Andrew Reid

User, hope you have enjoyed EOSHD for the past few years. You're no longer welcome here. I warned you before about the conduct towards Ed. It's because of reactions like yours that more women don't come forward in the film industry and more men don't call eachother out when the hear of alleged wrongdoings.

"The forgotten art of sticking it on a tripod" - BTM_Pix

More to come from this beast!

I'd like to welcome Kazuto Yamaki, CEO of Sigma and the product manager of the Sigma Fp and Cinema lenses, Takuma Wakamatsu to the pages of EOSHD for this long interview! I have recently been shooting with anamorphic with my Sigma Fp - the video you can see above is shot with the Rapido Technologies FVD-16A focus module housing a tiny Bolex Moller 8/19 anamorphic. I have more on this soon, as well as how ProRes RAW performs on the Sigma Fp attached to Atomos Ninja V. Ever since the Sigma embarked on the high quality ART lenses the company's factory has output higher and higher quality products, even industry leading lenses in fact. Now the Sigma Fp marks their entry into filmmaking cameras too with internal 4K RAW recording, external ProRes RAW and even BRAW - as well as being the smallest interchangeable lens full frame camera available on the market. Read the full interview: https://www.eoshd.com/news/the-eoshd-interview-kazuto-yamaki-ceo-of-sigma-and-takuma-wakamatsu-sigma-fp-product-manager/

What about concentrating on the women for a moment. To imply you don't believe them is to throw shade at them - that they must be some kind of psychopath liars, out to destroy their ex-boyfriend... This certainly wasn't my view of Sara or Sarah. Especially the second Sarah when she was working as Bloom's personal assistant / girlfriend, seemed like a consummate, stable, professional to me.

There's only one way to understand the world And that is through the insight of mystics.

That's right. I am a Dp! Also I think you are a great forum member, but also a complete TWAT. Please don't take it personally!

Can I get some tickets for myself, and the entire filmmaking community who are fed up of covering up for other people's bullshit. I have many, many people interested. I was even considering an EOSHD Lecture tour. Unfortunately sales fell flat. Nobody wanted to hear about my 10 years of experiences in the camera industry or even the musical interlude featuring cute little Mr Tiddles with the lyrics "Kitty cat, kitty cat, meow meow meow. Purr purr purr" Surely the musical interlude alone could have booked out the Staples Center?

The 28mm F1.4 AF-D (old legend) ? I tried that. I seem to remember it didn't quite cover but can check again and memory is a bit fuzzy.

The 85mm F1.2L is a work of art on the GFX 100. A thing of beauty. The 55mm F1.2 FD Aspherical as well - it covers. The 50mm F1.2L FD isn't quite there. Too much vignetting and doesn't stand out against other similar fast old SLR 50mm lenses on it. Actually some of the surprising fits are with the Minolta and Voigtlander glass. Some pancake, smaller stuff works surprisingly well. Voigtlander 40mm F2.0 Ultron in EF mount for example. Pentax 43mm F1.9 Limited is nice as well. Gives you the fast 35mm wide angle look on medium format for cheap. Just don't expect the corner sharpness to be as good as Fuji's own GFX lenses for landscapes. You can stop down but there's still a bit of a drop off in the far corners in 4:3. But in 16:9 for 4K filming, it's fine. 85mm and 135mm do tend to go well. Wider than 40mm and you tend to struggle with vignetting. The 24mm F1.4L FD I did try and no luck with that! This is why I think it'd be really nice to have a full frame crop mode in 4K video by firmware update, for the gems like that, and also even a 4:3 anamorphic mode that uses the medium format 16:9 height of the sensor equivalent to how tall the active imaging area is in 3:2 for full frame, but crop the wide sides of the sensor to 4:3 in that mode.

They might genuinely be changing, it might not be dictated by a sponsor... But even so they know it is a well worn click weasel tactic to get attention, they know it full well. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i'm+switching

People please Don't be so naive!! Infamous clickbait ploys... "Selling all my gear" "I'm switching!" And half naked models in so-called "camera reviews"... Is it really that hard to see when you are being diddled?

Better hope a Speed Booster does too. Such a shame they won't put the full frame 8K tech of the EOS R5 in it and let it off the leash.

Vettel's season getting off to a good start... could only get better from then on?? 🙂

Lots of parallels there between the sponsored government content and YouTube. Most people see journalists as independent so when a government message is dressed up as an independent news article by a reporter, it's a confidence trick really. You are having people believe one thing about the source of the info, when the small print actually reveals something else very different. Like with Fro Knows Promo and his marketing units from Canon USA, new firmware pre-installed. It is a sponsored message by Canon pulling the strings, but we're led to believe it's an independent photographer with expert hair. Technically it isn't sponsored so he can get away with no regulation. But the mechanics of it are the same. Close contact between the source and the messenger. Collaborative effort on content. Goods changing hands behind the scenes (or in the Daily Mail's case actual hard cash most likely) and an overall objective to define the message to achieve certain ends - in Fro's case to assure people that overheating is fixed and to make the controversy go away, and to make it seem like Canon has been listening to customers. The thing that pisses me off the most about the Canon / YouTuber stuff is that now the overheating times are so all over the place due to the added variable of measuring the ambient air temperature at unknown points and using it to influence the cripple clock timer in unknown ways - Canon haven't been able to pin down even rough estimated recording times and so haven't put out the new memo. Instead they chose to get the memo out via multiple YouTube shills who all report different numbers to muddy the waters and confuse critics. The classic Dominic Cummings tactic of the OODA loop. https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/brexit-strategy-dominic-cummings-ooda-loop-1-6339099 It stands for Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act. "OODA loop - an idea created in the US military by former Air Force colonel John Boyd as a means of thinking about decision-making in combat - is one of the favourite concepts of everyone's favourite chief strategist, Dominic Cummings. "The concept behind the loop - as detailed over tens of thousands of words in Cummings' extensive blogs - relates to the cycle of decision-making made in combat, but also in politics and other situations. They are Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act (O-O-D-A, or OODA). Each step of the process informs and modifies the others - hence 'loop' - and shapes the next course of action. "The idea for a fighter pilot is based on taking the information you know, the training you have, what your instruments are telling you about the enemy, and feeding all of that into your next manoeuvre. "The faster and less predictable you are, the more you disrupt your opponent's decision-making - their experience is worth less, they have less time to take in information, they don't know how to act. This is what is described as getting "inside their OODA loop" and is supposedly a key to victory." But most importantly Canon are using YouTuber's to get the message out about the new firmware, because the know the drive for clicks and clickbait hype will come ahead of proper testing and scientific analysis, with Fro claiming FIXED with a big SHOCKED FACE when actually the real performance is far from fixed and very variable.

So many work wonders on it, I have been writing stuff down and keeping track of what's good. Would still be great if Fuji put a full frame crop mode in there for 4K as well.

It's Monza next so we may be hearing more swearing in a Northern accent. Northern Italian that is.

In a bad way or a good way? 🙂 I am not denying it. Too simplistic. Clickbait isn't the same. It is a shock and awe tactic to get views and clicks. Marketing is about targeting a product at an audience and making it appealing. You could say that clickbait is selling themselves. But actually there's more to it - the shrill tone, the deception, and the tackiness of it - and to be frank, the sheer ego of it makes it one of the cultural pillars of a collapsing civilisation. We are literally facing a situation where people's selfishness is spreading a virus in a second wave that will bankrupt countries and destroy people's lives in the winter, so none of the selfishness and dumbness that I see on YouTube surprises me because YouTube has always held a mirror up to culture and society.

It's not about YouTube. Some great stuff on the platform. It's about the sick consumerist culture and the sheer ego of social media influencers. It isn't about a technological platform, it's about the culture - especially American culture. And the bullshit. Look beyond the "YouTube" part and look deeper, especially about what it reflects in our current western culture. The dumbing down, the greed and all that stuff. I like MKBHD's channel for instance - and he was very critical of the bullshit marketing machine that roped him into this In the end, people need to make the choice for themselves about what they believe on the internet and who they follow. And the content they consume. I think we could be healthier. To put it mildly! And read more, but watch less.

The sheer ego of it.

Remember the EOS R5 is fixed now. Go out and use it for paid work in 4K HQ!

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Coming up. Had to get some lenses sorted. Cost me an arm and a leg. Also had to work on the X-T4 review in the meantime, which took approximately 80,000 hours. Better be worth it. Sure I won't get a load of negative comments on it afterwards or anything.