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@Axel Kyno looks like exactly what i need. Alas I'm a windows user. I'll go nag them on their website @Hans Punk is this an asset management software or a media player? Confused.

my half-awake brain read it as panasonic. Mind blown briefly... and was wondering if that codec might trickle down... Ah well, guess we wont be having red codec 16bit on the gh5 then :D

I need to get my stock clips organised. Thought I'd have a look at adobe bridge as a starting point and found it wont thumbnail h.265 (so imagine dnxhd would be right out). Dont need anything hugely complex - well in fact I need something like bridge, but for video files. Any suggestions?

I have this monitor. I still find it a bit flaky for focus though. Maybe its just me. I dont really like the focus peaking on it, and find the res just a bit mushy for nailing focus.

cool thanks folks. No Liam its run and gun, I want to get as much usable stuff as possible. I did a shoot at an ice rink on the 5300 with a 70-200 lens trying to pull by eye and I got so little usable stuff. Is it bright enough in sunshine?

I'll probably shoot 120fps, rather than 240 so I can keep shooting. Might chance one if those new xiaomi action cams that shoot 1080 120. Fs700 would be nice, but probably still beyond my budget. What I don't want to be doing is trying to manually focus a long lens on the d5300. Been there done that, got a lot of fuzzy shots . If I'm manually focusing long lens need a great viewfinder with good peaking implementation. Gx85 viewfinder sounds horrid don't know about nx1 or g7 or a6300 Just had a look at Sony PXW-X70, 1inch like the Rx 100 but very videoy video. I wonder if the micro cinema camera plus screen would be crazy? I'd get plenty of reach from my Nikon 70-200

I've got a few days of shooting action and activities. Its a bit different to my usual gigs, and my d5300 is not the right camera for it. I've got a sony rx100iv, but I find it a bit tricky to guage focus - even with peaking. I also can access a hero 3 silver. Sooo I started wondering if I should grab an m43 camera - something that has a vague chance of autofocussing. But now I'm starting to wonder if I should work with what I've got and get a decent monitor. (I've got a cheap field monitor, but its not brilliant for pinning focus). So I'm canvassing for suggestions and wondering if the aputure HD monitors are ok, or if there's any advantage in going HDMI out from the rx100 to recorder

the timelapse app is fun, have a play with that

i went through this a few years ago and the conclusion i came to is that I didn't want to compromise stills quality for convenience. I ended up going for the nikon d800, and gh2 for video & speedbooster. I ended up swapping the gh2 for d5300. Yup its a pain in the bum having 2 big cameras. I can't imagine a better compromise though than the a7r2. Very similar stills to the d800/810 (both in dynamic range and "feel"). you say you dont like shooting unless you have to - whats the problem? Usability? Image quality? ...?

Anyone else had experience with tele adaptors? Just went looking and the sample still I've seen have been a bit gnarly. ?

hmmm. So my nikon .movs wont work if I uninstall qt, right? need to find out how serious a threat this is. Can't uninstall QT, can't disconnect PC from the internet.

1.5-2 seconds drop time on my blackbird. I bought a pilotfly - mostly because the blackbird was totally useless in any sort of wind, it took a lot of setup and a steep learning curve and then lots of practice, but I'm beginning to be able to get fluid. the thing I miss is the frictionless pan - being able to set the rig spinning then setting your pace so that your subject stays centered. Have fantasised about frankensteining the pilotfly and blackbird to have 2 axis (roll and pitch) from pilotfly and have the yaw/pan axis on a bearing gimbal.

The catch is crappy 1080. One of the things I've enjoyed with the rx100 is being able to use this one tiny camera at all its "native" framerates with no caveats. (and the extended 250 fps in the right circumstances). So much to like about the 6300 but the 1080 quality means it's not for me

oh and failing to find out if the timelapse function can use electronic shutter.

A step up from the D5300? Can anyone tell me what the 1080 60p is like? And how the dynamic range compares? Are the shadows lift-able or does it fall apart like the gh2 did?

Doesn't it say 24 is full sensor reasout? I imagine 25 and 30 would be treated the same

Buggerybum. feel my interest in this camera crashing. Unless the 1080 is speccy

Yup. Looking very nice on paper. (Just have a minor wah for no ibis or nd, then slap myself for quibbling )

And there it is! Sorta.

Tokina 11-16 2.8, 11-20 f2.8 I've got both. You'd have to get an adapter of course. The pull click to manual focus thing sucks, and theres a bit of barrel distortion, but IMHO there's nothing else as fast as sharp. Also the sony 10-18 get very good reviews and less barrel distortion.

you know I'd love to know if the Japanese corporate culture worked like that. I find it hard to believe that sony could dictate terms to such a big customer, but it would be fascinating to be provided wrong . I suspect though tthatNikons focus is on stills and everything else is an afterthought.

Read a rumor that it'll be the same size as a6000, so there goes IBIS. But yeah mostly I think they won't want to cannibalize their FF sales. I love shooting with apsc - with a speedbooster it doubles the effective number of lenses you have. My main thing right now though is codec. I'm just getting into grading, (my backround is stils, i love extracting the juice from a shot :)) and its depressing how quickly h.264s fall apart even at decent data rates. I've now realised that I'm dreaming to think nikon will exploit their unique position in not having a video/cinema line. RAW on nikons would be immense - oh the dynamic range.

Which is why we should see them in an apsc camera first But sony seems to hobble its apsc cameras, maybe to protect its full frame or super-35 cameras. I had an a- 6000 for a while, it had a few nice things about it, but I ended up with the d5300 (the lease user friendly camera on the market??)

yeah, don't mean the fixed lens thing, I mean the bsi, the fps, the lovely 1080, the 100p/100, the built in nd...

After a couple of weeks shooting with it, I'm gobsmacked. Sure its got its foibles. (But... Built-in ND: hurrah!). Why they dont have this level of functionality on an apsc model (including 240fps thanks) I don't know (and I'd be amazed if the a6100 had it). Now I've started messing around with speedgrade to build some luts for it to try to get the greens and skies to match my d5300. Anyone know of any luts out there? (I'm using the cinestyle profile at the moment rather than log).