Michael De lazzer
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According to Nikon (yes, my D800 is still on backorder) recording to the card compresses the data rate to 25 Mb/s. Recording to an external deck through the HDMI port like the Pix 240 ups the data rate to 190 Mb/s. I can’t image this not making an enormous difference in video quality. Plus you’re encoding to ProRes or DNxHD, two extremely clean codecs. I am itching to try all of this for myself…
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It’s getting more difficult to assess these shootouts with the number of variables that can drastically affect the performance of these cameras. Lenses, lighting, and record format all change the nature of these cameras for better or worse.
Higher end lenses make a world of difference on the 5D, and put it in low light and the camera distances itself from the other cameras in a hurry.
The D800 recorded to the internal card is abysmal. But stream it to an external box and you’ve got one hell of a camera on your hands, it’s a totally different animal when not recording to a card.
The C300 is probably the camera which most interests me in this list– but I honestly believe the camera is priced four times higher than it should be for a 4:2:2 unit recording at 50 Mb/s.
Interesting to see how the BlackMagic camera changes the balance of things when it arrives.
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I’ve heard about users experiencing a TON of issues with the Ki Pro, and there’s a lot of them on eBay right now.
The ATMOS products have a low quality monitor, but otherwise seem fine.
The three that seem to stand out are the Genesis (out of my budget), the Pix 240, and the BlackMagic Hyperdrive Shuttle.
I wrote this hoping people who have actually used them might chime in and give their impressions…
Cricket. Cricket.
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I would be recording in DNxHD and editing on Avid Symphony, which has a decent color corrector (though admittedly not nearly as powerful as the BlackMagic Cinema/DaVinci workflow).
Recording to the internal card on the Nikon is discarding the camera’s potential as a video camera. I’m going to try the cheaper BlackMagic Hyperdeck approach first– and see how that does. I liked the Pix 240 for the audio interface and time code features, but at $3000, it’s not cost effective for what I’m doing.
$3000 would better be spent on the BlackMagic Cinema camera. It records DNxHD native. There are some videos from the camera floating around– they look promising.
I have a D700 which doesn’t shoot video. I want the D800E for studio photo/portrait work. It’s one heck of a studio camera for photography. The $500 Hyperdeck is at least a starting point for video, but I’m very concerned about aliasing and moire on the 800E, which removes the aliasing filter from the camera. Great for stills, not good for video.
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All of this has me thinking- I’ve ordered the D800E (which may cause some trouble when video shooting with aliasing and moire) does it make sense to spend $3000 on a recorder for it or $3000 on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera which will do it all?
These are interesting times in which we are living.
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The new Nikon D800 will output a 190 MB/s stream out of its HDMI port, which is very good– but it is not RAW.
Even them you need an outboard box to capture the feed. Internally the camera card will only record at 25 MB/s.