The Chris

I only shoot Sony and M43, electronic adapters and focal reducers are readily available to control EF apertures. YMMV. Sorry, I don't know what organic means when it comes to digital video and I've never seen any quantifiable evidence that lens coatings will impact DR. If you have measurements that demonstrate otherwise, I'd be interested in seeing them. Cheers

Lots of A7s picture profile threads here and on DVXuser. Cine 4 and Autumn Leaves will give you nice results with the full ISO range. Smallrig has lots of rod clamps with threads in between the rods, looks like any generic small ballhead plus a clamp would do the trick. Personally I'd go with a small arm so you can articulate the monitor as needed. IMO the A7s would make a pretty good doc camera, a lens like the 24-105 could cover pretty much anything you'd encounter. I've used mine with the 24-105 for ENG type stuff. Set all your custom buttons to video functions to reduce menu diving. APS-c mode is sharp and extends your lens range. I'd consider one of the Sony XLR mic attachments, you can have two sources of audio if needed, so you don't have to fiddle with swapping plugs with a lav and shotgun. Good luck.

There's a giant Contax Zeiss thread on reduser. The German versions of many lenses show what's regarded as ninja star bokeh while the Japanese versions do not. Something to be aware of, I personally can't stand the ninja star look, so I've always bought MIJ lenses. Supposedly the MIJ versions have updated coatings too. The other drawback for me is 6-bladed apertures on most lenses, Zeiss moved to 8-blades with the ZE/ZF's and many can be found for less than the C/Y versions without worries of internal fungus and dust. They're fine with 36mp stills on the A7r, they're more than up to the task for 4k.

One lens for me would be a standard zoom, 24-70/2.8, the Nikon Bourne f/2.8 zoom, or a good copy of the 24-105L on FF - or the equivalent on smaller sensor. If you're talking one FL, it'd be a 35/1.4 for me.

What this can't do is replicate the movement when you have objects in the foreground because the lens is stationary, so no sliding out from behind objects and such. I think that's what Phil was talking about. With IBIS you can do slider like movements and take advantage of the parallax effect and stay in 4k. I don't think I'd ever use the in cam feature, I'd just go handheld for the better visual or do it in post. Just my opinion.

Sony now includes its medical division in Imaging, Canon, Olympus and others do not. From the report: "In addition, the medical business, previously included in All Other, is now included in the IP&S segment as a result of a change in the Corporate Executive Officer in charge of the medical business. " Those numbers don't look all that great next to Canon. But the SAR guy obviously doesn't bother to read the report, he just goes for clickbait.

I'd be all over a Terra 4k at $2500 with the EF mount. Pair that with the two Sigma f/1.8 zooms and a small lens for gimbal work, damn...

Remember the dot com bubble? Plenty of speculative investment that now isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Canons profits are real, the only people making money off Tesla are traders that bought last year when fires caused shares to nosedive to $140 and are now selling them to suckers at $250. There's nothing in their business plan that says profits are coming in the next couple years, at some point a lot of people are gonna get hosed Bash Canon all you want, but again for the first three months of this year they've made a better profit than Tesla has in its entire existence, and this will be the case for years to come. Cars aren't the endgame for Tesla, it's what goes into them - that's why they've invested far more in the Gigafactory than the auto plant. Theres no shame in admitting you're wrong. Apologies if I've been harsh, but you have no clue what you're talking about.

Electric cars wouldn't even exist if manufacturers weren't forced to by the uptick in government mandated fuel mileage standards. EV's can't even reach 1% of total auto sales, the future isn't inefficient/costly/heavy batteries it's equally large/expensive charging stations, sales figures clearly reflect that. Sales in the U.S. would be far less without a massive tax credit, here they're being propped up by government subsidies. But please show me what EV manufacturer makes a profit selling them? Everyone but Tesla sells them in the U.S. to satisfy CARB mandates, and nobody is selling them at a profit, Nissan and GM have both admitted they're losing money on EV's, and the rest are half assed conversions of petrol cars to get the credit for mileage standards. Tesla is bleeding cash, they burned through about $1.5 billion last year and lose over $4000 on every car sold. I've seen even the future for Tesla, its bankruptcy when the cash reserves runs dry. Cars will quickly become what the Mac is for Apple if the Gigafactory ever reaches capacity, a segment with a small/loyal customer base, but not critical to survival. You read it here first. And Canon is still the first company to produce a 4k DSLR, seems like everyone else is playing catch up.

Tesla is a misguided comparison, and their reports read just like any other, all roses and rainbows despite the fact they can't actually sell cars at a profit. Cars are a money pit, and they likely will never be able to make a profit selling them. To produce them in significant enough numbers to make a profit means a large increase in production costs. Their losses would be much worse if Toyota hadn't essentially gifted them a shuttered factory. Canon has been profitable for over a decade and will still be profitable going forward - they also own about 40% of the digital camera market. Tesla has never made a profit and sells fewer cars in a year than Toyota sells in just two days, they're a tiny niche brand using cars to showcase their battery tech - so they can sell batteries and associated systems to others. They're never going to make a profit selling cars because of economies of scale, development costs are high, when you sell in small volume you don't move enough units to recoup costs. The money is in the batteries - that's why Musk built the Gigafactory. Tesla makes no profit, its selling all its cars at a loss, its burning its cash reserves, and its stock sells for $250 a share. Canon makes a measly $360m in one quarter (more profits than Tesla will make based on forecasts for another couple years) and its trading around $30. I know which stock I would buy (hint - its the one with the better price/earnings ratio). Tesla looks like a dot-com bubble/burst company that will sell off most its intellectual property (cars) to a Chinese conglomerate and just make batteries in a few years. Annual income didn't decrease by 39%, your financial ignorance is detrimental to whatever point you're trying to make. Canon is still the most profitable camera company on the planet, not sure what you're gloating about really other than the inability to read a financial report.

Its always funny to read comments on financial reports from people that fall into one of the following categories: Commenting on the analysis from a website that doesn't understand financial reports Commenting on comments based on the above People too lazy to actually read the reports, and just comment on presser summaries or stories like the Reuters report in the OP People that did read the actual financial report and still don't know what the hell they're talking about Imaging is only about 1/3rd of Canon's overall business model and as it acquires other businesses (such as the Toshiba Medical Division it recently bought) that ratio continues to shrink. As Jimmy mentioned, quarterly reports are just a snapshot of a small period of time, and unless you take the time to read where the cash is going and expenses not related to selling devices (like acquisitions, investments, retiring debt, and so on), along with understanding the impact of the declining Yen - you're talking out of your ass. Canon (like most Japanese companies) is getting hit hard by the way the government is handling the value of the Yen, not long ago the exchange rate of 125y = $1 was considered a crisis situation, Canon is using 113y = $1 in this report. Because some seem to ignore the obvious - Canon reported a profit of over $360 million in its slowest quarter of the year. Imaging sales are down by just over 10% in terms of revenue.

So the standalone version is faster? Thinking about getting FC myself.

Wifi card?

3D grosses have declined over the last few years, accounting for just 14% of the overall grosses in 2014. The market has spoken, the fad is dying. It's a niche market compared to 2d and it's fading, just like those goofy 3D TV's.

3D anything = nauseating and unwatchable for me and many others. This will be a specialty thing at best, like IMAX.

Ambitious, but unless they already have a working beta prototype in final testing right now in order to sort all the image and software bugs, no way it ships this year. Instead of taking deposits to fund development they should have gone Kickstarter, but that would require footage, which means this is probably vaporware at this point. Getting all the hardware and software to properly integrate is no easy task. Blackmagic actually has experience producing cameras and hardware, and they still can't come close to meeting any date. As we've seen, many features are introduced well after release with FW updates. The Bolex guys miss their planned ship date by well over a year after their Kickstarter campaign ended IIRC. And the development process was already well underway at that point. The complexities of getting all the finishing touches right and sorting all the bugs really slowed them down. I think one of the more established players beats them to market in the next year or so - effectively killing this before it's finished.

Do you remember the ISO with any of these shots? There's a real lack of high ISO samples. I love the look, but I'm hoping to see more high ISO shots before taking the plunge.

In the last few weeks you can count the number of 16-50's sold on two hands, hardly a large demand, and a few sold in the $750 range. This will be a $500 lens in 6 months. There's no rush because there are plenty of new lenses available and you can buy brand new ones from Asia where it's still being sold. Some are listed higher, but anyone that pays $1000 for this lens is an idiot. There's no demand because they're easy to find.

That would assume there's a strong demand, which isn't the case. Also, they're still available new in Korea. Prices without new bodies are only going to decline as the NX fades away.

NX is far from being a great system. The NX1 was great, and the S lenses are nice (though large) but the rest of the lens lineup is weird, not very video friendly, with lots of gaps at common FL's and the flashes suck. The other NX cameras fall short of the promise of the NX1. It was a great start, but not much of a system.

Thanks, even just frame grabs would be cool. The Cinema 5d review says it gets messy above ISO 1000. I haven't been able to find higher ISO demos.

Any chance you can post something through the ISO range to judge noise? Any overheating? Also any chance you could post something showing focus tracking? I'm so close to getting one and just attaching a Z-finder to it like I did with the 5d2/3. Thanks in advance.

You need a dual channel system with a receiver that accepts two signals at the same time, sorry I missed that one as well. You have fewer options, this is what B&H carries: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?atclk=Receiver+Type_Dual-Channel&ci=15419&N=4291086004+4293345056 If you need more you'll need additional systems. When I shot news we had two of the Azdens on each camera, so 4 people could be mic'd up at the same time.

Two new Blackmagic cameras that will feature amazing specs and "will ship in August." I'm already mentally prepared to preorder and then wait for a year for it to actually ship based on previous experiences.

Been using the Sennheiser ew100 G3 for the last few years, got the lav, the handheld and the handheld adapter, all are great with the XLR plug or the 3.5mm straight into the cam.