Andrew Reid

It has a narrow window of peak performance in terms of colour.

​A strange opinion Carl. "The news" is not trolling. And no of course Canon isn't supposed to notify Magic Lantern of anything (although working with them and communicating to their customers would be a start), but the blocking tactic is there for all to see - the inability to take the camera back to V1.2.3. Unless you don't understand the situation Carl.

Not allowed to change your mind on the internet about cameras apparently 1D C CLOG: A7S SLOG 2: Not good is it? When I originally reviewed the A7S I loved the colour, from picking out the odd shot here and there. Afterwards I spent months developing my own LUTs in Resolve that I could blanket onto an entire sequence in Premiere. Didn't work because each scene / lighting needed their own nob fiddling.

The problem I am having with the A7S is that - yes - colour can look lovely after a lot of work grading in post BUT and it's a bigger but than Beyonce's, you can't apply the same grade to every shot, every lighting circumstance needs it's own 2 hours of fiddling in Resolve. That for me is intolerable really. Also the bright-blues clipping issue is a problem, whenever I happen to have a blue light in the background of the shot I can no longer do what I want with the exposure, I have to "manage the problem" and it becomes tiresome. Still love the A7S, it's great for the price but I need colour that's quick to get right and internal 4K, it is not giving me either sadly.

​Hopefully it won't need any add-on software, because it will just do what we want it do out of the box. 4K, proper focus aids, crop modes, nice codec, 422 colour sampling, articulated screen. But it won't because it's not a Cinema EOS camera.

The framing is different on the window, so it's an invalid test for moire unfortunately.

​That's interesting to hear from Art Adams at DVInfo about the luma vs saturation of blues. Film can't do a bright saturated blue. Alexa caps saturation to avoid the same clipping problem of bright blues the Sony cameras suffer from. That's where the knowledge of film comes in useful. Take a hint Sony.

​Multiple ones. Only happens when Smart Range is enabled.

DigitalEd - what about Dynamic Range in the STILLS menu?

Hardware component changes this late in the age of the product are unheard of and wouldn't affect firmware anyway.

Magic Lantern remains blocked as per the article so the reasons behind it are pretty academic at the moment. Don't buy a new body if you want to use ML.

It's likely they also added some form of encryption. BTW Canon - having to send off the 1D C to a service centre for a firmware update is a real PITA for customers!

Canon look to have blocked Magic Lantern and new 5D Mark III bodies which won't roll back to older firmware. Users are presented with an error saying "firmware older than 1.3 on the card, update using newer version". Read the full article

Very nice! That feels like something you can drop now and not hurt it. Some kind of umbrella to keep rain out of the vents now

I can turn on Smart Range + to get the exact same issue but then it vanishes when turned off. Smart Range + in the movie menu only affects image when in standby preview movie mode or whilst recording and the "Dynamic Range" option for Smart Range + / HDR in the stills menu only affects live-view whilst not in standby or recording. Seems to work right and I am on v1.10 as well. Maybe something went wrong with the firmware update. Did it reset all your settings upon upgrading? Did mine! When I first got the NX1 with Smart Range + turned on I was "WTF" as well. Some people who are unawares of what that does are reporting it as a bug when it isn't. You guys seem to have a genuine bug going on with it.

​Advantages - small, light, sharp, AF for stills Disadvantages - expensive for a 35mm 2.8, more than a Sigma 35mm f1.4! Fly by wire manual focus is trickier. No advantage to AF for video. I prefer the FE 55mm F1.8. Should have stabilisation for that price though and the Sigma 50mm F1.4 is as sharp, if not even sharper! Bulkier though. Don't get too heavily invested in sony glass if you might buy a different system later. Canon & Nikon mount Sigma 35 / 50 1.4 will come with you and these lenses will die with your A7S.

Wonder why it only affects some units not others? It's definitely Smart Range + that does the shift. Just tried it and it's a carbon copy of what you're getting. Point at light, image gains up ISO to bring the shadows up. It's definitely turned on and the bug is that you can't seem to turn it off even when disabled in the menus. Hope they fix it quick but very strange, because you'd think a firmware bug would be on ALL the NX1s shipped so far. And you're running V1.10 right?

I can only reproduce the exact same issue when Smart Range + is enabled in the Dynamic Range option, stills menu. You need to switch this off in the movie menu AND stills menu.

Maybe a bug with spot metering or centre weighted, try changing it? Which firmware are you all on? Still unable to reproduce the problem.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about... http://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Compare/Side-by-side/Nikon-D3300-versus-Canon-EOS-1Dx___928_753 Nikon D3300 ($399) vs 1D X ($6999) Same score for both - 82. Now find other odd results and do a test... take a real world shot with both cameras and look at colour, feel, noise, general performance, etc. Post the results on here. I will be doing.

At same price you might have a chance on a used 1D C and get the best image in the world though

The Digital Bolex has great skin tones, very flattering.   Great camera for the money! It's detailed and rich without being too stark and revealing.

Challenge me with the facts and I will gladly accept it!!

It's off topic! I don't wreak your threads fuzzy with off topic stuff about makeup and drones do I? If you want to start a separate thread be my guest but stop turning every gear discussion thread into one about content and filmmaking skill!

The D5300 had the best image. A6000 a bit easier to use and mirrorless lens mount more adaptable.