roger.magnusson wrote:Isn't that just the focus peaking doing what it's supposed to? Highlight the pixels/areas that are sharp (including noise).
While there is some denoising in these cameras it's not as aggressive as in many other cameras. Every ISO setting won't be suitable for every exposure. The noise goes away at 1250 because it's part of the second native ISO range.
I would say NO. Because this is not how peaking behaves in the dark at normal ISO ranges (nothing crazy) on any other camera including the original Pocket 6K or UMP range.
I've seen it happen on UMP if you kick the peaking setting to "high", but never at medium, even at 1600 ISO +.
The fact I can be on the same settings with the two versions of the pocket 6K side by side, and the original behaves normally, makes me think it's probably being a bug or (hopefully not) bad hardware.
In shooting more with them side by side today, it almost seems like the new Pro version is doing something internally to try to be 1-stop more sensitive. We started putting 1 extra ND into the Pro, and the cameras now are matching much more closely (at same f-stop and all settings matched). Perhaps non-coincidentally, the Pro seems significantly noiser at matching settings as well. Probably just because the original 6K is darker at the same settings so it's hiding the noise more? The Pro sensor might be more "sensitive" hence more noise hence peaking not working correctly if it was designed for previous sensor, like the thresholds are set wrong. Working theory... food for thought.
Sounds particularly true if indeed BMD has acknowledged this are promising a software fix.