Pampuri's Osaka Test #1
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PaPa
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Yeah, i found myself wondering what frame rate /shutter was being used. Something about the movement felt very reality TV.
also gives us a (decent) example of how the blowouts happen on this camera (minus the 2x compression to get it on vimeo) So we can't judge too too much yet. However, the sensitivity looked good. Skewing was difficult to notice on the whip pan at the end and i imagine a feature like that will not be changing with the 5% left so that's reassuring.
If the blowouts are only slightly improved for the production version then that would be great. But at the moment, that seems to be the only weak link if I were to compare it to a 7 or 5D.
Thanks for the upload!
also gives us a (decent) example of how the blowouts happen on this camera (minus the 2x compression to get it on vimeo) So we can't judge too too much yet. However, the sensitivity looked good. Skewing was difficult to notice on the whip pan at the end and i imagine a feature like that will not be changing with the 5% left so that's reassuring.
If the blowouts are only slightly improved for the production version then that would be great. But at the moment, that seems to be the only weak link if I were to compare it to a 7 or 5D.
Thanks for the upload!
Many people here are worried about the DR. A lot of blown highlights, ugh. On the other hand, the colors looked good - see the skin tone (in low light!) on the chef... not bad at all! I'm not getting too worked up either way right now... it's still early days. Once production units hit the street, that'll be the time for real tests (and then firmware updates are also always possible 
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Matt Gottshalk
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Those night shots looked great.
digitalfilmmaker
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I didn't shoot the stuff. The blown highlights for me just point to how sensitive the camera is -- in Bloom's first test with the match he was able to blow out his face with one footcandle. Most people will be more aggressive at protecting the highlights as the figure out its butter zone.
Gary Senda
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TheReverend
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If you've been following Barry Green's posts, you should know that the setting that most of the guys were using (cine-like-d I believe) is an extremely flat setting. This setting also freaks out on over exposure. There are many other matrix settings on the camera that give you the ability to adjust the KNEE, which controls severity of blowout. So, using a setting like b-press with a medium knee, you won't get highlights blowing out!
Or you can use the flat cine-like d, but you can't over expose, or all your white highlights will be blown out!!!
Petros Kolyvas
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And it makes sense in that when lighting for cinema-style pictures in a controlled setting, you'd take care not to overexpose any part of your image before you rolled.
Wouldn't you?
Barry_Green
Moderator
Of course. Cine-D excels when you can control the lighting to ensure that you won't be overexposing.
I should point out that much of what you're seeing from Emmanuel Pampuri's stuff is the very first time he'd picked the camera up. Everyone else there had a previous opportunity to use it, if only for a few hours. Emmanuel had never seen one. And he was the only one to bring the camera to dinner that first night, so he's the only one with coverage of the food. I thought some of his food shots looked absolutely excellent considering it was literally the very first things he'd ever shot with the AF100.
I should point out that much of what you're seeing from Emmanuel Pampuri's stuff is the very first time he'd picked the camera up. Everyone else there had a previous opportunity to use it, if only for a few hours. Emmanuel had never seen one. And he was the only one to bring the camera to dinner that first night, so he's the only one with coverage of the food. I thought some of his food shots looked absolutely excellent considering it was literally the very first things he'd ever shot with the AF100.
Petros Kolyvas
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Certainly made me hungry!
Steve Kahn
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Watched it on a 50" 1080p plasma. Looked pretty damn good. The shots that is. The food?... kinda yuck.
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PaPa
Major Contributor
just finishd downloading it and watched the 720 p version on my 42" 1080p monitor. Damn, it's great to be able to do wides again. Just look at those, not an ounce of any type of noticeable moire or aliasing. Just gorgeous.. Just have to figure out the hilights now, seems to super saturate the colors that get highly exposed ( leaves and yellow skin )
Barry_Green
Moderator
Japanese is perhaps my least favorite cuisine. They did this thing with those fried patties where they put on some ... well, I don't know what it was. It was super-finely grated thin strips, about 1/2" long, and they sprinkled it on top, and then served it. And the net result was that the heat caused these finely-grated strips to stand up and wriggle, like the whole thing was covered with maggots.
It was... bizarre.
I totally loved Japan, but I would lose a lot of weight living there!
Alpha Beta Omega
Veteran
These videos tells me the AF101 can do double duty - either a nice looking video camera or something cinematic. The choice is the filmmakers hand. Great!
Barry_Green
Moderator
Just watched Emmanuel's video, and yeah, you can see examples of the wriggling maggot stuff in his video.
Also, here's another video from him. This one was shot on a GH2, but kind of explains in a nutshell how he felt while in Osaka:
Steve Kahn
Well-known member
Katsu-Ya (here in Los Angeles) is pretty damn good. But the stuff they made those guys est??? I dunno. (Bloom said in his Hirano San commentary that even the green tea was not good.