Andrew Reid

My job is my filmmaking and EOSHD. Much as I want improved products, I don't see my role as unpaid consultant to a major manufacturer. I could compromise my editorial pretty badly here in an effort to nurture that relationship. What for? I might get the occasional chance at a workshop (Samsung have already asked), but I'd rather be out shooting so would turn it down any way. There's very little in it for me. I just don't see myself in that role. They are welcome to continue reading EOSHD for my feedback though! I deeply respect and like most of the people working at these companies to put such amazing cameras out there for us. If there's a fault with the product it isn't personal, but it has to be pointed out for what it is. Not a single FS7 user has praised the menus yet.

Here for the first time on EOSHD we have seen the potential of a top management consultant for Apple! You should be paid millions! You're a genius! So you suggest to any future Steve Jobs that by being more vague and sweetening feedback to employees, you will get better decisions out of them and a better conceived product? You are living in cloud cuckoo land. ​The point is, if you have such flawed menus, management needs to be tough enough to prevent it going into the final camera. It's not hard to read the blog post especially the bit about giving vague feedback like it's some kind of popularity contest with the manufacturers. It actually harms the product. If something is shitty you have to call a spade a spade. In engineering, if there is a design problem you don't sweet talk it until it goes away or make the designer feel good about his terrible mistake. All this watered down vague feedback is essentially to lubricate people like Johnnie Behiri's path into Sony's inner sanctum. They don't give a shit about honest feedback or improving the product.

Erm! http://www.eoshd.com/2014/08/sony-a7s-x70-pinewood-studios/

7D Mark II?

You will notice something striking about this poll at DPReview.com There's no Canon.

Actually the Arri Mini will lose the C300 quite a few customers on Alexa shoots where it was standing in as a smaller b-cam. The FS7 will erode the C300's lead on the rental market as well, because it adapts to PL lenses out of the box with a simple adapter AND to EF with another simple adapter. It's more flexible. The FS7's 10bit and high frame rates are also a factor, as is dynamic range. It is incredible in that respect, I am seeing at least 13-14 stops in S-LOG 3. There's a good chance none of the rumours will come true and the C300 Mark II ends up being a 1080p cam, if so it's toast. Total toast. Burnt toast at that. Hate to be pessimistic but they may reserve internal 4K and the new codec for the C500 successor instead and charge same as the Alexa Mini! The C300 Mark II might just get a better EVF and screen along with 60p, a precedence Canon have already set with the C100 Mk II. Soon we will find out.

SLR Magic Anamorphic 2x on the Panasonic GH4 (4:3) http://www.eoshd.com/2015/02/slr-magic-2x-anamorphic-anamorphot-on-the-panasonic-gh4-43/

Due to feedback from filmmakers in favour of smaller cameras Arri has introduced the Mini – but the timing is very interesting. We are just over 1 month away from NAB in early April. The Alexa Mini is still a prototype and it isn’t due to ship until May. Clearly in the long term development process of this camera Arri aimed for NAB 2015 – so why rush out an announcement and a rough looking prototype at BVE in February? This is the clearest signal yet that new Cinema EOS cameras are coming at NAB and Arri wanted to avoid having their announcement drowned out by a glut of other cameras. So let’s look ahead just 1 month and predict what the C300 Mark II will look like…And whether a new 4K DSLR is coming from Canon too. Read the full article

Sorry to hear you just wasted your money! Send it back and wait for the NX500. The earlier NX models were total trash for video... abject trash. GH2 is MILES better!

My solutions all have growth potential, especially the apps. By the way 5G will be 65,000x faster than 4G when in launches in 2020 according to latest science lab news. This means both WiFi, bluetooth and all land based DSL lines will be going away. It helps to look forward...

There is one coming. that's all I can say!!!!

Read the full article: http://www.eoshd.com/2015/02/eoshd-opinion-smartphones-are-not-killing-dslrs-apps-services-are/

Yes. It's quite interesting vs the NX1 given yet another price gulf. Shootout is shot but not yet edited.

Eventually once the camera is set up, I find the menus less of a problem but you still have to wonder how the heck it left the factory like that. And I don't think I'll ever be able to use the left panel blind and instinctively, I'm always looking at it to search for a button. With the 1D C or GH4 I have an instinct and can feel where the button is without having to look down at the damned thing and tilt it to one side. The EX1 user might be happier with it but the camcorder ergonomics were never ever much cop and won't cut it in the world of cinema and Arri.

  Ferrari have a DNA. Cinema cameras have a DNA. You have to go back decades to see it evolve into the force it is today. For Ferrari it is the very specific engine sound and the looks. Arri are that spirit to cinema cameras. The DNA of the Sony FS7 is a compromise. Half EX1 and half cinema camera, the ergonomics of the buttons, dials and menus need a complete overhaul in my opinion. So Sony haven’t got it all right yet but what they have done is put a Ferrari engine inside. The FS7 for £5199+VAT is an absolute bargain, with an ‘engine’ almost on par with a £18,000 F55 (though without global shutter). It’s a much more capable camera than the Canon C300 or Panasonic GH4. See the full blog post

​Haha

$30,000 to $40,000 the final price. Nice concept, and about time!

What app are you using to convert to ProRes?

​Indeed, there's not much like it for the price.

Thanks Gregor!

I also think the problem is with the Speed Booster. The shims aren't accurate enough in Metabone's PL adapters either.

Why on earth would they put an organic sensor in this, when they have a perfectly good Super 35mm sensor to trickle down from the Varicam S35!? Guys! This rumour makes no sense!! No sense at all! Not even any sensor!!

Wow talk about plucking specs out of thin air with the minimal of education when it comes to guessing. 18MP on a Micro Four Thirds sensor yet clean at ISO 12,800.... riiight.

​Yes, clear advantage to shooting 4K for delivering 1080p. Shooting 1080p in 2015 is a bit like shooting standard definition 720 x 480p in 2008.

The D5300 is a little cleaner in low light and in the shadows when dialled down flat. Any reason you're not considering D750? Price?