Martin BetterFly Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Is there anyway you can take a photo while recording video? Like in canon dslrs. Even if it pauses the video it's fine with me, I'm just looking for the answer in order to help me with the decision of buying one. Perhaps when the silent shutter is turned on it's possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giulio Cosmo Calisse Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Can anyone explain to me why S-LOG2 affects RAW photos at iso 3200? I get files that are slightly noisier, but with way more dynamic range, especially in the highlights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikkor Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Upload some raw files comparsion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted August 24, 2014 Author Administrators Share Posted August 24, 2014 Can anyone explain to me why S-LOG2 affects RAW photos at iso 3200? I get files that are slightly noisier, but with way more dynamic range, especially in the highlights. It only affects JPEG though right and then you have to grade it! Shoot raw for better results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzNimbus Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 FWIW, I had an A7 out on a music video shoot yesterday & it performed like a champ. Shot on & off for about 12 hours. Went through three batteries & didn't even fill up a single 64 gig card. After messing with ML Raw on a 70D, then the Blackmagic Pocket, not to mention having a GH4 for about 4 days, I think I'm ready to settle down with the A7s. It's amazing in low light, and grades very, very easily. It's rock solid stable, and is so much easier to work with than the BM pocket. (battery life, storage, screen/viewfinder) Clients were blown away by the images. This thing rocks in Slow Motion! :) harryllama 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmond Leung Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Hello, I have received my A7s from amazon (3rd party seller) in US, however the camera is not locked in NTSC mode. Also I am having problem to record my footage with REC RUN timecode on them, in fact all the footage has starts at 00:00:00:00 no matter what setting I use in the UC/TC settings. Wondering if I have missed anything. Thanks, Edmond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harryllama Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Oz, what did you use to capture slow motion? The Memory App (or whatever it's called)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmcindie Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Funny moment, we shot a music video with the Sony a7s and the 5dmarkIII as a b-cam. While looking at the a7s footage the director was like "this looks great, sharper and more filmic than the 5d". Then I switched material back to 5d and once more to the a7s. He didn't realize it but then said "yeah this 5d stuff looks more soft" while I was playing back a7s shots. Sometimes all these differences just go away when the material itself is good enough. Plus placebo can be very strong ;) BUT the A7s did look very nice with its .mp4 files. ISO 25,600 was really pushing it (it gives more compression errors, we got macroblocks and detail smearing due to noise reduction) but it was UNBELIEVABLE how a simple cellphone lit up a car so much during the night that the specular highlights were BLOWN OUT. I couldn't believe that it was a cellphone doing it, a cellphone that was 5 feet away from the car. It was just so dark that we could light with very little lights and still see forest in the shadows. A7s is a godsend here in Finland as it can get very dark after summer. Unfortunately the Yongsuo ef-mount adapter didn't send the stabilize signal to lenses (eventhough it did with the nex7) so our 200mm shots were almost impossible. One question, has anyone gotten the HDMI and back LCD output simultaneously? Our LCD always went off and I couldn't find anything to fix it. More impressions of the a7s will probably follow. This shot is ISO 51,200 and a bit of noise reduction (still mode) it saw better than my eye: _DSC0490 by hmcindie, on Flickr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgharding Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 ^ That looks lovely. What a great camera this is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted August 26, 2014 Author Administrators Share Posted August 26, 2014 Nice shot man! By the way my A7S review part 2 and conclusion are coming this week. Sorry it took a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noone Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Anyone using the Sony Live view grading app in any A7 series camera (or A6000 ETC)? https://www.playmemoriescameraapps.com/portal/usbdetail.php?eid=IS9104-NPIA09014_00-000010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzNimbus Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Oz, what did you use to capture slow motion? The Memory App (or whatever it's called)? just shot at 60 & 120 fps. You're thinking of time lapse, I believe. There's a free app for android called "simply timelapse" for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmond Leung Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Hello, I have received my A7s from amazon (3rd party seller) in US, however the camera is not locked in NTSC mode. Also I am having problem to record my footage with REC RUN timecode on them, in fact all the footage has starts at 00:00:00:00 no matter what setting I use in the UC/TC settings. Wondering if I have missed anything. Thanks, Edmond Seems like AVCHD is able to record the TC but not XAVC-S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted August 27, 2014 Author Administrators Share Posted August 27, 2014 Anyone using the Sony Live view grading app in any A7 series camera (or A6000 ETC)? https://www.playmemoriescameraapps.com/portal/usbdetail.php?eid=IS9104-NPIA09014_00-000010 Nanu nanu!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludisan Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Andrew, you are talking about 14bit raw in small file size, but that's internal and not rwa any more, is it? as I know sony only lets us output 8-bit through hdmi, so the 2000 bucks for the shogun to end up with slog2 in only 8bit leaves me a bit puzzlet cause it kills all the possibilities in post... sony outputs only 8bit, atomos records maximally 10bit, so where are the 14bit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenpmd Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 I have no 24p in my camera. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted October 18, 2014 Author Administrators Share Posted October 18, 2014 I have no 24p in my camera. Any ideas? Switch to NTSC mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronFilm Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Nice shot man! By the way my A7S review part 2 and conclusion are coming this week. Sorry it took a while. Is it still coming or have I somehow missed it? Really looking forward to more info from you on the A7s, it is looking like a very tempting camera. Am trying to decide between getting the A7s to shoot a feature film with, or using the BMCC EF and BMPCC which we already have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harryllama Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Yes, looking forward to Part deux! Especially more info about the actual differences between the different gammas and other things in the picture profiles -- like, what is crispening exactly? (That's in the Detail submenu.) And what does black gamma do? Any insight into these things would be a big help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenpmd Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 I have no 24p in my camera. Any ideas? Thanks Andrew! Can I use APS-C lenses in video mode? Aside from when I want the best quality, where I am using a combination of FE and Canon glass, I really fancy that 16-50 power zoom for taking out with me on nights out etc or when I want something in my pocket. Can you crop the video like that? If not, what is the smallest way to get some stabilisation? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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