Comments on: 10 Reasons to love the FS100

By: Adrian Turpin

Adrian Turpin — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:11:00 +0000

Nicely put Robin. At the end of the day it’s knowing a camera and how to get the best out of it that counts. You can get great footage from anything if you know how.

By: duh

duh — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:12:00 +0000

This is about as insightful as stating that a cupcake with frosting has something on top of it. Sony’s marketing lit is actually 3000x more informative and reliable. It’s a great camera and even better to learn on as newer ops step into cine form cameras.

(Raise your hand if you want 4-8 transmitters feeding sound to your camera?)

Here’s my disclaimer. I don’t own this camera but used it on as many shoots as the Scarlet, twice as many as the EPIC and three times that of the Alexa. Literally, on 5D shoots I get 1.5x my day rate because on those shoots the personalities are so unpleasant and generally, really clueless.

By: Chris Morrill

Chris Morrill — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:46:00 +0000

” The battery life is great, you’re not constantly watching the clock when shooting with it. But all that does is render it less quirky, less unique, less interesting, less loveable. ”

Ummm… what?

By: Vancouver Video Production

Vancouver Video Production — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:44:00 +0000

Great review which sums-up my love-hate relationship with my two FS100’s. Hopefully the Sony LA-EA2 adapter allow autofocus and smooth iris stepping, which are two of my big needs right now.I’ve decided to stick with Alpha lenses and have been testing as many as I can get my hands on.Here is a review I did on the beautiful new Sony SAL1650 16-50mm f/2.8 wide zoom lens that costs much less than the Nikon equivalent, is perfectly parfocal, and has the built quality and feel of a G series lens:
http://www.shawnlam.ca/2011/sony-sal1650-on-nex-fs100/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:02:00 +0000

_The sensor and the sensor, what a sensor.
_25/30/50/60p _same lens as the NEX7 ( so I can carry the same lenses for camera A and B.)
_all the mount it has ( if someone would come up with handles for it )
_it doesn’t “reboot” when going from camera to player like the EX3.
_ Expanded focus while filming
_Using my C-mount / PL / FD /Lenses, etc

By: Matt Davis

Matt Davis — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:22:00 +0000

I love this camera, but then I love recumbent bikes, Chapman Sticks and spiced tea.

However, I shot with a DSLR for a year. Not a 5D, a 550D. It let me down twice and that’s when I turned my back on DSLRs. If I had a 5D, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have bought an FS100.

But I’m glad I did. The nightmare of Moire and Aliasing no longer haunt me. Audio is back under control, and less hissy than my EX1R’s pre-amps. I love the ‘Hasselblad’ and ‘Bronica ETRS’ handholds, and the lego like way it builds up – yes, it needs a good EVF and a Birger/MTF mount, and rails, and a pancake lens and the smallest most discrete mic I can find, and so on. Accessorisation, baby – yeah!

More importantly, loving the look. I’m still learning its ways, it loves cooler light, loves LED lamps and Kinos, I need (repeat to self) to learn how to ‘underexpose’ it a bit. But it’s just what I wanted: a waypoint between DSLR and EX1.

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By: Sean J Vincent

Sean J Vincent — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:36:00 +0000

I’m halfway through a feature shoot using the FS100 with the Ninja and it’s blown me and the crew away. We’re shooting in very low light with lots of movement and the footage looks flawless. It got a bit noisy at 18dB, but it’s nice…not blocky. Using fast primes with it is just stunning… really bright, clean images… even in almost dark. The kit lens has been pretty good too. Any handheld or dolly shots over rough terrain and the IS seems to keep it all under control… it’s really not a bad lens at all.

The slo-mo is gorgeous… used it a lot. I’ve learnt to love the form factor too. It’s so configurable and easy to get to everything quickly.. although we’ve barely used the viewfinder really. The audio quality is good…really good for a camcorder.

Sean

By: Sam Morgan Moore

Sam Morgan Moore — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:34:00 +0000

Another thing I love is with a single mic you can record to both channels at different levels giving yourself a load of headroom in the sound department

By: Sam Morgan Moore

Sam Morgan Moore — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:23:00 +0000

If you have a small HD DP6 you can mount the 5d on top of the FS100 and use the HDMI from the FS100 and the Composite from the 5d and get them both showing on the DP6 screen at the same time – the 5d down in the corner

I kid you not