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Anyone seen footage from sony F65?

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always enjoy images from other cameras. Especially new ones. Has anyone seen any footage from it or know of any links. Ive been searching for a while and cant find anything. always curious to see what 85000 dollar footage looks like.
 
Footage was shown in 4K at last year's NAB, and more footage will be shown at NAB this year, in 4K.
 
how did it look? Anything hit the interweb yet?
 
Looked great. Thanks to Jim holding a gun to Sony's head, they have finally started to take 4K seriously. The footage looks great, but the camera is gigantic in size. It also cannot overcrank much. The compression is 3:1 I believe, coming off a 16-bit camera, so while the file size is large, it is not insanely large.
 
Tom Lowe said:
Footage was shown in 4K at last year's NAB, and more footage will be shown at NAB this year, in 4K.
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Funy, at this year's CES the Sony 4K Projector demo was all movies Shot on RED.
 
i wish i was at NAB this year. Im sure i could behold all sorts of things. Sounds like a cool camera. I cant wait to see something from it. Would love to shoot on one someday. Maybe in 20 years when they are like 2000 dollars used.
 
Domenic Barbero said:
always enjoy images from other cameras. Especially new ones. Has anyone seen any footage from it or know of any links. Ive been searching for a while and cant find anything. always curious to see what 85000 dollar footage looks like.
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Have seen it. Think it looks like it's the 2nd real 3rd gen digital cinemacams alongsides Epic.

Have an opening for testing it. Haven't had time to do so yet....

Especially curious about colometry and the lack of filtering and how all that works out.

Built built in NDs and colorwheel is very smart!


BUT
Not sure if I'll bother as it is priceways is a bit out of any practical range in the situations I work for RAW... And as a 1080 cam it is a bit over the top... :)
 
Gunleik, if you get to play with it, let me know how it goes. Its so new and expensive the whole camera is intriguing to me. But maybe its only cuz i havent seen any footage from it yet. the curiousity keeps me checking back. lol
 
One of the rental houses here in stockholm has one and they usually shows a lot of tests and so on. But for this specific camera it has been dead silent from them.. and it has just been sitting there for a couple of weeks now.. The Alexa studio they got has been rented out from day one...
 
A DP friend of mine did tell me that the DR on the F65 was surprisingly disappointing. I might be shooting on one later this month, so I will report back about it if that happens.

One potentially interesting thing about the F65 is that the full 8K sensor info will probably be available with new software down the road. This could be of interest to IMAX shooters.

Hopefully Red is getting ready to up the sperm count on their new sensor as well, to make Epic more IMAX friendly in terms of resolution. When you have to crop for 3:2, you lose a lot of data!!
 
very true very true. Def keep me posted Tom. what is the rated DR? Is it comparable to RED w/o HDR? Is it going to be full 8k out to recorder or does it record 8k internal? I read it was only 4k output max.
 
Sony had a big demo down at the studio last week. Showed some new stuff shot by Curtis Clark, ASC. I shot some tests in December. M. Night is shooting his new film on it right now as is the Tom Cruise film "Oblivion". I believe eventually it will be able to shoot 120 fps. Surprisingly, (or not so much) on the Tom Cruise film they have a couple of Epics for when they need 120fps and/or a smaller camera.
 
Tom Lowe said:
Looked great. Thanks to Jim holding a gun to Sony's head, they have finally started to take 4K seriously. The footage looks great, but the camera is gigantic in size. It also cannot overcrank much. The compression is 3:1 I believe, coming off a 16-bit camera, so while the file size is large, it is not insanely large.
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You're not kidding.

The beast is 18" wide in the front.
 
Peter Lyons Collister said:
Sony had a big demo down at the studio last week. Showed some new stuff shot by Curtis Clark, ASC. I shot some tests in December. M. Night is shooting his new film on it right now as is the Tom Cruise film "Oblivion". I believe eventually it will be able to shoot 120 fps. Surprisingly, (or not so much) on the Tom Cruise film they have a couple of Epics for when they need 120fps and/or a smaller camera.
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read this on keslow website http://www.keslowcamera.com/blog-wp/2012/04/06/untitled-tom-cruise-sci-fi-project-aka-oblivion/

@Tom Lowe
oh no! sick of hearing this upcoming paid updates by Sony's cameras
 
man paulo i hate internet compression. I bet the footage looks pretty good. I noticed a bit of rolling shutter in that piece. interesting. I wonder how funtional the camera is to work with.
 
Domenic Barbero said:
man paulo i hate internet compression. I bet the footage looks pretty good. I noticed a bit of rolling shutter in that piece.
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The F65 has a mechanical shutter option that essentially eliminates all rolling shutter artifacts.

Someone characterized the F65 as "very expensive." That is really not the case. It is cost competitive with both the Alexa and the Epic M at around $65K for the basic package and about $85K for a package that includes the mechanical shutter, a recorder, a 1TB memory module, and a transfer deck. None of these products are aimed at hobbyists, and are priced accordingly for the market they are intended for. The choice of any of these products should be and largely is based on specific needs in terms of form factor, specific features, personal experience, and most of all the images they produce, and which one is deemed the most appropriate for a particular project (note that price is not even included in that list). That's one reason why at this point in time, Epic is a very popular and appropriate choice for projects that either require a lot of hand held work or are stereoscopic 3D, due to the rather tiny form factor and large bang for the buck. Alexa is the most common choice for television in large part due to its simplicity, but also due to its generally highly regarded images and wide dynamic range. The F65 will eventually find its own niche, although it is possible and even somewhat likely that if you're shooting a picture (or TV series) for Sony Pictures, you might be "encouraged" to take a look at it...
 
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