NEX FS 100 footage thread and links

Will be able to comment soon. Can't really right now.

Footage will be avail soon as well.
 
vanvideo said:
Bad aliasing in one camera test just isn't conclusive enough for me. Several other videos showed no such problems. They're all online, check them out. Like you said, Nigel nitpicked the camera to death, yet praised the image. I would think he would have noticed the aliasing. In fact, it was the exact opposite - he said it had a better image (in his opinion) than the AF100.

We don't know enough from the other test to make a final conclusion. The tester himself said he wasn't certain of the camera's settings, as he had no manual.

Take a breather guys, relax. We'll all know soon enough.
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I keep seeing really high gain settings being displayed 27db, 30db and so on. Way beyond the F3's 18db maximum. I look forward to someone doing a test next to an F3 using all the various gains settings. Maybe the FS100 will at the very least have higher gain. Might not be unusable for every day shooting but I could find a use for 30db if it really acts like 30db! Maybe some near pitch black videography. It appears in the video that the iris closed down when it went from 15db to 30db, the scene was actually a hair darker.
 
ok.. Judging from cameras I have worked with in the past ( dvx100,hvx200, zony s7u, canon 7d )

I can honestly say that I thought I was a panasonic guy.. they were awesome cameras but I sold it to get a z7u... And after switching to the z7u, I have no desire to go to a panasonic ever again. The image that comes out of the sony z7u is amazing. By tweaking a little bit here and there in the image, I was able to get something I wanted and more..

I then got the 7d for back up stuff.. This camera was set up to film dull stuff, and then in editing make the colors pop... It was also a hassle. short battery life, xlr adapter crap.. Great image, but jees!


So now this baby comes out, as I was looking towards just buying the 7d with a few lenses and a 60d... but now I think I am going to just get a rebel that does 1080P and the sony FS100!


This camera looks amazing and from past experience with sonys z7u, I know the image that comes out of this will be better in so many ways from contrast, dynamic range, lighting, color, and more... Ok, everyone knows Sony will include little cheap parts.. but oh well, they are something atleast! This camera is just what I am looking for.. I film commercial work, mostly events and weddings, also short films and music videos.. I film anything I feel like and get called to do. For weddings, I couldnt have asked for a better camera, this thing shoots to card and hard drive!! AMAZING...

I think the only thing I could say that I am a little upset about, is that there is no internal ND filters.. it would make it so much easier to have these.

As soon as I see there is a adapter for canon lenses, its on like donkey kong.

Everybody else is nit picking at this wonderful tool, which judging from the z7, f3 and ex cameras.. this camera will rock, just like them... I saw someone mad about not having an external mic and only 1 card slot... uh.. sorry to break it to you, but most of sonys pro cameras dont, they need a shot gun.. which is better anyways... and the camera comes with one!! Geezzz...and as for the 1 card slot, that would make it close to perfect too but with internal hard drive and dslr only shooting to 1 cf card.... c;mon folks


ok all in all.. I am in love with this camera and look forward to getting it on a rig, with canon lenses and follow focus/ lcd screen.... the battery length, modular design, slow motion capabilities in 1080P, higher bit rate is a plus, shallow depth of field great in low light, recording to both card and ... this camera is near perfect..




BTW, some test footage online doesnt to the cmaera justice.. with a nice lens, uv filter outside you can get some AWESOME footage..


Done rambling.. either way, I love film makers and film making!
 
I got to play around with the fs100 at the NYC Sony event today and it really was impressive how clean the camera is even at 30db gain. Clearly its a jump in usable sensitivity of at least 1-2 stops compared to even 5dmk2, not actually that surprising considering the size of the photosites. This is the camera to beat for lowlight work.

Surprising the fs100 has 1080@60p recording and 30db when the f3 doesn't.

Apparently it also can do 422 or 444(RGB) over HDMI. I also recorded a few clips to a GH2 sdhc card I had on me. Funny the fs100 and gh2 use the same folder structure and didn't have to format between cameras.

Btw the kit lens is servo focus only, pretty useless for MF (which is all I use) but AF was slowish but seemed accurate and did not hunt, but I never use AF so maybe that's a normal speed. It was the bad kind of servo MF where if you turn it slow enough focus doesn't change and if you go a little fast suddenly you are macro or past infinity.
 
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nyvz said:
I got to play around with the fs100 at the NYC Sony event today and it really was impressive how clean the camera is even at 30db gain. Clearly its a jump in usable sensitivity of at least 1-2 stops compared to even 5dmk2, not actually that surprising considering the size of the photosites. This is the camera to beat for lowlight work.

Surprising the fs100 has 1080@60p recording and 30db when the f3 doesn't.

Apparently it also can do 422 or 444(RGB) over HDMI. I also recorded a few clips to a GH2 sdhc card I had on me. Funny the fs100 and gh2 use the same folder structure and didn't have to format between cameras.

Btw the kit lens is servo focus only, pretty useless for MF (which is all I use) but AF was slowish but seemed accurate and did not hunt, but I never use AF so maybe that's a normal speed. It was the bad kind of servo MF where if you turn it slow enough focus doesn't change and if you go a little fast suddenly you are macro or past infinity.
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great info thanks
 
I'm not too familiar with adapters for other lens... Will there be any cropping or zooming or even worse vignette when using these adapters with different lenses? I need to have very wide shots and I need to have lens start wide and can zoom in as well.

Does anyone have any experience with this mount on another NEX adapter? I want to be using canon lens on this.. The sony lens look quite horrific in my assumption... silver lenses just dont look like the real deal to me..
 
thanks for everyone who answered my questions! Then.. I would love to have prime lenses, but I am ok with doing the canon lenses.. I plan to have this and a canon that does video too.. so canon lenses would be great
 
Strange, everything I've seen looks great except footage from Tengo. Just wondering if the post workflow might have been the culprit? Perhaps CS4 is not handling AVC footage properly. I remember having big issues with Premiere CS4 and my GH1. Just thinking out loud here, not really certain either way...

I don't see the same kind of aliasing in the latest footage Henry posted and the Cozi video. Looks pretty alias free and solid.
 
Premiere CS4 has a problem with 4:2:0 progressive chroma. That was fixed in CS5 version, oh, I think it was 5.0.3. I don't know if that could be causing the issue reported here, but it's worth noting.
 
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