Jason Goldberg |
February 22nd, 2010 01:11 AM |
Sean, regarding smooth Iris:
Yes, the iris opens and closes very progressively, so no stair-steping is noticable. In fact, in manual while recording, you can use the Iris ring to close the Iris and you'll get a nice smooth fade to black.
David, regarding White Balance:
You basically have a 4 WB modes you can easily access while recording. Auto, User A, User B, and Preset (Preset can be configured in a menu to be either Indoor or Outdoor). You can easily toggle between any of the 4 modes while recording. But you can't dial in your own color temp or make any adjustments to the 4 modes.
However, you also have 6 custom Picture Profiles. Each picture profile can have a number of custom color settings (different gamma curves, etc...). One of the settings for each of the picture profiles is a WB shift. So you could setup several of the picture profiles to be identical except for different WB Shift values. Then you could start recording and toggle between picture profiles to get different WB's. You can also go into the menu's and actually modify the WB Shift for the active Picture Profile and it will take immediate effect. So you could navigate down to this menu to ride the WB Shift live, but it's several's menu's deep.
Regarding the price delta between the AX2000 and NX5:
It seems to me that this is the first pair of camera's Sony has offered where they didn't severely limit the consumer version by not including XLR and good audio. So you used to have to pay for the pro version, live with bad audio, or use an outboard device like a beachtek. This time around the features differentiating the two camera's are a bit more niche, and I can see why Sony feels that can't charge dramatically more for the NX5. That seems like great news to those of you that can benefit from the NX5 features. As for me, I'm not likely to ever own anything that could use the SDI-Out, nor am I ever likely to shoot anything that requires redundant recording. So for me it was an extra $500 I could invest in Mic's.
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