LawDude

I just tested my NX1 using GammaDR, and sharpening at -5.  I shot in UHD, downscaled in Premiere Pro to 1080, and rendered out to a DVD.  The sharpening looks horrible, and very “video”-ish.  The in-camera sharpening is using a contrast-type of sharpening that produces artifacts in a radius around high-contrast objects.  You can confirm this increased contrast on a lumetri-scope.  On the other hand, setting sharpening at -10 produces beautiful results (without any post-sharpening), and none of the artifacts.

Just a heads up to everyone - Samsung posted a new firmware update for the NX1.  It's v. 1.41.  So dust off your i-Launcher

The NX1 has a 14-bit sensor, so the hardware has the bit-depth capability.  It would probably have to be set up to be output through the HDMI stream (along with the 4:2:2 sampling).

Bitrate isn't going to eliminate the banding.  Banding is the result of only having 256 colors per channel on account of the 8-bit color space.  A 10-bit color space gives us 1024 colors per channel - that smooths the gradient, and gives you a smooth transition between shades of color (eg., going from lite blue to deep blue in a sky).

Bitrate isn't going to eliminate the banding.  Banding is the result of only having 256 colors per channel on account of the 8-bit color space.  A 10-bit color space gives us 1024 colors per channel - that smooths the gradient, and gives you a smooth transition between shades of color (eg., going from lite blue to deep blue in a sky).