Upcoming hands-on comparison of F3, FS100 and AF100 from Philip Bloom

really excited as well, phillip does a great job covering all the aspects I want to see in a review
 
Totally agree...because he comes at it from the perspective of what you can do with each and the final results, not the serious tech side, he's a "non tech head" kind of shooter.
 
Yes, I need to see this test too. I was about to pull the trigger and get an AF100...but honestly the footage I'm seeing is giving me cause for concern. It's the AF100's handling of highlights that is scaring me right now. Meanwhile, the limited footage I'm seeing from the FS100 testers just looks better.
 
Hm...my guess:

1st FS100 - delicate handling of colour and shadow
2nd AF101 - a bit smeary to me, which is what I believe I've been seeing from AF100 footage
3rd F3 - nice picture; I couldn't really decide whether I liked 1st or 3rd better, but know I didn't like the 2nd.

EDIT: Those were my guesses, and they were ALL wrong. The real answers turn out to be--

1st AF101
2nd F3
3rd FS100

I did feel that the 3rd and 1st were nearly the same. The second looked bad, so it's surprising it's the F3. In fact, a number of people on Vimeo commented that the 2nd one looks bad. I even thought it was a 5DmkII thrown in there to throw us off. But nope, it's the most expensive camera of the bunch. Maybe just too hard to tell much from a shot of that distance?
 
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I'm very sure the last shot is the AF100 given the shadow detail loss. But, none of them are exposed exactly the same (very close though). Also, the detail lost under the bridge would've likely been aided by choosing different gamma settings. The shadows on the third seem to be crushed a little bit by the camera and don't look as natural. Choosing something like Cine-D wouldn't have made such a contrasty image so either he's got a contrasty setting chosen on the AF100, or it's not the AF100 at all...

Kyle
 
It's the same all the shots aren't at the same distance FOV wise from the subject...because saying #2 has less detail in the bricks makes sense since you're farther away LOL. I think the details great for the distance, and if you moved in you'd see something much more similar to #1 and #3.
 
Well from PBs blog site he's confirmed: "Well the first one is the AF101, then the F3 and then the FS100".
 
my conclusion was f3, af100, fs100
i thought 1 looked really good so it must be the F3.
2 had overexposed yellow green ..
while 3's colors look similar to the 1st but has crushed blacks maybe fs100

to my surprise, af100 is 1.

this doesnt really comclude much for me except the operator must really know each camera well.
 
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dcloud said:
to my surprise, af100 is 1.

this doesnt really conclude much for me except the operator must really know each camera well.
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What it concludes for me is that AF100 footage looks damn good and very close to the Sonys in this situation.
With price and ergonomics as they are I'd have picked the AF100 hands down.
I was reading the comments on the comparison video on Vimeo and im sure many people are also gonna be suprised by the AF100.
Its the underdog of the three but it sure looks better for some lol
 
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Boncrek said:
What it concludes for me is that AF100 fotage looks damn good and very close to the Sonys in this situation.
With Price and ergonomics as they are I'd have picked the AF100 hands down.
I was reading the comments on the comparison video on Vimeo and im sure many people are also gonna be suprised by the AF100.
Its the underdog of the three but it sure looks better for some lol
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Id say the same thing but ive also seen great f3 footages. could be an operator mistake :)
but the af100 owner inside me jumps with joy ;)
 
Did you eat another Af100 owner?

I'm suprised how little difference there is between them in that test.
 
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