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  1. Ursa mini is completely new and early adopters will have to live through it's inevitable bugs and quirks. F5 is a proven work horse.

    You can also knock down the media costs by using qxd cards with adapters for internal recording.

    Plus internal ND, plus significantly more light sensitivity.

    And zero percent financing over 2 years is extremely nice from a business perspective.

  2. So this was being discussed a bit in the ursa thread but I feel it deserves its own topic. 

    Sony is now offering the F5 for $15,900. 24 month 0% financing.  The 4K internal model. This price includes the sony viewfinder, shoulder pad, tripod mount, sxs reader, full copy of davinci resolve AND the brand new a7s II camera. 

    Seems like a pretty interesting deal! Does the f5 record ten bit prores to the shogun? I assume the internal 4K is 8 bit?

    So do you guys like the deal?  Definitely an enticing package, no? 

  3. Seems to be just US only :(  even so i don't think it's without risks. I mean they basically end up holding your data hostage for money. What if they bump up the price every year and then one year you've really hit rock bottom and can't make the payment. Then your stuff is gone if you don't have a backup somewhere else. 

    Or another scenario. Someone gets your login credentials and starts fucking around with your files because he's the joker and just wants to watch the world burn

    Well that's why you have a legitimate password. And if you think you wont be able to pay you download all of your files and back them up some other way (which would probably cost significantly more than whatever the yearly fee is). I dunno, unless you're enemies with mr. Robot , I don't see it as a bigger risk than backing it up yourself. 

  4. I hadn't done the math on the SSD's yet so that's a good thing to look into. Good to know about NAS. Will have to research that a bit though.

    I hadn't thought about this seriously at all, nor had I heard about Amazon's service. I will look into that now. What happens to all your currently uploaded data when you stop paying the yearly premium?

    I was wrong it's only 60 bucks a year hah. 

    I'm sure you wouldn't be able access your files and they reserve the right to delete them if you don't pay. I'd just recommend setting up the automatic payments and you're good to go. It's kind of an unbelievable deal imo.

  5. If they update the sensor with the new stacked architecture, it could conceivably fix the RS issue. Issues with weird colors and blue artifacting come from S-Gamut 1. Either use Sony LUTs/ACES to properly transform your footage to r709/P3, or just avoid using S-Gamut. The colors may still not be to your liking, but that's a whole separate issue--and much more easily tackled. 
    I can't see them putting the F5/FS7 sensor in this camera. Maybe if they restricted it to 8-bit, but I think it's going to be full frame, and the A7R II sensor doesn't make sense in a camcorder. 

     do you happen to know of a tutorial or article that goes over the a7s -----> aces workflow? 

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