SimonSpear

Hi Stuart.

Really great to see that you got some really nice results out of the FS700 all be it in very controlled shooting conditions.

Just a couple of questions:

How wide were you shooting and what aperture? I'd guess from the photos that you were zoomed in a bit?

Did you see any evidence of the fatal lens 'rings' / 'halos'? I'd guess that they didn't show up with the lighting / wb settings that you were using, but I'd be interested what you found.

Any evidence of super saturation or digital highlight noise on the AVCHD footage? Again I doubt that you saw this due to the nature of the shoot but definitely interested in confirmation on this.

What W / Lumens were those lights pumping out??

I'm doing a controlled enviro shoot in Feb and would love to use the FS100's 50/60p mode, but extremely hesitant with all the other problems I've had with the camera underwater. If there is any way to set this up with less lighting then that would be great, so any info would be really appreciated! Thanks!

Cheers, Simon

  It is very rare to get THAT narked at 1.5m LOL

Marcos, you can just paste a link to You Tube, Vimeo etc and it will embed in the forum now.

Sorry for the delay in my write up on the housing.  I've an awful lot going on right now and I've got so many deadlines that I am about to miss that it would drive a lesser man insane!!    I'll definitely try to get it all down by Christmas/just after.   In summary though I thought it was great if you can always shoot in RAW and have the ability to handle, store and process RAW in post.  I will try to get something down as soon as I can.  Promise!

Cheers, Simon

Hi Marcos

 

I've had the PMW200 / Gates since March this year and so far it has been used for 3 stock trips and a 3-4 month shoot for a 60 min broadcast documentary.  

 

The quality is superb straight out of the camera with no external recorders required and the Gates housing is wonderful to use.  The only slight issue I have had with it for underwater use is that the PMW200 does not have component out for the external monitor so if like me you had a EM43 monitor from a previous housing then you'll only get a low res image displaying on it.   Gates now have a high res HDMI monitor,  but I've not had an opportunity to use that personally.  

 

It is extremely difficult to say anything other than wonderful things about Gates.  There is a very good reason why the whole broadcast industry relies on them and the PMW200 is a cracking camera.  Unless anything remarkable and affordable happens in the immediate future with 4K then I'd say it is a great choice.  Hope this helps!

 

Cheers, Simon