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Samsung NX1, $1300 4K flagman
utezat what gamma mode do you shoot in? The camera can be as punchy or desaturated as you want. I like fuji color too and NX1 can be graded in that style.

Comment by racer5 April 2016 permalink
Samsung NX1, $1300 4K flagman
I have a question for fellow NX1 owners: Is it possible to get the exact same magnify/peaking behavior via the "Ok" button that is possible when using a manual lens? It seems when a Samsung lens is attached this only gets triggered with a …

Comment by racer5 January 2015 permalink
Frame Rate Downscaling / Frame Averaging
8bit cameras that overcrank usually do so at the cost of compression artifacts and resolution, so I question the usefulness of eeking out an extra bit shooting in those modes. Some pictures showing the benefit would be great in any case.

Comment by racer5 January 2015 permalink
Samsung NX1 issues
@brianl Followed this on eoshd and was also able to recreate some subtle shift while playing around in movie preview mode. This hasn't bitten me yet on any real recordings though. But I agree it's a bug, and one I'm sure the camera�…

Comment by racer5 January 2015 permalink
Samsung NX1 issues
@brianl Are you personally running into this bug with your camera?

Comment by racer5 January 2015 permalink
Best camera of 2014, your opinion?
@abolit Agreed that its an early adopter platform at this point. It shoots to a codec nothing understands yet after all:) @aldolega If rolling shutter is a factor for you the NX1 is probably not your camera. Other than some shots out of a train win…

Comment by racer5 December 2014 permalink
Best camera of 2014, your opinion?
@Vitaliy_Kiselev +1 NX1. It has made my current workflow of shooting flat and fiddling for hours in DaVinci seem a bit silly - because after all that time the baked NX1 image still looks better and more natural. It's the best "on the card…

Comment by racer5 December 2014 permalink
Uh Oh - Samsung NX1 Crappy Test Film
Colors look nice now ed, no longer crushed and clippy. Assuming the ImPulsZ lut is not applied in this version too. It's been said before of this cam, but you pause 4k video frames and they look like nice jpg stills.

Comment by racer5 December 2014 permalink
Samsung NX1 Open Source Development
Damn, 1.3gb of source (nx1.zip) is not enough to build the 700mb .bin firmware file? Must be a lot of Tizen libs or something. The supplied text file does give instructions for compiling the nx1's kernel. What that means exactly I don't k…

Comment by racer5 December 2014 permalink
Uh Oh - Samsung NX1 Crappy Test Film
@Angry_C Why not just bring the contrast down a bit in camera instead? Crushed blacks are baked into the h265 file before any transcoding if you shoot with a contrasty profile.

Comment by racer5 December 2014 permalink
Samsung NX1 Open Source Development
Wait really...the NX1 is an open source camera!? That's awesome. Let's remember the engineers of this camera had it reading the full 28mp sensor at 240fps during development - all as part of a debug mode for some silly baseball photo feat…

Comment by racer5 December 2014 permalink
Samsung NX1, $1300 4K flagman
Samsung: bigger h265 files without compression artifacts. I'm not hurting for diskspace so much that I need every clip to be under 70megs. You've pushed the efficiency aspect too far, at the expense of the image (especially in the 120fps m…

Comment by racer5 December 2014 permalink
Uh Oh - Samsung NX1 Crappy Test Film
@eddavid It's hard to tell when your being serious, but if you did pick up an NX1 and plan to continue shooting with it; kudos on taking the plunge. It's a really interesting outlier camera capable of great pictures. Just throw some stabil…

Comment by racer5 December 2014 permalink
Uh Oh - Samsung NX1 Crappy Test Film
@danyyyel I wouldn't judge the dynamic range based on this. He applied an SLog lut to the footage (which already has a baked lut), and "messed with the gamma curve". In other words it's pretty well mangled....which is fine, if th…

Comment by racer5 December 2014 permalink
Uh Oh - Samsung NX1 Crappy Test Film
I've read the Vimeo description twice and still can't tell if it's sincere or a snarky sarcastic slam on the NX1. As @brianl mentions, this weird jittery footage is not indicative of what the cam can do.

Comment by racer5 December 2014 permalink
Samsung NX1, $1300 4K flagman
Have any new NX1 owners gotten good results with the 120fps mode? I took the cam along on a recent shoot and am currently transcoding the footage ProRes 444 using Hybrid. What I'm seeing from the footage so far is that the 4k looks nice, alth…

Comment by racer5 December 2014 permalink
Samsung NX1, $1300 4K flagman
@DMZ any tests you want to contribute would be appreciated brother @adventsam the test is sharp but I'd like to see different shutter speeds and subject motions

Comment by racer5 November 2014 permalink
Samsung NX1, $1300 4K flagman
The tech specs on the Samsung site only list 60p as the highest frame rate possible. Why on earth would they bury 120fps as some weird .025 scale factor on another frame rate? I'm concerned it's a fake software interpolated mode and not re…

Comment by racer5 November 2014 permalink
Sony A7s, FHD camera, with 12Mp sensor, big DR
@Tatzu Don't expect a response from MikeLinn, it's just a link-bot.

Comment by racer5 October 2014 permalink
Is there a point to shooting an indie feature film in 4K??
Gone Girl was shot 6k. If your only shooting 4k, your film will look like a mushy mess in comparison. Don't sell your content short, 6k at a bare minimum. Sadly the filmmakers behind Avatar did not future proof their investment by shooting it …

Comment by racer5 October 2014 permalink
BMCC EF vs Sony A7s for a feature film with a lot of night shoots?
@balazer Might want to update your Pocket's firmware one of these days:p But yeah, for low light there's no contest with the A7s.

Comment by racer5 October 2014 permalink
Movie posters you like
Thanks to all who've contributed here. I love this thread.

Comment by racer5 October 2014 permalink
Mini doc shot with BM Pocket and graded with lightroom.
@beeldlab Gorgeous and professional in every way. Great job.

Comment by racer5 September 2014 permalink
Samsung NX1, $1300 4K flagman
@Eno That's interesting about downsampling improving SNR. If I understand, noise structures are averaged out and smoothed on resize, meaning the ISO can be pushed further.

Comment by racer5 September 2014 permalink
Samsung NX1, $1300 4K flagman
@DrDave I'll take old FF MF glass over those clinically digital m43 lenses anyday (although I've got a bunch of those too). Guess it depends what you are doing with your kit. Sounds like your not the schidt optiks demographic :p The proble…

Comment by racer5 September 2014 permalink
Samsung NX1, $1300 4K flagman
@bubba @Eno The backlit sensor gives hope for it's low light performance, but otherwise it has smaller photosites than even the GH4. I doubt it will outperform the A7S.

Comment by racer5 September 2014 permalink
RJ Lens Turbo m43 adapters
@matt_gh2 Those images were taken with the RJ Turbo PK to m43, for clicked aperture ring lenses. The lenses you bought are great, let's hear how they work out once they arrive. With the RJ they will be brighter, wider, and to my eyes slightly s…

Comment by racer5 August 2014 permalink
RJ Lens Turbo m43 adapters
@matt_gh2 @joethepro @Azo Damn thanks guys, glad you like them. I'm really happy with the results this combo is delivering so far. Azo, I too started on Pentax; the K1000 was my first real camera, and I've held on to most of my original l…

Comment by racer5 August 2014 permalink
RJ Lens Turbo m43 adapters
Received my RJ Pentax K to m43 adapter, and am very pleased with it. Below are some off-the-card jpgs taken with the good old GH1. There are many great full frame Pentax K lenses out there, and unlike Nikon and Canon the market isn't flooded wi…

Comment by racer5 August 2014 permalink
Olympus OM-D E-M1 topic
This sounds like total fantasy, but...it's a Panasonic sensor in the EM1 right (as opposed to Sony on EM5)? Maybe it's been this mini-GH4 trojan horse just waiting to be unlocked. #wishfulthinking

Comment by racer5 August 2014 permalink

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