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1 hour ago, Blah Blah said:

I range is PC (0-255 or 0-1023) and not Video (16-235). The Auto option interprets the clips as Video.

Meant to say Full not PC.

I noticed a few things yesterday while trying all kinds of modes.

I Gamma C and Gamma DR modes the camera wants to expose darker, I locked everything except the shutter speed and when engaging from Normal Gamma to C or DR the camera consistently wants to shoot with a faster shutter speed.

The same thing happens while using SmartRange+ -mode, the shutter speed goes faster with everything else staying the same. My totally uneducated guess is that in these modes it exposes lower and lifts the exposure before going to codec.

I shot in 0-255 I have been using RockyMountains Movie Converter. I transcoded the clips to ProRes422HQ and downscaled to 1080p. In DaVinci Resolve I need to adjust the Clip Attributes and manually select that the range is PC (0-255 or 0-1023) and not Video (16-235). The Auto option interprets the clips as Video.

On 6.9.2016 at 4:21 PM, Geoff CB said:

Fully manual all settings, even in event work. Have had to many times when a camera made the wrong choice for me. I will check out Smartrange+ again and do more tests with it because your results look very good with highlight rolloff.

I think there might be some highlights missing in the screenshot as I've had some confusion with the 0-255 showing wrong on some players.

Your Back to the Future Screening video looked superb. What settings did you have on that and how did you convert and process it afterwards? Are you using 16-235? This was with Voigtländer lenses apparently.

3 hours ago, Marco Tecno said:

I think it's an early bird thing. So to encourage to get one as fast as possible!

I wouldn't put so many options, I think it would be better to reward early backers and then offer with normal price.

Can't order now myself (no money) but I'm interested to see how it's going to work.

Looks really good. I wonder if this will ever be possible on the NX1.

Does the 2.5k have the same crop as 4k?

It's the same in audio software, almost everyone wants to have legendary analog compressors, reverbs and eq. Though not many like to add hiss, if that's what is grain's audio equivalent. The nonlinearities make sounds feel more alive.

16 hours ago, Geoff CB said:

My main concern with Smartrange+ is it altering exposure mid-shot. If it's an on/off effect, that could be very useful. Videographers just tend to shy away from anything "Auto" for fear of it doing unknown things to the video.

I sold my NX1, but buying back into the Samsung line with the NX500, the same great colors and better RS (which killed the NX1 for me).

YEah makes sense, do you usually lock in all settings or let some range for for example ISO?

3 hours ago, kidzrevil said:

@Blah Blah damn that is a HUGE difference ! notice anything weird like macroblocking or random changes in exposure ?

I don't know, I just took this while learning the camera, I have not shot much of anything yet. It was a 4k recording on Vivid and then I took a screenshot at 1920x1080p.

Many people have written that SmartRange is for audio but to my eyes there's a clear difference in video.

First one is without SmarRange+ and second is with it on.

I just got an NX1.

Do you use the SmartRange+ -setting for video?

I tested it and it seems to raise shadows and lower the highlights, making shots more evenly lit.