zlfan

you kept s1h and sold s5 2x?

every time when i grade 14 bit true lossless ml raw, i am so happy.

just did some shots on a local busy street. the 120p photo mode is nice, people mostly ignored me. some although noticed me, but 75 frames were blasted in less than 1 second, just like taking one picture, very quick. the buffer clearance time was not bothering most of the time, because i spent time looking for the next good frame. v90 cards may cut the time in half. but i am really ok with it, at least for now. it reminds me of the nikon 1 v1, v1 can only do 60p 30 frames. in conclusion, it is a turbo gopro.

then i probably will use c4k 24/30p for long shots. i found out that c4k 10 bit h265 has only two picture styles, om400 log, hlg. kind of limiting. in photo m mode, sh1 silent fast electronic 120p, or sh2 50p or sh 20p, all of the art filters can be used, buffer is 75 if recording raw plus superfine jpeg. the refresh time is about half a minute. i like this mode very much.

for new cameras, i care very much about the ibis. i have a gopro12, good is, now om-1, good ibis. in the future, maybe s5 3 x, something like that, good ibis on ff so good low light.

s1h is ff, not doubt it is better in some major aspects.

the reason why i am interested in c4k is because i read from several sources that c4k 24p is more detailed than uhd 4k on em1 mk iii em1x etc. if om-1 c4k 60p is as detailed as c4k 24p, it is probably oversampled 4k from the 6k sensor. plus, using 60p to negate the low bit rate codec, finally, this mode can stand up against other big name cameras. if this works in real world shooting, om-1 is a sleeper, actually. certainly it is not good for low light, the sensor size is m43/43.

sandisk uhs i 200 MB/s extreme pro sd card seems fine. i recorded in the above mode for 1 minute. no issue. v90 cards are 10x more expensive. seems no significant advantage.

i just checked my om-1 in video mode, it can do c4k 60p, h265, long gop, 10 bit. i will use 60p to compensate for the low bit rate 152 mbits/s long gop codec. om-1 has two level zebras, real time histogram, horizontal and vertical levels. actually good enough for typical video shooting.

nikon used to lag behind canon in the sensor design and making. not any more. the shortest flange distance, plus, the best sensor design, and the codec. nikon seems will out edge canon, arri, sony.

how can arri alexa survive this?

om-1 is very compact designed. very nice. just feels a little bit plastic. certainly, more plastic means less weight. but i still like 5d3 better in terms of the build quaility. compared to leica r8, modern cameras are more consumer product, instead of lasting pieces. long time ago i bid a kodak retina slr camera with a lens. i wanted the lens and kept the lens, and donated the camera to a local vintage camera store. even though the retina camera was a low end product at its time, it still feels some luxury in it. now even the top of the line cameras are more consumer products in comparision. probably the most durable camera i have is the panavision f900 (part only, as the lens interface is lacking), built like a tank, weighed like a tank.

it is about the feeling when handling, not about the functionality.

om-1 is more like c100 mk2 or c300 og level, less than fs7, far less than f5, r1mx, epic-x.

just received my brand new om-1. kind of plastic. good but not perfect. the build quality is a little bit better than my old em-5, not as good as canon 1d series and Nikon d1/d2/etc series. seems to me that latest top cameras focus on features more than on build quality. maybe em1x is better than om-1 in terms of build quality. worthy to have em1x if so.