Cine Gear hosted the Shooting Low Light and High Speed with the FS700 seminar. We was able to watch this test footage on the big screen and it was amazing how good that AVCHD codec looked blown up the size of a billboard.
The FS700 can shoot 120fps for a 16 second burst and 240fps for 8 seconds. This is stored in a buffer memory and you can trigger storage at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of a shot. It takes about 30 seconds to render the footage out of the buffer onto a card. The FS700 can record at higher frame rates but at much lower resolution. The 980fps is really unusable for narrative but might be useful for industrial work.
The lowest ISO on the camera is 650. This is up from 500 on the FS100 and may have been pushed up just to compete with the Canon C300. The picture looked clean up to about 4000 ASA and usable up to 12,000 where the noise became noticeable. 20,000 ASA was what I would call "Night News Quality" but it's there if you need it.
The FS700 has the same Cine Gamma modes as the F3 and the test footage was shot in Cinema Gamma 4 which has almost 5 stops of overexposure over key as compared to the bit over 2 stops overexposure of my F900... which is why I have my zebras set at 60%!
During grading they crushed the blacks slightly (note the loss of detail in the tree leaves), warmed and saturated the image. The filmmakers wanted the footage to look like a "70's film". There were no lights used. They did have a white card... until it became covered with ketchup, mustard and chocolate pudding.
Watch the video at: http://vimeo.com/43064629
The FS700 can shoot 120fps for a 16 second burst and 240fps for 8 seconds. This is stored in a buffer memory and you can trigger storage at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of a shot. It takes about 30 seconds to render the footage out of the buffer onto a card. The FS700 can record at higher frame rates but at much lower resolution. The 980fps is really unusable for narrative but might be useful for industrial work.
The lowest ISO on the camera is 650. This is up from 500 on the FS100 and may have been pushed up just to compete with the Canon C300. The picture looked clean up to about 4000 ASA and usable up to 12,000 where the noise became noticeable. 20,000 ASA was what I would call "Night News Quality" but it's there if you need it.
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