Brian Williams

I’m excited!

Adorama says my camera ships tomorrow, looking forward to playing with it on Wed.

40 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

Perhaps I can give you some Cinema DNG frames out of my camera.

Here is a 12bit 1080/60p frame off the SD card, and same shot but 8bit 1080/60p to give you an idea of how that holds up.

Also included a 4K 8bit shot.

 

Thanks for this- I think I will stick to the SSD recording, that 8-bit noise is no joke compared to the 12-bit.

1 hour ago, tomastancredi said:

Slimraw works amazing for lossless dng compression with D16. 

Next Sigma engineers meeting- "Can someone go get the company card, lets buy out Slimraw, get this thing inside the camera for the next firmware".

3 hours ago, nathlas said:

There is noone to buy those two cameras for AF perfomance. They both rely on same technology that we all know it's not efficient.

The S1’s AF does much better in this video than I would have expected.

28 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

Yes I am. Ordered from WEX yesterday, it's in stock. Cost £2399 with the 40mm.

Once again, I'd rather be in Europe

16 minutes ago, Anaconda_ said:

@Andrew Reid has his.

Yeah, saw that... though Andrew Reid is not of us common folk. 

Today’s the day! Except neither of my orders from BH or Adorama have shipped, and no reports of anyone else’s orders having been shipped so far. Hope this isn’t a Blackmagic-type deal where they mail out two cameras just so they can say they met their delivery date.

7 hours ago, leslie said:

nice idea mounting it to the side. i presume there are no ports on that side ?

Don't believe so, and its the same hand grip (HG-11) that Sigma sells for the camera, just fatter now.

2 hours ago, KnightsFan said:

but you never get out more information than you put in.

Even if we are including the interpolated data in this statement? If you throw 8-bits into a 12-bit container, couldn't the results (including the newly created data) be an improvement over the original if the interpolation is really good?

Here's something of a review, with samples-

https://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/sigma_fp_review/hands_on

The videos look like crap, but again, pretty sure its the photographer. Wish they'd shot it in raw.

Also, this- 

There was clearly some sort of event today or yesterday, so guessing more footage and reviews will start to trickle out any day now.

44 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said:

Lack of EVF and mechanical shutter won't do it any favours and no wifi/bluetooth connectivity will be a drawback.

And don’t forget the potentially crappy focus it may have with that contrast-based system they’re keeping around.

I get the feeling that no one has been allowed to shoot with it yet. I figured all the hands-on reviews would drop the day preorders opened, but it’s been silent. Maybe they’re still working on the firmware, but I don’t know, seems suspect.

Getting kind of annoying that, still, no one has any hands on experience or footage to show of this thing. Starting to think that me having 3D prints to hold, actually makes me more of an authority on this thing than anyone else, which is sad.

Camera showed up early! ? Feels good in hand

42 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said:

 

The "Crop" reference is in the stills section, not the Movie Recording section.

The figures in brackets after each primary resolution such as this :

Are indicating what the resolution will be in crop mode if use an APS-C lens (which Sigma refer to as DC lenses for their own brand) hence this indicator at the top of the listings.

I guess, and yeah I saw that the crop mention was in the stills section, but their shit is all over the place so I don't necessarily trust their copywriters.

It still doesn't really make sense to me though, because a 1.5x crop on 6,000x4,000 isn't 3840x2560 for stills. 

3 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

It has a crop feature that is clumsily positioned in their spec sheet above the video specs to give that impression but it actually refers to it auto-detecting APS-C L mount lenses from Leica and Sigma's own upcoming ones.

 

I’m confused- we’re saying (and I just looked at the spec sheet too), it is indeed a 1.5x crop for all video modes, yeah? It’s not just for aps-c lenses. I mean, in hindsight, of course it couldn’t be full frame, without crop, unless we had a 16:9 sensor, which we don’t.

I’m pretty excited at least, gonna 3D print some accessories tonight 

11 minutes ago, Trek of Joy said:

The price completely blows me away, this should be completely sold out and on perennial backorder like the P4k for that kind of cash.

Thought this would be closer to $3000 when announced. At $1899 its VERY interesting. Like many I've been sitting on the sidelines to wait out the rest of the 2019 announcements *cough* a7s3 *cough*. I have a gimbal so for me the Fp vs the S1H is a push.

I have one in my B&H cart, waiting to see a few real world tests before hitting buy. 

Chris

Might as well hit buy and cancel next week if footage comes out and looks bad, that’s my plan at least, wanted to get in line early last night.

3 hours ago, heart0less said:

IThey didn't even bother to set correct shutter speed in the Mikio Hasui video

Well to be fair, there’s no such thing as the correct shutter speed, or rather, the correct shutter speed is the one that helps get the right exposure. I know what you’re getting at, 180 degrees, but I shoot higher shutter speeds sometimes, I rarely have ND filters on me, plus they might have set it high to fight rolling shutter. Either way, most videos from the camera company itself never look that good, I’ll give my verdict once I see some real footage from real people.

And finally some footage on Sigma’s YT page- 

Just preordered!

4 hours ago, Laurier said:

I don t see anyone jumping on the L-mount system just because of that camera.

No, but I see a bunch of us jumping on this camera in a few weeks with an EF adaptor, and eventually some of us will probably give in buy some L-mount lenses, and Sigma will have won.

Hey guys, what did I miss? Anyway, preorders start to tomorrow I hear?