Don Kotlos

Blue ray is your best bet. 2.5" mechanical drives is the next best thing if you want to also save some space. Most thumb drives use very cheap materials so they are very prone to unrecoverable malfunction. *SSDs in this poster are SLC. The majority SSDs in the market are MLC/TLC which is much worse for the drive longevity

Mostly FF. S35 only for low light, fast zoom, landscape shots. Major differences are: 1. Worse noise quality 2. More banding 3. Less color depth. I shoot stills mostly with the D800. Not that much difference in terms of picture quality as far as the sensor goes. But because of the IBIS, electronic first curtain and the sharp 55 1.8 Zeiss, the difference is dramatic.

Yep 4K with em1 would be sweet too...

No, but I can't say I was looking for it. Also keep in mind that I come from E-M1 and BMPCC before that so aliasing is not an issue for me .

This guy is a pathological lier. Even for a second don't believe what he claims. He was the one behind the E-M1 4K fiasko. Keep your camera safe and away from any of his hacks.

I didn't see the need since I am using old nikon lenses with it. Maybe a lower setting might be better with very sharp lenses.

After spending enough time with the camera this is the profile that I have settled with. Very pleasing skin tones, minimal banding and easy for slight grading. Gamma: Cine 4, but I switch to Cine 2 in low light. Sometimes I also use S-log in very strong light people far away but I try to avoid it. With a face close up Cine 3 is very good too. Color mode: Cinema. Pro gave me too saturated colors. Maybe it will be nice in nature. Avoid s-gamut unless you are using an external recorder and you are very confident with your color grading abilities. Also keep in mind that colors change depending on the exposure so make sure you are exposing consistenly (very hard to do with the LCD in s-log more). Black level: 0. Black is black. Black gamma: middle. Knee: Manual 97.5% -1. This is optimized for a slight highlight roll off. Set the percentage lower for strong contrasts. Saturation: 0. Lower this if you plan to play with the colors later. Color Phase: 0. I trust sony on this one. Color Depth: 3,0,0,0,0,0. Just a touch of red. Detail: -3. A bit more organic.

Footage looks great and both Ursa minis sound as very promising cameras that will establish BM. But I am sure it takes more than the camera to come up with a footage like that. I wonder if you could deliver something like that with a A7s and how much more effort it would take. Here is some further info from the people that shot the two wedding clips: http://nofilmschool.com/2015/09/everything-you-wanted-know-about-working-blackmagic-ursa-mini

As far as speed goes, it should most definetly work since it is working for 4K. But have a look here: https://vimeo.com/115717593 . One commenter has some blue frame problems with the shogun. I don't know whether this might happen with the samurai too.

Here is a better explanation of the color gamuts: http://www.xdcam-user.com/2014/05/what-is-a-gamut-or-color-space-and-why-do-i-need-to-know-about-it/

I have fallen into the pit of market-driven pleasure-less indecisiveness. Low light is something I have always craved for. If it lacks overheating then that's another point although that's more due to insecurity. S-gamut3.cine is the last one cause s-gamut in A7s/a7sii is nearly unusable with my deficient coloring skills. Yeah I think it is a great camera and the one that I was dreaming of for years. Expensive as hell though so the only way that I could convince my wife to get it was if I sell boththe D800 & the E-M1. The A7sii will not allow me to sell the D800 yet so that's the main reason against it. I haven't recorded long clips yet. I might do that soon, but I am afraid that after the first overheat I will get nervous and go for the A7sII.

I am using my A7rii for almost a month in very warm weather. I have not experience any heat issue, but I don't do long takes (>10min). Still haven't decided whether I am going to better off with the A7sii.

It doesn't even record at the highest bitrate if you don't use the proper cards.

Rolling shutter: Improved but not a new system. How much we will find out in a month I guess. Overheating: Due to slow cards. What? I call that bullshit.

Definitely a steal for $190. Very distinct look wide open. Dreamy & circular . I doubt it is what you are after but you might still like it as a special effects lens. Otherwise we are plenty of people that can take it of your hands in this forum.

It was one of Sony's representatives belief nothing official yet (which I doubt they will do for A7rii sake). A7sii and A7rii have the same weight so unless the a7s sensor does not produce as much heat (doubtful because of the extra heats sink that was necessary in the A7s) I expect at least some heat issues but maybe not as much as a7rii. In FF mode they end up with the same # of pixels, but it could be the case cause A7rii has to downsample each line in FF mode. I could be wrong though.

Which version of Premiere are you using? I am surprised that it does this since it correctly recognizes the GH4 footage. Unfortunatelly I don't know of a way to force Premiere to use the 0-255 range.

This is because Premiere misinterprets the 0-255 data as being 16-235 range. Same problem with NX1 files that have 0-255 range. You can also use adjust the levels instead of doing it with an LUT.

Unfortunately for us, now it makes sense to wait for E-M1 II before they add any 4K.

Sony's rate is in bits not bytes (b not B). So it records at 100Mbps which is 12.5MBps... Definitely. Low compression helps for less banding, less blocking, more organic noise, better colors to name a few. If you can afford the extra size/weight then an external recorder is a must for the best footage quality.

Will & an h.265 encoder chip. After seeing what Sony is capable of. SD cards can support ~240Mbps that 4K 10bit footage can conform to with the h.265 codec "easily". Doubt it. For the solution I mentioned before, it will need dedicated hardware. P.S. Just saw that they will enable the uncompressed RAW is stills: http://***URL removed***/articles/7665355870/sony-brings-uncompressed-raw-to-a7s-ii-and-a7r-ii So if we keep complaining for 10bits we might see it someday .

I am glad Olympus keeps improving video. If the next upgrade improves the resolution then it would be a very nice package for handheld shots. Sony cannot match the "god-mode" ibis that Olympus provides.

Here is another example only to show that the codec and bitrate play a big role for banding . So when comparing footage is always crucial to match these. Took a 10bit 4K GH4 sample, transcoded to 3 different 1080p, matched histograms (as close as I could) and graded with the same LUT.

I didn't say it doesn't match the discussion, I said is not as conclusive as you would like it to be. It could very well be the case in that test that 4:2:0 is responsible for the banding, but it could as well be the case that the banding originates from the worse codec, and more compressed image coming from the internal recording. sunyata provided us with a better test that I guess you don't like that much .

Unfortunately the test that you referred to is not performed properly as others have mentioned. sunyata example shows exactly the difference between 4:2:0 and 4:2:2, and not any possible differences from the codec, sampling, bitrate that were not the same in the test your are referring to.