The Chris

NX1 is $500 more, has fewer lenses, no electronic adapters or focal reducers, can't AF with adapted lenses, inferior AF tracking, no log profile and it's dead - a small crop with 120fps isn't a big deal when you look at the overall package. Another adapted lens video, this time with the 70-400g. It's annoyingly long with way too much needless chatter, but AF looks really good.

Two weeks till it ships and test snippets are trickling out, we should start getting more answers soon. I'd like to know the crops and if it got the uncompressed stills too.

All of this is virtually identical to the 1 Series, I'm sure the next J/V updates will have real 4k instead of the 15fps the J5 has.

Damn that is fast, especially with the 50/1.2. That would make a great lowlight/portrait option on a crop body instead of something like the Batis 85.

Here's a side by side with the A7sII and GH4 - a6300 image is more detailed than the other two, looks good.

Basically a fixed lens version of the Nikon 1. Given the success of the RX100/RX10 I'm surprised it took Nikon this long to bring these to market. The Nikon 1's AF is flat out amazing, I would expect this to easily outperform the LX100 and Sony's RX. 3.5mm audio input too, nice.

Bokeh and exposure are two different things, and that's what the Grim dude is mixing together. If you want to compare bokeh between different lenses and sensor sizes there are website's that allow you to select parameters and see the difference.

That "Building of Moire" is awesome. Impressive the way you've planted so many cameras in front of it to test. Good stuff.

Dude, you're mixing light gathering and bokeh with your long winded wikipedia cut and paste. I just put my 16-35 on the a5100 and the A7rII, set the aperture to F/4 and left everything else to the camera - they both picked the exact same exposure - 1/60, ISO 3200. F/4 is F/4 no matter what the sensor size is, and a F/1.8 lens is faster than a F/2.8 on a focal reducer since you only gain one stop. Why is this so difficult for you to understand?

Fast/accurate AF in lowlight is the last thing mirrorless needs to conquer to make most DSLR's obsolete, all are bad compared to most DSLR's - how bad it varies. The A7s is probably the best I've ever used, the A7rII is pretty good, others I've used vary. The NX1 was a disappointment, it struggled a lot indoors for me, but faster lenses do help. Lock the AF point onto something with lots of contrast or put a small LED on the camera to help the AF.

F/1.8 is F/1.8 on any sensor, the only thing that changes is the effective FOV and DOF relative to full frame when using the same lens on a smaller sensor. A speed boosted 70-200/2.8 will not be faster than a 1.8 lens on a APS-c body. It will have more reach than the Sigma 50-100 however.

BSI isn't anything special at this sensor size, if you play the DXO game the a5100 has better DR once you go higher than 3200, the new Sony sensor should be better, we'll see once it's in the wild. The NX1's DR in video is nothing special either. A true log profile in the a6300 is a huge advantage. I do think the NX2 could have really been something special with a couple years to refine the tech and make improvements, guess we'll never know.

Damn that looks good.

That's a solid play, and the new a6300 looks like it'd be a great B-cam to the A7rII.

Its packs quite a punch on the stills and video side, its a great all around camera. What if Sony hadn't F-ed up the A99 and came out with something like this instead? The A-mount would be alive and well.

Came Single is $1000, I paid $650 for the DS1, the Single weighs more but the DS1 has a much higher capacity - 2.6 vs 3.8 pounds. Interesting they they're claiming 20 hour life when they use the same batteries as the DS1, but only 2 cells for the Single compared to 3 for the DS1. Without a battery or lens the Micro weighs more than twice what a GoPro weighs (88g just the camera, 150g with housing vs 301g for just the micro body), I seriously doubt a GoPro gimbal will be able to handle the weight of the bare camera, much less one with a battery and lens. It will also be much more front heavy than a tiny go pro or a flat phone, that gives the small motor gimbals issues. I know someone that tried to rig his RX100 to one of the GoPro gimbals and it wouldn't stop vibrating, it was too heavy and it weighs just 298g with battery and card. Not saying it won't work, but it seems unlikely. For a few hundred more you can get a larger gimbal that will work with no issues.

I've had one for a couple weeks, haven't had it freak out yet.

Completely OT, but nothing published after 1923 has entered the public domain in the U.S., Disney is one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, they don't care about anyone's families, including their own employees given some of the massive layoffs from some of their most profitable divisions simply to make them more profitable - see ESPN. Disney only cares about making their shareholders happy as demonstrated by that lame remake of Episode IV by the great Xerox director they call The Force Awakens. Society as a whole benefits from unrestricted access to science and the arts, we're already at authors life + 70 years or 95 for a corporation. This comes up again soon, expect to see the same BS as before - "we have to keep Mickey away from the porn industry" while Disney shovels loads of cash into the coffers of those voting for another extension. Continually extending copyrights only benefits a select few - the publishers - plain and simple its nothing more than corporate welfare. Hopefully our next president vetoes the bill and puts an end to this nonsense.

A newscast is copyrighted content, nothing about it is public domain. In fact virtually nothing has entered the public domain in the U.S. in decades, you can thank the fuck-tards at Disney for that one because every 10 years when Mickeys copyright is about to expire they shovel truckloads of cash at lobbyists and get the copyright extended. Rant off. I just hate copyrights being extended in perpetuity for the sake of greed, that was never the intention of copyright protection.

No. Same goes for your original question with the quote, as long as its properly attributed, it falls under fair use. Watch any issue driven doc and you'll see a barrage of quotes from news stories, video from news reports and so on, as long as its attributed, you're fine. I watch a few docs a week, along with Frontline and 60 Minutes all the time and they cite stuff from books, newspapers and so on - constantly. Its all about attribution, cite the source and you're good. I'm not a lawyer, but I took every media law class offered at my university when getting my journalism degree. I wouldn't hesitate for a second pulling a quote from somewhere else and including it in a piece. Its done all the time, its fair use as long as you're citing your source. I'm only speaking about the U.S. http://www.cmsimpact.org/fair-use/best-practices/documentary/documentary-filmmakers-statement-best-practices-fair-use#two

I have the Beholder DS1 and so far I really like it. Here's a pretty good look, and there are many others on YT. You can adjust without tools, it can be inverted on the fly (my favorite feature), it has a 32-bit board and batteries last a long time. Comes with a nice padded case that's not too big, two sets of batteries (and the batteries are cheap, you can easily get more on amazon) and extras. There are sellers on eBay that will take a best offer lower than retail.

Its in the menus, don't remember where. Google back button AF setup with the 5d3 and you'll find articles about disabling the shutter from the main shutter button.

Oops, I did read that but after a couple days it was off the brain. Thanks.

Haven't seen any reports about the SB Ultra on the A7rII, please post about its performance after you get it.

Here's two with SII/RII comparisons. The second one is from Wolfcrow and it really in depth. That guy knows his shit, footage looks great on my 4k monitor.