Andrew Reid

The flange of B4 lenses may be long enough but how far does the rear of the lens protrude into that, wouldn't they hit the mirror?

  I'm an idiot to comment on my own forum?   I'm an idiot to defend myself?   I'm an idiot to respond to opinions from you I don't agree with?   EOSHD occupies a lot of headspace. You should try running the site for a while an put yourself in my shoes to get some perspective on what affect comments from the users have on the community and on those running it.

JPEGS!! Enough said

The GoPro has a fisheye lens. Resolution is only one part of the image, in same way that size is only one part of architecture. How can you possibly compare?

Bruno. What I resent is having my daily filmmaking work interrupted by the need to respond to idiotic comments. If I was interested in doing the whole narcissist thing like Bloom I'd have plastered my face over the website by now. Maybe put more cat pictures up too. You and I don't agree on most things. I say as much... I have tolerated your contray opinions for months and months. At some point, if you have a stranger in your backyard throwing rocks at the window you have to get rid. It isn't censorship but self defence.

Took my friend Susanna to a very spooky abandoned sanatorium in Berlin last weekend. Here are the results -   http://www.flickr.com/photos/eoshd/sets/72157634748415392/   The Jupiter 9 also works very well with anamorphic. Not very sharp wide open but the look is great at F5.6. It has interesting bokeh going on. This is a cheap lens - I paid around 100 euros for it.   Pentax 28mm F2.0 -     Jupiter 9 85mm F2.0 -       There's more of the location here when I visited with the Sony RX1...   http://www.flickr.com/photos/eoshd/sets/72157634421410257/

  It isn't because of disagreement with the prevalent thoughts at all. It is to prevent ascendancy into un-constructive information infesting my site, personal attacks and people just hanging around looking for arguments.   Some people are contrary for the sake of it, and it's very annoying.   Some of the best and most constructive ideas comes from differing viewpoints from my own and I have no intention in censoring them.

  How else are you meant to get hold of the cameras first? If you didn't pre-order the original BMCC, you were looking at a 9-12 month wait for 'in stock' badges at stores.

  Ah yes but testing what exactly - the raw stills, video, or JPEGs? My test shows the sensor hasn't improved.

  The G6 has better dynamic range. Haven't measured it but to the eye it's easily noticeable.

When I reviewed the Sony RX100 exactly a year ago it was genuinely novel. The closest image quality yet to a DSLR in a pocket camera. Can the RX100 Mark II improve enough to stay interesting? Read the full article here

I have been the ultimate whinging pom this past week but yeah - I feel it's justified.   Last year was different, I defended them all the way for months and months, publicly and privately.   What changed for me this year is that they clearly disregarded customer concerns and carried on as normal. mFT body 9 months late. New cameras likely late. Small quantities. This is not so much a balls-up out of their control any more, but bordering on disrespectful. Even John Brawley who I respect a lot, handled me with a poor attitude on BMCUser the other day, practically implied I was nothing but a peddler of hype with my BMCC coverage on EOSHD.   I have to say, I don't think quite so highly as Blackmagic now as I did when they started out on this venture.

Thanks for the B&H news.   I wish they'd provide more details - i.e. have they had a communication from BMD? As it is, it could be just a guess or an opinion as that's the way it's written.   My main worry is about quantities.   I have the patience even after last year's situation to wait an extra 2 weeks of course for the Pocket camera!   The problem is that most people will be waiting much longer if they trickle out only double digit units in August.   This is a camera that has probably been ordered in the thousands.   The 4K camera clearly isn't ready yet. Why not?

Please combine all Blackmagic related shipping news in this thread: http://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/3111-the-annual-blackmagic-shipping-date-mystery-thread/

Have tested the HDMI now.   I'll update the review, and it ain't good news. There's no live HDMI output. Only in playback mode is the HDMI port active.   Seems like a clear market segmentation to get professional filmmakers to use the GH3 instead.   A little black mark on what is otherwise a stella achievement by Pana.   Go easy on them because remember we're talking about a $650 body here with a superb built in monitor, peaking, very good focus assists and zebra. Much less bulky than an external monitor set up.

  You are kidding me right? This is the least 'beta' camera in my entire collection. Ultra complete feature set for the price. No bugs.

  No headphone output on the G6.   HDR, timelapse mode, stop motion animation - yes. All there.   Standard 3.5mm mic input - yes.   Stills quality not quite as good as GH3 but close.   Low light is pretty good, very decent noise reduction and it can be dialled down to -5 if you want to do it in post instead.

      Yes crop mode is in, same as GH2. Great quality.   Same batteries as GH2, but life seems extended due to the newer processor and LCD panels being more efficient?

  The vignetted handheld parts are all 1080/50p MP4 conformed in post to slow-mo 25p. The locked off tripod shots are with the Olympus 75mm F1.8 mFT and are shot in AVCHD mode at 1080/24p.

Full review now up - http://www.eoshd.com/content/10824/panasonic-g6-review-the-gh2-redux

The G6 achieves a certain yin-and-yang. With the GH3 now occupying a higher position in the line, the G6 has moved up to occupy the position once taken by our much loved GH2. It shares the same sensor which of course was always pretty special for video, yet adds a lot of significant new features like 1080/60p, a faster processor, high resolution LCD and something the GH3 doesn't even have - focus peaking. Read the full article here

  Looking again some of the false colour on the raw shot are actually ACR debayer artefacts rather than moire, especially at the edges of the window frames.   The moire is there too of course, but for me the H.264 makes it look worse. Like a zebra.   BTW - here's some 60D moire (bottom shot). The top shot shows that a camera with moire has far more issues with wide angle shots than close up shots of people.  

For me the H.264 moire looks more distracting.   The pattern is so fine on the raw footage it blends into the brick work. You can do more in post and in the debayer to reduce it too.   On the H.264 it is a rainbow! Broad stripes across the building at the back. It would be even more noticeable if you hadn't turned the saturation and contrast so far down BTW.

Bought my G6 in the UK and it isn't PAL / NTSC switchable, but it does have 24p and 25p.   You can't get 60p on it. 50p and 50i.

Let me be brutally frank. I don't like what is going on in the DSLR community in 2013.   I don't like all the DSLR community celebrities or their marketing & their self-promo shizzle. I don't bow to Zacuto, don't love Eric Kessler like a brother and don't want to ever go to NAB. Is it OK to say this? Am I allowed?   I think this commercial exploitation of the indie filmmaking community by the Pro Video one, is wrong.   The inability to question leading figures, for fear of damaging your career or reputation, is wrong.   The inability to have an honest, open debate, without being smeared as an 'attacker' is wrong.   The inability to criticise a product or person constructively (or even humorously) is wrong.    Filmmakers and bloggers should not fear for their career or have any concerns whatsoever that having unpopular views will affect their ability to further their filmmaking.   Yet the rarified exclusive first class cabin of the pro video community at the head of our indie filmmaking jumbo is very small, and gossip spreads. I know filmmakers who have said something which rippled around in days, and before they know it, they're unpopular merely for speaking their mind and a few opportunities went begging as a result.   Remind me - who controls the indie filmmaking scene?   Is it the pro video community or is it the filmmakers?   I think it's very important to make the distinction.   I'd like to think it is the filmmakers, but right now I'm being proved wrong.   The nature of social media is all about figures and digits related to number of followers, number of likes - in summary, it is all about popularity metrics.   One in particular has has over 10x more followers on Twitter (nearly 70,000 in total) compared to celebrated British filmmaker Mike Figgis (6400 + Leaving Las Vegas). Ironically, Mike isn't very active in the pro video community, which has come to control the indie filmmaking one - because naturally he gets on with his own independent films most of the time.   That leaves very few filmmakers of note in the indie filmmaking community itself to serve as leader of it...   Alas into this void step the marketeers and self-promoting shooters from the Pro Video community who scratch the backs of camera & accessories companies in order to raise their profile or to get ahead in the business.   You may say it doesn't matter, but I've never seen Mike asked to be on a Vimeo judging panel, promote a rig with his signature on it, shoot a marketing video for Canon or be an ambassador for a camera. It's likely he doesn't want to, but I think it is a shame because it means we're not putting the right people on a pedestal.   The other reason for this problem I think, is that there seems to have opened up a very direct link between marketing and filmmaking, between celebrity and aspirational goals.   Bloom for example was one of the first on the Pro Video scene putting sample videos out there and showing us the virtues of the new cameras, beginning with the 5D Mark II and the GH1. The first GH1 clip I ever saw came from him. What happened next was very strange. A link formed between the image and the aspirational values it contains - and the person. People can seemingly not separate the aspirational values of the consumer product from the person using it.   This has also come about through an infusion of consumer cameras into the indie filmmaking community. In the past, cinema cameras were merely very obscure high end tools which couldn't be bought - they were thus separate from any personality cult or aspirational marketing.   Now people buy a camera and they are subliminally buying into the cult of personality too.   It's really worrying, because it has created a flock, a huge number of sheep and followers, whose idea of climbing a career ladder is to say 'yes, yes, yes' and 'I concur'.   These people unquestioningly bow to the leaders of the DSLR community like Laforet, Canon and Zacuto in much the same way people in communist countries are under a spell, controlled by their authoritarian leaders and administrators.   Those who don't want a group hug, are left eating alone at the school canteen, or worse held up as an example of a heretic, which can be quite career damaging especially if your filmmaking career could benefit so much from the exposure of a Vimeo staff pick or a bit of sponsorship from Zacuto.   All in all I think it is a worrying point we find ourselves in at the moment and the only tonic is to try our best to be objective and put the art of filmmaking itself ahead of the people and companies.   I guess there goes my filmmaker profile page on the Zacuto home page ;)