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Which camera websites spy on you? Each site ranked for privacy and trackers in Safari 14

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:20:58 GMT

One of the great features Apple has introduced lately is to prevent tracking scripts following you as you browse the web, creating personal data profiles that are sold to advertisers. Advertises bid for banners on nearly all camera-related websites. In order to target the right people and bid for the most compelling slots, they need to know who is watching. Web surfing history and private user information is used to build a unique profile of you. It’s a very unethical practice and one of the reasons I do not run advertising tracking cookies or auction ad-space on EOSHD. I just ...

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The genius of Ben Kingsley

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:19:36 GMT

Recently I re-watched one of my all-time favourites of Kingsley’s movies “Sexy Beast”. This film is a gem. He plays tense, psychotic London gangster “Don”. It is the character people will always compare to his most famous role as Ghandi if only to demonstrate the sheer range of the guy, but for me the true genius of Kingsley is his fierce intelligence and originality – how he has a knack for making performances so memorable. The video above is a great watch. I liked his account of Martin Scorsese’s working methods. That he trusts his actors to deliver, giving them ...

Who will kill filmmaking first?

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:01:46 GMT

Is there No Limit to our suffering. Locked in a race as to who can kill the arts first, we bear witness to a gargantuan dick swinging contest fought between haphazard bureaucrats in government and a deadly bat pathogen. The fight is escalating with no end in sight, but one thing is for sure – corporate America will profit endlessly. The psychological side of coronavirus I find very interesting. Are you cracking yet? I am! It is in no doubt a real and dangerous virus which kills many, many people. It is also true that government lockdowns break people in their ...

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Wonder Woman 1984 movie review – crimes against men and children

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 14:25:25 GMT

From the moment 11-year old Gal Gadot nearly gets her head sliced off by a giant pendulum, the tone is set. This is a film about complete bollocks. It isn’t even art. I can’t relate to, or enjoy any character. They are all selfish, privileged, shallow people. Yet Wonder Woman 1984 has nailed itself to gender equality, and female identity, thus putting itself beyond criticism. WW84 starts right away in the spirit of equality and women’s rights. Yes, the opening scene is a fitness pageant. The winner being the one who can jump, leap, ride and shoot their way to ...

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Andrew Reid on Filmmaking: When the truth is so awful, only liars win

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 21:10:39 GMT

Here begins a series of blog thoughts from me on the state of the world and filmmaking in 2021, after humanity decided to go headlong into a full dystopia like you see in the movies. There will in the future be many great cinematic masterpieces about our plight as citizens in the year 2020. Anyone who has seen Black Mirror writer Charlie Brooker’s “Death to 2020” on Netflix can see for themselves the historic plot twists and sheer lunacy of what we’ve been going through the past year. The overriding themes for me are very interesting and the basis probably for ...

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A review of the year 2020, by Andrew Reid

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 19:17:43 GMT

Top new cameras of 2020 (My picks) Sony A7S III // 4K 120fps Fuji X-T4 // King of APS-C Panasonic S5 // Value for money Leica SL2-S // Best Leica ever made for videography 2020 has been a very challenging year for us all, made worse by celebrities parading around on social media trying to help us feel better. Some of us lost our livelihoods this year, and after seeing Wonder Woman 1984, some lost the will to live. Here at EOSHD, I like to think of 2020 as being an unqualified success. I have been sat on the sofa ...

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Camera industry is in crisis. What happens next?

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:16:24 GMT

Camera manufacturers are in a race to diversify, gradually leaving behind the traditional camera business. We’re in for a bit of a rollercoaster ride next year. Although sales have bounced back in China already after the Coronavirus pandemic, Japanese analysts have predicted a massive 40% decrease in shipments for 2020 compared to 2019. This comes on the back of several years of lower shipments already. What happens next to your favourite camera company? EOSHD takes a look at the main players, how they are changing, and what they may do next – Some predict the camera industry is due for a big ...

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Canon to supply other companies with CMOS sensors, joining Sony

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 15:46:13 GMT

For a long time, Canon’s in-house sensor division has made CMOS sensors for Canon’s camera business but now the company has set up a business website for a selection of image sensors they’re selling to external customers. Two APS-H sensors of very high megapixel counts could see scientific use. A global shutter sensor (small 2/3 inch) and a 1/1.8″ HDR sensor join the party. The choice of sensor on supply hints at the kind of usage – very high resolution capture for industrial and scientific machine vision, and different sensors for very low light capture with global shutter, destined for ...

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Christopher Nolan’s fury at Warner in streaming controversy –"They didn’t tell anybody”

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 16:35:26 GMT

The cinema industry is set for a huge shake-up. Coming to a sofa near you – Matrix 4. Wonder Woman 1984 (although not in 4K). Soon there will be no reason to leave the house. Oh wait – there isn’t already! Now cinema has been dealt a massive blow by one of the largest studios themselves. A classic case of shooting themselves in the foot. According to Nolan, none of the talent were consulted on the move to bring Warner’s top cinematic releases to streaming service HBO Max, leaving cinemas for dead. And let’s face it, this service isn’t exactly ...

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Photokina show terminated after 70 years

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:35:00 GMT

The historic photographic industry exhibition Photokina is over. Management blame the decline of the camera industry, and couldn’t even organise a show for 2022 by which time the pandemic will be well under control. This news is extremely sad, and hardly satisfactory that the camera companies and Photokina management couldn’t work something out. Here’s what the exhibition space CEO had to say on the situation: In view of the further massive decline in markets for imaging products, Koelnmesse has decided to discontinue organising photokina at its Cologne location for the time being. “This hard cut after a 70-year shared history ...

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Nikon facing serious crisis in chipmaking – as well as camera business

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 14:39:30 GMT

Nikon has seen huge financial losses this year, and it isn’t just the camera business that’s in trouble. Nikon’s other core business, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, supplies 70-90% of their chipmaking machines to Intel – but the US company’s investment in the machinery has run its course. To make matters worse, Nikon’s management baulked at investing large sums in next generation extreme ultraviolet lithography technology – a significant growth area. According to Nikkei, Nikon now plans to cut 2000 jobs – around 10% of its workforce. Once the market leading in chipmaking machines, Nikon has fallen to just 7% of the ...

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Pro camcorder ergonomics are overdue a big change

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:36:15 GMT

The FX6 slogan should be Miss Every Shot (while fiddling with the menus). The whole concept needs a revamp and a rethink. Blackmagic almost managed it with their touchscreen UI. The URSA pedalled back into nightmarish button mashing. Now in 2020, the Sony FX6 exemplifies the kind of slow, 1990’s user interface on offer… Learn how to shoot 240fps with the all new #SonyFX6. Adjust slow and quick (S&Q) mode up to 240fps all while keeping AF engaged. #SonyCine pic.twitter.com/G9oPAUMncO — Sony | Cine (@SonyCine) November 19, 2020 What you see above is a monstrosity of stupid design. The number ...

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Does dual native ISO on the Panasonic S5 beat the Sony A7S III in low light?

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:05:37 GMT

The Sony A7S series has always been considered the leader in low light at very high ISOs. But at just 12 megapixels, it’s a big sacrifice in resolution to get there especially in the 8K age. The main thing that strikes me about the current 24 megapixel full frame sensors is they are CLEAN. Certainly ISO 3200 on my Panasonic S5 looks very similarly clean to ISO 3200 on the new Sony A7S III. I’ll be exploring this with my own test soon. First to help us get our head around what Dual Native ISO is, the video above is ...

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Priced to fail and shackled to Adobe – The Zeiss ZX1

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:45:22 GMT

The ZX1 is a great concept, and a beautiful piece of German industrial design. It hurts to see it so poorly marketed. What is it about the dated Android capabilities of the ZX1 that makes I worth $6000, and even more than the Leica Q2? Smartphones give you the latest processor and computational photography. The ZX1 gives you…. erm… Lightroom. Which of course you can install on a smartphone too. The big difference here is that it is paired with a 36MP full frame sensor, and what looks like the same lens as the Sony RX1. It’s a nice one ...

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Sony FX6 is here, but will you still have a job to go with it?

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:06:23 GMT

Sony have released their latest pandemic camera. The FX6 is a cut down FX9 priced at $6K. Image quality and frame rates are pretty much the same as the A7S III, but due to an even lower resolution sensor there is no 4K in Super 35mm mode. It has no IBIS, no EVF and a horrible small pokey touch screen. The controls are from the 1990’s. There is no anamorphic or Super 16mm crop mode, no internal ProRes or RAW. The only really innovative feature is the electronic ND filter, which I wish Sony had implemented on the A7S III. ...

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Apple M1 crushes Intel – beats $6000 Mac Pro 2019 and 10 core Intel i9 MacBook Pro 16″

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:07:38 GMT

The M1 is displaying astonishing competence in early benchmarks. Here is the key info: Faster than MacBook Pro 16 with i9 CPU in both multicore and single core Geekbench scores Faster than base-spec Mac Pro 2019 (8 core Intel Xeon W 3.5Ghz) in single core benchmark and almost level in multicore score This applies equally to MacBook Air with fanless minimum spec M1 configuration as it does the new MacBook Pro 13″ and Mac Mini with M1 CPU Apple’s silicon even maintains a single-core lead on the MacBook Pro 16″ through Rosetta 2 with non-native apps! There is a performance ...

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Down the rabbit hole – View the YouTube front page as others do

Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:06:59 GMT

Above: TheirTube shows you the YouTube front page as others see it Google and Facebook are responsible for the widest and worst spread of damaging propaganda in human history. Wow, what a weird year. To get a grip of what is going on, and to really understand it – take a look at these prophetic quotes from the book Amused To Death, by Neil Postman… “What George Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Aldous Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read ...

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Apple M1 promises full-quality 8K ProRes playback in DaVinci Resolve 17 "without dropping ...

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 23:12:30 GMT

10bit 4:2:2 H.265 shooters rejoice! How about editing 8K ProRes in DaVinci Resolve on a 13″ Macbook? There are some big claims Apple is making for their new silicon. Let’s have a closer look… For certain, the duopoly of Intel and AMD needs challenging even if this is very much a closed system available only for MacOS. 10bit 4:2:2 H.264 editing performance is pretty woeful on Intel and AMD CPUs, let’s admit it. Although for the foreseeable future Apple silicon will remain in small & light consumer Apple devices, who knows where the path may lead in the future? Apple ...

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The EOSHD Podcast – Episode 1 – British filmmaker JG Harding

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 23:17:43 GMT

Play the The EOSHD Podcast: Episode 1 on Spotify In a new series at EOSHD, I bring you a Podcast with interesting filmmakers and artists from around Planet Earth. In the first episode we meet British filmmaker JG Harding. I first met Julian at The Converge Festival way back in 2011, when he was working at Sound on Sound magazine, the famous pro musician tech magazine on the shelves in Great Britain. Since then, Julian has been an avid EOSHD-er, taking part on the forums and a gear-nut like me – but this is not all – For JG is ...

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Sony A7S III – First impressions

Sat, 07 Nov 2020 17:58:25 GMT

It’s been a long wait for the Sony A7S III. Maturity takes time. 5 years for Sonys cameras to develop into tools that feel like cameras. I never had the inspired feeling picking up a clinical Sony before. However the A7S III is a huge improvement… at a price. If the Canon EOS R5 is dead for pro video, this is the camera that kills it. Debuting here for the first time are Sony’s completely reworked colour profiles and ergonomics. The EVF and screen come into the modern era. The sensor technology is absolutely at the leading edge with 4K ...

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