Andrew Reid

One feature I loved on the E-M1 was the instant punch in for crop mode, could activate it in the middle of a shot rather than stop and dive into the menus. Can you do that on the E-M5 II? Great for documentary style shooting when you want a quick FOV change with one prime. Speedy!!

​Cheers John. How's the quality say compared to the GH3. That had a bit of moire. Nothing to severe though. Not as bad as the old E-M5. I think the sensor bins pretty harshly to get the 16MP down to 1080p, which is the main source of moire. Used to think OLPF made a big difference but that's more true of the native res chips, like 1080p on FS100 or 4K on the F5. I took my OLPF out of my 5D III once along with James Miller. Image actually got a bit better. Haha.

​You do make many good points. I'm not saying people shouldn't have the choice. I am saying, let's not pretend film and 'the past' is somehow magical and better than the latest digital technology. That's not true. Creatively, you can do more today. These elitist dinosaurs in Hollywood wanting to shoot film... I don't get it. It gives them zero benefit.

​Glad he's been trying it out! Downloading some of the sample clips now to take a look. He says moire is still there... that's a shame.

Indeed. And if projection is all digital, there's even less point in film!!

Agree that diversity is good thing, which is why we have digital! It's way more diverse looking than film. I don't begrudge Nolan his film cameras, but I do think it's time we moved on from it. Draw a line under the past.

​That 1 second 4K raw was great, reminds me of Lars Von Trier 12 frame rule in The Five Obstructions. Film doesn't offer a restriction as extreme as that. It is just like digital but more expensive, slower to use, slower to handle in post, slow slow slow!

Nah it's no longer the case. Digital has superseded it for skin-tones and even dynamic range. What's the magic to having a film camera on set? It's just a tool. The magic happens in the image quality, the feel, the talent on the set.

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Hollywood filmmakers have been lobbying for the survival of film for quite some years. Now the studios have bowed to pressure and signed new deals with Kodak for the continued supply of celluloid. What's the point? Read the full article: http://www.eoshd.com/2015/02/kodak-celluloid-film-saved-studios-oh-way-whats-point/

​Not particularly, depends on the shot. If half your image is in the upper part of the scope, ETTR compresses that area into a small luma range and you won't get as nice colour or smooth gradients. ETTR is more for the shadows, helps bring them up into the middle and allocates more dynamic range to them than otherwise would be the case. Just expose with the histo in the middle, a nice even spread. Use Canon LOG. The view assist I find poses no problems either.

Read the full article - http://www.eoshd.com/2015/02/canon-5ds-press-release-makes-no-mention-video-dropped-flagship-dslr/

True Matt you do have a good point there. Low priced clean 1080p camera which does everything well. GH2 seems as close as we ever got! But it wasn't APS-C, Super 35mm. Nikon D5300 isn't far off, will be interesting to see if D5500 is an improvement. A7S is nice but expensive and heavy rolling shutter. Blackmagic lacks ergonomics, features, etc. but the Pocket remains a good buy. Magic Lantern raw video is what we want, but the file sizes can be an issue. So if the 760D does C100 quality video, I will be very happy, but also so surprised I might eat my 1D C.

​Actually it wouldn't be something really! We already have that for very cheap. And 1080p H.264 is today's standard definition.

What kind of settings might be different? Quality differences - single pass encoding rather than 2 pass?

You can download the firmware update here http://gopro.com/news/new-features-now-available-for-your-hero4-camera?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=email&Utm_campaign=20150203_pr_HERO4UpdateNowAvailable_PR Media Contacts&utm_term=read_more The 240fps is very soft though, looks more like upscaled SD than 720p. Not tried the 2.7K 60p yet... over to you...

Canon's next step on the entry level Rebel / XXXD series is about to arrive and it will be interesting to see the video specs now Panasonic are doing sub-$1000 entry level 4K with the LX100 and FZ1000. This time Canon are releasing two models - the 750D and a 760D, with the difference seeming to be the addition of a 70D-like top LCD panel on the 760D. Read the full article

So in theory it should be the same speed as IFFMPEG.

​At 128GB per 6 minutes that's some HDD investment you're going to make over a years worth of heavy shooting, day in day out. It has nothing to do with not applying a 'DSLR workflow', though that is a lot quicker and simpler than handling 128GB per 6 minutes of footage. Also, 4K Cinema DNG does not playback smoothly on even a very high spec Mac. So you have to create the proxies, then grade via roundtrip, and it's SLOW.

1. ​Because you get a free 1D X, for stills. 2. Because of stealth factor, nobody notices you 3. The 1.3x crop sensor is larger 4. The native EF mount is better than using an adapter 5. It's much smaller and lighter 6. It's less complicated, allowing you to direct the shoot rather than button press on the shoot 7. The image is better, I personally feel 8. The menus are faster and more direct 9. Ergonomic controls are more direct and less fiddly 10. Because it's cheaper used, mine cost £5k. The FS7 would have cost me at least £2k more. 11. I prefer Canon LOG to S-LOG, it is easier to grade. Lighter LOG. 12. I prefer the colour I get from Canon's cameras 13. It shoots to relatively cheap compact flash cards and they're common 14. Better low light (cleaner at 3200,6400 and 12,800) 15. OK yes it does have some disadvantages (rolling shutter, large file sizes, no peaking) but for me they are relatively unproblematic. Would love slow-mo though!

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Also the 1D C has been shot in LOG at ISO 200 by the looks of the banding, and not handled right in post - possibly edited natively from the MJPEG in Premiere which introduces even more banding.

The video specs are wrong on the HK leak. 1920 x 720 1280 x 1080 Vertical res should be the other way round. It's a typo

This isn't a camera shootout. It's a grading shootout. It's very difficult to compare absolute performance with such a huge variable in the mix.

Kind of a vital piece of info missing from your post Steve. What's the app!?