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Thank you. I used Nikon AIS Manual Prime lenses on all the scenes except for the stuff at comic con it was a mix of GH4, D750, Cellphones and no external recorders. For the GH4 I don't know the lenses used on it since I was busy proposing to my Girlfriend so my Brother and Friends took care of all the filming that day. The D750 used my Sigma 24-105 for all the run and gun stuff that wasn't on a tripod. The shot with the trash truck was stock footage, so no idea what it was shot on. Also there was no film convert added to the comic con scenes to help separate the short film from the real event at comic con. I just recently got a Mini Ursa 4.6k and love it. But for my D750 with an external recorder is still one the best overall 1080p Full Frame DSLR cameras out there by far and a shame they came so late in the game or this would of been everything we wanted out of the 5D Mkiii when it came out. I do wish Nikon would enter into the Cinema world with a RAW cinema camera.

On the D750 I always shoot on flat setting with the sharpness set to 2. In Resolve it's surprisingly easy to grade for a 8bit file and even more when recorded in 8bit 4:2:2 with an external recorder. I shot this whole short except for the scenes at comic con with the D750 in Flat with a external recorder and film convert with resolve.

I wonder up investing in a mini Ursa 4.6k camera instead.

What about IR pollution?

I love it. Much sharper than a 5D Mk iii, good color, I have measured 12 stops of dynamic range in flat mode, Full Frame, low rolling shutter, Nice Motion Cadence, Very clean and smooth 1080 60p, no moire or aliasing. It just easy to use. But 1080p 4:2:2 8bit can only get so far especially for grading. I mean it grads very very well for being 8bit, best I have worked with. I love it for run and gun or where I do not have the time, budget, or post capabilities to color grade after wards or work with 4k. I sold it and jumped on the sony band wagon and bought Sony A7r ii with an external recorder had it for 6 months and hated It. I then bought the nikon a second time. But I still want for my cinema projects something with RAW where ill be taking care of color grading and spending the time to work the image. Thanks. So you feel it to be on par color wise and sharper than the 5D Raw. I had a year with the 5D raw on 6 small projects and still my favorite image. Just had to many issues with the hack to keep using it. Is the Dynamic range better since the 5D Mk III is less than 11.5 stops? And what about noise?

How does the BMCC 2.5k hold up in 2016. Is it worth picking up used one for personal projects. I want to get the mini ursa 4.6k, but cant justify dropping down $7k to get one up in running when they are still in very much beta mode with lots of quality control problems. Even lensrental.com is putting warning labels on there rental pages about not to use for professional use for unreliable. Also Cfast 2.0 cards are insanely expensive but will go down in time. So in the mean time while I save up and also wait for NAB next year and Blackmagic works all the bugs, proves its reliability, makes my alexa dreams come true for under 10k I am interested in picking up a used BMCC 2.k MFT with a speed booster. I shoot at work on a FS7 and shoot my own projects on the Nikon D750 with an external recorder, used to own a A7r ii with a video devices 4k recorder and have shot on reds a bunch for bigger projects. I used to have 5D Mark iii Magic Latern Raw and after using all these cameras, the image I miss the most was the 5D Mark iii ML Raw. I stop using it for how unreliable it was, corrupting footage, having to convert its RAW to DNG then to Prores and couldn't play back on camera to review. I want something for cinema quality with raw for personal projects, control lighting and time to setup. I don't need it for run or gun I have other cameras for that. So its been out for a few years and they have fixed some of the original problems and third party accessories have come about to solve others. Any one with experience with it along with other cinema cameras can give me there opinions? Also don't bother trying to sell me on the Sony band wagon I work with a bunch of them and find them awful and videoish. I care about color science, motion cadence , dynamic range, detail but not resolution, Not 4k specs or 120fps at the cost of videoish looking footage. This is about cinema quality.

I to had bunch of problems with the Sony A7r II. Menus freezing, White Balance Errors message randomly (super unreliable), corrupt files, it started to chip and screen scratched the first month, weird motion cadence issues, ISO exposure way off all the time, and over heating. I got rid of it after 6 months and went back to my trusty D750 with an external recorder until something in that price range with 4k full frame comes out. I was never more pissed about a camera than this $3200 piece of junk. On paper its super advance and seems like a great deal. But in reality in the field its unreliable.

But they are such a pain to work with in SLOG so much noise and constantly having to fix thing in post and cause more problems than it solves. The FS7 at work is a night mare all the time when I get footage back. I had the A7R II and in most modes besides crop 4k the noise level was high in the shadows even at ISO 500 at a proper exposure, had to over expose by a 1.5 stops. Which then I am losing the dynamic range in the highlights. Yeah they have more dynamic range but at a cost of a noisy image and a lot more work with very little pay off.

It why I went back to the D750 with an external recorder from the A7R II. The 60p was really clean and smooth. While the A7R II was sharper had lots of noise and aliasing even as low as 500 ISO.

User error? The dam camera would give me error message when I try and white balance on expensive grey cards and turns full green. I would put it in 1/50 shutter speed and the slowest pans look like I put it at 1/1000. I would use light meter to get proper exposure but you'd have to expose almost 2 full stops to get the noies level decent in daylight or studio lighting. meaning the there ISO scale and light meter are completely off. In the best setting of 4k ff the highest rolling shutter. When I was out side I use ND filters to keep my shutter angles at 180 to reduce the rolling shutter and camera judder and just look awful. When I use full frame in the highlight areas I would get strange aliasing. I used the Shogun and the video Devices pix-e5 4k recorders and there wave forums to also see exposure levels. Even the mongolia video on the first page shows all the problems I'm talking about. Go look at the movement in it. I spent countless hours going through everything over the past few months and rarely took it out to shoot because of these problems. If you can't see the problems in the Sony camera in the footage then thats fine for you. But I prefer more cinematic movement and color that's more pleaseing and most important ly reliable and isn't going to need a giant flow chart of the trade offs for ever dam setting. It's a consume based camera fastly over price. Granted the tech inside is impressive but it's half added by Sony.

I don't see on that page the rolling shutter for the D750, also who tested these or are these numbers just pulled off forums? And I used to own a 5Dmk iii rolling shutter is defiantly better on the D750. Also that video didn't test the rolling shutter right. He didn't do them side by side and his panning speeds are clearly different. Also yes the FF on the A7r ii is good, but look at the noise level and moire and aliasing. I didn't feel comfortable past 800 iso on any setting unless its was the apc 4k mode.

Yes I also turned down the sharpness all the way. Just got today another Nikon D750 (sold mine last fall to put toward the a7rii) and though not as sharp compared to the cropped 4k, the 1080 60p is much better. Playing around with some shots tonight and right away bam the Color science is better, motion cadence is nice and so much less rolling shutter. The rolling shutter has to best on a full frame out there. To bad I sold my A7r II 24 hours after putting it on craigslist or I would do some comparison. Though I am not saying the D750 is the best cinema camera I just using it as example, but I really do think its the best well rounded for its type of work and price range especially when used with a external recorder. Its just everything the 5D mkiii should of been. I mostly wanted it back for photography and run n gun video while I once again wait for NAB and to get back on the band wagon about another camera that will be out of date in 2 months of getting it and have a lot of problems to chase down 4k for cheap.

Did you try exposing the slow motion with a light meter at the right exposure in lower light. Because if you go upto 1600 and over expose stop and half in sun light it looks better. But a proper exposure where 800 or 1600 where middle grey is at its extra nosiy in slog and and the cine modes compared to everyone else on the market. So what this means its ISO are all off to get a decent exposure. Which then if you shoot at 1600 but have to over expose then your really not getting 1600 iso but 800 or 400. The rolling shutter is really bad in the 4k crop mode even the image is cleanest. Coming from a 5d mkiii yes anything sharper seems like night and day. But look at you 5d panning and movement shots and the noise level and look the A7rii and look at things beyond sharpness. Also did you do the 5d mkiii magic lantern RAW? Tried it both on and off. Didn't see a difference on a trided panning slow. Also one thing I did learn from all this testing was how to get really good results out of slog 2. Use a color chart that resolves auto color chart reader can read and set the setting to the slog gamma. It really did a good job but I was also shooting 4:2:2 8bit uncompressed not sure about the compressed 4:2:0 8bit. 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 make a big differnce in coloring. But when not using a color chart with slog 2, shoot me.

I am fully aware of judder when panning and have dealt a lot with 24p footage over the years. But this is not normal and I also tested it with external recorder with uncompressed 4k signal to proress HQ, had manual nikon lenses and turned off the image stabilizer to rule that out. No change.

It's tempting but used still goes for $4-5k. Just can't justify it at the rate things are going.

Rolling shutter super high on it. I can't stand it and the dynamic range is low. Granted the images are nice and which I wish canon would push further with these instead of walking away. but I also need slow motion of at least 60p. Clients keep asking for it, and my personal projects are mostly music videos which are a must have. And the A7rII 60p is a huge let down with so much noise. Sharp, but moire, aliasing and lots of noise at 800 iso and up.

Also I am not saying the D750 is the best camera ever. But I am talking about in the low end under a few thousands for small productions or run n gun being super reliable with the least amount of headaches and clean slow motion (for low budget music videos on a 3 axis gimbal). And whish we would demand more of this instead of asking for higher resolution before giving a better overall image and camera first. Im aware you can't rent high end cinema lenses for it, but why would you rent $100,000k worth of lenses on a shoot that can't afford more than a $2000-3000 camera that has rolling shutter worst than a 5D mk ii and a long list of other issues. I also collect Nikon ais manual lenses and use them on all my low budget projects and adapt them to alot of cameras so I guess the level of work my Nikon D750 is for this isn't an issue for me. Beyond high-end cinema lenses, Zies cp2, Samyang, all third party DSLR lenses all sell Nikon versions. So besides Canon lenses and other old slr lenses what can a 5D have that a Nikon can't? Can't add a PL lens on either anyways. Granted rental house will only carry EF mount so there is that issue because of supply and demand. By like I said why bother with lenes 10 times the price of the camera. When that budget is already so small it should be put into lighting and production value. My experience as a DP and camera operator has been with all the REDs, Alexa, FS7 at my work (don't get me started on its quirks), C300, 7D, 5D Mk ii, 5D Mk iii ML RAW( which I miss having that image quailty but software kept crashing on shoots it's a shame Canon won't venture into that). Sorry I'm rambelling on because I am just getting fed up of wasting time and money with the hype on these new spec and ignore solving the problems with the last generation of cameras and we are not pushing back on camera manufactures enough and just say oh well let's just deal with our footage is super janky. When photographers only need to get a 5D every 6 years and do lots of professional work while our world you buy any price camera and 2 months later it's so outdated and people in Los Angeles for example are asking for you to bring a cinema camera that isnt even out yet but herd the hype. Then when you use it and your producer ask why does it look like that? Why are there iusses with it? Why is there so much rolling shutter. Why is there so much judder. Why is the colors look so bad it's not the camera the DP sucks I here this some many time from various producers and directors about many DPs. And because of the hype they hear these cameras are 4k and awsome and will look like a red or Alexa for cheap and won't listen to the details of why these cameras have issues and keep blaming the DP. Are you talking slightly green. I'm talking the camera will give met a error message and go as far green as possible and refuse to white balance on anything. To fix it I just have to keep trying and hope it won't act up or just dial in the tempature as close as I can guess. They don't work that well on it. It's a weird sharp hard ghost and strobing effect. Looks very unnatural especially at 180 shutter angle.

Yes. But with the D750 Nikon completely step up on maturing 1080p full frame. Before Andrew's review on it I would of never consider it back in early 2015.

It's not just the 1/50. I ran every shutter speed at varouis panning speeds and situation in every mode. There is deffently something wrong with it. Trust me I spent days looking into it on the 24p judder problem. Even at 1/20 and the motion was weird and choppy flicker. Also that video looks good because it's in bright lights. Try 60p for slow motion beyond 800iso and it's awful. Also i forgot to add is anyone else having the white balance issue were it just says error and turns all green. That drove me nuts. And it would randomly happy with varouis grey cards and lighting situations. Also forgot to add the weird white balance issue that says error and turn the whole image saturated green. It would happen in random lighting situations and was super frustrating. I used various grey charts. My screen also scratch super easly. Never had that before on a camera.

I just sold my A7rii today. After having it for a few months I had nothing but huge headaches. I did many test with a 4k video devices recorder. Besides the worst rolling shutter I've ever seen no one seems to be talking about the horrible judder when panning. At first I thought it was just I'm shooting in 24p and viewing on a computer monitor at 60hrz. But further test in every setting, shutter speed and frame rate seem to have far more than every other camera I've shot with. Another problem is in 60p and 24p 1080 the noise level is bad. I also kept getting bad moire and aliasing in full frame 4k and 1080p especially in the highlights. Granted as a small compact photo camera it's frickin pretty awesome. But for video the image only looks good in crop mode 4k and as soon as it moves or things in it moves it falls apart. I barely took it on a shoot because of how much testing I had to figure out before I felt comfortable with all its down sides. And is not worth it. I went back to my Nikon D750 with a external recorder for now until I decided what to get next, but even though the 1080p image is softer everything else is far better. Rolling shutter very little. Noise level very clean upto 6400. Slow motion just as good as the 24p and very smooth. Color science far better. Dynamic range little less. Post with it is super easy. It's a shame this camera has gotten no attention, but it such a reliable camera its what we wanted out of the 5D Mk iii but quickly forgot about with all the 4k cameras that just keep adding more new problems, headaches, time and money all for the sake to say its 4k.

I am shooting on the A7r ii and 4k is great on it especially in crop mode. But Shooting in 60p mode for slow motion shots its awful. Really nosiy. Even at low ISO. I need better slow motion for music video and 60p is plenty. What currently has the cleanest image and could go as a bcam with this?

I am shooting on the A7r ii and 4k is great on it especially in crop mode. But Shooting in 60p mode for slow motion shots its awful. Really nosiy. Even at low ISO. I need better slow motion for music video and 60p is plenty. What currently has the cleanest image and could go as a bcam with this?

I am thinking about getting the Video Devices Pix-E5 or the Pix-E5H to use with the A7R ii. Will there be any benefit paying more for the Prores 4444 XQ with the A7R ii or FS7.

Any one know which one better in 1080p 60p mode for slowmotion?

have you gotten a7r ii to over heat with the shogun?