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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).

Find myself doing a search in windows for mp4 OR ARW OR XML OR MOV OR JPG OR MTS Copy and pasting all the files from the card into a single folder on my HD Did I miss anything? (not sure what the xml files do)

And just exporting a clip now that is taking FOREVER in h.265, (despite the fact I thought the GTX970 had hardware encoding support) And to clarify: I want to export clips that I've worked extensively on to a format I can re-use in projects and get decent playback (as opposed to my computer trying to playback 4+k de-noised graded timelapse sequences in realtime :)) Edit: Ohhh, optical flow was why it was taking ages, dnxhd is taking the same time

Just realised I can now export and use h.265 in my workflow. I've been slowly exporting my graded and tweaked clips but DNxHD has pretty large file sizes. Bearing in mind I might need to do a bit more tweaking later (just a little colour balancing stuff probably) and that the vast majority of clips will end up online, is h.265 up to the task? I'm currently exporting my first test at 50Mbps.

there's not much more to say than: Oh FFS, nikon.

http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/05/panasonic-new-lumix-camera/ Looks like it has no high frame rate hd, which is a relief as I bought the rx100 yesterday!

I agree about the 4K performance and cliff: editing anything 4K on my system becomes a nightmare. Sure files play fine, but as soon as you add a grade or transition you are constantly having to render in order to just to look at the footage play without skipping or stuttering. I'm not convinced (and the comments here seem to support) that any hardware upgrades wouldn't do much to help. I think back to the happy times I spent mucking about with media 100 on the mac and discreet logic effect on pc. Such fine bits of software, why didn't autodesk look to have a broad user base model for its business?

I'm a tragic rumor site reader: http://www.43rumors.com/ft5-panasonic-will-announce-a-new-1-inch-tz100-first-pictures-leaked/ f2.8-5.9. 25-250mm lens. I'd rather have more width than length any day, and the faster the better

thanks folks. Yes I saw the panasonic after posting this - I guess I'll hold off for a couple of days And your comments have made me feel better about dropiin gthe cash on it. I've finally seen it reduced in a sale here in Aus, so unless that panasonic is out at CES i'll have one in my hands next week woot!

Especially when the g7 is 30% cheaper and currently comes with a free 25mm? (And I already have a speedbooster and nikon G adaptor) And when the NX1 is only slightly more expensive. Ho Hum. I've got $1000 ish to spend. I shoot landscape and location stock footage and grabs of people in our area. I guess I'm trying to persuade myself that the rx100 would shoot decent enough footage to use as stock and be small enough for me to take literally everywhere, when even my d5300 becomes a pain in the bum. Is the stabilisation good enough to use it handheld - maybe at higher frame rates?

character - yes . I was thinking about this the last couple of days when I stumbled on some old gh2 footage. it has something that the gh4 does not.

seeing as you can use the graphics card in any new system you decide to get, i'd say this was a no-brainer upgrade

whats the data rate of those files? (I'm not a premiere fan, I remember version #1 and thought it was a mess - and still think it is, but I'm invested in it now). 100Mbit gh4 4k plays fine on my 5 year old windows (8) box in PP, whilst all 6 cores are in use rendering! Can't believe a single 4k file wouldn't play back on mac pro hardware - only if there were drivers not installed, or some other hardware or OS snafu. BTW I think this kind of test would be incredibly useful, I'd love to see more of them. Very curious how other software stacks up on the same hardware in different OSs.

thanks anyone know how ithe low light compares to the rx100 mkiv

I think these guys are going after the dji x5 sort of market (footage of which I've seen so far looks terrible, raw or no)

You mean 1:15? I think thats just technique - he's walking sideways here so using 2 hands its natural that it will shift back and forth as he walks - this is actually where a single handed gimble wins out. One thing this vid shows though is that there is lots of room between the screen and the roll motor: the pilotfly screen is virtually totally obscured with my setup - I have to use separate monitor to see what I'm doing. I'd say it looks like its a slightly beefier pilotfly - with all the caveats that entails: slow setup, really a one lens setup, be prepared for the occasional spasm and constantly re-calibrating. I use mine on real estate shoots; If I had a crew and talent I'd think twice about pulling it out, tldr: I think it'll be like the pilofly: not quite ready for primetime (but I might buy one anyway ).

I currently use nikon d5300, Ok for what I do (usability aside). Anyone out there thats used it and a G7, and can tell me any differences? G7 is dirt cheap in aus at the moment, and I was thinking about it for the option of shooting 4k stock footage (for my own use), that'll stand the test of time better than the nikon's slightly soft 1080. I already have a speedbooster I've seen wildly different reports on its low light ability. Some say max 800 iso, some say 3200... I know I try to keep the nikon below 1600, and that if I try to lift the shadows at all at that iso it falls apart quickly. I had a gh2, I know the nikon handles contrast much better than that did - not sure how the g7 compares to the gh2

Dropped in here to get the goss on the z-camera, couldn't find any posts. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2081787381/e1-camera-4k-uhd-interchangeable-lens-camera Now shipping apparently. I think the image looks quite nice, although nasty sky colour:

I've got the pilotfl h1+ I've had my eye on this because the pilotfly is flaky - at least with my setup (nikon 5300 tokina 11-20). This must use identical electronics to the pilotfly, so the setup will be intense - and explains why in the first russian vid he got crap behaviour out of the box. The main problem with the pilotfly is roll axis drift. I have to calibrate it several times during a shoot. So far this one looks as flaky.

thanks kevin, I wonder if the 18-140 is a viable alternative. Currrently half the price of the 18-200. I've been looking at reviews but they're mixed for both lenses, so cant really get a sense of whether build quality for instance is different between the 2.