Andrew Reid

  How does this in any way effect your 5D Mark III purchase? They are quite different cameras. The 5D Mark III has a much larger sensor, better suited to the EF mount glass you will use on it. It is much cleaner in low light and the form factor is better. It is much lighter, runs for hours on a tiny internal battery, has no fan, uses small CF cards, gets constant firmware updates and takes 22MP professional quality stills. Blackmagic have their work cut out to compete with it.

Blackmagic CEO Grant Petty has today mapped out the company's camera roadmap. The Blackmagic Cinema Camera has a new aggressive price point. A drop of $1000 to the price of a Canon 6D - $1995. Active mount version of Blackmagic Cinema Camera mFT on the way, making existing model obsolete Next firmware V1.5 will add new features [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10931/blackmagic-price-drop-by-a-third-on-cinema-camera-and-active-mount-mft-camera-on-the-way]Read the full article here[/url]

The dual-CPU Canon 7D is one step closer to the tantalising prospect of raw video today. The main developer at Magic Lantern A1ex has found the raw buffers and silent pictures are working. Further work is required to port the raw video module. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10925/magic-lantern-raw-video-in-development-for-canon-7d]Read the full article here[/url]

According to CIPA, Japanese shipments of cameras are down 47% year-on-year. That's a bleak figure, although there aren't the kind of big product releases so far this year that there were in the first half of 2012. However I think it's too easy to blame smart-phones or to mention product cycles as the reason for this decline. What about the actual cameras? In my opinion everyone seems to be making strange product decisions that I doubt serve either shareholder or their customer. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10907/on-trying-to-understand-canon-and-blackmagics-strategy-on-cameras]Read the full article here[/url]

Looks nice.   Great to see someone put 2 years of effort into an iPhone app rather than 2 minutes worth :)   Either Apple will buy his code, or the will simply put an embedded JPEG processor in the next iPhone and a faster camera module. 20fps burst modes with electronic shutter are already possible even in smartphones.

  Image quality doesn't just come down to sensor size and bitrate.   In this case it will depend on how the sensor is sampled.   The GH3 does a good job of downsampling the sensor and the Panasonic image processor does a good job of processing / debayering it.   On the NEX cameras this capture process is mediocre to say the least and there's a lot of aliasing and moire. Check out my NEX 5N vs GH2 comparison on Vimeo.

  Ah hold on. In that picture the Contax Zeiss pancake is mounted on a 4/3 camera not a Micro 4/3 camera. The adapter for mFT will add a good 40mm or so to the size of the pancake. Not ideal.

It does matter when you have a bigger lens hanging off the end of the prime. Short and stocky prime is the way to go.   The Zeiss looks good on mFT.   Pentax K 45mm F2.8 or 50mm F1.7 if you have Canon (you will need to mod the lenses to remove the aperture lever that hits the mirror). Nikon 50mm F1.8 E-series is also a good pancake for anamorphic.   Feel free to keep adding more...

The Pentax 45mm F2.8 is the best at doing this. It is unbelievably thin on a Canon mount.   However it vignettes with almost all anamorphic lenses on full frame.   I recommend it on APS-C Canons. On mirrorless you may as well use a native lens as the adapter bulks the whole thing up

  You can get a slight slow-mo from it - right click the clips in Premiere's project window and interpret footage as 24p.   Straight 30 to 24 doesn't really work very well, too much jitter from uneven frame skipping.   Curiously I found the crazy handheld work suited 30p more than slow-mo at 24p.

Do the solutions pointed out by Bruno and JHines support OSX or is it a case of bootcamp, Windows 7 and lot and lots of freeware to force it to work?

Since the advent of very high speed ports like Thunderbolt many have speculated as to when external graphics adapter cards are coming to laptops. Well with $250 worth of parts it is possible to do already. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10908/thunderbolt-external-nvidia-graphics-comes-to-macbook-air-sort-of]Read the full article here[/url]

  I'm not suggesting you get one. Was using it as an example of stating your needs.   Do you actually know your needs?   Low light important? Size / weight? Lens choice? Auto-focus? Stabilisation? You've got to give us a clearer idea of what you want and what features are attractive to you.   I'd recommend GH2, but you might say low light is important, and therefore the recommendation would change to D5200. You see what I mean?

  The advantage over software solutions is that you have a steadier shot in the first place to work from, which doesn't need as much of a crop to steady further in post.   Check out the back of the tram shot with the taxi in the background, and the sweeping pans - everything is shot handheld with one hand on camera grip and one hand on the focus barrel. There's no other stabilisation system either in the lens or in the camera that is as effective.   Even combining this with a Z-finder, a stock or minimal shoulder rig, let alone something like MoVI would result in even more natural looking movement.

  That's not from the stabilisation, which is not an algorithm but mechanical movement compensation. The sensor moves to catch the drift.   Any softness is from the Olympus OM-D E-M5 video mode which is very compressed and not optimally processed internally, or the 180 degrees shutter speed I used in low light.

  A tip for anyone asking questions on the forum...   There's no one answer that suits everyone, it depends on your needs... So state your needs otherwise people will either not know how to answer or give you the wrong recommendation.   Cameras are all a compromise at the moment. 5D Mark III raw for example might be great for a tech savvy music video shooter but not so good for a multi-cam event shooter, so always state your needs :)

  Different league.   Sony were impressed enough to buy into Olympus for its use, and Panasonic are reinforcing their OIS with their own in-body system. Canon are as usual doing nothing, but their ultrasonic IS on the 100mm F2.8 macro and new 35mm F2 is good at preventing jitter even if not the kind of huge swaying and judder you get when walking*   * Hope you read that word correctly ;)

Roland R-26.   I'm in love with it. Not a shotgun mic but a fully featured portable recorder with two stereo mics built in.   I'll be writing about that soon on here.

[media]http://vimeo.com/71346820[/media] The SLR Magic 35mm T0.95 is an ultrafast manual focus lens targeted at cinematographers. It is a Leica M mount lens with bespoke adapters for mFT and Sony E-mount. Until now I had been using this lens on my Sony FS100 but Olympus recently updated their OM-D firmware to support 5 axis stabilisation in video mode with all manual focus lenses. Move over MoVI... [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10896/slr-magic-35mm-t0-95-review-and-5-axis-stabilisation-samples]Read the full article here[/url]

Take a look at this - http://snapsort.com/compare/Canon_EOS_60D-vs-Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-GH3/score   They have weighted camera popularity as 100 in the points scheme. Insane.   Thus 60D scores 90 and GH3 just 5 for that, whilst image quality (based on DXOMark which only measures the sensor and not video or image processing) is weighted far less at 45.   Had the 60D not been handed that 90 for simply being a Canon, the GH3 would have won on the final tally 96.4 to 83.2 and that is not even taking video into account which is vastly better featured and better quality on the Panasonic.

I have never read such an ill conceived comparison as that Snapsort one.   60D has built in auto-focus motor? No Snapsort... try the Nikon equivalent.   They list flip out screen on 60D an advantage over GH3, whilst both have them.   "Great battery life" on 60D applies to stills only with the LCD turned off. GH3 has the better battery life for video and live-view shooting.   They say the 60D has faster autofocus. Ha. Try AF in video / live-view on that vs GH3. I'll think you'll find it is 5 seconds worth of hunting around vs 0.2sec.   Another gem... 60D has apparently "much more lenses available". Nope. The GH3 has more if you count adapters. The mount is much more flexible and can take more lenses.   Then under GH3 advantages they claim 60D has no image stabilisation. WTF? Never heard of Canon IS lenses?   They list 18 advantages to the GH3 and only 9 for the 60D and claim the GH3 has better image quality and more dynamic range, but yet rate the 60D at 89 and the GH3 at 49 and claim the 60D wins.   This is what happens when you get reviewers plucking stats from the internet without having ever touched a camera.   So yeah... Panasonic have their work cut out it seems. Half the world are this ignorant as well.

[media]http://vimeo.com/26852474[/media] One of the most popular forms of photography if you look at the number of pictures if not actually the number of photographers, is smart-phone photography. I enjoy it myself and the camera on my phone is the feature I prize the most. However there's a technology that intends to disrupt all that. It's called 'line of sight advertising'. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10889/line-of-sight-advertising-technology-aims-to-infuse-photography-with-digital-ad-banners]Read the full article here[/url]

I don't think 'bashing' is the correct word, it's an objective evaluation of the facts. Image quality in video mode is poor compared to other cameras, similar to how the 60D is also short of cameras like the GH3 and 5D Mark III. If you are going to lay down quite a lot of money for a 70D, consider other options first.   Johnnie already explains the specific problems. Mushy detail, noise, moire & aliasing.

You can't tell much without bothering to download the full 1080p file and viewing it on a 1080p display.   70D is fine for embedded web videos with high compression and low resolution.   But it is competing in a market where people demand more than that.   It is quite high up in the Canon range and already a lot of filmmakers use the 60D. They will now likely switch to another brand like Panasonic who are offering a better image for less money with the G6, not to mention more / better features. 1080/60p being just one of many.   And yes the NEX 6's output is bloody ugly too.   Johnnie doesn't set out to make it look bad. In hands of most consumers it will look far worse than what is being presented here.

  Interesting point.   I have the latest OIS lens from Panasonic, with their latest OIS technology - the new 14-140mm. Tried it on the OM-D just now and the OIS does indeed interfere with the IBIS and it is shaky so you need to use only one or the other.   Hopefully this won't be the case with the GX7 but it will still have the advantage of stabilising non OIS lenses like the 20mm pancake and SLR Magic stuff.