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Rawpower for Panasonic and Sigma
Firmware upgrades bring new levels of performance to L-Mount flagships
sensor. It’s also the world’s firstmirrorless camera to record Raw over HDMI video in HD at 120fps for super-slowmotion. There are lots of other tweaks to the camera with the latest firmware. It supports creation and playback of cinemagraphs, CinemaDNG footage and HDR. It also now allows still capture during live view and movie shooting in Cine or Director’s Viewfinder mode and camera movement control is now compatible with a Zhiyun Weebill-S gimbal. But it’s the Raw power that will make the biggest difference to many. The fp now supports DCI 4K 12-bit/HDMI Raw output, Raw over HDMI recording with Atomos Ninja V and Blackmagic Raw codec over HDMI with Blackmagic Video Assist 12G. Both the Atomos and Blackmagicmonitors must be running the latest firmware. Other changes to the Sigma fp include support for Dual Base ISO of ISO 100 and ISO 3200, improvement to AF performance, exposure accuracy and image quality. There is now support for CinemaDNG at 25p and 29.97fps in UHD 12-bit, CinemaDNG at 100fps inFHD12-bit and119.88fps inFHD 8-bit and 10-bit. Other changes include tweaks to handling, bug fixes and the introduction of time code generation. Panasonic’s firmware enables the output of maximum 5.9K/29.97p and 59.94p 4K Raw video to the Atomos Ninja V and saves it as Apple ProRes Raw. The 5.9K output is in 16:9 and is from the full area of the sensor, but the 4K output is 17:9 from a Super 35-size crop. There is
Full-frame mirrorless cameras from Sigma and Panasonic aimed squarely at filmmakers have been given a free performance boost thanks to firmware upgrades that include recording ProRes Raw via HDMI to an external Atomos recorder. Panasonic’s S1H and the diminutive Sigma fp have both been upgraded in a bid to squeeze even more quality from their full-frame sensors. When used with an Atomos Ninja V monitor/recorder, both cameras can now output Raw via HDMI. The Sigma firmware is available nowand the Panasonic upgrade very soon. In terms of the Sigma, the fp and Ninja V combination will record Apple ProRes Raw at up to DCI 4K/24p or UHD 4K/30p directly from the camera’s full-frame
ABOVE Free updates to Sigma and Panasonic full-frame cameras mean they can now record ProRes Raw via HDMI to an external Atomos recorder also 3.5K output at up to 50p in 4:3 to allow full anamorphic capture with a suitable lens. And V-Log or Rec. 709 is selectable on live viewmonitor during Raw output, as well as wave formmonitor, vectorscope, luminance spot meter and zebra pattern. There are lots of detail changes with the new firmware, such as Creative Video mode, plus it is now possible to disable the operation of starting/stopping video recording by pressing a shutter button, the noise reduction in V-Log has been expanded suppress ghosting and it’s now possible to assign functions to the Fn buttons of Sigma L-Mount interchangeable lenses. We have spent several months testing with a beta version of the Panasonic firmware and will bring a full review of shooting the S1HwithRaw in the next issue of Pro Moviemaker. sigma-imaging-uk.com panasonic.com/uk
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PRO MOVIEMAKER SUMMER 2020
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