic froze sensor R&D since 2011 that would explain why Sony made the GH3 sensor, but who made the GH4 sensor and what about the new Varicam S35?!

Axel with LOG footage the grade has much more impact on colour than the camera does. Most grades are weird looking and prioritise dynamic range. It takes real artistic skill to do a good one. So judge the grade not the camera. The skin bug is interesting... does it only affect HDMI?

By 2018 computing power will be so fast and cheap that NLEs will cut through 8K H.265 like butter and the file sizes will be as small as 4K is now, thanks to H.265 but storage space will have probably tripped for the same price. Indeed it is about what's creatively useful though, not just outright image quality. I would prefer 240fps 4K and better low light performance than noisier 30fps 8K, although downscaling to 1080p or 4K would reduce noise, as we see with the current 8K camera, the A7R II's 42MP stills!! Also I believe the gains coming from organic CMOS sensors in dynamic range will probably eclipse the excitement for resolution in the coming years. So I hope Panasonic's R&D money can focus on more than just 8K.

I am talking about lens AF with the Metabones adapter, which isn't an Olympus responsibility.

Panasonic froze image sensor research and development in 2011 and have only now resumed. The company has committed $80m to revitalise their image sensors business in light of growing revenue from their imaging business as a whole and hot demand for sensors. One of the goals of the $80m investment is the creation of an 8K sensor to be released in Panasonic cameras around 2018. Read the full article

Who gives a toss? --- Ed - I am on V1.0 now. Seems to focus better with the Metabones Speed Booster & EF lenses so a bit afraid to update

Went and got the E-M5 II with version 1.0 firmware instead, will try shooting a test scene in V1 then upgrade to V2 and see what the difference is.

In that case I forgot Arri Raw, Red Raw and a lot of other cinema cameras too. I was of course talking about DSLRs!! Little know fact... EOSHD is a blog about DSLR and mirrorless cameras

Very interesting, what the source says about the FF Samsung sensor. Now I just hope Nikon will not mess up the video mode!

I started with Muted, and ramped up the contrast & saturation, then shifted the white balance colour hue away from green.

I would love that D7300, Ebrahim. Flat picture profile & codec are very nice on the Nikon cameras. One observation... Did anyone notice the excitement go up a notch with the mention of the word "Nikon"? It just goes to show the power of branding and gives you a clue as to why Samsung sold so few NX1s. That spec of D7300 would break the internet. People would sell the mum for one. In fact it already exists with the NX1 and you don't have to put up with a flappy mirror in the way, only the Samsung logo tarnishing it.

The spread of strengths across the camera industry is driving me a bit nuts. Only Blackmagic do cheap affordable int. 10bit ProRes. Only Olympus do effective stabilisation. Only Panasonic do cheap 4K in Micro Four Thirds cam Only Fuji do a film-inspired shooting experience (although Olympus run them close) Only Sony max out the specs and do a full frame mirrorless camera Only Samsung do a really responsive fast ergonomic DSLR-style mirrorless camera Only Canon... I mean only Magic Lantern do raw video. The A7S II is closest to the perfect camera but the handling is just...so soulless. Currently I am thinking of keeping hold of the E-M5 II as a stills camera, second to the NX1 and A7S II as my main video cameras.

All that fuss to get a headphone jack!?

Can the Olympus cameras compete with a full frame Canon DSLR for those with extensive EF lens collections? And is video quality improved with the epic firmware updates just released? Read the full article

What are you a banker? Why the hell are you investing in lenses? Just shoot!!!!

We are not talking about the entire history of all Samsung CMOS technology since 2002 though. We are talking about their 2014 APS-C sensor and the advances made for that... Samsung got a poor return on that investment from just the NX1 and NX500 due to the lack of sales.

If Samsung in the contract had to pull their NX system from the market entirely, I'd bet on it going further than just a tech supply chain of sensors and processors for Nikon, like Nikon currently have with Sony. I think Nikon will do a mirrorless camera like the NX1, but with different mount and lenses. Nikon F mount on mirrorless camera wouldn't be too bad... Imagine a D750 with 4K and EVF...

This one stacks up. Can think of at least 5 ways it makes perfect sense. Only question mark is what sensor size and lens mount they will have on it. Easiest would be to keep NX mount and rebrand the S lenses, plus build fully functional electronic Nikon F mount adapter for it. This would be similar to their approach with the 1 series mirrorless cameras. They could put a native Nikon F mount on it like their DSLRs but size advantage of mirrorless would be lost. Then again the NX1 was never a 'small' mirrorless camera, it was much more in the mould of a 7D Mark II.