Brian Williams

A firmware update is already available.

http://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/software/firmware/x/xt3/index.html

2 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

Someone needs to do a tear-down and see if the X-T3 is indeed a Samsung sensor. Are we looking at an NX2?

Sony don't seem to have anything matching the 26MP chip, as far as I can see.

Andrew, we look forward to your teardown on Friday! ?

23 minutes ago, Snowbro said:

Once again, you prove your reading comprehension is that of a child. I stated that trusted sources say it is coming out. I never said any sources said it will have 4:2:2 10, Literally a hypothetical question, "maybe 10 bit 4:2:2 internal?" that had been a suspicion since fuji sometimes works with sony. Go back to your coloring book ?

Maybe I got confused in trying to keep up with ridiculous posts asking people if they're going to return a camera they don't yet have for an imaginary camera that might, maybe, have a feature. As others here pointed out earlier. Do you think you'll return that future Sony cam for the rumored to be rumored X-H3?

1 hour ago, Snowbro said:

"maybe 10 bit 4:2:2" reading comprehension is quite low. The rest is already in existing models, they obviously are not going to go backwards. 

Yeah, the rest is already in the existing models, so the only new feature, "confirmed by trusted sources" as you say, is the "maybe 10 bit 4:2:2", which isn't rumored anywhere I've seen other than your post. So you are the trusted source? Got it.

12 minutes ago, Snowbro said:

Yeah, it's only been confirmed by trusted sources that it's coming out. A direct competitor to the fuji; sensitive kid lol

Really, all those specs have been confirmed? I read sonyalpharumors.com all the time and I haven't seen those specs. Plus Sony's ibis is still pretty awful for video so that shouldn't count.

3 minutes ago, iamoui said:

Yeah, how dare people discuss their personal experiences with cameras and compare them. What do they think this is a camera forum or something??

You have a point, but in fairness, there has been a strange amount of NX1 comparisons on this particular thread for some reason, and most of them have been a little righteous. Not sure why the NX1, of all cameras, keeps being compared to this one. Is it the h265?

13 hours ago, Yurolov said:

Camera companies in general are crappy with their software but fuji in particular. 

On the flip side, Fuji is def the best at improving their carmeras via firmware, something the rest of the pack (minus Panasonic I guess) never do, especially Sony. Can the A7's handle multiple faces at once?

18 minutes ago, Stryfe said:

Not even close, NX1 FTW.

 

 

Maybe I'm jaded, nothing about any of these videos wows me, and they all look like they could've been from an A7III, an X-T3 or the NX1.

2 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

maybe in low light and for 4K slow-mo from that 60p.

It will be superseded quite soon by an X-H2. Maybe as soon as in 6 months. Something to be aware of, for those who need IBIS and superior ergonomics.

400mbps ALL-I is a big improvement over NX1, no?

And how are the ergonomics of the X-H1 better than this or the X-T2, pretty much the same aren't they?

28 minutes ago, Snowbro said:

0-10 what are the chances the a7siii has 10 bit raw out

I'll be amazed if it has 10bit h265

32 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

It will be superseded quite soon by an X-H2. Maybe as soon as in 6 months. Something to be aware of, for those who need IBIS and superior ergonomics.

But the IBIS of the X-H1 was sooo bad for video. Great for stills, but it was jerky as hell if you planned the camera at all while shooting video. I suppose its safe to assume it will be improved for the next camera.

4 hours ago, Stryfe said:

Agreed!  I just haven't seen any footage from the XT3 that has wowed me at all.  From the specs alone it should best the NX1 by a wide margin but actually looking at the footage i'm like meh.  Thought it was going to be my next cam.  My NX1 is still the best video IQ wise out of all the 2018 mirrorless cams, even the A7III which i'm just going to use for stills now.  I can only imagine what a FF Samsung NX camera would be like...smh.

4K 60p, IBIS, Dual Card Slots, USB-C 200MB HEVC, eye autofocus, internal 10bit 422 w/updated S-Lenses (Sigh)

 

What is this based on, how many clips from the X-T3 are even out there at this point, like three or four total?

What is it about the NX1 that you think wins? The colors? I'm asking genuinely, I've never owned one. Pretty much every post you've ever posted on this site is you singing the praises of Samsung and poo pooing pretty much everything else.

46 minutes ago, Kisaha said:

The price for Greece is 1749euros, that is not close to 1499$ at all, and the camera is manufactured in China. I would expect a lower starting price, this is not 2017!

That's crazy expensive, more than I'm paying for the camera with the kit lens.

2 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

All YouTube footage has banding and compression, it's impossible to get a true picture, that determines what banding the camera's codec has or has not got.

I suggest wait until someone uploads the original files if Johnnie hasn't. Bit of an oversight if he didn't.

this is the only footage I've found online that appears to be straight out of the camera, 10 bit h265 F-Log; not the funnest to grade, but its downloadable on Vimeo-

6 hours ago, Attila Bakos said:

It's not a good idea to judge banding by youtube footage.

If I apply more contrast to the youtube frame to show banding, this is what I get:

Now if I go to vimeo and download the original ungraded version, and apply about the same contrast, this is what I get:

 

And the original ungraded version uploaded to vimeo is still 8bit! In 10bit you will have even less banding.

Yeah, this "original ungraded version" that Behiri posted is post-Premiere edited footage, exported as h264. Its not the original 10-bit h265 footage (if he even shot it that way) that came out of the camera.

This camera should flop anyway. I cancelled my pre-order the other day to go with the X-T3. A lot has changed since the original pcoket cam came out, the magic of raw doesn't quite hold up these days. I even went and repurchased my old pocket cam a few weeks ago at the same time that I also purchased a used EOSM for the purpose of shooting raw on it with Magic Lantern- I ended up returning the pocket cam and keeping the EOSM because even at $160 it was a better raw shooter than the BM.

6 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

The Canon Rumors Kompetition is Kaput?

Seems like they might not be doing it anymore?

8 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

I think the problem is user-related than ML

They got 3.5K RAW out of the 2012 5D Mark III, and the response on here was pretty underwhelming. I wrote a big guide about how to get it working, and again, not much interest. The original raw video ML on the 5D III got a LOT more interest.

So I suggest, people should be more excited about this stuff than they actually are. Have we become spoilt? Have we just got lazy?

I don't understand why more of you aren't making use of that incredible 3.5K image.

I, sadly, don't have a Mark III, but I just recently bought an EOS M for $160 so I could do uncropped 1736x1120 ML raw video, and I'm loving it. #Notspoiledhere

34 minutes ago, Alpicat said:

Now I'm just waiting for Viltrox to release their EF-M speedbooster so I can turn my EOS M into a 'full-frame' camera using the mv1080p mode! 

Yes, same here! I keep checking their website in hopes of seeing something.

I love Andrew's posts, but wasn't he just recently bemoaning rumors sites that leak info??

2 hours ago, Alpicat said:

@Brian Williams I'm using Windows and was also getting corrupt files with MLVFS. I don't think it's compatible with lossless raw files, but need to check if there's an updated version. The patterns you were seeing are the focus pixels? 

MLV App works fine for me and it gets rid of focus pixels automatically without using chroma smoothing, but would be interesting to see if MLVFS produces different results at all with the exported DNGs (in terms of colour and image quality). 

As I'm reading more, I'm hearing that chroma smoothing, while getting rid of focus pixels, degrades the image- is this true? If so, I guess the MLV app may be a better way to go.

4 minutes ago, Alpicat said:

@Brian Williams I'm using Windows and was also getting corrupt files with MLVFS. I don't think it's compatible with lossless raw files, but need to check if there's an updated version. The patterns you were seeing are the focus pixels? 

MLV App works fine for me and it gets rid of focus pixels automatically without using chroma smoothing, but would be interesting to see if MLVFS produces different results at all with the exported DNGs (in terms of colour and image quality). 

I guess they were focus pixels, it was a clear pattern in the center- I didn't realize focus pixels we're a thing. And yes, MLV app fixed it automatically, but MLVFS is such a quicker process, even with the Chroma smoothing turned on, so I think I will stick with that. MLVFS seems to work fine with lossless DNG's on the Mac side, and it's as easy as a mouse click (no cmd prompt or terminal needed).

Thanks @Alpicat. For the first few tests I used MLV app to decode the MLV files to DNG, then brought into Resolve 15 for editing and CC. On that last test, I finally got MLVFS to work on my Mac (still no luck on Windows side, just pink DNG's), and after a few strange renders (realized I had to set Chroma smoothing to 2x2 in MLVFS to get rid of some weird patterns that were showing up) I brought those DNG's into Resolve- MLVFS workflow is a great timesaver.

One more using the mv1080 mode, 1736x1120 14bit raw

My color grading skills dont do any of this justice.

Here are my tests from the past day with 1736x1120 resolution.

https://vimeo.com/286711725

https://vimeo.com/286711914

Using a $30 toy c-mount lens

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