How do you get the custom white balance setting to popup when in video mode? Its the last WB setting in the list. It always says its not available, and its greyed out. Im just trying to set WB from a gray card.
Seriously disappointed with the noise reduction blockiness in the blacks. This is at ISO 100. 100!!!! My gh3 at iso 200 looked far better than this with more detail. Why Sony? WHY?
Ive attached a 100% crop of a very underexposed part of an image at ISO 100. If you zoom you'll see tons of blocks and color chunks. I added a gamma boosted version as well to showcase the noise and blocks.
Digital high definition television broadcast in my country is around 19Mbps maximum. It shows lots of macroblocking in shadows if look close to the screen, even in high end productions. But if keep the eyes at a distance about 2x the screen width the image is beautiful.
This perfect pursuing just make sense to cinema theater projection, and maybe not so much important, because I already saw some docs with ugly image in theaters...
Even the old Canon T3i 600D in high iso denoised with neatvideo is good image when the eyes are in correct distance from the screen. There is macroblocking in shadows after high iso denoise, but looking at correct distance the image is beautiful.
The low bitrate in tv broadcast is not enough to handle film noise, there is mud in textures and artifacts in object edges, but looking more far from screen the artifacts and mud disappear and the film noise becomes beautiful.
@apefos Sure, I understand that. But I just mean the codec or noise reduction (or both) just destroy the shadow detail. Especially compared to the old GH2/3. I know Im trying to push the shadows quite a bit, but I did a video of the moon last night again at ISO 100 and the chunks/blocks in the sky (not totally dark sky yet, either) were horrendous for ISO 100. Absolutely unacceptable! My GH3 never gave me this issue even at double or quadruple the ISO with NR enabled. Just disappointing.
@joethepro Try to use other iso, in GH2 the lowest iso 160 is not the best because it looks like posterization and banding in shadows and in gradients, in GH2 the iso 320 increases a little more the noise compared to iso 160 and it works like a dithering, looks better. So maybe the Sony cameras can have similar behavior, start at iso 100 and try to increase iso step by step, compare it in your screen and see if it will give you better shadows.
In GH2 keep the noise reduction in -2, in Sony A6000 or A5100 I do not know if there is noise reduction in menu to lower it or disable it.
Has anyone noticed that there seem to be little spikes in the waveform above the white clip point? I'll go to pull the gain down to properly remap the highlights so the clip point is at 255, and Ill notice little filaments that spike up quite a bit higher, almost as if the specular highlights are being recorded above the clip point. Pretty strange.
Did you reduce the sharpening to it's lowest value?
@nomad yes I did. Either way, the fact that it recorded those levels is very confusing.
Great tip.
Some older footage I shot at night when I first got the camera. Nothing special.
When using ND filters on the a6000, there is no need to use IRNDs as the camera has an IR block filter on the sensor, correct? Same with all Sony mirrorless cams?
Yes, in my experience Sonys are pretty good at filtering IR.
New firmware, improvements mostly is only to work better with G Master lenses.
http://esupport.sony.com/US/p/model-home.pl?mdl=ILCE6000&LOC=3#/downloadTab
$5 Overheat Solution for the A6000 and 30 minute limit removal tweak.
Another review
http://www.albertdros.com/single-post/2016/11/22/Sony-A6000-Review-Why-It’s-Still-A-Good-Buy
This short it very nic and the A6000 its terrifc. The best cheap camera for cinema? Yes.
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