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Get a cheap 4k cam instead, if funds are low. Much better than any phone and much cheaper than a XH2! 😂 Used Lumix G9 does perfect 4K 10bit HLG for 500 USD, additional VLog profile per purchase possible. Awesome former flagship camera with all bells and whistles. G85 does nice 4K for 300 USD, GX85 for 200. Much cheaper than 8K XH2 and a 8K TV. 😂 That saves you lotta funds. And saves the planet too a tiny bit:)

Don't bore too much, send it to me ; ) Jokes aside, any one of those will bring you fun back :- ) This one produced here by us was shot with the help of a P6K: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Xtx-0fkv_dff2IkS_8tR9sxdTDjMgOsB

Concerning chroma details, I tested a bit, and noticed a jump of increased color details at ISO 3200 in standard profiles. Further, h265 All-I is a bad choice vs longGOP for such detailed not moving scenes. Prores has advantage as well here, even if its Intra frame encoding. f-log2 also worse than standard profiles. So the best I could get (and almost completely get rid of smoothing) is with Prores HQ at ISO 3200 in standard profile. See comparison of best and worst (below is one of its chroma channels):

I have the P4K, 6KPro and FX30. By far, my favourite to use is the 6K Pro.....mainly for the internal ND's and the better battery life compared to the P4K and regular P6K which use the small LPE6 batteries. I only got the FX30 as a B Camera to the FX6 for quite a few clients that want Sony but I can't say it brings me 'joy' to use or is a 'fun' camera. I've never really found Sony's user friendly but use them more out of necessity. Technically the FX30 is fantastic, specs wise it's amazing but if you wan't a camera that is easy to use and allows you to focus more on creativity, the 6K Pro is the pick of the bunch. Also has the best image quality IMO even if I do 'only' really ever shoot in ProRes 4K on it. I also love the fact that the Pocket Cameras can record to inexpensive Samsung T5 and T7 SSD's and this saves you a ton of money compared to Sony where if you want to shoot 10bit ALL-I, you need to buy expensive CFexpress type A cards. With a Tilta cage on the Pockets and using the Tilta Samsung T5 holder, it feels like the SSD's are an integrated part of the camera rather than add on external storage.

Well, just got reply from Atomos about the bad pixel issue in 6.2K raw: Please note that our engineering has gone over your case and replicated and tested your setup. Unfortunately, the issue lies with the camera as it is outputting the bad pixel in 6.2 k RAW. We would love to help you fix the issue but as it is on the camera end our hands are tied. Please contact the camera manufacturer to get this issue resolved. Fuji doesn't give a shit about my emails, so I wouldn't expect a fix anytime soon. This, and the framerate issue, and also the fact that Fuji's ProRes RAW has noticeably less dynamic range than F-Log, not to mention F-Log2, makes me loose faith in this company, they do a lot of things right but they always have to fuck up little things like this.