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It's not an issue of cosmetics - It's my observation that that style of pistol grip has a very strong tendency to cause some of the most horrible camera shake ever to emerge out of the Ocean and trample Tokyo.

1. - Spike Lee is an astounding film maker. 2. - That Digital Bolex is amazeballs. I have seen people put up footage where the people's skin not only looked incredibly natural, but the realism of the skin tones was so great that it looked like the subject was a little person living for real right there in my monitor. Like I could just reach over and touch their face. I have never seen that out of any other camera. It's UNCANNY. Yes, it IS a cameras that requires one to learn some pretty specific methodologies, but I think the results are worth it. Just rip the stupid handle off the bottom as soon as you get it. You don't want to be Zachary Zapruder. Now, I'm not saying you're wrong... I just happen to know that you're wrong. I'm also totally NOT saying that a couple hundred finished URSA Mini 4.6k's are ready to go out to the earliest pre-orders. I'm not saying BMD isn't always late with their new models - I'm just saying they all have eventually been delivered. Well....it's eventually.

Okay...I don't follow. What makes the OEM charger better? I got 2 of these for $17 each. So I have two extra batteries AND two extra chargers. http://www.amazon.com/ED-BP1900-Rechargeable-Battery-Charger-Samsung/dp/B00T7GYAUY They're working just fine so far. I'm sure it's possible that the OEM is better. But can you describe exactly how? Thanks! Yeah - once I realized the NX1 could run off of a USB power feed... gee THAT'S handy. Now I'm surrounded by batteries!

Or save a ton of money and get a Beholder DS1. I did. Love it. Tool less. 1.6KG max payload. $699 from the main importer Owl Dolly. The dual-weight programability is lovely. So I can go from a really light Pocket with a Voightlander 20mm pancake to a 5D or NX1 with something like the Samyang 16mm or 24mm on it. Essentially it duplicates the 3 basic modes but comes with, and allows changing of, the motor strengths for the two groups. This is critical if you're going to attempt to use more than one camera on it...ever.

Oh dear lord, you found a great deal Mattias! I'm worried that by the time I have spare cash to get those "S" series zooms there might be very few available. It's not like they made that many. But I absolutely agree with Andrew about the ergonomics of the NX1. Definitely a winner there.

Yeah - there are those. But for how long? At the online retailers (B&H etc,.) they've already knocked the NX1's batteries out of production. Also - the good "S" lenses are really pretty expensive, and their cheap lenses don't seem to be anywhere near as good as the "S" line. So first off - there are indeed only about these 5 lenses, and for how long will they be produced and available? And yeah, I have adapters for my Nikons on my NX1, but that means 100% manual only. Certainly kills the usefulness for stills - I grew up shooting stills on manual lenses, but you miss a TON of shots compared to using modern AF and OIS lenses. There are a lot of great lenses with AF and OIS for the A7s that cost in the area of half what the Samsung "S" lenses cost. And I don't even like Sony alpha series colors, but I guess maybe what I'm saying is that I feel that NEITHER of them are a really great platform if you'll need compatibility and a few years of longevity. If Canon had put out something like a "5D mk IV" that did nothing really but add 4K, and sell it for the price of an A7s - THAT would be the platform. ..sigh.... I think that if you want to do a lot of production in 4K right now, there are no "great platforms" for under $3,000 - despite the fact that there are great images in 4K being produced by a number of cameras - a "great working platform" none of them are. Ending this like Yoda I am.

If you really have the money - yeah, the A7S II. ESPECIALLY if it is going to be put into heavy production use. As much as I perhaps might prefer some aspects of the NX1 image - the utter lack of native lenses and Samsung's leaving the market put it at a disadvantage as a daily production tool.

KaPlunk! Drops mic...walks away. Uh-huh.

Darn good to know. Thanks Chant!

Yeah, I've been pursuing this issue with my lenses quite a bit recently. I don't yet fully understand all of the optical science being discussed but the common factor of fewer elements seems to hold true, and is useful as a general guideline considering that we're looking at a lens that is well designed optically in all the other important areas. Basically I look for the following: Lenses that are widely reviewed to be very good, but also happen to have as few elements as possible within them. So far the author's claim that this will be a lens with better 3D characteristics has held true in my experience. To what extent the camera is playing a role I don't know - but I suspect it's at least a bit. To my eye ALL Nikon Digitals seem to suffer enormously from the "flat" effect compared to Canons. To the point that despite owning a lot of Nikon glass (all of it falling into the fewer elements older design category) I feel I would never buy a Nikon camera.

Of course Matt, your experience is relevant, but just be sure and quantify it as much as you reasonably can. It's like when we're all trying to find out if there's a bug in some new software release - we need to flush out and get clear on exactly what all the conditions are that either trigger the bug, or avoid the bug. But in all those instances we still know that the bug really is there, even if many people are not experiencing it. That's how we pin it down, right? As for Vimeo's reliability - some people having the problem and others not having it should be the BIGGEST red flag for you. If everyone was getting the problem, then we know it would almost certainly get addressed by the company and fixed. But when it's unpredictable, then that's when problems drag out for too long and don't get fixed. It also means that if YOU pay for Vimeo's sevice because you need your work to look good either to your client's or to your subjects, or even just for the sake of your own hard work and effort - then having UNRELIABLE service is exactly what you don't want.

Or like for me - on the slower connecton this past week or so it just freezes when 1080p is manually selected. Usually it will start playing within TWENTY MINUTES, but not always. Sometimes it just freezes completely until I switch it back to AUTO. And of course then t looks like YouTube 2011.

Guys - nobody is saying that it's "100% failing for 100% of everybody 100% of the time." Saying "it works for me" doesn't address the observed behavior by those who ARE having these brand new problems since Vimeo has changed their streaming methodology.

Yup. VIMEO BLEW IT. They had something and now they broke it. Someone in their tech department trying to justify their paycheck by being a busy-body. "It's a fine line between clever and stupid." ~Spinal Tap

Specs mean nothing. They do NOT tell you what the image will look like. Often "high spec" cameras suffer in Image Quality while "low spec" cameras shine. That's all you need to know. As for High Frame Rates - that's not really a "spec" in the way we most often use that term when we're talking about cameras. Frame rate is really more like a "product category". Would you compare "specs" of one vehicle that has a cargo bed - like a pickup truck - to the "specs" of a vehicle that had no cargo bed? Of course not. They are 2 different product categories, even though they both have 4-wheels and a motor etc,... You pick your desired product category first. Then maybe, if it's NOT a camera, you compare specs. But if it's a camera - you LOOK AT THE IMAGE, because that's the whole point of the device.

This should be do-able from a very simple hack. It's really just a matter of removing a flag. But at higher bit-rates, issues with the buffer and data pathway speeds can often make spanning not possible.

The Canon image is one that is very firm, not soft and flaccid. It is an image that can stand erect against the competition, maintaining its rigidity throughout the entire act of image gathering. When the other Cameras go limp and shrivel up, the Canon is virile and strong. Do I have this right?

THIS is what is reasonable to expect. The bit-rate increase will make the SINGLE BIGGEST improvement because it will solve virtually ALL of the IMAGE QUALITY issues the NX1 has. While 160 Mbps will be wonderful going as high as 220 or 260 in 4K will be even better. Even the noise reduction problems will nearly vanish when it has this much data to work with. These will be able to be implemented once someone figures out which line in the code is passing the values into the "current camera state", and can figure out how to write it into a new firmware file that can be loaded into the camera in its normal manner. There will probably be no "evidence" that you have changed anything - until you look at the new recorded files themselves. Some folks are making good progress with the publicly available Developer's Kit, but I suspect that may not pan out because Samsung never intended it to be used that way. We can hope they screwed up and left a door open, but they probably didn't. ALL the other requests are unlikely to ever happen because they would require a hack and probably an entirely new GUI all happening at the radically more advanced level of something like the Magic Lantern hack, which is unequaled by any other camera hacks yet done. Double or triple that bit-rate and all the current image quality issues will be gone. Find a way to pipe out RAW and you'll get the whole world's attention. I guarantee it.

Thanks mate!

That's good news. I didn't know Samyang was doing the NX mount. Very nice of them. And that new 135mm of theirs is an exceptional lens for sure.

I shoot a lot of Nikon Nikkor Ai-S manual primes and a couple of zooms too. These are generally pretty darn sharp lenses and they look fantastic on my NX1. I also have that good old Sigma 18-35mm. Which is always great, it just really is. Also a couple Samyangs - they match the Nikkors very closely. And I have a Voightlander 20mm, but I've never tried it on the NX1. I suppose I should. I bet it will look just fiiiiine....

Cool. Thanks mate.

Hey man, what's up with the new Avatar? That kid doesn't look very evil. You goin' soft on us now?

Ha! Hey, that's the exact battery holder I use to mount a smaller Sony NP-770 directly to the top of my BMPCC when I have it on the Beholder DS1 gimbal! Yeah, works like a treat, don't it. Now, I only get about an hour out of the NP-770 but that's a LOT better than taking the camera OFF the gimbal every 20 minutes for a new internal battery. (Plus is helps act as a counter weight for balancing the gimbal.) I get just under 3-hours with the battery I linked here in this thread. How much continuous run time do you get with one BP-U battery IronMan?