Manual - http://www.vocas.nl/webfm_send/1239

In stock at

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-PXW-FS5-XDCAM-Camera-System/dp/B018H246KM/

test out the new FS5 in 200fps slowmo, love it!

Sony FS5 vs a7S II low light comparison

http://philipbloom.net/blog/fs5doco/

More about issues

Sony PXW-FS5 vs Sony EX1 low light quick test

This artifacting issue is plaguing all of sonys cameras in different ways. Bad mix of overly strong noise reduction with no way to deactivate, or reduce, it and over compressing the shadows. They need to take a page out of panasonic's codec book.

Here is new statement if you prefer that over a link to a site.

“Sony has investigated the PXW-FS5 image artifact issues reported by users. Our engineers have been able to duplicate these issues and identify their root cause. Sony plans to provide a firmware update. Our goal is to issue this revised firmware by the end of February.

“To ensure that users achieve the best results from the FS5, Sony is also preparing guidelines to help professional shooters take full advantage of the FS5’s features, including S-Log and S-Gamut.”

http://www.dvinfo.net/article/acquisition/sonyxdcam/noise-sampling-codecs-and-green-screen-a-potential-horror-story.html

I chatted with an LA-based DP about his experiences shooting XAVC 422 with an F55 for a TV series and he said he and his colorist hate it for anything other than WYSIWYG baked-in looks. The combination of noise and compression artifacts makes both of them nervous, and at ISO 1250 (the F55’s “native” ISO) he says the combination of compression and sensor noise makes the image very difficult to grade from a log image.

Sony raw and SStP, on the other hand, are a dream to grade.

I have to say that I became quite concerned by the amount of noise I saw in these images. Most of what I’ve shot so far with the F55 has been 4K SLog and raw exteriors and some HD WYSIWYG interiors, so looking at XAVC HD in SLog3 was a bit of a revelation. It’s not enough to say a camera should be rated at one ISO under most conditions; factors such as how the footage will be used in conjunction with the compression scheme come into play. Rating this camera at 1250 works well when recording to SStP and 4K XAVC as the increased bandwidth and better compression mean that noise will be recorded in more detail, which means less loss of detail overall because the codec is throwing less away. XAVC 422 probably works a lot better at lower ISOs where the lower noise floor results in a cleaner signal that’s easier to compress.