Marco Tecno

Carter, if you use the log lut, could you then advise on which luts you will use on top of it? And which basic adjustments? Thx!

Well, story is a very subjective matter. I didn't go crazy for JW, but I quite liked it. And you are talking with someone who thinks that Westworld is the best movie by/derived from Crichton (and awaiting the tv series) ;-)

Ben, I was about to ask: "may I ask which are the errors in Jurassic World"? I actually think it's been a very good "new" version for the 20+ years old first movie. I liked JW better than JP II and III, for sure.

Seems like an epic fail.

It's incredible how the nx1 can encode in real time 4k@30fps, after rescaling from 6.5k...and an ultra powerful pc can't! It would be cool to be able to use the nx1 as a 'encoding/rendering' device connected with usb 3 :-D

Gorgeous!

Wow ;-) I paid 180€ for the 30/2 for nx and that's af O:-)

Or...if anybody could hack the fw ;-) but all those who start working on that, disappear in few weeks! O:-)

Smaller file size, especially for 4k, or better quality at the same size, playable by any - decent - pc. For me h.265 is the new standard.

120fps is good at low iso (meaning that you need a lot of light, being the shutter speed to be set at about 1/250). I find it usable up to iso 400. Higher than that and it becomes mushy. I still haven't understood if nx1 applies nr by default to higher iso videos...

Depends to what you compare. Bargain compared to 1dx perhaps, but very expensive compared to nx1 for example O:-)

630$ for nx1??? Buy 3!

And what about opencl encoder? Like x265?

Esporting in H.265 is slow even on my quite powerful machine (4.4Ghz 5820K + AMD Fiji GPU). I noticed that the use of GPU is quite low while exporting, even if I selected to use it. Is there a way to heavily use it?

Yes, that's probably sample variation.

nx1 is apsc...

http://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Compare/Side-by-side/Sony-A7S-II-versus-Samsung-NX1___1047_976 Apart for the iso (1 stop advantage for a7) I don't see outstanding results, especially considering the low mp count.

Higher resolution is an incremental innovation. If you want radical innovations, then this type could include the organic sensors that will be floating around in few years from now.

totally unclear to me. Two big possibilities: 1) different encoding: hence less discrete steps for 16-235, hence less information available (though in the same max-min range, so same dr, but less intermediate "shades") 2) same encoding, different decoding: hence should be very easy to pass from one to another, w/o altering the blacks/highlight, but just changing some "flag"

Samsung nx500, in its beta iteration, used to support 2.5k (with supposedly full sensor readout). That'd have been much better, imo, then the cropped 4K they implemented in the final version. Unfortunately all the NX hackers have been MIA lately, otherwise they could have easily been able to turn that setting on again.

If you are interested in video as well you could consider Samsung NX1 instead, with the caveat that there are no NX lenses beyond 200mm (300mm equivalent) and no fast lenses beyond 150mm (225mm equivalent).

i always wondered the same thing. I mean...16-235 is a smaller discrete interval than 0-255. So, it's straightforward that you can map 0-255 exactly to 16-235, but is the opposite possible? What am I missing?

The hw part that is evolving the most in these times are the ssd. Imo in three years from now we'll have some very fast ssd to be connected via super fast interfaces to video cameras. 500+ mb/sec will becone common and also big capacities, say 3+ tb for about 300€. Of course those won't be sd cards...

Very good point of view. I find myself capturing a frame, from time to time, from a video taken with nx1. But that's constantly lower iq compared to the postprocessed raw both in resolution and (most importantly) color and dr. And as you say, I don't se me filming hours just to extract 20 pictures! With the nx1 it's much more convenient, for me, to use the burst when I need it. I then have raw files to work with, less work at home and no big files on the card.

Sekhar, do you lift shadows or blacks? By how much? Thx.