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Figure it out. I don't speak Swedish so I can't explain in terms you would understand.

5DIII does not have RAW footage as part of it's native toolkit, that was added by amateurs hacking the camera. So it does not count since it is not something that Canon "gave" to us.

Not at NAB. Something like that would be more likely at Photokina.

It will be 4K capable XF cameras fitted out with the DV5 processor. That is a workhorse pro line that does not get a lot of attention and is being surpassed by the competition, so I think there will be updated versions.

They were ahead of their time

A lot of the issues with the camera are related to the relatively tiny body it has. I'm pretty sure most of those would go away if they used a SLR sized format.

Fabrication?

My reading on that is that Canon themselves will have technology demos for 8K (but not necessarily in imminent products). I expect they will be showing the C500II, which will probably have that capability. I think the "low cost, high quality offerings" refers to what he expects will be shown at NAB in general from many manufacturers, not specifically from Canon themselves. Surprises? If anything, I expect those would perhaps be the lower end professional camcorders being upgraded to DV5 capabilities (the XF series, which I believe are due for an update this year).

No I have not. Stop making stuff up.

I have a 65" 4K TV and I have no trouble seeing the difference. I record 4K for me, so how it looks on MY TV set (not yours) is the deciding factor.

I would not want any of the cameras listed. My main criteria is that a modern camera has to be a true hybrid, in that it has to be able to take excellent stills in a broad variety of scenarios, and it has to be able to record high quality video. It has to be capable of taking the sorts of stills I make, and at the switch of a button record video of the same scene. 4K without technology related compromises (such as excessive crop factors) is a requisite. I regard any camera that cannot record 4K as technologically obsolete. I want a camera for the future, not the past. In addition to that I also require that it be ergonomically suitable for my hands. Large cameras like the 5D, and giant cameras like the 1D, simply will be rejected purely because of their size. Very small bodies such as the ones Sony tends to make will be rejected because they are too finicky to handle. The ideal dimensions (for me) would be roughly the size of a Rebel. It also has to have reasonable prices (going north of 2K is a deal breaker). The only camera I have encountered that meets all of these criteria so far is the NX1. The GH4 sort of does it, but it falls short in some areas with stills. The a7RII sort of does it, but falls short in ergonomics (and in any case costs too much). So far no Canon and no Nikon product comes close to my ideal camera. They make specialist cameras but no true hybrids.

I don't believe that 2.5K was ever promised for the NX500 in promotional material. What someone said is that in beta testing it was 2.5K, but that was changed when the camera was released. Rumors and beta testers breaching their NDAs does not constitute "promotional material".

IIRC, one of BMs earlier cameras had some feature printed on the box that the actual camera inside lacked. RAW recording? I forget what exactly. Anyway, it was eventually implemented, but it was pretty clear that their marketing group was running off projections from engineering rather than what engineering were actually delivering. Then, when the cameras are eventually released (at least with the first few models) they often seem to have some pretty significant basic issues that should have been caught by QC, but apparently were not. And that is the general problem with them. Their marketing appears to be way too far ahead of engineering, while the cameras themselves seem rushed to market, and it creates a lot of issues. I don't think any of the mainstream companies do things that way. IMO the best approach with BM is to wait until the cameras are actually in the hands of users and see if they do what marketing said, and are relatively glitch free, before buying one yourself. Until that happens, just ignore the hype.

I don't know about Red, but I'm pretty sure that the rest of them don't issue press releases and advertising material before the product is actually real. Most of the "issues" people have with those other manufacturers after release is that the camera doesn't behave the way they expect based on their personal interpretation of the product information. It isn't really an issue with the manufacturer, rather one with some customers and misunderstandings (together with a blind refusal to accept the fact that they misunderstood).

I am not sure why they would feel disappointed, unless they are fools. After all, BM seem to do this just about every year, and if people watching/waiting for these products are not aware of that, they are idiots. Whatever the pros and cons of BM's products are, it is wise to wait until they are actually shipping them before making any decisions about them.

As per usual procedure, just before NAB when the next best thing will be announced So that the suckers will pre-order of course. BM's thing is that they are "first" with anything. Delivering "first" is less important, but being able to say "first" is.

The specs for the sensor in the NX1 have not been published AFAIK. Samsung do have sensors for commercial use that have specs published, but there is nothing to suggest that those are the same sensors used in their cameras. The fact that stills don't have rolling shutter should give you a clue. Obviously the system is treating data differently when recording stills as opposed to video, and that will be purely processor related. The raw data may be going into the buffer, but how it is used once there is different. The raw data off the sensor is constantly being read into the buffer even if you are not doing anything. The sensor doesn't care if you are doing X, Y, Z or nothing with the data, it is going to be constantly churning it out. What happens later is purely processor related, as the processor selects part of the data set being streamed into the buffer for processing. The processor does not read the sensor directly, it reads the buffer and selects the data it is going to use based on what is there, not what is coming off the sensor. That is why the rolling shutter in stills, FHD and UHD is all different. There is a lag time based on how much processing is being done, and in that time parts of the data set are being overwritten - hence the increase in rolling shutter as processing demands go up. The flow of data in the (and pretty every other) camera is: sensor - buffer - processor - buffer - card. When the evidence is staring you in the face and you refuse to see it, what more can I say.

More likely a limitation of the processor, not the sensor. The sensor does full reads at 240 fps.

It doesn't sound like it is easy to hack them, but clearly there is great untapped potential in the cameras. It is too bad that Samsung themselves could not have enabled some of these features when they were developing the cameras. I guess if they had stayed in the market many of these things would have come in firmware updates.

It will be once it becomes outdated

Max speed is 300 MB/s, not 300 mbps. 300MB/s is 2400 mbps.

I think that the "sharpening" parameter on different cameras does different things as well. On some it may involve post processing in camera to produce something like what you would get in an NLE, in others it is just a debeyering parameter. So to use or recommend a specific SOP for all cameras is probably misleading unless you know for sure what each manufacturer means by "sharpening".

I don't think you can really say until users get their hands on it. I am somewhat dubious about the objectivity of review sites like cinema 5d, especially when they are using pre-production models with potentially beta firmware. As a practical matter, the A6000 cameras are a bit small IMO, especially once you stick good glass on it. Personally I think the general dimensions of the NX1 are ideal, at least for my hands (which are smaller than most). People with larger hands might find the A6300 a bit awkward to use. I think that is an important consideration - does the grip seat comfortably in your hand, so that it feels like an extension of you rather than something you are trying to keep hold of. Oh, and regarding a successor to the NX1. There is zero hope from Samsung I think. The best bet would be if the product line were sold off to someone else. The NX2 would have been due for a Photokina 2016 release, so if there are any developments on that front we should see it then with someone else's name on the faceplate. If there is nothing then the NX line is done for good.

The whole sensor is being read all the time when the computer is on, it doesn't care if you are taking a picture at the time or looking through your viewfinder. What is happening for the viewfinder is that only part of that data set is being processed, and the rest discarded. The reduced processing time is what allows the display to work without rolling shutter, and it is the same reason why FHD has minimal rolling shutter. Try doing something on the camera that requires additional processing, while looking through the viewfinder. You will see the image slow or even stop while the camera catches up. This is due to the processing overhead and that affects refreshes. Try taking a long exposure photograph. At the end of the exposure, see how long it takes before you can do anything again. It will take almost as long as the exposure itself. And the reason for that is that all those reads are being stored in buffer and it takes time for the processor to collate them all to generate the final image.

The sensor still has to be read. If you are shooting stills at 1/30th or 1/60th sec, it will be no different from a video frame. You don't see any sign of rolling shutter effects at those frame rates, so the method being used to read the sensor has to be different. The mechanical shutter has nothing to do with it. If you shoot in burst mode at 15 fps you get full resolution images without rolling shutter, so that sets the minimum read speed the camera is capable of in a worst case scenario.