NEX FS700R discontinued

Still using my FS700/O7Q+ virtually every week, continue to love it! Only reason to change would be size, but I have a couple of other smaller cameras for when I need to be more portable. This was me with it last week shooting at a track day.

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I just returned home from a month shooting in very remote outback Australia with the FS700/Shogun Inferno combo.

And of course, true to Murphy's law, I dropped the camera when we were about as far as possible from civilisation. The lens took the brunt of the fall and snapped the lens mount off the camera. Possibly repairable, but definitely not without a long wait.

We drove 8 hours to the nearest phone reception, where we were able to ring around a few camera stores to see what they had available. We even tried leveraging a Canon Pro rep to see if they could have anything expidited. Unfortunately there was nothing - no FS5/7's, C100's, etc - in stock anywhere outside of Sydney or Melbourne, and with even the 'express' mail service to our location taking about 10 days we were actually pretty close to flying from Darwin to Singapore (which is almost as close as Darwin-Sydney) in order to walk into a shop and buy one. We decided to do one more scan of film groups on Facebook and, in the hour since we last checked, someone had just posted an FS700R for sale in Queensland. We jumped on it, and I noticed the seller had a mutual friend with me - who happened to be a pro surfer. Now, pro surfers are legendary for their ability to get bulky & fragile baggage (eg a bag with 8-10 surfboards) into the remotest corners of the world on a shoestring budget, so we had this guy collect it and somehow talk his way into getting it on a next-flight courier service to Darwin for pennies.

We drove the 18 hours to meet it at Darwin airport, and after re-arranging our program a bit ended up only a day and a half behind schedule. I was thrilled that we managed to find an FS700 because our other options were either an FS5, at triple the price, or a C100mkII which can't do half of what the FS700 does.

Long story short, in mid-2017 I've just bought myself another FS700 and plan on using it for a few more years still!
 
But does it do the in camera correction for the lens distortion of the 18-105?

As it varies throughout the zoom. So you can't fix the 4K raw in post if the camera isn't doing the fix in camera beforehand.
 
kaidumo said:
It does it in-camera but only for internal recordings, not when recording raw.
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Correct. As far as I know it does no in-camera correction for any lens when recording raw. But the 18-105 was one of the last to be included with the FS700R updates for in-camera recording. It works great. It stays on my camera most of the time
 
I have two questions:

How much is the raw license for the FS700R?
Does this device work directly with the Atomos Shogun Inferno without the interface unit?
 
Cary Knoop said:
I have two questions:

How much is the raw license for the FS700R?
Does this device work directly with the Atomos Shogun Inferno without the interface unit?
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The ‘R’ model has the raw upgrade already done at factory so no additional cost and it works directly with the Atomos Shogun.
 
Cary Knoop said:
I have two questions:

How much is the raw license for the FS700R?
Does this device work directly with the Atomos Shogun Inferno without the interface unit?
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Yes, you can hook it up directly to the Atomos.

I was quoted by Sony NZ Pro Video NZ$520ish for an upgrade. (so US$350ish??) But if you have the "R" version then bonus, you already have it! No need to pay for an upgrade.

kaidumo said:
It does it in-camera but only for internal recordings, not when recording raw.
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Oh bummer, so the 18-105mm (which I own! Love it) is a bad idea if recording externally? (which is the only way to use the FS700! ha)
 
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