FS5: Sony PXW-FX6

Nate Weaver said:
28-80 is my guess. And then of course 70-200.

It’s like Zeiss all over again!
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Ugh. I hope it goes all the way to 24! 24 is wide enough for most situations I encounter but 28 is not, so those several millimeters save a lot of shots and lens changes. (Not that I'll be dropping $6k for one anyway :))
 
Donny 123 said:
But presuming its rehoused lenses ,like the 16-35.. would it not be more likley to be 24-70 and 70-200.. either way they are going to way too front heavy for a fx6 hand held .. or even on many tripods.. ? .. a new 28-135 (albeit cheaper and more plastic ) ,but being 24-120 mm FF, with better manual functions would be better .. IMHO
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The shoulder mount thing really isn’t a big issue if you just put a v-mount battery out the back of the camera. I’ve got about 3kg of lens/mattebox/follow focus on mine, and I can get perfect balance even with just the native LCD at the full extension of its cable.
 
ahalpert said:
Ugh. I hope it goes all the way to 24! 24 is wide enough for most situations I encounter but 28 is not, so those several millimeters save a lot of shots and lens changes. (Not that I'll be dropping $6k for one anyway :))
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24 in S35 or FF? 24 in FF is like a 16 in S35.

Also, $6k for a Sony lens is almost throwing money away. Only a good buy if it solves very specific problems somebody might have, and can amortize and double or triple your money on your own jobs in a short (3-4 year) period.

And right, I forgot the 16-35 was a “re-mechanics” of an existing design. 24-70 will surely be it.
 
24 in FF. 24mm is lovely wide in FF. I used an 18-270 in S35 quite a bit and frequently found it to be insufficiently wide for both cramped doc situations and for scenic wides. 16 in S35/24 in FF is the ticket IMO
 
Grug said:
The shoulder mount thing really isn’t a big issue if you just put a v-mount battery out the back of the camera. I’ve got about 3kg of lens/mattebox/follow focus on mine, and I can get perfect balance even with just the native LCD at the full extension of its cable.
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Thats good to hear .. these cine zooms are pretty big and heavy .. the 16-35 is the smallest !..
 
Its come up in another forum that the production models of the Cine 16-35 have the zoom going to wrong way .. ie like the stills version .. !
 
cyvideo said:
But is it like the 18-110mm where the mechanical/servo action of the zoom can be physically reversed though a physical switch and rotation reset process? A feature that quite a few people are unaware of with the 18-110mm.

EDIT: Just discovered it can be:
https://www.newsshooter.com/2019/09/13/sony-16-35mm-t3-1-e-mount-servo-lens/

Yeah but these photos have the markings going the right way for a cine zoom.. but a guy posted a picture of one he had bought ,and the markings ,and the zoom direction go the "stills " camera orientation .. ie the opposite way to every other cine zoom .. why even build them like this ..Cine Line right ? .. you can reverse the remote control motors anyway .. there is no switch on the body .. presume FW update but thought it was a fully mechanical zoom ?
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Does anyone have specifications on the video (not the raw) output of the FX6? Or a source listing such information?
 
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Coming from the FS5, I've had it for about a week and done one job with it. Love it so far. Random observations:

- S-cinetone is more contrasty than I expected. I really like it. I'll be using it for any no-grade shooting.
- There is a nicely-designed and located multi-function dial you can map to gain. Between variable ND and the gain dial this is by far the quickest and easiest camera to expose I've ever used.
- When shooting handheld, you can feel the warm air blowing out onto your hand. This thing shifts some heat!
- Like the FS5, it feels like it's about 3 assignable buttons short. I really wish you could re-map the gain / WB / shutter buttons.
- I wish you could set white balance with a moveable square like on the a7siii
- A lot of online talk about the autofocus UI has been about how it doesn't have touch tracking (like the a7siii). Still, I'm quite impressed with how, even after just one job, I'm fast and comfortable switching between manual / AF / face-tracking AF. Wonderful.

Edited to add: The (very) high base ISO makes sense when combined with the variable ND. For any interiors (even bright ones) you can shoot in high base and ride the ND for exposure all day. With the FS5 I was always engaging / disengaging the ND as exposure moved from slightly below the minimum ND threshold to slightly above. Worst case on the FS5 was shooting with minimum ND and +6db gain. This seemed to happen all the time!
 
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I'm enjoying the 120 fps 4K capabilities while recording to internal CFexpress cards. Previously I could only do 4K @ 120 with my F55 and R7 RAW recorder with a damn expensive AXS card.
Probably the least-noisy camera I've ever owned.

I shot this SpaceX launch yesterday. This was lock-down shot so it leaves frame. I tracked the flight with my Z750. I don't have an EVF solution for the FX6 yet, so it would have been too tricky to track the rocket using the crappy LCD out in bright sunshine. Sony should be embarrassed for releasing a camera that doesn't have an EVF option, even if they wanted to charge extra for it.
 
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