BenEricson

If don't mind the Sony look, the FS700/7Q is an absolutely killer bargain. The body is around 2500-3000 and the recorders are around 1500-2000. You get 4K/60p continuous, 4k/120fps in bursts, etc. It has great practical use, (interviews, long recording times,) but also is a cool toy with lots of features like 120fps and RAW recording. The sharpness and detail are amazing, the colors are pretty terrible. You can get a nice looking image, but you won't get that beautiful saturated look that a canon can produce in almost any situation. There's a guy on vimeo that does pretty beautiful stylized fashion stuff with the setup. Anyone who does corporate work with lots of talking head is so much better off with a c100mkii or even the original c100.

The Sony stuff is the worst. I agree about the lack of BMMCC footage, although the pocket was the same way. I imagine we see a ton in the next few weeks. I hope to have one by the end of next week. I am really wanting that 60p.

c100 mk1. This was probably shot with like 4 charged batteries and a 64gb SD card. Haha. I would never bring stacks of CF cards/hard drives, etc… I would probably shoot it on something small and light, with minimal support needed. I think a GH4 with a nice microphone and some stabilized glass would probably do really well. I guess it all depends on the situation, but having to worry about offloading raw files sounds like it would kill the vibe a little...

You sure all of your lenses properly focus to infinity? I adjusted for the sigma and everything was perfect after that, this includes fisheye lenses and non native zoom lenses with adapters.

Are you using the Black Magic Pocket or a camera with the metabones? if so, you need to make sure the infinity focus is set properly on the speed booster. I have owned canon and Nikon versions, both held focus through the zoom range, however the Nikon version with speed booster flickered when zooming on any aperture but f1.8... The canon version was fine at any f stop.

Haha.

Looks real good. Once you have the proper setup, (Metabones/Sigma 18-35,) it's all in the grade. That really is the winning combo. The camera looks really good shallow, which is hard to do without the 18-35. I love the handheld look on wides with all that DR Another guy doing cool stuff with the Digital Bolex. I love the handheld stuff with the global shutter… You can really get that saturated caked on color look.

Lovely. This is actually close to film. "Philm convert" with milky blacks is not the film look.

Yup. I shot a bunch of quick turn around stuff on the C300mkii with the baked in color. It looks amazing right out the camera. I would love to own that camera, but the size is a bit much and of course the price... I think the 1DXmkii is going to be awesome.

The original pocket is great as well. This guy's work is really nice. https://vimeo.com/101441424

Yup. This looks like hands down the best DSLR.

It is hard to get skin to not look kind of dead on the Sony cameras. It has this white look, and if you warm up the scene, all of the other colors go crazy. The Black Magic Pocket has a tough learning curve, but I can't pull colors like these from any Sony cameras I have used, this includes FS700/7Q 10bit/4k files. It's ridiculous to get better color with a camera setup that is about 1/4 the size and price. I will admit the weaknesses of the pocket. Battery life, ergonomics, IR contamination, why does everyone defend the color so much on them. They offer so many features, but the color is definitely a problem.

I agree. I have the same problem. I select HD and sometimes it will bounce back or just stop playing all together. NICE WORK VIMEO. I don't see the point in renewing my pro account at this point.

User generated feedback is about the best you can get. If a colorist told me the Sony image was great, how would that help me?

You'll be waiting a while for that one.

Tricky. 1 and 3 both go towards a teal look on the bottles, but 3 is completely red and 1 is completely orange. The exposure seems different on all of them.

I use the Light Panel 1x1 at work, I have heard the Astras are a huge step up in luminance output. Do you find this to be the case? I shoot a ton of daylight balanced stuff, I find the Kinos harder to match and the kit is so much larger.

This is all subjective, but I live in the Northwest, and forests don't look like that... The issue isn't getting some Osiris LUT look, the issue is getting a nice professional looking image, with no weird skin tints or off looking color. You shouldn't have to use curves and HLS tools to achieve this. I have access to the FS700/7Q and the 5D3/Raw. I'll do some side by sides this weekend and post the flat Pro Res files. The FS700 is a hell of a deal, but I am working on a project right now and I am having difficulty with the Sony footage. The other project I am editing is C300mkii looks pretty great with only minimal adjustments to the C-LOG files. I used 5D3 for the pick up shots in public areas and it cut very well. The canon is punchy and saturated, the Sony feels life less, even when grading 10bit/422/4K files. I'm wondering if the Sony suffers from IR contamination like the Black Magic Pocket...

Nope. The guy can't take criticism. His image is all based on his reputation online, so he holds his opinion on everything.

I think so. The way he responds to any small critique is amazing.

You're telling everyone color science is "subjective" but this just looks like an instagram VSCO photo. I have trouble believing that anyone who shoots interviews a lot, thinks Sony color is fine and can be fixed with curves. Sony seems to do pretty nice in natural light, but so do a lot of cameras. The canon cameras handle mixed lighting really well. Here is Philip Bloom's - Shot S-LOG 4K, Graded in film convert. It looks terrible. The price of the 1DXii is high, but the footage is going to look nice.

How often do you film ducks at the pond? I agree the footage looks nice, but this is just camera tests... Are there any actual pieces out there?

Ghostly looking skin tones, greens that shift in a weird way, sky becomes a cotton candy blue when it clips. Canon has been beating Sony in color for years on the prosumer/consumer level.

RAW is closer to the telecine process than a push pull. You can easily can be 4/5 stops over and still recover highlights with 16mm. You meter correctly and your footage will always look nice. What are you talking about with highlight metering? Zebras will do that for sure and exposing for highlights is great for wides but you can't always do that.

That's not a real "solution." Sony still struggles so hard in mixed lighting. The canon looks amazing every time.