Video Hummus

A7SIII is the closet FF camera that has come to pulling me out of MFT land as a primary camera. The 12MP sensor kinda kills it for me. I wish it was closer to 20MP for photography. 15MP might have been doable... MFT still has steam in it for at least one more round of GH and GX cameras. I honestly think they are waiting for a more compelling MFT sensor from Sony. That, or they are experimenting with doing something funky with S35 or preparing a FF S L-mount camera that will replace the MFT GH cameras. So I wait for news on GH6 camera while still happily enjoying my 5S. BTW, since this thread hasn’t been derailed enough already. Here is a shot from my first outing out with the 7Artisans 60mm macro. I sipped coffee with my hand on the shutter for about 45 mins off and on until one lucky bee came along.

Cost cutting on R&D. Cost cutting on materials and assembly. Cost cutting on materials and assembly. Because absolute temperature of circuit board has very little to do with recover times. The ultimate test of this is to open the damn thing up in a walk-in ice cold freezer with leaf blower on it and then try and record. I bet you the record limits won’t change.

Why are people expecting it to when it is advertised as not?

Can’t wait for Porsche to release a new 911 with 300 horsepower and a top speed of 200mph and a cruising speed of 100* *top speed only achievable on a cloudy, 24C day. Cruising speed is only for a max of 30 mins, except when in 6th gear max cruising time is 15mins. 5th gear allows unlimited cruising time but suspension is disabled and top speed is disabled.

Eh, the more people that get this camera in their hands and then have it shit the bed and piss all over your project shoot will find out eventually that its “all a matter of perspective”. Not so sure they will be happy they wasted their own time and money, and hopefully not their clients time and money (although extremely likely if they are naive; many are!).

Someone should tell Canon’s marketing department that.

But this is exactly what/is happening. Not to mention very few independent reviewers got their hands on it prior to the Pre-orders and those that did were allowed to talk about certain aspects. They were all almost exclusively “first looks”, “previews”, and “first hands on” type videos and content. Not proper reviews! Canon really messed up the marketing of this camera. They heavily leaned into the whole 8K and 4K120p 10-bit recording specs monster to sell this camera.

That’s pretty damning coming from Phillip who almost always takes the middle, reasonable road when it comes to comparing cameras. I think his thoughts on being “punished” for using the camera summarizes this whole shit-show.

The HDMI overheating vs menu overheating is very strange. It does point to maybe this being an intentional cripple hammer blow. Which could mean good news if canon is willing to fix it and give the camera more acceptable behavior closer to A7SIII. If they did that do they not understand they would sell an absolute boat load of these cameras and with it a ton of RF glass? Whats their angle for so badly crippling this poor camera? They gave so much room for Sony to steal away mirrorless sales. Maybe they thought with the success of the EOS R they could get away with selling an EOS R to their customers again with headline grabbing specs that are crippled to the point of being unusable. Strange, very strange product here.

And this is preposterous. You could even say it was Malus-cious (I hope someone gets this joke please...).

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I tried selling some stuff on EBay several years back. Ever single winning bid was a scammer trying to get me to ship the product before payment cleared. That was the last time I typed eBay.com into my address bar.

You forgot to put RED on that list of yours. Anyway, your argument is business as usual is filled with all kinds of shady stuff and since its a regular occurrence its OK? I fail to see how this revelation changes the argument that RED is being sued for shady business practices. The same as RED claimed against JinniTech. Which us what is being discussed in this topic.

I never said it was good versus evil. I said it’s my opinion JinniTech is doing the right thing by suing RED for an unfair, consumer terms of service contract. Bruce is a customer of RED products after all. By the way, A non-profit is in-fact a business. They don’t magically good badge of honor because they are a non-profit. The NRA is a non-profit and they are now being sued as well.

I think most Americans would call that a “pot pie” with fruit pies being usually referred to as simply “pie”. Calling it a cake is straight on blaspheming. “Pie floater” conjures images of something you don’t want to see floating in your town pool. What is tripled cooked chips? Sounds like an excellent nickname for the R5.

Tax evasion is illegal in most countries. Legal loopholes that simulate tax evasion are not. They are too different things. It’s all in the name of course “loophole” - a hole in the law to slip through. We wouldn’t get on a ship that had a “loophole” for water to go through. Not sure why it’s ok for business to have the same for the law! It’s fine for “businesses to do business” this way until they get caught or until people get fed up with finding out their favorite multi-billion dollar company (almost trillion dollar company) pays less in taxes than your sick grandma each year. For some people, mostly rich people, that is “business as usual” but at some point people find out about this and: Wonder why they can’t do the same. Get mad as fuck in the unfairness of it. So as much as I would like to not pay taxes by funneling my business income through some shell company in a offshore account managed by my 5th cousin twice removed in Lichtenstein, I find that kind of behavior wrong and anti-greater good. So paying up the ass for low-quality commodity flash storage, a la REDMiniMag, and potentially lying to your customers about it, we shall see how the court finds it, I guess depends on which side of the money exchange you are on.... In my opinion JinniTech is fighting the good fight here for consumers.

I don’t know, cameras come nowhere close to the human eye. But like I posted before in a different thread the human eye uses a lot of evolutionary trickery. Reality vs perception is a real thing. You’re brain will literal mess with its perception of time to fix a deficiency in how your eyes work. You can see it for yourself when you look at a clock with a ticking second hand (one that ticks instead of a constant motion). Look at the second hand and then look away and look back. Every once in a while you may see the second hand tick back or seem to stay longer on one second...yes this is real. It is called Chronostasis and the Stopped-Clock illusion. There is also a blind spot on your retina and you can test this as well with a simple black dot on a paper test. You brain just stitches together the missing data by interoperating what it things should be there. Quite literally like the clone tool in photoshop. We also have built in HDR where our brain is again overcoming human eye deficiency to fake exposure, again all happening in real time. Where camera DR really lacks is in the highlights and we will need a sensor with an absolute DR of around 21 stops to match the human eye. That or some subtle HDR trickery. Another way to improve DR for current sensors is to develop an eND that can selectively darken certain areas of the eND glass. You can then develop the software to selectively apply ND to the highlight areas of the image. So for example, a sunset. You would just switch on your eND, tell it to only apply to highlighted regions and boom, you have massive “perceived” DR. You can even do something simpler approach and just have and eND that can simulate a graduated ND and allow the user to select the grade and intensity from top to bottom, bottom to top, and from left and right respectively. This would be more likely first step. I’m sure someone is already working on it.

Now that cameras are starting to use CFExpress 2 there is no excuses anymore. Those cards use NVM.e protocol over PCI Express bus to deliver data to the card. The same way a computer would deliver data to a NVM.e SSD card in a laptop, workstation, or NAS. The implementation would be trivial. Would love to see a company offer a battery grip with an extra battery and a slot to slide in a NVM.e SSD to record to. Maybe even make it a “media mod” battery grip and offer external RAW recording like Sony does for the FX9 but in a mirrorless camera. The battery grip could have the dedicated hardware to encode the signal. You could even add BRAW after the fact if the battery grip were to include special encoding hardware BM uses to skirt the compressed RAW stuff. So many possibilities, so many un inspiring camera brands.

An excellent look at the Voigtlander 60mm. Some day I would like to collect them all!

You might be surprised to find out that I find the Sony overheating just as bad. I am brand agnostic when it comes to my criticism because if you camera overheats when you want or need to use it, it doesn’t matter what brand it is, its fucking sucks. Furthermore, I WANT Canon to get their shit together so I can have a Canon mirrorless camera with my holy grail specs of bulletproof 4K up to 120p. Believe me, Canon would have my money. I bash Canon out of disappointment more than anything and hope they fix it.

That Ricoh GXR is exactly want I’m talking about but built around the latest PCI Express bus protocol and in a bigger camera body.

POS tiny sensor loser camera.

Why didn’t Sigma make the fP just a little bit bigger with the same awesome heatsink design. Even better, why not a totally modular camera with connection pins to a powered PCI Express Bus on all sides for accessories to build out as you please. Just have a built in EVF. Make the external screen an accessory that flips and flops however people want it. Mount it on the top, bottom, side. Other accessories could be on-board light, a battery and SSD media mod “grip” that attaches to the bottom that provides extra power and a NVME M.2 SSD slot for recording to SSD. The options are endless. a plug-able sensor modular that allows you to swap out sensors. Including upgrading your sensor in the future. In addition they could release “toy” sensor modules like super16 for fun and profit for people that want to play around with retro looks and stuff. So basically design a camera body with as much cooling and horsepower as possible and let people build their camera the way they want. The ecosystem would explode around it. Sigma, I’m available for consult. Send me an DM!.

We are only a few weeks away from “5 AWESOME WAYS to KEEP YOUR R5 from OVERHEATING 🔥🔥 🚫” and “My TOP 10 TIPS for Shooting 8K RAW on the EOS R5!”. With tips like: Buy a $400-800 external recorder for your $4,000 mirrorless photo camera. Take your battery out. Take your CFexpress card out. MAke sure to leave your SD card door OPEN! After shooting take off your lens and expose your sensor Avoid hot weather Don’t take photos before video Bring a second body, $2,600 R6 or another $4,000 R5 and swap them. Realize you paid $4,000 for another EOS R...again. LOL! But its Canon...if any other company released a camera like this they would be out of business fast and all the Canon apologist would be saying the same thing: “Unreliable piece of junk!, Not professional gear!, I wouldn’t dare shoot a a job where I was getting paid with that camera”. See my list above for 7 AWESOME WAYS to KEEP your R5 from OVERHEATING!!!

While long winded, and sometimes hard to follow he does finally come to some clear points. The latest video went deep into US Universal Commercial Code Law (yeah, sounds exciting right....) which are laws in the US to protect consumers and business from writing unfair contracts that will expose them to liability. He clearly lays out by reading the relative parts of REDs terms of service and makes a good case, he thinks, that they are in violation of several clauses as laid out in the UCC law. I don’t know any other way to explain that like he did without it becoming dry as a stale saltine cracker. He makes other points about REDs extensive litigious behavior towards other companies and individuals, including himself and JinniTech. Some of it for even having the word RED in your company name in a completely different industry. None of that is conspiracy theory. It’s all documented in the public record. So it’s not a conspiracy theory when he is actually going to court over it. The courts, thankfully, don’t put up with that shit. In my opinion, its all egg on the face for RED. Half a dozen really.