Andrew Reid

In that same DPReview interview Maeda San claimed WiFi wasn't possible because of the construction of the 7D Mark II's chassis. What's it made of, lead?   The D750 has a carbon fibre chassis and built in WiFi. More expensive to produce.   Excuses are bad enough, but if you have to lie to your customers in forming such excuses, it's doubly bad.   I was told by Canon when the 5D Mark III came out that it lacked full 1080p HDMI because the hardware wasn't capable of it, then along it came later in a firmware update, so I know they lie to their customers. I have seen it for myself.

  Good stuff creatively there.   Agree DR does look good. Didn't see any nasties like moire either.

They either give us what we want at the price we want, like Sony and Panasonic and Blackmagic are doing, or the get zero. Better to get a bit than to get nothing at all.

Shot with both at Photokina and have the original files on my card if anyone wants them, I might upload.   D750 and D810 were too similar to tell apart without a proper shoot and more time with them.

At Photokina I talked to product specialists Jörg Ammon and John Morris, both of Canon Europe. We talked mainly about video on the 7D Mark II. Read the full article here

  What the hell is it with all these fake comparison videos on YouTube recently?

Just tried the firmware update. Works but didn't see the claimed improvement in video quality.   Hack project seems pretty real though.

  Try it guys.   I will do once I have some time tomorrow.

You're right, TN has improved a lot recently. People could really do with trying the Samsung as I have before dismissing my views on it quite so readily.

I plan to transcribe the interview from my iPhone recording. It was never meant to go online as an audio file, just a rough quality recording to transcribe from. There's a lot of background noise from the show floor on it and much of the implied unpleasantness was in the body language of the product specialist actually, more so than what he said.   I don't want to be in such a difficult personal situation with Canon. There are good people at Canon. I have a good relationship with people at Panasonic, Sony and eventually want to have the same with people at Canon. If I am critical of their products on EOSHD then it is because I want to see better products from Canon not because I have a personal issue with them. The truth is there for you all to see, the DSLRs are simply not delivering the advances we want for video and the Cinema EOS line is priced out of reach for many of us.   I was chatting on the record to a German product specialist at Canon named Jorg who was very friendly. I was asking tough questions about video on the 7D Mark II but he was doing very well to answer and to explain the other advantages of the camera and who it was aimed at. After about 20 minutes we were discussing moire and he called over a Canon UK manager who happened to be close-by, to ask him if moire had been fixed. You should have seen the face of this guy. You could feel the stress in both of our voices in his presence, it was simply horrible. He refuses to answer whether moire had been sorted out, then proceeded to be extremely rude and dismissive for a good 10 minutes until I decided I'd had enough and ended the interview. It ended with him saying within earshot of me and in a bitter tone "who's next" as if his time was better spent talking to some kind of 'yes' man.   The guy's name is John Morris, he's a product specialist at Canon.   I feel that in being so dismissive of my concerns over video on DSLRs, he is dismissive of all of us really, as a community, because you all (mostly) share my concerns. And on a personal level, as a representative of Canon at Photokina I feel the attitude he displayed fell well short of what is expected from people at such large companies.

  Well we're on the V3 now and still no 4K.   The sensor in the V1 was actually capable of doing it years ago.

Fake. Beware of the plant videos!

Seriously you two, were you expecting a 4K IPS panel for $599?   Come on, time to get a fucking clue.

The D810 now shoots better quality 1080p out of the box than the 5D Mark III. It isn't 4K or raw but it's good. In fact Nikon are now providing better image quality than Canon across the range in video mode. Beginning with the D3300 and D5300 which provide a better APS-C image than the 7D Mark II with less moire, Nikon have taken the same improvement to image quality and applied it to the D800's successor, the D810. Read the full article here

The reasons to shoot anamorphic are the same they've always been. Maximise vertical resolution and recording area, obtain wider aspect ratio and benefit from other characteristics and stylistic traits of the optics like flare, stretched bokeh, etc.   Our scholar froess here is an annoying troll. If anyone wants to learn and not take the bait, click here -   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_format

Canon wait until the others have made their move and usually follow up a few years later with the same thing at a lower price.   Then as tumbleweeds roll across the floor, eventually Nikon gets round to copying Canon!   Even took them a while with full frame FX format!   So I am not expecting any low-priced 4K camera from Nikon soon, if anything it will probably be a Cinema Nikon and $10k!

Cool. Is it $599?   :D  B)

If they are competitive with the competition I have no problem buying a Nikon. I even have a V1!   Like I say... IF they are competitive with the competition....

Too late I already have my A7S.

  Nice but be careful going smaller than 28" with 4K. For me 28" is the sweet spot. Not so big that your eyes have to track for miles side to side, but not so small that text and icons vanish when using it at the native 4K res.

  4096 is the cinema standard. It is a bit like 1920 vs 2048 for 1080p and 2K. I don't think I've ever seen a 2048 2K monitor in 1.85:1 aspect ratio so doubt the PC industry will make one.   Another option is the high end IPS 21:9 3.5K display from LG. It's very nice for anamorphic footage ;)

The issue with high end APS-C stuff is that it has reached the end of the road, certainly with regards pricing, because why shoot APS-C if you can get a full frame camera for the same price?   It defies the whole point of APS-C existing, which is to offer a lower price than full frame.   Canon's APS-C lens range is rather lacking too. Nothing faster than an F2.8. A lot of people have EF primes, even full frame zooms and they are using them on an APS-C sensor which is nuts. Once these users realise the benefit of full frame sometime during their deliberations on whether to drop nearly $2k on an APS-C camera they will not be buying a 7D Mark II I can promise you that.   The AF system is just about the only thing it has going for it and even that's a minor difference to the other high end Canon DSLRs.

  I don't think it is good enough to reverse a halving of DSLR shipments in the last 2 years though.   A lot of 7D owners have already upgraded. 6D, 70D, 5D Mark III, or if they're a video user then a Cinema EOS camera, and if they can't afford that they many of them will have already jumped ship from Canon altogether for a GH4 or a Sony A7-something.

  This is a video site. I'm amazed you haven't noticed that fundamental principal of EOSHD yet :)   And what Canon marketing stuff have you been reading that makes you think dual-pixel AF is fast enough for sports stills shooting?   Have you used it? Dual pixel AF is still mega slow. The 70D's standard phase detect sensor via optical viewfinder shits on it, as does the GH4's contrast detect based system.

Ok let's try and be more helpful. What price do IPS 4K monitors start at Leeys?