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    The DJI OSMO - is it groundbreaking?

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    Have you tried the Beholder MS1? It works great with the Sony a7 series as long as you don't fit a bulky lens. Same joystick control as this OSMO, works with many different cameras and a lot cheaper.

    Do you have any footage you've shot with it? I've struggled to find much

    Why A7Rii is a nogo for landscape

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    So I got my A7RII with a great voigtlander 15mm for landscape.

    the camera is amazing for many points (IBIS, EVF, video functions, ....)

    the biggest problem is long exposure. I put a 1000 ND filter on the 15mm and get strong vignette (normal). But then I looked at the images and STRAIGHTS out of the camera (on a daytime landscape at 30s exposure) I get the confetti noise on the vignette dark part of the image so basically in 40% of the frame. Even without changing exposure or shadows.!! Even without zooming ! Even on the back camera screen ! It is just unusable ....

    so you get a ND filter to make a long exposure, but this nd filter darken the corners and then you get monstrous confetti 

    'so clearly worst than planned and clearly NOT USABLE for long exposure. Even a T2i does way better.

    Such a disappointment ...

    'the other problem is the menu and ergonomics, it is just not nice to handle compared to a DSLR...

    I dream of a mirrorless in a 5D body with 5D buttons and menus.... With same specs as A7RII. Canon if you listen.......

    Have you updated to the latest firmware and have you tried using the uncompressed raw? Also, have you tried exposing the images properly? 

    A7SII is it really a "niche" video only camera?

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    It looks like the shooter chose a beautiful day, at magic hour, selected the right WB, exposed correctly and avoided s-log and overtly messing around in post all together. 

    Provide these cameras with good light and a bit of an understanding of how to correctly expose and set wb and they never fail.  Shoot in 'low light' in urban settings with a mix of horrible sodium bulbs, led's, neon, and tungsten car headlamps and every digital camera will struggle in some way or another.

     

     

     

    Description states S-Log and Adobe Lumetri to grade. I'm a fan of the look

    What "style" of edit is this ?

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    Just tried this weekend with some footage I had, to do something similar. Its far from good, needs a lot more training, only the last transitions worked, I think. But still its quite fun to edit this type of thing, and including all the little sounds (no camera sound) is quite fun and something I dont usually do. Anyone know any good webiste to download free sound effects ? I took all of those from youtube, but it would be great to know a dedicated place for it..

    https://vimeo.com/143796710

    Password : Test

    Nice work! I'm by no means an expert in this editing style but you've definitely got the feel for how it works down.  I do like that sequence towards the end with the trees and tree sound effects. 

    C100 Mark II misc. questions

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    When using C-log, there is a view assisted feature in the OLED/VF setup menu. It will show a more contrasty/graded image than what the camera is recording. You can also just cycle through a few picture profiles to make sure you're close before switching back to C-log to record. 

    Personally, I've never used noise reduction and haven't felt the need to. Make sure you dont go BELOW 850 ISO as that is the cameras native ISO. You'll get ugly banding and compressed dynamic range. I shoot up to 6400 all day long and am happy with the noise. 

    Not sure on AF speed. I've not changed it from the default settings which i'm generally happy with. I'm sure if you dig around the menu/manual that'll be easy to find though.

    A7S HDMI output at 50P ?

    In: Cameras

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    Yeah sorry man, definitely photoshop'd.

    Ahh, this was you. Saw this on Vimeo ages and ages ago and was super impressed with the footage. Think it was one of the videos that convinced me to buy one. Even now, nice job. Is footage out through HDMI (with a Shogun I'm guessing) better in your opinion?

    This was actually all internal. Never used a shogun to be honest! Thanks for the kind words.

    Short Doc shot on C100 MK2

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    Hey All. Wanted to share this short documentary I just finished up at my place of work. Shot it on the C100mk 2 with a Canon 24-70 F/4L IS, Zeiss 25mm f/2 zf.2 for a couple shots, and RX100 mk 4 for 3 shots at the beginning. Lighting was with a very simple Westcott Ulite kit, using a pair of 500 watt photoflood tungsten bulbs. Having shot with the a7s, d810, and d750 for a while, I have to say working with the C100 mark 2 was really refreshing and easy, and I loved the image out of the camera. I shot in the Wide DR profile and graded with Film Convert, and the image just looked great without any mucking around. Even in a very controlled shoot such as this one, I absolutely LOVED the AF feature. I used it constantly and it was really helpful in keeping focus on sliding shots in addition to the police stuff up front. Wish Sony would get their line of cameras to this level of usability as its such a great feature.

     

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