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imo it is far too detailed, even shooting with the softest lenses this will still be too detailed. Looking at peoples detailed skin makes me unconfy and takes me out of the story quickly. Season 2 of "Dark" did this for me as well, I would see these big pores and I would feel Trypophobia coming up really fast.

Yeah the warping could be post issue from warp stabilizer, but the noise fpn pattern, looks like some weird denoising algorithm going on in the camera. (Just speculating though)

Yeah, Its not pixel peeping at all, I cannot unsee it, its all over the place. It looks like the people are about to warp into another dimension. Tested on different networks and different devices. But other Zcam video's dont seem to have this problem, so I figure this user must be doing something wrong. Not sure what exactly.

Yeah its odd that you guys cannot see it though, i watch a lot of videos on a daily basis but have not encountered this before. But agree that we need to have the original footage to be sure.

Maybe watch it on a bigger screen, Ok im watching it on a big 4k screen, and I made the video player as small as possible and I still see it. Maybe the most obvious is at 0:13 and 0:18 (the blue shirt mans face). There is strange noise going on, on pretty much every shot. Looks like a crosshatch pattern, that moves slightly, but furthermore the image itself moves(I see a wobble in the image) and disturbs the elements(like the man, which at certain points seems to melt with the background) that one is prolly due to warp stabilizer, not sure, would def not used warp stabilizer if this was the result. But the motion looks way off, and I get thrown off what im actually looking at because it looks so weird.

I agree as well, same thing for IBIS. It looks weird, sure it helps a lot when doing some event work where you dont have time to shoot everything perfectly. But I often tell myself: the arri alexa, or any film camera has ibis or autofocus, and my goal is to shoot with those camera's. If im spoiled with ibis and autofocus, im gonna have a really bad time shooting with a camera that does not have it. So I tell myself " practice and step up your game"

What do you guys think about this noise pattern? It looks like a moving fpn or something. It looks so weird, it even has an effect on the edges on the guys face(or is this some aftereffect of warp stabilizer or something). Def not usuable footage. I applaud Zcam efforts, but this should be sorted right away before anyone should ever buy a zcam..

Idk man, uncoated yes. But there is still a major difference between zeiss superspeeds( with coating)and sigma arts (with or without coating). Wish they would have looked into different routes to make lenses at 1.4

Well in that case, they could have just changed the coating and keep the lens at 1.4

Sure but what about the zeiss superspeeds, they are 1.4. And you can choose coated or uncoated versions. And these lenses go back to the 80's, surely a company like sigma could rival tech from the 80's by now.

https://***URL not allowed***/sigma-full-frame-lenses-35mm-f12-45mm-f28-1424mm-f28/ So sigma removed the internal coating and changed the coating on the front glass too make the image more silky. Really interested in seeing how they look. Not sure why they made theses lenses slower at T2.5 though, maybe because they want to deliver a certain standard at 1.4 that without their coating they are unable to deliver. I wish these were 1.4, but if they look amazing, I still might be interested though.

Might be cool. However would have like a video with actual footage shot with the camera as im curious about the image (colour, highlight roll off). Also wondering how many stops of DR this camera will have.

Well Im hoping on a new sigma line, a true ART line. Not sure why sigma called it the ART line in the first place, you get almost the opposite of ART images out of them. I wish they will bring out a new line, also sharp wide open maybe less sharp then the sigma ART line now, with the same achromatic abboration, which is pretty good on the ART, the coating of the lens Is also great, but with more interesting bokeh. The current ART line is great for corporate, event stuff and all but I feel the current image is quite bland for narrative stuff.

wow man, you seem to know your shit. What is your youtube channel if you dont mind me asking. Youre making more with your youtube channel, then I earn with my full time job...

Any idea how much they get for the sponsored content?

when is this prores raw finally coming?

Well with an ipad, I dont think its easy to control the speed of the focus pull, sometimes you want it very slow, sometimes very fast. Sometimes you want to do a ramp, from slow to fast, or from fast to slow, or stop before anything really is in focus(no focus mark) I think you can only do these kind of things with an actual manual controller.

Focus pullers should not be worried. I mean there are tons of creative decisions that you can do with a focus puller, that you couldnt do with DPAF. Allthough If you are doing a following shot or something DPAF seems to work better and a lot cheaper and faster too. So it depends on the situation, or what you are trying to achieve.

Yeah I was thinking about going this route, but changed my mind. When I figured I could buy a second desktop or ( or a better laptop) for a little more money.

Well you loose around 30% of performance with a egpu vs an internal gpu. So I def would use a desktop instead of a laptop.

Zeiss milvus looks better then the batis, no? At least you get a manual aperture ring with the milvus lenses.

Yes on the 5D III. Liked it a lot, only downside was the low DR as it is quite a dated camera vs the options we have now DR wise.

DR and detail/sharpness mostly as resolution should be the same.

From what I have seen online so far, there seems to be a huge difference.

That commercial was shot on alexa, the zcams were the moving close up shots.