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Great article Andrew, by the way, I didn't follow the recent BM drama but I just want to say thanks for your work on this blog. I don't always agree with you but you've done a fine job over the years and you always give original insight. Cheers.

Yes, I have ML on all my Canon camera, this is great. My point is that they haven't released a final firmware of a recent camera over the past 5-6 years to I have low expectation for the Canon R. This is a turd and I'm not going to buy one hoping that ML may fix it in the future. Because the files are gigantic, because you need to transcode, because the 3.5k raw has crop. It's a great tool to have but not very flexible. And yes, I think we became lazy with the Sony and GH camera.

I don't know why people get so excited about ML. They haven't released any final firmware for years now. The latest stable builds were for the the 5D3, the 6D, the 70D and the 700D... which are 5-6 years old cameras... https://builds.magiclantern.fm/

Exactly, G Master lenses are not exactly affordable neither, the price of the RF 24-105 f4 is identical to the EF version. As much as I hate the Canon R camera there is nothing to write about that... Premium lenses sell for premium price... What vast majority of potential buyers for this lens are only going to take stills. Let's no fool ourselves here, we are a tiny minority of video people.

This place is all about the DSLR/small video camera revolution, carrying a C100 is just not and option for obvious reasons. DSRL video has many advantages: - Small and lightweight, great for travel and low profile stuff (nature, urban, ) - FF instead of S35 sensor (DOF, better low light performances) - Can fit on a small gimbal - Way less expensive than pro camera - Ability to conveniently switch between video and still mode instead of carrying two cameras +1, nothing wrong if people like this camera. Good for them. Everybody has different needs.

Very true. I have experience in the the high tech media industry and the travel industry, I would add: 1. Don't review gears from a company if you are some kind of brand ambassador or sponsored by this company. Seems obvious but I see it a lot... 2. Refuse all these stupid trips, this is plain and simple bribery. 3. Sometime the system can be insidious. Two examples. In the travel industry, bloggers (Instagramer now, people are too lazy to read...) or influencers I should say are invited by agencies. Sure, there is no obligation to write a nice review after a trip or a meal but if you trash the place in your review you can say goodbye to your relation with the agency which owns the market in a city or region. So yeah, these influencers might be independent from the companies but they are deep inside with the agencies. Let's also talk about the NDA. In the PC world, it's becoming a great marketing tool. Some brands like GPU manufacturers like make deal with media. They sign a NDA about a product and then the media can access the product early, but wait, there is more. The multi-stage NDA where the specs are announced over a certain period of time (X specs on july 15, then Y specs on July 30, etc.) so the company secure cheap coverage over an extended period of time. I'm writing for a photo website and we can get gears from a big retailers. It's much better because the retailers doesn't care what we write about it. We just have to put a link of the product in the article directing toward the retailers website.. Finally, the problem goes beyond press. The online influencers are much worst and I see so many people who try to "build an audience" just to get freebees (free trip, free gears, etc) so imagine what they would to for cash... And of course, they never disclose anything.

They screwed up again, it was obvious from the leaked specs and I'm not sure why some people got excited about this camera knowing the horrible track record of Canon. I think, it's time to change the name of this website.

"Due to the crop factor of 1.67 in 4K, we found it a little difficult to shoot on a gimbal with their current RF lens line up, so we’re hoping for a new wide lens in the future. However, wider EF lenses are still an option using the adapter. "

IS from the lens plus digital stab from the sensor (so there is a bit of crop).

I don't have the impression that zebra, peaking or the dozen other little features that Canon never want to give us are straining my camera.

Personally, if Panasonic do a copy/paste of the GH5 but make it full frame that's all I need. A GH5 with nice shallow DOF and ISO performance would be great. I find 8k is useless at this point (and I don't have the space to store all this).

Meanwhile at Sony

I don't think that I ever saw a canon brochure mentioning crop... Basically it's just a mirrorless 5D4.... They fucked it again...

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Personally I really prefer the articulated screen found on the 6DII and the GH5 (except to mount on some gimbal). Why do you prefer the tilted screen? Magic lantern showed multiple times that the Canon cameras can do so much more and I'm not talking about some exotic features that freeze the camera. It's clearing crippling. Let's wait for the final specs of the Canon system but no doubt that they will sell them by truck loads. Why would they bother since people continue to buy Canon?

First it's not about what they can do but what they want to release. I'm curious about the sensor (recycled based on the 5D4 or new sensor with the latest tech?). Then, let's wait for the full specifications. History showed that Canon masters the art of crippling its camera with crop, disabled AF, pixel binning, weird codecs and so on. That being said, if they deliver something decent it will probably sell like hot cakes (me included). Finger crossed.

Fingers crossed but I have a bad feeling...

Nice video, I really like the combo GH + Sigma 18-35mm. Cute lady

Thanks mate I tried to convey a kind of "cold" and mysterious atmosphere because it's Scandinavia. But both the city and people are very charming. .

The beautiful city of Stockholm, capital of Sweden where the day never ends in summer (the Sun sets at 11pm and rises again at 1:30am, there is always light on the horizon). Shot with the Mavic Air and 6D for the timelapse.

4k/30p without crop but DPAF disabled ? #FML

Actually the Mavic Air is very good. Definitely softer than the Mavic Pro 1 but DJI footage is too sharp anyway. The only thing that bothers me on the Air is the noise even at base ISO. You must expose carefully. Here is a video I made with the Mavic Air. Most of the artifacts comes from the youtube compression (and from my flashing grading sometime). Perhaps, as I said earlier in this thread I used the Phantom 3 Pro extensively and I never encountered the image issue I had with my Mavic Pro 1. Both have a 1/2.3" sensor that max out at 60 mpbs so it might be something else. I'm not exactly a pixel peeper but I got rid of the Mavic Pro 1 just a few days after purchase because the footage and "compression" issue was pure garbage.

And from a totally new user. This post should go to the spam folder.. Yeah but then you gonna have to sugarcoat the review to maintain your "preferred" relation with the manufacturer.

Nice overview Andrew. First I must say that I was wrong about DJI since I didn't believe they could implement a one inch sensor camera on a Mavic size drone. That's an amazing achievement. A few remarks: - Range: the radio range depends of the background radio noise and depends of the location. In urban environment the RF pollution limits the range as many wifi and smartphone networks pollute the 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz band which are the two bands use by most drone these days (Autel used the 900MHz before but they stopped due to legal reasons). Also, DJI and Parrot (anafi) limit the power output based on the GPS location of the drone (CE mode is much weaker than the FCC mode) which is why many pilots in Europe can't even reach a 25% of the range of US pilots. There is a way t hack this relatively easily though. Finally, the radio technology plays a big role. I recently review the Parrot Anafi and the Autel EVO and they can't do half of the range of the Mavic Pro. All of them are using 2.4 but DJI OcuSync technology has a much better signal treatment algorithm and noise rejection filter. So you can have big differences even when drones use the same band. - 120fps: I review the Air and Pro and the 120fps is pure garbage. On the Mavic Air the 2.7/60 and 1080/60 crop a lot so we'll have to check that on the Mavic 2. The 4k60 mode on the Phantom 5 is also not as good as the 4k/30. - D-Log: DJI changed their Log curve many times on the Phantom based on the firmware update. D-log consistency is a mess and is often not very good. The Mavic Pro IQ was horrible (i sold mine after a week of use) due to the miserable bitrate and compression artifacts every 6 frames. Surprisingly the P3 video was much better with the same bitrate. - Flight time: all manufacturer lies bluntly about flight time. I reviewed many drones and you can easily remove 20 to 25% of the official value. The Air is closer to 15-16min than 21min. The Mavic is 23-24. Same thing for the Autel EVO. Only the Anafi gets kind of close of the advertised value but not entirely. In the end I bought the Air and I really like it (despite the bad Wifi radio technology and the check gimbal wheel on the controller). I did some great video and the IQ is not that bad. The 100 mbps helps but the lens is much softer than the Mavic Pro which was way too sharp anyway. The only issue with the Air is the presence of noise even at base ISO. Nothing dramatic but it's there. I'll try to get my hands on the Mavic 2.

Thanks. Gimbal Crane for the video and handheld for the hyperlapse with a lot of post-stab in AE.