Lux Shots

The S1H does have 4K 60p 10-bit internal. This feature alone has my Ninja V being used just to nail focus. If your computer has enough balls to process H265, why bother for files 6x the size?

Version 2.0 FW update V-Log setting now has noise reduction of -1, which should address any NR issues you are complaining about. May 25th will be a happy day for S1H users.

You must be mistaking the bit depth with dynamic range. The only thing they have in common is ration numbers. You can have 14 stops of dynamic range with a 10-bit ADC. Now you won't have fine gradation between the darkest and the brightest, but resolution and dynamic range are completely different.

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Were you shooting in ProRes or ProRes RAW? ProRes RAW is needs a faster hard drive than ProRes, so make sure to check out Atomos website. I have a Ninja V too, and Atomos doesn't have anything listed at all for the Panasonic S1H 5.9K ProRes RAW drive requirements. I guess I have to wait and see...

The cripple hammer awaits. We just don't know how it will manifest itself.

Did I hear 12-bit LOG encoded RAW?

They are probably packing up one hell of an upgrade. Fix all these bugs and add ProRes RAW support I hope.

Yeah, and you have to have an NVidia GPU or it won't work at all. I have a ballzy AMD Pro card with 16GB of VRAM and I am not allowed to play 🤕

Well, the S1H has 1080p in 10-bit 120fps (which was a surprize to me) so you may have this in 24 and 25p.

I have not been able to tell, but what I can say is there is a distinctly worse quality coming from the S1H H.265 encoder vs the H.264 encoder. I was editing a music video I shot a few months ago, and I could really see how bad the HEVC stuff was when it was right next to the other codec.

Anyone got any ProRes RAW files they care to share?

Here are a few frame grabs from the S1H with the Canon 50mm f/1.4 @ f/2.0. I didn't shoot the whole mini doc with FDs, but in some of the lower light scenes, I did use the 50mm a bit. 😊

I haven't tried AFC too much with touch auto focus. AFC is so bad I've just been pulling focus manually thought the Ronin-S focus wheel.

Yes, but it's different than how the GH5 line works. You have to have the camera in AFS mode for touch focus to work, as it doesn't work in MF mode. Took me awhile to figure this out ?!

I think the light weight of the camera is causing your issues. You still have to learn how to walk appropriately with the duck walk, and you have to calibrate it before each use. I have both the Ronin-M and the Ronin-, and I've used the S&M (excuse the pun) with the GH5S and I've only used the S1H on my Ronin-S. I've got excellent footage with them both, but the extra weight of the M really helped keep the footage smoother. Now that the S1H is significantly heavier and has built in IBIS, the footage coming off of the cam looks like it's on rails!

My Panasonic S1H is in the corner crying uncontrollably.

I have never shot a thing with the 1080p, even though I have a custom setting set to the 1080p 120hz HFR mode with audio and autofocus! ?

When I hear comments like this, makes me think this camera will have legs for a very long time!

Here is a video shot to really push the hell out of the grade and stress the 200Mbps H265 codec. Shot in 5.9K encoded at 50Mbps with 150Mbps Mbps maximum.

If you are using a Ronin-S gimbal, you can pull voltage from the accessory port, and that provides 12V with 2A capacity.

I have a Godox SL-150 light. Great light output (f/5.6-8 on my S1H at ISO-400 for a two up shot with a 3x3 thick film diffusion at 100%), Bowens mount and is excellent for music videos, but It's louder than the fan on my Ninja V and S1H combined and then tripled! Listen, you cannot use this for most indie film or ANY interview style production because the light is just too fucking loud!!! I ran this for an interview in a double baffled softbox around 4 feet from the subject. The subject had a wireless lav on, and it sounds like a hair drier is running the whole interview!

That's one of the best features on the S1H, and I use it all the time. When shooting in V-LOG, it even shows you the reading in stops over middle gray, so you can just tag a highlight and a subject's face and your going to go!

Anamorphic is S35 with various aspect ratios.

Yeah, I got it; and they broke some stuff too. Now you can't enable tally lights if you have the camera in Silent mode. I wonder what else was busted with this update as they tried to merge in the changes from the S1 codeline. Goes to show just how separate the code branches are between the S1 and the S1H for regressions like this to happen and not get caught. Of course I'm sensitive to this because I do this for a living at the day job, and it gets under my skin to see someone fumble product update with so much on the line.