FHDcrew

Thanks! I’ve been working hard to improve.

I am using a Nikon Z6 with either an Atomos Ninja V or an Atomos Ninja Star. Mostly shooting oversampled 1080p out of the HDMI port. By setting the rec setting to 4k and HDMI out to 1080p. I use the ninja v when I am doing interviews or lighting stuff so I can take advantage of LUT monitoring and waveforms, etc. For run-and-fun BROLL though I usually use the Ninja Star. Keeps the setup light and small. As for lenses, to be honest I currently only have a Tamron 45mm 1.8 F-mount lens using the Nikon FTZ adapter. Looking to explains, however, and am strongly considering the Viltrox 24mm 1.8Z. Or maybe I will go with an f-mount Nikon 16-35 f4 as a nice affordable autofocus-capable ultra wide.

Outstanding work man! Love it!

Let’s share our work guys! I’ll start. Here is an interview I shot and lit the other day, featuring a congresswoman from Indians! One camera was a Nikon z6 recording into an Atomos ninja v. With a Tamron 45mm 1.8. The other was actually the ancient, cheap Canon 7D fitted with a Canon 85mm 1.2 shot at f/2.5!

Agreed. Strange argument, I partially agree with mark but at the same time it obviously is video first.

Absolutely the 2nd option.

Agreed.

Some more footage I shot with the Z6 in oversampled 1080p

Also the 5D III does what many of us have wanted from modern cameras but haven’t gotten because of dumb politics… Uncompressed RAW sensor data dumped to the card. Nothing fancy. No compression, just taking the data and dumping it. Think of how many cameras have been released in the past 5 years with fast CFExpress interfaces. Could easily write RAW video to the card. This is so simple, even the 5d Mark II and the ancient Canon 50D do this. In 14 bit too. Not even hard. Instead they make us send the feed via HDMI to an external recorder when we are using modern cameras.

@PannySVHSi wanna see your shoot with the F3 😏

(Enlarge the frame to see proper colors. The regular preview desaturated the image haha I hate online color inconsistencies)

It certainly goes a long way! If you use golden hour right for example you can get beautiful lighting without needing ANY lighting gear! This frame I shot is from a 4 1/2 year old FF camera! Lighting and grading are what set things apart visually. I’m serious cameras are close enough in terms of IQ that it doesn’t matter.

I'm gonna be honest man, I would really quit worrying about cameras and focus on your craft. For the longest time you keep posting about camera recommendations and advice. This is great for sure, but I'm sure you have a wonderful camera already. They're all great. They all have great DR. They all have great color. They all have more than enough low light. They all have more than enough shallow DOF with the right lens. So go out, film and learn lighting, even just natural lighting. Focus on things like that instead of the pursuit of cameras all of the time.

This is true. If you have the control anything made in the last 10 years can look great, especially if you only have online delivery. Throw away that control over lighting and all of the sudden things like dynamic range and highlight rolloff become immensely important

@stephenwhat bag do you use? Does the recorder ever get hot for you? I tried this once (stupid idea) with a Fanny pack and my Atomos Ninja V got MUCH too hot!

From what I’ve heard the GH5 II can have sharpening completely disabled, unlike most Panasonic cameras.

Maybe the ever so slightly decreased latitude is that quality decrease Panasonic kept saying when they tried to defend doing with Dirt-From-Defocus AF 😂

Looks very organic to me 🙂

To be fair though from sample footage I’ve seen the line skipped footage looks fine

You may want to consider a used S1 instead. Not that much more expensive, but it does offer full-size HDMI. Alternatively if you like autofocus you could get a used Nikon Z6, get the RAW upgrade and be able to shoot BRAW with a full frame sensor and AF. But it’s not 6k. Prores RAW is line skipped. Not sure if the same holds true for BRAW but my guess is that’s the case.

This made my day man! Thanks so much! I feel like I’ve grown a lot mainly in terms of lighting over the past while, and I also am always really satisfied with the image the Z6 spits out! Such a great budget cam.

This looks great! Nice use of natural light too!

An attempt at a more "filmic" grade with the Z6 NLOG image. It’s actually pretty darn simple. In Davinci Resolve I converted the image to rec709 with basic exposure/contrast adjustments. Then I transformed the color space from rec709 to cineon (designed for this specific LUT). I applied one of the film LUTS built into Davinci resolve. Then I add a glow effect to bloom the highlights. I increased saturation and adjusted the color temp to warm it up. That's pretty much it!