Anyone use the hd/sdi output for higher bitrate on the Sony HXR-NX5U

[Chris Simpson]

I confess I can’t answer your question but I’m also interested in the answer.

I was looking at XDcam user website sorry haven’t got the link on my iPhone, that had an article about using a nano flash on ex1 to video lightning bolts or something and it went on to discuss the subtle but observable improvement when capturing at 50Mbps or a 100Mbps 422, over 35Mbps on the Ex1.

I’m left wondering what to do I want my next camera purchase to have a 20x zoom like my V1, I fear the ex1 will be to short, adaptors have vignetting on the short end, I’d consider an ex3, but adding a Canon KH20 would make it prohibitively expensive, and mad, if I could just add a nano/ki pro mini/ atomos ninja to a more humble, but Essentially supercharged by bypassing the camera compression to say 50Mbps 422 1920×1080 on a Z5 or NX, I do motorsports so I have good light, but need reach, but also need the flexibility, additionally I do some broadcast work that requires DVcam. I thought choosing my next camera would be easy, but it’s really quite hard!

[Michael Johnston]

First, if you light it properly and shoot at -3db or -6db gain, the picture looks phenomenal on a 50″ HDTV. However, I recently rented a Nano Flash for a day to test this very setup. I was astonished. First, attaching a monitor via SDI to view a live HD image was amazing. Second, I shot some video on the Nano then checked it out. In bright lighting I didn’t see much of a difference. However, medium to low light was a different story. The Nano shots looked much much better.