Andrew Reid

Shall I rename this forum DVXrefugees? Personally, I wear my ban as a badge of honour.

Talented... loved the photos and the review. Maybe I am not seeing the value in it as a stills camera due to my video bias, but that article really sold it to me very well... But then your friend has an obvious Leica bias Anyway will reserve further judgment until I've tried one. The Leica Q by the way looked great, saw it when it was announced and thought - "yes! finally an RX1 competitor" However the RX1 II is coming now... What's the dynamic range of the Panasonic sensor like? Might be a pertinent question by the time the Lumix version comes out!!

Yeah the M9 is lovely, a classic brought up to date. The new ones, like the T and SL just make me picture a very very rich German marketing executive on holiday. They seem to be going the same way as Mercedes dashboards... lots of electronic touch screen shit. The underlying tech - EVF especially looks very good. Roll on Panasonic AG - GH200 with more manual control and a proper full frame video mode!!

I think they will just create a new line and new mount. It is hard for me to envision Panasonic making a 4K sensor and firmware with 4096 x 2160 and LOG just for Leica, it's a lot of effort to go for on video specs for a photography company. That's a good point and to be honest, photographically the Leica SL at $7k is already obsolete compared to the 42MP sensor in the $3k A7R II. Tricky times for Leica I think. If you have the money and are a professional Leica nut with tons of the glass and were using an A7R, maybe they will consider it because of the better build quality and superb EVF. Creatively though I can't see any advantage in the system over what we already have from others at half the price. And if the Leica look is all about the lenses (it is) then bang em on a Sony and be done with it

Interesting hands-on from FDTimes. http://www.fdtimes.com/2015/10/20/leica-sl-35mm-full-frame-autofocus/

I think you may be confusing it with the RX100 IV!

Well seems it has "V-LOG" in the menus. Clearly Panasonic hardware and firmware in there. If the next GH camera goes full frame it probably will be a separate line for pros at much higher price and Micro Four Thirds will continue for rest of us. Also there is nothing to stop them doing a crop mode for Micro Four Thirds lenses on a full frame sensor... although mounting them might be tricky!

Read the full article

It can't record 4K in crop mode Doug... Greyed out in the menus when mode dial set to movie, and if you enable it in stills mode - yes the live view will show the crop but hit record (when set to 4K XAVC-S) and crop mode will deactivate and you will get full frame. 120fps is an NTSC frame rate. It does 100fps in PAL. You can choose which is best. 120fps will give more flicker and banding with European light sources! I am not sure why you're not seeing 25fps in 4K... it does work. Switch to PAL in the menus Doug. That's what the A7S did over HDMI. Internally on A7S II, I repeat - it does NOT do 4K with APS-C crop. Sony disabled it. No upscaling. Quality not good enough. If you want to use APS-C lenses or Speed Booster you will need to get the A7R II or try the HDMI... I haven't yet but will do soon to the Odyssey.

He's a big Blackmagic user it seems... he has shot a music video with the BMCC and Pocket before too.

Great show and even greater rig, check this out... And a Pocket Cinema Camera top right as well!!

In my experience S-LOG can definitely go head to head with ML raw for colour and smooth real-world gradation in the final grade (check the end of the video for old A7S vs 5D3 Raw)...

No ND filter used for the test shots.

Nice job Nicolas Nope! I am going to try a little experiment... Tweak the Cine 4 PP until it gives me Canon Standard Pic Profile colour I bet it can be done. Then if you fail at grading S-LOG, you have an easy option.

Anyone tried the Commlite adapter?

Thanks very helpful! Wide angle isn't a problem in 2.2x crop, remember you can use Speed Booster making it 1.62x crop - same as a Canon 7D (APS-C) Stabilisation was provided by the camera's in-body system. Voigtlander 35mm F1.2 was the lens (Leica-M mount) RX10 II is great but would take the A7S II over it any day. It doesn't have a moire problem in 4K or any other resolutions, only in the non-APS-C mode 1080/60p

Just did a long 4K recording run to test for overheating. Inconclusive as the battery died at 28mins Will try again tonight.

And it is being, in fact it is permanently fixed. When a new user first posts it goes into a mod queue and is hidden. Easy for me to tell what is spam and what isn't. If approved that same day, the content appears and they can carry on posting as normal from then on.

The Sony A7S II has arrived at EOSHD. Does it impress? Yes. Before my full review, I can give you an initial brain-dump of what I have noticed so far. Read the full article Download the 4K S-LOG 3 clips direct from my camera Post yours in the A7S II Vimeo Group

12MP sensor probably runs cooler than 42MP monster, but will find out sooner rather than later as I am down at the Sony store in Berlin tomorrow to buy the A7S II. If anyone is doing same, let me know and we shall meet & chat!

Nice one. I think you might end up using it for more than that

I think the creative side is a very personal thing. I don't really get a lot of creative value about reading articles about other people's processes or ideas, which is why I don't ready NoFilmSchool very often for example... EOSHD as a gear blog will remain focussed on the equipment because it is useful for people trying to decide between cam A and B to know which one suits them before they lay down the money. Creativity is quite instinctual and life-experienced based, requires a strong personal voice I think.

Way better quality than 96fps on the GH4. No moire or aliasing and much more detailed. LOG better than Cine-D. Not sure if it is better than V-LOG L yet, I still haven't got round to trying that. Battery life is pretty good, no worries there. Though GH4 obviously being a much bigger camera with large battery goes longer. Thanks man. I was pleasantly surprised how good the colour and low light was from it too. Was easy to grade... did minimal tweaks after putting the DELUT on.

Haha. Not much to shoot in a coffin!! By everything I mean... not quite everything I'm working on a list with pics, next week will start blogging the gear I am selling. There's a ton of it.

The Sony RX100 IV review is done and it is a camera I’ve found myself using a lot… but not for the 4K. Read the full review