Andrew Reid

The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed I've been taking over a month off from EOSHD. Here are my views on what happened whilst I was away. I am selling up... After over 5 years of EOSHD I must admit to needing a break from gear. I'm going to completely wipe the slate clean later this month. I will clean out my studio and move. I am selling almost everything I have, but rather than putting it on eBay I will be offering it to EOSHD readers first. Almost everything is going including my Sony A7R II and Canon 1D C. Email me now if you're interested. EOSHD will continue, but more like in the earlier days. A focus on an artistic approach to cheap gear and lenses. What is the point of me buying a $8k camera and as a result never being interested in the next GH5 or cheap $600 killer camera that kicks way above its station? So although I won't be buying a Raven or Sony FS5 then, I will continue to offer my views on the higher end kit at EOSHD... Read the full article

Granted this is more a stills related camera than video but the Sony RX line is a favourite of mine - it has always packed absolute cutting edge technology and innovation into tiny cameras. And who doesn't like tiny cameras? (My review of the RX100 IV is coming tomorrow, by the way). The original RX1 in 2013 was almost like a full frame Leica when it came to street photos but jacket pocket sized with full frame video a camera slightly larger than a pack of cards. I loved it and used it often for photos, unfortunately video quality was lacking. With the 4K capable sensor from the A7R II in the new RX1R II model, does it deliver an improvement? Pre-order the Sony RX1R II now Read the full article

DJI are stepping into new areas where GoPro won't dare tread... The DJI Osmo has been initially cast aside as an expensive 'selfie stick' by some - it's anything but. This device has the cinema credentials to be seriously disruptive. Read the full article

Got to love wood, it's so organic.

OK I'm on it, thanks Patrick

Since we had a big spam attack last week, newly registered members had to have their first posts or replies approved by a moderator. Unfortunately this system didn't work and most new members could not post at all from the get go. I have taken the locks off and now you should all be able to post and use the forum as intended. Enjoy EOSHD!

Welcome back Andy. I haven't tried v-log yet either, am taking a break. What is the consensus on it?

Good grief. Cleaned up the latest round. It will be the last because now the first posts from new users go into a moderation queue for approval and until the content is approved they can't post anything further.

Not a hack, just a normal spam attack from about 7 robot controlled members. I'm clearing it up in the admin panel as we speak.

Shame the updates are at least 1-2 years too late!

First units of the excitingly promising Blackmagic URSA Mini 4K have just shipped to customers. I just had an email from "Hugo", who has posted the pictures of the cameras you see here. Read the full article

Some interesting new developments from Apple on the new iPhone 6S camera. The phone now shoots 4K video with a new 12MP sensor. A new feature, Live Photos stores multiple 12MP frames with a new compression technology to give movement to still photos. Read the full article

New iPhone launch is today. Thought I'd open a thread about it an hour ahead of the event. Will be interesting to see what the new camera has in store for us. 4K video? 1080p at 240fps?

That Alexa LUT in film convert seems to suit a lot of footage, I use it over the 'proper' camera profiles a lot. I don't mind milky blacks either, because hardly any of the cameras today seem to do proper blacks anyway

Full announcement and press release - http://www.eoshd.com/2015/09/slr-magic-announce-set-of-21-anamorphic-cinema-primes/

Canon today issued an unusual development announcement for two upcoming cameras. The first is a Cinema EOS C500 successor with 8K recording. The second is a 5DS style full frame DSLR featuring 120 megapixel resolution. Read the full article

I think the FS700 is a bargain at $4k One of the nicest 4K images via HDMI you can get. Don't forget it does raw via HD-SDI too. Fantastic slow-mo and built in ND. Very similar sensor to F5. The ergonomics look ugly and it has the Sony fiddly menus & buttons but don't let that put you off because the images with an external recorder are stunning. Just for internal 1080/24p though there are better solutions. So if you plan to go for it, pair it with the Odyssey 7Q+ and factor in that extra $2k. So it is really a $6k package but still a total bargain.

Yep fair price. I guess if people think it's too expensive, they can always go off and buy another 4K internal LOG shooting interchangeable lens cinema camera for $1500. Oh wait...

Perfect in Super 35mm mode. Even covers full frame when extended to 35mm but of course vignettes heavily at 18mm end. AF is pretty good.

Panasonic didn't go all the way with the anamorphic or V-LOG updates. I am sure they are holding back liveview anamorphic desqueeze and LOG view assist for the GH5.

Or even better the X-T1 with 23mm F1.4 prime Much better AF on that lens than with the cheaper Fuji 35mm F1.4 and 18mm F2 AF is very important for stills if you like fast apertures, MF is just too slow to get enough decisive moments unless you stop down to F5.6 The X-T1's ergonomics and EVF feel like a proper camera. Better than A7S and can be made full frame with Speed Booster I tried opening the same raw shot from my A7R II and X-T1 recently by the way... and in Adobe Camera Raw the colours on the Sony shot were really off towards yellow / green, not enough satisfying blue or red tones. So it seems Fuji's superb film like colour rendition does not just apply to their JPEGs but actually the sensor raw data. Otherwise A7S is a superb choice if you can get some decent lenses to go with it. Expensive though!

Panasonic did officially put it out there and sought the publicity. If they are to do that again, some concrete details about release date and pricing might help!

Yet Blackmagic can do 10bit for a quarter of the price of an A7R II with the Pocket Cinema Camera and Micro. Yet GH4 has 10bit 4K HDMI output, albeit seemingly unable to make much noticeable difference to image quality. So I'm not really too appreciative of Sony's excuses. JG is right, they left it out on purpose to segment products. They are free to do that, so just tell us. Don't make silly excuses! As for a GH4 style flip screen making the body too thick - that's a load of tosh. The E-M5 II has one and is a slimmer body with weather sealing. GH4 is not really bigger, not in any meaningful way. Flip screen for selfies is important to consumer market and A7R II is a consumer camera so I hope they change this in future.

It's only a rumour guys.

Interesting suggestion, I'll try that! Both very nice, the A7R II is better in low light especially with the Metabones Speed Booster (which you can't use on the NX1) The NX1 has an incredibly clean image with no noise up to and at ISO 800, then it falls off a cliff from 1600 onward. The A7R II has a bit more dynamic range. Both have similar rolling shutter in S35, but switch to full frame and provided you don't mind a bit of moire you can reduce RS on the A7R II considerably. The codec on the NX1 maintains a sharper image, more detail, but you get a mushy blocking in areas of large colour blocking. More banding in the sky for example. The codec seems to give all the data to the details and leaves nothing for the smooth gradation. On the A7R II the image is softer, not as sharp in 4K, bit mushy but nothing to worry about and it grades pretty well. Prefer ergonomics of the NX1 body and the price is half. A problem with both is - They both have sensors that seem to capture 3x more green than red or blue and it hurts the image vs Fuji and Canon cameras. I've seen it in the raw stills not just video or S-LOG.