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I would imagine that there is sold at least thousand <$2000 cameras for each $4000-7000 camera. Makes one wonder how much point is doing anything but best at that <$2000 price point. Winning there is huge, winning in $4000-7000 segment not so much.

Colors look really good compared to Sony or Panasonic.

GammaDR gives the most natural look and you can add contrast to it if you need. I have been shooting close to 100 hours this summer and when using normal or GammaC it's hard to manage scenes that are partly sun partly shade. I tried ricardos settings, but the colors were ultimately too fake and blend. It's not really fun to look image that is so gray. In stills it seems nice, but watching even 2 minute video with it is just exhausting.

It's really red. No need for that "0.95x green" setting anymore. Still too red.

Do you know any H.265 -> ProRes conversion software for Mac, that doesn't change luminance levels from 0-255 to 16-235? I've been using RockyMountains converter on PC, but I don't like how flat the material looks after conversion. If there is no such program, do you know if there is an easy way in Final Cut Pro X to change luminance level from 16-235 back to 0-255? Thank you.

NX1 has way better colors straight out of camera. Panasonic users can't even imagine.

12 hours ago, ricardo_sousa11 said:

Just finished my first Music Video, not exacly as I planned it would go, had some setbacks on filming and what not, but yet still pleased with how it turned out. Everything was shot on the NX1 and the aerials on the P3. Was a great challenge, doing something as "big" with such a tight budget, but loads of fun ! Let me know what you guys think =)

Looks really really nice. Could you share some info about camera settings and grading? You made it look really filmic and organic for NX1 material.

20 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

Great detail, superb film simulation / colour out of the box.

Skin colors in that clip are way off (magenta and gray, nice). His face and hands look like he is sick.

3 hours ago, Mattias Burling said:

Is the majority online really idiots?

Yes. Has nothing to do with Ghostbusters though.

No way NX1 is there, none of them looks that good. 1 is useless via lack of resolution, 2 is best and 3 has strong aliasing issues.

I use Samsung 85 mm f/1.4 for 95% of the time.

8 hours ago, Tiago Rosa-Rosso said:

This would be cool:

- a tiny (500g) body

- FF sensor  

- global and rolling shutter 

- record internally 2.5k pro res 10bit 4.2.2 from 2 fps to 120 fps

- an ibis like olympus 

- a dual pixel af like canon

- 2000 euros price     

This would also be cool:

- a tiny (300g) body

- medium format sensor

- global and rolling shutter

- record internally 8k pro res 14 bit 4.4.4 from 1 fps to 480 fps (to sd card)

- built in ronin

- 600 euros price

4 hours ago, Xavier Plágaro Mussard said:

The LX100 is a great little camera. Only problem with mine is that when I attach a ND filter, it gives me Zoom Error and I have to start the camera several times before it opens the lens and starts. Do this happen to anyone else??

You need to use protector or similar filter before your ND filter, to give it distance. Your lens can't fully close itself when youre using only ND filter, becouse its too wide.

LX100 or G7, becouse colors seem unnatural and orange has Panasonic vibe to it. Usually you can tell GH4 material from purple lips, but in this case lips are even kinda red, so I think it's not GH4. BM and NX1 have much better colors, so if this is shot with one of them, you have messed up something. Sony A7 serie cameras have more organic feel. Canon and Nikon lack the resolution seen here.

Biggest drawback is very digital looking image with thin colors. It's hard to get natural image out of it. Also zooming feels weak, becouse its via wire and the motor isn't very powerful.

LX100 is anything but cinematic. It has bad colors and very digital look.

I used 5D Mk2 for three years and its poor resolution was a big problem. I wouldn't use it anymore (except maybe in Magic Lantern RAW mode, but I don't have experience with that). NX1 and GH4 are both good, NX1 is cleaner and has very bright, vivid and beautiful colors, but GH4 is more "filmic". GH4 is easier to post process, becouse it doesn't need to be converted to ProRes. If you have GTX960 or similar HEVC supported video card, you may be able to edit native NX1 files.

It's really hard or impossible to get bright good colors from GH4, so you are forced to go with more "filmic" style. With NX1 the colors are superb, but you can't hide its digital look.

GH4 may be better for conservative short films. For commercial stuff NX1 is superior in that group.

Personally I wouldn't buy NX1 anymore becouse there seems to be no future for it. But after using NX1 I wouldn't be able to transfer back to GH-world either. I hate Sony colors, Canon lacks resolution, Nikon lacks resolution, GH4 isn't vivid enough, NX1 is perfect for my use but has no future. If I was forced to buy camera at this moment, I would be most interested in Blackmagic.

Change 0-255 to 16-235 to avoid that problem. I think the problem is how VLC shows the material, not the material itself. Premiere has same kind of issues when using 0-255 H.265 files. With existing 0-255 files you can fix that by either converting to 16-235 or lifting the blacks from below 0 back to usable range using RGB curves or similar.

Looks very cinematic and good. Sound is a bit weird and not in sync in the hammering scene.

If A7r II has "good battery life", then NX1's battery life should be "mindblowing battery life from different galaxy". It's just joke that you gave them both "good battery life" when A7r II is so much worse.

Cinema4K with NX1 is softer than UHD, so that shouldn't be plus, and 4K with A7r II is cropped which should be huge minus.

A7r II also requires good color grading to get useful results, while NX1 looks awesome straight out of box.

Screenshot from NX1 video (4K@1080p):

I would really suggest you get a 4K camera, even more so if you're going to travel a lot. Difference in image clarity between GH3 and GH4 is astonishing.

Samsung 85mm f/1.4 with Hoya Variable Density 3-400 filter.

My settings:

Normal Gamma, 0-255, Standard picture mode (0.95x green, -10 sharpness)