BUYERS’ GUIDE
ATOMOS SHOGUN INFERNO £1350/$1295 atomos.com
VOCAS PL-E LENS ADAPTER £528/$681 vocas.com
Taking the Raw signal from the FS7 or FS7 II means you’ll need to record it to a high-spec unit – and the Atomos Shogun Inferno ticks all the boxes. You can record the pure Rawfiles, but this takes up a huge amount of memory. It’s farmore sensible to use the Atomos to convert these to any of the wide range of Apple ProRes files, or even the latest ProRes Raw, which offers almost all the quality of full Raw, but withmuch smaller file sizes and faster processing. ProRes Raw can be recorded at up to 5.7K at 30p, 4K at 120p and 2K at 240p. Inputs are HDMI and SDI, with the SDI necessary for Rawoutput. The seven-inch screen is bright at 1500nits and offers all the tools you’d expect, such as waveforms and false colour, to help you get your settings just right. With 3D LUTS, full HDR-ready display and lotsmore, it unlocks the potential of your Sony FS7 or FS7 II. As it records to standard SSDs inside its own cheap caddies, memory is inexpensive, quick and readily available.
Unlike the Canon or Panasonic (which uses an EFmount) the native E-mount on the FS7 has a short flange distance, which allows for lots of third-party lenses to be adapted as long as the lens can cover the Super35 size. Vocas has introduced a range of new adapters, which allows lenses that have the cinema standard PLmount and also the new, full-frame LPLmount to be used on the Sony. These mechanical adapters are pre-shimmed, but can be adjusted if necessary. This allows everything from the latest Cooke, Arri and even Canon Sumire Prime lenses to be used on your FS7, as well as lots of legacy and vintage glass to give a unique look. The best mount comes with a lens brace to stop those weighty PL-mount lenses fromputting toomuch strain on the camera, and fits 15mm rails. This is more important on the FS7 rather than the updated FS7 II, as this has a reinforced lens mount.
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