Man I wish we’d have the Gerald Undone in the photography world, your videos are.. basically perfect. On point, very technical, yet short and without the bullshit.
This is what makes Gerald so great. I can't think of anyone else doing these kinds of in depth tests that result in such a wealth of information. Thanks!
Finally: someone talking about the official battery grip! When everyone was talking about overheating, and Gerald noted that a dummy battery alleviates that, my mind instantly jumped to the battery grip. There's also a 4-battery external official dummy battery too.
Gerald, your dedication to sharing your deep understanding videography and photography is very much appreciated. And inspires me to understand my cameras better.
I've always wondered who Gerald is looking out for in these intros, but you won't catch my man slipping. This timestamp 0:09 shows his eyes sharp, staying calm but focused so he can bring us the tech breakdowns we rely on. Thank you for your service Mr. Undone, I hope they catch whoever is out there looking for you.
1. 8K mode has about 17ms rolling shutter. 2. 8K mode's 4K HDMI output uses nearest neighbour down-scaling, it appears sharp but at the expense of increased moire, compared to pixel-binning. 3. Canon's 4K HQ mode uses bi-linear down-scaling from 8K.
Here's something to test out: variable shutter and how to deal with flickering light sources in camera with A1's new fine-tunable shutter speed. You can test this in both photo and video mode. Currently there's not much out there on these minute but VERY IMPORTANT details. Also the new 1/400 flash sync and anti-distortion shutter might also be interesting to test out! Here's to Sony loaning you the A1 for another round of testing ;p
Gerald, this was one of the most useful videos for the ⍺1 that I've ever watched. I was happy to see that you have a JOIN button. I joined, and I look forward to learning more about my new ⍺1's video capabilities. Thank you for your detailed outlook.
S-cinetone sounds interesting. You still have to deal with super whites though, right? Would love to see a video some day explaining super whites completely and how to properly use them in post. Thanks for the great videos!
After watching your videos and other's producers for years. You still have the best in-depth video's ever. Bravo for your hard work. It's a lot of work what you do and I appreciate it! Thank you. Need more of this and less of the B.S. out there.
I’m surprised that they don’t bring out a grip that also contains an external hard drive, that can be linked to the camera so files are saved directly to it.
as a 20 year long Canon user (tons of lenses) the R5 and R6 release made me think they'll change. But, looking at how quick Sony is with firmware updates, and that they don't go and cripple functions like USB-charging, oversampled external output etc etc.... now I'm back to thinking I should probably jump ship and get me a Sony system. The other thing next to trying to avoid the huge cost of switching is ergonomics. Sony cams feel cramped in my hands.
The oversample thing is something I also saw way back on the Panasonic G70. You could go 1080p 60 or 30 without a crop or you could live with a slight crop, set the camera to 2160p 30 and output super sharp 1080p. I then had the signal fed into a USB capture thingie. Probably one of the best 1080p webcam solutions at the time.
At the 12:23 minute mark, I had to stop and write this down, Gerald, love your channel, but to answer your question at the time stamp, and to answer some other likely ones you have regarding the topic mentioned around that time stamp.... and that is as follows. Dude, It’s Sony, they R&D and manufacture the PlayStation, and have for over 20 years. You’re pointing out that the camera doesn’t lock us out of features for using the 8K option, which is good to hear, is what turned the light bulb on for me, bc that’s the type of thinking I’ve come to be accustomed to by preferring Sony on everything for the last 20 years. When you have to figure out how to manage heating with a GPU/CPU config for mass manufacturing, they’re gonna figure it out for their cameras too I’d like to think and think I just saw in your video.... best intro out of all cinema channels.
Hi Gerald. Not sure I missed this but I can’t see what setting do you recommend on the a1 to capture the highest quality on the ninja when the camera is setup to 8K. Did you say auto? Or 4K? For the hdmi output.
I just love this channel so much. So much love and detail always goes into your videos. Thank you for this! Alwys hyped to see a new video coming out from you :)
Gerald Great Vid! one question I have is whether the 8K to 4k output to the Ninja V is still truly 422 all-I on the ninja. Since the internal option only supports 420 HS does that affect the quality of the output in terms of chroma subsampling on the ninja V when set to 8K?
Presumably it should be possible because you can intelligently downsample 8k 4:2:0 into 4k 4:4:4 (don't downsample the chroma channels and oversample the luma channel). Don't know how the Ninja does it though.
I recently subscribed to Story Blocks as a result of your videos that you were doing with the studios. I thought they were wonderful and so I gave them a look and used your link. I bought a whole year's worth of subscription, I hope it helps you out in some meaningful way. Hoping to make Story Blocks bigger part of my channel! I absolutely love their After Effects templates. I never knew how much I would like fonts!
Noticed the same thing when sending 1080p from the A7SIII to the Atem Mini Pro ISO. Quality of the ISO recordings was much better when the camera is set to 4k internal.
tremendous work Gerald, im glad your not sponsored by any camera manufacturer, then you would probably be obligated to be bias about your results, but i hope in the future all of them just start giving you a camera so you can nerd out on it and they can get factual results like you have been, keep it up 🙌🏽😎
When you summed up you great video by saying that you didn’t want to give the A1 back or return it to Sony it made me so happy that that I preordered mine last month. I’m getting excited. Thanks for your hard work and super great content
Did you just say “came in clutch?!?!?” 🤦♂️ 🤣🤣🤣 love your channel dude. And maybe you and I should leave the cluthing to the youngins. ;) keep up the good work Gerald!
Thank you Gerald! always the go to guy for this stuff. I love when watching other reviewers or people talking about gear how they usually refer to you for more detailed information. You are doing a great thing and I know it really helps so many people. Now if I only had unlimited funds to buy all this cool gear. lol. I know I don't need it all but some would be nice to have. Thanks again.
Great info, as always! I always like your unique, rapid fire style of scripted delivery, but I often have to rewatch sections due to the fact that I can’t seem to process the info as fast as you can deliver it. So I do like this unscripted style of delivery a bit better. It reminds me of when I was giving presentations in college. I worked hard to know my subject matter, and with that I found that the presentation flowed better and came off more natural if I created a set of short sentence bullet points rather than a full blown script.
Great catch on the external recording. I recently worked with a client that had pretty much this same implementation - read the sensor at one density, optionally pass through a dsp IC that has a switch to select input density and output density, where density here is resolution. If you are reading at high density it uses more power and you have oversample the output in the dsp, otherwise you can pretty much just pass through the signal. It's interesting that Sony didn't include logic to determine whether you are actually recording internally and changing the read resolution automatically - I don't have an a1 so I don't know, but I'm guessing it's no issue to start internal recording at any point while you are recording externally. They probably can't just flip the read resolution that quickly so they have to leave it as you set it. Very neat observation and video, thanks!
Great that you mention for streaming, I frequently use my A7SIII as a webcam and knowing that setting it to 4K internally but keeping my output set to 1080p is nice. I was always confused which is the right settings to use for a situation like that.
Over heating & battery issue is still the main issue apart from all the advanced technology , Canon 1Dx iii & Nikon D6 remains on their spot in case of durability all we need is and updated version of this two brands . Is Sony A1 test in Artic ?
These differences in IQ is very easy to see in YT! THX!! It was eye opening for usng all Sony cameras! BTW... You sound amazing! What did you do since your initial new studio tour to improve acoustics?
Gerald, I just updated the firmware of my A7S3 to 2.0, and somehow I'm now able to record XAVC S 4K 100 & 120fps onto a Lexar 128GB V60 SD card. Any thoughts on this? This shouldn't be possible tho, right?
I need to create a compact battery system that fits into an underwater housing in a specific space. What voltage and amps are required to power/charge the camera through USB-C power delivery? Camera will have it factory battery installed.
Love how you’re saving money on ancillaries on an 6.5k camera ! However camera has 4 cards slots, how much video can you do with those is there a max size limit to the card size the camera takes? Also can you demo how to change a card while recording and not shake the camera? I think you’ll need the A1 for at least another month to do these tests 😀
Would love to see some testing & comparisons of the Sonys 4K against the Canon R5 4K HQ - hopefully new firmware coming soon will improve it even further with CLOG + codecs etc!
I used to record HD with my Atomos while shooting 4K on my A6500, the external recordings looked great and a lot of the 4K detail usually made it through.
I have a question Gerald, if you don't mind, as you didn't really talk about this. Ok, so we set the camera internally to record 8k, but choose output to be 4k over HDMI. My only concern with this? Aren't we going to lose the 4:2:2 goodness, and also be stuck at 30P? I assume so :( Please confirm or correct me. Thank you for such great work on your videos, I love them!
That's great, because most film makers wouldn't record footage for two hours straight. When I recorded a music video or short movie. I record 5 - 10 minutes of footage at a time. Then we combine the footage in post production. That's overkill, when recording a movie or music video. Two hours and fourty-five minutes is good for time lapse videos. That makes this a excellent camera for multiple projects. Even low light recording. 😎👍📸🎥
Man I wish we’d have the Gerald Undone in the photography world, your videos are.. basically perfect.
On point, very technical, yet short and without the bullshit.
That 8k internal to 4k output is absolutely brilliant sir, well done
"I'm Gerald Undone and it's been S-Log since I've seen you"
aight you won this one
jesus this one is so good.
Slow down 😩
I love your videos but can you slow down no need to talk so fast
@@POSE4DAN Is that me or Gerald?
That is an interesting finding about the external recording.
Yup that is a fantastic find! Oversampled 4K recording.
I'm Gerald Undone, and I know Victoria's Secret.
Now I know why everyone sends you to watch Gerald Undone
I bet James May would too, spanners are looking tidy and are correctly placed.
Thought everyone sees Markuspix
This is what makes Gerald so great. I can't think of anyone else doing these kinds of in depth tests that result in such a wealth of information. Thanks!
This is the type of content almost nobody else creates and I truly appreciate it! Amazing work, as usual, thanks a lot, Gerald!
Finally: someone talking about the official battery grip! When everyone was talking about overheating, and Gerald noted that a dummy battery alleviates that, my mind instantly jumped to the battery grip. There's also a 4-battery external official dummy battery too.
My First thoughts were dummy battery in the grip 😅
But what about the dummy behind the camera? I hear it can cause issues.
I've been watching your vids for years, and they just keep increasing in quality. Always a pleasure to watch your discussions
Gerald, your dedication to sharing your deep understanding videography and photography is very much appreciated. And inspires me to understand my cameras better.
I've always wondered who Gerald is looking out for in these intros, but you won't catch my man slipping. This timestamp 0:09 shows his eyes sharp, staying calm but focused so he can bring us the tech breakdowns we rely on. Thank you for your service Mr. Undone, I hope they catch whoever is out there looking for you.
1. 8K mode has about 17ms rolling shutter.
2. 8K mode's 4K HDMI output uses nearest neighbour down-scaling, it appears sharp but at the expense of increased moire, compared to pixel-binning.
3. Canon's 4K HQ mode uses bi-linear down-scaling from 8K.
03:52 - Learning with Gerald. Love it!
Love the attention to the Tech side of the review & testing various situations with multiple compositions of the gear ... Great Job as Always !
the oversampling info was super nice Gerald, thanks for your exhaustive contribution as always!
Genius setting 8k internal and getting a sharper 4K externally!
Literally the best camera videos on UA-cam. Thanks, G.
So appreciate all the technical deep dives. Been here for a long time and there is no one better. Thanks so much. 🙏🏼
Here's something to test out: variable shutter and how to deal with flickering light sources in camera with A1's new fine-tunable shutter speed. You can test this in both photo and video mode. Currently there's not much out there on these minute but VERY IMPORTANT details. Also the new 1/400 flash sync and anti-distortion shutter might also be interesting to test out!
Here's to Sony loaning you the A1 for another round of testing ;p
A new breed of UA-camr that really knows their stuff. Brilliant. Very informative. Thank you.
There is nobody best at this than Gerald. A unicorn.
This Guy deserve at least 1 million subscribe, great job as always.
He'll get there... =)
"I'm Gerald Undone and all i want is a perfect camera"
Camera conspiracies...😂😂😂
Hell yes. We need this to happen before the cripple hammer comes out of hibernation...
Need a little conspiracy in your life?.....
Loser :)
What can I say? I'm SOOOOO thankful/grateful to have you advocating for the community and educating us as well! Alright... I'm done. :-)
those shelves look familiar lol.
Fro Knows Photo!!!!
I think yours are higher quality. These are my old ones from my 2018 set. Home Depot ones.
i've never found a youtuber that impresses me as much as this guy every video
Love your (non) sponsor disclosure at the beginning. Few UA-camrs do that, which speaks plenty for themselves.
Gerald, this was one of the most useful videos for the ⍺1 that I've ever watched. I was happy to see that you have a JOIN button. I joined, and I look forward to learning more about my new ⍺1's video capabilities. Thank you for your detailed outlook.
Not even a Sony guy, and I’ll sit and watch these videos cause Gerald makes it interesting.
That's awesome Gerald! Thanks for taking the time to put these tests together ✌🏽
How is it that you only have 241K subs?.... Great work man!
Gerald, you’re my go to for anything creative related. Your honesty and in depth reviews are unmatched
Just because I know you can do this, does it run cooler when you drill holes in the dummy battery?
S-cinetone sounds interesting. You still have to deal with super whites though, right? Would love to see a video some day explaining super whites completely and how to properly use them in post. Thanks for the great videos!
Hi Gerald, I really like your videos.
Truly excellent review / update! This is next level insight into the capabilities of these cameras that I haven’t seen elsewhere.
Thank God for Gerald Undone. And thank Gerald Undone for Gerald Undone.
You are very much underrated bro
Gerald, you are the absolute best. You are the advocate that Sony didn't know, it needed.
Can you please recommend THE BEST dummy batteries to power the A1, A7Siii, and A7iii? I would like to power by mains and also d-tap. Thanks!
Gerald, would you still recommend the A1 in April of 2022 or do you feel the new version will arrive later this year?
Such a pleasure to watch your work Gerald 👍thank you.
After watching your videos and other's producers for years. You still have the best in-depth video's ever. Bravo for your hard work. It's a lot of work what you do and I appreciate it! Thank you. Need more of this and less of the B.S. out there.
Very informative and great comparisons on screen as usual! Thank you for taking the time and effort to compare these options and settings.
Could the oversampled 4K got “fixed” by sony?
I’ve tried it and the 8K option is disabled while the HDMI cable is connected to the ninja v.
same
Great information Gerald. Thank you for sharing! 👍
I’m surprised that they don’t bring out a grip that also contains an external hard drive, that can be linked to the camera so files are saved directly to it.
as a 20 year long Canon user (tons of lenses) the R5 and R6 release made me think they'll change. But, looking at how quick Sony is with firmware updates, and that they don't go and cripple functions like USB-charging, oversampled external output etc etc.... now I'm back to thinking I should probably jump ship and get me a Sony system.
The other thing next to trying to avoid the huge cost of switching is ergonomics. Sony cams feel cramped in my hands.
Great video man. I want to see bmpcc 6k pro video
Yes! S-Cinetone gets Undone!
Now we need a Rode Wirless Go 2 vs Hollyland Lark vs Saramonic Blink Pro
I like that the wrenches in the background sort of mimic the dynamic range tester
This video was helpful and entertaining. Thanks, Gerald.
The oversample thing is something I also saw way back on the Panasonic G70. You could go 1080p 60 or 30 without a crop or you could live with a slight crop, set the camera to 2160p 30 and output super sharp 1080p. I then had the signal fed into a USB capture thingie. Probably one of the best 1080p webcam solutions at the time.
The gold standard for camera and video equipment content
At the 12:23 minute mark, I had to stop and write this down, Gerald, love your channel, but to answer your question at the time stamp, and to answer some other likely ones you have regarding the topic mentioned around that time stamp.... and that is as follows.
Dude, It’s Sony, they R&D and manufacture the PlayStation, and have for over 20 years. You’re pointing out that the camera doesn’t lock us out of features for using the 8K option, which is good to hear, is what turned the light bulb on for me, bc that’s the type of thinking I’ve come to be accustomed to by preferring Sony on everything for the last 20 years.
When you have to figure out how to manage heating with a GPU/CPU config for mass manufacturing, they’re gonna figure it out for their cameras too I’d like to think and think I just saw in your video.... best intro out of all cinema channels.
Hi Gerald. Not sure I missed this but I can’t see what setting do you recommend on the a1 to capture the highest quality on the ninja when the camera is setup to 8K. Did you say auto? Or 4K? For the hdmi output.
I just love this channel so much. So much love and detail always goes into your videos. Thank you for this! Alwys hyped to see a new video coming out from you :)
Gerald Great Vid! one question I have is whether the 8K to 4k output to the Ninja V is still truly 422 all-I on the ninja. Since the internal option only supports 420 HS does that affect the quality of the output in terms of chroma subsampling on the ninja V when set to 8K?
Presumably it should be possible because you can intelligently downsample 8k 4:2:0 into 4k 4:4:4 (don't downsample the chroma channels and oversample the luma channel). Don't know how the Ninja does it though.
The resolution should be there as Paramour mentioned in their reply as well.
I just bought a7Siii and than FX3 came out... Should I return my a7Siii and get FX3 or just stay with what I have and finally unbox that bad boy?! :)
Depends. If you use xlr, and don't use the evf, the fx3 could be the better option. Other than ergonomics, it is literally the same camera
Stay with it
Great video again Gerald I pre order sony a1 but active steady shot cannot be enable
I recently subscribed to Story Blocks as a result of your videos that you were doing with the studios. I thought they were wonderful and so I gave them a look and used your link. I bought a whole year's worth of subscription, I hope it helps you out in some meaningful way. Hoping to make Story Blocks bigger part of my channel! I absolutely love their After Effects templates. I never knew how much I would like fonts!
Do you use a gray card for exposing S-cinetone or just stick to protecting highlights and getting what looks good in camera?
@Gerald Those closed captions of yours are amazing.
Yay more Gerald Undone a1 content!
Noticed the same thing when sending 1080p from the A7SIII to the Atem Mini Pro ISO. Quality of the ISO recordings was much better when the camera is set to 4k internal.
The 8k internal / 4k output does not work if outputting raw over HDMI.
tremendous work Gerald, im glad your not sponsored by any camera manufacturer, then you would probably be obligated to be bias about your results, but i hope in the future all of them just start giving you a camera so you can nerd out on it and they can get factual results like you have been, keep it up 🙌🏽😎
Very exciting stuff here! Nice job as always with all the details. Boom!
When you summed up you great video by saying that you didn’t want to give the A1 back or return it to Sony it made me so happy that that I preordered mine last month. I’m getting excited. Thanks for your hard work and super great content
this is next level inside tips. great work man!
Great work Gerald, really appreciate your deep dives into all these topics. This information is invaluable.
Impressed. Answered to some questions I didn't even knew I had
Thanks for following up on the dummy battery vs battery grip idea!
Hi Gerald, whats the brand of the powerbank?
Appreciate the quick bullet style Gerald ... thanks tons!!!
Thanks for the thoughtful, detailed, human reviews. Subscribed!
Did you just say “came in clutch?!?!?” 🤦♂️
🤣🤣🤣 love your channel dude. And maybe you and I should leave the cluthing to the youngins. ;) keep up the good work Gerald!
Thank you Gerald! always the go to guy for this stuff. I love when watching other reviewers or people talking about gear how they usually refer to you for more detailed information. You are doing a great thing and I know it really helps so many people. Now if I only had unlimited funds to buy all this cool gear. lol. I know I don't need it all but some would be nice to have. Thanks again.
Great info, as always! I always like your unique, rapid fire style of scripted delivery, but I often have to rewatch sections due to the fact that I can’t seem to process the info as fast as you can deliver it. So I do like this unscripted style of delivery a bit better. It reminds me of when I was giving presentations in college. I worked hard to know my subject matter, and with that I found that the presentation flowed better and came off more natural if I created a set of short sentence bullet points rather than a full blown script.
Great catch on the external recording. I recently worked with a client that had pretty much this same implementation - read the sensor at one density, optionally pass through a dsp IC that has a switch to select input density and output density, where density here is resolution. If you are reading at high density it uses more power and you have oversample the output in the dsp, otherwise you can pretty much just pass through the signal. It's interesting that Sony didn't include logic to determine whether you are actually recording internally and changing the read resolution automatically - I don't have an a1 so I don't know, but I'm guessing it's no issue to start internal recording at any point while you are recording externally. They probably can't just flip the read resolution that quickly so they have to leave it as you set it.
Very neat observation and video, thanks!
Great that you mention for streaming, I frequently use my A7SIII as a webcam and knowing that setting it to 4K internally but keeping my output set to 1080p is nice. I was always confused which is the right settings to use for a situation like that.
Gerald, can you tell Camera Canada to open a store in Ottawa.
It doesn't seem right that there's not one here.
I gave this video a thumbs up even before watching it. THE THUMBNAIL GOT ME !
Over heating & battery issue is still the main issue apart from all the advanced technology , Canon 1Dx iii & Nikon D6 remains on their spot in case of durability all we need is and updated version of this two brands . Is Sony A1 test in Artic ?
@Gerald why not use HLG instead of S-Cinetone
"I'm Gerald Undone and I gave you S-Cinetone - your Welcome"
These differences in IQ is very easy to see in YT! THX!! It was eye opening for usng all Sony cameras! BTW... You sound amazing! What did you do since your initial new studio tour to improve acoustics?
i’ve definitely been considering putting this one in my bag! such a sophisticated camera!
Gerald, I just updated the firmware of my A7S3 to 2.0, and somehow I'm now able to record XAVC S 4K 100 & 120fps onto a Lexar 128GB V60 SD card. Any thoughts on this? This shouldn't be possible tho, right?
What about the xavc i 4k 120 ?
@@YoungBlaze nah. doesn't work
I need to create a compact battery system that fits into an underwater housing in a specific space.
What voltage and amps are required to power/charge the camera through USB-C power delivery? Camera will have it factory battery installed.
Feeling heat is a good thing, it shows it is dissipating the heat and not keeping it IN the device.
Love how you’re saving money on ancillaries on an 6.5k camera ! However camera has 4 cards slots, how much video can you do with those is there a max size limit to the card size the camera takes? Also can you demo how to change a card while recording and not shake the camera? I think you’ll need the A1 for at least another month to do these tests 😀
Would love to see some testing & comparisons of the Sonys 4K against the Canon R5 4K HQ - hopefully new firmware coming soon will improve it even further with CLOG + codecs etc!
I used to record HD with my Atomos while shooting 4K on my A6500, the external recordings looked great and a lot of the 4K detail usually made it through.
I have a question Gerald, if you don't mind, as you didn't really talk about this. Ok, so we set the camera internally to record 8k, but choose output to be 4k over HDMI. My only concern with this? Aren't we going to lose the 4:2:2 goodness, and also be stuck at 30P? I assume so :( Please confirm or correct me. Thank you for such great work on your videos, I love them!
"I'm Gerald Undone and I love some S-Log for breakfast"
Make sure you add a hint of Dynamic Range to those pancakes
and overcook it a little more
*Geralds the wizard i never had!*
I've been down scaling 4k from my A7III externally to my Blackmagic recorder for a few years now; love the results.
That's great, because most film makers wouldn't record footage for two hours straight. When I recorded a music video or short movie. I record 5 - 10 minutes of footage at a time. Then we combine the footage in post production. That's overkill, when recording a movie or music video. Two hours and fourty-five minutes is good for time lapse videos. That makes this a excellent camera for multiple projects. Even low light recording. 😎👍📸🎥