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Monthly Archives: July 2012
What to do if your highlights look clipped. FS700 in particular, but applies to many cameras.
One of the well documented issues or at least something that gives people problems is highlight clipping. This isn’t just an FS700 problem, but the AVCHD recordings from the FS100 and FS700 are particularly prone to getting clipped. You go … Continue reading
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Exposing Skin Tones, getting the movie look.
This post was inspired by a discussion on another forum. One of the things that tends to differentiate the movie look from a typical video look is exposure range. When you watch a typical TV soap, documentary or news programme … Continue reading
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50 Megabits for the masses, the new Sony PMW-200.
5 years is a long time in the video world. Cameras come and go, technologies change, but for 5 years there has been one camera that has remained essentially unchanged and that’s the versatile and well regarded Sony EX1 and … Continue reading
Important Corrections To F3 and FS700 Matching Profiles.
I discovered some issues with the reproduction of certain colours in my matching F3 and FS700 picture profiles. Please ensure you use the revised settings linked below if you wish to use these profiles to match the cameras together or … Continue reading
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Bye bye reverse focus Nikon Mount Lenses…. Hello Samyang!
I’ve been using Nikon lenses on my F3′s since I first purchased them. I’ve been getting very good results and optically I have been perfectly happy with the lenses I have. I chose Nikon simply because they have ether manual … Continue reading
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Contrast and Resolution, intricately linked.
This is one of those topics that keeps coming back around time and time again. The link between contrast and resolution. So I thought I would take a few minutes to create some simple illustrations to demonstrate the point. This … Continue reading
Picture Profiles to match PMW-F3 and NEX-FS700
IMPORTANT PLEASE ENSURE YOU USE THE REVISED SETTINGS UPDATED ON 24th JULY. After my recent side by side look at the F3 and FS700 and seeing how different the two cameras look, I decided to try to match them a … Continue reading
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Tagged F3, FS700, NEX-FS700, picture, PMW-F3, profile, settings, setup
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F3, FS700 sample clips now free!
I’m going to try sharing my F3 and FS700 sample clips for free via a file sharing service. See my blog entry http://www.xdcam-user.com/2012/07/pmw-f3-and-fs700-comparisons/ for the link.
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The Next Big Thing Is Coming: According to the Sony XDCAM micro site.
More clues as to what’s being announced next Thursday from Sony. Apparently the next big thing is coming! I promise to have news of this here on the 26th. http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/micro-xdcam/
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So what’s going to be announced on the 26th of July?
This popped up on the Sony Professional Europe Facebook page this evening. Anyone care to guess??
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