Video Resources and VMI sponsored "Shooting Tips and Tricks with the Sony PMW-F3 and NEX-FS100 Large Sensor Cameras" yesterday at VR. It was a great opportunity to test the cameras side by side without being in some convention hall.
The main presentation was given by Shahpour Nosrati-Fard, a Sony Senior Sales Support Engineer who, as you might expect, really knew the finer details about both cameras. The focus (no pun intended) was on the Sony F3. Some of the things not printed on the front of the brochure are:
Sony finally agrees the little vf sucks and is coming out with a loupe for the side monitor.
S-log is only available 444 and that dual link upgrade will run you another $4500, plus external recorder.
The F3 only records 4:2:0 8 bit to the internal SxS cards
Sony has a SxS to SDHC card adapter that was designed for "emergency" use.
People are using the adapter to avoid buying the expensive SxS cards. But with the SDHC cards there is no hot swapping, no salvage function and you can't record slo-mo even with the required Class 10 cards.
Trey Solberg, a DP who has been shooting with Blackstone Media's F3 also spoke on using the camera in the field. They have the Sony K package primes but use the RED short zoom most of the time. They also have the adapter to use Nikon glass and Trey is very happy with his Duclos'ed 80-200 f2.8.
I finally got a chance to test the glass that comes packaged with the FS-100. This zoom is an amazing 18-200mm for only $600 bucks but you get what you pay for. The f-stop at 18mm is f3.5 but at 200mm it's a whopping f6.3. This f-stop change is very linear and you can watch the f-stop go up and down as you zoom in and out. When you zoom it looks like you're turning the iris instead.
The FS100 has the same sensor as the F3 and also records 4:2:0 8 bit AVCHD but without the benefit of the F3's image processing (so says Shahpour). A really cool thing I didn't know is the FS100 has a HDMI 1.4 that can output a RGB 444 8 bit signal. The good news is most monitors are only 8 bit so that's great. The bad news is there's no recorder on the market today that records this signal.
Very informative and thanks to all involved including Brad Hagen, Naomi Rivas and John O'Donovan... especially for the tacos!
http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-PMWF3L/
http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-broadcastcameras/cat-nxcam/product-NEXFS100UK/
The main presentation was given by Shahpour Nosrati-Fard, a Sony Senior Sales Support Engineer who, as you might expect, really knew the finer details about both cameras. The focus (no pun intended) was on the Sony F3. Some of the things not printed on the front of the brochure are:
S-log is only available 444 and that dual link upgrade will run you another $4500, plus external recorder.
The F3 only records 4:2:0 8 bit to the internal SxS cards
Sony has a SxS to SDHC card adapter that was designed for "emergency" use.
People are using the adapter to avoid buying the expensive SxS cards. But with the SDHC cards there is no hot swapping, no salvage function and you can't record slo-mo even with the required Class 10 cards.
Trey Solberg, a DP who has been shooting with Blackstone Media's F3 also spoke on using the camera in the field. They have the Sony K package primes but use the RED short zoom most of the time. They also have the adapter to use Nikon glass and Trey is very happy with his Duclos'ed 80-200 f2.8.
I finally got a chance to test the glass that comes packaged with the FS-100. This zoom is an amazing 18-200mm for only $600 bucks but you get what you pay for. The f-stop at 18mm is f3.5 but at 200mm it's a whopping f6.3. This f-stop change is very linear and you can watch the f-stop go up and down as you zoom in and out. When you zoom it looks like you're turning the iris instead.
The FS100 has the same sensor as the F3 and also records 4:2:0 8 bit AVCHD but without the benefit of the F3's image processing (so says Shahpour). A really cool thing I didn't know is the FS100 has a HDMI 1.4 that can output a RGB 444 8 bit signal. The good news is most monitors are only 8 bit so that's great. The bad news is there's no recorder on the market today that records this signal.
Very informative and thanks to all involved including Brad Hagen, Naomi Rivas and John O'Donovan... especially for the tacos!
http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-PMWF3L/
http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-broadcastcameras/cat-nxcam/product-NEXFS100UK/
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