otto.f Posted May 20, 2013 Share #1 Posted May 20, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) In the latest LFI is a review of video with the new M. In this article the author refers to a film made with the new M that can be seen at the internetsite of LFI online. However I cannot find the link that the author is talking about. Has somebody found this film already? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted May 20, 2013 Posted May 20, 2013 Hi otto.f, Take a look here LFI on M video. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
mjh Posted May 20, 2013 Share #2 Posted May 20, 2013 Sorry, but there has been a delay; the video should become available any time now. (I don’t want to host a 60 MB file on my own server, otherwise I could make it available for download now.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeTexas Posted May 20, 2013 Share #3 Posted May 20, 2013 Michael, are you an LFI editor? Why no updates for the iPhone app? It still shows S2, M9, M8, X1 as the photo categories on the main page. A bit outdated at this point ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjh Posted May 20, 2013 Share #4 Posted May 20, 2013 The iPad app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lfi-leica-fotografie-international/id523601484?mt=8) offers more, but even when the mastershot categories as displayed in the iPhone/iPod app appear to be outdated, there are, for example, X2 shots in the X1 section (which has been renamed “X” on the website). And there are no “S” or “M” sections yet, not even on the website. And yes, I am an LFI editor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rramesh Posted May 21, 2013 Share #5 Posted May 21, 2013 Leica could do more to provide better examples on their website. If the M can do video and quite well as per the LFI article, then one or two good examples by well-known videographers should be featured. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalfx Posted May 21, 2013 Share #6 Posted May 21, 2013 It was encouraging to hear than many of the shortcomings will be addressed with a future FW update. Hopefully it arrives sooner rather than later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anneke Posted May 24, 2013 Share #7 Posted May 24, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) Leica could do more to provide better examples on their website. If the M can do video and quite well as per the LFI article, then one or two good examples by well-known videographers should be featured. Agreed. Leica can definitely do better. You also have to consider that most people who are attracted to Leica products are more concerned with the photography functions that Leica products offer as opposed to their applications concerning video. If I had any Leica product I would definitely want to see how viable it would be for shooting videos. I haven't been able to find many videos that properly exhibit any of Leica's products for shooting video. Its really a shame. Leica has seem to have great technology and they're always on point with what people want. But they're always late to the party. I hope this year they will be able to elaborate on their future products offering more in terms of cinematography. Hopefully they will be able to attract more cinematographers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalfx Posted May 24, 2013 Share #8 Posted May 24, 2013 any update on the link? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
otto.f Posted June 1, 2013 Author Share #9 Posted June 1, 2013 Still no sign, as far as I can see. Very very annoying. How difficult can this be? Unless there are serious problems that Leica would not want to show Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheshireCat Posted July 9, 2013 Share #10 Posted July 9, 2013 Just read the article, and I must say I am quite surprised by the amount of misinformation contained in it: 1) "The resolution of 1920*1080 requires only 2 of the 24 MegaPixels". False. It requires at least theee times as much (Bayer array). That is the bare minimum though, because proper cameras will use all the sensor pixels contained in a 16:9 aspect ratio. This oversampling gives vastly superior SNR and moire resistance. 2) Interlaced modes such as 60 Hz can certainly be faked from 30Hz progressive, but the article omits to say that motion will not be fluid as real 60i allows. 3) By sheer calculation, if the processor is the bottleneck and caps at 1080p@25, then 720p should be possible up to 50p. No logical explanation is given on why we only get 720p25. 4) "The M has forged its own path by going Motion JPEG". Disinformation. MJPG is an ancient format and has been available on el-cheapo point and shoot cameras for several years. 5) Total disaster on H.264. In predictive mode, only a few frames at cut points have to be re-encoded, not the whole recording (unless the output is used for very specific applications). In any case, the author is not aware that modern cameras can use H.264 All-I which uses independent pictures exactly like MJPG, just with a much higher compression ratio and a much better quality (deblocking filter, and other "modern" encoding tools). I quoted "modern" because H.264 is now obsolete. MJPG is medieval 6) The final touch about "the rather austere sharpness of many other modern cameras" is the icing on the cake There are some more minor issues and subjective opinions, but I will stop here. P.S. I would like to see the demo video cited in the article. Anyone can point me to it ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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