Andrew Reid

  It's a text book illustration of excessive profit chasing will result in the death of your brand.   I used to associate Hasselblad with medium format image quality and $45,000 cameras.   Now I associate them with rebadging old Sony cameras which you can pick up for $400 on eBay.   The design and finish of the Lunar isn't even nice. The RX100 mod is even more lazy, practically the only change is the grip.   Hasselblad are toast. DSLRs like the 36MP D800 are now good enough to replace medium format and digital backs. The company was bought out by a venture capitalist firm recently who were asked to look at ways of leveraging the brand for more profit and the disastrous Sony rebadges are a direct result of that.   Under current management practices (which aren't sustainable) and non-engineering lead product launches, let's see how long they last for. Want to take bets? 2 years?

  How much of it works its way into 8bit? Let's do the maths.

Dear people of the DSLR community, including photographers. Herein lies an enlightening example of the problem with many pro video people as epitomised by Peejderj here. They are craftsman, even talented some of them, great understanding of the practicalities of shooting but they all have tunnel vision.   They put the practical realities of shooting AHEAD of everything else, including inspiration, intuition and spontaneity - those ingredients are critical to art-house filmmaking, narrative shorts and music videos.   The procedure is most important to them, and meeting a spec, delivering something quantifiable, by a set time.   And they are often incredibly arrogant. Only the shoots they have made a career doing are shoots, the rest is just pissing about, struggling away with workarounds, etc. Hey Peejderj... Upstream Color, GH2, enough said.

Downsampling hardly hurts raw on the 5D Mark III. The image is very well sampled indeed and even performs on a chart. Did you see the joint Slashcam / EOSHD tests vs C100?   MJPEG is a terribly inefficient 8bit codec and very old, 1D C really suffers from it. Doesn't grade. Huge file sizes. ProRes is far superior.   "Most even non-event shoots just aren't like that Andrew"   Thanks for the real world lecture. Next time I am in my real world shooting at an abandoned Berlin sanatorium with actresses and a great script I will remember to cancel the whole thing because it doesn't fit your narrow minded view of a shoot FFS.

  The issue is that noise reduction is clearly applied to the images posted.   Therefore the test is invalid.   There's not much difference anyway even then. The lows are clearly crushed on the RX100 M2 to make it look better in reviews. I'm unimpressed.

Also if a $999 camera can make a profit and bundle 10bit HDMI and ProRes into the deal, why can't Canon do this at the $6000 mark? It's ridiculous.   10bit HDMI could be a real saviour of DSLRs. Panasonic should put on on the GH5 and feed uncompressed 10bit 4-2-2 LOG down it. They wouldn't need raw if they did that.   You forget that raw, aside from being an ultra creative workflow, is not all about 'raw' rather it is about bypassing the god awful H.264 mode of the 5D3.

Struggle. Haha. Half measures. Tee hee.   Pressing a record button on a DSLR isn't a struggle.   Getting 14bit film negatives off the card isn't a half measure.   Full frame sensor - no half measure there either!   I don't decry your personal reasons to shoot on what you shoot and neither should you mine, but looking at it objectively you have to admit you lost :)   The image is just flat out better!

From official forum -   BMPCC: Still waiting on the green light (I assume from some form of manufacturing QC) for mass shipping. No numbers yet (I don't think they even want to know them) but a few more demos have begun shipping to retailers. It should be a couple or three business days before those start shipping out. You're not getting RAW on the first wave. That's coming later on a firmware update.  BMCC4K: Still has about 3 to 4 weeks worth of development before those are ready to be approved for shipping. Not sure what the technical issues are, but those are taking a bit more time.   Key bit - Still waiting on green light to start mass production of Pocket.

13 stops fits nicely into 12bit, converts nicely to 10bit.   Remind me, what is DR of C100 and the bit depth?

    Focus Button on Pocket Cinema Camera When using Pocket Cinema Camera with an autofocus lens press the FOCUS button for focus peaking or AF.

And still frame recording:     Time Lapse Interval This setting allows you to record a still frame at the following intervals: Frames: 2 - 10 Seconds: 1 - 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 Minutes: 1 - 10    Should have a stills mode though, linked to shutter release. Still reading...

From the manual:   "Micro HDMI port of your Pocket Cinema Camera outputs 10-bit 4:2:2 HD video at 1920 x 1080 while recording"   I believe this is the first 10bit HDMI output I've ever seen on a consumer camera.

  Cheers! The manual - http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/5813056/Blackmagic_Camera_Manual_July_2013.pdf

  Thanks for the first hand info.   Well, my suspicions of the last few weeks it seems were justified. There were a lot of hints.   I don't know how many orders of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera they need to ship to satisfy all customers in August. I can see it being that unless they ship 1000, it might be the same situation as the BMCC in 2012/13, and that is unacceptable. If they trickle out 30 a month, it just won't cut it. At $999 that is a product that needs the higher quantities to succeed.   Maybe now, people can better understand my disappointment and anger over what is going on at Blackmagic. All the signs pointed to this recently, and it is something they cannot really afford.   That the Pocket Camera goes from the factory to the Blackmagic offices strikes me as having a manufacturing setup in China as opposed to in-house, though I have no idea what exactly the set up is - I expect this will cause further delays before it reaches customers because if Blackmagic are putting the new firmware on production models for the first time and hit a snag, or it needs testing extensively then we're going to be in for a further wait.

Mosaic Engineering are preparing an anti-aliasing filter for the BMCC, but ideally it should be in the camera out of the box along with a built in ND wheel.   Now with this kind of spec creep you are going to get a price rise.   So maybe consolidating should mean evolving the BMCC rather than revolutionising it.   Evolution for me would be -   - Existence - Higher quantities produced to meet demand - Firmware update for audio meters, histogram, better focus assists - Active mFT mount like Pocket Camera - Compressed raw - Improved LCD   I'd take all that, even for an extra $1000 instead of the 4K camera.

  Whatever, and Paris has the Eiffel tower.   Enough with the straw men arguments. Deal with the points presented to you or not at all. Makes the thread go off topic.

  Well, it's just as painful!

They don't suck at all.   The BMCC 2.5K has a much more film-like image than the electronic videoy C100.   Hell it even gets noise in the highlights rather than blowing them out! (Exactly like a film emulsion).   You seem to have confused very frustrating and bad shipping problems with the products sucking. The reason many are so upset about the shipping problems is because they really wanted the products!

Backwards, not really.   If you need global shutter and 4K then it is another option that didn't exist before.   That it doesn't exist now either, is a bit troubling, but I digress...   The image on the BMCC mFT 2.5K is lovely and the glass for that mount is too. What Blackmagic need to do is simply build on what they already have and nip the 4K adventure in the butt.

Doubtful Panasonic laugh dissuasively at Blackmagic seen as they are using their mount.

[media]http://vimeo.com/63604452[/media] Blackmagic are holding an event right now in LA and information is being reported back by attendees from the Blackmagic reps present. EOSHD takes a look at what's new... [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10856/blackmagic-4k-production-camera-now-due-in-september]Read the full article here[/url]

The G5 is crap, you may as well spend a bit extra and get a used GH2 if you consider the G6 not cheap enough

  My Nikon Speed Booster is a week late and I do everything myself, one man.   Blackmagic's mFT 2.5K camera was 9 months late and they are a company with hundreds of employees.   So my question to you - do you think you're being fair? :)

They have open photography days there organised by a company. 40 euros per head I believe. However, the commercialisation of Berlin's ruins kind of spoils the fun, not to mention the atmosphere.

  Who says I am talking about their existing IBIS? I'm not. The new Olympus 5 axis IBIS is a separate technology which is part of a broader exchange of parts between the companies via Sony's stake in Olympus. It will appear on *future* cameras. Sony are supplying Olympus with sensors, and now Olympus are supplying optical tech. It has nothing to do with Sony's existing system or the older Minolta one from which it was derived. Quite aware of that thanks.   Source: http://www.43rumors.com/ft4-olympus-will-now-share-the-5-axis-stabilization-system-with-sony/