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My first few shots from my Dubai trip. Used the EOSHD 5D raw LUT in Resolve and it worked like a charm. I love how it lifts shadows without sacrificing black levels. I exported the clips from resolve with the LUT and then did additional grading on top of that in FCP X.

Such a topic would be great, although I'd suggest starting a separate thread for it. I've been shooting with D800 for quite a while, and there really isn't many online discussing issues/solutions etc.

I think the reason many here expected a review of the D5300 is because you where one of the people that showed the capability of the D5200 to the film community. Until now it is still the reference to show the fantastic low light capability of the Nikon D5200 that rivals the $ 3500 5dmark3 full frame camera which itself is hailed as a very very good low light camera. Now you have told us that you don't want to review it and I respect your opinion because it is your site and your time and you can decide your priorities. I will just tell you why I am interested in this camera, it might just be for the sake of discussion and comprehension. I am not in anyway trying to convince or confront you. The first thing is that I am a pro Nikon photographer that is always interested in Cinema. Contrary to those pseudo pure photographers that can't photo their shoes I am a big fan of the hybrid concept. So for the last 5 years I have bought a Canon 7d and a panasonic gh2 for video because Nikon was behind. Then I bought the D800 for my photography and it was much better than the 7D and previous Nikon but still kept my gh2, the moire/aliasing of the D800 (much better than the 7d) was still a little annoying for me. http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?286855-Sharpness-test-between-Nikon-D800-Panasonic-GH2-and-Canon-7D Then came the D5200!!! What is that thing a $ 800 Nikon camera that had no moire/aliasing with fantastic lowlight and about 12 stop of DR and you could even record in high bitrate 422 with an external recorder. Further test showed that it had one downfall and it was the FPN. There was a solution with neat-image but it was a bit cumbersome if you pushed into the shadows for some shots. In the end I bought its sensor brother in the D7100 as a second body to my D800. It took me some time because the logical choice was the D600 but I wanted so much the better video image. There was report that the D7100 image in video was sharper than the d5200 and I did test against the gh2 as you can see it was blind test and most did not commit and some got in wrong, so close they where that I sold my gh2. I can also confirm the the hdmi output give an even more detailed and sharper image. http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?310503-Nikon-D7100-vs-Panasonic-gh2-sharpness During those time I had to chose at first between the D7100 and the BMC camera (I already had my D300 as backup for my D800) and then when between the Ninja and the BMCC. For some it is like heresy but everybody would have drooled on an APSC size sensor camera with gh2 resolution, about 12 stop of DR, low light of the 5dmark3 and 220 mbits prores image with a Ninja 1.5 years ago. the only prayer for me would be 10 bit output for now until raw can become mainstream. I also have to think in terms of production environment if I want to do film that I have to have reliable cameras (at least 2) and reduce the maximum number of point of failure with native set of lens, no adapter that can fail etc. etc. To have cameras where I don't even know how much space is left on the disk etc. or moire/aliasing and in the end things like lighting will make so much more difference than any raw. To come back to the D5300, why I am interested to get the d5300 is because the FPN is annoying, I can live with it but an FPN free image would be much more than a simple upgrade. I like to get in those deep deep shadows that the Nikons have to get the most out of the DR of the camera. The second thing is the 60p, for filming my fashion shoot it will be huge. even if for now until we get external recorders that do 60fps 1080p out of the hdmi. But I think next year we will see in next atomos ninja with the number of 60p camera with uncompressed hdmi coming out. So in the end we might be getting very close to Canon Cinema EOS line of image quality for $ 800 and even getting 60p. The last thing I will talk about the industry in general. What many video/slr website don't take into account is the vast vast vast Nikon world. Contrary to what many on here were talking about the demise of Nikon, they have survived 6 long years to Canon dominance between 2000 to 2007 until the Nikon D300 and D3. One of the big reason is the lens and ecosystem. I can mount 50 year old lens on my camera if I want or if I buy a lens tomorrow I know that I will be able to but it on a camera for decades. This market won't just disappear even if tomorrow cell phone kills the low end. The enthusiast semi pro and pro are not going to cell phone any-time soon and both Canon and Nikon will still be billion dollar company in 5 years. They might adapt but they won't just disappear overnight. So what about this huge Nikon slr market, if only 1 out of 5 Nikon users cares about video it might be more than lumix users. That is why you will more and more Nikon users because they will start to push the video button and the image will be so good that they won't be interested to buy other equipment, but will search for Nikon related test and info on the video capability of their camera. The one who understand that will get part of this cake.

  Wrong I'm afraid. 5D Mark III, D5200, D5300 are moire / aliasing free in all real world situations, unless you're talking about charts and then every camera has it even the Epic.   It's easy to avoid. GH2 does it for very little money on a sensor only slightly smaller than Canon APS-C (1.86x crop vs 1.6x crop).   A pixel mix on the sensor is all that's needed.

Andrew, I'm pretty sure that Skip was saying there aren't many reviewers LIKE YOU out there to look at the 5300 - i.e. -that he likes your aesthetic. It was meant as a compliment! That's why we're here and pestering you rather than anywhere else. Jeez, why are you so bloody confrontational! BTW, yes I would like you to validate my purchase please - an "EOSHD Approved" badge might be an idea. Instead of using stars for the rating, you could have little golden anamorphic lenses, or hacked GH2's … Seriously though - I accept everything you're saying about the 5300 being a minor upgrade on the D5200, I really do. But you haven't really talked about the fixed pattern noise. That's the "something more", if there is anything. It's not big, but it is something more. You did address it in your review of the 5200. Whether it means much to you is of course your choice, and I respect that. You've obviously got more than enough on your plate. However, if you want us to stop talking about it amongst ourselves on your forum, that's different - you should probably say so.

For what it's worth, this is my opinion on what's going on with this thread - which has two sides to it: 1) The people who have been most active here haven't owned a D5200, so our enthusiasm for the D5300 also includes enthusiasm for all the benefits of the D5200. This almost certainly explains our excitement versus Andrew's more tempered response. My main interest is in whether it's worth paying the extra for the D5300. Money is an issue for me so I would very happily go out and buy the D5200 tomorrow (in fact I could get it for nothing by PX'ing some old Canon gear). But from the very slim pickings online, I have tentatively concluded that the 5300 is worth the premium. As I believe Andrew said in his initial report (at the start of this thread after looking at it in the shop) it is probably worth it if you don't already own a D5200 and would like the extras (60p, larger screen, etc). However ... 2) My main reason for favouring the 5300 over the 5200 is that it looks like the fixed pattern noise has gone. I think this probably does make it a significantly better camera than the D5200. More grading may be possible, and no annoying banding. This tips the boat for me, and is perhaps why I may have appeared to be suggesting that it is worthy of more attention than it is getting. But the lack of FPN definitely isn't a groundbreaking thing on par with more exciting current developments, like RAW, ProRes, 4k, full sensor readout, etc. I can't honestly see an EOSHD article entitled: "D5300 DISPENSES WITH FPN OF PREDECESSOR!". So I totally respect Andrew's decision not to look any further into the camera. But for all the amazing advancements in affordable video at the moment, there is very little of this new stuff that actually offers a solid, useable all-round workhorse. The GH3 is obviously the benchmark for that in the price bracket, but it has low-light limitations. I have a speedbooster on my G6 and it's wonderful, but I find the colour fringing a real problem at night, and wide aperture doesn't always replace high ISOs. Nikons no doubt have some annoying characteristics (no aperture control for G lenses, restrictive mount) but the D5300 offers small but very worthwhile improvements on a solid camera, and as far as I can tell that makes it one of the best options out there if you don't want to spend hours messing around with beta-level technology. I'm over the moon with my G6 and if I had to have only one camera I would probably choose it over the D5300 - but I need a second camera and I want something that offers something a little different. When Blackmagic make a Pocket as useable as the GH3, or Panasonic give us ProRes, I'll be first in line, but until then ... I think I'll shut up for a while now (at least until there is some convincing test footage online - or I make it myself).

For my part I'm not criticising EOSHD, I'm retaining interest in the D5300 because so far it looks like it is worth the premium on the D5200 for my uses. Have you looked at Gordon Laing's ISO tests Andrew? You can see them all here: vimeo.com/groups/d5300 Your opinion would be appreciated ... Cheers.

Dude, this isn't going anywhere. I didn't qualify what I meant by "very good" at 6400 because so far I've been talking to people on this thread who actually understand what DSLR's are currently capable of (see Danyyyel's post above). You have also quoted me completely out of context, which is frankly just boring: I said "I think the D5300 is quite useable at 12800 ISO for certain applications". The key terms here being "I think" (i.e. my personal opinion) and "for certain applications" (e.g. ones where seeing in the dark is more important than geeking out on squeaky clean footage, but not being distracted by great big coloured banding everywhere). It's also pretty juvenile to twist my words to say I agree that the footage is not useable. I do not agree. I am looking forward to "using" a lot of footage I shoot at 6400 ISO on the D5300. I understand that this level of noise will not be to everyone's taste (subjectivity is a wonderful thing), but personally I will be happy to shoot with it for a lot of the stuff I do - whereas I would not have been comfortable shooting at 6400 on, say, my 600D, and don't like shooting that high on my G6. This thread has so far been very constructive and helpful to everyone involved, please don't derail it any further. I respect your right to an opinion but you have now made it known (however dogmatic it was). If you would like to qualify your statements (as you suggested I should) with some examples of why this camera is not "very good" at 6400 ISO that are not ENTIRELY subjective, then I would be genuinely interested. As suggested before, if you would like to show some footage from a camera in this price bracket that does better at high ISOs, please do - that would be great. Or perhaps something other than just declaring that other people are wrong. Otherwise we will just be going around in circles.

just goes to show if you know what you are doing the camera really doesn't matter - the story counts first

https://vimeo.com/68340708 http://ae.tutsplus.com/author/bran-hvitabjorninn/ https://vimeo.com/73658885 https://vimeo.com/65617394 https://vimeo.com/65347677 Hopefully some of these should get you started like it did me, there's also a beginners tut on the Blackmagic website also