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  1. Yes, POLITICS. . . marketing. . .

    But technically. . .
    There is a HUGE quality difference between what the sensor record and what you monitor on the LCD / Viewfinder camera's screen.
    So huge, that you did not need much processing power "locally" (on the camera) just to view what the sensor (camera) is doing.

    I am "hardware" (PCs) and I can cram in less than a 1/2 (of a small) camera's battery size a "storage module" which can record at 24+ GB/s, meaning that you can record the direct output of each pixel (cell) from a large sensor to high FPS, and into a big size of few GB (I can cram easily 8GB as now commercially available).
    The SoC of the older Samsung NX1 had 2 PCIe bus channels not used (2x or 4x), and they could write - year 2014 - at least 5-6 GB/s, or even double in RAID 0.
    And you can have "pure" sensor output, 12-14-16 bits, at sensor pixels (cells), or down-sampled (aka some processing) to a "normal video" format (2k-8k. . .).

    SO, if you DO NOT WANT any of the "HDMI Clean output" or the "8-10 bits JPG or x264 / x265" inside camera, you can have easy INTERNAL RAW at its most basic level, with no any "fancy" processing, except a little for your camera's display.


    Any PC's software will do a post-processing of this RAW data to acheive what you want:  that color science now included in camera's BIOS (so maibe each manufacture will do a "conversion" soft) and a video file type for any NLE software.

    It is true that some want only JPG / MP4 (sure, local processing, slower), some want only RAW, but some want both, now this is the easy way to choose what you want.

    When I went for stills RAWs instead of JPG - meaning post-processing - I lost interest for JPG.
    With this processing choice in mind, I prefer RAW for video too, so no x264/x265 or what-ever else codec.
    Sure Samsung could make a MOD from NX1 - theoretically, but financial (I'm retiring this year) I cannot "push" it.

    Just my 2 pennies.

     

  2. This is very bad.

    15 years ago I obtain from a US educational entity, a presentation about intelligence of China people vs US people.
    On short, due to its immense population, China had / has more intellectual genies than all US population.

    This new "type" of Chinese wall now built by the United States (Trump administration) is creating an immense economic war that will have its short-term consequences.
    Chinese were already building one for the internet, so the "data exchange" is already affected, starting from personal level (also very important) all the way up.

    But since Chinese labor is cheaper, this is also part of the intellectual forces, and I suppose the United States may not accept that millions of Chinese can come to US "to realize themselves" (for the same "security" reasons).

    So in the long run (5+ years), China may come out more successful and will dominate the IP of the whole world...
    Am I missing something ???

  3. 15 hours ago, webrunner5 said:

    There isn't hardly anybody going to do pure Raw on here. You would have to win the Lotto to buy the Media, let alone the Storage. You are talking minutes, even seconds of video on a card, even a SSD is a joke on a long take.

    You are so RIGHT.
    That is why I do not understand why manufacturers do not access "industrial standards" and keep creating more or less toys regarding the "memory media".

    The M.2 "memory card" is an SSD in a container who is smaller than the SD (and expanable up to 3 times longer).
    How about an RAID, this can rise to over 30GB/s with 4 "memory modules" of M.2, and this is already enough.

    M.2 size.jpg

    M.2 PRO.jpg

    M.2 EVO.jpg

  4. 5 hours ago, Emanuel said:

    Not exactly. RAW doesn't necessarily mean uncompressed (that is, can perfectly happen to be minimally processed) but more prone to be taken as a digital negative where information may be subject to be recovered lately. This is what generally characterizes the tool : -)

    RAW is not about compressed or not compressed.
    RAW is about not losing the "original" or "initial" quality, and once restored from container or compression, you have exactly, BIT by BIT, the same information.
    If you apply the same "RAW" procedure ten times, at the end you will find exact the same info.
    If it is a codec with quality loss, after ten instances you have a degraded info.

    If you use RAW, it means no quality loss. And "true" RAW can be and it is compressed, more or less.

    Then there are some codecs with the name "RAW" with quality loss.
    They should be named "rawish", or "rawishly" or what ever, since losing quality is no more RAW.

  5. 2 minutes ago, androidlad said:

    To me personally, it can be called RAW as long as it records Bayer data, I don't mind lossy compression, and the compression is usually visually lossless. Unless you're doing Avengers Infinity War level VFX, you don't need uncompressed/lossless RAW.

    With the "marketing" promotions - what we are dealing with right now - we start to lose words meaning.
    If you accept this "kind of RAW" as a loss way to record video, it is up to you.

    Will you accept me saying you are a FAT GUY since you have more than 5 lbs?
    What ? This is MY WAY to say you are beatifull !
    Who am I ? I am the best marketing guy in the galaxy, you have to believe me that you are FAT! :mrgreen:
    No one else can contradict me, right ??? !!!

    Andrew, I appologize for this OFF-TOPIC... 
    Mea culpa!

    But we need to respect the words for what they means - if we want to understand each-other!

  6. 11 hours ago, Emanuel said:

    REDCODE is compressed RAW for a dozen years, no one has complained in Hollywood included... Do you? :X

    Compressed it is OK, almost evrything is compressed these days. :relaxed:

    Quality LOSS - aka you cannot recover the original info after de-compression - this is something else (a kind of jpeg!).

    And it is up to you to accept an "quality loss RAW", which by itself is a contradiction. :mrgreen:

    Myself I accept a "regular" codec with quality loss. This is what I can aquire with my faboulous income (working in IT hardware, photo/video being a hobby).
    I will NEVER accept a so-called RAW if you lose quality, call it anything but RAW and I may embrace it gladly.

  7. We have 2 (= TWO) types of RAW.

    One is as "technically" meaning, full info with minimum processing, as in photo / still RAWs.

    Other one is "commercial" or "marketing" way to name a codec !!!
    Maybe a better codec, as "ProRes RAW" can be vs. "ProRes ONLY", but still with quality loss compression (see white papers for ProRes RAW).
    Which, being compression with quality loss, it is no (technically) RAW anymore, it is just the name.

    I will accept any so called "RAW" as a real RAW only if by compression there is no loss of original stream and by de-compression you recover the original info 100%.
    If a loss compression, it is not a real RAW, it is just a codec with the name "RAW".

    There are "M.2" memory cards (SSD), smaller or bigger than an SD card, with over 20 times the write speed, exactly what you find in a computer, or external recorder (as Atomos - but packed in a "SATA" container and not "M.2" container). They were available more than six years ago when I had one in my PC.

    Just think, if a manufacturer want QUALITY in recording, be it a photo image or a video, the best solution was / still is, to use a speedier recording media.
    Forget SD "next generation", or other similar "memory cards", this one do EXIST from many years ago !!!

    We have photo-cameras with continuous 3-5-7 fps RAW recording unlimited time, 20-30-40-50 Mpixels !!!.
    With an M.2 card,  20 times quicker, it become 60-100-140 fps RAW unlimited, or maybe to say it right, a real video RAW could be already available.
    Lets split in 4 to jump from 4K to 8K, it becomes 8K: 15 fps (Fuji be there !!! :relaxed: ), 25 fps !!! end even 35 fps or more in 8K.
    THIS is VIDEO RAW !

    Q.E.D.

    Let see who will be the first, and how.
    ATOMOS have it (SSD) inside, but really missing the lane speed. If paired with Z who give it by HDMI (what speed ???), and will record it avoiding the "ProRes RAW" loss compression codec, it might be. I did not count each device, interface maximal performance to be SURE it might happens, but as an ideea it looks doable.

    Lets hope!

  8. 13 hours ago, KnightsFan said:

    @GiM_6x The XT3 can encode 4k60 at 100, 200, or 400 Mbps in HEVC 10 bit. ... 

    I think that real time 4k HEVC editing is not far off...

    I have the NX1, so I know that some real time encoding exist and with good results (even from 2014!).

    I follows the news (I am kind of a "rat-pack" for science-technic news) and recently Dell 7730 with the P5200 is able to do real-time processing 4k, any kind !!!
    Fully configured, last spring and without P5200 (not available that time) was in 8-10 thousand dollars (and yes, WITH a Xeon processor!).
    (I worked to an engineering-consulting company and with Dell desktops, Xeon 4 cores @ 3.6GHz, were able to real encode some marketing files from digital models.
    FHD, not 4k...)

    https://www.redsharknews.com/technology/item/5932-the-dell-precision-7730-could-be-the-fastest-performing-mobile-workstation-available-today

    P5200 is also 10 bit video card, some HDR available if a proper monitor (laptop's display is only 8 bits, external one needed).
    At 100% is the real-time processing, so with this video card problem solved.

    Other competitors, Apple and HP are very close by with theirs computers.

    I just wait to win a lotery (I play two) so I can buy one, since to process my NX1 4k h265 files is really a pain, minutes encoding for seconds video (well, on an old 2012 laptop:  i7x2.8GHz, SSD, nVidia...).

  9. I am surprise this encoding topic do not have its own thread.

    What I can say, is not that someone have computed how much you can (or want to) compress in 100MBps or 240MBps, but how much processor power it will need for real time, be it 4k30p12b444, 8k or else.

    Just encoding 4k24p10b422 on Atomos external recorder get it hot with a "light" encoder as ProRes.
    Think that with a h265 it will be hotter, at lest the processor, also at this bitrate the quality should be exquisite.

    For a "light" encoder (or maybe RAW) the problem is to be able to write that info somewhere, as direct to an SSD, so a better encoder is a solution.

    While I welcome a such encoder, it will take time to have it in prosumer area.
    Being in hardware IT, a computer powerfull to do it real-time will cost few thousands... just itself, and it is many times bigger than a camera.
    Reduce it to  a photo camera size and will cost much-much more, if available soon.
    How many can edit "real-time" an 4k stream on his/her computer (no proxy) ? How long it take to have a POST rendered on a 4k video ?

    Do not forget that sensors get bigger (definition) and quicker, but only few "pro equipment" (I cannot say "camera") are able to record 1080p at high speed as 1000fps or more, and usually for very short time sequences as seconds...

    We looks like kids wondering some technical miracles, and yes, they will become common in... a... while...  :relaxed:

  10. Hi Andrew, this rumor and details should be presented in perspective.

    I means, the NX1's sensor was able of 4k 240fps, IN LAB SETUP, and in year 2014 or even before.
    By LAB SETUP, it means you cannot have it in a "camera size", even thinking to a large format camera.
    BUT,  NX1 itself was able only 30fps. What was missing? A very powerful processor.
    This is valid today for any pro-consumer camera, how many are able to do it, aka 4k 240fps?
    Can you hold it on your nose or on your shoulders?

    This new 8k sensor (7680x4320) with 71.93fps, does not have an 4k (3840x2160) output yet in the leaked specs but it could be 4 times quicker, so 4k @ 280 fps, well 16% quicker than the one in NX1.
    I can't have a smooth playback on 4k on a "normal" laptop (i7, 16GB RAM, 250GB SSD, nVidia discreet graphics) just few years old, I have to have the playback direct from NX1 on HDMI :-( . . .

    8k, let me. . . hope. . . maybe in 10 years will it be in a "convenient" package not pulled in a trailer.

  11. I reply to my own reply. . . two steps above.
    I did find physical contrast filter for cameras, from a company which give no details (explications!) and show only 100% transparent (?), but in specifications were details as for an ND filter with up to x5.
    All other contrast filters were in software.

    It is true that an ND filter in certain conditions will increase contrast, but only in certain conditions and not generally!
    Some other layers as UV / IR / bit yellow / bit red / CPL could hepl.

    So, I presume is not a filter to use very often :frown: and probable usefull only when a lot of light available.

    Anyway, I will remember this trick, but most probable will use software to cheat the nature and have more vivid images! :mrgreen:

  12. Theoretical it should not change, the optical formula is afocal (as for every lens...).

    But as with any lens, it will have an maximal angle to accept, and if the original lens exceed it (as for close-up focus or for a zoom to wide range), the image will be affected and somehow "limited" on the strech side which will diminish.

    So, it depend, if a very good adapter for that lens - no changes, else if it is somehow at limit between the lens' angle and what adapter can acomodate - might afect limiting the final image who is streched.

  13. Hey, two weeks no replay...

    This is a too general question with lack of details.

    So you found a "treasure" adapter, but you want other one (?).

    You should elaborate what you want, so somebody can answer.

    First, "Where can I find...", well... I think on specialized photo stores, or maybe on web, eBay, Amazon. :blush:
    Second, how much squeezing you need and for...
    Third, if you ask to have a "recommended" adapter, on what purpose, where do you want it to be used, and
    Fourth, we need to know for what camera-lens combination you want to use it.
         Most important here is the filter's size to mount the adapter (and lens angle - maximal if a zoom).

    You can have one for 2-3 dollars for a "test" if you are a handyman and do it yourself, or have one for few thousand dollars if you intent for a pro use, and everything between.

  14. Hey Robinhood, there are many ways to reach your goal, but your question is "complicated" with your obvious restrictions (limited to APS-C, 4:3, x2, and later by LUTs and...).
    I presume you asked this question to avoid an good anamorphic adapter, which is expensive.

    Please let me simplify your question, and if you accept it, an simplified and quick answer might be.

    HOW DO YOU GET A "FINAL" 2.66 FOR A VIDEO RATIO ?

    As you can see, I avoid all other complications. You can do it with any camera of your choice but with the proper lens (not anamorphic !).
    Just follows the next... steps.

    1) Choose the camera which give you the sensor size, Mpixels, low light, IQ color science, LUTs, encoding size and options internal or external, ... you name it, which you think is best for you, since any of these do counts for a final good image.

    2) Take 2 stripes of "Painter's masking tape" (I love green one, so you can remove them easy without consequences) and obliterate the UP and DOWN of your LCD camera display to get that 2.66 ratio. You just set-up the proper "finder".

    3) Now search for the lens or zoom who fill the image as you wish, most probable in the wide-angle range.

    4) Take the shot (I will start with an 4k, DCI or not, widest resolution available).

    5) Cut in post the UP and DOWN areas to suit your ratio, or better, fill them with black (or white, or any other color you like - this will help if uploaded to web !!!) and save.

    Take this procedure with a grain of salt, but it does comply if you accepted the simplified technical question. :mrgreen:

    For a fixed focal lens (no zoom), there is a very simple anamorphic solutions (yes, cheap one) of perfect optical quality, but need a good handy-man to set it properly (better for long focals and smaller sensor  :frown: ), anyway - is for other thread.

  15. On ‎2017‎-‎07‎-‎19 at 6:55 PM, Matthew Hartman said:

    I'm not sure how well the dedicated 60mm macro is but if you want macro capabilities in the meantime on any NX mounted lens you can purchase an adapter, even with electronic comm to the camera:

    https://www.amazon.com/Fotga-Macro-Focus-Extension-Samsung/dp/B00FQBWXW6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500504759&sr=8-1&keywords=nx+macro+extension+tube

    https://www.amazon.com/Unpre-Focus-Macro-Extension-Samsung/dp/B01IQZWRWO/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1500504759&sr=8-4&keywords=nx+macro+extension+tube

    I've purchased the first one and it works perfectly fine.

     

    I have too the Fotga and it. . . works, kind of.
    Due to internal focus on 16-50mm, the first ring 10mm move the focus at 5-10mm in front of the lens, and it stay there for all "focus range", manual, touch, AF.
    Maybe it works better with other lenses (will test), but my other lenses are M42, so the electronics are shut down, and manual only - which is good!

  16. On ‎2018‎-‎04‎-‎27 at 9:57 PM, fletch murray said:

    Question 3: "Do you find that the NX1 will override your settings in video if it feels the shot is overexposed?" This happened on a shoot we did of a woman in open shade with bright wall behind her.  The NX1 stopped down (though not in AUTO ISO) to compensate for all the white.

    Hello,
    I have NX1 for personal photos, it means I use it rarely, sometimes weekend, family events.
    One evening late, after a storm passed by my house, sky cloudly and lot of thunders, I did a test, working only manual to a video, UDH4k24p, I set exposure at 1/25s (almost 360), but while shooting I saw it was changed to 1/30s.

    While mine example is vice-versa vs. to "compensate" anything (it was anyway exposure compensation "-2" = underexposed, trying to have bigger DoF and low ISO), I sow it overide my settings.  Could be a limit of what NX1 can, needed that time (1/25 - 1/30 s) maybe to to read/proccess data flow.

  17. On ‎2018‎-‎05‎-‎26 at 8:43 AM, Juxx989 said:

    Hey Boys thanks for the Kind words. And the Critique :blush:

    ... Has a ultra contrast, A hot Mirror, Vari ND filter and standard UV Filter... 

    I know nothing about "contrast filter" in photo (will search about), also I see lots of them in advertising for sunglasses and auto use.
    I think it should be a kind of polarised plus some-blue (UV) and maybe-some-red (IR) filter of some kind and this could interfere with a lot of opticals in the camera, including other polarised filters. . .
    The only polarised filter I use is CPL.

  18. 2 hours ago, Don Kotlos said:

    No thats not true. RAW just means non-debayered data. There are lossy compressed RAW formats from various manufacturers. The reason you can get more information from RAW than non-RAW even from compressed footage with the same bitrate is because there are less "pixels" to compress when you are dealing with RAW. 1/3rd to be exact. Then you can used the extra bitrate to increase your bitdepth, and in consequence get good tonal precision. 

    You are right, there are manufacturers who offer "compressed RAW" (!).
    And RAW means more and different than "non-debayered data", and it is quite specific for each sensor!
    And now all depend on how the data was compressed, lossy or not.
    If lossy, well... it is no more RAW. If you lose data, well... is is just a "better" JPEG since less was lost, if you want to "qualify" it else than a "loss quality compression RAW".
    Personal, once you lost data and quality by compressing, I cannot consider it RAW.
    But the words are used so by so many, including corporations, that a false understanding is build.

    The same with video LOGs, when shooting LOG - any one type you choose, you compress the gama in areas of "main" exposure, to allow to "expand" areas outside main exposure as in shadows and highlights (aka you loose data in main exposure and create "new" data in shadows and highlights - not "enhance" quality, but will prevent lossing too much general by the codec). This is a "better" option comparing to the video losing quality once the codec itself will cut from shadows and highlights, yes.
    The best should to have a codec who just respect each area and exposure the same "weight", as ProRes and few others.

    Still, ProRes is no RAW.

    After LUT-ing :-) / color grading, you never recover the real info which was lost by applying the LOG, but yes they will be close enough.
    My eyes can see these differences, and a part of my jobs were to "color", but never been able to "restore" the real colors, just close by, also for everybody they were perfect.

    My first on many diplomas was a bac in Applied Sciences, Industrial Design, Mechanics (master), electronics and telecommunications, compuers networks and then other one in computers only, some industrial certifications too.
    I was designer of hardware and software (1980s-1990s).
    I was working as professional photographer (2000s).
    In 1990s-2000s I did studies on optics - models running on computers, for my understanding on how are the laws working in lenses and cameras, and with my knowledge I really understand how these toys are working.

    After 50+ years working on film - I started as child in 1960s, I saw the real "performances" of the new digital technology.
    I embrace it just for "second" performances, as cheap, easy to see instatly the results and easy to communicate, share.
    Think of going in a 3 weeks in mountains just to find letter that you lens was defective and everything is lost.

    Very few products at the "easy access of a consumer" are really quality. If you are a PRO, you will invest in your tools!
    I have a camera where the RAW is not compressed at all, that is why I bought it, just for this... "particularity".
    I don't want to enter in details since I am not interested in a "war" of makers and models and so on, as happs sometimes.

    I apologise for this burst, I will not answer on this thread anymore (but will read it).

  19. On ‎2018‎-‎05‎-‎29 at 6:00 AM, frontfocus said:

    4K won't happen on the 50MP medium format cameras.

    But it will happen on the 100MP 44x33mm cameras (x2D, GFX100S) coming next year. The sensor can do 4K 30p 12bit, but I wouldn't expect to see 12bit, RAW or even 10bit in those cameras. Too much heat. Still, would be nice. Imagine a medium format 4K camera with ProRes Raw :D 

    the sensor could probably also handle 8K, but I wouldn't expect that either

    C'mon, "ProRes RAW". . .
    ProRes as a quality LOSS compresion, RAW is a NO quality loss compresion.
    You can't have at the same time both.

  20. On ‎2018‎-‎04‎-‎30 at 5:13 AM, Allen Smith said:

    What were your camera settings for this footage? i.e. saturation, gamma dr, master black levels etc? What lens? Also did you convert file to another format for editing or did you use raw h.265 file?

    ... raw h.265...

    I know there is a big difference between RAW and H265.

    Can someone explain, I also read about EOS M writing RAW 2.5k video at 70MBps (560Mbps).
    petapixel.com/2018/05/18/the-original-canon-eos-m-can-shoot-2-5k-raw-video-with-magic-lantern
    Do these be right figures (70MBps and not 70Mbps), what kind of RAW it is.

    Thank you.

  21. I think that video RAW records for everybody is still far away (at least financially).

    Well, there is a "hack" for NX1 - see the post "Installing the hach" and read what it is doing, it allow to video record at high bit rate speed to around 200+ Mbps, stable at 160-180 Mbps (about 3 times what EOS M is able with the hack).

    But to record RAW you need also a proper "codec" available.
    I presume that if the H265 can be tweaked to:

    - avoid "psycho" compression, so have the same compression type for shadows and highlights as for middle zone (aka no need for LOG / LUT who decimate the bit's color quality ! );
    - use lower compression due to high bit rate (well, this is just. . . against H265 concept itself ! );
    - use 10 (or better 12-16) bit compression algorithms and maybe 4-2-2 and why not 4-4-4 instead of 4-2-0 color space.

    What I know is that video 4k24p 4-2-2 10 bit registered on Atomos give about 230GB per 45 minutes (best quality), which translate in about 75MBps or 600Mbps, which is not yet RAW but with quality loss, compessed with ProRes or DNxHD, still far from a real RAW record.

    For 2K it should be a quarter of the bit speed, but nevertheless quite demanding, so your link should refer to a nice compression type and I wonder what "type" of RAW it is.

    Sure that recording RAW you have to use some compression algorithms but without quality loss, and if you use an M2 card (SSD, PCIe x4, not yet "socket available" in cameras) able of about 8+ GBps (8,000MBps = 64,000 Mbps !), maybe a RAW record will works fine. I know that NX2 have an interface capable for this M2, but it is just inhouse work and not for selling.

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