Andrew Reid

End of an era! The historic photographic industry exhibition Photokina is over. Management blame the decline of the camera industry, and couldn’t even organise a show for 2022 (by which time it is expected the pandemic will be under control). This news is extremely sad, and hardly satisfactory that the camera companies and Photokina management couldn’t work something out. Here’s what the exhibition space CEO had to say on the situation: https://www.eoshd.com/news/photokina-show-terminated-after-70-years/

Our buddy is on the money again I think they are doomed! And not just in the camera business https://www.eoshd.com/news/nikon-facing-serious-crisis-in-chipmaking-as-well-as-camera-business/ But in the key lithography business, they are about to lose Intel who account for up to 90% of sales. Nikon lost half a billion USD so far this year, which is absolutely massive. Just at a time they need to invest big to save the lithography and camera business, update their tech, etc. NOT GOOD!!

New blog post https://www.eoshd.com/news/pro-camcorder-ergonomics-are-overdue-a-big-change/

I am going to do a comparison soon. Any other suggestions for tests welcome. https://www.eoshd.com/news/does-dual-native-iso-on-the-panasonic-s5-beat-the-sony-a7s-iii-in-low-light

The RX1R II on the other hand is a bit of a bargain. Grab one if you find it for under $1500.

Hopefully it'll be down to it's real price of £2000 on eBay in a about a year. I like the design and the image quality, great lens, ergonomics look nice. But the marketing people doing the Android bit and the price are as incompetent as it gets.

A terrible failure. Could have been so good! https://www.eoshd.com/news/priced-to-fail-and-shackled-to-adobe-the-zeiss-zx1/

Meh https://www.eoshd.com/news/sony-fx6-is-here-but-will-you-still-have-a-job-to-go-with-it/

That's the big question isn't it... The 8GB is shared between GPU and CPU. It is probably enough for everything but 8K RAW editing. https://www.eoshd.com/news/apple-m1-crushes-intel-beats-6000-mac-pro-2019-and-10-core-intel-i9-macbook-pro-16/

My take on the benchmark results: https://www.eoshd.com/news/apple-m1-crushes-intel-beats-6000-mac-pro-2019-and-10-core-intel-i9-macbook-pro-16/

Ah scrub all that. Buy one. I've just seen the benchmarks!

I am expecting 3x to 8x better performance in video editing apps over Intel at same class of CPU. The M1 is a ultrathin laptop CPU, so it will be 3x to 8x faster than an Intel ultra thin laptop CPU. Whether it will be faster than a top of the range Intel laptop CPU or iMac remains to be seen. I would get the M1 Mac Mini from amazon and return if it doesn't perform better than what you have. They are likely to be hard to get hold of anytime soon though. Stock issues. Also the GPU brute force processing power matters less, as there's a lot of custom silicon in there to take the weight off it and accelerate NLEs. Resolve 17 worth a look too, as that benefits from the M1. ARM is definitely the future for desktop CPUs and high-end. Intel will be stomped on and PCs will lose their edge to Apple in the medium term. Apple has been the only one willing to move the architecture on in a significant way. Maybe keep an eye on the first real-world performance reviews of the M1 in FCPX?

Read my take on it here... https://www.eoshd.com/news/down-the-rabbit-hole-view-the-youtube-front-page-as-others-do/ View the YouTube front page as others do: https://www.their.tube

Great that YouTube is finally in 4K in Safari. Not in the same version of Safari on Catalina however.

Is there any real difference between Safari 14 in Catalina vs Big Sur? Same version in both isn't it!

Looking for reports, from those who've been brave enough to update. The new icons are terrible by the way 🙂

That thing could have run and run. It is a shame it was a one off. Maybe we should organise our own!! After the global plague that is.

New blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/apple/apple-m1-promises-full-quality-8k-prores-playback-in-davinci-resolve-17-without-dropping-a-single-frame/

Here is a new series on EOSHD... It's a podcast. The aim is to put out long 1-2 hour conversations, in the style of Joe Rogen - touching on subjects others dare not, sort of. Oh and some camera nerd talk as well... https://www.eoshd.com/news/the-eoshd-podcast-episode-1-british-filmmaker-jg-harding/ Hope you enjoy it, and thanks to JG for taking part in this episode.

And it's out... Download it from here - https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

Thanks for the explanation. It's a 50MP Quad Bayer sensor in the phone, almost 1" size. Quad Bayer can use Dual ISO in one exposure, the pixels at different exposures are merged in the 12MP shot. Also it is RYYB. The yellow diodes let in more light than traditional Green ones with bayer sensors. Then there is neural network and AI processing side. And probably a very high speed readout in some modes with multiple frame merges. Smartphones are leading the way for camera technology at the moment.

Well it does excel in quite a few departments. Full frame 4K/120p from a full pixel readout is unheard of at the moment from anything else this size or price. The autofocus is pretty much leading the way. The low light capabilities are also class leading. The weaknesses are few and far between. I've not been a huge fan of Sony lately, but credit where it's due.

It's been a long wait for the Sony A7S III. Maturity takes time. 5 years for Sonys cameras to develop into tools that feel like cameras. I never had the inspired feeling picking up a clinical Sony before. However the A7S III is a huge improvement... at a price. New blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/news/sony-a7s-iii-first-impressions/

Yes it does all the tricks on the fly. Video dynamic range is very similar to the stills mode. Doesn't shoot hybrid LOG gamma like the Xperia 1 II though.

The medium format level dynamic range seems to extend into portrait / aperture mode as well on the P40 Pro Plus... which is very unusual for a smartphone. The depth map computations AND the multiple frame merges all done at once in a fraction of a second. Here's the result...