Andrew Reid

Here's the Velvia preset, which I absolutely love... First shot, crappy light but it has that 'x' factor Sony is nearly always missing, all without any effort at all in post... Look at the smooth tonality and balanced colour... By the way, here's what Velvia looked like without the 16-235 correction in Premiere... different to the JPEGs and on the camera screen, it had crushed blacks. However the codec has kept them! They snap right out when you correct for the dumb Quicktime RGB range clipping. Next shot a much more challenging one for dynamic range. Look how much you can get out of it with the most simple quick grade possible - just Fast Color Corrector in Premiere and zero else, not even a RGB curve change... First ungraded, 0-255 straight off card: Second graded, 16-235 fast colour corrector Oh and very important this...... in doing this correction to extend dynamic range notice how colour doesn't go 'weird' like with S-LOG Cheers for that vid Kaylee, fun to watch.... You can see how detailed the image is pretty well from that. I dial sharpness down -4 to take the edge of it and bring the blacks up a bit in post. Nice fast lens helps too, and Speed Booster. It is a really cinematic image with these adjustments.

Superb as long as you use the Fast Color Corrector in Premiere to remap 0-255 RGB luma range to 16-235 Playback the files in VLC or Quicktime and you get clipped highlights and crushed blacks. No idea why this is still a problem in 2016, maybe Fujifilm should talk to some Apple guys. Yeah, absolutely. It is just like having a Leica M rangefinder that happens to shoot better video than a Leica M rangefinder for 1/4th the price, with an EVF AND AN OVF, can't argue with that The X Pro 1 I also liked but ended up selling it at the time, lens range was rather limited back in 2012 and it was a dog slow camera. That was the biggest issue... the dreadful AF and even dreadful manual focus too. The X Pro 2 is mega fast and snappy, they nailed it. Also, viewfinder and body just seem higher quality this time round. Bit heavier, but amazingly built. Only weak points are the battery life and it is such a sharp 1080p image that when you do get moire, it is pretty noticeable moire. 1 out of every 10 shot has it, but depends on the subject. Not the kind of camera to shoot a lot of infinity focus shots of buildings with, but for actors it's rarely an issue... brief occurrence on clothing, that's about it. What is amazing is that although it is clearly a moire affected camera, it is wonderfully detailed for 1080p. I'd put the moire at a similar level as the 5D Mark 2 RAW without AA filter and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera. It's not the worst but it does happen.

So I really didn't think I'd end up keeping this camera, especially as it is 1799 euros body only(!!) for just 1080p and no articulated screen. BUT this camera is a lesson to all the others... 1. May seem like a small thing to start but it has the BEST menus I have ever used, end of story. Properly organised. Not too long. Snappy to navigate. It is amazing how many other cameras get this wrong, even Canon which have too many sub-sections / tabs. Then there's a nice big MY menu at the end of the new Fujifilm main menu so you barely have to dig into the other tabs at all. It is such a nice improvement on the previous Fuji cameras. During a shoot the menus can make or break a camera. Ask any FS7 owner 2. COLOUR and CODEC and DETAIL - it excels at each. The images have an electricity to them, super alive. On most cameras, even with H.265 on the NX1, the codec always pays lipservice to the blacks. Whenever you bring them up they are a mess of banding, compression, blocking. The X Pro 2 codec handles like the D750, super clean in the shadows and LOTS of detail. You can bring so much out of the blacks even when they are crushed in-camera when using Velvia - which by the way, is giving me the most satisfying out of camera non-graded non-fussed with colour yet. 3. SMOOTH editing, and 60p for slow mo. With 4K i have come to miss my render-less timeline, snappy editing and 60p with small file sizes. The only 4K 60p DSLR is $6k and 800Mbit. Hmm - no thank you. 4. SOUL. It has as much soul as a Leica but is far cheaper and with a much more versatile feature set and viewfinder. The EVF is super sharp and you don't even have to magnify focus half the time, just go off the EVF or the back screen. Both are superb. To shoot with it is a pleasure. The water sealed body, the build quality, the twin memory card slots, the reassuringly photographic clunk of the mechanical shutter, which by the way is much quieter than a DSLR but no less beefy, the retro good looks - SUPERB looking camera body - it all adds up to something you just want to pick up over anything else. Makes the GH4 and NX1 feel like boring utility tools. 5. It is FAST and the LENSES are lovely. AF and general speed of operation is a big improvement from the X Pro 1. Then there's the lenses 35mm F2.0 WR, small and affordable. 56mm F1.2, creamy like a Noctilux. I also love the 18-55mm F2.8-4 zoom, it is small and well above average for an APS-C zoom of this kind, 35mm F1.4 is slower to focus and has no OIS but it is a lovely piece of glass, 23mm F1.4 also a stunner. OK, I wish it had zero moire, I wish it had 4K and I'd love an articulated screen. And yes... This is designed purely as a purist photographer's Leica-style rangefinder, what the hell am I doing shooting video with it? Because it FEELS so good to do so and it LOOKS so nice when I playback the results afterwards. Two things that are so important - the feel of holding the damn thing and the feel you get from the colour and details afterwards. Vibrant and alive, the whole experience. Sony, Canon, Panasonic experience dull by comparison. They really need to take a hint from Fujifilm.

A7S II is contrast based AF, the A7R II is phase and contrast hybrid. Phase detect active with Canon lenses with the Metabones adapter on the latter, it can be very fast. Lack of native NX lenses, hmm... not really! S 16-50mm F2.0-2.8 OIS? S 50-150mm F2.8 OIS? 85mm F1.4? (It beats my Zeiss wide open) 30mm F2.0? Lovely cheap pancake 45mm F2.0? Again very cheap, light, fast and sharp! Those are the best ones... not a bad line up and covers 16-150 all at fast apertures. AF is best on the S premium zooms What else would you need? Plus you can adapt Nikon, Sony Alpha and a ton of other lenses to it with adapters.

Corpse like. No it depends how you move it. Just hand-holding it steady won't be enough to hurt the image. Throwing the camera around like in a Greengrass movie wouldn't work, but most other stuff would and don't forget you can fix rolling shutter easily in post most of the time, although it does involve a bit of a crop. OIS on the lens helps too. Plenty of Canon lenses with this via the metabones adapter. Not quite so many nice Sony lenses with OIS.

1. It takes 30ms to read out the entire 6K sensor. More pixels to read out. 2. What do you mean by video "lag"? Lower frame rate? 3. I don't really get this... ISO 3200 does not = 280 due to pixel binning

Because Sony's noise reduction is voodoo magic.

I'm afraid all the replies so far aren't right. The NX1 uses a power saving live view mode when not in video standby mode. In this mode for framing up a shot, there's hardly any rolling shutter skew because the sensor is doing a very fast sweep, missing out a lot of pixels and lines. We call that binning. In video mode it does a 6K full pixel readout for the great quality 4K recording it has. That takes time... approx 30ms for the rolling shutter to expose the entire sensor, which is what creates the skew in video mode. Switch to 1080/120fps and it reverts to pixel binning and there's less skew.

Yes has the viewfinder adjustment diopter. No it doesn't... same.

Doesn't it crop the sensor at 4K 30p? Only 24/25p is full sensor readout from the 6K

Canon have a knack for this. When all around them is a circus of silly menus, bad ergonomics and underperforming images given the raw power under the hood, Canon with their underperforming specs have over-performing images with very good automatic white balance, well thought out menus and no frivolous stuff to get in the way on a shoot. I like the simplicity. Clearly you get a lot more colour information in a 300Mbit or 500Mbit 4:2:2 file like on the XC10 and 1DC, plus it helps the colour science is bang on in Canon LOG unlike in S-LOG. Clearly Sony know something is wrong otherwise they wouldn't have added 3 separate S Gamuts to the FS5 for different WB temperatures. Sony seem hell bent on squeezing every last drop of dynamic range and colour gamut out of the image, then packing it into as small a file as possible... the end result is a bit of a car crash. The A7S II was almost the 'dream camera' wasn't it... but I've barely felt compelled to use mine... I keep picking up my NX1 instead. That's because the body design of the A7S II is soulless, feels awful in the hand - it has the ergonomic charm of a brick. They went backwards from the A7S and that wasn't exactly perfect to begin with. Please Sony hire some designers from Fuji or whoever were responsible for the NX1 body at Samsung. Then sort the menus out - it isn't rocket science. I think they underestimate the importance of this... the shooting experience. I feel a little bit guilty when I see someone struggling through a shoot with a Shogun bolted onto the top of a small Sony mirrorless camera... great specs and we should support the push, in the face of Canon's paralysis... but it's a horrible shooting experience isn't it...

Internet culture is just a reflection of real life - there's a vast majority of stupid people in the world.

People are all entitled to not like a film for whatever reason they care to choose. It does not make them misogynists. I honestly don't think anyone 15-35 of my generation even know what sexism is any more. The term is applied so liberally to so many things. People need to learn the difference between prejudices, tastes, personal preferences and the -IST words. You might prefer pizza over burgers. This is a preference for pizza, it is not a form of food-racism. I am sure many of the people upset at the new Ghostbusters movie are just saying that the don't like it, rather than saying that they think men are superior to women, whites superior to blacks, slimer superior to marshmallow man. I think if they substituted Lara Croft with Rambo in the next Tomb Raider, fans of the series would be equally disappointed. And that is mostly the sentiment here. I am sure we all have our preferences when it comes to much loved 80's films and what made them work in the first place. For me the male buddy-comedy central characters were a big part of that. This does not make my opinion sexist. Now some will say that preference for a male cast is sexist... some will say it is anti-feminist, anti-woman, even anti-ghost. This shows they do not know the definition of terms like sexism and racism. Do I like the trailer? Nah. Fan edited one is better than the studio's own! It is definitely not a feminist film despite what the marketing and the gender of the cast wants you to believe. Crude vagina joke, lame script, poor VFX. The reboot is far more a cynical box office plot to appeal to a larger female demographic than anything else.

Why not just get the A7S used then? It isn't much more expensive. The 1080/60p is good in APS-C mode on the A7S. Excellent in fact. Not much good in full frame mode though. The D5500 and D750 also shoot very good 1080/60p.

Yes the Sigma is good But you will need to go past 35mm sooner or later. The old Sigma 50-150mm APS-C lens is pretty good... compact and F2.8. The upcoming 50-100mm F1.8 will be much more expensive and you'd never get that and the 18-35mm under $1k together. The 18-35 and 50-150mm you could do. Also the Samsung 16-50mm F2.0 to F2.8 OIS has stabilisation.. Sigma 18-35 doesn't. Something to bear in mind as well as whether you need AF to quickly establish a shot before the opportunity vanishes whilst you're in the magnified focus assist with a lens adapter

Yes it does Best to shoot 4K with it even for 1080p delivery Bottom shot S-LOG 3? Off-colour bands in the sky S-LOG 2 all the way with this camera!

Only works on the stills. The video is insanely sharp and detailed. It has aliasing and moire but it feels really alive. I love the ergonomics too apart from lack of articulated screen and the ISO dial is a bit ridiculous. You can't really turn it without accidentally knocking the shutter speed dial. It's a great stills camera to set to A mode and auto ISO with exposure comp dial when you need it and super fast AF, reel off a video clip and 9/10 times out of ten without any effort in post at all it will give a more satisfying image and certainly rec.709 colour than any of the more hyped 4K cams.

Does it heck as like More dynamic range?! Better noise texture? Really... Have a clue.

Camera 2 is the Fuji X Pro 2.

*Drum roll....* Nobody has got it yet.

Yes 2 is full format but with a twist It is using a Speed Booster...

The commercial filmmaking world is 99% producing shit. Most clients have no idea what art is. They just want a certain production standard and for efficiency. Turning up with a Samsung badged small consumer camera goes against the grain. This is the main reason RED exists - for pros to look professional in front of clients. Clients don't know much at all about images. I have seen what happens when they try to make their own LUTs. It even happens right at the top. Robert Richardson took his name off World War Z for precisely this reason.

Main reason for me why 4K was a nice step on cameras like the GH4 and NX1 was it got us away from their poor 1080p images and gave us much nicer looking 2K when downscaled in post plus the freedom to reframe. Editing performance is still shoddy though even on a high end machine. And I sometimes miss 60p for slow-mo. Main reason to get the A6300 are what it offers for the price is a lot - S-LOG 2, lots of features, slow-mo, tiny form factor and of course the big one - the advanced AF system for video - SLOG 3 image seems to have issues though AGAIN sadly. They need to upgrade the codec.

Answers to 1 and 3 On other page, so if you don't want to see the spoiler just continue on this page. Let me know when you guys are ready for the final answer for camera 2. Nope

Not Super 35mm either unfortunately.