BrorSvensson Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 I'm helping out a friend to find which camera to buy and stumbled upon this video. It's interesting how far good colour and a nice 1080p video can get you vs the wierdly magenta casted slog 3 footage. Inazuma 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted June 15, 2016 Administrators Share Posted June 15, 2016 Yep the X Pro 2's colour is effortless, you don't need to do anything to it in post and if you just want 1080p, it's a lovely simple solution. The magenta cast in the S-LOG 3 footage though is down to the user not being knowledgable enough with grading tools to correct it. S-LOG is a bitch to work with, so it is partly the camera's fault and partly the user's. I don't blame anyone who has trouble getting the colour from Sony cameras to match Fuji! It's hard! frontfocus, BrorSvensson and vaga 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrorSvensson Posted June 15, 2016 Author Share Posted June 15, 2016 7 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said: Yep the X Pro 2's colour is effortless, you don't need to do anything to it in post and if you just want 1080p, it's a lovely simple solution. The magenta cast in the S-LOG 3 footage though is down to the user not being knowledgable enough with grading tools to correct it. S-LOG is a bitch to work with, so it is partly the camera's fault and partly the user's. I don't blame anyone who has trouble getting the colour from Sony cameras to match Fuji! It's hard! i was also surprised by the Continous AF on the x pro 2, didn't know that it had such good capability! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted June 16, 2016 Administrators Share Posted June 16, 2016 It's a bit lens dependant. The 35mm F2 WR and 18-50mm F2.8-4 OIS work best in AF-C mode but it's definitely not very reliable all the time. The 35mm F1.4 and 56mm F1.2 have really noisy AF motors and big heavy glass elements to shift... so don't work as well. I think the A6300 and X Pro2 share a very similar sensor and phase-detect AF is on the chip. BrorSvensson and vaga 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viet Bach Bui Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 That Fuji video looks like something coming out of a smartphone: oversharpened, low dynamic range, baked in and saturated colors (which look nice, btw), little room to manipulate in post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Members Mattias Burling Posted June 16, 2016 Super Members Share Posted June 16, 2016 32 minutes ago, Viet Bach Bui said: That Fuji video looks like something coming out of a smartphone: oversharpened, low dynamic range, baked in and saturated colors (which look nice, btw), little room to manipulate in post. Have you tried it? In my experience the DR is just fine, lots of info to bring out in the shadows and just as gradable as any 8-bit footage. frontfocus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viet Bach Bui Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 14 minutes ago, Mattias Burling said: Have you tried it? In my experience the DR is just fine, lots of info to bring out in the shadows and just as gradable as any 8-bit footage. No, just commenting on what I saw in this video. And your experience is...interesting, considering what is displayed in this video. Perhaps the author didn't know what they were doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzynormal Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 14 minutes ago, Viet Bach Bui said: No, just commenting on what I saw in this video. And your experience is...interesting, considering what is displayed in this video. Perhaps the author didn't know what they were doing? I can testify that the FUJI footage needs at least a basic color grade...but there's lots of info in the darks and it "lifts" up just fine. --and that's about it. The colors have been looking pretty good to my eye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Bacle Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Playing with my X-T1, I found out that the picture profile best suited for video is the Pro Neg. High. which doesn"t crush blacks as much, and gives a little bit of room for grading. (For the record, video from the X-T1 is not as bad as people believe. The video firmware upgrade helped a lot.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted June 16, 2016 Administrators Share Posted June 16, 2016 The X-T1 firmware update lifted the quality? I can't say I noticed. The quality was always better in 1080/30p than in 60p by the way. I can confirm the creator of the video didn't handle the X Pro 2 files correctly. They should be mapped to 16-235 in Premiere and the shadows lifted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Bacle Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Since firmware 3.0, i didn't see any weird artefacts as shown on many reviews. I always shoot in 1080p24 that may be why the image quality seems higher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gelaxstudio Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 The T-2 is coming with 4K,although there is not log or super sampling ,but hey ,it is still way better than canon flagship 7D2 and it should be using H264 ,not MJPEG! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidzrevil Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 this just makes me even more excited for the Fuji xt2. oh btw cine1 gamma with pro color is a good alternative to slog with the sony's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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