Telling from the shutter speed options, there are no high hopes for a "game changer" on the video side. At least Not for PAL people (15, 30, 60, 125 ...) 1080 60p with a organic dithered image would be of interest though :-)::..
Will it even be able to do proper video? I read that this sensor design needs quite a bit of processing power.
http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/
h.264 in .mov container (no word on bitrate yet)
1080 24p
odd: shutter speeds are not suitable for 24p/PAL
http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc498/43rumors/Fujifilm-X-Pro1-camera-top.png
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/fuji_x_pro1_launch.shtml Fuji "Pro" camera: the good--large sensor, no AA filter, prime lenses The bad: No mic input (Fuji, you are stupid, stupid, stupid) 30 minute recording limit (stupid, stupid, stupid) No IS as yet (ummmm, stupid) If the bitrate is decent we may forgive you for the mic input, but, seriously, thirty minute limit, say "Cheesey"
It has no low pass filter. What a bold move by FujiFilm.
Waiting for footage....
Waiting for footage....
Me too because I have no idea how footage from that sensor will look like. I'd like to know if that very interesting dynamic range boost works in movie mode as well and if the sensors design can still surpress aliasing for video. If so, it'll be interesting to see what the image looks like resolution wise. Too bad Fuji isn't serious about video implementation, so I hope it sux :)
The top video above features a photo of the 6x6-cell RGB array used in the X-Pro1 (@ 3:55):
G R B G B R
B G G R G G
R G G B G G
G B R G R B
R G G B G G
B G G R G G
Although this is not a "random" pattern, it features R and B palindrome patterns on every third row and column. That should reduce multicolored moire patterns significantly. However, most of the G pixels are grouped in 2x2 arrays repeated every third pixel horizontally and vertically. Since luminance is mostly determined by green pixel response, that will create a square grid pattern of reduced luma sensitivity at 1/3rd the horizontal and vertical resolution of the sensor. While this shouldn't be an issue at downscaled HD video resolution, it may have an undesirable fixed-pattern effect on the camera's highest resolution still image quality.
The chroma resolution of the 6x6 grid is also 1/3rd the horizontal and vertical resolution of the sensor. Compared to the 4:2:2 color depth of a standard RGBG Bayer sensor, this might be loosely described as a 5:2:0 color depth, since there are 2.5 times as many G pixels as R or B pixels in the 6x6 grid.
While the 6x6 RGB grid allowed Fuji to eliminate the optical anti-aliasing filter, that doesn't make the camera immune to aliasing artifacts. The palindrome R and B patterns will partially cancel out a large amount of the chroma artifacts, but luma artifacts will still be present. Fuji no doubt designed a proprietary digital filter to suppress the luma artifacts while preserving as much of the fine image sensor details as possible.
For HD video it is all good.
For HD video it is all good.
Good! Vitaliy, I remember you posted about the way the sensor's design allows a unique way of boosting dynamic range for stills. Do you think that this in theory could be available in video mode as well? Also, do you ever sleep? :)
I'm down for another flavor of APS-C Sized HD VIdeo Capabilities...
Can't believe it's taking so long to actually show footage, though. Guess not all of the companies are interested in nabbing that business.
There were a couple of still photos online, they looked a bit soft to me but wait and see....
'Can't believe it's taking so long to actually show footage, though. Guess not all of the companies are interested in nabbing that business.'
I really think Fuji sees video mode as nothing but a tedious obligation they successfully checked off. Probably no manual control anyway and if they really don't offer 1/50 shutter it will be pretty much useless in PAL land.
That PRO neg film simulation is interesting
Re: shutter who knows, maybe there is more shutter control than the dial only, and who knows if it will be the same increments in PAL land as for NTSC.
By the way, I think it looks a tad bulky for a rangefinder..
they really like to again invent the "j-Leica". If this "like-film-grain-RGB-pattern" works as advertised they are pretty close. Paying no special attention to video might be a big mistake. All photo journalists I know of are asked more and more to do also video. Same in the fashion biz. Their target group might be those ambitious photo grandpas ...
Guys, I think this thing was made 99,98% for photography. Video mode was just a checkbox.
I alto thought I read that you can also set shutter in menu. I think this might well be the perfect photo camera. Olympus has a digital OM coming though... maybe it will have good video options. The market is getting crowded. Companies just need to step away from those stupid AVCHD format specifications (and offer higher bitrates and framerates).
I've now see a bunch of photos, and I wouldn't say there is anything there that looks "sharp". Here is a fullsize jpeg, hope this is not the best this cam can do. Because Fuji, you have a camera that is slightly chunky, slightly bigger, slightly slower lenses which are also chunky, there better be some serious IQ to go with this chunkiness. http://dcfever.com/articles/news/2012/01/120110_xpro1_06l.jpg
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