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It has a cleaner interface and runs faster due to GPU acceleration. I would greatly recommend it over the older version. I don't use it all the time, but its great when I'm trying to bring up underexposed footage.

I have it and its much faster than the old version in resolve, I have realtime playback and the old version I did not.

BMMCC + orig, BMPCC

After spending some time tinkering with the Zcams at B&H a few days ago, can't see the Komodo's appeal unless you really want Red's raw or the RF mount. Raw, ProRes, CFast or SSD recording, lots of HFR options, two brilliant and incredibly tiny m43 bodies - one costing just $800 with raw capabilities, a 6k s35 body with a m43 or EF mount and two FF cameras that cost less than a FS5. Zcam posted on their Facebook group that a fully electronic E-mount is coming as well in the next few months. I'm sure the Red cult will be all over the Komodo, but in this space I'd go Zcam. Chris

The charts and the sharpness tests are tough metrics and not real world either. AFAIK the downsampling is in some way to minimise moire because there is no OLPF. You can't really have an OLPF in a camera that switches modes or does stills. I've seen plenty of shots ruined because of that from some quite well known 'prosumer' cameras as well. And BMD is quite notorious for this. They score well on tests but not so much in real world. But the sigma image is quite soft. What the slashcam shows though is a difference between crop and normal and that's interesting. So full frame is downsampled but then it's also fair to say the downsampling isn't an even number and maybe that's why we're seeing these kind of results whereas the S35 mode might actually be putting the sensor into a windowed mode and that's worth looking at more. The 12 bit footage - i strongly think if you are recording 12 bit linear to push the image as high as you can and bring down. Because that really is linear, the brightest stop of light will show nearly 2000 steps of gradation. So push as far as you can to take advantage of the tonality. Of course that's not always possible. The 8 bit footage less so because they are reshaping the data so that top stop takes much less space. Again i'd really hope for 10 shaped bit from 12 bit linear. I do believe if this is the IMX sensor then there is a 4K 14bit crop mode which would be awesome. But with no OLPF then as an overall format you'd see much more aliasing. Lightroom is quite a bad debayer - i see artefacts all over the palace. Resolve is a bit better. SpeedGrade was poor. And nuke used to have some really good options in there (but those got 'upgraded') Motion RAW is quite a bit more difficult than stills RAW and i don't think there is a good DNG option for debayering out there. It would be possible to use temporal debayer but i am no aware of anything like that which exists... Also the reason why it seems better to push the shadows that bring the highlights down is something that just occurred to me on a long drive back. The 12 bit is just truncating the top stops. The whole camera exposure is the same for stills vs cine. So same settings like for like, but the cine has the 2 bits chopped off. So therefore the expectation is for there to be highlights compared to mid grey and it's not quite there. That 14 bit 4K mode would be perfect! cheers Paul

Any more results/experiences from people owning the MBP 16"? Looking to buy one soon, not sure whether to geth 32 or 64 gigs and whether the 2.4 vs 2.3 8-core makes a sizeable difference in DaVinci. Graphics of course maxed out..

Thank you. I have looked all over YouTube for sample footage, and most of the results show videos that are overexposed, with highlights clipped, I guess they didn't shoot RAW or didn't have a way to verify the exposition. The best video available on YouTube is this, which has the RAW sample footage available for download: Pixel binning I guess, that was my concern, so, just like the Sony a7III, the Nikon z6, the EOS R, the DJI Mavic 2 Pro, etc. if you want sharper results, avoid downscaling, use crop mode :-/

In the case of FD lenses, the "New" designation is to differentiate between the second generation versions of lenses which have a bayonet mounting mechanism rather than a sneaky trick https://cameraville.co/blog/list-every-canon-fd-lens-ever-made

@Sage I know you have a lot of cameras on your list, from pocket 6k, to Panasonic s1/s1h but is there a chance you would ever make one for an Ursa Mini Pro? I would imagine since the image on the UMP is so good out the box, that your LUT would make it look real close to an Alexa.

i prefer to buy from japan, if its made in japan, it should be easy to buy from japan. At least you know the lens most probably hasn't been around the world twice ? i tend to look at all the photos. I'm wary of those sellers that only have two or three photos of the item because its easier to hide things, the more photos the merrier. I also like the sites that rate their items and list the conditions of the exterior and interior especially the lens if it has fungus or haze or scratches. If their brave enough to list the condition then they usually will except returns. The guys that says it has some haze but doesn't affect photos surprisingly doesn't accept returns odd that ?. the same goes for as is condition when i see that listed its time to move onto the next item. I think a lot of people flogging stuff on ebay know whats its worth listing with only a couple of photos and a short nondescript description leaves a lot of room for a sale that isn't what you think it is. You can always email the seller for confirmation about condition or query something which you can then use in an ebay dispute to prove your side of the case. But i prefer to avoid that in the first place One thing that ticks me off is the ( new prefix ) the fd lens system is not new, these lenses are old, if they were new you'd list them as new old stock. I only see this on canon fd lenses from japan, its quite bizarre. I tend to wonder about the character of people who tell me something is new when its sold as used ?

Hahaha... considering how much those apply to me, I just kind of assume people take that as the context of all my messages! That video really does look nice and I suspect it might be the colours. People get pretty critical of Panasonic CS but I have seen enough lovely images from P that I'm not critical at all. LOL about that guy.. I've had the same experience from Japanese ebay sellers but I must admit that the best results are coming from those people who have a rating scheme with criteria that they rate all their auctions against. I think it's a professionalism thing. I just bought my Voigtlander 42.5mm f0.95 from Japan and it's basically brand new, but I managed a ~25% discount from the new pricing. FD glass really is nice, after buying the FD 70-210 F4 and TC I really was impressed by the IQ and overall build quality. I am kind of curious about those notorious shots that everyone says are absolutely critical to Hollywood when they're saying why they could never use MFT. I'm beginning to wonder if they're a mirage because no-one seems to be able to give me a straight answer. I would have thought if they were half as common as I'm made to believe then we should be drowning in them and someone should be able to just post a bunch of them But yes, in terms of testing for me, I'll point them at a fence and run through the apertures.

I have been playing around with this adapter for the past three or four projects and I am really enjoying shooting with it. For the price I think it’s really worth it IMO. Let me know if you have any questions.

Sigh! ANOTHER thing I now want. It will not replace my all time favourite 17mm TSE but to use on some of my FD lenses (and Tamron adaptall lenses with FD adaptall) would be fun to try. Time to go beg on the street corner to be able to buy it.

Here's something I shot run n gun style and I just set the whitebalance to daylight for the whole day. Bear in mind this video was made on the G80 in CineD and then I used CinedD -> vlog pre lut and GHa Daylight Linear for grade

I have played a little with these luts today (daylight and tungsten) and I like what I see. Proper exposure and whitebalance and picture look really nice with healthy skin tones. Good job! I let the more advanced users to comment more later.

Most of my experience of them is in physical shops there where you could probably take the goods straight into an operating theatre without fear of challenge! I've only had a couple of things from there off eBay and they were mint condition as well and also looked like they had been wrapped by this Rowan Atkinson character Yeah, they look like they'd have no bother being matched up. There is definitely some value for money in the FD stuff.

AFAIK it's a mode on the sensor itself so the data coming off the sensor is binned in that mode. This is why the rolling shutter is so much better in that specific mode. It is also 12 bit even to SD Card. However the FHD can show aliasing on smooth lines IMHO you are better shooting UHD (even in 8 bit) and downsampling to HD in post. Much, much better result assuming you can achieve the frame rate you want. The sensor (if it is the one we all think it is) does have a 4K DCI binned mode in 14 bit - this would be really nice to have. Otherwise all the cDNG formats are 12 bit max, so you will only see 12 stops max (real stops) from the image. I have tested stills DNG with cine DNG and can quite clearly see the missing stops at the top end. I would say it's closer to 1 to 1.5 stops difference. But.... If you look at the S1H for example (same sensor perhaps?) in 6K mode C5D is claiming 12.7 stops of range. Well the difference is that the S1H is *probably* doing highlight reconstruction as part of white balancing and baking out a movie. This would yield a few more stops on a wedge chart (it's ideal for wedge charts!). It would be interesting to see a RAW test with the S1H. But the fp will get you the same range, with reconstruction (Lightroom does it anyway and resolve it's a checkbox) perhaps more. Colourwise it's good. I can match Red footage but the Red has more range, at least 2 or 3 stops more on a practical basis. I've shot side by side through ranges. The ISO matches fairly well as well but i would tend to expose the fp slightly higher when possible to protect the shadows. As for those Videos - RAW is not simple to handle properly - simple as that. The second video shows the guy really has *no idea* what he's talking about or understands what RAW is and sensors in general, it's almost comically bad. The bad blacks - it's difficult to say without seeing the RAW he shot - i suspect it is massively underexposed and he's pulled the shadows up. The thing about RAW is that with no compression you will see each pixel the sensor saw. As there is no noise there i guess the ISO was very low therefore probably just failed to expose correctly. Because it's linear - as i keep saying - the first 3 stops are represented in 7 code values. Usually compression just screws this totally and they're expanded out and noise from compression hides this but this is what the sensor (any sensor!) sees cheers Paul

In terms of feelings, the second one of these two makes me feel like you either included it by mistake or you need to sort out that focus peaking ?

They are a full pixel readout from the sensor (6K RAW), then somewhere in the image pipeline the RAW data is resampled to 4K. There is no line skipping or pixel binning on the sensor, so it is a very crisp and clean image. If you look at some of the stills cameras and DSLRs, they offer RAW stills settings (Med 4K, Low 2.5K, etc.) at lower resolutions too... So a similar thing happens on the Fp, but in RAW video mode, with no overheating or anything like that. Quite incredible. Premiere support for Cinema DNG is not good, don't bother with that, and either transcoding to ProRes or editing in Davinci will serve you much better performance wise.

It's when the bright parts of the image create a kind of localised haze over the image. The Black Pro Mist filters are a form of halation: You can simulate it (sort of) in post by taking the image, blurring it, then putting it over the top of the image at a very low opacity.

Well it does sound like they are expanding that location so technically I guess they are building new facilities: Apple expands in Austin <- official Apple press release I have no idea how much Trump was involved in that but Jobs (who was a democrat) did complain the Obama administration was making it hard to maintain production in the US. Not trying to stir up anything or take sides... just stating facts.

I reckon you might want to re-think that thread title. People with a certain type of mind might be expecting it to contain an entirely different type of product and be very disappointed. Like I was.

Feral pigs by the looks of it.

Being poor I have tried so hard to like DaVinci, but I can't. FCP X is so smooth even in my late 2013 Macbook. These new Macbooks seem good, I can't understand how they can legally sell soldered RAMs and SSDs. Oh, they don't even pay taxes...