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​Resolve Lite is free. (Exactly the same features as the regular version, minus noise reduction and some 3D stuff.)Adobe Camera Raw is absolutely primitive. Think about it: you're grading a single frame in ACR. In Resolve you're able to grade the entire sequence. Practice using Resolve a few minutes a day.

Love the grade Ed. I absolutely fucking hated the colours in your A7S vs BMPCC video. Nice to see someone not crush the shit out of the blacks with NX1 footage. Lots of color tone without having to fake sharpness with contrast. Thanks for posting this. Oh and yeah, dat rolling shutter. 1080 is a huge improvement.

Dear Samsung, Give us an NX1 with RAW video. Puh-lease? Fantastic shootout Andrew. Thanks for the video and article.

​Doesn't it? My eye can resolve greater detail in the ETTR stills.

I agree with waiting and the floaty, gliding feeling achieved with stabilizers. One application perhaps overlooked with this tiny form factor is for the most discreet, smallest and fastest alternative to a tripod/shoulder rig: I could've: balanced the camera better, calibrated it, used a wider lens... but I wanted to see how sloppy and quick one could be with the Nebula and achieve a shake free image. That's pretty much the absolute worse you can do with the Nebula. Yes there was shake but I didn't calibrate it and it was easily fixed in post. I'm surprised Andrew hasn't posted about this thing yet. Aside from racking focus, a gimbal in this form factor is the ultimate indie accessory.

​Dave Dugdale hinted that a name brand is about to launch a competing product at NAB. I can't remember where I saw that, may be BS but I believe it is highly likely. Ultimately I suggest waiting. As good as Nebula is right now, the competition has a chance of improving on the design (32-bit instead of 8-bit, greater weight capacity, wider rotation, built-in joystick.) A warranty would be nice too. At the very least, it should drive cost down. I remember when a CAME-TV branded gimbal launched at just under $1000 USD. You can find the exact same product selling for under $600 now. This was an impulse buy for me. I saw it, wanted it and bought it. Very little thought. It's exceeded my expectations and I plan on selling my xcam stabilizer. It's fun to tinker and I'd say nearly production level ready but the Nebula is not replacing my slider or tripod. So that's my warning, I recommend it for fun, no budget stuff, not for paid gigs. Version 2.0 of this class of product is going to up-end video making. Another thought: waiting for something to launch from NAB basically equates to the product shipping early to mid summer. I can't recall any smaller manufacturer launching in April and having it ready for sale simultaneously.

​I'm a huge fan of zooms. I favor variable focal lengths over larger apertures. But for "micro" gimbals, zooms are not ideal. The weight of the optics moving when adjusted forces you to physically rebalance. It's a pain in the ass to have to center the weight, even with tool-less rigs. Plus you can substitute a prime with 2-4 more stops of light for around the same weight. Anyway. I hear what you're saying. I too wish this thing supported more weight. It'll be something when I can fly a telephoto on something like this. That said. Even at version 1.0 this thing is incredible. I have a bunch of crapo c-mount lenses that look fantastic floating around. The longer the better. I have a 50mm f1.4, not sure what the crop factor of c-mounts is on the BMPCC but it must be 2 or more times.

​​Just had a go balancing a bmpcc with metabones + tokina 11-16. I didn't have any luck. It might be possible. But it's probably not worth doing all that calibrating and adjusting. This thing balances small things under 2 lbs really well. The bigger, longer and heavier the camera and lens combination is, the trickier it gets to fly. The EOS-M in my second video is kinda deceptive. It's not very big and with the kit lens weighs under 500 grams.

​Incredibly well. http://vimeo.com/115516762

​Hmmm. Oddly enough there's only a third party app for iOS and it doesn't look that great: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gimbal-control/id857831508 I'm thinking a cheapo windows tablet could run the gimbal software alongside WIFI camera control. One thing to consider is that the Nebula can support a maximum of 1000 grams. That said, the NX1 is 600 grams, the GH4 is 560 g and the A7S is 489 g. Plus with Windows, you could macro script bezier and s curves atop the basecam software with relative ease.

One last update. Remote control works crazy good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwuh4OXgslI

I thought this was extremely cool, using the Nebula 4000 for hyperlapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrxilvw25sM

New favorite toy. Thinking of buying a set of Olympus pancakes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EQ2TRVsqDU

Summer sale BMPCC at $500. Runner ups: GH4 $1,500BMCC $2,000A7S $2,500 Tangerine's use of iPhones is brilliant. Creates buzz for an otherwise passed over film. Marketing is the greatest art. Other thoughts: Use one lens. An f2.8 (with imagine stabilization) zoom is ideal. Use one camera. This will make matching shoots easy.Steal borrow editing styles from your favorites videos and films.Dub the sound in post. It's not ideal but you're making a low budget movie.Scout excessively and write a script that fully exploits your talent and locations.Upload to youtube. Vimeo is nice but limits your audience.

They graded to match the cameras and managed to make even the 1DC look like shit.

​Just finished working on shooting something convex and reflective (nightmare.) Can't imagine how insane that'd be with film. Had over 20 shots make up each comp.

Refreshingly small for a camera that shoots 4K RAW. Andrew. Looks like you nailed WB with the Kine versus the 1DC in your grade. Were you going for neutral? Played with kineraw-sample-5-4k.dng in Resolve and ACR. I didn't find any obvious color casts.

BMCC or 5D3 raw.

Strobes and flashes.

Matched skin with vectorscope. Masked foreground, adjusted background to taste. Flesh looks orange, too much blue surrounding it. Probably should've used curves. Oh well. I think investigating camera profile will make matching possible.

​The 28-70mm is ****ing incredible. Just picked up a second copy. I can't believe how cheap people are willing to sell them for.

​It was extremely targeted. Not sure how any IT security folk can sleep at night. Their networks will be penetrated no matter how well they patch, obfuscate or airgap their systems.

Gimbals and some automated gear made my life easier this year, but I think for me, the best was: Panasonic's GH4 giving us cheap 4KSony's A7S giving us unreal lowlight performance. How about you, what impressed you this year?

Varavon cage, I use an out of date beta version of Resolve, and yeah, I edit with AE, much to the chagrin of anyone who has worked with me.

Not my video. Am now planning to buy a 5D3 for the summer. The DR is out of this world.