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nice. I am thinking about getting either the fz1000 or the fz300. with the ibis and my cage, i should be rock steady.

I use this cage, minus the rails. I attached a strap to it and then keep my elbows tight to my body while I keep the strap taut. It works pretty good with a wide angle lens. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00QI6Y3X0/ref=pd_aw_sbs_421_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1DTTBTA732CY06ZKB35X I don't have the rails, but I was thinking about getting some parts from Hondo Garage to set up rails and a follow focus.

Good stuff! Once again, especially in the beginning, it felt like you were going to turn a corner and find a dead body. The building of the soundscape helped as well. It seems like you have a good combo here... the flares are insane.

Did Canon steal your lunch money as a kid?

I know a lot of interest is on the GH4 V Log, but I just came across a video on YouTube from a gentleman named Martin Wallgren. Apparently, he has had a preproduction model of the FZ300 and his results look fantastic... On my phone... https://youtube.com/watch?v=6AzrltvaeJY I have been interested in picking up the FZ1000, if and when the price gets down to around $500, but after seeing this video I may end up getting one of these instead, especially since it may get closer to my price point quicker than the FZ1000. One of the reasons I am interested in the 1000 is due to its IS, which I thought was 5 Axis in 4K? The 300 only does 5 Axis in 1080p. According to Mr. Wallgren, the 300 handles IS better in 4K than the 1000 and the crop factor is smaller, but the sensor is smaller as well, so you take the good with the bad I guess.

From the interview, something like that seems like the only possibility. Unless, their gonna go the Pentax Q route and make a small, "fun," selfie camera. So, since that makes the least sense, that's probably what they'll do.

Well, if they're not ready for 4K, then what could they possibly do to make a really enticing mirrorless? Full Frame? Doubtful, because it seems like they are boosting their ef-m lens line up. Maybe a cine-mirrorless that shoots 1080p CLog?

It is possible for Canon to release the eos-m4K camera at around a 12-1500 price point. I would love to see a scaled down version of the xc-10 in the eos-m sized body. Or even a camera that shoots 1080p clog

Yeah, this piece looks great. The DR is amazing. You could put this on your demo reel.

Here's a lens test I did with my Minolta MC 35mm f/1.8 Although I really like this lens, I got a good deal on the MD 28mm f2, which makes more sense with my NX500, so I decided to sell this one. I am going to list it on the gear page later and also on eBay, if there's any interest.

What I like about this video has little to do with the look... Even though both versions look cool. I like the mood... It almost feels like you are going to turn a corner and find a dead body in one of those alleyways.

If you have LUT Utility or Color Finale, you can use LUTS with FCPX. You can get a Cineon LUT from VisionColor through their Impulz Collection, but I think you have to get the Ultimate Package. There probably is a solo Cineon LUT floating around the super highway but I couldn't find one after 10 pages of Google search. Ed David had a whole post on Cineon last week.

Thanks, 59 bucks isn't bad at all for a quick run and gun or scratch track. I don't do wedding videos but I would imagine, it would be perfect for those as well.

Looks great, any word on price?

Not a fan of 0 saturation in this camera. Even in a custom profile, it has a plastic look. But yeah, I have to run some more tests... I'm gonna go back and try the settings another poster used with his music video mix of nx1 and nx500. His results looked pretty good.

Sekhar, I think you may be right and it is the lenses. I don't think my Canon FD lenses play well with this camera. In fact, I thought the above shots were with the Minolta lens, but I went back and looked at my notes, and I think I used an FD lens. I was just looking at more footage I shot a couple weeks ago, and I think it looks pretty good. So maybe the entire issue is lens related... which is weird because I never had such a problem with Canon cameras regarding lenses affecting the color palette so drastically. Here are some shots using the Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 lens. Sorry about the shakiness, just grabbed some quick handheld shots to test the lens.The first few shots I dialed down the saturation all the way to mess around with in camera black and white. The last few shots the saturation is at -2, sharpness at -10 and contrast at -5. I did tweak the highs, mids and lows in color finale using the waveform as my guideline and just bringing the highs and lows to the upper and lower lines, or just below. Also, I imported 4K prores version into Final Cut, instead of downsizing it to 1080p when I converted it to prores. It was delivered as 1080p to Vimeo.

Sekhar, I appreciate your help, I really do, I need any help I can get, but my early tests were at 0 saturation and you said the colors looked strange? With this camera at 0 saturation, nothing looks true to life. It's not that every color is over saturated, the blues and reds are bad, yellow and orange are okay, green is in the middle. That's what doesn't make sense to me. Also, when I desaturate in camera, why wouldn't they evenly desaturate? One click down and yellow and orange dissipate substantially and blue and red is still really vibrant with a sheen. Go down to -2 and yellow and orange is flat, but blue and red are still vibrant. At -3 it starts to level out, but not until -4, -5 does it really start to look more uniform, as far as flat vs sheen. I figured it was better to have everything flat than a hodgepodge of some flat colors and some shiny colors. Do you tweak the hue levels? Also I don't have the option of changing the color space of the 0-255 in my NX500, do you? With that being said, your corrections look good and I will try that workflow. Thanks.

At this point, I am not really going for any specific look. All of my tests with this camera have been a learning experiment. As I have said before, prior to this camera, I was using an eos-m set with prolost neutral. The majority of the time, there was little grading needed to make it look a little cinematic. With the NX500, it's an entirely different beast. In this test, I had a custom profile with Saturation at -5 Sharpness at -10 and Contrast at -5. In Color Finale, I used a waveform to bring the highs and lows right to the line, leaving a little head room for the highs. I am pushing the mids a little though. I then brought the saturation up a couple ticks. With the vector tool, I played with the reds and yellow for skin tone and then tweaked the greens to counterbalance the yellow. For that test, I was trying to have a really flat starting point. The saturation levels in this camera are strange... At 0 saturation, I find everything is very plastic looking and over saturated. At -2 saturation, it's a little better, but not much. At -3 blues and reds are still vibrant but yellow is flat and green is in the middle. So, at the time, I was messing with -5 saturation because that was the notch where everything was flattened. This footage was from a couple months ago, and the only footage I had to mess with skin tones.

I'm the one mumbling behind the camera. And yes, it's a touch too contrasty and I pushed the greens a little too much. I was so worried about skin tone, I didn't even pay attention to the white shirt... Duh. Do you think I can do another layer with a mask to bring down the white shirt, or is it too burnt?

Yeah, I just bought the basic package, because this is all pretty new to me and I don't have a camera that shoots log. But I will look into their other stuff. Thanks.

Looks amazing!!! You used the same workflow for this as described above? I'll have to look into this cineon LUT. Do you know if you can purchase individual LUTs from vision- color, or do you have to purchase the packages? I just bought the basic package the other day when I bought Color Finale.

Good call, thanks.

Here's another one of my tests. I bought Color Finale the other day and was messing around with it today, trying to grade some flat footage I shot. I am a complete newbie at color correcting and grading, so I wanted to see how I could do with skin tones. Any pointers would be appreciated. Btw, this was shot with a Minolta MD 24-35mm f/3.5 zoom, wide open with a fader ND, in a custom profile with Saturation at -5, Sharpness at -10, and Contrast at -5. I converted the footage to 1080p prores LT with EditReady. And then I used Color Finale in Final Cut Pro X.

Not sure h.265 will handle editing and grading too well.

Lomo Color Implosion Impulz LUT looks great with flat Sony a5100 footage.