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Help The Camera Manufacturers Make Better Cameras: Part 2


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Help The Camera Manufacturers Make Better Cameras: Part 2  

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  1. 1. Chose your preferred RECORDING format:

    • Internal ProRes 422 with LOG
    • Internal RAW recording
    • Internal H.264/H.265 with LOG (small file sizes)
    • External HD-SDI output
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    • External HDMI output
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    • External USB C output direct to SSD hard drive
  2. 2. Choose your preferred method of STABILISATION:

    • In-body image stabilisation (IBIS)
    • Optical image stabilisation (OIS)
    • Digital stabilisation in-camera (EIS)
    • Digital stabilisation in post (Warp Stabiliser or similar)
  3. 3. Choose your most often used method of EXPOSURE:

    • Aperture priority auto
    • 180 degree shutter (1/50) with ND filter
  4. 4. Choose your preferred ND:

    • Internal variable ND like FS5
    • Variable ND filter on lens
    • Variable ND filter in mount adapter
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    • I do not often use ND filters
  5. 5. Choose your preferred COLOUR processing:

    • Stock in-camera picture style
    • Custom in-camera picture style
    • LOG or Hybrid LOG Gamma with LUT in post
  6. 6. Choose your preferred maximum camera RESOLUTION:

  7. 7. Choose frame rate you use the most for SLOW-MOTION:

  8. 8. Choose your favourite camera BRAND:

  9. 9. Choose the LENS MOUNT you own the MOST lenses for:

    • Sony E mount
    • Nikon F mount
    • Fuji X mount
    • Micro Four Thirds
    • Canon EF
    • Canon R
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    • Nikon Z
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    • PL
    • Vintage mounts (M42, etc.)
  10. 10. How do you most often FOCUS for video work:

  11. 11. How do you MOST often shoot:

    • Handheld, no stabilisation
    • Handheld with IBIS or IS
    • Handheld with rig, cage or shoulder mount
    • Tripod
    • Gimbal
    • Other
  12. 12. What do you shoot MOST regularly with (Can choose more than one):

    • Fuji X-T3
    • Fuji X-T2
    • Fuji X-H1
    • Fuji X-T30 / X-T20 / X-Pro 2
    • Canon 5D Mark III
    • Canon 5D Mark IV
    • Canon EOS R
    • Canon EOS RP
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    • Canon 1D C / 1D X II
    • Canon / Magic Lantern Raw Video
    • Panasonic S1 / S1R
    • Panasonic GH5
    • Panasonic GH5S
    • Panasonic GH4
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    • Panasonic GH3 / GH2
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    • Panasonic Other Micro Four Thirds
    • Olympus E-M1 / E-M1 II
    • Olympus E-M10 III / other
    • Olympus E-M1X
    • Nikon Z6
    • Nikon Z7
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    • Nikon D850
    • Nikon other (DSLR)
    • Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 2K
    • Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
    • Blackmagic other
    • Pro CINEMA camera (Arri / RED / Sony)
    • Pro VIDEO camcorder (i.e. Sony FS5, FS7, Canon C300, C200)
    • Other (optionally state in comments)
    • Sony A7 III
    • Sony A7S II
    • Sony A7S
    • Sony A7R III
    • Sony A7R II
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    • Sony A6500
    • Sony A6400
    • Sony A6300
    • Sony RX series (RX100 IV, RX10 III, etc.)
    • Sony other FE-mount full frame
    • Sony other E-mount APS-C
  13. 13. What do you shoot the MOST in (if not listed select closest):



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35 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

How's the ZCam E2 working out? Any good?

Much improved for me over the GH5, I really like it. Also anamorphic support for all different ratios is un-matched in the price range. Prores support is super convenient and colours are a breeze to get right. I've got nothing bad to say. The small form factor is also very nice for shooting with a small profile or on a gimbal.

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In the way of codec, 10 bit internal h.265 with the option for external raw/prores to an ssd, would in my mind be a great compromise. A uhs II sd card can easily handle h.265, but raw/prores, leaving aside write speed, would cost so much for storage vs a SSD (~ 5x the cost.) 

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Yeah you should def add DR and motion cadence. (colour would also be high up there, but not sure how you would add it in a poll as it is prolly more personal)

 

I am surprised people are choosing for: Internal H.264/H.265 with LOG (small file sizes) though. I think  you could split up the users on this forum in 2 categories( one is video minded people selling corporate/event style video's on a daily basis and then you got the cinema dudes who want to create shortfilms. And those 2 people just want different camera's all togheter).  

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28 minutes ago, zerocool22 said:

I am surprised people are choosing for: Internal H.264/H.265 with LOG (small file sizes) though.

Obviously I'd like as many options as possible when it comes to codec and bit rate, but I also don't absolutely NEED more than that for a lot of my work. 

Being able to shoot an entire event on one or two SD cards in 4K on my GH5 is wonderful. And when I have shot in log I've been happy with the results. Would raw, ProRes, etc be nice though? Absolutely! 

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1 hour ago, Xavier Plágaro Mussard said:

There is no mention to one of the most important factors, now that specs are really great in most cameras: easy menus!

I'll add to that: easy buttons!

49 minutes ago, zerocool22 said:

I am surprised people are choosing for: Internal H.264/H.265 with LOG (small file sizes) though.

I'm with @newfoundmass. I'd prefer a camera with options: H265, ProRes and Raw all at once would be ideal. However, if I only have one internally, H265 is the best option. For one, you can easily get an external recorder for ProRes and even ProRes Raw. How many external recorders have H265?

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56 minutes ago, KnightsFan said:

I'll add to that: easy buttons!

I'm with @newfoundmass. I'd prefer a camera with options: H265, ProRes and Raw all at once would be ideal. However, if I only have one internally, H265 is the best option. For one, you can easily get an external recorder for ProRes and even ProRes Raw. How many external recorders have H265?

I get that, but external recorders are for me at least a thing of the past. Editing h265 is a pain in the ass. Storage costs are not really an issue  anymore (unless you wetransfer your footage to your editor or something). 

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3 hours ago, zerocool22 said:

I am surprised people are choosing for: Internal H.264/H.265 with LOG (small file sizes) though. I think  you could split up the users on this forum in 2 categories( one is video minded people selling corporate/event style video's on a daily basis and then you got the cinema dudes who want to create shortfilms. And those 2 people just want different camera's all togheter).  

Yeah I shoot sports and occasionally product reviews, I want absolutely nothing to do with super large pro res like file sizes. 

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1 hour ago, zerocool22 said:

I get that, but external recorders are for me at least a thing of the past. Editing h265 is a pain in the ass. Storage costs are not really an issue  anymore (unless you wetransfer your footage to your editor or something). 

I dont use external recorders either. I always considered them a temporary solution to crippled internal recording. I have a CPU from 2013 and I can easily edit 8 bit h265, though it struggles a little with 10 bit from the xt3. But that is in resolve, naturally premiere is much worse. Nothing beats the convenience of an entire day of shooting on a single 32 GB sd card, then comfortably editing hours of footage off of a quiet 500 gb ssd.

But naturally i see the benefit of prores, both as an easy to edit format, and as an industry standard. I would rather have both, and its really a shame that there are so few cameras that can record both internally.

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6 hours ago, zerocool22 said:

I am surprised people are choosing for: Internal H.264/H.265 with LOG (small file sizes) though. I think  you could split up the users on this forum in 2 categories( one is video minded people selling corporate/event style video's on a daily basis and then you got the cinema dudes who want to create shortfilms. And those 2 people just want different camera's all togheter).  

I voted for Internal H264/H265 but I did get a bit torn between that and internal RAW.

My rationale is that I want the best quality I can get, but with a limited bitrate for practical purposes like ease of editing and stage bitrates.  I use GH5 with UHS-I cards, so I'm limited to the 150Mbps h264 4K mode or the 200Mbps h265 6K codec, and whilst I'd love to shoot the 6K mode all the time, saying it's a PITA for editing is possibly the understatement of the century, so for the moment I've gone back to 4K mode because the h264 is so much nicer.

If the manufacturers started offering internal RAW then I'd be very very interested in codecs like BRAW 12:1 (46MBps) or maybe 8:1 (68MBps) for short projects or hero shots.  But every Prores except Proxy (22.4MBps) and, at a stretch, LT (51MBps) are beyond practicality for me.

I also voted for 6K resolution.  For me, I'm currently publishing at "1080 quality" which means that I'll probably export to YT in UHD but I don't sweat it if there's a shot that is only 1080 quality because either I've cropped into a 4K shot, or it was a 4k50 150Mbps LongGOP shot conformed to 25p and possible slightly cropped and/or stabilised in post.  Of course, I'd love for every shot to look like it was shot natively in the export resolution in full uncompressed RAW, but that's not my expectation.

In this sense, taking in consideration my ~500Mbps bitrate limit, it's a toss-up between modes like:

  • a very high bitrate 1080 HFR mode which would have less resolution to crop into and stabilise, but also less compression, more chroma subsampling, and higher bit depth
  • a 4K "middle ground"
  • a 6K oversampling approach which will have the most resolution, but the most compression and least data-per-pixel as-shot, but when downscaled to 4K may give a better result, especially considering that stabilisation is only as good as its tracking accuracy, which is a function of resolution.

When 1080 and 720 came out I did some tests comparing what resolution gives the nicest output for a given completed file size.  When you compress a video file to 1080, 720, and SD where all have the same output file size, the file with the highest resolution was easily the best quality.  This quality test assumed the same codec, and all files were quite compressed, so the test may not be directly applicable to a compressed vs RAW comparison, however it suggests that a comparison might be worthy.  

Given this logic, the h264/h265 6K or 8K file may have advantages over a lower resolution but much higher bitrate file.  I'd be open to both options, especially when you consider that a 4K sensor doesn't have full colour subsampling, whereas an 8K sensor can do 4K at full subsampling.

This then leads into the question about if you should downsample from 8K to 4K in-camera before compression or downsample in post after compression.  I suspect there are advantages to each.

 

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I firstly like to give a tribute to original idea of @DBounce for such thread. Than maybe suggestion to offer preliminary stratification about primarily intentions and goals of usage. I have zero interest about photography or wedding usage, so my preferences greatly differ from people whose usage rely more on such different goals.

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