Video Hummus

I would say yes, DR doesn’t matter much when you can control lighting. But go outside and see if 8 stops is the same as shooting 12 on your S1 or other high DR camera.

Lol, I think the cinema5d results are more indicative of real world performance. No way it’s 14.7 I think this is a respectable showing for the relatively compact S1H. Too bad they didn’t have a Internal ND solution for it.

All the latest CFExpress and the upcoming SD Card standard (SD Express; SDEX) are based off of PCI 3.0 protocols and even NVMe 1.3 protocols that the latest SSD use. Which, in the case of SD Express, raises transfer speeds to 900MB/s and capacities to 128TB. However, camera companies are loathed to adopt new standards. We have UHS-3 since 2017 which doubles the performance over UHS-2 transfer rates and we still don’t have one camera to support it. The move to the ubiquitous PCI Express standard is definitely better though. Cheaper hardware for all. So it will be interesting to see where they go. SD express or CFExpress. CFExpress has an advantage of being slightly bigger which opens up larger capacities.

It was on the older, larger floppys. I think I was in 4th grade or something. I remember when a member of our party died in game you could write a small message on their tombstone. You could imagine what our pre-teen brains came up with... When you came across a tombstone anywhere in the game you could read what was written on the tombstone. Good times.

We've come a long way from floppy disks. Now, one frame from a 400Mbps GH5 file at 24fps won't fit on it. I remember playing oregon trail as a kid. It was like 10 floppies or something.

I would say, based on my Dads life, he went to the cinema to watch Kubrick films. The pokey black and white tv was for reruns and the Johnny Carson show. DR is, in my opinion, the single metric that will improve the image coming out of your camera (there are exceptions of course). S1H ranges from 13.2 to 13.7. That’s a good enough increase from previous gen to make a difference.

A C100mk3 with 10-bit internal, clog, a decent screen, and 14 stops of DR and DPAF in all modes would do so well. No fuss, beautiful colors straight out of camera. I would rather have a solid 10-bit image than fuss around with 12-bit BRAW (good as it is) since most of the image content is consumed on compressed 8-bit streaming codecs over the Internet and viewer on phones, tablets, and laptop screens.

Maybe conceding sensor design and manufacture to a competitor with a competing camera line wasn’t very smart? What other companies do CMOS? Fairchild Imaging (BAE Systems) Samsung. Sharp? Maybe it’s time for them to go shopping somewhere else less they keeping sucking the toes of Sony.

I agree. The best camera for you is the one that makes you want to go out and shoot! Ive only held two Olympus cameras in my hand but they both left an impression on me. The combination of features just makes it easy and fun to shoot with. I know they get picked on for implementing Starry Sky AF and such but don’t knock it until you’ve carried it all day and realize it can bang out 50MPX landscape photos handheld, do long exposure Without filters, and end the day with some light handheld astrophotography. I just wish they would give me 10-bit 4K up 30p internal for video. But I’m still going to pick up and EM1.3 for photography. Maybe they will add 10-bit video in a firmware update. We all know it’s hardware is capable.

There is an option to turn this on in the latest firmware for GH5/GH5S/G9

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So a small update on the Sony Tough SF-M V60 cards for those that care. I've been using it for several months and have experienced multiple corrupted files even while shooting 150Mbps codec on GH5S. I was afraid it was my camera. I turned on simultaneous recording to dual card slots with a second card in it and confirmed that the Sony was corrupting files while my second card recorded the clips with no issues. Pretty disappointing for a $109 card.

You would not want your shutter speed to be changing while filming. Best bet is get an ND filter. Set your ISO at base ISO. Use the ND filter to slightly under expose your image by 1 stop maybe 2 stops at base ISO and then turn on auto ISO. The camera will now turn up or down the ISO to achieve whatever your exposure Compensation is set to. Panasonic does a good job of smoothly ramping up and down. Your exposure will change while you are shooting but if the lighting doesn’t change drastically in a frame then it won’t be noticeable. I would highly recommend also setting up the AE lock button so when it is pressed will lock in your current exposure while it is pressed. That way you are telling the camera to manage exposure for you at a fixed aperture and shutter speed while letting the ISO scale up and down to maintain a particular exposure. In darker, lowlight scenes just twist the ND to let in more light and the camera will adjust down the ISO and you’ll have less noise. I would shoot in 10-bit and use a hue selection mask in post to select the over saturated colors and bring down the saturation to mute them a bit.

This is what you want. https://revisionfx.com/products/rsmb/

My theory is that the horrible rolling shutter is a contributing factor in Sony’s perceived IBIS performance. But then again the S1H does really well.... After using a EM1X briefly in a photo store I’m still blown away at its ability with the correct EIS setting.

Not mine but very well done. Thought it kept the spirit of @mojo43 film above.

I think there is more to an image than to sound for most people. Why aren’t their sound people recording on 20 year old sound capturing devices like there are people shooting on lenses.

are they using high frame rates or something else to blend multiple images at different exposures?

Nah, they are going to draw this tease out as long as possible. So much free press with people freaking about the rumored specs (we haven’t been given the fine print to read). Really hoping it’s a turning point for Canon, myself, even though I have no interest in 8K.

The 4/3rd IMX594CQR is intriguing. 41MP but only shoots 4K DCI. I wonder if it does 4K 120p. Panasonic, this most likely candidate for 8K, said they aren’t ready for it in 2020. So that either means no GH6 this year, or a non-8K GH6 with oversampled 4K which would be beautiful.

I’m glad I live in a rural area. Lots of social distance in the forest.

You would need $1000 microphone to take advantage of it. And for most people it’s more than good enough. There are other questions as well as: Delivery medium (YouTube will butcher it) The hardware the person is listening on (90% probably crappy phone speakers or computer speakers or AirPods) I would say every one of those cameras except the A7III had more than good enough audio. Money better spent taking the 30 mins to learn how to clean up audio in your favorite NLE.

https://petapixel.com/2020/03/26/sony-spins-off-camera-business-into-separate-company/ They must feel like they don’t need to hide their numbers in large corporate departments.

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