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Should we start a petition for Canon to make a consumer Medium-Format video-centric ILC? Some would argue that if we're going to dream then we should dream BIG!

Here's the review: The shot at 6:57 of him in slow-mo with the light of a single match is just incredible!! Footage reminds me of the Canon 5DIII ML RAW 14 bit from @kidzrevil in places. Just lovely. Are people anticipating the Pocket 2 to have IQ like the T4K? and to all the people who think you don't need good IQ for home videos - see the lovely shot at 8:12

Filmic Pro has a couple of flat profiles, but not sure if it works on iPad. Be warned they don't work for higher frame rates - I think only at 24/25/30? oh, and the profiles are an add-on purchase on top of the app price.

Around the 50,000 images mark I did a bunch of analysis in LR using the metadata from the photos I'd shortlisted to understand more about what equipment / settings worked for me. One of the insights I gained was that when in nature I tend to want a wider lens as it's nice to be able to show landscapes and also do more environmental portraits when people were in them, for example when I went to Vanuatu the 14mm (28mm equiv) lens almost didn't leave the camera. However, when you're in a city where there is stuff everywhere and is very busy (in a visual sense) you're more likely to want to isolate things during the day with a longer or faster lens, and at night you often want to do wider landscape shots, or if you're shooting people at night a faster lens is nice. I ended up with a setup that consisted of: smartphone camera for wide and during the day (when there's lots of light so ISO performance isn't a problem) or for nocturnal city-scapes of the lights nicer camera with a long zoom for cities during the day and a fast medium lens for people at night In terms of what I would suggest for anyone else, if you're taking a smartphone with an acceptable camera then you could use that for wider shots where shallow DOF is less important and choose a fast mid-length prime for the people and isolation shots. I'd question your statement about F4 not being fast enough for night shots - the A7III has better low light performance than any camera I have could even dream of! Plus you mentioned a lighting kit.. I think it really depends on what you're shooting and the style you're going for - there are street photographers that use 24mm or even 20mm

Someone recommended this YT guy in the a6300 thread and I saw these two videos - very useful! I know people aren't fans of Sony menus, but some of that stuff is ridiculous!

I agree that it's not a 'swap out' replacement for any/many cameras, but it would be a great 'instead of' camera.. ie, instead of buying a budget-model RED you get 4K RAW for cheaper, or instead of using a full DSLR rig on full manual you get a camera with hugely better IQ. I thought someone said it didn't have AF-C (only AF-S) but when I searched I couldn't find anything and the BM website only says it will have autofocus, but doesn't say more. Do we know if it will AF-C? I've seen Sony vloggers manual focus by holding the camera just under their chin, holding out their arm with fingers outstretched and focusing manually on them before recording a selfie-shot. If you're using a Sony on MF, and of course without a flippy screen, then apart from IBIS that's probably the same functionality as the Pocket 2. I can't imagine vloggers taking to 4K RAW (or high-bitrate prores) in great numbers though. LOTS of vloggers tried 4K and then when it took them 4 times as long to edit and upload went back to 1080. Some will use it, mostly those who already have a RED or similar in a studio setup, but that's not a big market, to say the least.

Thanks. I asked because I randomly watched a YT review of one just the other day and the guy was using a super vintage lens with swirly bokeh for a portrait stills session and the AF-S was quite impressive. It wasn't lightening fast, but it was still perhaps half-a-second and it was obviously phase detect because it just went from where it was to the focus point and pretty much stopped dead, no hunting or anything. Considering the lens was completely manual it was really quite surprising.

Really? I haven't visited Korea - yet! I notice that people in most big cities seem to be less bothered than where I live, which is not big, either in population or mindset.. I looked at that and thought "if only!"

Included in the intro is "so this is based on that instagram TV update that everyone is excited about" This guy does heaps of tutorials for editing and especially breaks down heavy video processing from music videos and the like. I'd say he's probably hooked into the trendy end of the independent film-maker segment with people who make less traditional media.

BTS of how Brandon Li films. Relevant to the fact he's shooting without permission, a crew, etc. He's still a million miles away from how I shoot.. he can do multiple takes - luxury!!

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I put -1 against my previous comments and replace them with agreeing with the above. This is completely it. Hi-fi used to mean something back in the day but now it's taken over by mediocre (and occasionally very poor) equipment providers and is now basically a marketing term. People that used to do hi-fi now either don't use that phrase anymore, or have replaced it with 'high-end audio' or 'ultra-fi' due to the inflation in the term. Hi-fi used to mean a minimum level of subjective quality across a range of different aspects of sound reproduction, and there were a few things that the technology of the day were weak on, one of which was frequency response. Then what followed was an arms-race of sorts to get the widest and flattest frequency response, but unfortunately the other things that used to be assumed fell by the wayside in pursuit of this very marketable measurement, and now hi-fi is basically populated with products that do this one measurement well and everything else atrociously poorly. The kicker is that frequency response (and a few other common 'marketable' measurements like THD) are actually very poor representations of sound quality.

How do these adapters work with multiple AF points and things like eye-detect AF. Do they allow all the smart focusing modes, or just a limited AF mode like a simple centred AF point or equivalent? People pay a lot for 4K, and considering that a shot out of focus is basically a 240p or worse video file, I'd say that you're not understanding what is at stake. Most of the vloggers I watch have mentioned that they bought their main cameras with their own money. Maybe they get a second much cheaper one 'on loan' but that's the minority. I think assuming that people are 'on the take' is easy to assume, but may not be true. Your point is well made and I totally agree, however there are quite a number of elitist ivory-tower snobs on here who insist that unless you're shooting in controlled lighting conditions on a set with a crew of dedicated people that you're basically not a real film-maker and you don't even deserve the soft 1080 that Canon gives you. They don't say it explicitly, but it's behind many of the posts here. Its been strongly implied that if I want better quality home or holiday videos then I need to: buy a cinema camera, hire a sound tech with a boom mic, learn to manually focus (including sporting events), control my DR via lighting and modifiers, use a tripod, and do multiple takes.. instead of asking for a DSLR sized camera with good IQ, reliable AF, audio recording and processing advances from this century, IBIS / OIS, and being able to enjoy myself while recording a clip.

A lot of the YT people I watch are professional youtubers, and I listen with interest when they reveal how they make their money (I am interested in business models). They typically have a business plan that has multiple revenue streams, but relies on creating quality content that gets lots of eyeballs, then using those to: get sponsorships for posts sell their own merchandise (t-shirts, hats etc) get affiliate income from amazon via equipment links ("I made this cinematic video with these pieces of equipment... <link> <link> <link> <link> <link> <link>") sell their own LUTs, Lightroom presets ("get the same look at this cinematic video you just watched") sell courses they've created (how to do video-related thing course / how to podcast) sell themselves on Patreon (not really compatible with the above) There's always an acknowledgement that getting in early to a platform gives you the best chance to build a following, so there will be a huge groundswell of these people trying to build an audience, which will mean that the platform will have a huge amount of quality content on it almost immediately. Vloggers often meet up with each other (at sponsored events, product launches, conferences, etc) and you get to see BTS on other vloggers channels through these. One thing I've noted that is interesting is that the RX100 style cameras are very popular with people who produce instagram content and they use them vertically. If you thought YT was disposable content then you're in for a shock about how disposable Instagram Stories - they automatically disappear after 24-hours, yet some people record them in 4K vertically, edit in PP/FCPX to music, and grade them before uploading. The comments from those people is that Instagram Stories are easier to do well in because it's the same work as a YT video but there are less people willing to edit and grade so you don't have to be as good to be in the highest quality content creators.

Hunches are fine when declared as so. The problem is when people state their hunches as fact.. If we deleted all the posts that were speculation, opinion, rampant imagination, and fighting over Canon 1080p and colour science, etc there would only be a small amount of content remaining here!!

Awesome - my concern was if they knew what they were getting but if they're into it then that will be really cool. I like it when people do something a little different The combination of that song (the amount of style and how rhythmic it is) and your editing and shooting style will be something to see - your reel looked good and had a few cool moments where the visuals matched the music, but not so many that it distracted too much. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with ?

It also might be an interesting way to not directly compete with YT, at least at the start. I'm pretty sure that there's a clear progression about who adopts a new social media platform first. IIRC it's something like the kids go first (as they're always searching for something new where the adults aren't hanging out), then the 'cool' people (as they're often associated with the kids, or just like new shiny things), and then the people who follow the cool people, and then the people who follow those people, and then everyones grandma. It sounds like they might have a natural fit with the first two, which you would need if you were going to go up against the YT behemoth.

Just wanted to say that's a great looking still.. nicely done! It would be great it has the option to crop in or not to. I think that's one of the biggest advantages of having a hybrid camera for video. I'm looking at new cameras and if I end up with the A7III then when combining the 24-105 F4 with the 1.5X crop mode and the 1.5X digital zoom makes that lens a 24-236mm, which is a fantastic walk-around lens.

Wow. So, not a competitor to YT then.... well, unless there's data suggesting that people are now moving to vertical mobile use? I don't say that to be funny - I remember watching an early talk about how mobile was taking over PCs and the guy put up a huge number on the screen (it was over a thousand) and said that the number was how many people had used eBay on their mobile phone to buy a Ferrari. As I am a bit of a laggard with tech I was shocked, but now I've caught up so it doesn't seem so silly. Maybe it's one of those things that the kids are doing and we don't know about yet? In a way vertical video makes sense because people are taller than they are wide, and most short-lifespan social media video contains only one person.

Ah, hadn't gotten around to watching that yet. Pardon me!

I think this post is silly. It's the equivalent of saying that if you want a smartphone that's silly because you could have all the functionality by just buying all of these things: The reason that we wouldn't buy all those other things and prefer a smartphone is that all those other things are way too large to carry around and be practical, plus they're really expensive...... just like cinema cameras are way too large to carry around in many situations, and are really expensive. I get that this might be good advice for you, maybe because your priorities are equally fulfilled by either option, but that's not true for many other people. I voted Yes because if Canon made such a camera I would buy it. However, if the Pocket 2 doesn't have good autofocus then that would be why I'm not buying it. If it had good AF, that would be absolutely killer!

I've been in the high-end audio game for about 20 years, mostly in the DIY end, and I'd agree with this. MP3 was universally criticised by high-end as 'the death of music' but it's not that bad. Agreed - there isn't a direct parallel. Someone above mentioned valves, which might also be a good example. Solid state is kind of like consumer 4K - it's more representative of reality from a measurement perspective but has a brittle and unpleasant subjective experience. Also digital vs analog. I've heard good digital, and I've heard digital that sounds better than a turntable, but it took $50K of custom digital to beat a $2K turntable setup. Considering you can buy $100K turntables, I'm not sure if there's digital that can match that. Also, amplifier power. 100W solid state amps replaced 9W valve amps but I think someone summed it up when they said "if the first watt is awful, why would I be happy there are 99 more?". For context, your hifi spends most of its time using less than 1W, unless the music is heavily compressed. If you're listening to something with really large dynamic range like classical music then it spends most of it's time using less than 0.25W.

I have said it before, but they might abandon the A7S line and introduce the A9S - it would mean they can put in lots of extra goodies compared to the A7III but can also charge for them as well. Every camera line goes EOL at some point. We seem to be saying "how can they possibly improve their tiny mirrorless line without cannibalising their cinema line" quite a lot. Surely there are reasons that people would prefer a camera the size of an FS5, VENICE, C200, etc over a FF DSLR sized body? Even just ergonomics? If they can figure out what the value a larger body has then maybe that's the solution to overlapping their cinema lines. Thermal management sure is one thing that currently differentiates them, although the XC10 proved it doesn't require much size to implement it.

It's the Law of Conservation of Energy Mirrors. They move out of DSLRs and into phones

Netflix?? ???