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Official listing on their website: https://www.sigmaphoto.com/fp2

Overall, it looks like a really decent release - fixes a lot of what was wrong with the original. It's a little mind-boggling that they don't allow PRR to record to the internal SSD. Maybe there's too much heat. The S1 II sensor in a smaller camera that costs about 20% less is pretty fantastic.

It's there, but not very distinct. Here's a screen grab.

In the last year or so, I've been switching to having my projects default to ACES in Resolve with rec.709 set for the output color space. It's pretty slick. Most footage is automatically transformed into the color space by Resolve and a lot of cameras look pretty simple, even without cienmatch. One bummer is that FilmConvert doesn't support it, but Spektrafilm and Dehancer both do and both are pretty great for finding a base look to work from. Anyway, if the goal is to have a specific look, even across cameras, it would probably be a decent jumping-off point.

Funny - the reason I loved everything about the fp and lack of those things don't bug me THAT much - but my problem was that to in order to get 12-bit raw, I had to make the camera bigger than a Canon R5 which has those things as well as 8K 12-bit raw internally.

Rumors have it being the FP II which might include the S1 II sensor for about $2,500 and in a body roughly the size of the original FP? If it has internal 12-bit raw and PDAF, that could be pretty neat. The S1 II sensor is, from everything I've heard, very good. It's a little tricky, though, as just about any small/portable camera being released now exists in the same world as the Nikon ZR. For me, if all other things are equal, I'd do an extra $300 for the better sensor (The S1 II sensor, that is).

I don't know if I have any cameras that record in 8-bit at this point, but I can certainly poke around a little. Worst case, I could go even lower-fi and just shoot it on the PXL-2000.

If your use case is with C mount Super 16 lenses, "a bunch of lenses" might fit in a coat pocket. The tripod can also be an insanely light tripod or even something like a Manfrotto MP-3.

Well, all autofocus is in beta on the 12K. 😅

Er, the RED phone* that is.

If it makes you feel better at all, nearly every Ronin 4D that was ever made is convinced that it is currently 1970. 😅

Guess they figured the RED camera went over so well that they should make one themselves! 🤣

For me, 6K is ideal - I don't lose detail when reframing and even with some denoising, a lot of the fine detail sticks around. Really, for anything from 4K through 8K, it's fine for me. 4K just means I have to be more careful with my frame and 8K means using a bit more disk space (which I have plenty of for now, hope hard drive prices come down someday, though). But yeah, the frame rates are fantastic. They're one of the big reasons that Camera Conspiracies loves his M1P ILS so much.

I think we had some discussion about it! I'm very pro-Mission 1 ILS. I've bought a couple of Backbone-modded cams over the years (well, the first one I bought as a conversion kit for an existing previous-gen GoPro, which I promptly screwed up and then sent to them to help me fix nice guys!). The thing that's kept me from using either one is that monitoring is bad on them. The HDMI output on the older GoPro lags. We're not talking 3 frames... more like 1/4-1/2 second. And the monitor output on the Insta360 One RS... isn't. There's no wired display option for it and the wireless display to the phone is also laggy, even in an area with no wifi interference. Neither was made for pulling focus. And holding a wee little action camera right up to the eye to focus on its little screen (very little on the One RS) stinks - and tools to punch in, while available, are clearly an afterthought and are clunky. So they're most usable for something where you focus once and then just roll - which doesn't fit a lot of my use cases for a smaller sensor. Though they were great for the eclipse that came through the US a few years ago. Anyway. The M1P ILS seems to fix that problem. The screen is as big as you'll find on an action camera. Wired monitoring is possible and (from what I've seen) low-latency. Dynamoc range is, by action camera standards, good. The only reason I didn't buy one when I got the "in stock" notice from B&H was that... well, I just got a Pyxis 12K because the current sale is crazy. That and it's GoPro - they'll be on sale for at least $100 off within a year. That's how I got my M1P non-ILs.

If the monochrome version is also 2K, it'd be a lot closer to a 2.8K bayer pattern camera in actual resolution - better in low light too. That'd be a really fun camera to have.