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AI Armageddon – ChatGPT CEO Sam Altman Is Prepared. Are you?

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:20:18 +0200

AI’s makers intend to save you from themselves by fleeing. Meanwhile, EOSHD wonders if Bjork would make it today in a world of A.I. generated content?

A.I. How Does Millie Expect To Make Any Money Now?

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:56:37 +0200

Has the democratisation of filmmaking and photography with accessible technology and A.I. GONE TOO FAR? JOIN the new website from EOSHD! https://www.photocamerareview.com

Sony ZV-E1 – Full Goblin Mode

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 03:31:14 +0200

Sony have made the unbelievable believable – their colour is now even worse! Don’t forget to check out the latest EOSHD Pro Color 5 if you don’t want to look like a gremlin: https://www.eoshd.com/eoshd-pro-color-5/

EOSHD TV – BYE BYE goes DPReview!

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 04:01:40 +0200

Someone should tell Jeff in space that bad things are going on at Earth. That said, Photo Camera Review by EOSHD is coming to fill the gap so everything is alright now https://www.photocamerareview.com

Why the camera industry bears ultimate responsibility for DPReview’s closure

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:15:05 +0200

The marketing gurus at the major camera manufacturers are obsessed with social media personalities. It’s time they started rewarding the written word again and quality journalism. Social media influencers will one day go out of fashion. The only constant is written information. There are books over 2000 years old that are huge influencers today, whereas influential TV shows go back a few years at best. DPReview is the equivalent of the Bible for digital cameras. Why does everything have to be dumbed down to the level of TV? DPReview is our loss, but also the camera industry’s loss. It has ...

Amazon closing DPReview – Is 25 years of camera knowledge in the bin?

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:25:42 +0200

Dear Amazon. DPReview is not a pair of underpants a customer sent back that you will now toss into the mountain of unwanted products at the back of the warehouse soon to be taken to landfill on a dying planet. DPReview belongs back in the community. This site belongs with *us* the camera community and I don’t care at all that Amazon paid a nominal sum for the website in the heyday of the DSLR revolution, it is pocket change for them, genuinely valuable for us, and besides OUR culture is not yours to vandalise or chuck in the trash. ...

What’s best out of the new releases? Comparing the Canon EOS R7, R10, Fuji X-H2 & Panasonic S5 II

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 21:49:32 +0200

Hello, and an introduction for those coming from YouTube. This is a written piece of information, which features words. Although words are a way of getting information across quickly, I do understand that some may not have the attention span longer than 5 seconds any more. So I have kept things short this time. If you need to read for longer than 5 minutes, this may bring you to the part of the screen you might not be familiar with, known as the bottom. Don’t be scared. I recommend some matchsticks in the eyes to keep them open, I always ...

Introducing the EOSHD Gear Store on eBay

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:09:26 +0200

Do go ahead and take a look at the wide range of cameras and lenses I am selling. https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/eoshd The store is on eBay UK at the moment. UK customers can simply click Buy It Now and I will deliver the next day. If you are outside of the UK and are interested in any of the equipment, just contact me and we can arrange shipping. A few of the very high value items like the Cooke S4i cinema lens, Leica Noctilux and Iscorama 36 anamorphic are listed for pick up but shipping can also be arranged for these. You ...

A look at the Pentax K-1: Why I’m not over DSLRs for photography

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 17:54:35 +0200

The true test of how much you love something is to spend endless days away from it. Only after doing that can you really feel your appreciation of it. It can easily be measured by how much you miss it. So it seems, I really miss the humble DSLR. From the Canon 1D C to the Nikon D850, and in hindsight the Sony A900 and Pentax-K1, all these cameras feel nicer in my hands than a mirrorless camera. Less cheap feeling, more substantial, better grip, better viewfinder and a much more satisfying and crunchy shutter mechanism. Long live the DSLR. ...

Controversy at the BBC and impartiality’s true meaning

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 17:01:29 +0200

The idea of editorial independence was enshrined in the BBC’s founding Royal Charter in 1927, which stated the corporation should be “independent in all matters of internal control.” This was a way of ensuring the BBC’s coverage was not subject to political interference or pressure from any external sources such as the government. Now the editorial independence of the BBC is at best completely neutered by the Conservative Party. Many talented journalists have left. In many respects the best news organisation in the world has taken to sourcing stories purely from Twitter and social media. At the founding of the ...

Why does Fujifilm cripple my memory card in other cameras?

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 01:01:39 +0200

It’s one of the enduring mysteries of our times. Why does Fuji want to render your card unusable in other cameras? As someone with a lot of cameras can attest, the dreaded “card full” message can pop up a lot. But the card isn’t full, so what’s going on? The answer is that it merely contains a folder from one of my Fujifilm mirrorless cameras. This one folder is enough to send all the other cameras on the market into a tailspin. 999_FUJI For some reason Fuji insists on creating a folder called 999_FUJI on cards that have any other ...

"Creator” replaces "filmmaker” – Meet thy creator

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:35:26 +0200

Language – the pulse of any culture. What better way to check the vital signs of ours. When our language (and music) turns ugly we know there’s going to be trouble ahead. Fall of the Roman Empire style. The bad news is that filmmakers and photographers seem to be on the way out, to be replaced by something altogether more homogenous – the “content creator” or simply “creator”. Why specialise when you can just “create”? A creator is neither a filmmaker or photographer – maybe they’ve merged into a hybrid? A creator is not the same thing as a writer, ...

How’s AI’s camera knowledge? Unhinged ChatGPT libels EOSHD and makes up controversies

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:42:22 +0200

Clearly overhyped, but with strong long term potential to destroy the planet, AI natural language chatbots have taken 2023 by storm. I admit, it’s an entertaining spectacle. They’re fantastic at certain things and it’s nice to see a new type of tool born, but I can’t help feeling it is capable of wildly fantasying about things that never happened. I also think there is no way a large company like Microsoft or Google will truly let this technology off the hook and it will be incredibly heavily censored. This means first prize in AI will go to a startup and ...

Is N-RAW real RAW? Nikon Z9 under the spotlight at EOSHD

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 01:35:34 +0200

It is time for a good old fashioned EOSHD article. Everything you’ve seen so far on YouTube is meaningless – yes it is. Comparing one shot to another this way is no longer representative of the camera. Our camera’s capabilities far outstrips what you can see via YouTube. At best it’s a comparison of grading styles. Back in the days before LOG recording, your camera’s colour science was baked in and you were reliant on it. Since then, most footage looks very similar in LOG before it’s graded, and the main difference you’ll see on YouTube is how two cameras ...

The AI / ChatGPT future of search – Theft of the century?

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:08:33 +0200

With EOSHD being here for over 12 years a lot of what this blog published about mirrorless cameras, filmmaking and gear has been noted not just by other filmmakers, but by the great supernatural intelligence in the sky. My knowledge along with yours, forms parts of the ones and zeros in enormous AI models that are worth $1 billion to companies like Microsoft and in future $500 billion. Amazingly they did not seek permission to use our knowledge, let alone pay for it. Indeed OpenAI and the other models have received trillions of man-hours of training for free. I am ...

Sony A7R V and the curious case of a disappearing dial – Also, is Twitter all over?

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:25:48 +0200

On this official image from Sony’s website, the A7R V appears to sport the lovely top-left dial from the A1… Until it doesn’t! What happened to Jonny dial? Kidnapped, or run away to the circus? Meanwhile, speaking of disappearing things – is Twitter in trouble? These and more thoughts on EOSHD coming your way… The 8K world is hotting up, and there’s options at all price ranges now. In the affordable corner we have the excellent Fuji X-H2 (currently at EOSHD for review), which can be had for under $2000. At the top end we have the Nikon Z9 with ...

My sister Zara Reid is in end-of-life care for cancer

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:53:31 +0200

Help support EOSHD at this difficult time by pre-ordering the EOSHD Panasonic GH6 Shooter’s Guide or donating an amount of your choice here. 10% of the proceeds will go to the cancer charity St Luke’s Hospice in the UK. When I went to see Panasonic in London earlier this year, things were on the up after a long pandemic. I remember saying to folks – wouldn’t it be great if after the last few years the drama could began to settle down. In August my sister was diagnosed with an aggressive form of BRAF-mutation colon cancer. It has spread to her ...

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EOSHD eBay Store UK now open – Huge gear sale with some surprises in store!

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:37:48 +0200

I am having a big gear sale at the moment of nearly half my cameras and lenses. Some long held treasure is now up for sale such as Iscorama anamorphic lenses, my Panasonic GH5S, Samsung NX1, Blackmagic Pocket 4K, Olympus OM-1 (now sold), Panasonic S1 and Fuji X-T4, plus rarities like my Cooke cinema lenses, Leica M8, Leica Noctilux and more. All are now up on eBay for shipping within the UK. (You can also contact me about shipping in Europe and worldwide). So take a look at the EOSHD eBay Store here! Full item list view Please don’t hesitate ...

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One step closer to WWIII – Throwback to my Taiwan footage and experience living there

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 12:54:45 +0200

This blog began 12 years ago in Taiwan, 2010. I was living there and had just got the Panasonic GH1 from the local family run dealer on a street I called “Camera Avenue” because it had about 40 camera stores all independently run and all in one place in downtown Taipei. Learning about the fascinating history of the island from my girlfriend and her father, who served in the military under rule Chiang Kai-shek, I shot the four pieces you see on this page. Make sure you have the sound on. Had Chiang Kai-shek won the civil war in China, modern-day history ...

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Smartphones and their growing threat to mirrorless cameras – 2022 edition

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:52:34 +0200

With the wholesale shift to mirrorless cameras (Pentax?) the camera world probably thinks it has finally modernised and cosigned the old flappy mirror technology to history (although my Canon 1D C would like a word). But now there is a new threat to the high end camera market and this time not from itself. Sensors in smartphones are getting larger. Much larger. The progress in the last 7 years is remarkable (as my chart above shows). Smartphones have caught up and surpassed Super 16mm. Is Super 35mm next? Since the iPhone 6 we have gone from main camera modules that ...

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