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Recently I acquired an Samsung NX1 and have been testing it to see how it compares to the Sony A7R that I have. The A7R is clearly the superior stills camera. The full frame sensor makes creating beautifully blurred background a breeze. The NX1 seems to even things up in the video department. To that end I am looking for a transcoder, so that I can edit some of the footage in Adobe Premiere. I will be doing the editing on a Window machine. I downloaded a few of the popular transcoders (Rocky Mountain and FFmpeg, but the former was in Chinese, and the later did not run. Does anyone have a link to something that actually works?

Here's a example of a classic film look as used to set the time period of the story. Taken from the movie "Man From Uncle".

Is not beauty in the eye of the beholder? In any case, I don't recall watching The Martian and thinking, "oh boy, I would really like to have that look in my productions". IMO, The Martian had a look reminiscent of Aliens ( I'm going by memory). It wasn't bad, but nothing I would feel compelled to achieve. And btw, lets not confuse in camera color from a $1k camera with the finished work from a $108 million dollar budget Hollywood blockbuster, with experts in cinematography, colorist, special effects, lighting, makeup, props and talent etc... In any case, I think many here would be curious to see what looks you have created with the NX1... and please share the settings. Who knows, you might have a winner? FYI: Here is a little peak inside "The Martian"

When something works you post footage... Lots of it. Like these guys did. Anyone can look at the current design and quickly see why it cannot work.

I imagine most are interested in seeing footage shot from the 5 axis stabilizer you claim to have created, not another 3 axis model. Notice I said from... you need to show the gimbal in action and the resulting unaltered footage. If you can't show this then pack up and go home.

Agreed, in comparison the Alpha line looks soft.

try the video devices pix-e.

http://store.yuneec.com/us/cgo-steady-grip.html

if i werea betting man I would bet against the Nebular 4200 working as advertised.

Clearly the Canon wins. Would like to see this test vs the NX1.

Black hole aside, am I the only one here that thinks the NX1's image looks better than the Sony?

You can use this camera with the Osmo. Not sure why you would want to detach it from the gimbal. Why would you want shaky footage?

I'm looking for good reviews of this camera. Most of what I see is from drone people. But what I really would like to see is how this camera compares to say the gh4, nx1, Sony A7 whatever etc... How it works as a cinematic tool.

No, the video link that you are quoting as a follow-up is for a different camera... It's for the A7Rii. The original video is the latest one by TN relating to the A7Sii. Click on your link and read the title.

This is too easy... So I'll leave this one alone. Not wild about the blue in this setting, but think the NX1 looks great anamorphic.

You mention for drone work 45mm is unusable... But Osmo is not for drone work so I would hope that Dji world recognize this difference and make it compatible for hand held use.

From what I've seen the X5 series is pretty good. 13 stops of DR and cinema 4k at 24fps. Certainly good enough for indie film, music videos or documentary work. I'm liking it a lot. The only problem I see is lens support, which right now is limited to only two third party lenses, both of which are fairly wide.

I recently checked one out at a Microsoft store; it is build very well and is super light in tablet mode. Microsoft claims the screen is color accurate as they are aiming this device at photographers and videographers. The models on display are still prototypes and there were a couple driver related hickups, but these issues should be sorted by the official release.

You need to watch the presentation for the surface book. They are pushing it as perfect for editing 4k video. They transfer a 3gb file in like 4 seconds, then edit it in Adobe premiere pro. They showed it driving 3 4k screens at once. Plus it can handle 4k h.265 files without transcoding as it uses Skylake. Microsoft claim it is twice as fast as the MacBook pro.

Why not just get a Microsoft Surface Book?

Weight and recording media.

We trust this will not be post stabilized, as this would render any demonstration useless.

My comments were not directed to the demo... They were directed towards the lens. From what I can see, there are better, and cheaper ways to get an anamorphic look.

Not one that will stream live video.

Personally I expected some sort of breakthrough. A game changer. I know this much... I wouldn't buy these for $150, much less $3k.