{"id":30206,"date":"2013-11-26T11:33:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T11:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/?p=30206"},"modified":"2013-11-28T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T11:49:36","slug":"fs700-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/fs700-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick review of the Sony FS700 V3 Firmware: 4K raw and 2K High frame rate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apologies for the lateness of this post and the relative briefness of it. Finding time to do anything has been a struggle recently. I wanted to get this up, but I wanted to do a more in-depth comparison. This was proving to be impossible to squeeze in, so I made the choice of just going with this. My thoughts and experiences with this system and whether it is worth it or not.<\/p>\n

The FS700 is a camera that despite its very awkward ergonomics \/ impractical design and underpowered codec, is a pretty unique, incredibly powerful camera. It has a superb image, fantastic low light sensitivity, SDI output, amazing super slow motion features PLUS of course that mysterious feature of being announced as “4K ready”.<\/p>\n

I have been curious about how good the 4K will be from the FS700 ever since it was announced that it would be a future feature. Well, that firmware has finally come along.<\/p>\n

V3 of the firmware beings not just the ability to record 4K raw but also a 4-second 120FPS burst also in 4k. Much more useful, though, is the continuous recording in 2K HFR up to 240 FPS. Unfortunately all these features are only available via an external recorder, more on that later.<\/p>\n

Another key feature is the addition of the rather lovely S-Log 2 gamma curve. Something that would be possible to use internally with the AVCHD, although it’s perhaps not the best codec to work with when using a profile that needs a lot of colour work to come alive. When shooting in this mode, the camera effectively became a 2000 ISO native sensitivity beast, but it also means you cannot set the camera to a lower ISO, so you will use the ND filters a lot! With this increased sensitivity, the camera’s maximum ISO is now a ludicrous 64,000. Although this 2000 ISO base is only for the Slog2. The minimum ISO varies depending on which gamma cure you try. You are able to drop it much lower and if recording just internally it does make sense.<\/p>\n