I recently had the opportunity to ask Yosuke Yamane-san some questions about the current and future Panasonic line-up, including the upcoming GH6 and how Panasonic can continue to build on the success of the S1, S5 and S1H with new video features. Mr Yamane is Director of Panasonic’s Imaging Division.

Congratulations with the GH6 development announcement. I highly anticipate more news! What has been the most popular feature request from filmmakers? Is the GH6 also aimed at enthusiasts – or only professionals?

Thank you very much. We are proceeding the development, so that the GH6 can be delivered to creators as soon as possible. 

What is most requested by professional video producers, is high editing tolerance that can meet the demands of various clients, high video expressiveness even without post production and reliability to endure long recording sessions on location.

Continue reading An EOSHD Interview with Yosuke Yamane – Are Panasonic working on an L-mount cinema camera? at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

It is time for another EOSHD weekend sale, and this time you get the new EOSHD Dynamic Range Enhancer LUT + Guide for free as well as free EOSHD Pro Audio plugins with selected sale purchases.

Canikon special!

Both C-LOG and Z-LOG for just $20

661MB download!

Get both the amazing EOSHD C-LOG and Film Simulation Picture Profiles for Canon, and Z-LOG for Nikon cameras which adds internal LOG recording to their mirrorless and DSLR cameras. PLUS:

+ FREE EOSHD Dynamic Range Enhancer

+ FREE EOSHD Pro Audio Plugin (Premiere and FCPX)

Find out more about the EOSHD Dynamic Range Enhancer

• Prevent clipped highlights and shadows in post

Find out more about EOSHD Pro Audio Plugin

• EOSHD Pro Audio is a set of plugins to clean up and enhance in-camera audio recorded with either the internal stereo mic or an external mic like the Rode Video Mic

Sony Special!

Continue reading Summer sale! EOSHD offers – Big $20 bundles and get FREE Dynamic Range Enhancer & Audio Plugins at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

Everyone who purchases Pro Color 5 or EOSHD C-LOG this weekend starting from today, will have up to 50% off the purchase price until Sunday 11th July and a voucher code with each purchase which can be used to download up to FIVE free EOSHD Shooter’s Guides.

I am also offering a lower price on the new EOSHD Dynamic Range Enhancer LUTs. These enable you to recover lost shadow and highlight details in all H.264 and H.265 footage especially if you’re using a non-Apple M1 processor (Intel, AMD, etc.) and Adobe Premiere to edit with.

Here are the new prices for all my sale items at EOSHD:

Pro Color 5 for Sony Mirrorless Cameras: $21.99 (was $29.99)

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Dynamic Range Enhancer: $14.99 (was $19.99)

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C-LOG for Canon Mirrorless and DSLRs: $12.45 (HALF PRICE!!)

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Z-LOG for Nikon Z6 / Z6 II / Z7 / Z7 II and DSLRs like the D850: $14.99 (was $24.99)

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If you purchase any of the above, you can then download all 5 free EOSHD Shooter’s Guides.

Continue reading The EOSHD Weekend Sale – 25% off new Pro Color 5 and C-LOG for just $12.45 – PLUS 5 FREE Shooter’s Guides! at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

Shopping and conformity, these are the last pleasures we have left! So why can’t we all just sit down and watch a video any more without getting incredibly angry?

Continue reading EOSHD on YouTube – A Brave New Chris and Jordan at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

Where have all the Super 16mm digital cinema cameras gone?

Continue reading Digital Bolex D16 – Dream Theatre at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

More popular than Madonna, Peter McKinnon nevertheless now has the huge challenge of keeping his EOS R5 cool during the 50c Canadian Summer.

Continue reading Peter McKinnon – Just Another Humble Canadian YouTuber at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

There are some things in life that are only highly rated in your head and yours alone. You stand drowning in a sea of indifference, trying to convince the resident Kanye West mouthbreather to listen Dream Theater’s first album. With cameras for example, I’ve stood in the sea of indifference myself for a long time with the waves of stupidity lapping at my feet, making my socks all damp, as I try to convince the mainstream that Sony is not your best buddy, despite what Gerald says and that Canon is not the messiah but a very naughty boy!

So here are my top 5 most under appreciated cameras of the current era.

Please read on. Reading is also very underrated!

Taking into account both stills AND video, but especially image quality and value for money for filmmakers, let’s count down to my most underrated camera choice of 2021…

FIVE
Panasonic S1R

For video and stills the S1R is basically the Leica SL2 at less than half the price. 

Continue reading What are the 5 most UNDERRATED cameras for filmmakers? at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

Nikon today launched the Z Fc. Formerly the Df retro plastic camera, Nikon has improved the concept with even more plastic and a smaller sensor. You can feel the retro authenticity during each buzz of the power zoom and the flappy plastic concealing a port used for live streaming. It’s every film camera shooter’s dream Minox Nikon!

Continue reading Nikon Z Fc… Welcome to the Minox Z50 at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

Maybe you have unfollowed some shills and want somebody a bit more authentic, a bit less ego, with more humour, less shilling. Many slow-motion road crossing shots. Who do you follow? Here’s who I recommend to follow for run & gun video shooters.

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Maker of microwaves, dabbler in tanks, God of an entire galaxy of smartphones Samsung left the camera industry many years ago. So why do I still love the NX1 so much?

NSFW as contains occasional strong word!

All footage shot on the NX1 by Andrew Reid. Check out my EOSHD Shooter’s Guide for the Samsung NX1 here to get a comprehensive impression of the camera and how to set it up for filmmaking!

Continue reading What the Samsung NX1 teaches Canikon at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

Everybody loves Mr Undone. The YouTube bros line up around the block to circle jerk with handsome Gerald, but I for the life of me cannot find any of the great guru’s cinematic work!

Continue reading The Gerald Undone Challenge at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

Does David Lynch think a yappy assistant is trouble? Try getting clawed in the neck on both sides from Canon fanboys and Philip Bloom sheeples.

Continue reading Death by 1000 Canon Fanboys and Philip Bloomers at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

A tale of broken promises and a resistance to fixing fundamental problems.

Is this how PR works in the camera industry? Promise a factory visit (twice), hand out a free battery grip but whatever you do, don’t fix the product!

Continue reading EOSHD on YouTube – Leica SL2 – a PR offensive but still no fix for video mode at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

I recently found a disturbing issue with the EOS R6 when used with an external mic and an external USB C power supply connected to the camera.

Check it out on my new YouTube channel and don’t forget to like, subscribe, hit the notification bell and admire my amazingly dramatic thumbnail expression.

Continue reading EOSHD on YouTube – a major Canon EOS R6 audio input problem at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

I take a look at what’s been going on in cameras this week, with some thoughts on the GFX 100, EOS R6, Panasonic S1H and other “goings-on”. Caution: some strong(ish) language.

For more on my Hasselblad adventures see my review of the H3D II with HUGE Kodak CCD sensor:

My guide to buying a cheap Hasselblad medium format camera

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Above: The new Fuji X-S10 and Canon EOS R6 10bit mirrorless cameras do not play well with Adobe Premiere Pro.

Fuji users have probably – 90% of them – not been seeing the true capabilities of their cameras, because Adobe Premiere’s hardware acceleration doesn’t interpret the files correctly. As the EOSHD Dynamic Range Enhancer shows by fixing this, the full range 10bit H.265 files are heavily clipped in both the shadows and highlights. With the M1 processor, this seems to be improved due to Apple’s new hardware acceleration but the issue has been plaguing Fuji users for years on Intel, Nvidia and AMD systems. You can find out more about the EOSHD Dynamic Range Enhancer download here.

The other problem with Adobe Premiere is the lack of hardware acceleration for Canon’s 10bit 4:2:2 H.265. This is the format Canon has used for C-LOG recording on the new mirrorless cameras like the EOS R5, and the Cinema EOS C70.

Continue reading When will Adobe fix Premiere? It kills Fuji footage and can’t edit Canon 10bit C-LOG! at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

Here are some shots I recently took with my GFX 100 and 32-64mm F4. We’ll also compare it with the 50mm F3.5 pancake.

It is sharper than a prime and has nicer bokeh than a prime.

Zooms have come a long way.

Here we explore the GF 32-64MM F4, which in full frame equivalent terms is a 25-51mm F3.2. This doesn’t really mean a lot, because medium format at 100 megapixel can easily be cropped to full frame and maintain 70 megapixels. It is all formats in one – even Micro Four Thirds if you want to keep diving deeper into the frame!

Wide open, the lens is of course sharp right across the frame and into the corners.

The above shot of the forest landscape shows this.

To get an idea of the resolving power of the lens, I usually take a brightly lit high contrast subject as this will reveal any ghosting or chromatic aberration.

Continue reading Fuji GF 32-64mm F4: Thoughts on a powerhouse of a lens at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

The EOS R3 is rumoured to feature the 30.38 megapixel sensor detailed here. That makes it the first Canon flagship EOS camera to use an off the shelf sensor from Sony.

Canon has used Sony sensors in the past on some cameras. Notably I believe Canon are a customer for the off the shelf 20 megapixel 1″ sensor in cameras like the G7x Mark II for example.

But this is the first time Canon has had to go to Sony for a modern flagship EOS camera, to tap the company’s back-illuminated stacked sensor technology.

It must work out more economical to buy the sensor from Sony than to develop the same thing themselves and license all the patents.

Still, a sign of the times.

This means that essentially the images coming out of the Canon EOS R3 are Sony images.

Continue reading Canon EOS R3 sensor leaks – And it’s a Sony! at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

Above: One of my stills shot on the EOS R6.

Limited dynamic range, heavy rolling shutter, line skipping in 4K/60p and a crop of the edges of the sensor. The EOS R6 is a car crash of market segmentation.

Earlier in the year a Canon executive did an interview where he seemed to lay the blame at our door for the bad reputation of their own product.

At least in the Japanese translation, the executive said that video shooters weren’t exactly driving the reputation of the EOS R5, in a veiled reference to the overheating controversy.

Well I’m sorry but if Canon wouldn’t keep ripping us off then I wouldn’t have the opinion I do. It would be very different and I’d own a lot more Canon gear.

The biggest mystery for me during my first impressions of the EOS R6, is why they had to go backwards in so many areas from the cheaper and 2 years older camera, the original EOS R.

Continue reading I just don’t get it. Why did Canon remove EOS R features on the more expensive EOS R6? at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.

Available now – just $19.99!

Are you seeing the full dynamic range of your files?

One of the most common video problems today is the destructive clipping of shadows and highlights in post. The cause can be a range of complex hardware and software issues. Rather than pull one’s hair out in trying to find a solution, the EOSHD Dynamic Range Enhancer LUT offers a quick and easy fix.

The download contains four LUTs to fix dynamic range on your timeline, and a test to determine if you have the problem. The included user guide and further content helps guide you quickly through the process.

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Continue reading EOSHD Dynamic Range Enhancer for H.264 / H.265 at EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews.