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Yeah, with the hack you can grade your videos, because the compression artifacts almost dissapear. Before you couldn't do anything because the ugly blocks would show with any minor adjustment. I finally came up with a workflow which gives me exactly the look I like (you just have to film with white balance off a little into the blues and remove it later with a curve, suddenly the color problems seem to be gone). The only thing I miss is detail on far subjects, but that's a thing for 4K. I will keep the d800 until a 4K 10bit internal camera comes around which also offers the d800 stills quality (unless used phase one backs go under 3000€, I want that iq280 so badly). btw, great work tusoli.

Let's hope you won't need to look for a lawyer because of some company not liking one of your reviews.

Stops are exponencial, 1 stop more is 2 times the light, 2 stops is 4 times the light. The difference between FF an m43 is 2 stops, if you get a 0.5 speedbooster the difference will be 0. I'm not really following all the reviews on the a7s, but it seems that it's only better than other FF cameras after iso 6400, and iso 6400 looks like shit on every camera so... (this is in stills, in video the a7s will look a lot better because it oversamples from 4K to 1080p, that alone is a 2stop noise advantage over other FF cameras, but you can do the same with a GH4)

At some point soon there will be still cameras doing 4K, and these cameras will have at least 24mp. The d5300 has to read the whole 24mp sensor even if it discards data later, so it wouldn't be something strange. The RX10 is supposed to fully ready and use the whole 20MP. I bet the 7D mkii does the same. But maybe we have to wait one more generation, who knows, who cares.

I could see the d400/d8000 being that camera, it would be 24mp and do 12-24fps stills and oversampled 4K video.

The neon yellow tint on every offical video is even scarier (this has been added later). What's the target for that color anyway? Americans?

To me this seems like the camera the d800 should have been from the beginning. One very nice feature is the highlight metered mode (iso 64+high DR comes in quite handy, doesn't it?), this is like ETTR on Magic Lantern, in fact they seem to have incorporated quite some stuff from magic lantern. Smooth aperture changes during video also sounds nice. If it does not line skip (this is very improbable), this could be a nice working horse. Oh, and it has an clarity option for picture style, every photojournalist needs clarity...

The video kit states 422 10bit over hdmi, but maybe this has just been copied from the atomos specs.

Sure Husah, I guess you have never used any of them.

The A7R is only good for small lenses, primes like 35,50. With bigger lenses the angles on the body will kill you when changing settings on the camera while you try to prevent the camera from tilting forwards. In fact the sonys need bigger buttons. And obviously 11bit raw is a bummer, why would you go for 36MP into medium format territory but then just use 11bit cooked raws. They had to save bandwidth somewhere to keep down the processor need (It just takes 300 pictures with one baterry...)

Ehm no, I guess you haven't really tried.

Yep it's the way the blur doesn't have continuity, it looks like you can see the same image 2-3 times instead of one blur (even at 1/30 or 1/50 shutter)

I don't like it on the d800, but on the canon 50d with ML hack it looks good (strange considering that the 24fps mode is just some sort of hack as the camera only does 30p). When you shoot h264 on the same camera it looks horrible so my guess it's something related to the encoding process.

There are rumors coming up about a completly new canon sensor fab which will produce a revolutionary performing sensor. It is supposed to be the one going into the new 7d mkii, and later in 2015 into the 5d mkiv, 1Dmkv,etc... Personally I wish they'd come up with a FF mirrorless camera, specially since the A7s is kind of a deception viewed from an personal, totally subjective and youtube footage based opinion (no internal 4K, weirdo colors). My guess is that it will have double readout in Alexa style -> creamy highlights http://www.canonrumors.com/2014/06/new-sensor-tech-in-eos-7d-mark-ii-cr2/ http://www.canonrumors.com/2014/06/eos-1d-x-eos-5d-mark-iii-replacements-in-2015-cr1/

Sorry to intrude your topic but what is S1? If you shoot 16:9 you will have to crop -> wasting pixels. 1280x648 to get the same pixel amount in 4:3 you will have to set to 1051x788, set it to something aproximate. This would give you the same recording time and make you waste less pixels = more effective.

I was just saying that maybe someone is having greater trouble than necessary with banding while grading his 8bit footage because he forgot to change to a 16bit workspace (in after Affects, if you don't change to 16/32bit it will stay at 8bit, and LUTs destroy any color gradation when used in 8bit mode). And people have been watching 540x280 streamed movies on 50" screens without complaining.

I meant the workspace, 8bit footage in a 16/32bit workspace. If you work with 8bit in 8bit workspace it's banding parade. Someone might not know it, I also find that luts don't seem to work that good in 8bit (why bother with 8bit workspace anyway)

I guess GH4 with a speedbooster, because you have so much resolution to play with you won't miss the 4:3 ratio you can get in ML.

And remember to be in 32bits or at least 16bit colorspace,if you work in 8bit banding will occur with any adjustment. I know you know it but someone might forget.

Nah, base ISO can be 200 but isn't always there. All the actual tipical sony sensors have base iso 100. Anyway, base iso 3200 sounds unreasonable because at iso 100 you would have horrible DR where it is most needed (daylight).

Attack of the sony reds. At least they could give an option to supress the redscaling...

My first look at them make me think that they aren't really going for a good emulation but to some specific look. The ektar 100 doesn't look anything close to the ektar 100 I know,I tested it with ml raw footage and a d800.

The d800s probably will have good 1080p video, but who knows because it will use something close to the a7r sensor and it has a limited readout speed. If you don't need high iso performance and fast AF you could consider the pentax 645d to complement the gh4.

The 5D3 might be king of stills if you compare it to the gh4, but for the price difference you can buy fullframe cameras that give better quality than the 5Dmkiii.