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  1. I could be wrong, but the dynamic range difference between the GH5 and S1 doesn't seem that much actually. The S1 and S1H have great highlight rolloff though. I wish someone would do a credible dynamic range test of the 2. I agree. The GH6 should have atleast 1-1.5 more stops of dynamic range. That will make it a seriously formidable cinema camera. And they could add a Compressed RAW for another $299. It will have way lesser rolling shutter and overheating issues than a full frame camera.
  2. I hope Panasonic releases the next GH camera, worthy of this Netflix list.
  3. I don't think Jim has any health issue. He probably shared some of Lance Amstrong's strong portion. And it has made them both happy high.
  4. Hopefully the RAW patent will be a lost suit, and RED will miraculously turn honest, and work towards a wider reach for its products. RED could never have succeeded with Hydrogen because it attempted to beat Apple and Samsung at a game they themselves are losing. Also to assume that last generation smartphone sensors and processors can equal or beat much larger cameras was ludicrous to begin with. Smartphone Sensors and Computational Photography will improve substantially in 2020. Also I am guessing if RED loses the compressed RAW suit, the chances of smartphones moving from the present 10-bit 422 to compressed RAW is also pretty high.
  5. "... greater image quality, at even higher ISOs, with the ability to capture stills in 10-bit using the HEIF (High Efficiency Image File) file format. HEIF produces wider dynamic range and greater color representation compared to JPEG. The power of 4K resolution brings stories to life – shoot 4K videos including 4K60p with 10-bit 4:2:2 Canon Log internal recording." Finally 4-2-2 10-bit and at 4k60p. And improved lowlight. No mention of 6k though. And newsshooter.com says that Canon mentioned internal RAW (though knowing Canon, one should probably take that with a pinch of salt). No mention of 6k.
  6. Interesting. The story could be a little stronger, maybe with references of her fears as a new mother, of what kind of fearand why, before the ghost makes an appearence.
  7. The iPhone has seriously exaggerated colours and which are quite off, as well. I don't even consider their photos acceptable. Other low light cameras don't have this problem. The portrait mode is fine by smartphone standards. The problem is when you see the photos on a larger screen (larger than a smartphone size), the quality suddenly looks rubbish and the colours seem very disappointing. The same applies for video. Everything looks like 480p or worse.
  8. Smartphones in the last 3 years or so have improved tremendously in dynamic range, colour accuracy and lowlight (and extremely easy to use and quick to snap away). The last and final frontier is detail and actual resolution. Once smartphones resolve as much as 20MP M43 cameras, I doubt whether we could need anything else to complain. They will also, then, replace much larger sensor cameras.
  9. IMHO, a University degree is ONLY sensible for certain kinds of jobs, like a lawyer (Solicitor or Barrister), investment banker, engineer etc. And TBO, the degree does nothing even in those jobs, but employers are as stupid as employees and judge you solely on your university degree and your internship jobs (neither of which are truly proof of anything). For filmmakers, while the information and hands on is decent in university education, the price of the education could help you produce a few low budget Indies of your own. And you could learn almost every from YouTube and online resources (many of them free or at very low costs). Plus, it always helps to meet and collaborate with filmmakers on free gigs like short films, and gradually start moving up the ladder to larger ones and paid gigs. Also, since filmmaking is a group effort it is super important to have the right team. Most filmmaking education is way too expensive (as is every college education, to be fair).
  10. sanveer

    Panasonic GH6

    He said in a Lumicetoo. It could be the S1H successor too. Though, that could send Panasonic to the cleaners, IMHO.
  11. Minor improvements. Mostly boring.
  12. Actually Yuneec is throwing in a 7inch controller with the thing, which I am guessing they are charging a few hundred dollars for (along with the leica name and the 6 rotors). I downloaded the photos from the site (from the link below) and they seem quite impressive. I am looking forward to a comparison with the Mavic 2 Pro, since both are 20MP and have similar feature sets (if not necessarily price). http://files.yuneec.de/Typhoon-H3/ION L1 Pro Picture Modes.zip
  13. Would love to see the Yuneec Typoon H3 in the form factor of the Mavic 2 Pro. The leica association seems to make it quite interesting, and the log and 10-bit seem to suggest great video quality. A small form factor will ensure that prosumers buy this in greater numbers.
  14. I saw this too, yesterday or the day before. But, Curiously, there is very little or insufficient information regarding the drone, except the press release. The only footage seems to be the timelapse, and that too provides no indication of anything. Also, how large is this drone. Is it even pocketable. Does it fold quickly and small?
  15. The sensor, though seems to do 8k in the 17:9 format (at over 30 frames). If it were Quad Bayer, it could have wider dynamic range. Though for photos, it would probably do some upressing trickery like quad bayer smartphone cameras do.
  16. Except the fact that neither in 17:9 nor in the 4:3 aspect does the sensor do 60fps. Which means that it reads slower than the GH5 (obviously because it has double the resolution). Though it does seem to have multiple options of changing frame sizes so maybe it can have windowed 4k 60p or even windowed 4k 120p (or even higher). It also doesn't have 14-bit RAW, something which I feel could make the photo quality of M43 better, especially in the editing room. It does seem interesting indeed, for a sensor though, and I am sure it has a lot of other tricks up its sleeve.
  17. I don't know why, but RED's history and behaviour make me draw parallels with Lance Armstrong, arguably the most disgraceful sportspersons (if he can be called that), in the history of sports. How he bullied everyone, lied, took drugs by the truckloads, manipulated things etc.
  18. This guy is brilliant. He has already brought Red to its knees. Sony and Apple should hire him for sending Red to the cleaners wrt their fake patents. I noticed he has a gofundme campaign, and I would love to contribute. Anyone who believes in honesty and fighting off the evil behemoths and corporate super bullies, should help him too. In whatever little way. This is truly the modern age David vs Goliath story.
  19. Would 8-bit RAW be noticeably better than 10bit 4-2-2? Even for post work? Yes. Hopefully some good compressed RAW formats soon. Uncompressed, the file sizes could be way too large.
  20. "In the brochure at IBC the Fp was listed as shooting 4K 10bit RAW internal to UHS-II SDXC card but this has since dropped to 8bit to get the data-rate under what the card can sustain." Out of curiosity, what exactly is this (megabit data) range? I suspect that there is unfortunately no compressed RAW on the FP, which probably means that it is Huge, at every bit depth (8, 10 and 12). Also 8-bit RAW is pretty interesting and I don't know anything camera that shoots 8-bit RAW. Wouldn't the advantage of 8-bit RAW be inexistent, if at all, over hight qualities of ProRes 10-bit (ProRes 422 and ProRes 422 HQ)? @Andrew Reid your suggestions and feedback to Sigma is pretty interesting. Right now it seems like a very early (non fully functional) prototype and they should listen to ad much customer feedback and they can. Uncompressed RAW would be a monumental disaster with a camera this size and with this feature set (even REDs would have enormous file sizes with uncompressed RAW). The ZCams have ProRes to make their cameras extremely usable (in terms of file size). Sigma could do immensely with various flavours of ProRes (or BRAW, though I think Blackmagic won't be allowing anyone else to use their codec on their cameras), and having better storage and a lower price point.
  21. Panasonic cameras have that new Composite image function where it merges many photos into a single images, showing movement with its main subject within the frame. The issue with that is thaybrje background has to be extremely still and anything moving in the background makes image look extremely strange. There appears no reason why smartphones can't do it, though I would call Apple's bluff on it, for the moment. I expect Goggle to come out with such an algorith first, mostly because its surveillance/spying abilities for technology are second to none
  22. Somehow the Quad Pixel idea (and especially that Along With the multi frame HDR) seems like a better idea than regular multi frame HDR (or even multi frame low light). By shrinking the pixel size, we get the advantage if both wider dynamic range, as well as better low light, and most importantly, we get none of the regular motion blur associated work combining multiple frames. I am guessing that the present Snapdragon processors aren't equipped to handle the full potential of the Quad Bayer pixel sensors, atleast not for the moment.
  23. Exactly. It shows 4 screens including the selfie camera. And then you have the option of choosing 2 for recording the video on. iPhone events add too much of hype. That's their raison d'être I guess. Each time they have a smartphone, they make it seem like the Alexa or Medium format has become redundant.
  24. Matt did say its non mass production (I am guessing it would cost 50-100k to buy one of these, IF not more). So while it could replace high end cameras apparently, its price would be prohibitive.
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