Sony FDR AX100 UHD 4K

Stefan

Your weather is my weather, but I am not so pessimistic as you are. ;)
This summer is short and cold, but not so grey as you said. I know it is because of your limited time for shooting. --only Sunday.

You should test Cinematone as it give you more detail or contrast, depend on what you use. I use Cine-D (D--Dynamic), so it is more flat and give customer more room for editing in PP. When shooting in grey sky like yours, then I use Cine V (V--Contrast).

I am like you, shoot first and then ask (may be even don't know what to ask! -- Simply don't understand the problem behind) ;)

:D

We have plenty of crappy weather here - it is the norm, actually, grey, drippy, windy, cold - it is not that I am not grumpy when it happens, but the fact is that to re-do a bunch of shots I have to choose well the weather and go on another camping trip, and hike more ... how terrible! (Actually I'd rather have grey wet weather than hot sun and drought)

Zebra funtion basically show you where your picture is over exposed, or nearing overexposure. If you are not used to them it can be very distracting. For general scenes set the level at 100%, for flesh tones set at 70%. They say for people faces you want the barest hint of zebra showing on skin highlights. For clouds, snow, white birds, make sure you do not see zebra lines. If you see them, dial back the exposure, and the video will look better. AX100 only gives two levels, so makes it a bit easier.

I pan and tilt slowly on my fluid heads with fingertip control. Slow slow slow. On slider, it is not fluid, and very very hard to move slowly without motor. Adding the motors makes it that much harder to set up each shot, and more wires/controller, battery/tech crap to worry about, not to mention weight which is already an issue. But if motorization is the solution I will do it.

Patuwe97 - are you saying there are different Cinematone settings on the AX100? I have not found these yet, but will look. I think what I am seeing at highlight edges with Cinematone on is that it gives a boost to the high frequency where it makes the edges more like what I see when, for instance, I stare into the sun or bright sky, rather than a delineated line of bright/silhouette.

Oh, this is rich. I thought I had problems increasing and was destined to send my AX100 in soon, as it would, with increasing frequency, turn off briefly whenever I would touch the ND lever, or is the battery coming loose? DAMMIT! Really messing with me, this problem, sometimes happening in situations where I need to be in record, not waiting for it to turn back on.

Then one fine day I realized as I was poking the ND lever that this had been happening since I was wearing gloves. Specific gloves, in fact, with fingertips that fold back for photographer types who are cold. Pretty simple and basic, except for the fact that there are magnets sewn into the back of the fingertip and the top/back of the main finger part.

Yes, you guessed it. The LCD lid has a magnet in it to activate a sensor in the body of the camera near the ND filter lever that tells the camera to turn off (or shut off the LCD) when the door is closed.

My gloves were momentarily activating this.

Phooey!

lol

Yeah - that's exactly what I did, too!

What you need Mix is an ND filter extension lever. Simply super-glue a pencil on the end of the ND filter switch. Of course this does make it a bit difficult for packing the camera away. It may also void the warranty. ;)

In -25 wind chill days (coming up soon) that's a helluva lot better than taking off the gloves!

...and people call me weird when I use my nose to turn the pages of my ebook when it's too cold without gloves. *sigh*

Hi, Just took our new AX100 (which I learned about from you guys) up and down the Oregon and northern California coasts in late December. We had several beautiful clear days with blue skies and high waves, so got some great video. I like the little camera although I wish it had a more telephoto capability. We also use a GH4 with a 7-14 wide angle lens which provides lots of flexibility.
Sensor spots are such a big problem with the DSLRs that I won't change lenses anymore unless absolutely necessary. We ended up with a sensor spot after changing lenses (in a hotel room) in Australia this fall. This one was so stubborn that we ended up buying second camera body just before heading down the Great Ocean Road. However, After Effects works well for getting rid of nasty black or grey spots on blue skies so several days at the computer back at home salvaged most of the spotty footage.

"Sensor spots" The GH4 has the same problem as the GH3? The sensor is a dust magnet. My problem is that the dust is sometimes at the inner side of the sensor filter. After 6 months of the last sensor cleaning job, I have to sent it again to Texas to clean again.