Philip’s nice Sony NEX FS700 review

Philip Bloom had a hands on with the much anticipated Sony FS700. The $7999 camera that will give you 240fps slow motion and sports a 4K sensor.

Watch the two videos and give him credit because this review is pretty nice to watch. There is a writeup on his website as well.

See our article full specs on the FS700.

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via philipbloom.net

NAB 2012 – Jody Eldred, David Leitner & the FS700 autofocus

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The Sony FS700 due to be released by mid July has created a lot of buzz and is one of the most anticipated new camera bodies right alongside the Blackmagic Cinema Camera.

As reported multiple times it comes with tons of features meant to satisfy the needs of the modern HDSLR and Large Sensor filmmaker not to mention an extremely competitive pricepoint ($8000) and the introduction of affordable slow motion (240fps).

Jody Eldred had a chance to play with the Sony NEX-FS700 and likes it (video above). We haven’t been able to work with it, but the specs certainly scream to our filmmaking hearts.
Jody seems to be sold on the FS700, are you?

Autofocus
One thing we tried was the autofocus feature that is enabled when you use the LA/EA2 adapter with Sony Alpha Lenses. It is the first time autofocus is actually usable on a large sensor camera and something we’ve been anticipating for a long time.
Sony uses phase detection technology via a beamsplitter within the adapter.

DOP David Leitner had a chance to test this feature during and prior to NAB. Check out his extremely well made review on the matter (video below).

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More insights and slow motion from the Sony NEX-FS700

The Sony NEX-FS700 is currently the most anticipated new camera body that will shoot 240fps slow motion and offer many other convenient features at a priecepoint around $8500. See our full article on the camera specs here.

The video above is Peter Prevec‘s full test video. He had a chance to shoot with a pre production model and we’ve seen excerpts from this footage in Sony’s FS700 promo video that was shot by a crew of filmmakers around Den Lennie from F-Stop academy.

More…

First look at Sony’s stunning NEX-FS700 35mm camera

Sony introduces the Sony NEX-FS700 with this emotional promo video

Check it out, it shows a lot of what the camera can do and the sharpness and quality of the footage is really impressive.
We’ll most likely see more footage from this camera soon and we’ll keep you updated.

See the full details on the camera in this article.

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[UPDATE] Here’s a 480fps slow motion test uploaded by Andy Shipsides. Keep in mind that the camera blows up the footage that is actually recorded at 1920 x 432 pixels.

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