Andrew Reid

[html][url="http://www.vimeo.com/38339934"]http://www.vimeo.com/38339934[/url] The Leica M Noctilux which costs $11,000 is a full frame F0.95 photographic lens. The SLR Magic HyperPrime CINE T0.95 is a full frame F0.92 lens designed for cinematographers with Leica M mount which retails for $3,000 – a third of the Noctilux. It is quite a different lens to the Voigltander Nokton 25mm F0.95 for Micro Four Thirds. It covers a full frame sensor and APS-C mirrorless cameras like the Sony FS100 and NEX 7 whilst the Nokton vignettes on anything larger than Micro Four Thirds. I shot the above film on the Panasonic GH2 with Iscorama 36 anamorphic attached to the SLR Magic CINE but I am also using it on my NEX 7 and Fuji X Pro 1. [url="http://www.eoshd.com/content/7439/the-shires-slr-magic-cine-50mm-t0-95-first-look-the-leica-noctilux-for-cinematographers/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]

I like motion blur, 1/30,40,50 all look fine to me. It is only the higher shutter speeds look strobe-like.

That is on the VGA 4:3 MJPEG mode.

What's his shutter speed?

I informed you (Conurus) several times directly before writing about it on the blog. I also asked for a fully working review unit so you have had plenty of time to deal with this. I can only write about what I am shipped as a paying customer like everyone else. The entire first batch was faulty. Not sure how many others are. I didn't design it, did I? The Cinema5D review features an adapter with no felt but updated firmware! What the hell is wrong with Metabones in HK? Do you decide to fix one thing but leave the other a secret, or just decide only to fix it for certain customers, not all of them? I appreciate that both the firmware and reflections are now fixed, but mine isn't. Also these were major problems that the bare minimum of testing would have picked up on way before it shipped. As if the problem isn't bad enough, your first customers have been badly treated. Had I known it any different, wouldn't have needed to post this article at all. I write about what I use.

[html][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/jvc-4k.jpg[/img] Here are some frame grabs from the JVC HMQ10 4K camera which is the first semi-pro 4K camera, that breaks under the £4K mark. The frame size is 3840×2160 and it is the biggest step up in resolution yet seen for video standards. 4K makes the difference between 720p and 1080p seem minuscule! [url="http://www.eoshd.com/content/7425/4k-for-4k-sample-frames-from-the-jvc-hmq10/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]

The point here is that Metabones have shipped in the first instance an adapter that is incompatible electronically with the NEX 7 and 5N, and seriously defective with internal reflections. That is not a minor thing! If anyone is going to fix this thing, Metabones are. Not me.

Don't think they're out yet. Looking forward to the 75!

It's rubbish. Stick to the Olympus lenses - they're good. Forget the cameras, they have lost the plot.

[html][img]http://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/metabones-eos-adapter-nex-7.jpg[/img] UPDATE: [url="http://conurus.com/intro"]Metabones inform me they have fixed the latest adapters with an anti-reflective part. If your adapter suffers from reflections, if yours has any of the issues below, simply contact Metabones and send your adapter back for a service[/url] As if the initial non-functioning firmware with the NEX 5N and NEX 7 wasn’t bad enough, it appears Metabones will have to completely re-design the recent EOS lens to E-Mount adapter. [url="http://www.eoshd.com/content/7415/revealed-metabones-ef-sony-e-mount-adapter-optically-defective/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]

Hey, all that 'shit' (well the video related ones) are in the article above!  :P If those were an issue, why did you buy one?

You must understand what the HDMI output on the GH2 is... It is 4:2:0. If you encode that to ProRes 4:2:2, what do you get? Yes... 4:2:0! Also it is interlaced with dodgy cadence. Not native 24p like internally. Lastly, it isn't even uncompressed. It is 24Mbit via HDMI and up to 170Mbit internally with the hack. Not until HDMI overtakes internal image encoder will it become worthwhile. Yet to see this happen and yet to see any signs that it will do. Internal codecs are so good these days. D800 is interesting on the HDMI front only because inside it is so rubbish. But if it is as poor resolution as the internal soft 1080p is, then 4:2:2 and uncompressed will not give you any extra colour or resolution back because non exists in the first place, from the sensor scaling.

Update to 1.1 official first, just to be safe. That is what I did. I think you can go straight from out of the box to hacked but until I try it myself, that is my advice.

[quote author=MatthewP link=topic=369.msg2373#msg2373 date=1331295289] [quote author=Andrew Reid - EOSHD link=topic=369.msg2362#msg2362 date=1331250014] [quote author=MatthewP link=topic=369.msg2356#msg2356 date=1331243153] Hmm, there's a 1080p version of Mario & Nette on YouTube. The beginning shots look a bit fuzzy, but I think they must have been shot at 720p because the rest is absolutely stunning! The softness isn't noticeable at all - it looks wonderful. [/quote] If it was the same one I saw, it was simply the 540p clip from the Canon site upscaled to 1080p by the YouTube Idiot. It was very misleading! [/quote] This is the one I watched: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrDHEi3z-sY#ws]Canon EOS 5D Mark III: Mario and Nette (original short film)[/url] Definitely not 540p. Look at the details on his sweater. You can tell that it's from the original source at the end as well, where the lenses are shown (too sharp for anything else). It's certainly not as "sharp" as a GH2, maybe not even as detailed either, but it looks VERY cinematic if you ask me, and that's what people want, on the whole, I think. So Canon is delivering on that. [/quote] Dude, it is NOT 1080p. Look at the wide shots and titles. A fine fabric at macro looks detailed no matter what the resolution, be it 540p or 1080p!

I really just care about resolution since the cameras are so close in other aspects. I have crop on GH2 don't need it on full frame really, since it makes noise worse. HDMI on D800 will be only thing that swings it for me. If the image quality through that is better than 5D Mark III it is big news. Unlikely but possible. However, it is a bad omen that Nikon have tried so hard to prevent footage shot via HDMI being out in the open. It is a big improvement for Nikon in video land though. They have clearly taken notice of the reason for such high 5D Mark II sales.

[quote author=Germy1979 link=topic=379.msg2382#msg2382 date=1331322160] I think the 4K Canon is the video DSLR that we're expecting.  The only thing is, will it be as much as a Scarlet?  The other thing is the GH3.  It will take a while, but once that thing is hacked, game over.  ??? [/quote] My thoughts as well. Although the 5D Mark III is a nice evolutionary improvement in a lot of areas, the 4K EOS is the one Canon's loyal customers deserve. I have a feeling it may be out of their hands though, because it will be aimed at RED and priced accordingly. Unless that is, they stick with plans to output to an MJPEG codec which is kind of ridiculous. I get the impression the EOS 4K is a strange product in many ways, because it supersedes the C300 in a stills camera body. If you look at Canon's profit margins on the C300, no sensible business would let that happen!

That's normal. The codec on the GH2 is variable bit rate and it only uses the appropriate amount of data in the stream to support the amount of detail in each frame.

[html][url="http://www.vimeo.com/38009435"]http://www.vimeo.com/38009435[/url] Nikon could steal a few 5D Mark III pre-orders just by putting clearer information out and some sample clips. The Nikon D800 has a few tricks up its sleeve which may improve the soft moire ridden video quality we’ve seen so far from it. [url="http://www.eoshd.com/content/7408/nikon-d800-video-dark-horse-and-the-unanswered-questions/"]Read full article[/url] [/html]

[quote author=mike_tee_vee link=topic=369.msg2361#msg2361 date=1331249945] Even though the GH2's resolution is jaw dropping, I still find myself drifting back to Canon for the colors and tones.  My perfect camera would be a combination of both. [/quote] True I do prefer colour on the Canon DSLRs. 5D Mark 3 looks even better in this regard now, thanks to better codec.

[quote author=MatthewP link=topic=369.msg2356#msg2356 date=1331243153] Hmm, there's a 1080p version of Mario & Nette on YouTube. The beginning shots look a bit fuzzy, but I think they must have been shot at 720p because the rest is absolutely stunning! The softness isn't noticeable at all - it looks wonderful. [/quote] If it was the same one I saw, it was simply the 540p clip from the Canon site upscaled to 1080p by the YouTube Idiot. It was very misleading!

Patches updated. Just minor fixes, like the 720p mode being included in Vanilla. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/gh2-patch-vault]http://www.eoshd.com/gh2-patch-vault[/url]

Regarding in-cam playback. It works  8) You just have to reboot camera after shooting a clip. Shooting then going direct to playback mode doesn't work. This is just how the hack is, for now. Feature of PTools not a fault with the patches.

It isn't any better quality via HDMI than with the hack, so why bother?

[quote author=RichST link=topic=372.msg2340#msg2340 date=1331187156] [quote author=ted ramasola link=topic=372.msg2336#msg2336 date=1331165338] Looking at the stills of the ferris wheel, I saw the resolution of the mk3 similar to what a mk2 would look like with a VAF5d2. Si I think its what canon did to reduce color aliasing and moire, they placed an agressive OLPF. [/quote] Surely not, an OLPF that strong would be unacceptable for stills. I suspect - but certainly can't prove - that they're doing something like 3x3 binning now instead of the old 3x1 binning + skip two lines. That would jive with the reduced aliasing and better low light performance we're seeing as well as the minor differences in resolution. The sensor also looks to be scanning faster which explains the reduced rolling shutter (they didn't double the number of output channels for no reason). All in all these look like simple, common sense improvements, nothing revolutionary but still good to have [/quote] Nice analysis. What trick would you say the GH2 has up her sleeve to get the video resolution it does from a 18MP native chip? What is the next step up from 3x3 binning? My guess is that the GH2's processor is reading out a 4MP or even 8MP 4K image from the sensor and downscaling intelligently to 2MP on the image processor itself. I cannot think of any other way it would be better than so many cameras that do binning on the sensor like the NEX 7, 5D Mark III, Nikon D800, etc.

[quote author=rainman link=topic=372.msg2333#msg2333 date=1331154892] So which way should we go? 5DMII+VAF 5D2 or 5DM3 [/quote] Depends if you need the 5DM3 advantages and have a spare $3500 as opposed to $2500 (with VAF). Advantages are: - Better HDMI for monitoring, no 540p drop nonsense - Sharp corners with wide lenses since no need to fix moire with VAF 5D2 - Better low light performance - Timecode - ALL-I codec and higher bitrates - Reduced rolling shutter - 3:2 screen - Function button near shutter button - Headphone jack - Manual audio controls and meters (without need for Magic Lantern) - Probably better DR Those are off the top of my head, maybe some I've missed. Worth $1000? I think so.