Andrew Reid

  Latest shipping Metabones Mk IV adapter works fine with my A7S. Just received it. They have squashed the bugs.

Great video, great eye at play, but the interpretation of it is a bit wonky, think of the great shots the iPhone can't do as well as what it can. Camera technology in phones has come a long way and that's great, 120fps is lovely. I take a lot of my stills on the iPhone because I have it with me and it's quick. A great shot getter, a capturer of moments. There's no denying the difference is look though the difference in application, between a phone and a camera like the GH4 or A7S.

  What about the pancakes? Nikon E-series 50mm F1.8 is one of the best lenses for the Iscorama.

  I guess most of the F5 user base didn't initially need 4K and the ones that did went for the F55.   However times change and I think now is the time for all new cameras that can do 4K to have that ability!   Nice nod to the curved film camera design by the way Sony :)

  Nope, it isn't possible on an EF mount camera.

The image leaked by a Chinese site (Filmaker.cn) shows what looks like a 4K XAVC recording FS700 successor. Via RedShark News Leaked blurry smartphone images are all over the web yet again! This could be the FS700 successor, although in reality we don't know anything beyond that it records 4K to an internal XAVC codec and appears to use E-mount lenses, the leak offers some tantalising prospects... Read the full article here

  Reasons... I dunno... Why don't you try saving my limited time by reading the article to find out!? APS-C mode on the A7S reduces rolling shutter from some of the most severe on any camera, to around the level of a dedicated cinema camera like the FS100. So if you have a shot that benefits from the full frame look but also requires less skew from the rolling shutter, switch to APS-C mode and attach the Speed Booster.

Also the MFT version is designed to cover a smaller sensor. The Ultra is designed to cover APS-C not MFT.   Maybe a FAQ blog is in order!   But for now I'll hand it over to the other blogs, who just love so much to take news via EOSHD and without credit to where they heard about it, sell all their B&H affiliate links around it...   http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/metabones-announces-the-new-speedbooster-ultra/

EF to MFT does not have the same optical design, it's a totally different product line and bang up to date. It isn't old. This replaces the January 2013 Speed Booster for E-Mount.

The Speed Booster ULTRA has new optics and is available for E-Mount and Fuji X-mount (APS-C or Super 35mm sensors). The adapter has the latest evolution of optics from Caldwell Photographic in the US. The new optics bring an increase in performance, with sharper corners and better contrast. The new design is an extremely advanced 5-element / 4 group tantalum based optical formula. The old version of Speed Booster will be phased out. Read the full article here

If you want your Iscorama to join an elite of less than 20 in existence - high performance ones with greatly improved handling and construction, then you have until Tuesday 2nd September to join the EOSHD / Andrew Wonder group buy! Email EOSHD here to join the list. The modification made in the UK by cine lens specialists Van Diemen will build into the lens a brand new focus movement, for a shorter throw of 150 degrees. Much better for follow focuses and quicker manual focus by hand. Close focus will come down to 3 ft 6 inch with the aim of this coming down even further when engineering begins. Along with robust metal housing replacing the plastic housing of the Iscorama, the new lens will have the ability to add a lens support for those using 15mm rods. Read the full article here

H.264 can go up to 960 Mbps you mean.

What do you mean?? Flat in terms of the picture profile? That has nothing to do with the codec.   XAVC = H.264 at 50Mbit/s. That is all.

  Yes it is!   If you have an A7 or A7R for video you have the wrong model!

Why would you want XAVC-S on the GH3 or 4?   XAVC-S is a marketing word. The codec is actually H.264, at 50Mbit.   GH3 shoots H.264 at 50Mbit already and the GH4 shoots it at 200Mbit!

Also, all these firmware differences are actually marketed as hardware differences, so it is a little bit misleading in my view. When you buy a piece of software you know you are buying software and you know that a lite version costs money to unlock the full potential of.   If the people who bought the 1D C and F55 knew that they were actually buying almost identical hardware that was for sale at $12k or $6k less, only differentiated by firmware, would they accept it quite so readily?

I know a few people who would have bought a F5 if it had 4K internal at $16k, so how many sales does the disabling of features in firmware LOSE the company?

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120fps is 720p and quite a heavy sensor crop but detail is pretty good and moire isn't too bad either.

When I reviewed it earlier this year I found the RX10 to be an excellent shot getter - but it was also a shot loser as well due to the weak AVCHD implementation. Many of my images suffered from too much mud and a break-up of detail in certain situations. So this is very welcome news from Sony. The V2.0 RX10 firmware adds 50Mbit/s XAVC-S codec and just as excitingly 120fps for slow-mo, making the RX10 a very interesting creative prospect because of the very effective stabilisation, long lens range, built in ND filter and a sensor with a full pixel readout. Read the full article here

Sorry some slipped through the net, will look into it and email you both in a few minutes. If anyone else has had a problem let me know!

  Nanu nanu!!

  It's not the right analogy at all. "Lite" versions of software are generally free or very cheap, the F5 is not a free version of the F55, it's a $16k camera. You're paying a lot for hardware that's capable of 4K. F5 owners will be upset that they had a camera all along that could shoot 4K and they have been shooting 1080p for budgetary reasons unnessessarily.   Equally in the case of F55 owners, who paid an extra $12,000 mainly for 4K, only for it to appear for free due to a text file change on the $12k cheaper model - that's annoying. There's no other way to describe it.   Customers lose out from this kind of strategy. Canon could and should have put 4K on the 1D X but they disabled it in software, denying a whole host of talents access to it due to price reasons.   I don't know of any software packages where the price difference is $12k between the lite and full versions.   This is like hacking the lite version to get the full version, it shouldn't be allowed. If a company is going to take this strategy they at least need to protect their customers from hacks. Thing is, there are always going to be hacks and circumnavigation of barriers when features are disabled in software. The most responsible solution is to differentiate the cameras based on how much they cost to manufacture.

It already does 4K internal, it comes off the sensor as 4K and is debayered, all the hard work done and sent to HDMI rather than compressed and sent to the card. 4K compression is trivial. Mobile phones do it. I don't believe the overheating theory at all... The biggest heat management issue in the A7S comes from the sensor and that is already doing 4K even for 1080p. It's probably more work for the image processor to downsample the 4K output to 1080p than it is to compress the 4K and write it to the SD card. I think they are saving the feature for future models.   My message is clear to the manufacturers and always has been... Give us 100% of the capabilities of the hardware we pay for and don't disable stuff with a line of code.

View the Sony F5 'out of the box' specs at B&H here (and add 4K for free) Paul Ream (Twitter) has spoken about his simple unlocking technique for the F5 to unlock 4K XAVC recording. It doesn't even require a firmware update. Via Philip Bloom on Facebook and Paul Ream on the ExtraShot Podcast Read the full article here