Davey

I settled with 7000k using my eyes (forgot my grey/white card). The slightly overt reds that were originally showing in faces and lips on my first daylight tests have gone with Phase 0. My aim now is to have the first five picture profiles nailed down for the five most common lighting conditions and only adjust colour temperature as and when required. Delighted with street shots at night using the original settings and delighted with today's results as the sun was going down. I won't touch S-log for a very long time because I want to keep things simple.

Filmed using a Nocticron. Are there any 4/3rds cameras already shooting 4k 60p? That has to be the GH5 and it looks amazing on my 5k iMac. Looks like they have vastly improved skin tones and the shadows are as clean as can be.

Inspired by MC Wedding Films (Phase 0). All jpeg stills from the A7sii using the Zeiss 16-35mm f4:

ISO performance will be the most eagerly awaited aspect of this camera (for enthusiasts who love gear but don't do lighting, of which there are millions).

I am glad that's been cleared up. Thought for a moment we might be heading for a ten page debate similar to the senor crop factor / light gathering fiasco from last year. This is the most excited I have been about a camera that I have no intention of buying since first taking an interest in video three years ago. The GH5 was on my immediate radar before settling for the a7sii and I might well have bought it had it arrived a year earlier, or a large sum of money I was owed had arrived a year late. I like Panasonic and hope that the GH5 is a huge success for the company and for those who buy it. Certainly, 4k 60p will become the standard for prosumer cameras from now on and I expect that the a7riii and a7siii will both need it in order for Sony to remain on the same pitch.

Such a good video and song - very well done!

There will come a time - might even be here in part with product reviews - when an army of people will be employed simply to comment on whatever videos their masters tell them to, saying exactly what they command them to. This already happens in the world of political 'journalism' and anywhere the powers that be have an agenda to push and truth to hide. The YouTube comments section that you mention absolutely stinks of fanboyism at the very best and something approaching mass sock accounts at worst.

Just updated to 1.5.1 and my Sony A7sii AWR files are importing - cheers!

Just discovered that it is better (as you say) to have more saturation to work with in post - just a minimal reduction in red hue, saturation and luminosity using Color Finale has given me correct skin tones whilst not affecting reds elsewhere to any discernible degree.

I'll check for updates - A7sii RAW (uncompressed) files were not supported a month ago.

MC Wedding Films posted some stills from video (Sony and Canon) on the 2nd page - might be worth asking him to do one through a PM. My next test will involve tweaking magenta IF it isn't error on my part, which it might well be as I have only just started using a grey card and setting custom white balances (like this week).

The girl is ill and does actually look ghostly (she's usually quite olive looking) and the lad has just finished his spell of stomach flu and getting his 'colour' back which includes blotching on his arms, hands and around his cheeks. However, you are right - those reds are there but exaggerated when using Pro Color and washed away almost completely in the first shot when using Standard. The former is more accurate by a long shot but the red is overly prominent. Reds elsewhere in all my tests are correctly represented. I also tried CP at 0 but found the reds behaved the same. It's as if the sensor all of a sudden has bionic sensitivity towards blood capillaries lol.

Been using Affinity for ten months but switched to Capture One Pro 9 when finally getting around to shooting RAW. After all this time (though I might have missed an update) I haven't seen any support for Sony ARW files. I tend to do the base work on Capture One and then export as TIFFs, before doing the finer adjustments in Affinity. Both are very good but I'll have to get Lightroom next summer when editing Milky Way images - nothing compares to it and the complete lack of tutorials for my two platforms reflects the lack of interest in them from serious astrophotograhers.

Latest effort: As per first comment: All identical exposures and custom WB settings for each individual pair of shots. The first shot was on a very dull morning with little light coming through the windows. The second shot was in a harsh late morning sun that was coming through the trees. The third shot was indirect sunlight coming through a net curtain. When using the Creative setting (Standard setting) in each of the three shots, there was no clipping to the right showing on the histogram but when brought into FCPX I could see blown out highlights. The light fall-off using EOSHD Pro Color is excellent and no such problems with clipping highlights arose. I was concerned a little by the purplish hue in their lips (and have heard this mentioned on the forum) but only realised afterwards that both my kids had been messing with coloured lip balm before I started filming, so will re-test at a later date just in case something still needs to be adjusted. The oranges, again, are accurate - the plane in the first shot is as red as it is orange and not a yellowish orange as shown in the Standard example. The greens in the second shot are accurate when using EOSHD Pro Color but heavily yellowed or lightened when using Standard setting.

A7sii and EOSHD Pro Color Noticing in today's test (finally got some sunlight) that highlights are being preserved in skin tones where the sun is blazing directly or indirectly onto the face. Whereas in Creative Standard 0-0-0 the same areas are blowing out and irretrievable.

That's me alright. Lighting is something that I see in the natural but don't understand how to recreate unnaturally. Stills photograhers know FAR more about light than people like me who just jumped straight into video. I really do want to make an effort with light this coming year.

Looking at it again, the fixed Panny colour looks better than the 1DX MK2 colour.

That was the only shot that I would have adjusted afterwards - the rest were very impressive and look nothing like the usual waxy Panasonic colours.

Would have been interested but I have already purchased Andrew's Pro Color, which is as good as your effort but half the price.

I am going to try that in a few days - currently doing a comparison of Creative Style Standard (0-0-0) and EOSHD Pro Color (original settings). Lost a couple of days to gastric flu, so behind the ball. Definitely getting to know my camera more intimately and understanding WB beyond AWB and gritting my teeth.

Geoff CB has used the 24-70 G-master. I only have the following lenses: 28mm f2, 16-35 f4, 55 f1.8, 70-200 f4 If I had the money 'to burn' I would sell all but the 55mm and splash out on their superiors (Sigma Art, G-master, Batis). Having said that, I would have been tempted to chuck the A7Sii on eBay and purchase the 1DXmk2

Because integrity is so easily undermined by greed, even if the compromise is subtle. Yes, there's nothing wrong with somebody getting a side income for honestly reviewing a company's products but that's because those who do so for any length of time are given the boot. You simply don't see them anynore. Those that remain are being dishonest or simply overlooking flaws. All cameras and lenses have flaws. You can't review every Sony, Panasonic, Nikon, Canon or Fuji camera and lens system without hitting some real bummers. Though I own two Sony cameras, there is a hell of a lot of false worship from Sony reviewers and Artisans. I prefer to look at Mr 500 views on YouTube who has not rushed out a review with affiliate links in the race to get top search, but has given honest reviews in the past and isn't afraid to be trampled underfoot by scores of fanboys. He will have bought, used and tested the camera for a good three months and hasn't got it 'on a loan from B&H'. How many times do we see in the comments section a few weeks later (when the issues arise) and the uploaded says: "Oh I don't have it anymore, it was only a loan - had no idea it would burn your house down. Perhaps Sony will fix that in a firmware update"

24-70 G-master 70-200 G- master £4,500 and job done (assuming all plaudits for these two lenses are genuine).

That is absolutely incredible - an inspiration. Thanks for sharing as this is not getting the views it deserves, but then it wouldn't when the likes of Casey Neistat are hoovering up Google Search results.

True. I did one in my spare time with a Panasonic FZ200, £15 monopod, Hague MMC and a Zoom H1. I won't link to it because it has a tendency to trigger the politically correct. I travelled around the country going on demonstrations and compiling interviews and only carried a small flight bag at all times, often having one hand free to ward off missiles being thrown by opposition groups. As above, my only costs were travel related, but even that was discounted because I got to travel with the group on their coaches - so going to places like Essex from Birmingham was costing me £15 instead of £150. Good thread suggestion, by the way - I am exhausted with gear coveting