Andrew Reid

Yeah I had no idea they broke it for it was like that for a good few months! Good point about loan cameras, you are reliant on the rental house updating them then. Anyway hope you enjoy the profiles once they started working again. I have added a note about compatibility to the Z-LOG purchase page to the effect of "Z6 II and Z7 II are supported only with latest firmware update". I'll also upload the docs and instructions in the guide that come with it. Cheers!

Thanks for the forum post... I have fixed the contact form now (Google Recaptcha decided to stop working for no reason) I have sent you a DM with the new download link. Cheers!

2 weeks with the error without realising? A quick 10 second test clip would have revealed it. Also you should always make sure your cameras are running the latest firmware update. If Nikon's engineers accidentally broke their own custom picture profile support on two new camera releases, I am not responsible for that. It was up to them to put it right, and eventually they did so. Not very good though is it Nikon? Phone their customer support line and make your voice heard so they are able to put out more reliable tools.

Maybe Nikon thinks that for the type of customer the Z Fc is aimed at, 16-50mm F3.5-6.3 collapsable toy zoom with plastic mount is a big step up from a smartphone. Except it really isn't any more.

Yeah GF1 was a nice little camera. Sometimes simple is better. Something about that first model had quite a solid build quality to it and the white version had a very high quality gloss finish, almost felt ceramic like. These materials, finishes, looks all matter to me which is why the Z Fc is only just about nice looking on paper - Then you realise it is a cheap plastic thing with worst specs than an X-T3 from 2 years ago, so why bother?

It doesn't have any authenticity. It's a fake. A replica. A Minox.

Nikon today launched the Z Fc. Formerly the Df retro plastic camera, Nikon has improved the concept with even more plastic and a smaller sensor. You can feel the retro authenticity during each buzz of the power zoom and the flappy plastic concealing a port used for live streaming. It's every film camera shooter's dream Minox Nikon! --- What did Df stand for anyway? What does Fc mean? Fruit cake? Football club? Are you OK Nikon??

Can you just ease off on the sycophantly for one second and appreciate that I can say what the damn hell I like on my own YouTube channel. In one sentence you are telling me what to do and how I should perform on a YouTube channel, and in the next moment it's nauseating praise. I find it creepy and highly annoying both at the same time. I don't know how you manage it, it's quite an achievement. So just my two cents. If you can address more broader subjects than just me in every post that would be fantastic. Otherwise anti-stalking cops going to have to come and put you in a jail run by Matt Granger. Do enlighten us on those!

The world is full of people telling other people what to do. Don't be one of them.

Some of you guys seriously need to get a sense of humour.

Found the Matt Grainger fan 🙂

Nice find with the FAQ. Maybe it's my misconception about Gerald. I can agree with him about corporate work not being all that interesting enough to share (and often there's no permission for that anyway) and I can see why he wouldn't want to do any more of that when he's got a successful business with the YouTube channel. It's not a personal thing, only an observation, a suggestion that I'd enjoy his channel more if it had visuals, images, photography, short sequences to set the mood and cinematic moments. We are too eager to see the binary Me vs Them, when the point I am making is more about the consumerism and the dubious creative need to switch cameras so often. I watch a YouTube channel about headphones. I ended up with an addiction and 20 pairs of expensive ones. I am also a nerd that also likes playing with cameras as much as I like shooting with them. When EOSHD started the snobby pros were constantly asking searching questions of me - where was my pro work, paid work, client work? All mine was my own creative projects, self funded, I travelled the world under my own steam to make my own stuff and practice the art of cinematography and photography. I was pretty much attacked by the Cinema5D crowd about this all the time - if I wasn't a professional making money from commercial clients - I was nothing. An amateur, a fool, a "tester". I still think there is a Canadian manager though 🙂

You can't take the human factor out of it. The charts, math and science are all entwined with the creative side in filmmaking & photography. Anyway, I feel you misunderstood the gist of my video which is about the circle jerk becoming like a cartel and all quid-pro-quo boosting each other with mentions and it is all intentional and coordinated in my opinion. You are being played by a cartel-like community of online marketeers disguising themselves as camera users or filmmakers. The point I made in the video about Potato Jet hyping up an Alexa one day and then a C200 the next, is about the pure consumerism and marketing aspect of that - people watching who are dazzled by the object of desire on display. What does any of this have to do with filmmaking? Cinematography? Photography, and beautiful images which is why we need cameras in the first place? And does the talent of the person giving the advice matter at all?! To me it does. I would sooner take advise from Roger Deakins than from Peter McCanon. If this hypothetical guitar guru who promises all sorts of wonderful sounds turns out to be unable to play it and it just makes very mediocre sounds in his hands, just seems wrong. Will Gerald ever pick up a GH2 from years back and show us his images with it? I'd love it if he did so. Perhaps there is not enough views or not enough affiliate link money in it? Ask yourself why hasn't he done something like this yet in all these years, or gone into classic gear like vintage lenses? Why has he never been an EOSHD reader or even acknowledged that we exist as a community of 11 years, or that Magic Lantern exist, all that history of the DSLR video revolution he has just kinda glossed over like it never existed. Fucking poor, man. It always seems that the gist of his video is BUY this new thing... and on a very rare occasions, he'll snub something like the Sigma Fp, with the overall message being BUY something else!

So by this same token, can you have a guitar guru who knows everything there is to know about guitars but has never picked one up to make music? It's a bit absurd isn't it.

Everybody loves Mr Undone. The YouTube bros line up around the block to circle jerk with handsome Gerald, but I for the life of me cannot find any of the great guru's shoots!

Certainly not off limits in GB as long as not obviously cruel and unfunny. The meme was mischaracterised by Philip in his tweet, in order to turn his many thousands of followers on me. Many of them hadn't even seen it. So it's nothing to do with Britain. Our sense of humour is intact... Well most of us.

WARNING: Contains some strong language. Does David Lynch think a yappy assistant is trouble? Try getting clawed in the neck on both sides from Canon fanboys and Philip Bloom sheeples.

Looks like Canon did not shield the mic input from the USB C power circuit!

The IBIS isn't as locked off as the R5 or Fuji systems, doesn't act like a tripod, but it looks a bit more natural for handheld shooting. It has more free movement going on. The AF is superb. The image seems to lack a bit of mojo for me, the files look thin, S-LOG 3 is as difficult to get the best out of as ever. It really is a case of pick your poison with these cameras. Do you risk reliability problems with the R5, or go for Sony's more digital look to the files (even in 10bit)? Personally if you're really good at grading and tweaking the Sony color profiles in-camera, I'd go with the Sony. It is a real pity Panasonic do not yet have superb AF in video mode as otherwise I could recommend the S1H which has the best image of the lot.

It's not the camera I'd be concerned about, it's the lenses and I think it may be time to dump F mount. I'd be tempted to get a Sony A1 which seems a good fit for your high-resolution needs plus cutting edge video specs. Then I'd be tempted to put all the Nikon lenses on eBay 🙂 Start investing in the native E-mount Sigma range.

Not tried one. I am sure it is very good but I don't need 8K or have the will to spend $6000 on features I don't use.

The dilemma is, there are not many full frame 4K cameras with both great AF and great color. The Sigma Fp is great for the price though and really a company I can support. Engineering led Not bullshit led The Sony A9 used is worth a look, funnily enough I find it has the most mojo of the Sony cameras and the 4K image is incredibly detailed, and great AF. I prefer it to A7 III even though the latter is cheaper and has S-LOG. Panasonic also worth a look, but AF is still a bit of a handicap. Looking at G9 improvements though with firmware 2.4 that'll soon be a thing of the past?

It also depends what problem you're referring to. If it's the crushed blacks and clipped highlights then that can also be a hardware acceleration issue in Premiere. If it is Canon LOG 10bit 422 from the R5 and R6 (and 1D X Mark III) not playing-back smoothly in Premiere then that's a separate issue and means the decoding of H.265 is being done the slow way.

It doesn't apply to ProRes. This is a H.264/H.265 thing