Andrew Reid

Is N-RAW = intoPIX TICO RAW? What settings are in-camera? What is available at launch in terms of ProRes RAW / bitrates / ProRes 422 flavours? I have a look into it here but more info welcome in this thread from quality sources. https://www.eoshd.com/raw-video/what-are-the-details-of-nikons-new-cinema-8k-4k-raw-codec-on-the-z9/

Looks like they are using the same raw codec for both stills and video mode then? 6:1 and 12:1 compression modes 500Mbit in 1 bit per pixel 12:1 compression for DCI 4K 60p. Which could mean 4K/24p cinema at under 250Mbit!! 1000Mbit in the 6:1 mode (4K/60) 8K is up to 4000Mbit in the highest quality mode. Not sure which of these Intopix configs they have actually implemented on camera so if anyone finds some more info from Nikon or a good source do let me know

Looks like Apple may have a custom chip, which didn't exist before. Low power, works in a thin chassis. The iPhone 13 Pro and now the Z9, something seems to have happened with ProRes encoders...

Much better than expected all round. Probably a bit overkill even. But ProRes and that insanely fast sensor with very little overheating even in 8K makes it unique. I am impressed. They are saying the sensor rolling shutter is as fast as a mechanical one.

They won't work. You need a mirrorless camera with the shorter flange and big space for the lens barrel to slot into. I'd open the thread up to recommendations about really good lenses for the Pocket 6K EF though... Contax Zeiss 28mm F2.0 Hollywood got to be right up there on my list.

The Leitz phone is basically that Sharp phone with a different back casing (both Japan only as well) On the other hand I highly recommend the Mi 11 ultra once you dial the look in and use it in Pro mode.

Leica need something to do now Huawei kicked them out of bed. I am still surprised they chose Sharp, but rumours are Xiaomi may get the Leica treatment next. The trick here seems to be to go really wide at 19mm to fit the lens in the phone. Which means pretty much every normal shot is going to be a 60% crop of the sensor. The Sharp's 1" sensor cannot however overcome the rubbish image processing and colour science. I wonder if the Leica version of it has a few extra colour profiles thrown in for your 2 grand?! At least it got released. I am still wondering where that Sharp 8K camera went!

I always thought it was weird how this ended up being so much thicker than the complete RX100 body. And now for the sake of a few millimetres of extra phone thickness we get a $100 smartphone lens on a $1800 handset. Sony make much better 1/1.28" sensors for Huawei than what they've stuffed into the Xperia Pro I. Quad Bayer, 50 megapixel, RYYB, and most amazingly of all the lens fits it

That can be useful but they always make some clangers you need to watch out for... - Usually they don't bother testing the actual focal length of the zoom optics. For example some test shots at 4x when the periscope optics doesn't get used until 5x. I've seen entire reviews from them which ignore a whole camera module. - They don't even bother changing the default settings and picture profiles. So if a result looks like an oversharpened HDR mess, that's why. The Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra has controls for dialling down sharpness, contrast and saturation. The HDR mode is usually best turned off too. - They seem allergic to testing RAW. It's like if DPReview only showed you dynamic range in the JPEGs. RAW Is a good way to bypass the over processed look of a smartphone. - They don't really make proper judgements on colour and skin tones, the artistic side - The overall scores are a bit off, some better phones too low down and some new models too high up.

THE camera for spray and hope lunatics. Specs are ridiculous. Just a way to grind another 6 grand out of people. And here's me still waiting for a Digital Bolex relaunch and wondering what vintage lens to get next 🙂 It will be aimed at sports professionals, like D5... but 8K/60p and 120fps photo sequences will be a massive amount of data to go through after for very little real world gain, and aren't these guys usually needing to turn in results very quickly?

It doesn't stack up today because the computational photography, quad bayer and high-speed readouts have overcome the shortcomings of smaller sensors. That's pretty much why, when the iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max came out, nobody could tell the difference in the images! That's despite the 12 Pro Max having a considerably larger sensor. Quad bayer is an important step, makes bigger difference than upping the chip size and pixel size. Currently the best image quality in smartphone land is: Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra Huawei P40 Pro Plus In that order. I have the Xperia 1 II and it's got a decent main sensor in it and natural image processing. It's nothing all that special though and the other camera modules are very middle of the road in that. I can shoot 1/5 at ISO 100 in low light on the Mi 11 Ultra, in RAW, and the shots are pin sharp. The reviews didn't do it justice, they don't know how to do anything but point and shoot. It's got a lot of unexplored options and a Pro mode, and if you turn HDR to manual, most of the time it's better off off. Also for the best JPEG/HEIFs you need to disable RAW. Anyway it is interesting to see where this stuff is going. With the Cinema video modes and such advanced photo features. Still looking to branch off my interest from EOSHD and mirrorless cameras so I should get into enthusiast smartphone camera reviews because the existing guys aren't photographers, they're tech social media influencers and that is a different skill set - marketing and presentation. I don't think they even talk about RAW in the reviews and the phone review sites don't bother testing it either, because again they're not really that knowledgeable about photography. Anybody who is, point me to them and I'll reach out.

You can shoot this on the Oneplus 9 Pro for 800 euros don't forget

Completely unhinged pricing. Plus they took away the periscope optical zoom module, which is on the cheaper Xperia 1 III. New adventures in profit margins for shabby Sony. And a straight flat out lie about the sensor size too. It isn't a 1" sensor if you can't use it.

Yes more choice of profiles, more combinations of creative style & white balance tricks that shift the image to a less clinical zone. The picture profiles fix all of what the old Pro Color did and of course the main thing is they are tested and designed with the latest cameras in mind because Sony changed their colour science 2-3 times in the past 4 years. For your A7S II the main advantage is now the extended guide and larger range of profiles rather than the one fix.

Yep, it's not EOSHD that's the problem it's me! I need to get my enthusiasm back. It's been a tough time. Thanks for the comments guys, it is helping me figure things out a lot.

Thanks for all the comments guys. Just the motivation I need to try and turn the ship around. I can't promise much at the moment. Hopefully I find the energy to do that. Would not like this place just whittle away to obscurity after 11 years so if I do need to change what I do in life, I would look at selling EOSHD and would never just hit a button to take it offline. The original purpose and spirit of picking up a small mirrorless camera and making films is still there today and we need to help one another on that mission.

So my friends I am fed up, burnt out after the lockdowns, lonely in my job. I can't go on like this for much longer. I'm considering closing the blog and forum, but no decision made yet. Unless I revive my passion for cameras and tech, and indeed even shooting - I'm done! Hope you can stick around for what happens next. And any ideas about changing the direction of the site, are welcome! Cheers!

I see it becoming an established style, especially on social media. And real films will have to mimic it to get the authentic feel of that when needed by the script. Sure will be interesting to play with and see how it develops but for now it is 99% a TikTok thing to raise the production values of short social media measured in seconds. I am impressed that Apple managed to put ProRes codec into a phone as well. What is stopping the camera companies now exactly with their hardware and lack of internal ProRes. Just outdated chips or what?

Bots learnt a new trick? Have banned em. The efforts they go to hey!

Good find with the diagram. Certainly more space required than a GH6 gives you. But as far as professional mirrorless cameras and high-end DSLRs go, it's not as tall as a GFX 100 and isn't much taller than an A7S III in a cage. About the same height as a 1D C. So for an S1H Mark II with vertical grip size form factor it would work. Filter is larger of course for FF sensor vs S35 However if you look at where the Clear filter slides out, the filter itself only sticks out just below the circumference of E-mount and it is the holding structure that needs all that extra room.

I recently had the opportunity to ask Yosuke Yamane-san, Director of Panasonic's Imaging Division some questions about the current and future Panasonic line-up, including the upcoming GH6 and how Panasonic can continue to build on the success of the S1, S5 and S1H with new video features. Read the interview here: https://www.eoshd.com/news/an-eoshd-interview-with-yosuke-yamane-are-panasonic-working-on-an-l-mount-cinema-camera/

Just checked on my 11.4 system and the required folder does exist: /Users/MACUSERNAME/Library/Application Support/ProApps/Effects Presets/ Maybe try creating the folder if it is missing, and the Effects should then be available in FCPX.

The lenses are the solution or the problem. Cameras live and die by their lenses. Canon EF and Sony E mount are the dominant forces of today. When 5D Mark II happened, pros realised they could use full frame lenses for video. Instead of a fixed lens on a digital small sensor camcorder So Canon could capitalise on the HUGE Canon EF lens market, and bring out C300 A Cinema EOS C300 without EF lenses = failure. Same thing with Sony FS7... E-mount is very adaptable and works well with both of the most popular ranges of lenses today. Why would Sony users trade in E-mount for an EF mount on a Panasonic camera? E-mount is much more adaptable. And on Canon cameras it is the native mount so is designed for 100% compatibility and the AF is a big selling point. So that's what made it difficult for the EVA1 I am sure Canon users looked at it and thought - nice - but don't think many switched - and I certainly don't think anyone switched from an FS7... there wasn't really anything to capitalise on apart from the nice image, and the fact it exists as an option. EF mount on a Panasonic camera was a bit odd. Should have been an adapter at most. It's as if Panasonic recognised the reason for the C300 popularity and tried to copy it, but didn't give a compelling enough reason for EF lens owners to switch from Canon. The lack of established (for many decades) lens range is still a problem. L-mount has only just got going. And the fact that most Micro Four Thirds lenses are not Super 35mm (although some are by design, and some cover any way) makes it difficult to justify M43 mount on an EVA1, although I'd have preferred it to EF by far.

Not if you're focussing with a manual focus lens outdoors.