Andrew Reid

Who cares!! The more unique and customised my camera is, the better. Who wants to use whatever everyone else does?

In the YouTube comments “this was the smoothest bloodbath in a while”. On social media slick ninja-like assassins strike again in the middle of the night, and the unfortunate victim always seems to be the Sigma Fp series. In what’s a common theme the original Fp and now the Fp-L, I don’t think many of the social media glitterati get this camera. In the case of Gerald, I don’t think he gave Sigma a fair crack of the whip in at all. New blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/news/why-gerald-undone-is-wrong-about-the-sigma-fp-l/

You'd be better off shooting a crop sensor format with that too. I've tried anamorphic on medium format and it's tricky. You need a very long focal length and the corners are a bit mushy. Check the Mamiya stuff.

The pixel-binned image from the GFX 100 is very good. Not soft, and aliasing not too bad either. One of the best pixel binned images.

Now your username is relevant again 😉

1V was quite a looker...

The EOS 3 film camera was basically cheaper version of the 1v wasn't it? So that should give us a clue.

Canon are expected to announce the mysteriously numbered EOS R3. https://www.eoshd.com/news/development-announcement-of-canon-eos-r3/

You have an anamorphic that covers open gate medium format?!

The Fuji GFX 100S is like a medium format X-H1, with very capable filmmaking abilities. I had a hands-on at FotoMax in Berlin, to find out whether Sony should be worried. https://www.eoshd.com/news/hands-on-with-the-fuji-gfx-100s/

It looks like a firmware bug. Nikon need to fix it and stop passing the buck. I take it the flickering shows up in playback mode in-camera too?

I have not yet found anything as good as the Huawei P40 Pro's RYYB sensor (1/1.28") in RAW mode 8K / 50MP resolution: Click for full res 22MB ACR 80% JPEG: https://www.eoshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/P40Pro8k_IMG_20200731_191137.jpg The Oneplus 8 Pro is good too in RAW. Shooting RAW is the only way to overcome the excessive processing, and usually the RAW files are only saved in the "Pro" mode of an Android phone's camera app. So you need to choose a phone where the Pro mode can launch as the default mode each time and is easy to access. RAW files can be saved with the 5x optics of the P40 Pro as well. The CPU of phones is so good now, you have no trouble editing the 50MP RAW DNG file "in-camera". I use Polarr. Dynamic range is really good in the RAW file but not quite as good as the phone HDR processing is. However, considering that is up there with medium format for dynamic range, the RAW is still on the RX100 1" sensor level for DR.

I'd go for the same LUT on each, then minor adjustments to adjust by eye for each scene.

Yes. Had me fooled for a moment too 🙂

I remember when the first 1" sensor smartphone came out (Panasonic CM1) was around the same time the Samsung NX1 arrived. It's still worth keeping an eye out for on eBay if you want a smart compact camera... https://www.eoshd.com/review/panasonic-cm1-review-part-1-smartphone-first-impressions/ Takes some great shots in RAW mode. In many ways it's still the best sensor in any smartphone for RAW at least. I recently re-bought one for 100 euros.

One way around the NR and sharpening is simply to shoot RAW DNG on an Android phone. OnePlus 8 Pro has the best RAW output I've tried. Sometimes the dynamic range is much more limited vs the processed JPEG though.

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Can you guys also try another Nikon picture profile file on the camera and see if it has the same result? And report it to Nikon so they can update the firmware.

Depends on which mode, not so simple on a phone. The ToF depth map can give you the look of F0.95 on full frame at the touch of a button.

To me it just looks hyper clinical, revealing, digital although it also depends on the photographer and lighting, so we can't blame the phone for everything. She looks better in this one: But this one by all accounts is just a bad shot. Greasy, tired skin and blue cast on her forehead. Granted it is a backlit shot. In this one the camera is clutching onto every last drop of dynamic range and has that HDR puke look in the windows. I just think the PROCESSING dial needs turning down several notches to be honest.

RED Hydrogen had decent colour science. Sony Xperia 1 II has the most natural image I've found so far. The Chinese ones are all an inconsistent mess. The Huawei Mate 40 Pro is the best I've found. But of course the software side is crippled. It's very frustrating. Nobody seems capable of going forwards in a good way. Apple have mucked up their image processing a bit too. Since the iPhone 11 Pro Max they have turned the digital look up a notch, more over sharpening, but real resolution not really going places. I haven't found a reason to switch from my iPhone XS Max. The iPhone 12 Pro Max has a nice sensor but in day to day use it hardly makes any difference. Only with the IBIS on manual settings in RAW does it stretch out a lead... Less noise, pin sharp image at slow shutter speeds in low light. For my main phone I can't switch from Apple to Android especially not without Google Play Services on Huawei. So I stay with Apple for now and use the Mate 40 Pro as a camera only in second jacket pocket!! Is there GCam for it?

It's in-between the 1/1.2" and 1" on this chart, so practically 1" as near as makes no difference. Bit like Canon APS-C is still APS-C even when it is a 1.6x crop vs 1.5x crop. How long before Micro Four Thirds sensor in a smartphone? 🙂

Somebody with a clue about photography needs to walk into the Chinese smartphone manufacturers and tell them how to do things. In 2014 the Panasonic CM1 with large 1" sensor came along and there's been a 7 year wait for another 1" smartphone to add the latest computational photography image processing. The Samsung ISOCELL GN2 in the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra is finally it! There's no doubt about the technical capabilities of this smartphone and that it's capable of some wonderful results (after a bit of grading) as well as 8K. Technically this sensor has every latest development - 50 megapixel, 8K, dual gain ISO readout (per pixel!), Quad Bayer, Dual Pixel Pro AF (split pixels horizontally as well as diagonally!) and more. The phone even has a Time of Flight sensor to assist AF in complete darkness. So why does it look so shit? DXOMark has the full run-down on the Mi 11 Ultra with sample photos. You'd expect with these specs, combining the enthusiast grade Sony RX100 size sensor with cutting edge AI and image processing that smartphone manufacturers would have taken the time to learn something about presentation and optics too. https://www.dxomark.com/xiaomi-mi-11-ultra-camera-review-large-sensor-power/ https://www.eoshd.com/news/xiaomi-mi-11-ultra-with-1-sensor-and-8k-video-gets-reviewed-why-a-technical-marvel-cannot-come-close-to-flattering-the-subject/

Second that!!

It's done. Who wants to beta test it? I'll choose two people out of a hat lottery style that I can trust to give feedback about the settings.