Canon R5 Announced with 8k

John Brawley said:
The batteries are fine.

V-mount is a shitty mount.
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I'll admit it's not so much of a v lock as a v hug. But my 3 globalmediapro v-mounts are trucking along although one had 1 of its 2 dtap outlets malformed somehow (by me) and the dtap plug won't fit into that particular socket now
 
ahalpert said:
Interesting info Run&Gun - out of curiosity, have you ever heard of a bad battery breaking a camera? Hasn't happened to me yet knock on wood
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Not really, at least in the way you're probably thinking. But I did hear reports/rumors in the early 00's of some Sony Li-ion batts actually overheating and melting/fusing to the back of some SX or DigiBeta's, but I can't confirm definitively. This was also around the same time there were lot's of Li-ion battery meltdowns and fires.
 
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John Brawley said:
This is a very US centric view.

I worked for camera Rea to companies in the 90’s and for the rest of the world, and certainly Australia / UK it was all NP or BP90’s. And really mostly it was NPs. AB’s were considered “American” style and weren’t ever adopted widely at all. AB’s added too much cost and the battery chargers were a lot more expensive. No one used them in Oz. VLOCKS took over in the mid 90’s and are everywhere. They are the default battery. The brands mentioned made batteries in that mount too of course.

I’ve always preferred AB, but when in Rome...now especially that it’s so hard to transport batteries...

JB
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To be fair, I did state that I was referring to here in the US.
 
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NorBro said:
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It's not good how he says "to solve the wobble in the corners just zoom in." I know he's probably shaking the camera a lot when he's self-shooting but that IBIS performance seems mediocre and basically an unusable result there

Also I love it how he pans across a gray, cloudy landscape and says "look at that dynamic range!"

Lastly, at the risk of sounding like a jerk, I can't tolerate his enthusiasm level, even with the sound off. Either I need to come up or he needs to come down
 
True - IBIS behavior is one area that I think can see big improvements via firmware between then and now or going forward. Wobbling edges because it's wide angle doesn't really make sense to me. I'm more used to seeing vignetting popping in and out during IBIS if the lens is very wide

The enthusiasm - just a personal annoyance thing
 
I wanted to reword my post...but you posted already.

In general, as you know well, we just have to use the cameras ourselves to see if they are a good fit.
 
I was looking at the rolling shutter chart today here on DVXuser and thinking about the new Sony. It will be interesting to see if they have control over 4K FF 24p recording as none of their main video mirrorless' did any better than 25 ms so far. Cropped and HD modes are good/great though.
 
I could live with 25ms. I'm confused if the A7SIII will be quad Bayer or not. QB makes sense. But apparently even though sony makes QB smartphone sensors, they have switched to 12MP regular sensors in their latest smartphone flagships. And they can get blazing fast readout speeds that way. Which all sounds good to me, but would 4K flat resolution make it harder to hide phase detect pixels?
 
You're probably asking out loud to anyone, but personally I have no idea. A company's sensor technology and its potential isn't my field.
 
A handful of sensor problems in many cameras over the years have been lines in the image (vertical and/or horizontal, thin and/or thick).

I wish BMCuser was working to find one of the most bizarre ones I've ever seen in the URSA. The camera recorded a thin vertical part of the left side of the frame to the right side of the frame.
 
Would anyone be willing to trade a couple stops of dynamic range for global shutter?

DPReview: "Canon has told us to expect a one-stop increase in dynamic range versus the EOS R" (which is 13.5 stops). So the R5 should have 14.5 stops. I thought I remember that global shutter usually costs a couple stops, maybe even just 1.5. So that would back the R5 down to 12.5 or 13. That's Blackmagic Pocket territory, which looked fine to me.

I know it's, like, too late for the R5. But it's all I can do to cast my little vote, make some noise, rally support. Maybe someone will hear us. (I mean, there are salesmen on this forum.) Maybe cause global shutter to come to a few more cameras, a year or two sooner, than if we all do nothin'.
 
combatentropy said:
Would anyone be willing to trade a couple stops of dynamic range for global shutter?

DPReview: "Canon has told us to expect a one-stop increase in dynamic range versus the EOS R" (which is 13.5 stops). So the R5 should have 14.5 stops. I thought I remember that global shutter usually costs a couple stops, maybe even just 1.5. So that would back the R5 down to 12.5 or 13. That's Blackmagic Pocket territory, which looked fine to me.

I know it's, like, too late for the R5. But it's all I can do to cast my little vote, make some noise, rally support. Maybe someone will hear us. (I mean, there are salesmen on this forum.) Maybe cause global shutter to come to a few more cameras, a year or two sooner, than if we all do nothin'.
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I’m half way with you. If the Rolling shutter is less than 20ms or whatever, i might like the extra stop and a half, but i’d go for a 12stop global shutter camera over a 13.5 stop 27ms rolling shutter ANY DAY!
 
combatentropy said:
Would anyone be willing to trade a couple stops of dynamic range for global shutter?

DPReview: "Canon has told us to expect a one-stop increase in dynamic range versus the EOS R" (which is 13.5 stops). So the R5 should have 14.5 stops. I thought I remember that global shutter usually costs a couple stops, maybe even just 1.5. So that would back the R5 down to 12.5 or 13. That's Blackmagic Pocket territory, which looked fine to me.

I know it's, like, too late for the R5. But it's all I can do to cast my little vote, make some noise, rally support. Maybe someone will hear us. (I mean, there are salesmen on this forum.) Maybe cause global shutter to come to a few more cameras, a year or two sooner, than if we all do nothin'.
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I think it's generally considered a stop difference. And I would take the stop trade anyday(and have, I have an F55 and am seriously considering the Komodo). Especially now, as good as most cameras are in the DR dept. Of course, there are always those that won't be happy until they don't have to light anything and the image will look just like it does in their brain.

And honestly, global shutter makes perfect sense on mirrorless cameras. They can get rid of the physical shutter, then.
 
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