Hi Carl here for ProAV TV and today we're starting a new series of videos looking
in detail at the new Sony FX9. this is definitely one of the most
exciting cameras on the market at the moment and it's one that's been getting
a huge amount of attention from our customers in many ways this is the
spiritual successor to the incredibly popular fs7 a camera that has just
dominated the owner/operator market particularly for large sensor broadcast
users here in the UK for the last few years and because of that there are a
lot of fs7 owners out there looking and upgrading to this FX 9 as it improves
pretty much every aspect of the camera better picture but are ergonomically
later vies so and we're going to be talking lots on this channel as to how
the FX 9 will be an improvement for fs7 owners but this is not an FS 7
replacement this is its own camera in a new position in the lineup for Sony it
lays the foundations for Sony to fill in the wide gap in their full-frame lineup
of cameras between stills cameras such as the a7 Mach 3 and cinema cameras such
as the Venice it's a completely new sensor adding phase detection hybrid
autofocus dual native ISO 6k down sampling and improved color rendition we
haven't had long with the camera and the weather has been pretty appalling here
recently to be honest so rather than spending our very short time with the
camera trying to film something pretty instead we decided to do a series of
tests to examine and demonstrate each of these new features we'll have a video
coming soon on high ISO performance and that new autofocus plus several videos
discussing how the camera fits into various sectors of the market just like
we recently did with canons new C 500 mark 2 but for our first test I wanted
to look at color so color is an area that Sony have often been criticized for
with the FS 7 and the FS 5 however the Venice
an entire different situation with fantastic skin tones and really accurate
colors and Sonia saying that the colors on the fx9 are much closer to the Venice
than the fs7 and from what I've seen so far that does seem to be the case
particularly with their new S-Cinetone profile and this is essentially a
rec.709 standard picture profile but with a much softer highlight roll-off
and a different color science behind it it keeps the mid-range saturation but
without over saturating the skin tones and looks far better in the highlights
the normal picture profiles do if we compare the new Sinnott own profile to
this standard rec.709 look in the FX 9 you can see the difference straightaway
the big difference is of course the highlights her white hat here is
completely clips and it looks really ugly on the standard recording while on
the cinetone it looks great and that's the obvious difference but there's also
a definite subtler difference in the skin tones there's slightly more natural
and healthy in the cine tone well they look a little bit more washed out in the
rec 709 let's now compare it to the same shot done in s log three and apply an LC
709 type a lookup table in DaVinci Resolve instantly we do see a difference
the skin tones look even better but we have much lower contrast overall I'd
want to tweak the white and the black point a little in this image but it's
pretty much there straight away and if we do the same thing on an interior
scene under controlled lighting the difference is even more obvious the
contrast on the cinder tone still looks great but the skin tones now seem a
little more lifeless compared to the log even though they do look better than
they did in the standard recording and remember this is log with just a simple
lookup table on it no further tweaks applied beyond that I think both the
cine tone results and the log shows just how far Sony have come with their color
science here with the FX 9 but what do you think are you interested
using this S-Cinetone profile for your work and what do you think of the
color performance of the new FX 9 as a whole let us know in the comment section
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and of course if you want to buy an FX 9 for yourself and for your own work just
head over to ProAV.co.uk thanks very much for watching and I'll see you in
the next one