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  1. Okay I have to chime in here on the NX1 sharpness that everyone is harping on. Sharpness is not an issue unless it's creating visual artifacts like moire. Like adding sharpening, you can blur the image to your hearts content in most modern editors. Also you can use diffusion and filters to get the look you want. I would rather have the sharp image and reduce it than have to artificially sharpen an image. 

  2. It's to cumbersome for live action filmmaking. Your sets have to be fully realized, you can't just build a section of a room, you have to build the entire room and you can't have any of the crew in shot, you can't light the scene except with natural lighting. You can't control what the audience is looking at. Because of these reasons it will never catch on for live action narrative storytelling. It might for CGI films, but for a few years when the environments can be rendered in real time. 

    It's going to explode in the video game community though. When proper motion controllers for peoples hands come out that will be the tipping point. It will be expensive at first but the interactive experience will be incredible.

  3. focal Length: 40mm (with close focus at 50cm)

    Aperture range: 1.2-16  

    Image Circle: FF

    Mount: EF

    Electronics: AF

    Body design: Metalic-pancake with a amazing like the voightlander flowing focus ring

    Optical design: Just copy Zeiss OR canon L  sharp all round!

    Expected sales: Me you and everyone we know

    Personal notes: Because it would embody everything i like from my lenses... the 40mm is semistandard not too wide like 35, or narrow like 50, compact design pancake lightweight, metallic to be sturdy, wide open at 1,2F and sharp like L, made for FF cameras.. 

    cheers! 

    ​Would KILL for this in Nikon mount. I have a 40mm voightlander that's pretty much how I see. 

    Also have to say I would love a low cost 50mm Anamorphic, even if it was f4 I would buy it comes in under a grand.

  4.  

    Yes, contrast seems to be best at -5, see some test shots on this, along with other thoughts/conclusions in the NX1 DR settings thread. Basically: DR gamma, sharpness -10, contrast -5.

    I'm not sure why you'd want to increase the black level. I can see it helping if you're delivering straight out of the camera, but otherwise I see it as simply wasting the low end of the encoding range.

    Raising the black level lowers the contrast by bringing up detail in the shadows. 

  5. I know @Andrew mentioned something about the NX1 having a Dragon like sensor (6.5k) readout, and I'm interested how this will translate in a real world test. Also curious seeing how @Mattias Burling's (I think that is who recomended it) process of up-ressing the NX1's slowmo to 4k will look against the Dragons native high-frame rate 4k and 6K.

    As a note, I've never shot with the NX1, so if any of you with experience want to recommend any ideal settings and help shorten the learning curve (maybe a different thread?), it'd be appreciated.

    Gamma DR

    -4 Contrast

    +10 Black Level

    -10 Sharpness

    Very interested to see your results! 

  6. ​The film industry is moving to larger sensors #Fact

    Also outside of S35 crop format the Samsung lacks, dynamic range and color to even be anywhere close to considered a film camera. 

    ​Color? Your saying that NX1 has poor color? Something most say the camera gets right compared to Sony, in which color is universally brought up as something it lacks?

    Also, full frame is not even close to becoming a standard film shooting format. Some big budget productions are headed that way, but as an industry it is still a pain to shoot on in terms of DOF and supported cinema glass is still not up to par for the format.

  7. Cheap, over sharpened and the DP apparently doesn't know how to light to save his life. When the man is sitting in the living room (3:35) the children are terribly underlit and the mans crotch is overexposed! WTF?  Also good god the camera movement is atrocious!

  8. I would also suggest a wide lens, Sigma 18-35 is an amazing all rounder, sometimes I don't even take it off the camera however on apse sensor 18mm becomes around 28mm so it might not be wide enough in some cases. I also have tokina 11-16 which is wide enough but it's not a great match to sigma art.
    Keep in mind the new Aputure DEC adapter lets you control aperture and focus of EF lenses wirelessly and that the pro version is coming out with a focal reducer aka spepdbooster or lens turbo. Just saying.  

    ​Those adapters are MTF & Sony E mount only, not the Samsung NX mount.

  9. ​Wait... and I am a newbie here so be nice.. If I shoot in 4k on the Nx1 and put it in the NLE with FCP X will the moire get worse!!!  I am going to be really upset :(    I thought downscaling it got rid of it but I am sure my math is wrong or something.  I just dont really ever see on my Gh4.  

    ​Editing 4K in a NLE will always seem to have Moire because the programs do not use a very good downscaling algorithm, instead they try to maintain realtime playback. View at 100% or export a clip and view it to see the actual quality. 

  10. Dear Ed David, Domestic Abuse (accused domestic abuse) is not on the same level as rape. Not even close. Also bringing this thread back to the top does not bring down the forum, it brings to light your horrific comments, accusations, and topics. They show that you are not here primarily as a filmmaker but as a grandstanding attention seeker, that would rather attack others for their opinions than discuss them.

    What do I think of the tape? That Emma is using her rape for personal, political, and financial gain. In that way I suppose she is the voice of her generation. Is rape horrific and terrible, yes it is. Should it be penalized more severely? YES. Should accused parties still be innocent until proven guilty and have the right to their livelihood not being ruined purely on a accusation? YES. Will I watch the video. NO.

  11. I'm not sure that Premiere can support H.265/HEVC codec, therefore it's better you should save H.265 to Adobe Premiere friendly video type, such as WMV, MPEG. I use Pavtube Video Converter for the job btw.

    ​Umm, no. Not at all. It's going to be a broadly used consumer codec, it will be support in premiere/AVID/Sony Vegas. It's just a question of when.

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