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Wow. Can they crack the contrast up any higher on that piece? ...
One could have graded it differently, obviously, as is a personal wont. But, having watched some of "Vinyl" and some much admired feature films shot by Lubezki, I find the modern cameras, in relevance to the final output, to be getting very close to a painter's brush. This was shot on a $1,000 camera and recorded externally using ProRes and, if one goes off specs only, it's sufficient enough for a theatrical release (provided there are no fast moving subjects).

And I guess I like the "high contrast" a lot more than the flat washed-out look that our friends from the UK prefer.


PS. I thought "Wilfred", shot on several DSLR's over the course of its production, was good enough as a TV show too, though its cameras were inferior on specs visavis a higher end camera of the day. Nowadays, any difference is negligible.
 
PS. I thought "Wilfred", shot on several DSLR's over the course of its production, was good enough as a TV show too, though its cameras were inferior on specs visavis a higher end camera of the day. Nowadays, any difference is negligible.

Interesting to note that the original Australian version of "Wilfred" was shot on 16mm :)
 
Wow. Can they crack the contrast up any higher on that piece?

A few shots - mainly the old man did look very good.

It's actually more of a thing of being underlit than cranking the contrast level. If you take your pocket camera and shoot 'Video' dynamic range ProRes @ISO200 inside a dark room or a similar environment, it's going to look similar. It's natural contrast.
 
I can deal with the overheating and I can minimize the rolling shutter well enough. I love the quality in this little thing.
 
It was OK, although blacks crushed like that are definitely not my thing.
I don't think it's anyone's thing per se but there's your explanation below.

It's actually more of a thing of being underlit than cranking the contrast level. If you take your pocket camera and shoot 'Video' dynamic range ProRes @ISO200 inside a dark room or a similar environment, it's going to look similar. It's natural contrast.
To please the cognoscenti, try a different grade - lift blacks a little, etc.
 
That piece is in the vault...archived. Maybe I could have showed a bit more detail here and there, but personally, I cannot stand flat/washed out images/blacks.

When I look at stuff with my eyes in a dark room, the blacks are black. Deep.

It's all personal preference and I totally respect everyone's opinion because I am very opinionated myself and have certain tastes.
 
Exactly, criticizing the grade in a discussion like this is kind of counter productive at best.
We're talking about the camera's inherent capabilities not the capabilities or tastes of the person doing the post.

Creative is, by definition, subjective. It's sort of like saying you don't like the Beatles because of a bad cover of "Yesterday" you heard at the bar.
Either the camera is capable of delivering a level of IQ or it isn't.

For instance some of the first footage I saw of the BMPCC was from a piece by P Bloom. I don't like his grading choices very much and found the images less than impressive, but I could immediately see what the camera was capable of.

Obviously there needs to be more shooting and grading of different styles by different people to determine that.
 
Thanks for posting your footage, I really appreciate that you have taken the time to share your work and experience with the A6300 and the material has convinced me that I can definitely see the upsides of the camera. I will buy one but I will buy an ATOMOS flame eventually too. For the moment I will use one of my Ninja recorders for anything of length in hd. I will and suggest you and other owners contact Sony for an official response to issues with a camera that is still to be released for sale in many North American and world markets.
 
Sure, np. My only concern is that I don't want Sony to solve any issues by affecting the IQ.

I am not familiar with the technical details of the engineering (and could be wrong), but I assume the reason the rolling shutter is so bad is because the quality is so good (in 4K).
 
Sure, np. My only concern is that I don't want Sony to solve any issues by affecting the IQ.

I am not familiar with the technical details of the engineering (and could be wrong), but I assume the reason the rolling shutter is so bad is because the quality is so good (in 4K).
Yeh, I am not really concerned about the rolling shutter and imho too many worry too much about that but the overheating issue worries me. I am concerned that constant overheating will have a serious effect on components in the camera and cause a major failure down the road. But who knows, the camera is $1K US and that is a steal.
 
Looking at a a6300 to be a "B" camera for 2 camera interviews with FS7. Anybody already doing that and NOT recording S-LOG? If so, what settings allow for an easy match? I'm not after filmic beauty, but a MATCH. Also, can you set A6300 to Free Run for at least a fairly close time code? Thanks.
 
Looking at a a6300 to be a "B" camera for 2 camera interviews with FS7. Anybody already doing that and NOT recording S-LOG? If so, what settings allow for an easy match? I'm not after filmic beauty, but a MATCH. Also, can you set A6300 to Free Run for at least a fairly close time code? Thanks.

I just got mine in tonight and am going over the A6300 and setting it up for a 2 cam interview tomorrow (it was going to be a 1 cam shoot but bringing the A6300 to test it out). Will be shooting with the FS5 in cine gamma 4 so I'll let you know how they look.

Also bringing it along to a wedding shoot this weekend to see how it does. Of course I'll still have the A6000 in case anything goes wrong but this should be an awesome gimbal setup. Time to find out how good the 1080p is and what settings to use as 4k may be overkill for the wedding (except for the cermony were it will be on top of my 3rd camera to test out the 4k, though still running the 3rd camera incase of over heating issues).
 
Looking at a a6300 to be a "B" camera for 2 camera interviews with FS7. Anybody already doing that and NOT recording S-LOG? If so, what settings allow for an easy match? I'm not after filmic beauty, but a MATCH. Also, can you set A6300 to Free Run for at least a fairly close time code? Thanks.

Appreciate the response, but I'm looking for "a6300 as "B" camera for 2 camera interviews with FS7". I think you can set a6300 to some setting that corresponds to a setting with the same name as FS7? Do they match? What setting do they share? Thanks.
 
Here's another one - Olympus Zuiko 28 & 50mm. Definitely need shoulder rig or stabilising solution for movement.

Loving the sharpness and dynamic range - though the colour's not as beautiful as the FS7. But close. Coupled with the XLR add on it's like having a pocketable FS7 at a fifth of the price. Can't wait to use it for a webseries.

 
Got the camera and got a few shots before it poured to rain while I ran home :( and then todays interview got rescheduled so wont be able to compare to the FS5 (so if anyone does shoot with these to before I would love to know what you used setting wise to make them match. Im going to try cinegamma 4).
 
I used two of these bad boys yesterday on a narrative shoot and I am very pleased with the image quality. The one camera never overheated and the A cam only overheated when I was shooting in the sun for about 15 minutes. I turned the camera off for about 5 minutes and placed it in the shade and after that it was all good.
 
Shot a wedding with it staurday and shot for an hour in 4k mode with clips ranging from 2:30 to 6 mins long, with breaks ranging from 15 seconds to a minute and half. Camera never got hot and no signs of it overheating. Then Sunday did a test of just non stop recording inside and first 30 mins no issue, then started recording again and got to about 7 minutes and my battery died (woops didn't have a full charge). Will do more tests outside in the heat but so far it's been doing well. Hopefully tomorrow I'll do a shoot with the FS5 and A6300 to compare profiles .
 
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