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I think they need the actual release of the ProResRAW update to happen pretty soon. Probably by their own traditional measure of "how are we doing against Canon?" then Nikon might well be satisfied as the Z series has largely received a better critical response at least than the R series though who knows what that translates to in sales. They can't live in that duopoly vacuum any more though. In the time its taken them to not get that update out, Panasonic have moved the game on significantly on the S series and Sigma have given the whole L mount situation a big boost not just with the FP announcement but with the lens announcements. This is Sigma's lineup for release by the end of the year 20mm F1.4 Art 24mm F1.4 Art 35mm F1.4 Art 50mm F1.4 Art 85mm F1.4 Art 135mm F1.8 Art Where are Nikon's native Z lenses to match that lineup and at what cost ? The politics of the L mount alliance probably means that those lenses might remain L mount exclusives for a while as well. Obviously, ProResRAW isn't going to move the needle any for sales to stills people but if nothing else it will get the Z series a re-boost in terms of attention with all the YouTube videos from the "Hey whats happening, its your boy Fred Knows Zed" bros. The TechArt adapter should have been the icing on the cake for the Z but without the actual release of ProResRAW its still all a bit "jam tomorrow" for a lot of video people. I don't know which end the issue is coming from thats delayed it but I have to say Atomos have also not released two of the three AtomX modules for the Ninja V yet either.

It is this cable. The SD Quattro has a dummy battery set but this one is a DC cable that plugs into that port on the camera. No spec on it as yet.

Yeah, I think for anything remotely serious it will be difficult to see (no pun intended) beyond it not having an EVF. Presumably from a stills perspective Sigma look at it as an RX1 type of offering with interchangeable lenses but how close it gets to that FF compact concept when you whack on a lens on it is debatable as its only the 40mm f2.8 that is anywhere near being an appropriate size but is a bit slow and a bit not 35mm! With m mounts then its far more appropriate but that then causes its own issues manually focusing without an EVF. They claim to have a mitigated a lot of the issue with only having an electronic shutter according to Yamaki but yeah that sync speed is useless. [In announcing the camera's development, Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki acknowledged the rolling shutter effect but said 'the sensor used has a very fast reading speed. It is able to shoot without major problems in most shooting scenes.'] Ah-ha! Its on the lesser seen right hand side of the camera.

I think those things will come pretty quickly from 3rd parties through the openness that Sigma have to share things like the downloadable 3D models of the chassis as well as opening up the spec for external control. The 3D model thing is great as it will allow 3rd parties to really shape solutions like grips to be tightly integrated and prototype them quickly. With any luck they'll have those available even before the camera ships so people can get on with it. The strap lug design they've got on it where you can unscrew them and they have 1/4" 20 threads underneath ready to attach stuff to is a really smart idea. As for power, they do list a DC barrel adapter on the page but I have to confess that I've got no idea where it connects to the camera ! Sigma do actually make a dual battery grip for the SD Quattro and the FP uses the same battery so its not beyond the bounds of possibility that they could release one themselves. It look enormous (and it is!) but thats as a by-product of it matching the form of the camera. The actual business part of it could be made to fit the FP.

Thats my boy ! Yeah if its only through HDMI then they can fuck off and take these shitty low capacity batteries with them.

I think logically it will be in that sort of price bracket and probably at the lower end of it. It doesn't have an EVF and for stills shooters they will be expecting it to be at least as cheap as a full frame mirrorless that does like the Canon RP or even the Sony A7ii. My concern would be that Sigma have set some optimistic prices for most of their other cameras at launch but those cameras were always going to be niche so hopefully the economies of scale with this one will change that. I hope so anyway as I'm already doing the "Well, I've already got so many of the BP-51 batteries already that it almost doesn't make economical sense not to buy it" justifications to my better half I might be in full on justification mode here but I'm pretty ambivalent about it recording RAW internally. In the context of it being a modular camera anyway, using a Samsung T5 drive or whatever to record to is perfectly OK by me for a few reasons. The first one is the capacity aspect and the second is actually about then just being able to attach that drive to the computer and start editing it instead of having to tit about with card readers. Those drives are also a bit more readily available if you're out and about than having to track down CFAst or ultra fast SD cards. The other reason is a bit more philosophical in that I think the FP is a stills camera and it is a cine camera but its not necessarily a hybrid. The modularity of it, to me at least, means its a sensor in a box and you dress it accordingly or not dress it in the case of when you want it to be a stills camera. As a cine camera, I envisage it having a grip that incorporates more power but also has an SSD slot and you just attach that as one piece at which point what is internal and external recording is a bit of a grey area if you know what I mean. For example no one considers a RED to not record RAW "internally" but the reality is that it is doing it externally internally and this would then be exactly the same. I think that is why Sigma were making a big issue about opening it up to accessory manufacturers as a way of having much better integrated solutions than having to cobble together rigs. To be honest, even if I was ostensibly taking it out to use as a stills camera and thought that I might want to record some raw video then its no hardship to have a T5 in a pocket should the need arise. In point of fact, if Sigma put in a file transfer page to move stills on to a T5 directly from the camera then I'd always have one with me anyway because, again, that whole card reader thing gets old for transfer particularly if you want to edit on a tablet. See, I told you I was in full on justification mode

Compressor supports ProResRAW now so I would guess that would be the best bet for batch conversion. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202204

The firmware release notes are here but make no reference to it https://pro.sony/en_KH/product-resources/software/1237493297313 At the risk of sounding blindingly obvious, is it possible that the menus only appear if you actually have a compatible recorder attached to it ? Here is the full instructions for the Odyssey but the Sony end should be the same irrespective of what the recorder is so you can ignore the Odyssey part of the document. https://vmi.tv/upload/pdf/FS700-Setup-Guide_v2_11_110-19Aug2014_1409134165.9053.pdf

A side by side comparison of them

Not sure how much use its going to be but here is the manual https://pro.sony/s3/cms-static-content/uploadfile/26/1237493032226.pdf And here is a step by step tutorial about using it with a 7Q

Have you not got one of these universal precision screwdriver kits ?

I certainly think there should be some sort of "Dedication To The Spirit Of The Competition" award for someone who takes a hacksaw and pliers to the camera to try and improve it!

Yeah, I suppose its one way of sending a message - "Buy me out Jim or I'll show them that it records as well" I'm eagerly awaiting the next episode but he needs to get on with it as he is still leaving that doubt in the air of regarding whether the mags that he is actually selling do contain an extracted firmware. What he really needs to be doing of course is fabricating an SSD side panel for the RED ONE !

Better quality version of the presentation here and the auto translate subtitles are reasonably decent. There are a few audible "wow"s when the CinemaDNG recording is announced Some more detail in there about the new lenses as well. Camera stuff starts at 29:00

He does actually do this in the video (starts at 8:40) with a regular Micron Crucial SSD with a different earlier firmware. He tests it in the camera which recognises it as a RED product then flashes the newer firmware that is indicated on the real RED product (obtained from Micron's public site) and it is again identified in the camera as being a RED product. What he doesn't do though is actually record on it. If I was him and out to fully prove something like this in a video then I can't really think of a reason why I wouldn't press Record.

The Leitz Cine SL to PL adapter. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1233326-REG/leica_16_079_leica_sl_pl_cine.html Other somewhat less pricy PL to L adapters are also available !

The M versions were actually VGA. That made all the difference

The DP1-3M's have got video. Its fair to say that its not quite as good as the stills quality of those cameras.

Well.....curiosity got the better of me so in the interests of this thread I've just opened up one of my original 128gig 1.8 RedMags to see what drive was in it. The upside is that the size quoted on the outside of the case is accurate. So the new, erm, "policy" of labelling them with usable space doesn't apply. Another upside is that if I want to replace the drive in case of failure then I can still readily buy it for about £20 I'd have to check back on what the KoolAid recipe was at the time in terms of the claims of proprietary internal voodoo controllers and the Made In The USA stuff being responsible for the eye watering cost of this off the shelf made in the Philippines drive that was a standard part in notebooks such as the Sony Vaio at the time. The firmware version is +1 from what I've seen marked on other pictures of this drive (which are CJGA0201) but whether that means its a special (though I'd expect the prefix to be different) or just a later batch and the firmware was updated by Toshiba is open to debate. Anyway, nothing earth shattering or unexpected but it was a chance to use my new screwdriver so it wasn't an entirely futile exercise.

Both but from the HDMI recorders they list as being compatible it will only be the USB-C that will be recording RAW.

Unfortunately, there are no adapters that allow you to have electronic control of Nikon lenses from an MFT camera. On the upside, think of the cost saving from only having to buy a dumb adapter !

Nah, I think that was just a bullshit rumour.

They have certainly muddied the waters over what the actual spec is. However.....this caught my eye in the press release Logically, this would kind of suggest that it can record CinemaDNG internally but that playback will come at a later date. But I think its more likely that its relating to playing them back off an external USB-C SSD as I strongly suspect "external recording" refers to that type of "recording" medium rather than the sort of recorders that it would normally mean as I think these references to the external recorders in the spec are a bit of a red herring as neither of these recorders can do CinemaDNG anyway. The "compatibility" with those types of recorder such as it is might actually just refer to HDMI record trigger. //// EDIT //// Found it in a video someone did at the presentation so it does look like the external HDMI recorders thing is a red herring. //// EDIT 2 //// Actually, that video is an interesting watch anyway but particularly from the point I've linked it from here to see the removable strap holder system that then lets you attach accessories instead and also how they are making the 3D models of the shell available on their website for people to build their own rigs and accessories around.

Thank you, thats very kind. I had an XT20 and used to use it for that but the issue was, with it being APS-C, the additional bulk of the faster lenses started becoming a bit self defeating in terms of keeping it compact. The appeal of switching to the A7Rii was having the option of using small M mount lenses (with AF on the TechArt adapter) as well as compact primes like this Samyang. When you look at the overall form factor of an A7Rii with say a 7Artisans 35mm f2 versus trying to get that equivalence on the XT20 which would be the 23mm f1.4 then it actually becomes quite marginal. Of course there is still the option in the A7Rii of switching to APS-C mode to use with the small Sigma primes as well so its a bit more versatile for me. Plus the resolution bump it has over the XT20 and IBIS of course ! I have a soft spot for the GX80 but its a similar story in some ways with regard to when you add equivalent lenses, particularly when you get speed boosters involved.

Sigma were making an issue about the new cooling system so hopefully it won't but time will tell. be.