CDNG becasue the whole point of the camera is to be small. I have my rig setup with the dark power labs ssd rig, evf, and the npf battery grip. Its tiny.
@@triluxcreative I need to do a video on this. This is actually not the purpose of the camera. It is made to be scalable, the community has just made up that it’s meant to always stay small. If you look at the initial launch and marketing of the camera, it was never meant to ONLY stay “the smallest full frame camera”. Sorry that’s my soapbox, I hear it all the time in the FB groups “well that defeats the purpose of the camera” to give it size, but that’s just not the case. No offense to how you use it, I hope I don’t come off that way. It’s just a pet peeve that you addressed hahaha ❤️ ya bro!
@@Ansonandco I do know that its supposed to be scale able. But its lacking so many other features I would rather us a bigger camera like a black magic or z cam if end up having to rig it out.
Hi thanks for clarifying the confusion. Great video. Can you please guide me. I think SIGMA fp is a nice camera but I want to shoot a documentary with it. And I have a Sony AX33.The Sony is the best camera that I have used but it has very poor low light performance and a small sensor. Otherwise it's a great camera for run and gun shooting. I want to create a rig with the SIGMA fp that can mimic the characteristics of the Sony AX33. I think that the SIGMA fp is basically a 35mm sensor that looks like a camera. They have purposely kept it customisable because they expect you to make a rig and not use the camera straight to get a Professional Cinematic footage for delivery to a place like NETFLIX. Please guide me.
Just bought an fp. I’ve been shooting with an atomos and ssd for awhile now so I’m going to try prores raw and see how I like it. Also trying to build a similar rig as yours. Wish me luck haha
@@anotherintrospekt6596 I did! I’ve shot several projects on the fp with the atomos in ProRes Raw and I like it. I’m still learning how to best expose it but it’s working well.
How is the latency of the Blackmagic video assist/sigma fp combination? Is it good enough to pull focus on and follow moving objects? Thanks for the great video and nice examples.
I've been so curious about this camera, and so much of the material on YT hypes its DNG and says its BRAW looks bad and demonstrates it with some bad footage...then I see your video! It's beautiful. Now I'm thinking I need the FP in my life...thanks!!
How's the monitoring experience? Compared to my bmpcc 6k w/ external monitor, the sigma fp w/ external monitor looks awful (not the raw image, but the monitoring image itself) which really takes away the joy of shooting. Does shooting in braw with the video assist look more like the typical bmpcc experience?
Omg YES!!! The monitor experience with the FP is TERRIBLE! But yes when you shoot in BRAW it looks like a normal BMPCC camera However, if you are referring to using the video assist as field monitor, it is still pretty terrible 😂
Great video as always! I just have a question regarding the image quality on the 4K DCI vs the 4K cDNG in 1:1 crop (cropping 1:1 in post). How does it look against like an ISO 12233 chart? On the fp L apparently it is lineskipped when shooting in BRAW. Would love to know if you have any information. Subbed!
@@Ansonandco I saw it in Gerald Undone’s video of the fp L in BRAW. It was producing aliased image in BRAW but not cDNG. I’m just curious if the original fp acts the same way in DCI 4K. If it produces the same image (in terms of sensor image processing, binned/oversampled) as cDNG then that would make BRAW the best choice for the fp.
@@VENAXIS so just watched the bit about BRAW. I have not noticed a ton of aliasing, but to your point he is going over the FPL which does have some additional flawed attributes than the OG. I will say BRAW is softer, but I’ve not noticed aliasing. I’ll test it though
@@VENAXIS SO I did a chart test… there’s definitely aliasing present. I need to compare it to CDNG. But it’s definitely there. Damn. May be making a retraction video 😂 I don’t think it was as bad he made it to be in his video, but again there is less going on with the OG FP sensor
I tend to agree… but…. Do you have with braw the same huge room to lift shadows as you have with the Sigma fp and cdng? For all the rest of reasons, I fully agree …. if you don’t have already a monitor yet … Otherwise, the monitor will cost you the same as the camera … 😊 Thanks as usual for the good info !
I have never had any issues pulling the shadows with BRAW. But an added bonus is I actually film in higher ISOs because of better overall dynamic range and the exposure tools on the video assist are not optimized for 100 ISO
@@Ansonandco Hey Anson great vid ..by the way I have the S5 and I think it has as well more DR with Braw in 5.9K vs internal 10 bit 422...maybe the 12 bit make the difference
I have both FP and 5 inch 12g VA. I use it for two reasons. First is shooting anamorohic where I have the desqueez option, and 2nd is when I meed to shoot long sessions and need reduced files size. But its a very heavy setup. Especially with couple of large batteries for the VA. Its also has lots of wires, ssd holder, cage, handle etc. The ssd is a major thing, because for 4k DCI the internal sdcard doesnt work. So i use my WISE ssd which has its own holder Its not very elegant. So yes this camera was built to be rigged, but it sure limit its appeal and make it very clumsy setup. I prefer to use it without a cage but with a seperate wood handle, the original OVF, and powerChang ssd solution which connect very nicely to the side of the camera. That 2TB ssd gives you enough 4k shooting time at DNG. Nice video as always. Tnx!
I don’t really watch him anymore. But I remember he shit on the FPL hard cause he didn’t want to review and sigma asked to post opinion regardless. I turned it off cause it just sounded like he was pissed he had to make the review
@@Ansonandco Ohh really... He was quite critical,.. but he said something about the picture quality... So i thought you might as well want to see it.. as you use bRAW
@@dushyantbhatt9345 so just watched the bit about BRAW. I have not noticed a ton of aliasing, but keep in mind this is also referring to the FPL which does have some additional flawed attributes than the OG. I will say BRAW is softer, but I’ve not noticed aliasing. I’ll test it though
@@dushyantbhatt9345 SO I did a chart test… there’s definitely aliasing present. I need to compare it to CDNG. But it’s definitely there. Damn. May be making a retraction video 😂
@@Ansonandco Me neither, bought the Ninja V from a buddy but haven't tried it yet Now I'm running Resolve Studio on Windows 11 Pro, so BRAW would be a way easier solution.
@@dark-california I mean if you already have it, I would say try it out, but yeah you would need to be able to transcode in Final Cut, unless premier has a plug in for it
Any of you ever had a T5 fail? I had a shoot yesterday where 2 of my fp’s repeatedly would just stop shooting and the T5 would have to reconnect “connecting”. Kinda freaked me out. Never had that before - same drives.
@@Ansonandco I did actually and it did the same - on site, swapped out the drive then it was ok. Since testing at home it hasn’t failed. Really weird. But I have heard it’s almost always the cable. Have you ever heard that you must use ONLY the Samsung cable the T5 came with?
@@sheldonnorton9035 oh yeah I’ve heard that back in my pocket 4k days and generally stick to it. I used a tilta cable once, never again. Only native cables since.
