Video Hummus

It's a $100+ middle finger that many people happily parted with. This is a depressing cynical viewpoint and actually points to the core of the current problems in this world. Maybe if everybody was a little less cynical, a little less jaded, a little less full of themselves, a little more joyful the world would be a vastly better place; 100% money back guaranteed it would.

I much prefer glidecam style footage when feet are on the ground. It's stabilized enough but allows some organic movement to come through. Much more dynamic and natural looking to my eyes. The whole robotic gimbal floating camera shit is overdone and misused in my opinion.

I thought it was a good hype video for sure. I mean, I was hyped after seeing it. Not hyped to buy an Alpha 1 though 😂 Definitely puts the other camera manufactures videos to shame. I take any image quality comparison or evaluation from YouTube with a huge lump of salt. YouTube is pushing out lowest possible bitrate 8-bit video it can get away with.

All of that above adds up to a bit more longevity in the body for becoming a pretty solid B-Cam in the future if I were to ever get a C70/90 or R1 or something as a more robust A Cam. I would love to see a FF C90 form factor camera with R5 autofocus even if it didn't have 4K120p.

IBIS on R5 smooth with panning in my experience at 24mm. Anything wider and IBIS corrections become noticeable. I spent the extra money for R5: The 14-bit 45MP stills are just awesome Custom Modes Oversampled 4K in S35 mode (hopefully we get some wider RF lenses soon; RF 14-28 f/2 please canon; btw sigmas fast 14mm f/1.8 or 20mm f/1.4 lens with RF ND adapter in s35 mode 👌) Record button in photo mode can trigger custom mode (R6 goes into a weird full auto mode; very dumb) 8K can actually be pretty useful in certain scenarios 4KLQ > 1080 from R6 4K120p while not oversampled looks fantastic in my opinion (I can't ever go back to 2K120p I'm spoiled) I would love a RP sized RF camera that shoots FF 4K 24p in CLOG and more affordable f/1.8 primes as a hand-off camera, B, C camera.

Difference between R5 DCI and UHD is interesting too for wide angle lenses.

Well as we have seen, even a small copper heat sink change in the R5 pushes past A7SIII overheating performance. We have heat pipe technology... Maybe someday when I'm not afraid of bricking my camera and CFExpress is super cheap I'll do a DYI heatsink upgrade like @Matt Perks did and shoot 8K RAW 24 hour livestreams.

Yeah, same story here. I've been exhausting multiple CFExpress cards 8K HEVC before any overheating. Granted, this is 4C to 5C weather at the moment. Really looking forward to the new firmware update...soon.

This is awesome from FujiFilm. We are entering into mirrorless medium format video shooting. Holy shit.

I appreciate the baby steps Sony took with making it easier offload photos and video from their cameras...can we just please have something like WiFi 6 onboard with a simple bluetooth hold-phone-up-to-camera-to-pair and then automatically sync photos and perhaps video directly to our phone of choice whether iOS or Android wirelessly. Why is it so hard? Perhaps they would sell more cameras, just saying. And please, god no, don't put android or iOS in my camera with apps and widgets and notifications. I don't want a notification that Toneh Northrop posted a new YouTube video while I'm shooting. Give me ergonomics with physical buttons that can be customized and a bright micro-LED or OLED EVF and articulating screen with touch navigation menus like Blackmagic does. Don't try to beat phones by being phones, it isn't going to work. Just work seamlessly with my existing $1000 phone so the camera just becomes an extension feature of my phone--without silly bulky hotshot mount or an annoying dangling, flimsy micro-hdmi cable.

I don't mind the non articulating screen that much. Panasonic still has the best screen implementation giving everybody what they prefer in the S1H. Yes, the fact they didn't mention that the FF 4K is uber-oversampled from 8.4k probably means it isn't. That being said, Sony's pixel-binning has been excellent. Lack of DCI always stings, especially at this price point. All I shoot is DCI now because I've been using 2:1 more and more. The lack of mechanical shutter performance is very, very strange. I would have liked to seen an internal RAW option. Even though the R5's internal RAW is crippled its vastly better to shoot internal without a stupid external recorder. Last weekend I shot some RAW in freezing rain and snow. Would have had to rigged something stupid up if I had to use an external recorder. Also, why the camera companies don't charge a few more $10 of dollars for a proper, bright OLED rear display is beyond me. It's in the EVFs, put it on the back screen please. Now that is revolutionary!

Maybe a step for Sony to be the first to eliminate the mechanical shutter in their cameras. I can see them taking it out of their next A7S camera and replacing it with their eND + IBIS technology.

I think with YouTube in general the problem is people are told to set their camera to 24fps because it's the movie standard. That is fine. But then they go on to record their video without thinking about their frame rate: camera pans that are too fast, subjects moving in the frame too fast, parallaxing shots that are too fast and look weird. I see this commonly with drone shots with parallax shots. Maybe their shutter speed was off, or they filmed in 30fps and then forgot to conform it. I definitely notice it at the 0:28 mark in the video. Maybe in the future the world will standardized on PAL (or something close) and we can just make 25fps the new cinema standard and do away with the weird (but genius) quirks with NTSC cathode ray tube jiggery they did.

Impressive beast! Sony seems to be the only camera manufacturer that gets the whole ease of connectivity thing in the age of smartphones. They took baby steps with their phone integration with the A1.

The 4KLQ mode is fine to use in a pinch if you can't film in 4KHQ mode. The OLPF (or whatever canon is doing) helps with the line-skipping and pixel binning and a small amount of sharpening in post cleans up the rest. So in good lighting, 4KLQ looks pretty good. Way better than EOS R ever did that much is for sure. If it's going on Youtube and you're not zooming in 200% percent on your image YouTube will make it look like trash regardless. I also find the 4KHQ mode upto 128000 ISO is quite amazing for 45MP sensor. I'm also wondering if the RED Komodo is using the same sensor but with a global shutter. If you do the math for the crop the megapixels come out exactly.

The CR2 "rumor" rating is worrisome, along with words from the head of Canon's imaging division. This camera needs Clog3 with real world improvements in DR in 4K modes to stay more competitive. We already kinda get CLOG2 in 8K RAW mode. This would be awesome but I highly doubt it. It will be interesting to see what they do with the rumored R1 1DX replacement. Latest rumors is it has a 45MP+ sensor and will shoot 8K. Sony as well with their A9III. I guess high MP are coming to the sports cameras.

Very interesting about the color. I haven't done any formal tests but the 8K RAW on the R5 just looks so damn good. More than just the resolution. It's insane data rate makes it a very specialized tool for me (which I have no problem with). I also just watched CVP's video about the EF-RF 0.71x speed booster on the R5. Will only be a matter of time before people start playing around with R5 + Speedbooster + vintage medium format glass (Mamiya 654/7, Bronica, Pentax 645, etc...) in 8K RAW mode.

While a bold statement, its 8K RAW certainly can punch above its weight class, so to speak. Pretty good for a non-video 8K video camera that people aren't buying for video...🤔

Just turn the color matrix in the log settings to "EOS Original". As per Canon's own R5 manual: "EOS Original reproduces colors equivalent to those of the EOS-1D C." How true in practice it is, I don't have a 1DC to test. Maybe @Dave Maze is interested in looking into this?

Canon EOS R5 owner to Canon... I bought the EOS R5 based on its video performance AND photo performance. Your subsequent firmware releases for the R5 and R6 seem to contradict the wishes of your imaging division general manager, Tsuyoshi Tokura, despite reality. I agree with Andrew here, this man shouldn't have a job.

@Oliver Daniel has one. This will probably be another important benchmark camera that sets the bar for quality for price. It will be interesting to see where Sony places it with the new market realities. I feel like Sony has a lot of compression going on in their product line with a A7IV <--> A7SIII <--> FX6. I feel like they will cripple the A7IV in the 4K HFR department and heaven forbid the 10-bit codec department. I would be more excited for a A7RV and wether they push the megapixels up and up or start including 10-bit oversampled video options. Personally, I would prefer better video recording out of a new A7R but they probably feel the pressure from medium format on the high end and would want to compete there with their high resolution FF cameras.

Totally agree! I'm already set for 2021 and beyond. I traded in my GH5S for an R5. The crop mode in the R5 is a hidden sleeper feature for those that care. Feels like a S35 GH5 w/ amazing AF without anamorphic and a few other bells and whistles. Oversampled 4.8K (in DCI) or 5.1K (in UHD) 4K up-to 60p. I'm more than happy with it. I have had zero issues with overheating after the latest firmware update and with taking the time to turn the camera off when I didn't immediately need it (reposition, brainstorming, etc...). The countdown timer is annoying and anxiety-inducing but I've just learned to ignore it. My M1 MBP arrived today as well. It cuts and edits footage from R5 wonderfully with no transcoding or proxies and with FULL playback quality in the viewer, even with Rec.709 LUT applied. I don't think I would have gotten an R5 if it wasn't for the new M1 Macs to be honest and I would still recommend a C70 to anyone that just doesn't want to fuss with the overheating potential. Wishing everybody a more productive and healthy 2021!

I would be surprised if we see anything from JIP Olympus that wasn’t already developed or prototyped before Olympus sold to JIP. In a shrinking market inside a shrinking market (MFT camera market) I would be surprised they would invest anything. Maybe Panasonic looking to partner could invest or buy off patents or licensing agreements from JIP? You know that certain AF technology.

Web today our biometrics tomorrow. “Andrew Reid identified. He looked at product 4321 in bay 7 in aisle 9 for 30 seconds longer than normal. Show ad to him before he leaves the store”

I think it’s safe to say with modern LongGOP implementations the image quality between it and ALL-I is insignificant. If your videos in the end are exported to YouTube, Vimeo, or DVD disk your workflow funnels through a LongGOP encoder in the end. So image quality with respect to LongGOP vs ALL-I isn’t very important. ALL-I main advantage is in the amount of work your decoder has to do to playback, slice, change colors while your editing it. With all that being said, and with storage being relatively cheap, I prefer ALL-I and only shoot LongGOP when I need to fit more on a card.