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sandisk uhs i 200 MB/s extreme pro sd card seems fine. i recorded in the above mode for 1 minute. no issue. v90 cards are 10x more expensive. seems no significant advantage.

i just checked my om-1 in video mode, it can do c4k 60p, h265, long gop, 10 bit. i will use 60p to compensate for the low bit rate 152 mbits/s long gop codec. om-1 has two level zebras, real time histogram, horizontal and vertical levels. actually good enough for typical video shooting.

nikon used to lag behind canon in the sensor design and making. not any more. the shortest flange distance, plus, the best sensor design, and the codec. nikon seems will out edge canon, arri, sony.

how can arri alexa survive this?

om-1 is very compact designed. very nice. just feels a little bit plastic. certainly, more plastic means less weight. but i still like 5d3 better in terms of the build quaility. compared to leica r8, modern cameras are more consumer product, instead of lasting pieces. long time ago i bid a kodak retina slr camera with a lens. i wanted the lens and kept the lens, and donated the camera to a local vintage camera store. even though the retina camera was a low end product at its time, it still feels some luxury in it. now even the top of the line cameras are more consumer products in comparision. probably the most durable camera i have is the panavision f900 (part only, as the lens interface is lacking), built like a tank, weighed like a tank.

it is about the feeling when handling, not about the functionality.

om-1 is more like c100 mk2 or c300 og level, less than fs7, far less than f5, r1mx, epic-x.

just received my brand new om-1. kind of plastic. good but not perfect. the build quality is a little bit better than my old em-5, not as good as canon 1d series and Nikon d1/d2/etc series. seems to me that latest top cameras focus on features more than on build quality. maybe em1x is better than om-1 in terms of build quality. worthy to have em1x if so.

I experience this battery issue on still cameras like Nikon d1x and video cameras like c300 og. you just need to input the setting every time you use it. it is not convenient but no big deal. on c300 og, you can save all of the major settings on the sd card, and restore it when you use the camera. on d1x, I think you can do similarly. but I never do this. I just manually set up and shoot. once you are familiar with the camera, it is easy to do so.

it is no big deal. does not affect the final results.

this guy is funny, but also very sharp. his style emphasizes on stealthy street shooting, women slow mo. lol.

I guess those friends of op want op to donate his lenses to them. think about it. the vintage cameras and the lenses are luxury goods, sold to rich people. rich people care about their health more than poor men. lol.

I guess that the Rec 2020 has a wider gamut than Rec 709. the mapping may not be accurate enough. Another possibility is that Davinci Resolve may not understand the OM-1 10-bit footage well enough to produce accurate results.

I guess the OM-1 sensor is optimized for DR, sacrificing the high ISO performance. Its DR is said to be at least 1 stop better than EM-1 2 and 3.

just watched the godfather and dune on amazon on a 50 inch Sony 4k tv. dune 1 seems significantly clearer than godfather 1 2. film stocks in the late 1990s and early 2000 seem at 4k level. it is overkill to use a 8k camera to scan even the latest negative. significantly more storage, very little gain. the fashion of using the film seems nostalgia, in stead of true technical advantage.

amazon prime streaming movie looks much better. not sure why. my guess is that the camera used for movie is much better than for news, and this carries on in the final product.

eos m, 700d/650d/100d has magic lantern waveform.

The Z50 II offers a better video mode than the Z50 and is definitely the one to buy if you're predominantly a videographer. The original model offered 4K/30p and Full HD/120p recording modes. The new Z50 II offers 4K/60p, albeit with a 1.5x crop, 4K/30p oversampled from 5.6k with no crop, and Full HD/120p. It also provides 10-bit N-Log for the first time ever on a DX camera, along with the ability to use RED Luts. There is a red video record light on the front of the Z50 II and a red framing border is displayed on the LCD screen when recording. The Z50 II has a 2x Hi-res zoom for full HD video with 11 zoom speeds. There is no loss in resolution, unlike a digital zoom, because the camera records in 4K first then converts to 1080p. Sound is also improved on the Z50 II, thanks to its built-in stereo mic and the option to attach an external mic. It also offers an onboard wind-noise reduction function and a headphone socket.

the reason why sports news are good may be due to the use of the Alexa like Amira, a35, etc.

I too think 1080p is good enough for news, as long as less compression. oled may beautify the news a lot. yeh, 100 inch tv is a wall.

maybe the final broadcasting compression is much higher than the 50 mpbs mpeg2 1080p. 50 mpbs mpeg2 1080p itself may be ok, as long as there is no panning or tilting, when I view on a 27 inch 4k monitor with a viewing distance of one and a half feet. I also notice that almost all of the scenes about the direct realtime local interviews transmitted through the satellite are even much worse (maybe sd level resolution) than the general scenes. anyways, my user experience on iPad is much better than large screen tv.

good to know. I thought of reconnecting cable news (I have cable internet, Comcast). if ota is better, then I will stay off the grid. I really doubt if the 100 inch tvs will sell like mainstream tv sizes in the next several years. the current network news quality cannot catch up to the 100 inch tv size.

mine is through the air off the grid. maybe cable news is better due to wider bw. through the air, it is just not bearable.

from my experience, f3 has a far better sensor.

f5 has internal rgb444 2k 440 mbps, where f3 lacks. its 4k is the same as 2k. shoulder ergonomics is great, only second to top tier 2/3 pro eng cams. pro I/o.