basspig
Veteran
I received the Shogun Inferno this morning from B&H. I have been putting it through a series of basic tests today.
First and foremost, it finally records DCI 4K from HDMI!
For an early release unit, it does have some minor issues which I think will be addressed in firmware updates later:
Atom HDR needs work. The shadow areas take on a nasty posterize/solarized effect. This can be seen as you turn down the iris on the camera, focused on a yellow wall, a dark magenta, rough edged shadow starts to take over the darkest parts of the frame and then fill the frame. Not apparent with other display options.
Using the Zoom focus magnify function, the displayed magnified area looks like a halftone screen. Not necessarily a bad thing, but different from how Shogun handles focus mag.
One other display issue is that it seems to lack a letterbox mode, so it is not possible to see the whole frame without scrolling left and right when recording DCI 4K input.
The fan is pretty audible, even from 3 feet away. It's a soft white noise with a hint of a whistle like a turbine whine. When Shogun Inferno is placed into playback mode, the fan speed is reduced and is much quieter.
The screen is bright, in fact, it's very usable in direct sunlight. It was tested outdoors about half past noon on a clear day. It's easy to pull focus with this display. It can also display deep shadows as well as highlights quite well. In most situations, Atom HDR did a better job of displaying the dynamic range of a scene than any of the M LUTs I had been using prior with the Shogun.
I did some shooting with my polarizing filter, to get those deep, dark blue skies. The benefit of Prores HQ is that there are zero artifacts on the sky with the dense foliage all over the frame. And, the smallest, distant branches resolved to the pixel, preserved in the recording, greatly softened or lost in the XAVC version.
I did some testing at 4K 60P. I found that the FS7's output downscaled to UHD at this frame rate, but I was able to make a good test recording. However, a pan across my studio resulted in a file over 4GB!!
Given the amount of BTUs it puts out, I can imagine it sucking down the batteries like nobody's business.
Like the Shogun, it's screen protector has printing on it and has to be removed and replaced in order to use the unit.
I've yet to test the audio inputs.
The unit came in a yellow "pelican" style case, just like the original Shogun, with accessories neatly organized. I'm using a Sandisk 480GB Extreme Pro SSD with it. The reader, though it looks like the reader from the original Shogun, appears to have a much faster USB chipset. It's read speed is about 280MB/sec, vs. the 99MB/sec of the old reader.
Overall, it's a keeper. A definite upgrade over the Shogun. If Atomos works out the Atom HDR posterizing at very low luma levels, it could be considered a nearly perfect display.
First and foremost, it finally records DCI 4K from HDMI!
For an early release unit, it does have some minor issues which I think will be addressed in firmware updates later:
Atom HDR needs work. The shadow areas take on a nasty posterize/solarized effect. This can be seen as you turn down the iris on the camera, focused on a yellow wall, a dark magenta, rough edged shadow starts to take over the darkest parts of the frame and then fill the frame. Not apparent with other display options.
Using the Zoom focus magnify function, the displayed magnified area looks like a halftone screen. Not necessarily a bad thing, but different from how Shogun handles focus mag.
One other display issue is that it seems to lack a letterbox mode, so it is not possible to see the whole frame without scrolling left and right when recording DCI 4K input.
The fan is pretty audible, even from 3 feet away. It's a soft white noise with a hint of a whistle like a turbine whine. When Shogun Inferno is placed into playback mode, the fan speed is reduced and is much quieter.
The screen is bright, in fact, it's very usable in direct sunlight. It was tested outdoors about half past noon on a clear day. It's easy to pull focus with this display. It can also display deep shadows as well as highlights quite well. In most situations, Atom HDR did a better job of displaying the dynamic range of a scene than any of the M LUTs I had been using prior with the Shogun.
I did some shooting with my polarizing filter, to get those deep, dark blue skies. The benefit of Prores HQ is that there are zero artifacts on the sky with the dense foliage all over the frame. And, the smallest, distant branches resolved to the pixel, preserved in the recording, greatly softened or lost in the XAVC version.
I did some testing at 4K 60P. I found that the FS7's output downscaled to UHD at this frame rate, but I was able to make a good test recording. However, a pan across my studio resulted in a file over 4GB!!
Given the amount of BTUs it puts out, I can imagine it sucking down the batteries like nobody's business.
Like the Shogun, it's screen protector has printing on it and has to be removed and replaced in order to use the unit.
I've yet to test the audio inputs.
The unit came in a yellow "pelican" style case, just like the original Shogun, with accessories neatly organized. I'm using a Sandisk 480GB Extreme Pro SSD with it. The reader, though it looks like the reader from the original Shogun, appears to have a much faster USB chipset. It's read speed is about 280MB/sec, vs. the 99MB/sec of the old reader.
Overall, it's a keeper. A definite upgrade over the Shogun. If Atomos works out the Atom HDR posterizing at very low luma levels, it could be considered a nearly perfect display.
