Video Hummus

Thats understandable but from a FF camera, thats the worst I've seen. It feels like it was shot on a different camera.

LOL

Everything looked really good until the shot outside at the end...DR is a problem.

Agreed. Video is important more then ever now and the demand for hybrid video/photo is rising.

The Nikon Z series doesn’t get much attention on this forum, so I decided to take a second look at it following the release of the Z5 and upcoming Z6/7S cameras. After looking at their lenses, My initial impressions are positive. I find the Nikon Z lenses much more compelling than the $2300-2600 Canon RF glass. For one, the Z lenses are cheaper, mainly coming in around $1000 and many well under $1000 for the variable aperture stuff and inline with Canon’s Pro 2.8 glass. They have interesting focal lengths like 14-30mm f/4, all the usual pro 2.8 lenses (except telephoto), and really affordable f1.8 primes. The just announced 24-200 f/4-6.3 feels like the FF spiritual successor to the MFT Oly 12-100 f/4 for a relatively compact all-arounder walkabout lens. The super compact 24-50 f/4-6.3 seems like a Interesting street combo or small kit lens setup. If they had a bit better video specs a Z50, Z6S/7S is a pretty compelling combo. Z50 makes a great B-cam or vlogging cam for BTS or story narrative bits while the Z6S handles the more cinematic stuff. I have also noticed with Canon and Nikon the embrace of higher apertures for smaller sizes in lenses. I think Nikon Z pulls this off better, so far, imho. It seems Canon released the usual pro 2.8 lenses first while Nikon took a more balanced approach with releasing some Pro lenses inter-mixed with unusual variable aperture designs and focal lengths.

I think we are already this, full stop. I think it is a culmination of global “capitalism” and the internet. They feed into each other when you get things like Amazon, affiliate links, and the click-buy-repeat cycle. The internet can be a awesome tool but it has been twisted and bent into something ugly, a weapon, a weapon of mass disinformation, a breeding ground for hate and bad ideas and stupid ideas, and lunacy. The internet is the great connector but the axe can swing the other way and at the same time its the great disconnector. People say and do things that they would never do in public for fear of public ridicule, embarrassment, or straight up jail time. I feel blessed living in the time we do. Never has the several generations living had so much opportunity. We can hop on a plane for reasonable prices and go anywhere on the globe. We have instant access to information and entertainment and our loved ones that live on the other side of the planet. Two clicks on [insert video chat app of choice]. But at the same time, there is a deep seeded unease that something is not right. Not fulfilling. I think Peter knows this too. On several occasions he has talked about this idea of just unplugging and disappearing. I think this is the discomfort and unease he probably feels with his success and the nature of his success and the balance between gobbling up the money now and just saying fuck it and leaving the shallow shit behind. So I don’t envy him. Like Jim Carrey said: “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer”. Jim says several things in this sentence, but the sobering one is that he realizes that in some ways you can tell people until your blue in the face that that’s not the answer and they won’t listen. They have to walk the path, sometimes their entire lives, before they realize it. Some on their death bed. And that’s the real tragedy.

Bottom line is this camera is a game changer for BM. It’s the camera where finally a custom made sensor and BRAW come together. REDs are jewelry cameras in a way. A status symbol work tool. The Hilti power tool guys that can’t believe you used Dewalt to make your deck. Now what they should do is get BRAW in other brands cameras ASAP.

I have a conspiracy theory that this is all part of a “slow let down” so as to numb the eventual pang of disappointment early adopters will feel when they buy the R5 and discover all their hero youtubers hyped this shit up. Its weird this vlog was only 5 minutes long AND addressed the overheating problem. 1) the overheating is a problem for YouTube length content creation. 2) it isn’t and they didn’t think the weird length would cause any kind of controversy whatsoever (it does) 3) the file editing performance of the R5 is a problem for YouTube content creation...

There are so many practical aspect people aren’t talking about or thinking about. When you read through the comments of Armandos video about the R5 a lot of people are upgrading from a EOS R or GH5 or A7III. Many of them are going to have a rude awakening when they get their R5 maybe with a tiny CFExpress card because they couldn’t afford a $600 512GB card (which in my opinion is the minimum needed for this camera) and shoot some video and realize it’s a complete mess to edit on their even 1 year old laptop.

Comin guys you just have to have faith. There is nothing it can’t do!

Your general external scenes need motion. Like a lot of people moving in a scene, a tree in a breezy wind, water fountain in 1/3 of the frame. Artifacts will tend to show in the motions parts.

First video is all about lighting. 90% of that was the lighting with the 10% the grade. You could have graded it in multiple directions, cool, warm, or dark and moody. Last 10% is stylistic in my opinion. Second video is a better test of dynamic range. It’s just Good. Not great, but not shit either. Considering its coming from DSLR type camera its more than acceptable. Maybe Clog3 will give it a bit more for that extra edge. For someone that just wants to pick up a camera and shoot with very little fuss in post the R5/6 are great. Best in class even. That’s the appeal.

It’s ALL-I so a higher bitrate does a bit more than if it was IPB. H.265 IPB is very efficient at the same bitrates of H.264 for 4K and above. I always thought the 400Mbps H.265 from the XT3/4 was a bit excessive. It’s diminishing returns at 4K resolution. Definitely at 3.3K. Really wish someone would give us a editing friendly codec internally. H.265 and newer is becoming to heavy for a capture codec as they are maximizing size for streaming and delivery and encoding times skyrocket (decoding too). The work on BRAW has shown us that we can have non-compromised capture AND wicked fast editing performance.

That test was brutal. That kind of heat not good for batteries.

The aggressive over reaching patent is the reason for the success in my opinion. I think now that BRAW is reaching and exceeding what R3D is we will see how long they last. Its fine paying 35K+ for a red camera that nothing else can do...thats not the case anymore.

With stock there are multiple options. I’m sure offering source BRAW and a ProRes 444 is common. @Neumann Films? Yep good idea. RED probably won’t. They have a defacto monopoly on “internal compressed RAW capture device”. In my opinion where BM is sneaking the dagger in is with BRAW and Resolve. The G2 Pro is just a Trojan horse. They want you on their ecosystem. It would be in BMs best interest to get BRAW into a prosumer mirrorless camera as soon as possible. It’s coming to the Sigma fp, it’s on the EVA1 externally. Say Panasonic released a GH6 or a S2 with internal BRAW. Yeah it may hurt Pocket sales, but I don’t think so. The trade off of getting people excited and interested in BRAW (and selling $300 DaVinci licenses) with a lot of those sales is worth it. It’s the bigger picture in fighting REDs dominance in the compressed RAW cinema camera arena. If your ‘re not renting this camera out and your jobs won’t take a hit from not showing up with a RED label on your camera then the G2 Pro is a no brainer. But they are ugly ass cameras if that matters.

Not what I’m talking about, but whatever. This is waste of time.

Have you even watched the BM video? They are doing in sensor scaling of a 3x3 bayer array. That gives you 4:4:4 4K output from the sensor. The image is as nice or nicer than anything you can shoot with now.

I think there is 4K120p R5 footage available in one of the many R5 threads. Good luck finding it.

I seriously doubt anybody buying a 12K camera is buying it because they can now show audiences a 12K feature film. 12K opens up other possibilities. I’m getting pretty sick and tired of the pervasive Luddite mentality being displayed on this forum. There is always going to be compromises with gear. It will either work for you or it doesn’t. You give feedback. You move on.

You act like they have to shoot in 12K.

Wasn’t Panasonic working on an 8K camera that you could use to to punch out multiple UHD angles? Here comes BM with a 12K that can punch out multiple 4K angles with one camera in the studio. I can seem them implementing something in DaVinci Resolve where you can track multiple subjects in a single 12K frame with smooth panning and closeups and edit in multi view like it was 4 different cameras. Take a cooking show for example. Only need one camera for a wide shot. Punch into waist level shot of talent, face closeup, working with food closeup. Just one camera and one operator and an assistant.

Did you know ajay that squarespace is the all in one platform for website building with award winning templates suitable for any kind of business? I kinda feel sorry for T&C to be honest. I rarely watch their stuff but it must be soul sucking make those videos.

Olympus was known for their quirky features. Nipple detect AF would have rounded out the starry AF feature. Maybe canon took a page from their book when they implemented brown eye AF tracking?