Chris Magid
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John,
Thanks for your reply.
Just curious, which effects are using most or are the biggest help for the type of work you mentioned?
C.A.M.
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This is the type of device I was speaking of.
Perfectly suited to adapting 2/3 eng zoom to Alexa for documentary or reality style shooting. Seems very useful in a kit alongside 4 or 5 primes.
Results are more than adequate. Even with the loss of light the Alexa should still have more range than F900s & Varicams.
ENG/EFP zooms also have great range and utility.
https://blog.abelcine.com/2011/04/20/nab-11-hdx-optical-adapters/#more-11736
https://blog.abelcine.com/2011/04/29/footage-from-the-hdx35-and-sony-f3/
C.A. Magid
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Joseph,
GREAT PRODUCT!!!
I have been using my NEXTO`for a few weeks. It is very flexible and a great option for backing up cards in the field.
Only comment I could possibly have is regarding having to cable the external drive. Would be great if there was some sort of sliding dock like the Panasonic P2 stuff.
We actually use raw 2.5 drives externally (in a temporary enclosure which exposes their regular SATA and SATA POWER connections. Was able to find a esataP to traditional sata & sata power cable.
Small bump. Rest has been smooth sailing.
I’ll check out the drive you recommend.
Thanks for a good product!
Chris Magid
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Well. Shot a few days on the new 2700 rig. Very nice.
The combination of AVC-Intra 100 and the other updates definitely result in a lower noise image which can pushed a little further in color correction. A big improvement.
Now a question.
There are some subtle differences and additions to the settings comparable to my H. My goodman’s guide was great to help me through the H.
Is there anything like a goodman’s guide addendum or resource which would detail the new wrinkles and maybe advise.
The camera is great, the manual however BLOWS.
Chris Magid
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Thanks for the info.
I’ll test my arriving Nexto and pass on numbers.
Chris Magid
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Is the traditional hard drive slid into the unit via the tray?
Panasonic’s marketing materials are not good as they seem to make it look like the only way to use a traditional hard drive is externally. Some materials even say not to use a HDD internally.
Yet on their site they seem to sell trays for HDD.
Very confusing and they just lost a sale because of it.
We would of bought. Went with the Nexto instead. Will report back.
Chris Magid
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Bruce,
We have gotten into the habit of running with dynamic level set to maximum 500%. Do you think this is introducing noise into the image compared to a 300% dynamic level?
I think you are on to the same general idea we have. That it is possible to set the H (and other cameras) in way that may produce nice looking noise free results when monitored uncompressed on the set but in reality challenge the codec and pushes it too resulting in noise in the recorded image and certainly after grading.
The 2700 does not have a log mode that I am aware of but moving to full 1280×720 recording versus the H’s kludge to get there should help along with the 10 bit AVC-INTRA at 100 Mb/s. My understanding is that even though taped based DVC PRO HD records at 100 Mb/s the payload of 720p recorded via Varicam is really around 40 Mb/s. So it the 2700 may be a big improvement.
Not to diminish the H. It really is a great camera. Just has been getting a little noisy in some of the situations we put it in and now that we are finishing to 1080i / 1080p rather than SD we see a little more of it.
So we will test out some of your advice including the gamma adjustment once we get our 2700 in house.
Chris Magid
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Excellent report. Thanks Jeff.
Our H has been a workhorse.
All the reasons you stated are the reasons we decided to take advantage of the Panasonic trade in offer on the 2700. I had an old BetaSP rig collecting dust. Great deal.
Just hoping to dial in the same look on the 2700 as we had on the H. A good film look or flat film response for grading in post. Any suggestions?
And is there a way to prevent clip spanning over 2 P2 cards. Would like to turn that off and just jump to the next card. Seems like an odd thing to do. Suppose I could just keep one card unlocked at a time.
Any experience with the best Letus 35mm adapter on the 2700? We use a PS Technic Pro35 at the moment. But lots of folks say the Letus is better now.
Definitely agree that on most faces 720p is still the way to go and has a lot life in it.
Matter of fact, when the new cameras come out at NAB I hope there still is a 720p version. Doubt it though. Think 35mm sensor and 1080p is going to be it. Hopefully we get enough control to dumb it down when needed.
Oh. Anyone want an H in good shape?
Chris Magid
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Well. They do make esataP to sata cables.
Was planning on using something like that to allow the use of raw internal laptop drives as the external drive with Nexto. Keep them in a sleeve and other protection when they aren’t in use. Pretty cheap too.
What do you mean it renames files? Is it assigning folder names or actually renaming P2 camera files? That would be a little odd. Not exactly a straight copy.
I looked at the panasonic unit too, which requires a SSD for internal use. Large SSDs are over $2,000.00.
Chris Magid
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Bruce,
Thanks for the reply.
Yes. we do shoot in film rec mode, almost exclusively.
Are you suggesting the H is cleaner than the 2700 in that regard? Or that I should try film-rec on the H to lower our noise issues?
What are your thoughts on dark compression mode?
Our H is being pushed to the limit on shoots that are using a lot of lighting tricks to deliver subtle gradations of gray and in my opinion the blacks and shadows have always been on the noisy side. So we are getting some banding and lots of noise which limits our color correction range.
We use settings pretty similar to the popular Peter Gray film look settings. Just a low contrast, high dynamic range, flat, film look ready for color corrections.
The other issue we get is clipped or blown highlights, which is to be expected.
I was hoping the 2700 due to the newer DSPs, 600% dynamic range and most importantly 10 bit AVC INTRA would help.
With the exception of the flaws I listed, our H has been phenomenal. We sometimes put a PRO35 on the front with primes and get really nice organic stuff.
My experience with the upmarket 3700 was too clean, too sharp, very electronic and not pleasing. Think I prefer the 720p look.
Any further information you share regarding your opinions on the 2700 vs H would be greatly valued.
Even though I signed the order today.
Want to buy a used low mileage H?
Chris Magid
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