The Dancing Babamef

you asked like the sensor in A7S3 and FX3 would be different. They're not.

i have the Meike 105mm PL T/2.1 and the Nikkor 105mm MC f/2.8 for my Z9. I used a wireless focus to adjust the focus the way i wanted, in more of a an artistic way.

when holding the rig and trying to focus on ducks that were 3-2-1 meters away and then panning somewhere else without shaking up the footage, the manual Meike lens was a better fit. 

tell me why you're comparing film and digital cameras? a film camera on a tripod makes it better than current mirrorless cameras? did i get that right?

i have adapted an FX-mount to my Z-mount without issues

you probably want to enable HW accel, that puts the strain on to the GPU not the CPU.

What a book! 😂

Was dead a long time ago. I was a kid watching their videos with my D5100. Then Alamby left, Then Kai, Then Lok. New people popped in but they didn't have the same energy. I unsubbed and forgot about them, subbed individually to Kai and Lok. Literally the same thing with Machinima and the crew that was Bruce and Adam.

1 hour ago, Ilkka Nissila said:

The b type has lower capacity than c (and the difference is significant).  Recording time may also depend on which codec you use, some are more processing-intensive.

15B: 1900mAh 14Wh

15C: 2280mAh 16Wh....

2 minutes ago, Django said:

If you don't mind checking and letting me know, I can't seem to find that info online or in the manual.

Would be totally awesome though if you could store specific video resolution, frame rate, shutter speed, log/profile, codec etc in a custom bank and recall them on the fly with indeed the Fn buttons! Fingers crossed that is a possibility..

I do that on my Z9. Shooting bank A is 8.3K60p and B is for 4.1K120p both RAW. 

On 11/28/2023 at 10:41 AM, Django said:

Valid point, is the battery life that bad on Nikon bodies? I mean if it was bad on Z6 then its going to be horrible on a Z8? 

in my own testing the 15B-C battery lasts for about 1h 10min in non stop 4K recording. add to that burst and LCD display then it's going to give you about 45min. I usually carried 3-4 batteries with me and it was a hassle if I didn't immediately go and put them to charge which was which and going through all of them to find out the empty and full ones.

In my field of work I couldn't get the Z8, even if it wouldn't overheat, but it's the batteries for me that sealed the deal. I used a Z6 for enough time and worrying about taking extra batteries on a 3 hour shoot and interrupting video recording to replace a battery. I was ready to move to the big boy.

I'm not a hardcore professional but even now as just a hobbyist I need the Z9 more and multiple times I've had to switch to the vertical shooting position with my 200-500 and twisting my hands with the same lens on the Z6 was enough for me to realize that there is a better way.

And now I only have 2 18C batteries with me. 1 is enough to cover a day with ON/OFF 8.3K RAW video recording. 

On 11/24/2023 at 6:19 PM, ghostwind said:

What about support and Nikon's commitment to video? These really are the first cameras to have all this, and while Canon is a safe bet, not sure what Nikon's future is. I agree with the lenses. The other thing is Canon colors - not sure how N-log is in comparison, or how easy it is to get it to look good in post.

I shot a bunch of footage in the summer and the files were wonderful. I haven't tried shooting in low light nor in grey cloudy weather because if the weather is like that then I don't even bother to take the camera out. Every picture tends to look flat and ugly. 

I was able to work with the colors and it wasn't hard to create a faithful look even when I didn't have a correct WB/tint during the shooting because I use a 200-500 and I can't go somewhere to meter the correct values. 

I work with a calibrated PA32UCX and I output SDR. Nothing major just before and after grades and for myself and social media. I have however used a RAW video from an R5 and it was really noisy even as it was shot on a sunny beach. With the Z9 you can lower the ISO to 200 from 800 and in Summer it was really helpful to get closer to the 180deg rule.

The Z9 will be a good camera for years to come. It has internal RAW at 8.3K and its RAW format is natively supported in Resolve. I have my trust in Nikon. Only issue I would have is the lens mount as getting a PL to Z was quite tricky but eventually I found an online shop with 1 in stock.

I haven't shot with either R3 nor R5 but I have shot with Nikon 5100, Z6, Z6_2 and finally with the Z9.

I chose Nikon because the Z glass in my mind is the perfect system. You have affordable 1.8 glass that doesn't look, feel or render as a 50$ kit lens. I have shot with the 50mm 20mm and 85mm wide open and can be 100% satisfied with the results. I have also used the 85 1.2 but I only bought it because I need the extra light.

I have also shot extensively 8.3K NRAW, ask me about it. 60fps and 24fps (23.98) clips and graded them accordingly. For me it's the perfect camera, even more as the switch from photo to video takes under a second (in my test case with fast Angelbird media). Also I have shot in H265. If you watch Camera Conspiracies that guy must be editing on a laptop or something because the H265 from my Ninja on Z6 and on Z9 were not a problem and I didn't create proxies. 

Without the Z8/Z9 the R5 would be a no brainer because of the internal 8K RAW but now a basically R5 but with a bigger battery, no overheating and fast switch. I think it's obvious.

there's a guide that's quite clear on what to do. I have reinstalled the LOG on my Z6 multiple times and never have I got it to not work. Perhaps read the instructions, carefully this time.

the what off the where? I didn't know the A7S3 shoots also R3D 🤔

On 10/31/2022 at 9:22 PM, TomTheDP said:

Interesting. Probably why Prores RAW off the A7S3 still looks weak compared to Redraw. 

Photo camera first. I would ignore this as the price is only made up of the 60MP sensor which is utilized by cropping in video settings.

I was hyperbolizing it a bit but what I said is true to an extent. 4K to 1080p is what you do when you are playing the file locally but uploading to Youtube it's better to leave it as 4K and add a slight NR to it. 

16 hours ago, kye said:

My comments are about resolution, in the context of downsampling, not bitrate.

Yes, but if your comments about downsampling were true, then it wouldn't matter if God himself uploaded a video to YT, it would still be........

But, it's not, and therefore, it isn't.

that's literally ARRI. 😆  😆

People. When uploading to Youtube, ignore all the downsampling crap. It only applies if you're not compressing the footage again and again. It sounds good on paper but even scaling 1080p to 4K and then watching that "1080p" as a 4K video on youtube gives it a higher visual quality. 

All the pixel binning and noise reduction gets washed away because the compression that youtube uses makes the fine detail into mush anyway.

Yes. but I also think that having high bitrate for 10bit 422 will account for the missing information in color, comparing to 444. But all of this circles back to the use case: are you filming a talking head or in a forest with lots of trees and moving micro elements that take up the bitrate so even thou the files are large it's justified as the utilization is high. 

But just like Andrew said in the original post: "- ProRes 422 HQ in GH6 and Nikon Z9 is too big, not practical in my opinion - may as well shoot raw?" 

Go watch DpReview's episodes and ProAV TV. Their shows might as well be audio only except the actual image comparisons. 

I think it's great that they brute force the quality with "excess" bitrate rather than have you suffer from macro blocking at the highest quality 422 HQ. IF you shoot LT then you probably know the risks.

that would be amazing. If that would work with the Z6-2 also 🤩

2 years old video doe, I wonder if they have made any progress

17 hours ago, markr041 said:

8K 24.00 fps. These clips are straight from the phone - no stabilization applied in post, no grading, no re-compression.

< "no recompression"

< uploads an 8K clip in 4K

the camera file system supports up to 2TB

On 7/12/2022 at 5:46 PM, PannySVHS said:

" it´s 12bit linear and debayerd from 6K to 4K 

Anyway, site states that Prores raw has more aliasing and artefacts than internal Prores on the Z6. Latitude or dynamic range is not better than Prores with 10bit Log."

the sensor output is lineskipped. There is no "internal Prores" in any of the Nikon Z cameras except the Z9. 

You get 1:1 ProRes RAW if you shoot in DX.

On 7/10/2022 at 5:54 PM, FHDcrew said:

I shoot N-log to the ninja v on my Nikon z6, using CST and other nodes in resolve. It grades very well. Has anyone used the Prores raw upgrade for the Z6? Is it worthwhile?  I have a spare Mac so can use the Prores raw to cinema dng converter to work with the RAW footage in resolve. What annoys me is not the $200 fee but the fact that I have to send my camera in. 
 

also, N-log has a 1.1x crop. What is the Prores raw crop?  Is it less?

There is no crop in ProRes RAW. Personally I wouldn't bother with the PRR upgrade and spend it somewhere else. You will find the convenience of P&A the footage in Resolve and not having to spend time transcoding.