Exposing Slog2

stefanhuberfilms said:
I... the second thing i'm considering at the moment is a samurai blade since i would get a good and small external monitor and recorder at the same time.
Click to expand...

Got the Blade one month ago. I bought it to bridge the time until 7Q will be available. It's a great to have this recorder
with standard NP series battery and affordable HDD. But I have to say that I am a little disappointed of the monitor.
I had a side by side comparision with the Samurai and the difference is not that big. Both have a kind of milky and glossy
screen which is not suitable for shooting in daylight outdoors. The Blade is sharper and has more details, vectorscope
is a nice feature but hard to see in bright daylight even with a hood. Up to now I didn't find an overlay setting in which
you see the vectorscope with the marking lines and the full content of framing both. Samurai monitor is even a little
brighter than the Blade monitor. And 5" is too small as a field monitor, esp when you use onscreen tools as vectorscope.
Unfortunately FS700 ist still 8bit in SDI out with FW 3.0 - 10bit ProRes would probably be enough for 80% of my purpose.

So my first impression: it's first of all a recorder and not suitable to subsitute a field monitor.
Here's a side by side on the FS700, but it's inside my studio and on the photo it looks better than in reality
samurai1.jpg


blade looks bigger because it was closer to the photo camera, size is the same

samurai2.jpg


better viewing angle of the Blade

samurai3.jpg
 
Last edited:
thanks for sharing clermond! how do you like the quality of 8bit 422 ProRresHQ when shooting slog2? any improvement when pushing the footage in grading? would you mind sponsoring an avchd and a prores slog file to download? would be cool to grade them side by side :) (something with high contrast, but colorful would be cool)

how is the screen for focusing?

regarding your picture, the samurai blade looks more color accurate, the samurai a little blueish, but brighter...

thanks again and cheers to Frankfurt!
 
Clemond,

thanks so much for sharing! I cannot test a blade where I am without buying one.

any chance you can try and record the play out from one of the super slow motion mode? Eg hit external record after end trigger?

i was hoping maybe the ssm playout was maybe 422 10-bit. Maybe only the 4k 100fps play out which the blade could probably not record. Maybe the hd Ssm playout in raw mode? Might be 60i
 
sorry Timmy, I don't have the time actually but maybe I can try on the weekend. Don't put too much hope on it I dont think it will work. Have in mind that Convergent is a subsidiary company of Sony therefore it might be different with the 7Q
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top