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    salim reacted to nickname in No culture or heritage in Nikon's Z series   
    i´m sorry, but the first image completely contratdicts everything you say about nikons design heritage. and the nikon 1 image shows clearly that there is no connection to the z design language.
    the z bodies handle like photographic tools. they did not forgoe their past like some competitors who flushed their aquired DSLR history down the drain.
    this is the rant of a spec nerd and not of a photographer or a videographer. the video quality that´s coming out of of the z cameras is totally fine and sufficient for the enthusiast. who wants absolute image quality will not look at hybrids anyway.
    as you yourself have shown there is no significant difference in image quality between 10bit recording hybrids today. this singling out and bashing of nikon that is all the fashion these last months is silly in my opinion.
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    salim reacted to Lux Shots in Panasonic S1H ProRes RAW 6K 12bit - download firmware   
    I'm knee deep into the L-Mount for at least the next 5 years, so I'm not in the market to switch. But I am always willing to consider a deal on another S1H if my funds are right. 😀
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    salim reacted to Video Hummus in Panasonic S1H ProRes RAW 6K 12bit - download firmware   
    We can have both, no? Something something about eating cake....😎
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    salim reacted to Lux Shots in Panasonic S1H ProRes RAW 6K 12bit - download firmware   
    It would be simply unbeatable. The crazy thing is, that you could grab three used S1H cams last week, as everyone was cashing out to race to Sony and Canon's offerings. Kinda wish I dodn't book that all inclusive vacation to Puerto Rico next week, cause I would certainly love to grab a few more! 😀
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    salim got a reaction from deezid in Panasonic S1H ProRes RAW 6K 12bit - download firmware   
    Thanks! It looks very clean and the noise is rather fine. I downsized it to UHD 4k and it cleans up even better. I bet with a bit of color noise reduction it will be silky smooth. Assuming you want that look. Rather amazing for ISO 12800. 
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    salim got a reaction from Lux Shots in Panasonic S1H ProRes RAW 6K 12bit - download firmware   
    @Lux Shots and @Matt Hollman -
    Thank you both for your quality post. EOSHD lately has been feeling like a ranting place for Andrew to vent out being disregarded by marketing departments of many camera companies. 

    Love to see some screen grab examples of ISO 12800. 

    Matt,  really curious about your color grading process. 
     
    Thanks!
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    salim reacted to Matt Hollman in Panasonic S1H ProRes RAW 6K 12bit - download firmware   
    My wife doesn't want her face posted, but here is just an example of some skin tones under a terrible fluorescent light (white balanced) before/after a beginner blueish/green horror movie type grade. No keys or masks were used by the way, just white balance and tint changes.

    S1H 5.9K ProRes RAW on a 4K Cinemascope timeline @ ISO 4000
     


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    salim reacted to Matt Hollman in Panasonic S1H ProRes RAW 6K 12bit - download firmware   
    Here's a very boring test shot of my kitchen at ISO 12800, Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 @ f/2.8 (ungraded). The light is coming in from another room and was quite dark to the eye. If you zoom into the image there is definitely noise, but it's totally usable even without noise reduction added.

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    salim reacted to Matt Hollman in Panasonic S1H ProRes RAW 6K 12bit - download firmware   
    I'm not at home right now so I'll try to remember to upload later. 
     
    For shooting, I white balance manually and I shoot ETTR with enough head room for a stop or so in the highlights.  When colour grading in premiere, this makes me have to bring down the exposure tab in the Prores Raw settings to about -2.5 or so to get my highlights under the clipping point. I add/remove some saturation. Then, I use the secondary colour wheels (I think that's what they are called) to adjust the shadows, mid tones, and highlights. If there isn't enough contrast, I adjust the curve or simply use the contrast slider in the primary lumetri tab (I'm very bad with using the curve with more than 2 points).  Then, I adjust the colour wheels to the colours I want (example being purple shadows, yellow highlights). After all of this, with the 12 bit codec I've been pleasantly surprised that the skin tones stay in tact quite well! It feels like as a beginner I'm at more ease to try more creative looks without ruining my image. Although an expert can make 10-bit (or even 8 bit) look better than my 12-bit no problem.
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    salim reacted to Lux Shots in Panasonic S1H ProRes RAW 6K 12bit - download firmware   
    With the new data rates that this thing uses, I was surprised that my inexpensive 1 TB Western Digital Blue SSD could handle ProRes RAW HQ in 5.9K and 4.1K 60p. I plan on using this new codec specifically when doing outdoor weddings. As of now, I have been severely underexposing just to make certain that if the sun peeks from behind the clouds that I don't burn a hole straight through the brides dress, never to be recovered ever again.
    Canon and Sony have had some interesting releases the last few weeks. The only realization is that the S1H clearly would best both to an extent if it had Canon/Sony level autofocus.
    With that said:
    I know how to manual focus. Glass f/2.8 or faster and ISO 12,800 looks fantastic. Anything more, I will light it. I've run my camera for over 4 hours straight (Hindu Wedding) in 5.9K, and my camera didn't overheat! When video work dries up, this thing is a competent stills shooter. I really don't know what job this dynamic duo of S1H and Ninja V can't do.

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    salim reacted to Matt Hollman in Panasonic S1H ProRes RAW 6K 12bit - download firmware   
    I've been messing around with it for the past two days. My findings: (of course do your own tests too if possible)

    + Sharpest/most detailed image I've ever filmed on any camera before
    + Easier for me to get a colour grade as a beginner that I'm satisfied with than when shooting V-Log 
    + Edits easily on my mid tier gaming PC (i7-8700k + GTX1060) with Premiere Pro
    + ISO 12800 with enough light looked better than expected. This needs further testing for sure.
    - Higher data rate than initially expecting, this means I will still shoot mostly internal probably
    - In 5.9K mode only I experience choppy frame rates on the Ninja V sometimes. A quick swap to 4K and back returns this to normal. I imagine this will be fixed in the final released firmware.
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    salim reacted to Andrew Reid in Forum rules (Latest)   
    These rules are here to make the forum as interesting as possible to read for others.
    If I ban somebody, it will only be be because they repeatedly broke the rules below. I ask for everybody's understanding on this - I only have two goals - to protect EOSHD and my business, and to make the forum a source of high quality camera and filmmaking info. Cheers!
    1. Please be polite to other users where possible, although lively debates and disagreements are ok and to be expected! However, when it comes to the site owner myself, I would like you to bear in mind that your remarks are in my house and on my phone screen. So it is especially important not to come here with a hostile attitude to the site owner. I do not wish to see this content in my home and it will result in an instant ban. I do not want trolling at work, or during home hours.
    2. Please do not promote your own products without OK-ing this with me first, especially ones which compete with my own at EOSHD. This includes camera guides, colour profiles, LUTs and alternative blogs or forums. If an account is setup for the main purposes of selling LUTs for example, this is not OK and you must clear this with me first. If I like your work I may get in touch and work something out. However I will always reserve the final say for the very obvious need to protect my own livelihood and website. Please do not use your forum activity to take customers away from my own site.
    3. Extreme topics and viewpoints relating to communism, baseless conspiracy theories, MAGA and extreme left & right-wing politics are not allowed on the forum. I welcome people of all reasonable political views but I do not accept far left or far right propaganda on the forum. The filmmaking community is largely a liberal art and Trump endorsing views aren't usually welcomed on set, so it's important to keep in mind that the same applies to this corner of the film and camera industry too. Please understand - this is not about political censorship but about avoiding a hostile and divisive atmosphere in the community. And to ensure camera topics aren't side-tracked. It is not so much about politics as about morality.
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    5. Please do not regularly bump your own topics, especially curating your own editorial style compilation of YouTube videos you've found on the web. The forum should not be an advertising platform for poor quality content. A few relevant clips are fine in the context of a discussion.
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    salim reacted to newfoundmass in Canon EOS R5 / R6 overheating discussion all in one place   
    Shits fucked when the Northrups are one of the few voices that give useful information on these cameras. 
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    salim reacted to Andrew Reid in Toneh is upset   
    I don't know.
    They are a bit too Florida for me.
    A bit Ken.
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    salim reacted to Mark Romero 2 in Toneh is upset   
    I am not trying to be a snob, but I just can't watch the Tony and Chelsea videos anymore.
    Here are a couple of people suggesting cameras - often based on video features of a camera - and their videos are (technically) horrible.
    I mean, overly sharpened and contrasty (and both of them are at that age when having less sharpening would be a good idea). I hate the 60fps motion blur (or lack thereof).
    Tony's audio, in particular, is so crunchy it hurts.  And I blame @IronFilm for making me care about audio quality. Life was so much easier when I had no clue what good audio sounds like. 
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    salim reacted to josdr in Disappointed in the Canon R6 - Coming From A Canon User   
    What ridiculous campaign would that be? Not believing reviews that corporate has ordained to its stable of paid youtubers ? A careful examination of the released specs of both R5 and R6 , coupled with a modicum of actual field experience and what else is on the market and technically feasible, show many severe shortcomings for both cameras that could have actually been avoided, and may indeed be rectified via firmware if Canon's cripple hammer is put to rest.
    Healthy discussion with solid arguments is always good. Blindly kneeling to the altar of Canon,Sony, Fuji etc, is not..
     
     
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    salim reacted to Andrew Reid in Disappointed in the Canon R6 - Coming From A Canon User   
    Smartphone can process the same amount of pixels (8K) and encode to same codec for $700
    Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro
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    salim reacted to Andrew Reid in A closer look at the Canon EOS R5 lower quality 4K mode to avoid thermal cut-off   
    The Canon EOS R5 works in mysterious ways.
    Canon chose to implement 8K and 4K/120p on this camera knowing that heat build-up will make for some short recording times. This was a risk, because the perceived hit to reliability can generate a lot of bad publicity. What was Canon thinking and what else does the camera offer for when more reliable recording is needed?
    New blog post:
    https://www.eoshd.com/8k/a-closer-look-at-the-canon-eos-r5-lower-quality-4k-mode-to-avoid-thermal-cut-off/
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    salim reacted to Matt James Smith ? in Canon EOS R5 has serious overheating issues – in both 4K and 8K   
    I think perhaps we’re missing the point. Just like their previous “hybrids” it’s a stills camera first and foremost. The difference now is that instead of video being an afterthought thrown on in case photographers *must* shoot a few clips, it is now “video for photographers.”
    What I mean by that is the 8K video mode is basically a 30fps burst mode to pull stills from. It’s the first stills camera in what is probably going to be the near future of photography - no distinction between stills and video. 8K RAW is the first video mode that can really claim the image quality of a frame is equal to high-end photography (especially in combination with Canon’s AF making every frame perfect). I’m surprised they’re not offering an open gate mode to be honest. 
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    salim reacted to rawshooter in SIGMA FP with ProRes RAW and BRAW !   
    This is only for 8bit h264 mov and rather useless.
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    salim reacted to zerocool22 in SIGMA FP with ProRes RAW and BRAW !   
    External recording though. For me buying a tiny camera and then adding a lot of bulk around it(charging even more batteries), isnt for me. Then I rather have a bigger camera that I dont need to rig up.
    Allthough good news that braw is starting to move around to more cameras. Maybe on the next iteration they can do it internal.
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    salim reacted to hoodlum in Samsung S20 smart phone with 8K video   
    Some odd decisions by Samsung.  The Ultra has some great camera hardware specs but the S20/S20+ don't have a true telephoto lens.  This Telephoto camera is actually 28mm equivalent vs the 26mm equivalent from the wide angle camera.  So the 3x telephoto is just a crop from the 1/1.7" sensor.  This was basically done to support 8k as the "telephoto camera" has 64mp to support the 8k and cropping.  The 1/1.7" wide angle camera has 12mp so 8k is not possible.  The S20/S20+ are really just dual camera phones (Wide and Ultrawide).
    Here are the camera specs for the Ultra. Too bad this is only available with the mini-tablet sized phone.
    Focal length equivalents:
    13mm
    26mm
    102mm
    Sensor sizes:
    1/2.55“
    1/1.33“
    1/2"
    Apertures:
    F2.2
    F1.8
    F3.5
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    salim got a reaction from Emanuel in Samsung S20 smart phone with 8K video   
    It has some short comings with effects and focusing but it can record 8K
    MKBHD talks about here more: 
     

     
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    salim reacted to Video Hummus in Nikon Z RAW video support   
    HDMI 2.0 would have a sufficient data rate at 14.4 Gbps and supports up to 16bits (but not at 4K).
    HDMI 2.1 can do up to 42.6 Gbps.
    How Atomos is using that bandwidth I’m not sure...
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    salim reacted to Lars Steenhoff in Nikon Z RAW video support   
    A monitor causes extra moire effects because of the pixel grid
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