TomTheDP

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There's no real demand for 14 stops of dynamic range. Big productions that need it have it and those who can't afford don't. Clients paying $500 for a video don't care about dynamic range. The other half is of course brand recognition. Many clients don't even know what dynamic range is but they'll know what Arri or RED is. If you shot something on any decent hybrid they'd not know the difference if they weren't on set to see that you were using $2000 stills camera.

Mine are some random brand called BM Premium, work well for me. Aftermarket batteries can definitely be hit or miss tho

Weird never had an issue on my S1. Batteries last forever.

Probably not 20 stops of dynamic range but even if it's only 1 or 2 stops more than the C300 MK3 or C500 MK2 that would be incredible, as those are already leading in class. Sounds like a great line up though.

Its a nice camera, if you can get it for a good price used. Would definitely not pay $5000-$6000 for it. Only thing lacking is continuous auto focus.

Yeah I never use AF for interviews. I assume its useful for very shallow DOF shots on close ups.

The XLR adapter for the Pana has taken care of the Audio needs for me. Can't get around having no internal ND filters though. Definitely great to have.

I was thinking on jumping ship to Canon but my Pana S1 continues to surprise me time and time again. Really hoping Pana puts out another Cine cam as the EVA1 doesn't really do it for me anymore. Tired of matching other cameras to my S1 rather it be Canon or RED or Sony.

The S1R does have 10 bit 4k tho, not bad for video TBH

XT4 and XT3 are the same IQ wise. Having owned both the S1 and XT3, I can say the S1 dynamic range is better, better in high ISO's. The image is more natural than the XT3, less sharpening and less noise reduction going on. I like the Fuji color presets a lot. If you are shooting in LOG you kind of lose that edge, as the color on Fuji log isn't particularly easy to work with. Eterna is really nice though. Fujis HD 120fps is better than Panasonics.

I’ve had good luck with mine. It’s one of the reasons I love the camera.

The 5DIII with magic lantern is definitely one of the best image around to this day. That's pitting it against current cameras too IMO. It also gives you a great and still very relevant EF lens eco system. If you are a Panasonic guy though I highly recommend the Pana S1. The GH5S is nice but the S1 is better in almost everyway. The GH5S has better HD and of course if you have a lot of M43 glass you wanna use it makes sense.

Nice work man! I'm not huge on the blue light in the night shots but that's just me. How do you like the anamorphic adapter? Worth it?

The issue with Vlog viewing LUTs is they look shitty on the S1. Due to lack of processing power the luts look weird and show a lot of artifacts that aren't actually there. Not a good representation of what you'll actually be getting. I think an external monitor can solve this issue as it takes care of the processing. I always rely on the cameras light meter. I usually expose highlights to +3 if I am trying to retain them as the S1 can recover highlights slightly past 3 stops over exposed. Like 709 doesn't hold highlights well but does good with shadows. I prefer Vlog as I prefer the look I can get with certain LUTs in post. I do get you on using REC709 profiles rather than log. It's really satisfying to see that nice contrasty image on the monitor. I just don't like the Pana color profiles enough to use them. When I had a Fuji I would shoot in all the color profiles a lot for video.

Not on mine lol, I literally have it here in my hands. In HEVC MP4 you can only shoot HLG, no other color profiles. In regular 10 bit 422 H264 you can shoot HLG or VLOG or any color profile.

You can shoot in HLG at 10 bit H264 as well.

Any company can make a 12 bit codec like Blackmagic or Apple. What they can’t do is feature a compressed RAW like DNG. This is why Blackmagic and kinefinity removed CDNG from their cameras. Zcam developed a debayered “RAW” 12 bit codec rather than using DNG. Sigma uses DNG without compression. Zraw , BRAW, and PRR aren’t actually RAW tho

Blackmagic RAW has artificial sharpening going on and NR as does the GH5/S. I had heard some people preferred the CDNG image on the P4k that was present before the firmware update. Would be interesting to see a comparison between the two. I think the Zcam image is more organic with recent firmware that allows for noise reduction to be turned off as well as sharpening. Originally there was only a low setting on both.

I feel like the more clever fan rigs are professional looking enough. I’d probably replace the heatsink but I’m a little too comfortable with opening up expensive equipment.

Cine-D's testing can be useful but at the same time they often aren't accounting for noise reduction. Although in recent tests I've found they are a lot more detailed when it comes to accounting for things like noise reduction or lack thereof. Testing RAW is more consistent as there is no noise reduction with RAW. I wish they would have dynamic range readings for RED cameras. Would be interesting to see how they stack up. I am really surprised, if it's the case, that the RAW images don't have more dynamic range than the 10 bit video. I think 14 bit raw just has a lot of color and texture that 10 bit video doesn't. The ease of grading with raw controls probably makes a big difference too. Maybe the dynamic range seems higher as noise is less noticeable with stills. I think I need to get the Atomos Ninja V now. Yeah I'd probably need to do more comprehensive testing although my conclusion for now is the difference between stills and 10 bit video is not as much as I had thought. My second conclusion is a lot of my camera spec desires are just consumerism getting the best of me. It makes sense as well with Arri having a background in film cameras. The Alexa was meant to be something that would replicate and replace film. Germans are also great and everything haha. RED didn't have a background in film and neither does Sony. Canon and Fujifilm both have a background with film photography and are also both pretty well regarded for their color science.

Native ISO on the RED scarlet I own is 400 or 800 depends on who you ask. On the S1 for video its 640 and 4000 in vlog. I actually shot in 640 for the stills as well. I wasn't aware the native ISO for stills was 50. I would have needed a lot more light to shoot at 50 iso.

I think just depends on how you measure dynamic range. According to a more strict measurement that Arri uses the S1 gets more around 12-12.5 stops, while the Arri has 14. Which makes sense. With more liberal measurements that don't take into account how noisy certain stops are you get much higher numbers.

1.5 crop unfortunately. The sensor cannot do full frame at 4k 60p, though it may be possible line skipped ?