Andrew Reid

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.

A lot of Instagrammers are going back to actual cameras. Samsung should do an Instagram Special version of the NX1 with 4K 120fps

Taping up a Samsung logo in a Samsung advert by Samsung PR team. Interesting. They must not want Galaxy users to get any ideas about getting a proper camera

That video is indeed interesting It shows 2K modes (2048x1080) in the video menu It shows 99 minute run-time for 4K video (UPDATE: Ah it's unlimited for HDMI recording. 30 mins for internal with grip) It shows the camera has absolutely no video record button! Can the exposure comp. button near the shutter be programmed to record video while in stills mode? I dislike the movie mode lever with all the continuous shooting modes shoehorned into it. I love the top-panel info display and BIG deep grip. Min ISO 800 in F-LOG. No view assist?

Ah good to see you back BTM_Pix I do agree the grip is a bit of a must-have. The Fuji lenses with IBIS will be a joy. I am just not sure they cured the biggest ills of the X-T2 like I expected of them... Maybe the extra crop in video mode exists to reduce rolling shutter - if it's the same sensor as the A6500, that would be much needed. Don't like the Drive dial with movie mode shoehorned into it. Don't like the locks on the ISO and shutter dials. Samsung NX1 all the way for me ergonomically, any day. Some more thoughts: https://www.eoshd.com/2018/02/fuji-x-h1-got-wrong/ The interface seems like a mess according to Richard Butler.

I never could understand how Panasonic made any money on the LX100 - packed in so much good stuff for so little money, in a genuinely high-end miniature body. I want to see a sequel!! Make it a bit more expensive if that means difference between it existing or not. Make it have the high-frame rates and low light of GH5... No crippling of the video side. RX100 V is tough competition.

Did anyone actually ready Terry Gou's comments word for word at Nikkei? You all keep second guessing him. Are you saying he's making shit up?!

Have you registered 12kcameras? Now's the time

I hope they are pricing whatever they do like the early Blackmagic cinema cameras, but with much better sensors and much smaller design concepts with low energy consumption. Mini Epic without a fan, with DSLR size battery. This could be the Blackmagic revolution all over again. Mega exciting!!

Is the GX8 dead then? https://www.panasonic.com/uk/consumer/cameras-camcorders/lumix-g-compact-system-cameras/dmc-gx8m.html The GX85 wasn't a replacement for the GX8 but a lower-end model. Now the GX9 seems to be a replacement for both! Unless they do a GX10?

The Hydrogen stuff is already done and in production. This is about a future tie-up they are in talks over at the moment - a completely new line of cinema cameras. Terry Gou says he wants to get into that digital cinema camera market according to the article.

That's where they are most useful of course. In the home, it's inevitable they are coming by 2020. As for 8K on the camera side it could be useful for making VR content. VR needs the resolution. I see an 8K camera as more than just the numbers though... 8K makes for superb 4K. Anything from RED / Foxconn aimed at affordable prosumer market is welcome with me!!

I hope they are Sharp.

According to a report on Sunday at Nikkei, iPhone manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group plans to team up with premium camera maker RED Digital Cinema and enter the digital cinema camera market. Read the full article

What is the point of the a9 as it stands... USB 2 as well... EH!? USB C 3.1 on the a7r iii. I don't understand Sony's strategy at all.

I used the wider colour gamut of S-Gamut 3 for EOSHD Pro Color to avoid exactly that - the clipping issue (especially bright blues) in the standard rec.709 colour profiles. Also the discolouration just before the clipping point is much worse in rec.709 than in S-Gamut or rec2020 with Hybrid Log Gamma. Too many backseat drivers who just look at the technical standards and don't shoot anything chiming in saying blah blah you can't do it. When you can.