Nine Tips for the FX9
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- Опубліковано 22 січ 2020
- After using the Sony PXW-FX9 for over a month now, I thought it might be useful to list the main tips and tricks I use to make this very complicated camera a little easier to use. Do let me know if you find these useful and I’ll work on some more.
Alister Chapman’s very useful FX9 LUT is here:
www.xdcam-user.com/2020/01/new...
(Do buy him a coffee using the link on his page if you find it useful)
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You are so goddamn right with the db (decibels) they are so reliable. ISOs are the norm now but they are not standardized, it's a mess. Db may sound old but it's consistent.
I love all of your content. The great about your Channel is that it is more of a usability POV rather than just another youtuber who isn't really embedded in the industry
Thanks Andreas, very kind, I'm glad it's useful. 👍
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Very helpful tips.
Thank you for the kind comment... it's appreciated!
Thank you! The tips help greatly. It’s nice to have a pro with real knowledge and a sense of humor.
Thanks Sean... very kind of you!
The ISO vs. Gain tip at the end is definitely one I'm gonna try out, thank you! Sounds like a way smarter option to let the camera handle noise levels than to guess them from a tiny viewfinder.
Great video! thank you lots of very useful info! Waiting on my FX9 to arrive!
Thanks Brian, very kind.... it's worth the wait !!! 👍
Great video. Calm & clear explanation of the camera. Appreciate it!
Thank you... kind of you to comment.
Superb as per usual.
Thank you... appreciated. 👍
Subscribed! Awesome, efficient, amusing tutorial. Made a lot of notes. Thanks!
Cheers Ben, thanks for the comment... appreciated!
Fantastic video again. You have a great way of conveying the information we all need. This video does show up the FX9 to be quite badly thought through on many counts. At this price range Im really staggered this is the case...yet, I still want one!
Thanks for the comment Al... I don't know if it's badly thought through or just the usual case of letting customers test the beta firmware before they start sorting it out properly! We do seem to be treated like paying guinea pigs by Sony sometimes! However, for all the issues... I've still found it really easy to use, and so easy to achieve amazing picture quality. It looks like 90% of the Venice for 25% of the cost !!!
Great video! And so charming too
You are so kind
Amazing, thanks for making such clear and informative videos. Loving the short form of under 15mins.
The dB tip is a huge help. You’ve hit the nail on the head about shooting film and digital.
If I shoot solo or working a small job, no one will be using light meters. Run n gun. So why use ISO? Only when I shoot a bigger commercial or narrative, will there be light meters and proper controlled environments.
Thanks for the kind comment Tim... much appreciated!
If there's no light meters around... then 'Gain' mode is much easier to control. Worth remembering that you can also adjust the gain in 1db steps all the way down to -3db... and the noise will always be exactly what you expect! I've met so many people recently who shoot Cinetone, and think the native ISO is 800 !!! 😳
Thanks 🙏🙏❤️❤️ i love you sony camera 💐💐💐
Bob Ross of filmmakers.
Thank you for all the info
😂
Can I confirm something . In cine EI mode, shooting slog3 , you only have 2 options for the ISO. 800 AND 4000. You cant adjust the low base iso to any increments after 800.
Hi! Thanks for the tips. May I ask something?
Do you think the lenses by Sony are good enough to squeeze the best image ? I was slightly concerned that it might be better to purchase primes from Zeiss and use an adapter than working with Sony’s primes .
awesome channel.
Thank you Jon... very kind... and appreciated!
Sir Like you said it’s not a film camera … so can we shoot music videos on this camera ?
I just got this camera and love it, but have found that the awesome auto focus does not seem to work when shooting in S & Q mode. If I'm correct, that's very disappointing and surprising I have not seen that complaint.
keep it up! excellent vids. would love to know what you think of the canon c300 mk iii - or the c500 mk ii ? :) ps, i shoot with the z280 and it's amazing how many of the features from the z280 landed on the fx9
Thank you. I haven't reviewed the C500mii but I very nearly bought one! Great camera with lovely pictures.. The problem I had was fitting in with my clients who've got used to the FS7 workflow!
perfect timing I'm hiring one for a shoot next week!
Glad I could help... and thanks for the comment Gadget Tube!
Great info here, I like the tip at 3:44 on keeping the first two file ID's open for daily camera setups. And at 12:22 is "and your mate's will probably take the piss" a technical term? lol but spot on about using db instead of ISO. Keep the great content coming.
Thank you for the kind comment. Something I forgot to mention about the first two file ID's... it's easy to move those around and delete the first two just by popping your SD card in a computer. Simply renaming the files moves the position in the camera memory... ie rename 004.ALL to 005.ALL to move it down one spot. If you delete a file it just creates an empty slot. Easy! (don't try doing anything inside the file... it won't work !!!) 😉
Nine tip is the best.
apart from the white balance, where do i find the "C.Temp./Filter” so i can fine tune that?
Thanks for this
Thanks Stephen... appreciated.
Do I want the shutter at 1/240 for 120fps? Yes please. 👍🏻 The gain DB sounds like a sensible idea.
i like you - thanks. I need to watch again
You're welcome!
Another great video. Any comments comparing this can to the venice? Nikon lenses? F or Z mounts?
I'm sure they left out the 24P just to protect the Venice !!! I have very little experience of Nikon lenses... never got the chance to use them professionally... yet?
extrashot no doubt. Are the 23.98 frames Progressive ? If they are then creating DCPs should not be a problem for films. In Europe and the UK 25fps is a DCP standard so it would not be a big deal to do a cinematic release in those formats.
@@DavidBattistella Yes its 23.98P... mad marketing really. Luckily, 25P is accepted for 99% of everything I shoot in the UK. 👍
Hey whats the exact model of your metabones adaptor? I have the MarkIV and I don't think it works well regarding Autofocus. You have a Cine something yeah?
Hi, I have the Metabones Canon EF Lens to Sony E Mount T CINE Smart Adapter, I think it's the (MB-EF-E-BT6)... but I doubt this will make a difference to the autofocus performance, I think it's just a different lens locking mechanism. I suspect, the autofocus issues are mainly determined by the Metabones firmware, which is usually updated on both models simultaneously, so it looks like it's possibly the same? I had a few issues initially with my adaptor not being in the right 'mode' so it just wouldn't track focus on the FX9, but it got better once I'd worked that out. Just make sure you've got the latest Metabones firmware as they do update it regularly.
extrashot thanks mate
Thanks for the tips, very helpful! One question: is there a possibility to remote control the camera over a large distance of lets say 100 meters using the Station mode, is it possible to extend the range of the Mobile Phones Hotspot over this distance?
That's a good question... I haven't tested the range of the WiFi between my phone and the FX9 in station mode. Will it be less than Access mode? I wonder if a WiFi repeater or MyFi link can be incorporated. Must admit... I don't know enough about networks! The only way for me to get an answer is to go out and test it...
Nice video. Want to ask when using non s-log gamma and Gain instead of ISO, we can set a shortcut button to toggle between low and hi base?
Yes
Definitely, I've used number 9... simply because it's on it's own, under the gain switch, and indented... it still works when your recording!
Thank you for the info .
How do I import the Lut into the fx9 ?
What steps do I need to take so the camera reads the Lut that I put on Sd card
Hi Awehwolf, I'm afraid you can't load user LUTs into the FX9. Sony have given us 5 built-in LUTs to use on the viewfinder or monitor outputs, but you can't load your own yet... I say yet, because it may come in a future firmware update! To be fair, they are only meant to be used as a guide to help production... it wasn't initially designed to be burnt into the recording... so they probably can't understand why we'd want it !!! 😳
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I like this guy! 😆
Great videos entertaining and hugely informative. Do you have any options between the Panasonic X1500 similar to the recently reviewed Panasonic and the older sonySony HXR-NX100 Full HD NXCAM
with the larger sensor. Thank you.
Hi Rich, I haven't actually used the HXR-NX100 so wouldn't like to say... although I have heard others singing it's praises!
@@extrashot thankyou. I like your channel. Very skilled presentation/ reviews.
@@richbrett7268 Thank you... very kind!
So quick question. What happens when I'm in db mode and I go down to -3 db. Am I getting a cleaner image this way?
Hi Joel, that's a really good question. In theory, yes... reducing gain should result in a cleaner picture. However, you'll also be sacrificing a little bit of dynamic range. When the camera is designed, 0db is the point that should give the best signal to noise ratio for whatever information is coming off the sensor. When you go to -3db you're reducing the amplification, making the whole picture 1/2 stop darker... but you're also pushing the black levels down possibly into the noise floor of the cameras circuits. This may not matter unless you want to retrieve any of those shadows later... you may find you can't because they've been clipped. Whenever we talk of clipping the picture it's easy to assume we're talking about the highlights, but you can clip the blacks as well! The image from the FX9 is so clean I'd be surprised if you can spot -3db but I'd need to test that... it's a good idea for a video. Thank you!
Until Sony makes the S35 mode an assignable button function, this “all file” method seems great. 24 seconds is longer than tapping a button, but I remember how long the Varicam LT used to take to reboot when changing any settings.......
It's all we've got at the moment... and it's much quicker than trying to put everything back individually! That Varicam was mad... I'd forgotten about that... and you had to do it so often too! I believe they improved it in later firmware (a bit). 😂
What is the boot time of the camera? With red it’s still about 90 seconds for a reboot.
Hi David... I actually turned it on in in real time on the previous video... just timed it and it was about 7 seconds. Turn on is amazingly quick! When it does an automatic reboot after an 'ALL FILES' load, it takes a little bit longer because it has to shut down as well... I've just timed it for you and the whole process took 24 seconds. Much quicker than going through all those menus trying to remember everything that has to be reset !!! 👍
extrashot that’s very quick and good to know and it looks like the 2k uses the full sensor and not a windowed sensor but I could not really tell. The Venice is a special camera.
Paul, good tips there and as someone looking to retire soon, I'll work in gain thanks! A serious question though, last Sony cameras we brought were the EX3's many years ago and had some horrific experiences with the IR contamination on the CMOS chips. Had to keep buying and replacing T1 filters and are worried this FS9 suffers from the same problem? Scoured the net and can't find anyone to confirm or deny this is the case. So does this camera show proper black fabric AS black, rather than a dirty brown, under tugsten or bright sunlight? Many thanks for any advice :)
Hi Reg, We're all going back to gain now... it's the future!
There's a good independent ACS discussion about the FX9 colour accuracy on Vimeo here:
vimeo.com/381979485 ... Blacks looked black when I tested... I know the FX9 has an IR cut filter, but this is very different from the FS7 design, which in my opinion had a poor effect on skin tones. Completely unrelated to your IR contamination question....generally, colour rendition on the FX9 is much improved. It does some very clever colour shifts when using the variable ND. Because the VND causes a known colour shift as you increase the density... the FX9 colour shifts internally to keep everything correct. If I had a complaint about the overall colour... the Cinetone look (as it comes out of the box) is a little too "green" for my tastes... and this can lead to quite a green in the blacks feel !!!
@@extrashot Hi Paul, many thanks for the reply and your testing is much appreciated. Will look through that link and try to understand it lol! Cheers again :)
if you shoot 1080p with ff 6k sensor on the fx9 will the footage still look good? my clients dont want 4k video as they cant handle the size and want me to shoot 1080p but i still have the ability to shoot full frame with the 6k sensor. Is that a bad idea ?
No... it's fine idea and the FF 1080 still looks great! More than half my clients still want 1080p as well. In the early days of large sensor cameras, there was a lot of pixel binning and aliasing going on because high megapixel stills cameras didn't mathematically scale for 1080 video very well. It was a compromise. However, this 6K sensor has been designed to downsample perfectly for video, both 4K and HD. The FX9 downsampling is what makes this camera look so good!
@@extrashot Thank you very much for the feedback !
Ahahaha, that intro logo!
Nice
Thank you.
I have one nd is spectacular
True! 👍
There I really enjoy your tutorials I am a DP in Toronto that owns an FX9 and I've been shooting with it for the last week and I have one little question that I hope you can help me out with. When sending a picture to a monitor and keeping all the information on the monitor is there a way of turning off the Fishel tracking on the monitor. The reason I'm asking is it's very distracting to the producer or the director that's watching what we're shooting. I do love this feature Fishel tracking and I'd love to keep it of course in the viewfinder but how do I turn it off on the monitor?
Thanks Michel, very kind. Do you mean the face tracking squares? Generally it's an 'all or nothing' approach to the information added to the outputs... ie. the director see's whatever you have in the viewfinder... or nothing at all. What I have found is.... if you turn off the "Face Detection Frame" in the Monitoring/Display on/off menu... it does disappear... but then when you need to see or use it to choose a face etc... just press the 'Set' button and it will reappear for a few seconds to let you check and choose... it then disappears again. Which I think is what you want. Of course, this does really on a certain amount of AF confidence on your part... but what is good is that when it's locked onto a face the little green "Focus" light illuminates on the side of the camera. If no face is locked then the light disappears and you get a little exclamation mark next to the AF settings in your viewfinder (top right). Let me know if that doesn't make any sense at all. I think my confidence in the system depends on how many faces I've got in the frame at one time !!! 👍
@@extrashot Thanks for the info I appreciate it. One last thing I noticed is that I have a client on Monday that wants to shoot 59.97 and when I turned that Setting the full-size sensor goes to super 35 which is a little bit disappointing. Hopefully these two issues will be fixed on the next firmware upgrade fingers crossed.
@@michelbisson1 I had exactly the same issue on my first job with the FX9... the client wanted 50i (interlaced) for a live presentation, and I never really thought about the sensor reading that as 50 full frames before interlacing the half fields. In my head, interlaced has always been half the bandwidth, and therefore half the stress, on the processing... wrong! I had to switch to S35 to get interlaced... don't even think of using the FF 2K for anything less than 100fps as the aliasing is horrible! At the moment, you can only get a maximum of 30fps off the full frame sensor, although I keep hearing rumours that a 5K 50P solution is being tested for upcoming firmware. I don't know if that's a 5K scan of the FF sensor (like the 2K does it) or actually a cropped size? Either way... it will be welcome! 👍
good video
Thank you... appreciated!
Can you explain the focus assist mode .. AFAIK.. in AF you can override using the focus ring .. I do that but it just springs back to where it was ...? thanks
I can't !!! 😂. It does exactly the same for me... I don't understand it?
Okay... I've found a use !!! ... when you're in 'Face Tracking Only' mode, you can use it as manual when there's no faces in shot... as soon as it see a face it goes back to auto!
Does fx9 crop the sensor when it run on 4k or 6k res?
Really sorry it’s taken so long to reply… I was taking a break from UA-cam!
The FX9 will only output 4K or HD... but you get to choose what size of sensor in any format, so no cropping at all... unless you want high frame rates, and then you need to drop down to 5k or S35.
Was that Sophy Ridge in the reflection?
Wow Ben... that was well spotted... upside down and back to front as well !!! 👍
@@extrashot She's a great presenter!
It's got 24p now
Is there any particular reason why you would want to shoot 24p instead of 23.98p? Most digitally shot movies are shot in 23.98 as well as far as I know.
It's the other way around... most movies are shot 24P and it's the DCI standard for 4K Digital Cinema. 23.98 (rounded from 23.976) is actually derived from the fiddle to make 24P movies play at a usable speed on rubbish NTSC 29.97 TV's... from the olden days!!! 😂.
(I'm somewhat biased because I come from an easy to use 25P area!)
@@extrashot That's actually not true. Most Hollywood movies are shot in 23.987p. They simply get converted to 24p for the DCP or film print just like you demonstrated. Please believe me, you can look it up :D
@@Saphir3000 You're right, many still are shot 23.976p... especially if it's a potential TV broadcast or US DVD release. it's a historical thing because of syncing sound in post houses. It's amazing how many modern post houses still can't cope with true 24. But thankfully, things are changing in this new digital world. Hopefully, 23.976 will shortly die along with the NTSC analogue TV system, 3:2 pulldown and bloody drop frame timecode! All basically complicated fudges to make the "Never Twice the Same Colour" broadcast system work with black and white TV's designed in the 1950s !!!
Most Theatrical releases are now 24P and it's the current spec for DCI 4K cinema... but you are correct... some people do find it easier to convert before delivery.
There's a good video about the history of how we got in this mess here: ua-cam.com/video/mjYjFEp9Yx0/v-deo.html
What is name of camera that you used to record this video
Still my favourite little GH5... all with the cheap 50mm f/1.7 Lumix... love it! 👍
What shoulder rigg is that Please Paul? Would you buy it a second time or get something else?
Hi Al, I'm using the Vocas USBP-15 MKII (350-2200) which I bought at the same time as the FX9. www.vocas.com/vocas-usbp-15-mkii.html
I see they now market a slight variation of this specially for the FX9 (350-2207)... but the only difference seems to be a strange wedge plate that means you have to remove the shoulder pad from under the camera? Not sure why they did that? Anyway... I'm very happy with mine. It doesn't raise the camera too high (unlike some) and provides adjustment for sliding the camera front or back for balance on the shoulder. You can also move the shoulder pad which is simply held on with magnets. I haven't seen anything else which would make me want to change anytime soon?
extrashot thanks Paul. I’ll check it all out now. It looks very slick set up. Cheers. Ps. Decided to keep my neo hypercore I’ll use it in future. But the Sony back vlok plate is going back. In exchange for three hawk wood 98 batteries which are much less weight.
Shape makes a great one too, or Woodencamera
@@K1LL4Cam I do like Shape gear... always a solid choice 👍
Very nice camera, out of my price range. I`ll wait for the Panasonic GH6. As I'm a GH5/GH5s owner.
Still love my GH5... it's what I shot this whole video with! 👍
Nice to hear that! I'm filming with my GH5 & GH5s tomorrow. Its the best 4K camera run and gun set-up with Atomos Ninja V. :)
@@Filmmaker809 Even the 4K 10bit internal recordings are hard to beat !!! 👍
Yes. Look forward in sharing what i have shot with it later this year.
IS there somewhere i can get deep training on the fx9?
Where are you based? I know Alister Chapman (Sony Pro Ambassador) has run some great courses on the FX9 and written good guides too. His personal site is: www.xdcam-user.com/camera-setup/pxw-fx9/. He's very good on the technical stuff.
Anyone please help, can you import your own custom luts into the FX9?
Not yet... maybe in a future firmware?
Lovely to see Boscombe, is it worth the switch from the FS7?
That's a good question... I think it very much depends on the type of work you do? I moved from the F5 (same sensor as the FS7) and it feels like a massive step up in usability, but that difference will be less of a step change with the FS7. So it comes down to that picture quality... is it worth paying a significant sum for, and will your clients appreciate it? The sensor in the FS7 was designed around 8 years ago and things have advanced considerably since then. The FX9 is all about that sensor... it's a peach. Not just because of the 'Full Frame' look, but also the dual base ISO, low light performance, the way it handles the highlights and of course that Venice like profile! You can probably tell... I love the look of the FX9, probably the most 'filmic' looking camera I've ever owned... but the big question is... will my clients notice?
extrashot and will your clients blindly ask for it....? I’m nervous that an inbetweener camera may appear in a year? I guess buying glass is a safe bet now for a few years.
extrashot also high wattage is a bore! My old PMW 500 chews through the batteries... will you be buy the Sony back?
@@TheCooperVision They'll only ask for it if my competitors bring it along... at the moment, they haven't even heard of it! When you say inbetweener... do you mean between the FS7 and the FX9? That would be a surprise! Many people are talking about a smaller (FX6?) camera to take over from the FS5M2, and I'm obviously convinced that the new gap between the FX9 and the Venice is too big not to have something new replacing the F55 soon... but everything points towards that being a CineAlta badged £25K type of camera... which is probably too much for me and my clients! The images from the FX9 are now so close to what you can get from the Venice, it'll be difficult to see what value they can add in picture quality?
@@TheCooperVision Definitely need a V-Lock back... but I doubt I'll by the Sony one unless I get some demand for RAW. Nothing at the moment... but trying to setup a test of the Hakwoods v Core v Wooden Camera soon?
Read some rumblings about rolling shutter in FF mode.. your thoughts sir ?
As with all FF sensors, there's bound to be more rolling shutter than on a smaller sensor... its basic physics. I thought the FX9 deals with rolling shutter no worse than any of the other FF cameras I've looked at recently... and probably better than most? If ever you've got a fast panning shot, and it becomes noticeable, just switch to S35 scan... ?
@@extrashot ok thanks sir .. yes I guess there is no free lunch..
@@extrashot ok thanks sir ..
Ran into the WiFi disconnecting just this morning. I also got a message that my phone was couldn't connect to the internet through the FX9 (obviously...) and was using cell data instead. Wondered if that was a clue, and sure enough tried running the FX9 on an iPad mini with no cell connection. Everything worked perfectly, no disconnects. So my current theory is the phone periodically tries to connect to the internet via the FX9 and somehow that causes it to disconnect.
That's odd... are you definitely running the phone as the hotspot and connecting the FX9 to that? It's called 'Station Mode' on the FX9 menu. Running this way, It's rock solid stable on mine. When using the camera in access mode (which I started by following the manual) it used to drop the connection regularly.
@@extrashot No, I ran into the problem before I saw this video. I was confirming the original problem running the FX9 as the access point, and commenting that a work-around for that approach exists by using a non-cell device such as an iPad mini. I'll try your phone as the hotspot approach soon to add to my repertoire. I will also be trying out some of your other tips. Thanks for producing them!
@@jeffkeith9198 Oh, I see... thank you!
Serious question. Where is 24p (not 23.98p) used or needed?
It's relatively critical for cinema applications where DCI spec calls for 24.00 fps and not 23.976fps. That 1% difference can have real consequences in a post workflow for cinema and later DCP outputs. BUT that's really the only time it's a serious consideration. And truthfully, you could work in 23.976 for an entire films post-production and simply to a 24.00 conversion at the end of the production for cinema projection (many many docs do this).
As Aaron says... it's mainly cinema.
@@avdcam I think it's very bizarre that the FX9 doesn't have straight 24.00. The FS7 got a firmware update some years ago that gave it that ability...
@@zachhunter7897 If I had to guess, Sony rushed the FX9 to market announcing it about a week after the C500 Mark II. To compete in a market they already dominate. Totally a guess, but considering the earliest test footage was with prototype cameras and the firmware exhibits some obvious -we'll get to those nice to haves in firmware 2.0 ship the damn camera already- vibes. I think a lot of the odd little issues will be address in software updates. It's especially odd that Sony didn't publish a firmware roadmap this time around too, as they have always done in the past. Again indicating to me that they are a bit rushed.
@@zachhunter7897 Its. not really the market for this camera .. I doubt anyone will be using it as a A camera for a cine release production..Sony makes the Venice for this market.. and anyway you can shoot 23.98 for cinema ..
Subscribed! We should receive 3 FX9s soon at work. Its an exciting camera. I own a FS5 and I love it. So this looks like a nice logical step for me. We also have a F55. Do you think the FX9s will outperform the F55? I'm sure they will be easier to use. I feel the F55 is a dinosaur. But, there are people here whom have never used a FS5 or 7. And hence, they may not understand you can have a lot of power in a small package. The F55 is heavy and huge. Works great on a dolly or tripod. But, I wouldn't want to have to shoulder it.
Personally, I think the FX9 replaces the F5/55 cameras. I know some people assumed it was an FS7 replacement, but Sony still make and sell those... it's over a year since the dealers have sold any F5/55's !!! Obviously, the F55 has the global shutter but I think the FX9 out performs it in every other way. Sensors have progressed a lot in the 8 years since the F55 was designed. The FX9 sensor is much cleaner, more light sensitive, and because of all the downsampling from 6K, doesn't need anywhere near the same edge correction to make it look sharp. The Venice colour science and lush full frame sensor are just the icing on the cake. Looking forward to an Atomos recorder and ProRes RAW... that'll be the nail for the F55.
P.S. thanks for the sub... hope you enjoy your cameras!
Is it true that you can’t put the FX9 on the ground due to the arm? If so, is the only way around this is to buy the Shape extension?
You can... but you have to unscrew the rosette each time... bit of a pain! The push button shape is just a quick way of swinging it out of the way... personally, I think it's essential, otherwise the camera ends up resting on its viewfinder. It's the same problem with the FS7, FS7M2 and most cameras that have an arm/handle.
Thanks for the reply.
I see Alistair Chapman has also written about the different native iso for the different gammas.
In original gamma with
s-cinetone do you know what the difference is between hi and lo iso? Is it a couple of stops or even more?
Just wondering whether how well the 28-135 f4 lens works in those low light situations.
Can it cover all bases when time is tight to keep changing lenses?
@@kevinlangdon6172 Hi Kevin... it's over 2 stops (difference between native 320ISO and 1600ISO in Cinetone). In fact, in Hi Base I've found the camera to be very clean way past 4000ISO. I've got the 28-135 f4 and I love it... almost no breathing and although f4 doesn't sound very fast... remember you've got to apply the crop factor to the aperture for the full frame sensor (1.5). So when you're shooting full frame, it has the depth of field of a 1.5x faster lens for the same field of view! Having said that... as a lens it never worked very well on S35 cameras... it wasn't wide enough. It's almost as it they made this camera for the lens!
@@extrashot Many thanks, that's very useful to know. How are you finding the bpu batteries? The specs show the camera to be very power hungry...have you found this? Have you gone for a V-Lok plate to add bigger batteries and, if so, which one?
Thanks again for all the information.
@@kevinlangdon6172 Yes... it chews through the BP-u's very quickly. I believe it's about 35W in full frame mode... to give you an idea, the FS7 is around 25W. I will definitely go for a V-Lock plate and currently trying to get the three main one's in to test (hopefully for a video soon). I'd like to test the HawkWoods (cheapest), CoreSWX and the Wooden Camera. So far, I'm really liking the fact that you can swing the Wooden Camera one up and still fit a BP-U underneath. It's a good backup for when the V-Lock runs out of power without giving much warning... they will all do this because of the step up to 19.5 Volt.
23.98 is actually 24000/1001, so the speed increase is one per mill, not one percent.
You are of course quite right... I should have said 0.1% ... my bad!!!
Some useful and well explained tips there Paul, thank you, and a slickly produced video. I take it you directed and edited it all yourself in order to stay away from those awful directors who mustn't ever have too much control, not to mention those brain dead "edit monkeys", eh? This is a polite way of saying, as a director who also works as DOP, and who spends up to two months at a time in edit suites for hour long docs with editors who know their craft - a little respect for your fellow craftsmen and women wouldn't go amiss! Orson Wells was on to something when he said, “A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.”
Okay... you've got me... and I should apologise to those all those talented and appreciated colleagues I often have to work with. In my defence, it was meant to be friendly banter... apart from those edit monkeys obviously !!! 😂
Haha ok.. thanks for the reply.. friendly banter accepted. Sounds like you need to find yourself some proper editors /colourists who know their onions!
Sar kya aap ye menu hame hindi me bata sakte hai
ऐसा मत सोचो... मुझे नहीं पता कि कहाँ से शुरू करूँ?
Id love to know how to bake in a 3D LUT .cube file... specifically ArrilookLUT OR LCREC709..
I believe the ability to load 'User LUTs' is coming in the next firmware (late Oct)... so great news!
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How have you set the "clip naming" sir.. I cant work that out .. I want it ti be like the f5 that the camera generated it... ??
Hi Robin, I've set mine to be "Auto Naming - Title" and then set the Title prefix to be my preferred Camera ID... the camera then adds a four digit number onto the end of each clip automatically, This is the same as I used to do on my F5. I know the FX9 will do all this fancy downloading of shooting plans, but that's way to complicated for me!
@@extrashot Ok great thanks .. do you put your name in the prefix.. is that a done thing ?
@@robinprobyn1971 I used to put the date... but that was stupid because you need to re-set the whole thing every day!... now I just put the company initials, four zeros (for roll number), and then the camera adds the last four digit number clip number automatically. So mine ends up being "T2_0001_0001" ...2 ...3 etc. Often I end up swaping much of this for the clients jobs number... but that's usually a similar format!
@@extrashot ok thanks sir ..
You change the roll number yourself too.. or thats auto..?
I’ll stick to my iPhone 😂
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Agreed. These big cameras are falling behind
@@TotalGAMIX are you trying to wind me up??? 😂
@@extrashot I mean the next Samsung s20 will have 108mp and be capable of recording 8k.
Great image - shit camera. Classic Sony.
Actually, I think this is the best camera Sony have done for years! Looks like 90% Venice for 20% of the cost, and easy to use!
extrashot that’s just it though - it’s not easy to use really. Same old convoluted menu system, same old fiddly little buttons all over the place, blah blah. Image looks great, VND is still magical but the basics are still lacking - make it intelligent and functionally simplistic Sony and you are the winners.
@@unclejezza Coming from an F5, I'm enjoying all the hard buttons! Much easier than trying to navigate through a menu system in the middle of shooting something. Build up some muscle memory and the button just falls to hand. What basics are lacking? (I'll give you LUTs in HD). Put everything on auto, and anyone will get usable pictures!