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Yes but considering that the original 1080p is already very clean, the 1080p60 might be very good rolling shutter wise and not suffer from much artifacts. I mean the 5dmarkIII RAW looks very clean and it skips lines.

Did you try decreasing the contrast on the a6000 from the menus? Should help with blowing highlights. Also remember that the Sony records stuff into the superwhites and you can get them back.

I disagree. You can put a DSLR anywhere. You can do almost anything with one, put in a cupboard, shoot. Cramped spaces? Just shoot. With an Alexa you need to start tearing down your sets. With an FS700 you... are just fucked. It's so bad.

I'm sorry but WHAT? You can do a camera track on 8-bit data. You can planar track, color key, degrain, none of them require more than 8-bits. They only require that the image otherwise is good. Are you confusing some other elements of the image?

That 50p shot stuff looked pretty much the same as previous NEX's. The 50p mode does line skipping so it introduces moire and drops res so there's that. Andrews clip looks pretty good though.

Managed to loan the Canon 1DC for a weekend so naturally shot some 4k quickly. One camera, a guy with a small led light and someone to sing. It was a pretty odd camera. If they sold this for the price of the 1DX, it would sell like hotcakes. It's basically the 1DX except with 4k mjpeg. And the lowlight. My god, the lowlight is unbelievable. I didn't shoot Canon Log because I felt like the 8-bit mjpeg codec isn't good enough for that but luckily the camera made excellent footage in just your regular neutral settings that I've been using on the 5d mark III.

That looks exactly the same as most rolling shutter cameras. Shot with a high shutter so it looks extreme but motion blur does tend to hide it. There is a thing about doing tests properly because eyeballing stuff just gets these ridiculous overboard examples: "OMG LOOK AT THAT!"- while the rolling shutter is about 90% the same on these cameras. The reactions some people get to these silly videos is so overboard I'm laughing my ass off.

Atleast Petapixels comment section was way smarter than the forum posts here. Refusal to replace a camera because a video has been uploaded to youtube would just be stupid beyond belief. Beyond.

I just got a video to edit from someone who actually shoots with Nikon D7000 or something. Great framing, they got the audio straight into the camera good enough but the colors...my god the colors. They were so grey. Did not endear me at all to Nikon but who knows if it was the shooter. It also had the staccato motion from too high a shutter so atleast ND's were missing but that's quite common for low budget DSLR guys.

Except - at the moment - those cards are kinda redundant for video. Who would've ever bought two firepro cards for video without Apple stucking them in? Unless software actually starts using them, they are useless.

I somewhat disagree with this. For example, sharp flowing hair is a mess to interpolate. But if the original material has motion blur, you can then hide your retiming quite well.

You should at least bill them for the extra work.

Sony RX10 fits the bill. It's halfway between a camcorder and DSLR. Though in lowlight nothing matches a dslr with an f1.4 lens.

I think it's funny how people who yell about "conspiracies" and generally retarted shit, completely believe the national papers and publications in Russia which are so full of propaganda, western media doesn't even compare on the same planet. If you actually believe anything in Voice of Russia (which is the fucking leading paper in Russia) you are retarded. Those assholes kept claiming that russian kids were being kidnapped into Finland (where I happen to live) which was complete lies. Fabricated stories to just drum up the "We are russians!"- nationalists. This is all quite simple. Russia wants Ukraine into a state of civil war. That's why they moved thousands of units into Crimea and blockaded military positions. All it takes is one miss fire to start out a war. And there the pretext is: "Saving our brothers from oppression". Who gains the most from sniping ukrainians? Russians. Who gains the most by escalating the situation? Russians. Daa. The amount of lies spewed out by Russia is astounding. Puting lied in front of everybody claiming that they have no forces invading Ukraine sovereign territory and military bases. So what happens if Ukraina starts shooting at these "non-russians"? Russia hopes that will happen so they can come in and change the government. And the scary thing? No one can actually stop them. And oh yeah, The Blackmagic looks to be really nice!

You can easily create 4:4:4 jpegs. They are not enforced to be 4:2:0. Those images are 200% crops, they don't have to be 4:4:4.

Just shot a little zerobudget scifi flick. Raw 5d. '> Nose is out of focus, but beautifully. 200mm f2.8 fullframe. (That's a slightly unsharp still, moving shots are sharp as tack). There is just no way I could get the chair blurred with MFT systems. Another one with the 200mm f2.8: '> I really love the cinematic, almost anamorphic dof look. (without the softness)

Completely correct. Not sure why jcs is all against it because he is wrong. There are significant advantages to scaling 4k 4:2:0 to 4:4:4 HD. One thing does come to mind...when we are talking about 8-bit, the h264 compression algorithms actually do tend to drop the actual bitdepth to 7 or even 6. So sometimes we actually start with 7bit 4:2:0 footage with all kinds of compression artifacts.

Rolling shutter is visible when the camera moves. Lots of little movements will cause a lot of wobble through the rolling shutter. IS minimizes that (but the effect is still there whenever the cameras jerks or moves around).

Just a little anecdote... I just shot an interview with the 5d3, just regular h264 (not raw). Had it on my plasma monitor while editing and then a seasoned VFX- artist walks into the room (they were doing vfx for a red epic shot 5k commercial), looks at the screen and blurts out: "Man that looks really good, very sharp". Okay, I had added a slight bit of sharpening in Premiere but I still found it quite funny considering how soft people think the 5d3 is. He had just been watching local tv in SD so I guess that also made a difference. Plasma tv's also just tend to look really good.

So it basically has the coveted Film Look ;)

You need to work in software that's in 16-bit or 32-bit float. Just downconverting to 8bit will not do anything. The trick happens when the 8bit image is interpolated inside a 16/32-bit container. I'd say After Effects can do that (or any modern compositing software) if used in 16-bit mode. Editing software is more tricky. Maybe Premiere could do it if the enable maximum bit depth option is clicked on but not sure unless tested.

It's actually gonna give more as all the HD cams are 4:2:2 max anyway. And with Blackmagic 2.5k res, you can't even get 1080 4:4:4, because the sensor doesn't have enough luma after debayering to fill HD.

I did it for years with HDV. Downscaling 1440x1080 to pristine SD. You get almost 4:4:4 SD from 1440x1080 4:2:0 HD. It's easy to see. Just shoot something in HD that shows the chroma artifacts easily and downscale to SD. I got a better SD image from early HDV consumer cams than great SD cams like the DVX100.

The same way as photoshop or any other good scaler works. Just take 4 luma pixels and 1 chroma that completely covers the 4 luma pixels. Downscale to 1 pixels. Now you have one pixel with one luma value. Downscaling an HD 4:2:0 to SD 4:4:4 is exactly the same as is 4k to HD.

When has Sony catched up to Canon? Only in the mirrorless market. My Canon 7d (which is so old it's funny) still takes better pictures than the Nex-7 (24mp is a bit too much). I cannot fathom how the Nex-7 gets so huge DXOMark scores compared to Canon 7d. Yeah, in ISO 100 the shadows are missing the Canon pattern noise but it has a huge amount of colour noise when pumped up. Now the A7r is great on the stills side, on par with the D800. But on the video side? A bit crippled with its video just slightly falling behind the D800 because of the AVCHD codec.