Andrew Reid

Yes there's something wrong there. Please post your full settings so I can diagnose. Hack settings, camera settings and your workflow - Premiere, FCP settings, etc. Let me know if you need any help, and post on this thread. Sorry to see such a beautiful shot with this weird issue!

Long lenses and a lot of wind.

[img]http://www.eoshd.com/comments/uploads/inline/1/5048accb77bb6_nex5ncoldshoe.jpg[/img] Just got some of these 'cold shoes' from Wide Open Camera so I can mount stuff like the Zacuto EVF onto the hot shoe like on other cameras and have a really small B-camera to my FS100. Also useful for my Rode video mic! Feel that the quality is good - it is not plastic but anodised aluminium and feels very solid. http://wideopencamera.com/products/ Check out the lens gears and vari-NDs too. I have the Lighcraft workshop vari-ND from WOC as well and it is a big step up from the cheap eBay ones for not actually much more dosh! [img]http://www.eoshd.com/comments/uploads/inline/1/5048acdccc757_nex5ncoldshoe2.jpg[/img]

[quote name='Mei Lewis' timestamp='1346919218' post='17428'] Your diagram and the sentence: Is wrong. The C300 has a _larger_ sensor than the Black Magic. You're getting confused about resolution, sensor size and what 'crop' means. Similarly your resolution comparison is flawed - of course the Black Magic shows more details, you've effectively used a longer lens. [/quote] So so wrong! On so many levels.

[quote name='Samuel H' timestamp='1346916816' post='17425'] oh, the joy of shooting RAW!!! with the BMC, a better demosaic algorithm can get rid of that moire (better in the sense that it's geared towards reduced moire, instead of towards maximum detail) and if said better algorithm is released six months from now, you'll be able to apply it to the RAW footage you shoot today [/quote] Correct.

[quote name='peederj' timestamp='1346908072' post='17418']The RAW conversion both in-camera (for ProRes etc.) and in post can be improved to suppress false color, correct green clipping, etc. But I applaud BMD for allowing the real state of their camera to be visible prior to delivery.[/quote] Yes this is a great point, you can easily suppress the false colour in post because it is a raw codec.

MacBook Pro retina display and Dell U2711 are widely available, I can only see more displays coming out at the 2.5K mark in computer-land. You can download the full 2.5K file from Vimeo. YouTube supports 2.5K and above. Vimeo doesn't stream in higher than 1080p. But I don't tend to judge image quality from a streaming 7Mbit compressed web clip any way. When I'm shooting I'm not really thinking about weather people use a 1080p display or a 2.5K one, I just want the best image quality for me.

As far as DSLRs and mirrorless cameras go, the GH2 is as good as it gets for aliasing. You won't find better. In the Ex Tele mode you do get less aliasing, but more noise. You need to be shooting at ISO 160 in that mode. But it is superb for the telephoto end of things compared to the FS100. And yes I do see your point about the FS700 and Super 35mm (let alone full frame) being more challenged at the very extreme telephoto length. This is a little comparison test shoot in Derbyshire with the 5D Mark III, NEX 7 and GH2 but at the end around 1 minute in you will see what a 300mm lens looks like in Ex Tele mode, it is quite incredible. And holding it steady was a lot easier than going to 800mm on Super 35mm. http://vimeo.com/39509327 Do you have a frame grab of the kind of aliasing you are seeing in your GH2 footage?

[url="http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/c300-vs-blackmagic-cinema-camera.jpg"][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/c300-vs-blackmagic-cinema-camera.jpg[/img][/url] The Canon C300 produces a very clean 1080p image from a 4K sensor. How does the Blackmagic Cinema Camera compare in raw mode?

It is officially shipping now but by limited they may mean just to the beta test team, who knows! http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagiccinemacamera/ Scroll to the bottom of the page. Blackmagic Cinema Camera = 'Limited shipping'

Slow-mo is not a cheap trick at all in my book! And yes works superbly in nature documentaries. I don't see how the big sensor in the FS700 is a disadvantage, you can still use a very long lens on it and stop down for more manageable focus. The FZ200 could be interesting for wildlife shooting... Small chip and 720/120fps for the price of a middle of the range laptop. And 600mm F2.8 optically stabilised.

Don't take this personally Stephen but you really need better optics, and here's why... The 14-42mm looks crap, it is F3.5 at best. May as well get an EX3 and go back to small chip. You will be shooting ISO 800 in doors with this and still be under exposed, noise everywhere... You need faster glass. Nikon 18-55 is designed for APS-C, it is neither very wide or very long on the GH2 so I don't see the point of that either, another slow lens aperture wise too. Canon 500mm F4.5L is incredibly expensive - you do realise you can put a 300mm F4 Zeiss on there for £300 don't you? And use crop mode to enable the equivalent of 1380mm - at F4? How is 70Mbit i-frame sub BBC-spec? They allow 50Mbit 4-2-2 long GOP! Anyway I couldn't give a crap about the BBC broadcast specs frankly. If I was shooting for the BBC I'd buy a C300 and be done with it. Zzzz. What does it have to do with CINEMA?

I'll be trying this first. It is like the nice FS100 battery, lasts for hours but very compact and can screw onto the base or a cage. [url="http://www.switronix.com/products/batteries?page=shop.product_details&category_id=39&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=86"]http://www.switronix...l&product_id=86[/url] They do it for the BMCC as well as DSLRs. They also do a BMCC mounting plate for V-lock batteries.

Probably more down to scaling of the sensor and compression.

In England we call Australia 'Oz' :) It is my slang and I decide how to spell it :) The Blackmagic camera is a good camera in that it gets the hell out of the way and lets the DP have the final say. Who wants all this onboard processing and all these fiddly buttons? Not me!

Those lenses are very ill suited to the GH2. You should try the Olympus 12mm F2, Voigtlander 25mm F0.95, Olympus 45mm F1.8 and Zeiss 85mm F1.4. Aliasing? What video mode are you in? Maybe it is being introduced in your workflow.

[url="http://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/1255-shipping-thread-blackmagic-cinema-camera/#entry17476"][b]Scroll down to here for latest update[/b][/url] This is the thread to post your updates related to shipping here. If you get news from a dealer, or if you phone up - let us all know. [b]My current shipping update[/b] CVP retail unit - no firm date yet. Number 7 in line. Rumoured first batch contains 30 cameras. IBC shipping announcement rumoured from 6th. So hopefully an update on this will come soon. Blackmagic - Demo units were allocated to beta testers since late August, not for marketing reasons. The beta test program is very small. At my count there are around 10 cameras out there. Major sites such as Gizmodo, Engadget and DPReview are not beta testers so don't have a camera yet. Joshua Helling (Director of World Wide Support) and John Brawley (main beta tester and DP) said on the 31st August the camera was 'shipping to dealers' but in small quantities. However 1 week later (Sep 5th) no dealer is prepared to give shipping date to customers, or have yet taken delivery of stock. Blackmagic's CEO Grant Petty says they want to hear beta tester feedback before shipping. As the beta testers only got their cameras at short notice at the end of August it is unlikely this feedback is on Grant's desk yet. It could be that the beta test feedback will be considered before shipping ramps up. Hopefully dealers are taking the spotlight provided by IBC on the 6th to flick the switch and ship their just-recieved stock to the first customers in line.

[quote name='beneos' timestamp='1346783964' post='17311'] I've spent the last week reading as much as I could about micro four thirds cameras, and it looks like many people are trumpeting MFT as the "death of DSLR" or at least a viable option. Since I'm on the prowl for a new SLR, the MFT cameras - GH2 in particular - is making me think twice about going with a Canon/Nikon. But is MFT really that great? I have some issues/questions:[list] [*]The cameras appear to be smaller and made of plastic, i.e., cheaper. Yet they don't cost consumers any less. [*]MFT sensors are about half the size of the new consumer level Nikon D3200 (full frame). How can this NOT be inferior? - at least for stills? [*]Lens focal length and aperture are double that of 35mm film cameras, so a 45mm f/1.8 is effectively a 90mm f/3.6. To get 2.8 aperture, you need to buy an f/1.4. [*]Lenses are smaller and plastic and look like toys. The optics are WAY smaller. So they're probably a lot cheaper to manufacture. Yet the price is not cheaper. For example, the Olympus 85mm 1.8 is more than twice the price of a Nikon 85mm 1.8D. Not a fair comparison, you might think - well, there isn't a 42mm 1.4, so the closest I could find is a Fujifilm 35mm f/1.4 for $600. Doesn't anyone else have misgivings about laying down $400 for a little plastic prime lens? For just over $100 you can get a killer Nikon 50mm 1.8. [*]Optical viewfinders are rare on MFTs (and they'd be rangefinders), and electronic viewfinders will always suffer latency - perhaps not an issue for video, but would be for still photography. [/list] So the words that sum up the physical characteristics of a MFT system are[list] [*]Small [*]Plastic [*]Toylike [*]Expensive [/list] Smaller lens diameters and smaller sensors would seem to be more susceptible to dust and imperfections. I don't know - just hypothesizing. I've read that, for video, the GH2 has some magic that makes it on par with high end DSLRs. But still photographs are almost but not quite as good - from what I've read. Has anyone ditched their DSLR for MFT? These are the questions and concerns I have about micro four thirds. This isn't a list of gripes - just some things I've read. I haven't even SEEN a GH2 with my own eyes, but I've seen some of the other mirrorless cameras. So all this is just a synopsis of what I've read on the web. I'd like to hear from you people who know more than what the Oracle can provide. Thanks! - and I hope the above doesn't rile anyone. Just looking for opinions. B [/quote] Very good post, because it really sums up the problems Micro Four Thirds has in terms of marketing and battling the misconceptions of the consumer. 'Bigger is better'. No it isn't. I chose a OM-D E-M5 for stills because I can carry 3 fast primes in a Think Tank holster, and the weight is far less as well. 'D3200 is full frame'. APS-C is a 1.6x crop over full frame. Micro Four Thirds is 2x crop, or 1.86x on the larger GH2 sensor. 'Plastic'. This entirely depends on the model, you can't say all Micro Four Thirds cameras are plastic - if you look at the build of the DSLRs for the same price, they're mostly poor too. It is true that the Lumix stuff have used a lot of plastic but I generally think Olympus have been above average with their PENs. Depends on the model. OM-D E-M5 is weather sealed and a metal body. GH3 will be magnesium alloy and also weather sealed. Regarding the construction of the lenses, the cheap Canon 18-55mm and 50mm F1.8 EF have some of the lowest build quality on the market today, date back several years in their technology - and the lowest price as a result. Micro Four Thirds lenses are more expensive because they are generally better optically as well as in the technology they contain. Even the most basic 14-42mm on the GF / GH cameras is more advanced than the equivalent Nikon or Canon kit lens. Panasonic introduced silent AF motors first, as well as continually variable silent iris, and other innovations. Try a 18-55mm in live view on a Canon 600D and see how fast the focus is versus the 14-42mm on a GF3 or PEN. Aperture, in terms of brightness is F1.8 regardless of sensor size. The depth of field calculations I have always ignored, because I am happy with the amount of depth of field control I get on a Micro Four Thirds sensor. To say you can't get a very shallow DOF on Micro Four Thirds is not right! For stills I ditched my DSLR for a G1, back in 2008. The live view experience, EVF, articulating screen were all factors in that as well as the more compact size. The more adaptable lens mount got me into buying Canon FD primes on eBay for small prices, yielding superb results at F1.4 over the much slower kit lenses. I digress... It is video we're interested here. If it is the high quality stills you want, yes I agree there is still some merit in a DSLR. But there are merits for stills in a Micro Four Thirds camera as well, so it is not about which is better rather which is better suited to you.

I heard about S-Log becoming a free update, not sure if that is for all territories though. Still for sale on CVP here http://www.creativevideo.co.uk/index.php?t=product/sony_cbk-rgb01 Anything below $1000 is [i]very[/i] good for a 4K firmware update.

[img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/DSC03036-660x439.jpg[/img] Today I was at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. Sony had the FS700 to play with. Asking about the 4K update - I was told that by Sony insider (not a sales rep) there are two external recorders already on the market that will work with the camera in 4K mode by Aja and Sony. Sony have no plans to restrict 4K output to their own external recorder(s), and that is the first bit of good news...

[img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/gh2-in-a-heli-rig.jpg[/img] There's a lot to chew over in the latest GH3 specs. EOSHD takes a look point by point...

Here it is guys. First little patch is to change the Japanese menus to English. http://www.nex-hack.com/topic/1114-language-modification-firmware/ The patcher tools for the NEX 3, C3, 5 and Alpha A55 can be downloaded from that page. Good to see he is progressing well even though it is VERY early days in the project yet. Remember how long it took the GH1 hack to mature, and be patient!

[quote name='avrofilmvideo' timestamp='1346709723' post='17255'] That's right..youngsters Off to School.. TADA have to go now-time to make some $$ [/quote] What you will never hear [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy"]Banksy[/url] say :) And yet he's one of the most respected artists in the world today. Maybe all these money obsessed filmmakers need to go to school as well. Or at least art class.

Yes daddy camera man. We shall toddle off to school now. To learn about our crushed blacks on a 12bit raw camera and highlight clipping on 13 stop dynamic range. I think you've been watching too much of John's footage streaming at 7Mbit over Vimeo and not enough of the CinemaDNG raws in DaVinci.

It began shipping August 30th Jeff. Enjoy your breakfast tomorrow of the letters S, T, U, F, F, and U, brought to you by sesame street and the rubber ducky