Shooting in Slog in XAVC gives you a lot of meat on the bones to take into color correction.

When I purchased the camera, I bought the Atomos Ninja Star - intending to use it as an external recorder - but have yet to get the CFast cards for the Star. Have not felt the image compromised by recording in XAVC at all, and PPro cuts it like hot butter.

GFB

DISCOUNTS!

Why not one for every year you've been here? See it rhymes...almost Christmassy! Like the twelve days of Christmas only it's...well...ten.

Just kidding. Happy 10th and many more. I like Frank's vision of the future, and even if it doesn't happen we can all fake it with your software.

Next time I do something like this it will definitely be with CC.

I arrived here much later but in these few years you have clearly made a difference on what I know and what I do. Thanks a lot. You rock.

And of course, I must point out that I Robot was released in july 2004, and I must post a link to today's xkcd strip (related to this older one).

I've also been wondering about the APS-C crop mode, which is supposed to work in both 1080 and 4K. How does it look? At 4K I imagine not so good, as it'll be upscaling the resolution, yes? Any idea what the crop factor is for the 720p 120fps?

Seems like the best way to think of this camera is as an improved 5D mk III... smaller, lighter, cheaper, 4K, higher dynamic range, an APS-C crop mode, easily adapted to other lenses, even better low light sensitivity, and a heartier format for color correction. The 5D only wins at Raw (via the ML hack) and of course still photography.

hmm....I wonder if it's potentially ML hackable or a hardware limitation.

I should definitely spend more $$$ on software, it's too easy to get hooked by hardware purchases (cameras, lenses, etc), but time is money too and software saves time.

Right now I'm finishing a one-man project with around 50 hours of VFX. Around half of those I've spent rotoscoping stuff. CC and its mask tracker would probably have saved me around 20 hours. This is my leisure time so it's hard to put a price on it, but the next time I approach such a project I may just hit the piggy bank, rotoscoping is no fun.

Thanks.

I found that I could use any SD card I want with an AX100 to record in xavc as long as it's formatted in exfat instead of fat32, which the camera defaults to for any card under 64gb. Try formatting your cards on a Windows machine. I was able to use some regular class 10 micro sdhc cards that way.

Hope it helps. ;-)

One thing that does confuse me. With the slog being soooo flat, and presumably only 8 bit, how are there enough bits to go around? Why isn't it banding like crazy the moment you slap an aggressive look on it? It's great... but I'd like to understand how it is doing it!

So my big question is, will the Sony become your new personal A-camera for both stills and video? Will the 5D3 be put in the closet and be lost, lonely and forgotten?

I know you'll need your mandatory subway short, so here it is:
http://vimeo.com/99854427

Also, regarding the rolling shutter isue: I measured it at a very slow 30.5ms, nearly as bad as the D90, but it is much faster in APS-C mode (19.5ms, slightly faster than the 5D3). And since you are unlikely to see the issues of the APS-C crop mode (less detail, aliasing, moire) on a fast-moving shot, basically the a7s becomes its own fast-RS B-cam.

Camera 1: F3 SLOG
Camera 2: F55 Slog2
Camera 3: a7S Slog2
Camera 4: FS700 Slog2
Camera 5: F55 Slog3

That means:
* The a7s has more headroom in the highlights than any other camera in the test, except the FS700 (which has way noisier shadows)
* The a7s has at least the same range into the shadows as all the others, except F55+slog3

In particular, compared with the F3 (my favorite in the blind Zacuto shootout, tied with the Alexa), it has more headroom in the highlights, and shadows that are lifted up but not cleaner (about the same noise, I would say). So, maybe slightly more DR, definitely not less.

Couple that with this and this, and it must be at least 3 or 4 stops better than the 5D3+H.264 in terms of DR, which means it is in BlackMagic RAW territory.

I already know I'll be really happy with the a7s, even if it is only 8-bit and only high-ISO, and no matter how bad the rolling shutter is, etc.
The only thing I don't know yet is if I will want an external recorder, to reduce noise in the shadows a bit.