Video Hummus

As I have been dealing with a mild case of appendicitis I have checked out of this discussion. Hoping to avoid surgery. And spending 5 hours in an ER seeing exactly what this hoax virus is doing To people...my god. But it’s people exactly like Tim Pool here that give real journalists a bad name. He is a disgrace. The world needs to tune out people like him and start doing the far more important and hard thing and solve our troubles, not peddling in this click-bait sensationalist fear and hate mongering.

Yes so you see the rub. You can call people to violence indirectly. Lots of atrocities have been promoted and achieved through this kind of crap. So it’s always a balance and I’m of the opinion the balance is no longer their because we now have technology that had outpaced our traditional societal structures. Im not promoting anything except abundant caution.

And this is wrong in my opinion and it would be in the best interest of proper peer review journals to crack down and fight this kind of greed. Except when the gov’t is made up of elected people...people who then go on to ignore or repeal laws. Governance starts at the bottom like it or not.

So how is that different than an self imposed echo chamber? The other problem with this separate from this site in particular is the whole “recommendation” platform and incentive these platforms have to keep you viewing on their platform. People end up getting recommended content that doesn’t give them a diverse range. Google is the worst. So I can roll my own and have it select only videos about a singular agenda I might want to promote (say kicking out all immigrants) and then advertise this website as “news”. This is exactly the problem with the current situation. People live in fantasy bubbles and can’t even agree on a consistent reality. White is black. No black is white. No the sky is up. Sky is down. Mix in partisanship and hate (that is actively prompted) and it leads to violence in the most unstable.

Except free speech doesn’t often cover some of the content they show you. Is promoting violence ok? Many people think not. And the issue is a slippery slope for drawing a line in the sand.

But this is exactly what happens almost every time. People seek out the content and they go right back into echo chamber group-think. Doesn’t matter the platform. It’s worse with conspiracy theorists because they think they have the “real” answers and don’t trust anything. And it’s just not them being skeptical it’s an insidious undertone to their entire life. And when their grand theory is stretched in anyway they invent a fantasy reality to make it work. Sounds like a pandemic of mental health problems. I don’t have the answers but a lot of this revolves around people having poor interpersonal and critical thinking skills.

I’m not sure what that would be. Sony literally passed around a few demo units of the A7SIII to select YouTubers to share. They didn’t pay them anything (as claimed by the youtubers themselves) and they hyped, reviewed, and showed their product off for essential pennies on the dollar in marketing terms. I can only see this trend accelerating. Most of it is pure fluff to fill a 10 minute video for the ad revenue, which’s is how they are really being paid by being given exclusive access to a product of value and such exclusive rights to the ad revenue for the searches for the new item. Which is a paid review in my humble and reasonable opinion and kinda of a loop hole around the laws. Not to mention they are given free gear from companies hoping for it to be talked about. Do they pay taxes? Are these gifts? We have all seen it. No interviews with engineers, short documentaries about the product design and manufacturing, no extra or in depth information from anything except someone reading from the press release spec sheet. Love them or hate them, at least CineD does do occasional documentaries on a company, like their sigma factory tour which was very enjoyable!

There is an asteroid out there with our name on it. Mercy kill.

C70 with speedbooster would be my choice based on your uses if you have EF glass. C70 is just a much more integrated package than the A7SIII imho. I wonder how long we will have to wait for DGO in a FF camera from Canon that won’t be $16K. I much prefer the simplicity of DGO then the dual gain switching that Sony does. The lowlight party trick is nice but rarely see a use for it. Would rather have a clean image all the time with a linear ISO range.

Someday would be nice to have a Mini with a 1” sensor and variable aperture but I can’t see them going bigger with the Mavic Pro.

In RAW mode you can expose to the right as there will be more noise on that mode. Or you can expose for your subject and then clean up the noise in post with a denoiser and gain a stop of DR. For 4KHQ the noise is better controlled and stays up with the A7SIII up to 12800 I would say. Beyond that the A7SIII is the clear winner. So I would just expose for the subject in that mode and lift shadows no more than 2 stops of need be and denoise in post if it needs it. That’s just my opinion.

@Matt Perks idea in the video of Canon being slightly more brave and business savvy of designing the heat sink to dump heat to the tripod mount and then selling a battery grip or standalone component that increases cool down times was a massive missed opportunity and quite a fail imho. They could have almost eliminated all the bad press and made bigger margins on their camera by selling an accessory or a upgrade service. 🤷‍♂️ Hell for all we know they might release a R5c that is $1500 more that is simply this heat sink mod!

Yes I agree. Every bodies uses are different and honestly just getting the camera in your hands and using it is the best thing to do. I went to my local camera shop and held both the R5 and the A7SIII and I settled on the R5 for my uses. Primary IBIS, 45MP photos, competent AF, 4K120p. The A7SIIi has better DR and 4K120p and HD240p but it’s all nitpicking honestly. I also factored in the M1 Macs as well and they did impact my buying decision as well since I’m a MacOS FCP/resolve user.

I thought you couldn’t have zebras and peaking at the same time? I haven’t heard about no zebras in clog mode. Bummer. Hopefully the rumored 14-28 f/2 RF lens is real. Would pair nicely wit 28-70 f/2 or 24-70 f2.8.

Wow, well I just sold all my MFT gear and said goodbye to my GH5S and just bought an R5. I think my only remaining gripe with this camera is the DR but my GH5S maxed out at around 10.5 and I never really complained that much with it. If we get better canon logs we could potentially see 11.7 (based on Gerald Undones tests) of usable stops with clog3. Still 1 atop below S1H and A7SIII but hey one of those cameras lacks AF and the other is only 12MP photos. ive been doing lots of landscape photography lately and possibly some product photography coming up so having 45MP is very nice. 8K RAW internal is a bonus (even with its limitations). The 4KLQ mode is fine for Internet video with a bit of sharpening in post. Canon did some clever things with their AA filter on this camera. I think R5 best balanced camera for my needs at the moment. The price not so much. Ouch.

They already penetrated the camera market with disruptive technology. That has tiny potential profits compared to what they have with iPhone and Mac. If anything they would want to take on ARRI and capture the super high-end where all the money is and they don’t need to acquire Nikon to do that. I would give that to Panasonic based on the broader company and how they are structuring themselves. Hell, they’ve pretty much said as much “looking for partners” is basically a signal to sell. Nikon could use Panasonic’s Video know-how and chops. Too bad they don’t have any money.

Agreed. It will be interesting to see what they do with their chip technology for their desktop Mac Pro and iMac Pro were thermals and power are in abundance with ARM CPUs architectures. Yes, and I think this is part of the reason for the hype. The performance is amazing for the price from Apple. But it also is doing things that even the highest end desktops have trouble with—mainly H.265 editing. Which I believe pretty much saves Canon’s ass over their codec choices for the R5. This is the most important spec missing. The CPU is plenty fast for a lot of people. Especially single core performance. I think for my uses, mainly editing R5 footage, and H265 in general, I’m going to pick up a 13” M1 MBP. Cant beat the performance/price/size for video editing on a desk or out in the field.

This would be an act of business mercy by Apple which is known to be a more ruthless company. If Nikon exits camera business it will be a clear signal, more than Olypuses departure, that the camera industry is in serious flux.

Then in most cases, beside maybe multiple streams of 8K editing in a mult-cam, a M1 powered Mac will get the job done it seems. I’m not telling people to drop their desktop rigs. use whatever you want. I’m just informing people, that are perhaps looking for a mac or laptop to edit their S5/A7SIII/R5/R6/<insert camera here> that the new M1 chips do particularly amazingly well for editing H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) and RAW footage very, very well. That Pugent benchmark is for Premier Pro, which is not know for its performance on any architecture to be honest. Maybe it will change when adobe creates a native app for M1.

Not sure about Canon yet. I think they have to release an update to their Canon RAW software. So its on Canon. 8K RAW from RED does not playback completely smoothly at native 8K. There are dropped frames. Drop the playback resolution to 1/2 in resolve or better performance in FCP and its smooth as butter even with multiple nodes applied. So yes, it seems like M1 can handle working with 8K. I would spring for the 16GB of RAM for sure though.

Those are top tier desktop chips from AMD with the 5800x costing around $550. The answer, if price is included, is No. As far as video editing, these new macs offer amazing performance for the dollar. If you use resolve or FCP the future is bright for apple silicon powered macs. So I don’t find those benchamarks from pugent very relevant unless you routinely do heavy CPU tasks other than video editing, encoding, decoding. If you game well you know what you need.

What’s your experience with the performance with the Angelbird CFExpress cards. So many reviews of the latest batch of CFExpress cards are so mixed. Part of the problem is these manufactures mix and match performance tiers with storage tiers in the same branded line of cards! Drives me nuts! The 128GB Sandisk has a min. Write speed of 1200MB/s but the same card in 256GB is only 700MB/s Min. Write but then the 512GB is the same as the 128GB... They all seem to do it from Sandisk to ProGrade. Currently Angelbird has really good price/GB right now in the CFExpress space with solid specs for up to 8K RAW but you can find reviews that are less than glowing.

I sure wish camera manufactures would embrace brighter and larger LCD or OLED displays. This camera keeps growing on me. It’s a bit ugly in the back but I find the mirrorless / cinema form factor much more practical than a smaller version of a C300 Mark III (ie see FX9-FX6). @Oliver Daniel any plans to try out the speedbooster with EF glass?

I think their next pocket camera will be FF with internal ND for the typical bargain price. I hope they do a more sensible design with better QC.