FS-100 Footage: EastSide Food Park

Duke M. said:
Mr. Moore, your comments often seem disproportionately harsh. The setting sun is a yellow tone. Any reflection or highlight of that sun is going to be yellow in tone and that is what the camera is going to capture. It only takes a minute to fix when you color correct.

Yes, he could have exposed the one shot better, but a new camera used for some quick off-hand videos is going to have things like that. It wasn't intended to be a professional video. Chill.
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I agree, It looked nice for what it was, and I really didn't see any major problems and thought it looked nice (except for the stuck pixel). Besides this is a camera test.
 
Hi Stephen thanks for all your posts, proving very useful, good to know re-"dead pixel" but sony is always good with their back up. On Wednesday or Thursday as soon as it arrives in UK, lm off to look at the FS 100 as l have a reservation against one. Will be taking along manual focus FD Nikon lenses 20mm 3.5 - 50mm 1.8 - 105mm 2.5 - and a 35mm-200mm 3.5 zoom on a Voigtlander F adapter - ND control via Genus variable ND filter 72mm with step down rings for the lenses. Spent about a week sourcing the filter, rings and Voigtlander Glass I have on 2 week approval. But if l get the camera l'll get the 28-200 lenses with it and a ninja for 422 capture.

Will be testing it out against a Canon XF 305. A good camera but limited depth of field. Im hoping that the FS100 with a wide to medium lens at F8 will give the depth of field as needed and a great shallow depth of field as required.

Personally l feel this camera will be more of a game changer than the pani as it will have a wider base being a sony product and the corporate market will take up the shallower and normal depth of field look. The EX1 and Canon Xf305 all in
one camera for mass productions days are number, because your going to get a sexier look for the same bucks. Production values are changing for the lower mid range corporate budgets.

Any suggestions welcome
 
It looks excellent. Now comes the part where the "self proclaimed experts" want to enlighten us with their knowledge and critique. The only opinion and critique I care is Barry Green's. And I am sure we will here from him on this camera. Thank you Stephen for sharing!
 
Well, I wasn't using Cinegamma this time, but I will on my next trip out with the camera. Honestly, there are so many different options/settings in the Picture Profile menu, that it's going to take some serious time and effort to get everything dialed in the way I like it.
 
Kholi said:
...with the extensive settings there must be a way to set it up for much neater, less yellow roll off.
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For those who followed the Mr Moore 'overly harsh' posts, the above is genuinely the point I was trying to make. I guess I need to work on my turn of phrase.

Viewing material from new cameras is critical for my purchase decisions and I really appreciate others uploading their footage.
 
No worries, Morgan. I don't take anything I hear on the internet personally.

Based on my experiences last night, I have to say the kit lens is actually quite nice, and a lens I'll certainly keep. The range is amazing, and while it is a bit on the slow side, with the sensitivity of the FS-100 chip, it's quite usable in all but the lowest of light. About 90% of this piece was shot with it.
 
Stephen - thank you for posting the test footage, and an even BIGGER thank you for using the kit lens! I was getting tired of people posting footage with Cooke lenses that I will NEVER be able to afford :)
 
Do you still have the AF100? I would love to see a side by comparision with the FS100.
I have seen several of Philip Blooms side by sides but he seems to always
end up waving candles & cigars around wondering how the cameras
will handle in the dark. Well I hardly ever shoot in the dark and
I have never filmed candles.

I would love to see some normal video that can show of the
differences between these 2 cameras.

And since both cameras can use Nikon lenses - it would make more
sense to have some testing using the same lenses on both cameras.
 
morgan_moore said:
For those who followed the Mr Moore 'overly harsh' posts, the above is genuinely the point I was trying to make. I guess I need to work on my turn of phrase.

Viewing material from new cameras is critical for my purchase decisions and I really appreciate others uploading their footage.
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For your frame of reference, though, I'd like to point out that I've worked with the camera before and it isn't easy to tame highlights at all. What may seem a no-brainer actually isn't so obvious.

The camera will need a lot of tuning to get optimal results, and is definitely not an out-of-box image.
 
Nice stuff...it was funny I recognized Julian Smith before I even saw his face (the closeup of the guy playing guitar). :P
 
Very nice. So how was the egronomics of shooting with the camera? Did you set up with a shoulder rig, or other support, or did you shoot hand held?
 
HVXguy said:
Do you still have the AF100? I would love to see a side by comparision with the FS100.
I have seen several of Philip Blooms side by sides but he seems to always
end up waving candles & cigars around wondering how the cameras
will handle in the dark. Well I hardly ever shoot in the dark and
I have never filmed candles.

I would love to see some normal video that can show of the
differences between these 2 cameras.

And since both cameras can use Nikon lenses - it would make more
sense to have some testing using the same lenses on both cameras.
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You should definitely try out a comparison, but if I had to summarize it... I'd say...

If you want a technically better image and you're willing to foot the bill for essential extras like NDs, then FS100 is it.

If you want the better functioning camera, it's AF100 hands down.

From my own day of comparisons, nothing scientific, just shooting.
 
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