Andrew Reid

Brand loyalty is a severe blindness in our society. I see it with Mac vs PC, iPhone vs Android and with Canon vs Lumix. The article is on the side of enthusiasts and anyone around $1000-$3000 who want to see better stuff from the market leader Canon.   Yet still some people will battle against their own interests, because of their chosen life-parnter, the logo.

There's a lot more in the blacks than my grade served up. The quality of the image in the blacks isn't as good as say ProRes on a Blackmagic so yes that does limit dynamic range if you have to bring the lows into the mids with a brighter exposure, thus risking blowing your highlights out. However a lot depends on the conversion software you use. Wondershare crushes the blacks on default. I can make it produce a very flat image, but that hurts colour... a lot more to come on the workflow I think. It's a shame the Samsung software isn't better.

Indeed. What's interesting is that none of the defensive posters are actually enthusiasts. One owns an Epic and one's simply just an idiot with a keyboard instead of a camera. The problem with Canon is not the pro $12,000 stuff it is the enthusiast $1k-3k cameras that aren't giving us the innovation we want on the video side. Nobody can defend it, not even Canon themselves. Which is why they are so quiet about it.

Actually most people who came initially to the site were interested in my Panasonic GH2 coverage. You have just reinforced your ignorance in the eyes of the entire forum. Congrats! Anyway... if the posts from now on contain a more constructive form of negativity, it'd make my day.

Which makes you perfect placed to comment on the enthusiast subject at hand. I've shot with the 1D C. Type EOSHD 1D C review into Google when you have a spare moment. Really? A7S not better in low light? Hmm. No I think you'll find the ergonomics suck as well. Perhaps the most unintuitive camera for video I've ever shot with. Does your Epic have AF? Thought not. There's a reason for that. You have your facts wrong. ALL the Canon, Tamron and Sigma lenses have f-stop control and IS via the Metabones adapter to Sony E-mount.   I have seen the A7S's 4K projected at Pinewood Studios. I can tell you what it looks like. It looks superb and it is full frame 4K not 1.3x crop on a 2 year old sensor aka 1D C.

I wouldn't bother, just get a Panasonic LX100 :)

  Key word is "overall". Some facts my friend...   Sony A7S with a monitor on top kills the 1D C stone dead for image quality. 1D C is not full frame 4K. The active imaging area is barely any larger than Super 35mm in 4K mode, thus NX1 and GH4 with Speed Booster give a similar rendering of Canon full frame lenses The codec is from another time, when dinosaurs ruled the earth. 4K MJPEG takes up 6 times the space on my drive that H.265 4K does. Monitoring on the 1D C bare bones is a nightmare. No EVF, no peaking, in fact virtually nothing to help you focus The GH4 and NX1 can be used bare bones without a monitor, far more pleasing to shoot with The 1D C is $12,000... how many times do I have to mention ENTHUSIAST MARKET for you to get the point of the article? The 1D C's codec has banding issues at low ISOs The 1D C's sensor is rated barely 12 stops, the GH4 for 13 stops and the A7S for 14. So in that sense the raw stills aren't the best either   Like I said... Sony A7S with Shogun on top or 1D C with monitor on top just so you can focus... It's a no brainer. Image, usability, size, portability... everything is better on the Sony.

If Canon announced that they were withdrawing from the enthusiast stills camera market, you'd be surprised. It's a pretty big market. But withdraw from the enthusiast video market they almost certainly have at the moment, whether they meant to do or not. Read the full article here

  Why? Can't see the word 'DSLR' in it and E stands for electrical, O for optical and S for system. Sounds pretty relevant to me.

I can't manually focus any of my lenses through the optical viewfinder of a DSLR.   I need an EVF for that.   I just switched from the 5D Mark III for all my stills work to an X-T1 and not regretting it. They are dead.

The white balance isn't an issue when you're shooting raw. I can get that carousel right where I want it. Kinda nice to have in-camera raw editing before you upload to Facebook.

Part 2 looks just at the camera. Almost no mention of Android or iOS at all.   http://www.eoshd.com/2014/11/panasonic-cm1-review-returns-just-camera-time/   Coming next on EOSHD... Why WINDOWS SUCKS BALLS!

Although I found the CM1 mediocre as a 900 Euro smartphone compared to other high end smartphones like the OnePlus One and iPhone 6 Plus, I'll approach the CM1 purely as a compact camera that you can make calls on. This review has the focus on image quality and camera features. How does it perform? Read the full article here

  No Apple snobbery here at all.   If you look at a selection of high end Android phones (which by the way are half the price of the Panasonic) they're all outstanding as smartphones by comparison. Better screens, more responsive, better build quality, better music quality, much thinner and above all nicer to feel and to use.   There's some superb Android stuff out there... Samsung S5, OnePlus One, HTC One M8, all half the price and doubly better as smartphones than the CM1!   If you haven't tried the CM1 vs the other high end Android smartphones you're not best placed to comment.   My review would have been the same if you substitute the iPhone for a OnePlus One. It's not 'Apple snobbery' to make clear where one device is superior over another. It's called 'reviewing'.   It just so happens the iPhone 6 Plus is what I use so that's my frame of reference... yours may differ.

If you are getting crushed blacks, it could be a display calibration difference between my display and yours.   Even if I regrade it, it is gonna look wrong for someone.   I'll do a proper dynamic range test vs the GH4 and A7S.   I don't expect it to beat either of them but it beats the GH4 for colour and it beats the A7S for resolution with internal recording.

It's clear phone criticism goes right to people's hearts, and that's a sad reflection of how far we've stooped in this world today :)   I'm going to follow it up with a review just of the camera.   Think of it as a camera with a sim card :)

I think ffmpeg is what the other apps use anyway, just adds a GUI.

  All ISO 200, didn't need to go any higher for this shoot at F1.4 and had the ND on for all of it. It wasn't a dark situation, plenty of light.

  Yes it feels lovely. It's like a 1D C but with a modern codec, 1/6th of the file sizes, EVF, better ergonomics, flip-out screen, more adaptable lens mount, lighter and smaller, and only $10,000 cheaper.   Yet still people complain about the grading... because blacks happen to be black.  :D

I have the Heliopan vari-ND and it's a cut above the rest. Zeiss optics apparently.   I think this colour filter needs a closer look...

  Not recommended. Read the review for why!

Spec specs spec... what about usability? What about feel? What about music quality? This is everyday stuff guys. This phone doesn't get it right. Until you have had one in your hands you just won't understand.

In my first shoot with the NX1 I only had the rather cheap and cheerful kit zoom on the camera. That doesn't go any faster than F3.5. I've since been buying adapters and have found the Sigma ART lenses to be a perfect match for the Samsung NX1 in 4K. The video footage above was shot very quickly but it should give you an idea of just how superb the NX1's 4K video really is. Fantastic detail, colour and overall feel. Read the full article here

If you look at how the CM1 stacks up against other Android smartphones, it's also piss poor.

Worst review ever / thanks for the review... Are you two people under one account? :)