For your Photoshop grading pleasure here are some original Cinema DNG frames hot off the newly updated Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera. “A raw video monster in your pocket”. These are the new...
https://www.eoshd.com/news/8-cinema-dng-shots-blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera-raw/
Download now (Mirror provided by Copy – sign up and get 20GB free storage. Better than Dropbox) The BMCC 2.5K EF and mFT cameras are now in-stock at Hot Rod Cameras, where you can also pre-orde...
https://www.eoshd.com/news/first-prores-files-from-the-blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera-released/
Avoid the inevitable price rises and buy your 50D now on eBay It seems the 50D is the best Super 35mm DSLR for raw video from Canon. The sensor resolves very clean highly detailed raw video with ...
https://www.eoshd.com/news/it-lives-5-year-old-350-canon-50d-becomes-raw-cinema-monster/
Download my full resolution 6000×4000 photos from the Sony RX1 The Sony RX1 is a compact camera that beats Leica and Hasselblad for image quality. $2800 may seem a lot for a “compact” but th...
The Flare Factory 58 is modified lens by fellow British filmmaker Richard Gale, and a regular member of the EOSHD forum. A few weeks go Rich sent me one of the first of the lenses, a Flare Facto...
http://vimeo.com/61304882 Catch the EOSHD interview with Leica’s Jesko von Oeynhausenand and hands-on with the Leica M type 240 here The new Leica M (dubbed type 240) has a CMOSIS full frame se...
https://www.eoshd.com/news/new-leica-m-with-1080p-out-in-the-wild-and-first-look-at-video-quality/
An exploded view of the A99 at Photokina Whilst I was able to record some footage from the Sony A99 at Photokina I didn’t really have any spare time to do much with one. The camera to me seems ...
http://vimeo.com/50210718 One of the highlights of Photokina 2012 was meeting up with SLR Magic, the small but nimble optics company based in Hong Kong. They brought out one of the first proper f...
https://www.eoshd.com/news/shooting-with-the-new-slr-magic-35mm-t0-95-and-t1-4-prototype-lenses/
This much anticipated ‘Chinese Alexa’ basic kit has been officially priced for pre-orders at a shocking $6300. This Alexa clone is a full $64,000 cheaper than Arri’s cinematic offering. The...
https://www.eoshd.com/news/kineraw-s35-priced-to-kill-2k-12bit-raw-from-4k-sensor-for-6k/
http://vimeo.com/46037469 Journey – by Andrew Reid Does the new OM-D E-M5 manage to produce a GH2 style virtuoso performance in video mode? I have to say there are some question marks over that...
KineRAW tester Dan Hudgins has kindly updated us with new photos of the KineRAW S35 and downloadable raw CineForm clips on the EOSHD forum. This camera is shaping up nicely to be China’s answer...
https://www.eoshd.com/news/download-raw-footage-from-the-kineraw-s35/
Canon’s first ever pancake has been cooked up. Is it sweet or a bit crêpe? EOSHD takes a look. Even with the race to downsize camera bodies, pancakes remain a rarity in the camera kitchen. Can...
https://www.eoshd.com/review/canon-ef-40mm-f2-8-pancake-review/
Go here to read DPReview’s look at the D800E movie mode vs the standard D800 Please bear in mind the situation can be improved dramatically by the right in-camera picture settings and Mosaic E...
https://www.eoshd.com/news/a-detailed-look-at-how-the-nikon-d800e-performs-for-video/
Here are some frame grabs from the JVC HMQ10 4K camera which is the first semi-pro 4K camera, that breaks under the £4K mark. The frame size is 3840×2160 and it is the biggest step up in resolu...
https://www.eoshd.com/news/4k-for-4k-sample-frames-from-the-jvc-hmq10/
It is a testament to how demanding the camera market place is of manufacturers at the moment that Canon could bring out a large sensor compact like the G1 X and for me to have quite a few major g...
https://www.eoshd.com/review/canon-powershot-g1-x-review-part-1/
http://vimeo.com/37879608 Here is a shot from Japan which was shot with both the 5D Mark II and 5D Mark III (with beta firmware) by a camera reviewer. The cleanness and lack of noise is something...
https://www.eoshd.com/news/astonishing-canon-5d-mark-iii-iso-12800-video/
As good as Canon’s renowned 24mm F1.4L? From Samyang? Maybe the title of the lens gives us a clue… AS IF. In turns out those misguided initials aren’t such a bad omen but the lens – at $8...
https://www.eoshd.com/review/samyang-24mm-f1-4-ed-as-if-review/
http://vimeo.com/36117747 Thanks mainly to the unexpected success of their NEX line of consumer mirrorless cameras, Sony are probably the only company to realise the truth about mirrorless and it...
https://www.eoshd.com/review/sony-nex-7-video-mode-first-impressions-review/
Don’t forget to download the original videos and view full screen The G1X is the first of Canon’s large sensor cameras to use their long awaited DIGIC 5 image processor. 3 years in the making...
https://www.eoshd.com/news/canon-g1x-video-samples-digic-5-im-not-impressed/
http://vimeo.com/29524740 Buy it now (in US) Grab the new EOSHD Anamorphic Shooter’s Guide 2nd Edition just $19.99! The Cinemorph adapter is a very simple custom built filter for $140 + shippin...
https://www.eoshd.com/news/sneaking-in-the-anamorphic-back-door-with-cinemorph/
More Nikon 1 images at Lenses.fr (French website) In an interview with Imaging-Resource, Nikon general manager of R&D said that image quality (not size) was the number one priority for the Nikon ...
Fuji had a preproduction X10 (a baby X100) at the IFA show today. This is a superb compact which does 1080p and I think they have bettered the Canon G12. The first thing I noticed was a lack of p...
https://www.eoshd.com/review/fuji-x10-compact-first-impressions-and-iso-test/
https://www.vimeo.com/28529236 EOSHD is now a Digital Photography Review contributor. Read my full IFA 2011 show report at DPReview.com here. After a lot of Dear Sony letters they have finally en...
https://www.eoshd.com/review/sony-nex-5n-review-and-video-footage/
(Click the ISO 12,800 sample image above to enlarge to 1:1). Original samples from http://www.imaging-resource.com Will Sony’s decision to put 24MP in the NEX 7 and A77 backfire? It certainly ...
https://www.eoshd.com/news/which-is-best-for-low-light-sony-nex-5n-or-nex-7-and-a77/
If you are interested in how the GH2 and 60D (ditto 600D) stack up for stills as well as video check out these articles I wrote for DigitalRev. It’s a 2 part comparison but part 1 has an empha...
https://www.eoshd.com/review/eoshd-digitalrev-canon-60d-panasonic-gh2-review/
http://www.vimeo.com/24747873 Buy it now – Sony HX9v This is what happens when you don’t overhaul your imaging chips for 3 years, Canon. The new Sony HX9v compact out-resolves the 600D’s vi...
https://www.eoshd.com/review/sony-hx9v-vs-canon-600d-dslr-gets-beat-by-compact-in-video-mode/
http://vimeo.com/24267793 Here is some nicely shot G3 footage, seems to have been shot in 720/50p mode. 720p on the G3 is roughly equivalent in resolution to 1080p on the Canon 5D Mark II. The G3...
Looking back at my photography I think over half of the shots I really treasure are from my iPhone, which is quite amazing for a fixed lens camera with a tiny sensor and no manual control. I love...
Right now a lot of DSLR reviews mislead on high ISO noise. For example most recent Nikon D5100 reviews have a range of cropped colour chart samples shot under bright studio lights at different IS...
The Canon 600D review – or should I say, the Canon 60D review revisited. There is no denying that the 600D is a very similar camera but that it also brings some new features not seen in the 550...