Hi everyone,
I've been watching a lot of pocket cinema camera footage made by enthusiasts and professionals and noticed that something very bad is happening with the highlights.
First time I've seen that was on CheesyCam clip:
Those white orbs are all over the clip, you can see that very clearly between 00:51 and 00:58, the water "sparkles". I thought that maybe it's because they were recording through HDMI to Atomos Ninja 2 recorder, but then I started seeing those on almost every footage I've seen!
Like:
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or even on the latest Philip Bloom video:
It took me some time to find out what it is and I found that this is called "blooming sensor".
I think that's a really big problem!
I've read some articles about the Fujifilm X10 and found out that they had the same problem with their camera, and to get rid of it they had to modify the sensor, becouse the firmware update didn't worked...
I hope that's not the same issue as the X10 and a simple firmware update will fix the problem.
Here's the article by dpreview showing before and after sensor update:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/04/26 ... pdate#orbsThe difference is huge!
And one more thing, when I was watching John Brawley's clips I never saw anything like the white orbs, and I was thinking, that maybe the pre-production sensor or the earlier firmware was different than the ones we can buy.
Tell me what do you think, maybe I'm very wrong (I hope so) but this doesn't look good:(