old-pr-pix said:

Right, the fujirumors link refers specifically to 'high-end video' with rigs, dollies and cranes, not hand-held video. Plus, what was the number one complaint once the GH5S was actually in the field? It didn't have IBIS! Panasonic took a gamble since a) they already had several ILIS lenses, b) their target market was 'high-end video', and c) with a physically larger sensor they needed room so they could used the same body as GH5. Their target market was o.k. with the decision to leave IBIS out, but the rest of the photo world and many forum dwellers punished them severely.

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The GH5S didn't have IBIS because the GH5 did. There were some instances where the IBIS was a flop for video purposes when shooting from a helicopter or having it mounted to a car. We had some nasty issues with it when shooting from a helicopter, even with IBIS off. Luckily, we had a GH4 with us and were able to salvage the shoot. The GH5 is the better run to gun camera, the GH5S works well for those who are rigging up the camera with external recorders, field monitors and using a big gimbal.

Given that the GH5S was aimed at the film industry, it wasn't a massive hit because the new Blackmagic camera with the same exact sensor at just over a half the cost of the GH5S. The Blackmagic also has better codecs, including RAW and the new incredible Blackmagic Raw. The Blackmagic has some incredible features that the GH5S is missing.

Probably worth a go even though you may have already done it but give the gold contacts on both the lens and the camera a little clean. Chances are high of a fault though kit lenses are just that and can and often do break and become not worth repairing as its cheap enough just to get another second hand one.

Wedding Photographer North East & Yorkshire Northumberland & Wedding Photographer Cumbria

"8 frames per second" in One-Shot???

This is one of the most misleading specifications ever, pretty much false advertising.
Try it! Maybe it's possible. Woodpeckers can peck at up to 20 taps per second!
But...Competitive shooters using a finely tuned semi-auto rifle are only getting off about 3 shots per second. Can a competitive photographer do better with a shutter button?

With a calibrated Monitor you can come close to your print, IF the the ICC of the paper is good.
Owning a X- Rite made all of my paper- profiles better.
(Tecco Glossy before was too cool, the Hahnemühle Metallic was far too yellow.....)

How about an adapter with built-in IS for all my non-IS EF lenses?

The front element is known for peeling of the lens coating, and, as I recall, its very expensive to fix. It is certain to cause issues in photos with bright lights, because the area of the lens will not reflect the bright lights as it should.

Check with Canon or a repair station about the cost to replace the front element. The cost to repair it could drive the price to higher than the cost of a new one.

My 4-year-old iMac will play smoothly 4K video in Final Cut Pro X even as it does some processing in the background. It has plenty of memory and a 4-core 4 GHz processor, which helps a lot. But still, you don't need the latest and greatest to deal with the "morass."

Hi Sanj.
I’m sorry to hear that, at least you still have a pretty nice body to hang some glass on.
Best wishes, Graham.

Cheers, Graham.

sanj said:

Dear Graham. Not recovered. Not insured. Am working with my 5d4 and some other lenses. I do appreciate you asking.

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To me personally except I hate evfs the R is actually good enough camera I will ever want or really need, that said since I got my 5D mk iii when it first release I never feel like to upgrade! But I don’t know is my eyes exceptionally good or what, in EVFs I always see it flickers especially in in door lights, which really makes my eyes pain and distract me from composing the real image

This lens is a very good performer and honestly surprised me a lot. Unfortunately, the build quality is not very nice at all...not sure what he's talking about.

Hmmm. Canon flew Jared to Hawaii but Jared didn't declare Canon the "winner." SMH.

Very nice shot, Fred.

Everyone now wants the Osmo Pocket.
I got mine on Sunday, and it's amazing.

It should result in an image that downsamples to a very clean 4K. Given how efficient H.265 is, I have no doubt it'll create an acceptable 8K image.
I stream YouTube and Netflix in H.265 and am blown away by how much it lowered the data consumption. The 4K content from Netflix looks incredible on the big screen and is barely streaming at 10 megabits per second. 1080 content on YouTube is streaming at 1-2.5 megabits per second.

another fly.. this time a faker.. 'hoverfly'

Anyone know when the new 600mm will ship?

https://www.newsshooter.com/2018/12...ucer-for-nikon-z-mount-canon-r-mount-cameras/

There's now a speed booster for EOS R lenses for use with medium format lenses.

Problem with nearly all of these sites that despite their good intentions or otherwise they generally look at just one copy of each lens. The exception of lensrentals points out that copy variation within a make can be greater than the difference between different makes.

I wish they would come up with a better pair of lenses for event shooting -- where it would make more sense to break the zoom ranges at 35 instead of 24 (or even 28). Like I said above, a 20-35mm f/2.0 would be amazing. But it would need to be paired with something like a 35-100mm lens for event shooters using two lenses. The 35-100mm could be variable aperture, moderately fast, and get the job done. I also like maves' idea of a 35-85/2.0-2.8. A 35-105mm f/2.8 would obviously be great. But even a 35-105/2.5-3.5 or f/2.8-4.0 would work well for me. But I do feel like you would need f/2.8 at 50mm.

The zoom ranges should "break" at where a person no longer considers images to be wide angle. I would say 35mm would be appropriate for that.

Obviously a Sigma 24-35/2.0 already exists. I would be happy even if there were a 35-100mm or fast 35-85mm lens somewhere on the market to complement it.

chrysoberyl said:

Thank you. I've wanted to get into focus stacking, but it looks quite tedious and error-prone, and I'd rather spend my time taking photos, rather than spending hours post-processing.

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If you want to automate focus stacking you may want to look at CamRanger as it has a focus stacking feature. It also supports the R. Stacking is not that hard as the apps do a fairly good job and even PS (which I use) has rarely given me anything other than the most minor of cleanups.

Long time later but here goes.

Initially I was very disappointed with the Ronin-S, it didn't interface with the 1DX MkII at all, you couldn't even trigger start stop for video from the gimbal but had to touch the camera, also one of my main reasons for getting it was panning time lapses, and I never worked out how to coordinate movement pauses with third party shutter releases over the length of the shots, and I wanted to give the panorama mode a trial, all to no avail just a vague promise of 'we are working on a firmware upgrade'.

Well the software has been updated and the firmware installed and I have to say the Ronin S is now the tool I'd hoped it would be. All the features I was interested in now work, though I haven't tried the gimbal focus control yet, and they seem to work well. Panning time lapses, however complicated the motion, are easily programmed in and effected and the panorama feature makes the cost of multi row pano heads seem like a bad joke.

I have seen comparative footage from the DJI and Zhiyun and believe the Ronin is the better stabilizer, it appears smoother and has a much more solid horizon hold in that it doesn't drift during a movement.

All in all an excellent accessory and with $200 off at the moment ($749-$549) via DJI and B&H I can't recommend it highly enough.

Now it's time for Canon to make an EF600mm f/4 DO lens

calgarysportsphotogapher said:

Is'nt it about time that someone produced a decent camera body with an android os built in. this would enable so many customization options. I'm a sports photographer in calgary alberta my website is http://www.gamefacephoto.ca. if anyone has any comments I'd sure like to know.

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By all means! Please NOOOOOOO Android EOS!!! Don't listen to those wannabe nerds! Android Sony TV - sucks! AndroidAcer Tablet - sucks! Android Fossil Watch Exploits - sucks.... Fed up of Android gear.... pure garbage! Doesn't have to be IOS either. Canon should just stick to their core abilities.

Nice!