Canon R5 Announced with 8k
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Its unfortunate that CLOG3 hasn't seemed to provide anymore dynamic range. Its looks like the dynamic range you gain in RAW is in the shadows though it gets noisy quickly. 8K 12bit RAW is awesome though.
NorBro
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I actually think the R5's RAW is a little overrated. Definitely agree with your shadow/noise assessment though (which I brought up last summer), and I also find the image fairly fragile. (I always thought the C200's CRL was thicker.)
I recently tested a rather peculiar 10-bit ALL-I camera (don't ask, ha), and was floored by its flexibility. The following frame from the video is so heavily graded and it would have destroyed the R5's RAW (would have been raining chroma noise and micro-blocks everywhere).
I have tested dozens of cameras in the same location so I know how and when they break (1pm - blue skies - a lot of moving water - reflections), but even heavy golden hour grades can flex many of them if you lay it on too thick...but this one's tough.
I recently tested a rather peculiar 10-bit ALL-I camera (don't ask, ha), and was floored by its flexibility. The following frame from the video is so heavily graded and it would have destroyed the R5's RAW (would have been raining chroma noise and micro-blocks everywhere).
I have tested dozens of cameras in the same location so I know how and when they break (1pm - blue skies - a lot of moving water - reflections), but even heavy golden hour grades can flex many of them if you lay it on too thick...but this one's tough.
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Bassman2003
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The cat and mouse game between us the makers wears me down...
sleekmedia
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What camera? Images are very nice and holds heavy grade very well.
NorBro
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It was either in this massive thread or another random one where there was a discussion about EF lenses' future.
DLD was one who thought they were pretty much done immediately after the RF mount started to really get going (IIRC), but others were more optimistic and thought the EF-->RF transition would be slower, maybe rolling over 4-5 years. I was thinking somewhere in the middle.
They are starting to go quickly...
https://www.canonrumors.com/recently-discontinued-ef-lenses/
DLD was one who thought they were pretty much done immediately after the RF mount started to really get going (IIRC), but others were more optimistic and thought the EF-->RF transition would be slower, maybe rolling over 4-5 years. I was thinking somewhere in the middle.
They are starting to go quickly...
https://www.canonrumors.com/recently-discontinued-ef-lenses/
Canon controls its own product map, so if it decides that it needs to transition to mirrorless ASAP, that's what happens.
BTW, I was looking at the Nikon Rumors a couple of days ago and one of their readers did a nice story about his visit to a Tokyo photo-video store, especially their Nikon section (obviously, duh ... he wrote it for Nikon Rumors). Anyhow, the store looked professional but they still had a lot of Nikon DSLR's on display. Sony must have been the first to completely dump their Alpha line (after promising they wouldn't) but Canon is moving on with a rapid pace too.
Which leads me to a Tony & Chelsea video. Who does her hair?
PS. There are rumors that iPhone will have a periscope zoom beginning in 2023. They got into a litigation with Core Photonics that developed it. Core Photonics was then acquired by Samsung and, while Samsung does make some iPhone sensors, it has not licensed Apple the periscope zoom. Samsung did license it to the Chinese manufacturers.
PPS. Speaking of iPhones. A friend of mine's wife has one. A couple of days ago, she decided to capture a sunset off their 14th floor balcony. The problem was that she held the camera around her waistline and all she got was a photo of her balcony railing. If she were a great artist specializing in symbolism, one could have titled the photo, "Caged inside her own surroundings". But she just a poor photographer, for whom an iPhone is a surplus to the requirements.
BTW, I was looking at the Nikon Rumors a couple of days ago and one of their readers did a nice story about his visit to a Tokyo photo-video store, especially their Nikon section (obviously, duh ... he wrote it for Nikon Rumors). Anyhow, the store looked professional but they still had a lot of Nikon DSLR's on display. Sony must have been the first to completely dump their Alpha line (after promising they wouldn't) but Canon is moving on with a rapid pace too.
Which leads me to a Tony & Chelsea video. Who does her hair?
PS. There are rumors that iPhone will have a periscope zoom beginning in 2023. They got into a litigation with Core Photonics that developed it. Core Photonics was then acquired by Samsung and, while Samsung does make some iPhone sensors, it has not licensed Apple the periscope zoom. Samsung did license it to the Chinese manufacturers.
PPS. Speaking of iPhones. A friend of mine's wife has one. A couple of days ago, she decided to capture a sunset off their 14th floor balcony. The problem was that she held the camera around her waistline and all she got was a photo of her balcony railing. If she were a great artist specializing in symbolism, one could have titled the photo, "Caged inside her own surroundings". But she just a poor photographer, for whom an iPhone is a surplus to the requirements.
Her husband sells real estate and sometimes takes photos of listed properties with his iPhone. I told him, maybe a decade ago, "Walk over to the edge of the balcony and make sure that your photos have neither the railing nor the balcony above in the shot". He mostly understood why that was a good idea. She doesn't. She just pulls out the phone.
But her stills are less nauseating than her Ayrton Senna like whip pans in video.