Video Hummus

Actually, Panasonic has a built in digital live cropping. They should flesh that out for more control with a more precise speed control and key frames and perhaps even object tracking(!) Put the new feature in a new 6K or 8K GH6 and then all you need is a simple slider. Shoot a little bit wider and then after shooting the clip in playback mode you can do your digital cropping with all those features. It’s limited to how wide your lens is but would probably easily hit that 85% usefulness metric.

Why doesn’t anybody have a slider with real on-board manual controls. I hate having to pull out a phone and use some app with Bluetooth or WiFi. I’d like to see a slider with a motorized head where you can just use a button on the device to set mark points and then physically move the slider and motorized head all with your hands to line up the shot, hit the mark button, repeat again, hit the mark button. Then a done button and you have now programmed multiple waypoints with slider and motorized head and all you have to do is press a start button. Have a scroll wheel to set slide speed from 1% to 100% via 0.5 steps. I think the rhino Arc II does this? It’s just freakin huge! Super intuitive, no app, no Bluetooth connections.

He better hope it doesn’t shit the bed...wow. “ma’m I didn’t get your vows. My...camera overheated. It was so strange...haha haha.”

I get it. I was only paraphrasing the gist of the video by JinniTech. All opinions are mine and solely mine and are based off what i know from that video, which is one perspective only.

Any beta testing needed 😁?

It’s possible but I find the timeline extremely suspicious. I find the change of officers somewhat suspect. I find the zip code they registered this new company in suspicious (it’s basically a haven) for what goes on in Las Vegas. I find Jims answer in the discovery video when being questioned under oath by lawyers extremely unsatisfying in regards to this patent they tried to use to sue JinniTech. Any RED owners should read the terms of service and take note. I find the claims, made by Jim in 2006, where he claimed that REDCODE Needed proprietary firmware to store REDCODE on special hardware (later to be proven NOT to be proprietary and available for sale from parts manufactures, hence the JinniMags) highly suspect. Not to mention now that are using CFast cards for Komodo. It reeks of a class action lawsuit. I’m glad JinniTech is not going to be bullied.

That last bit is important as it shows some evidence of guilt. Can they explain why they made such a drastic change to the company? Is Jim’s “retirement” part of this scheme. Also apparently the new zip code they filed the “new” business in has legal implications as well. All in an effort to shield them from liability in this upcoming case.

That was probably an awful TL;DW But you should really sit down with a cuppa and watch the video.

Sure. RED sued Jinnitech for their JinniMAG saying it was patent infringement (On a patent application filed days after RED sued him!) and several other bogus claims. Turns out the judge threw out all the alleged charges against Jinni and the case was official closed. He goes into detail about the company structure. Shows evidence that two corporate officers are lawyers, who apparently have almost no identity on the internet (their LinkedIn page is now deleted...their website is broken). He shows evidence of him trying to get a minimag replaced and asking for a breakdown of the cost to fix it since they quoted him $1,600 dollars. He presses them on why he is basically told to shove off and that since he threatened them with legal action that they are refusing services to him (apparently illegal). He shows evidence that REDs terms of service violates US UCC law which prohibits unconscionable contracts. He goes into great detail about why they are...anyway the short of it is the terms are service are about as scummy as you can write them. The bomb though is he says he filed suit against RED and the case will be held in December of this year. He then goes on to say that days after the suit was filed against RED.com Inc that RED dissolved that entity, And filed a new business entity in Nevada under RED.com LLC and Jim Jannard is not listed as the corporate officer and in addition they listed the capital of this new company has having $0. Dissolving you’re multimillion dollar company ahead of a potential class action lawsuit says something about how RED is run.

Time will tell with both of these cameras. If your in the sun shooting a interview it’s probably a no go. Add some shade and it sounds like the Sony will survive. Which is surprising leaps and bounds better than than the R5. I prefer the R5 look straight out of camera. The Sony has better 4K120p. Honestly, if they fixed the R5 so it has faster recover times then it’s the better camera since it has excellent stills. If they add clog3 and get it closer to 13 stops DR. Even better. The DR on the Sony is great for such a small mirrorless camera.

Wow, just watched. Scummy as fuck. Thanks for reminding me to never buy anything from RED.COM Inc...or shall I say RED.COM LLC now.

Yes, and why allow Fuji and Olympus? Doesn’t make a lot of sense. I fear it’s a muck of patent deals and technology license agreements and Panasonic wasn’t privy to them at the time and since PDAF has come out on top for AF sensor technology it’s expensive to license (dual pixel is just a form of PDAF). Im sure they would have done it by now. So it’s more likely Panasonic will do something complete different (I hope) going forward. DfD, while amazing for what it does with contrast detection, isn’t going to cut it anymore.

If they were to move away from Sony I think the only viable partner for sensor technology would be Samsung. Hoewever, the business relationships between Korean and Japanese companies hasn’t been stellar. I think we would have seen PDAF by now in a Panasonic camera. For whatever reason, we don’t. I see nothing wrong with Panasonic using a ToF sensor (if integrated well) in conjunction with their DfD to supply reliable autofocus at useable distances (1-5 meters) and then switching over to DfD past that. Its not perfect but it may be good enough for interviews, gimbal work, vlogging, family backyard. If Panasonic doesn’t do it we always have @BTM_Pix device, possibly.

I just picked up a 7artisans 55mm f/1.4. Hasn’t come yet. It was $120. It’s going to be something like a 99mm f2.5 DoF on my GH5S. $120...why not. I too want the Oly 75mm but I can’t justify the cost and I can’t find it cheap anywhere so the waiting continues here as well.

Christian moved from Canon to Sony, back to Canon, had a breakdown. Glad to see at least he is having fun with it.

Makes way to much sense, common sense doesn’t fly in this industry.

Many people that preordered probably won’t even see their camera in 6 months at this rate.

Yes, but the image seems to be still better than most mirrorless cameras. It has AF. It has the mythical compressed internal RAW everybody wants, it has the DR, it has a more manageable size, it doesn’t have accessory lock-in. It lacks IBIS, and mirrorless ergos, and weather sealing. I don’t know. Time will tell. But it might be the better “mirrorless” camera than the latest mirrorless cameras. RED was smart to offer something like this. It is the gateway drug. Its still not cheap at 7K or whatever they are going to charge. Twice the price of an A7SIII

Man oh man, all those other TY channels that made multiple videos hyping this thing and making fun of people concerned about overheating (they are tying to be smart about how to spend their hard earned money) only to finally release a video telling us the major deal breakers with this camera and its marketing...those channels are anti-consumer and you should steer well clear of their bullshit.

Footage looks much better than the earlier stuff. I think this is where cameras are heading. Higher-end pro tools at higher end pro prices. The mirrorless cameras will be eaten alive by camera phones with 1” sensors and better software. It’s coming. Definitely has me thinking to just skip this round of mirrorless cameras, because lets face it, they will never deliver on what we want, and just save for a higher end camera. Komodo has AF so its at the top of the list for price versus features. Would really like to see a C100 style camera from canon that can compete on image. Doesn’t even have to be RAW. Just a super rich 10-bit 4:2:2 image with the special sauce 1DC had.

How did Sony manage to do it in a smaller body at 614g versus R5 738g versus GH5 725g. There is no magic going on here. You either invest in better manufacturing nodes and cooling designs or you don’t. Sony even advertised their cooling design in their promo material. Let’s be frank. If Panasonic adds PDAF to future GH and S series camera they would be much much more popular. Would people even care about the R5 if the S1H had good PDAF to begin with? Probably not. They would be out shooting jobs with amazing color and would shrug their shoulders : “maybe next time Canon”. Also lets be clear about another thing: almost everybody wants a competent, non-crippled, Canon hybrid mirrorless camera. Save for the extreme Sony fanboy loyalists who have somehow welded their identity with what camera they use. I know people say AF doesn’t matter for certain jobs, but last time I checked there is a huge C-AF -> MF switch on the body. You don’t have to use it. But why wouldn’t you want competent AF in your toolbox? AF has become one of the primary selling points of a camera. There is no question about this. And the AF in the R5 and A7SIII is borderline set it and forget it good. Take a look at some of Brandon Li’s tests on Instagram (4K120p running at the camera and the focus pull is seamless and amazing and nigh perfect). Yes, but I think Canon may have misstepped off a cliff with this one. I do hope they can fix it and deliver what everybody wants. If the R5 had the same overheating performance the A7SIII has it would outsell by a long shot.

$4K for a camera you have to put away instead of enjoy shooting with it? Well I’ll be damned...

Time to take the leap @Andrew Reid and develop Phone4K.com. Stick with 4K as it’s in the spirit of EOSHD. We want professional cinema features in our DSL...I mean phones!

Kinda makes sense...but why not just announce it and say it’s shipping in Sept when the Sony ships. Give themselves more time to figure out a solution. No one is the wiser... Like it or not they damaged their brand a bit and I think all the hyped up emotions around it is the 8K hype and spec teases they released. They worked...too well?

So how does management spec out a camera, tell marketing to market it this way, and then engineering fall on its face? Sounds like terrible communication between these departments. The supposed internal breakdown of the camera that was posted shows no heat sink or thermal control on the circuit board at all. How did this overwhelming obvious bug not get fixed? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that: boy this thing gets hot. Maybe we should try to cool it and have it no happen unless it was designed that way in the first place.