Andrew Reid

A lot of commercials are shot with the Alexa, or in 24p, and neither of those are dead. There's been a lot of shit paintings in the colour red but it didn't kill the colour. And so on...

The Flare Factory 58 is modified lens by fellow British filmmaker Richard Gale, and a regular member of the EOSHD forum. A few weeks go Rich sent me one of the first of the lenses, a Flare Factory 58 (serial 004). Humorously branded Dog Schidt Optiks, Rich is modifying Helios 44-M 58mm F2.0 lenses making versions with a unique character which can be customised on order. They are hand assembled and modified in England.

Tomekk - I see your posts and don't see the logic in them to be honest.   The 650D was a step back from the 600D in both build quality and features.   So the 700D has the crop mode back. Great. That means the 700D is actually the 600D with a new badge, 2 years later!   Is this progress, really?   My review of the 700D would be very short, in fact - I'll do it now.   EOSHD 700D Review   The Panasonic GH3 out performs it in every way and offers more features for a modest $400 more. The Nikon D5200 doesn't suffer from moire and aliasing and has better image quality in both stills and video mode than the 700D, video on that camera is on par with the $3000 5D Mark III yet it is a $800 camera, an almost identical price point as the 700D.   Those who require a Canon DSLR and have a bunch of EFS lenses can save the money and get the almost identical 600D. The new DIGIC 5 processor brings no new video functionality or image quality.   ENDS   And if the image quality is somehow miraculously good with the same sensor and processor as before I shall eat my words. There's no way Canon will allow this camera to be better than the 6D, 5D Mark III or (especially) the upcoming 7D Mark II.

I don't have any prejudices, just eyes.   That was the Christmas quarter.   October 25th 2012 - 36% net fall, 42% operating profit fall http://www.marketwatch.com/story/canon-profit-falls-356-well-below-forecast-2012-10-25

The Disp button on the camera Roger.

Try pressing the Disp. button and toggle 'clean mode'

  Well looks like that is DNG out.   I'll look for a good app which can convert the raw NEF files to DPX.

  The 6.5mm lens covers the sensor or did you crop-in slightly? Impressive if it covers.

Looks like we might have to use DPX format or TIFF sequences.   From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinemaDNG   "CinemaDNG is different from the Adobe DNG (Digital Negative) format that is primarily used as a raw image format for still cameras. However, each CinemaDNG image is encoded using that DNG image format. The image stream can then be stored in one of two formats: either as video essence using frame-based wrapping in an MXF file, or as a sequence of DNG image files in a specified file directory. Each clip uses just one of these formats, but the set of clips in a movie may use both."

  Yep the choice is there. Own a DSLR and rent the expensive stuff. I've always found ownership more satisfying though, but it depends on what you do with the camera.

  I'm having the same issues with Resolve. It seems it reads the resolution metadata incorrectly from the DNG file. Maybe it needs to be converted to a more standard resolution like the 4K film Resolve preset of 4096 x 3112.   It is still rather odd however as DNG is a resolution independent standard and Resolve should work with it.   We need to find a way around this... Or they need to patch the app.

  Thankful for what? That the amount of work required bankrupts your company?   Logic isn't your strong point Leang.   If Hollywood wants the VFX community to flourish they need to loosen the purse strings.

  Execution is important... If you have an idea to execute. Let's follow your logic and execute on nothing... LAMAOAOAOO

There's a reason DSLRs were nearly the death of the rental market. Given that quality for that price, filmmakers saw no need to rent. Do you remember when Philip Bloom was shooting with the 7D? On Red Tails? The rental market was really going through a tough time because indies were using DSLRs instead of renting an EX1. Then the C300 came along and solved all that.   It makes sense to rent an FS700 if you need slow-mo, it makes sense to rent a F55 if you need a global shutter and 4K... And so on.   To rent a 5D and put an arbitrary time limit on your shoot and a daily overhead is silly when you could have owned one for not much more and shot with it for 3 years solid!

It makes zero sense to rent a camera as cheap as a DSLR most of the time especially considering the price of a used GH2 or 550D.   If you do more than 5 days shooting a year you will spend more on renting a camera body than on buying a camera body!

Great follow-up article thanks!

  It is actually the movie studios who are responsible for bankrupting post houses. There are many doing their jobs well for the movie studios and getting the best deals on VFX jobs. The houses are competing against each other and there are a lot of them. The rates tumble and the studio gets a great deal, the VFX house not so much. It is nothing to do with the management of the VFX house. They have to compete on price, and then at the same time, produce a masterpiece like Lie of Pi which is incredibly labour intensive.

We're clearly not getting what we pay for and we're being ripped off.   4K raw clearly does not cost what filmmakers are currently being charged for it, because a mass produced CMOS sensor can do it in a $300 camera.   I just want to see an end to the profiteering and lack of progress. The Japanese have been sitting on their hands and have had a monopoly on the DSLR market. Where is the American photographic giant, apart from bankrupt? Where is the British camera manufacturer? Germany has one but they don't play in the consumer market. I find it incredible that Japan is the only big player in this. It is time for a Blackmagic to do for DSLRs what they have done for raw digital cinema cameras, but at considerably higher volumes.

  They were an innovative company up to the point of the world-wide recession and global financial troubles in 2008-09. This scared the Japanese corporations into being more conservative and consolidating what they had. They've also had to contend with a dying compact camera market, natural disasters, unfavourable currency rates and in the case of Sony & Panasonic, a dying TV market.   For an entire generation of people compacts and TVs have given way to phones and computers.   Canon and Panasonic should be providing their optics and sensors to smart phone makers like Sony. The cameras should be refreshed every year to take advantage of doubling CPU speeds. They need to get their house in order and stop acting like photographic companies and more like the computer companies they'll need to become in order to compete in the future.

  That's a crazy thing to say, nonsense. Without innovation you have no product.   Canon have the same products they had 4 years ago and it is only through a lack of competition, good marketing and people being locked into Canon lenses that they are still market leaders with those same products.   It is innovation that has lead to the smart phone market taking over from the compact camera market in terms of point & shoot photography. How often do you see Ixus snaps on Facebook these days?   I also expect Apple made a bit of money from innovating with the iPhone!! So yeah - innovation doesn't make money right? Christ.

Got my V2 today... Some observations...   The good: Full manual control in burst mode Adaptable lenses in burst mode Stores up to 40 frames instead of 30 in burst mode Handling is better Drastically improved write times to the card (around 15 seconds for 40 raw files instead of 1 minute for 30 on the V1) 4.6K vs 3.8K sensor The bad: It is noisier at high ISOs than the V1 Battery is smaller (1450mAh vs 1900mAh) Slow mo only records to 3 seconds, down from 5 seconds on the V1 Slow mo quality is not as good - noisier and very slightly softer I like the camera but it is a real shame the new sensor wasn't kept at 10MP and the slow-mo improved. It is a bit of a backward step for high ISOs and slow-mo, which is a surprise.   For bust mode 4K raw it is much better though.   Haven't tested HDMI yet, will be interesting to see if that is clean this time. It wasn't on the V1.   The auto-gain of the screen is still there and you can't turn off the eye sensor on the EVF. Slightly annoying aspects.   Also the manual focus aid only works with CX lenses and even crueler - they take away the exposure meter when you attach a non Nikon CX lens. Fools! You have to use video mode to simulate exposure and take stills in that mode. No problem until you realise it only shoots JPEG in that mode. Pain!

  Listen - 70D will have the same sensor as the 100D according to reports. 700D is the same sensor as the 650D right down to the phase detect AF points on it.

  I'll eat this blog, eat it whole if the 100D's 'new sensor' gives us a significant improvement...And yes the 70D has the SAME sensor as the 100D according to reports. 7D Mark II - I'm expecting it to be slightly behind the 5D Mark III and similar to the Nikon D5200, and therefore not very exciting now we have raw shooting cinema cameras for $3000, and mirrorless cameras like the GH3.

  Innovation is what makes money. Canon's profits are down 42% at the last count. So some plan that is!

  Seriously??