New Sony AX-53 Testing

[Steve Bleasdale]

Ok got that Ron you change the my button in the menu sorted it white balance, exposure and steady shot all on left side then assign the ring for focus. I noticed say indoors when switch cam on there is a yellow tinge? then with the quick menu on left side of lcd i quickly can use a different white balance setting and back to a good white. .

[Ron Evans]

You figured it out before I got on the site again !!! Good. Yes I have My Buttons set to steady shot,focus ( to set the touch focus), peaking ( nice to check but often gets in the way when you are concentrating ). I have the ring set to AE shift as all my focusing is done with touch focus on the LCD. When on a theatre shoot I set the WB to indoor preset and shutter to 1/60 from the menus and shoot 1920x1080 60P. Mostly AE shift is at about -0.5 for most shoots. When I shoot the family events I let the camera operate in auto focus ( with face detection as its mainly shoots of the grandkids etc ) and auto WB ( as its often in and out of the house at the end of the day etc) but still have the others set as I would normally. I find it better in auto focus if one is zooming as I do not find the lens holds focus through zooms. It may well hold its focus but the scene is better refocused between max and min zoom in my experience.

[Steve Bleasdale]

Cheers Ron, these are very good auto cameras there was not much difference to my c100 ii last night in my room apart from dynamic range from c100ii. Great stuff thanks for everyones help.

[Steve Bleasdale]

Hi guys after seeing footage today, am i doing something wrong as it looks awful on the computer screen, last night looked great on lcd but unusable for me indoors looking at computer, any thoughts. My little old hfg25 smoke them out in hd quality ?

[Noa Put]

What iso did you use and did you shoot hd or 4k?

[Steve Bleasdale]

H Noa Test 1. 4k 25p 60 mbps, test 2, same but 100 mbps. both terrible even with some light. Outside colours looked grainy. Then same test with hd 25p and 50p, hd looked better

[Lou Bruno]

Something is really wrong. My AX-53 is crystal clear and does fine in lower light. Maybe your camera is a dud? Place on intelligent auto just to test clarity,

[Steve Bleasdale]

same on ai, bought two cannot be duds

[Steve Bleasdale]

Here is screen grab just awful at 4k in daylight plenty coming through window

[Noa Put]

and what was the iso and shutter set at?

[Steve Bleasdale]

Shutter was 50 unsure on iso as you cant tell when in shutter mode?
Here are two more pics just weird does not seem right for the reviews?

[Steve Bleasdale]

This is only 50 % zoom on screen shot

[Ron Evans]

They look underexposed and out of focus. Exact how did you set up the camera. I would have set gain limit to 18db, shutter to 50, zebra to 85% and AE shift to ring and turn until got zebra on something white. White should be 85 or above or will look under exposed. Focus with touch or in auto. Try that and see what you think of the output then.
Like others I find the AX53 really sharp in HD compared to my AX100. Actually have not used either of them in UHD.

[Steve Bleasdale]

cheers ron will try that

[Steve Bleasdale]

OK so same settings Ron HD only no 4k shutter speed 50 zebras on ae shift sorted lifted exposure slightly to start of zebras. all a little better but this no good to me the canon hfg25 leave this ax53 behind for detail and clarity, going to sell them on.