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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Video 5D III vs. 1DX

« on: February 04, 2013, 09:51:31 PM »

From what i've seen/read, the 1Dx is considered soft and lacks detail like the 5d3, with slightly better low light performance. The s35 crop mode on the 1D-C is much better, and shows what they could have done on the 5D3 and the 1DX.

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Lenses / Re: 100mm macro L on a 7d

« on: February 02, 2013, 06:19:00 PM »

Just bought the 100mm 2.8 L Macro for my 5Dmkii. It's too much fun.

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Philip Bloom reviews Canon 1DC

« on: January 28, 2013, 05:00:46 PM »

The C300 in the UK is by far the number one broascast camera, the title that in SD days was the DigiBeta.

Do you think he means "number one" as in the most used today? If so, that would be very interesting.

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Philip Bloom reviews Canon 1DC

« on: January 28, 2013, 11:03:07 AM »

He's not really a cinema guy. More of a broadcast-documentary style(which is a much bigger subset of the population, btw).  So I think he underrates the deficiencies of the 8bit codec and it's inherent lack of gradability for people who want a consistent look across a variety of scenes shot in different environments.   

But as always with PB, the review is very well done.

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Canon EOS-1D C Information

« on: January 24, 2013, 01:01:52 PM »

480 Mb/s,

^well we know that the 1Dx is capable of three times that for burst, right?

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Inside the Canon EOS-1D C

« on: January 24, 2013, 10:42:11 AM »

And all the people screaming about wanting RAW always seem to forget the fact that RAW files are massive and require lots of storage space (both for shooting and storing) and computing power.  You can drop MJPEG files from the 1DC straight into Premiere and it will run without a hiccup.  I mean it's nice to have raw, but even if I had a camera that did shoot it I'm sure I'd only use it a fraction of the time. 

If you can spend $12K on a camera, then you can spend $3K on a computer setup that eats RAW video for breakfast.

I agree that the 1D-C priced for novelty, because no other camera does quite what it can do. However, I think that 4K doesn't provide the same post production IQ potential as RAW. 4K does allow you to re-frame shots,   but until people start watching things in 4K(or even then noticing the difference), the novelty of the 1D-C looks more like a gimmick. 

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Canon EOS-1D C Information

« on: January 24, 2013, 10:23:28 AM »

The 1D C is already facing that many problems?
Canon definitely could've waited on this one.

...or made a lower-priced, high bitrate, 2k version first. 5D-C or 7D-C.

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Lighting / Re: Constant lighting vs strobe

« on: January 23, 2013, 10:39:09 AM »

I'd say no for LED lighting. It's ok for things like interviews, or newscasts, but the color quality is not very good. I'd never shoot portraits with LEDs. Go with tungsten.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Patent: Noise & Aliasing Reduction for Small Pixels

« on: January 21, 2013, 11:28:43 AM »

When your production skills outgrow the 5DIII, you should be looking at a C300, C500, or Sony FS700, because there isn't anything better in it's price range. ... oh ...and it shoots great stills as well.

Maybe you're not counting the gh2 because it's $2000 cheaper..? And it comes nowhere close to the BMC Camera, which is the same price (but very hard to come by).   The 5D3 is a great stills cam, arguably the best stills cam in it's price range (i think it is). But it's video is mediocre at best.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Patent: Noise & Aliasing Reduction for Small Pixels

« on: January 20, 2013, 04:38:35 PM »

Rubbish ... The 5DIII produces no moire or aliasing in video, whereas the D800 is about the same as the 5DII.  Nikon is behind on this.

To bad it also has a trademark lack of detail.  And the effective resolution isn't even 1080 vertical.

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Best Lenses for Video for Canon 5D Mark III?

« on: January 17, 2013, 03:25:48 PM »

Zeiss set:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/818396-REG/Zeiss_410951_0000_032_ZE_SLR_Lens_Case.html

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon Cannot Keep Screwing It's Customers Over

« on: January 10, 2013, 04:59:57 PM »

Misinformation is worse!

US growth? Average real GDP growth per capita over the last deacde: USA +0.6% ITALY +0.5% !!!

And that is after you allow for the Mickey Mouse (Implicit Price Deflator of GDP) inflation index that Politicians use to make growth look better than it really is (instead of using proper inflation rate like CPI-U Urban All-Consumers in the United States).... what happens when real inflation is 2% or 3% but government statisticians assume that it is just +0.8%? They can make 0.5% economic expansion appear to be 2%

...and all of this despite Helicopter Ben

I'd suggest you go take a look at the US Bureau of Census and see how many million migrants are entering the US each year and how rapidly the population is growing (a lot faster than your recovery figures)

So you are blaming our GDP per capita growth on an influx of poor immigrants? How is that a criticism of our fiscal/monetary policy?  You basically just defeated your own argument with your statistics. 

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/austerity-and-growth/

Read it and weep. Then go back to econ 101 and learn something.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Which is better? 5D MKII or 6D?

« on: January 10, 2013, 10:31:20 AM »

The video on the 5D2 is better than the 6D. In certain conditions it's better than the 5D3 too(because Canon didn't have a cinema line to protect then), but it does suffer from worse moire.

Unless you really need the improved AF, I think the 5D2 beats the 6D hands down.

Although i think the wiFi is an underrated feature.

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Inside the Canon EOS-1D C

« on: January 08, 2013, 08:53:58 PM »

If you're going to spend $12k, spend $3k more for RAW.

Or spend spend $2K less for raw:

 $7K for 1Dx + $3K for BMC.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon Cannot Keep Screwing It's Customers Over

« on: January 07, 2013, 03:29:46 PM »

The OP should have written "Governments cannot keep screwing their citizens over" (by debasing their currencies with QE and absurd ZIRP monetary policy), but that would require some modicum of intelligence and understanding

A little bit of information is a dangerous thing.

The US recovery has been better since the financial crisis than Europe because of policies like QE, and deficit spending.  The FED was 3 years ahead of ECB on QE.