Just Received my Atomos Samurai

It's a pitty Atomos is not testing the units for the M6 problem before shipping them to suppliers who are then shipping around the country.

Is it my problem to purchase an item from Melb, have it shipped to Sydney, Then have to ship it back to Atomos in Melb the same day?
 
[FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]All Samurai's coming to the US, have the correct standard mount inside. This is from Matthew Stoneking Atomos Business Development Manager for the Americas. He also wrote that they should be shipping currently to the USA and be available very soon.[/FONT]
 
Just shooting with my new Samurai on my F3 at Pro Res 422 setting, at the ATP tennis finals today in London. I have just been looking back through footage and have to say I am blown away by the quality of the images. I don't have S-LOG, but recording to an external recorder just transforms the camera into a new beast. I am used to high quality pictures from my PDW-700 but I have been blown away from the footage shot today. I am delighted to say my Nikon 80-200mm F2.8, and Tokina 11-16, performed really well alongside my CP.2's (50mm and 85mm) - I think I really have all the ranges covered here. I'll try to upload a little footage, but can't show any tennis sadly, may just post some O2 exteriors, although it was a very damp and misty day, they still looked great! For all the extra hassle carry around rails, colour VF, etc, etc - the images pay you back big time. Really happy with F3 today...that's it..Sparky
 
Sparky874 said:
Just shooting with my new Samurai on my F3 at Pro Res 422 setting, at the ATP tennis finals today in London. I have just been looking back through footage and have to say I am blown away by the quality of the images. I don't have S-LOG, but recording to an external recorder just transforms the camera into a new beast. I am used to high quality pictures from my PDW-700 but I have been blown away from the footage shot today. I am delighted to say my Nikon 80-200mm F2.8, and Tokina 11-16, performed really well alongside my CP.2's (50mm and 85mm) - I think I really have all the ranges covered here. I'll try to upload a little footage, but can't show any tennis sadly, may just post some O2 exteriors, although it was a very damp and misty day, they still looked great! For all the extra hassle carry around rails, colour VF, etc, etc - the images pay you back big time. Really happy with F3 today...that's it..Sparky
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Wouldn't mind seeing a picture of your rig with the Samurai. I'm still figuring out how to mount it.
 
Sparky874 said:
Just shooting with my new Samurai on my F3 at Pro Res 422 setting, at the ATP tennis finals today in London. I have just been looking back through footage and have to say I am blown away by the quality of the images. I don't have S-LOG, but recording to an external recorder just transforms the camera into a new beast. I am used to high quality pictures from my PDW-700 but I have been blown away from the footage shot today. I am delighted to say my Nikon 80-200mm F2.8, and Tokina 11-16, performed really well alongside my CP.2's (50mm and 85mm) - I think I really have all the ranges covered here. I'll try to upload a little footage, but can't show any tennis sadly, may just post some O2 exteriors, although it was a very damp and misty day, they still looked great! For all the extra hassle carry around rails, colour VF, etc, etc - the images pay you back big time. Really happy with F3 today...that's it..Sparky
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You know the first rule of Internet forums?
If no pictures, it did not happend!...
 
Vultch said:
Whats the focus and exposure assist functions like
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None on both of those. Possibly coming later in a firmware update. Just a note to those interested in using the Samurai as a field reference monitor. Don't expect too much from the touch-screen technology used in the screen design. I still use my TV Logic 056 for focus and reference even with the Samurai.
 
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Looks very clean, but hard to tell on the small video. like me you probably notice the reduction in noise in moving detailed parts of images where the XDCAM codec fall downs a bit. It's less noticible in static scenes. But I'm looking forward to the extra quality in post. Very nice compositioning and nice use of the ultra wide. Was it a Tokina 11-16?
 
powervideo said:
Looks very clean, but hard to tell on the small video. like me you probably notice the reduction in noise in moving detailed parts of images where the XDCAM codec fall downs a bit. It's less noticible in static scenes. But I'm looking forward to the extra quality in post. Very nice compositioning and nice use of the ultra wide. Was it a Tokina 11-16?
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Yes all with the Tokina thanks. I have an important question you may be able to help with. I have just looked at a batch of footage taken off the Samurai and none of the shots, except strangely a couple have any audio (the few that do have some audio on channels three and four) - none of the clips have anything on 1 and 2. But there is audio on tracks one and two on the internal SxS cards. I can get away with this as I didn't do any interviews etc, and still have all the original audio on internal cards -and most of the audio from this shoot is just to bubble under a VO and sound track - BUT I really need to know it didn't record tracks one and two on to the Samurai. I am connecting the Samurai to the HD SDI A port from the back of the camera. Any advice would be gratefully received! Thanks, Sparky
 
I have also noticed that the few clips with some audio have '4 Channel audio' on the clips properties (with the audio being only on channels 3&4), but the ones without only have two channels. So the audio I was monitoring in the camera must have been laid down on channels three and four, and not one and two. However I wasn't aware that I pressed any buttons to change this setting?! Any ideas?!
 
You need to get the Samurai flashed to the latest firmware. Ask your supplier to email you the update. For some reason it isn't on the Atomos website yet. We had a similar problem with no audio. One thing to check is to see that the audio is not disabled. There is is a little red "R" button on the front panel (I haven't got the Samurai with me today) that controls whether the audio is enabled. Make sure it is selected. Even if it is disabled, the meters and foldback continue to be live even though no audio is being recorded. I think this should be fixed in a future firmware update as it is too easy to see the meters working and assume audio is being recorded.

But first, get that firmware update as a priority.
 
powervideo said:
You need to get the Samurai flashed to the latest firmware. Ask your supplier to email you the update. For some reason it isn't on the Atomos website yet. We had a similar problem with no audio. One thing to check is to see that the audio is not disabled. There is is a little red "R" button on the front panel (I haven't got the Samurai with me today) that controls whether the audio is enabled. Make sure it is selected. Even if it is disabled, the meters and foldback continue to be live even though no audio is being recorded. I think this should be fixed in a future firmware update as it is too easy to see the meters working and assume audio is being recorded.

But first, get that firmware update as a priority.
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Thanks so much for getting back so quickly.
Using it again for a shoot Wednesday and need to get it sorted ASAP. I'm Looking at the Audio page of the Samurai now , there is a list of channels: 1/2 3/4 5/6 7/8 9/10 11/12 and finally a 1/2 again on the far right. Does the 1/2 channel icon on the far left have to have the R gfx selected so it is RED (NOT BLUE) for the channel to record? Also what is the other 1/2 refer to on the right on the monitor? Does this R need to be red too? I have attached the F3 to the Samurai now and I can see audio levels on channel 1&2, and nothing on 3&4. The strange thing is, the clip that did initially have some audio on it in the edit - the only clip of 200 with audio (!), it had audio on channels 3&4 and nothing on 1/2! I don't think I pressed anything by accident on the Samurai but I must have? Hope this makes some sense and thanks for your time helping out.
 
I'm not a big help at the moment as a DOP friend has my Samurai at the moment. Maybe the 3/4 audio you are getting is due to the audio mapping in the audio menu. The F3 only has two channel audio so you should just select 1 and 2. As for the 1/2 icons on the right, try selecting red and doing a quick test. Send me an email to info at php.com.au
 
powervideo said:
I'm not a big help at the moment as a DOP friend has my Samurai at the moment. Maybe the 3/4 audio you are getting is due to the audio mapping in the audio menu. The F3 only has two channel audio so you should just select 1 and 2. As for the 1/2 icons on the right, try selecting red and doing a quick test. Send me an email to info at php.com.au
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Hi Peter, as you suggested I selected 1 and 2 (switching the light red on) on the audio menu for channels one and two, and selected the 1/2 one on the right hand side for good measure and it seems to work. I going to use my headphones playing back clips just to check in the future. Also downloaded the new firmware, although not sure what features have been updated - thanks for sending me the link. Sparky
 
Do the Samurai units thats out with shooters have the correct imperial 1/4 mount? Just got an email from my supplier telling me there's a delay due to this.
 
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