Evgeniy85

Exactly. Most of these companies are working on the model "we will figure out how to make profits later" which may not be sustainable in the long run.

One of the best books that I read about color theory is The Art of Color by Johannes Itten. It can be found on ebay for cheap.

Jesus Christ these youtubers are insufferable! The thing hasn't even come out yet but it already destroyed stuff? Gets a click I guess.

I'm hoping for N-Log2. It's time

ZF probably makes more sense than Z6II or Z7II because of internal N-LOG but the handling is way worse. I wouldn't use it for video because of it. Looks great though.

Cinema is not about being smooth or representing reality, otherwise anamorphic lenses or color grading wouldn't exist.

If anyone is interested how Nikon ZF compares to Z8 in UHD

I've been wanting to play with digital bolex for a while. Hard to find free time and come up with the project that would justify the rental cost but I'm hoping to get one before they all disappear.

It does. It's free and can be used as OFX plugin and as a standalone. https://gyroflow.xyz/

If you're in Resolve, you can use Gyroflow. You don't need to create new media, just drop the effect, save the preset and apply it to all clips in a timeline. It might involve some tweaking but it's much faster than using Catalyst software.

Too many options these days.

https://www.cinematools.co/nlog-z9

The false color is now available on Sony's via a LUT https://www.cinematools.co/false

Having music constantly playing over dialogue also didn't help.

I don't think so. It was hard to follow because there were a lot of characters, and it was cutting between different timelines, which made it hard to follow. I was expecting a different movie.

I watched Oppenheimer yesterday and I wish I went to Barbie. Half joking of course but the movie is very long and hard to follow at times. It looks and sounds great, as expected but it could've benefited from tighter editing.

Only union productions are affected, everyone else can continue working.

I worked on medium-sized productions and have friends who worked on high-budget shows for HBO and Netflix. They only film RAW for VFX plates and everything else is in ProRes.

All manufacturers LUTs are pretty bad but Nikon is on a different level of bad. I'm using Cinema Tools for both Nikon and Sony and quite happy with them.

I was hoping for sub $1000. Silly me

H265 looks worse than ProRes HQ or N-RAW but only in terms of texture, the dynamic range should be the same. I haven't done any side by side tests but it looks like the DR in N-log is the same as on Z9 or Z6II. Are you shooting in N-log? What are you using to transform the footage to REC709? The official LUTs are pretty harsh, even the updated ones for Z8. That might be your problem.

There's a bit of post-processing involved in this video too but I do agree it does look great and miles better of other examples posted in this thread. There's a difference between a DP and a person who likes tech and pretty images.

Had Z8 for a spin and it's such a great camera. I wish more companies will go for internal RAW/ProRes recording because h265 doesn't cut it.