Andrew Reid

Yes I find it handy.. gives you some extra highlight recovery.

I think video is a slow art, cumbersome and complicated. There's a definite attraction to the simplicity and enjoyment of stills shooting, and great shots come quicker, sometimes one after the other. With video, they pass you by... sometimes, even whilst you're adjusting the tripod. I started getting lazy for casual video - handheld, instead of a tripod, autofocus instead of manual focus, slow-mo instead of 24p, music instead of ambience, and so on... I want to go back to the slow way. Photography does have just as much power, and lends itself to pointing and shooting. Whereas video, when it is point & shoot, often lacks the same magic. Video is best when it's a slow burn of circumstances directly under your control... Less run and gun... More stopping and waiting.

Yes the 120fps seems to have major issues. A lot of moire and heavy aliasing. Looks like A6500's 120fps. I wish they'd upgraded the sensor.

Nope, still not impressed with F-LOG. A bunch of mashed oranges and blues. None of this early footage has any punch to it.

Nice shots. Colours like that and creamy shadows are an NX1 strength... Yes, it can do low light. That 45mm F1.8 isn't bad either for $300 is it?!

Yeah I doubt it is TowerJazz. Seems like Sony's upgrade to their 42MP BSI CMOS to me. Has all the hallmarks of one. The real puzzle is why Sony keep giving their main rival the absolute top spec sensor, whilst putting older tech in their own. The 46MP sensor seems to have more dynamic range, lower minimum ISOs, more resolution, faster readout, possibly even onboard moire reduction in pixel binned 4K mode from 46MP and then the D850 uses XQD cards as well - another Sony tech, which they can't be bothered to put on their own cameras! You don't need it. Live-view feed is crystal clear, super sharp and detailed, big screen and very high res panel. It's better than D750 and that was already good to start with. I believe the Sigma ART lenses for Nikon mount focus the same way as the Canon versions... so there's a solution! Definitely the new tech should filter down to a D5700 or D6000 of some sort. No crop. No moire. Just clean 4K with flat profile and super clean codec, Nikon colours, etc. It would be very popular under $800. It's easier... Enable peaking in stills mode, focus, then flick the switch to movie mode to record. The flick to movie mode has zero lag or black out. No mirror flipping, or refocussing. Peaking looks lovely in stills live-view...pro-video quality.

Film schools are a bit of an exception to the norm though. In commercial video, young talent coming in from commercial photography are used to AF, happy with AF and want it on their video cameras. It's the number one area for Nikon to improve in terms of video, as image quality is nailed down just right now. It's the best full frame 4K image, bar none.

The Sony mirrorless cams don't do 240/480fps though!

Were the original screenshots shot with the Canon 24-105mm? Makes it all the more impressive, as that's by no means a fast prime. Nice rendering. The 10bit looks as good as raw in your grade.

In that test I made a mistake, had the noise reduction turned off on the D850, and it turns out the Sony noise reduction is pretty darn good. They have similar sensors, similar megapixel and both BSI designs, so you'd expect them to perform similarly in low light when both are operating with NR turned on. D850 has a nice fine noise grain at ISO 3200-6400. I wouldn't say the low light is awful at 12,800, this was a torture test and under-exposed a bit. Will re-do it. Nikon 105mm F1.8 AI/S seems like a nice characterful lens. Any experience of it? Also the 120fps is very detailed on this camera... Super 35 only but still impressive.

Yes but for shoots where IBIS and AF are not required, manual focus & tripod still gain a more cinematic result if we're talking traditional movie-making vs new fangled IBIS / AF movie-making. I prefer a fully locked down shot to a handheld shot pretending to be locked down, if you know what I mean. Handheld is a different style. AF is a different style. It's a great shot getter though and very convenient. I am thinking of getting a 24-120mm F4 VR II for the D850, when I need stabilisation. Nikon's VR is very effective in video mode. Close to Sony's 5 axis IBIS performance, but 3 axis not 5. This is true (and somewhat crazy) Anyway, talking just image quality... This thing has it. D850 over A7R III and GH5 any time. Yeah, it's only 8bit, but it has mojo by the bucketload. Full frame FX is virtually identical in quality to the oversampled Super 35 mode. A7R III still has a lot of shimmering and false detail going on. The D850 is higher bitrate too. Really is like having a 1D C Mark II.

Buy a A6300 and crop in post Joking aside, this cool thing would be GREAT for slow-mo.

Something I have noticed... Nobody talks about this cam! Panasonic, Fuji, Sony... tons of topics on forums everywhere. Nikon? tumbleweeds. I suppose everyone interested in video went out and bought a A7R III or GH5 instead!? Thing is, D850's 4K and stills are better than both of them, and so is the lens line-up. Yes it lacks IBIS and good video AF. But so does the Canon 1D C. The D850 shoots a comparable image, yet without a crop and without MJPEG file sizes. I can really see myself picking the D850 above the A7R III if it carries on performing like it does... Such a clean codec, so little moire in full frame 4k by comparison to the Sony, and way better colour.

You can set it to 16-235 in camera to save yourself the post. If you set it to 0-255 in camera, you need to bring back the shadow and highlight detail in post. This gives a bit better colour, bit better flexibility in post and uses full RGB luma range of the 8bit codec. 16-235 is the 'safe' range. I don't know why Premiere and MacOS cannot just interpret the file correctly in the first place, but that's Apple and Adobe for you.

True. But a lot of people judge the NX1's dynamic range based on the first image and don't realise the range is incorrectly interpreted by their software. Here is a just as impressive A/B when both are 16-235... It's a more extreme grade, the recovery is huge... Bit of macroblocking in the very darkest areas on the art shop sign... And that's it!

In all my testing I've found the existing settings work fine on the A7R III. An update is coming out anyway, with some extra bonuses and tweaks.

Are you using it with the hack installed? And in low light you get the benefit of shooting at F0.85 (thanks NX-L) ISO 1600 is fine. ISO 800 completely noiseless... uncanny Make sure you do the 16-235 in post as well. Very important with this camera. In my NX1 vs 1D C comparison, yes the 1D C has some picture quality advantages... of course it does... $12,000 camera when it came out, vs $1600. But it has nowhere near the level of ergonomics for video, small 4K file sizes, autofocus, EVF vs NONE. So you can forgive the camera not switching between the EVF and LCD during a recording... many others are the same way, including Fuji!

Yeah unfortunately noise reduction is heavy-handed above 1600 and cannot be turned off (only turned off for JPEGs) and there's too few fast primes for the NX system (would have loved to have had a 24mm F1.4, 35mm F1.4 and 50mm F1.2 but was not to be!) Solution? NX-L + Canon EF primes! That is the only flaw. Stabilisation is superb... DIS + OIS combo delivers almost a completely static frame handheld.

Yes, 6400 in video mode. I would stick to 100-3200 though. Yeah. It's fantastic with the Pro lenses.

Yes. But sadly, I don't think Kickstarter pre-orders are in Samsung's business plan With their eye on the next trillion dollar shipment of smartphones, and tanks Here's another gem... Make sure Fast Color Corrector to 16-235 is first in the effects chain. Or use 16-235 in NX1 menus (0-255 in menus with correction in post gives you slightly better colour though).

This is video. At the same file size of a Sony, too. Rather than shooting ProRes externally, this is much more convenient. Just a shadow push in Lumetri (Premiere CC 2018)

Looks good. Not oversharp. 5D Mark II raw?

Blown away by the codec... This shot had some serious underexposure going on. At least 3 stops head-room in the highlights. Brought the shadows up in Premiere and remapped to 16-235 (Fast Color Corrector) There's almost zero signs of compression in the shadows!! Which came up from invisible.

As for dynamic range... 4K H265 from the NX1 on standard certainly has more information in the blacks than 4K H264 on the Fuji X-Pro 2 / X-T2 (set to Classic Chrome) Again this is big area of change since NX1's release... If you set it to 235 from 255 you can recover a ton of stuff in the highlights and with the higher-bitrate codec hack it holds onto more in the shadows as well. Original v1.0 firmware and H.265 support on the computer side killed dynamic range, tons of clipping! NX1 (240Mbit): X-Pro 2 (100Mbit):

I'm not blown away with the first footage to come from this camera. Considering the codec is 200Mbit, seems to look quite thin, with poor tonality. Not sure the motion cadence is right either. X-T2 had an issue there. I wonder if people are driving it too flat for 8bit, maybe F-LOG and poor grading is to blame. Fuji's colour usually impresses me a lot more. People often say the NX1 has a weak codec. When it came out, the criticism was justifiable. Now however... full 360 turn-around. NX1 H.265 is now hardware accelerated in MacOS High Sierra, playback is flawless even on a laptop. Spacebar to preview works in Finder and even the thumbnails. With the hack installed and H.265 set to 120Mbit, it's reliable as fuck to a decent SD card. Half the file sizes of H.264 or double the quality at the same bitrate as H.264. Effectively I am shooting with a 240Mbit codec, from 6K readout, on one of the most responsive and ergonomic cameras ever made. Fuji are going to have to do better than the X-H1 to win me over fully... And nobody has mentioned the rolling shutter yet. If it is anything like the A6500 then that's a major advantage to the GH5! I will try one out though and do the review. I get mixed results from Fuji in terms of colour and dynamic range. I prefer the colour of the Samsung NX1 to Fuji in fact, which is surprising. I do like classic chrome and the film simulations but the NX1 on standard colour just has a spark... very electric, Canon-like.