Lars Steenhoff

What are the things still missing that we can ask sigma about the next firmware?
1. I personally would be very happy if I could move the 8x zoomed in frame around and not have to zoom out first to move the focus area.  This I because I use manual lensen and would like to quickly confirm focus.  If it could also work during recording even better
2. Audio levels are too far burried down the menu
3. DCI at 4k to SSD
4. I would like to have a way to give the name of my manuals focus lenses in the cdng metadata so I can sort shots by lens
 
 
 

I'm sure they are very nice, but I'm not seeing myself buy apsc lenses for a non fuji system, I'm waiting for the upcoming small full frame primes from sigma

Which brings us to another v2.1 request: capture raw stills while in Cine mode. Not necessarily while shooting video (that would certainly be resource heavy) but just while switched to Cine.

Just checked it, and bad news, it's JPG only.

Its not as good as the camera supporting it directly of course but as a workaround, a  batch exif editor such as this one will let you insert your own data on the files after shooting.
https://www.exifedit.com/for-mac/
 

- Dedicated ISO on fn. button
- Half-press shutter to come permanently out of focus punch-in, and yes moving it around frame whilst in it
- Focus punch in ability during recording, if possible (why is this so hard for so many cameras?)
- 2.8K RAW 10bit internal mode for reduced file sizes and SD card recording
- 4K 60p in APS-C mode
- Cup of tea making ability
And yes definitely DCI 4K to SSD would be nice.

Like I said, don't shoot the messenger. I only use manual lenses. But if you look around the web, hardly anyone is singing the praises of the FP and a lot of people are complaining about vlogger type features like auto-focus, articulating screen etc.

Main things for me is a way to shoot braw without attaching a large additional box or monitor, like an SSD. 
Way to lose the white focus box in screen. 
Maybe a hot shoe mounted LCD rather than the bulky and awkward loupe.
 

It seems to be some sort of flat profile now in the Off mode. Desaturated, brings the shadows up.
Definitely seems to be more "Flat profile" than LOG but still interesting to further experiment with.

https://kinotehnik.com/product/lcdvf-bm5-optical-viewfinder/
I use the Kinotehnik optical viewfinder on the smallhd focus oled, its not supposed to work but I made it work.
So now I have a 1080p OLED evf
It is suported to work on the blackmagic 5" 12g

https://kinotehnik.com/product/lcdvf-bm5-optical-viewfinder/
I use the Kinotehnik optical viewfinder on the smallhd focus oled, its not supposed to work but I made it work.
So now I have a 1080p OLED evf
It is suported to work on the blackmagic 5" 12g

Went into the garden to test the new firmware
I opened the CDNG's in photoshop, shot at full-frame with the Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar® T* 3.5-4.5/28-70, I'm happy with the results.
 all shot at 25 fps with firmware 2.0  
 
 

 

Some people are just down on the FP. That's fine. Obviously people have varying needs and some are just not taken with this camera. It often does read like a statement of fact however. I bought mine slightly used, obviously from a disgruntled early adopter.
I have shot numerous short films using CDNG, 10 bit. Apart from a couple of minor bugs before the last firmware update (early spring). I have not seen any lines or artefacts. It is super easy to import into Davinci Resolve (drag and drop the folders). It is also very easy to grade, despite some disappearing down a rabbit hole of stats and codecs. 
It is a slow camera for stills work. The loupe is bulky, but essential for me as I'm a reading glasses wearer. The screen is a blurred fade in daylight if I try and use it without the loupe.
Agreed, the ISO is one click to the QS menu. I generally decide what my ISO should be for a project and use shutter speed and aperture to expose my pictures from there. back in the day you had to determine the ISO as you loaded a 30 shot film. At least now it's auto-ISO, or a one click menu change.
I do not have any L mount lenses (yet). Last week I shot one of my favourite raw stills ever. I processed it in Capture One. Again, super easy. I just adjusted the levels, added a little contrast and it looked fantastic. I forgot to add any saturation before I exported it, but the colours look lovely (slightly pastel).
I have a Leica Q stills camera, and a BMD Pocket 4K, and for me the Sigma FP matches both in end result. I am enjoying using it easily as much as those two cameras.
I only keep the Pocket 4K for Braw. If there was a very small unit I could record Braw to from the FP I would sell my Pocket 4K.

Went into the garden to test the new firmware
I opened the CDNG's in photoshop, shot at full-frame with the Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar® T* 3.5-4.5/28-70, I'm happy with the results.
 all shot at 25 fps with firmware 2.0  
 
 

 

I would get a black magic monitor before getting a ninja simply because BRAW seem more flexible.
And the BM has sharpening for display, that the Ninja does not. so focussing would be easier on the BM
But since I have a smallHD Focus OLED I will stick with that and a 2TB Samsung t5 for now. ( and Slim-raw )

Went into the garden to test the new firmware
I opened the CDNG's in photoshop, shot at full-frame with the Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar® T* 3.5-4.5/28-70, I'm happy with the results.
 all shot at 25 fps with firmware 2.0  
 
 

 

Went into the garden to test the new firmware
I opened the CDNG's in photoshop, shot at full-frame with the Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar® T* 3.5-4.5/28-70, I'm happy with the results.
 all shot at 25 fps with firmware 2.0  
 
 

 

Metabones recently announced the long-awaited Canon EF mount Speed Booster Ultra for Fuji X, which will be one of the must-have accessories for X-T4 owners. This will have support for phase-detect AF and incorporates Caldwell Optics advanced 5-element ultra-high index tantalum optics. The Caldwell Optics focal reducer remains the best you can get. In this 
New blog post:
https://www.eoshd.com/news/the-big-eoshd-interview-metabones-lens-adapters/

No I did not have any problems with dynamic range
And make sure you set the bit depth to 14 for stills and 12 for cinema if you want to get the max out the camera.
This is a frame from a 12 bit cdng graded in photoshop. its shot trough a window and with a 30 year old lens.
 

Yes it works well for me.
But I don't use autofocus for video
I use the sigma 45 mm for stills and the autofocus is fine for that
I still would like to have a wideangle lens with autofocus in the same size of the 45 mm.
For video to not have to worry about in camera settings such as
white balance
sharpness
picture profile
is what makes this camera great for me.
I can put the sharpness in camera at +5 and get a clear picture for focussing
and later in resolve I set the dng sharpness to what I want.

The 2tb can hold 1 hour and 45 minutes as the total record time in 12 bit raw.

Somehow it was discouraged to further add to the thread.
Anyway, I had to shoot a very short clip over the weekend. It is so easy.
I dropped it into Davinci Resolve - engaged the Blackmagic Film setting in the camera drop down (as some have advised not to), didn't use ACES, adjusted a bit of exposure, contrast and saturation and it looked great. Job done.

Yes its the small rig cage, I'm happy with it
I allows me to connect to the smallrig focus oled.