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Atomos Ninja 2 and Atomos Blade

Felix — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:23:33 +0000

So glad I found this video info on the new Atomos Ninja 2 product before purchasing the old one. Screen improvements look good and I love the Log feature.

Fashion Film - GH4 - VLog - Ninja Assassin

JLemos — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 02:53:42 +0000

Hello. This project was all filmed with a (sometimes 2) GH4, almost all in V-Log recorded to a Ninja Assassin (the 2nd when used was recording to a Video Assist). In the link bellow there's a section named "Autor", there you can vote in the film for a prize in a festival and you also have a link to watch the film on Vimeo. http://www.vogue.pt/fashionfilmfestival/

We used a lot of lenses, from Voigtlander and Panasonic to Samyang with SpeedBooster XL, passing through some Chinon and Fujian 25mm C-Mount, allways with SLR Magic anamorphic adapters, we wanted the unsqueezed look.

Have a look.

PS: the aerial footage was done with a Phantom 3

For Sale: Atomos Ninja Blade with Case $850

geoffcbassett — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 08:41:32 +0000

Hey guys, selling my atomos Ninja Blade recorder. It's seen a small amount of use and is still in near mint condition.

Included:

Ninja Blade

Carrying Case

2 Hard Drive Cadies

Atomos Dock

Car Charger

EU Plug adapters

Lens Hood

Battery

Atomos HDMI to Mini-HDMI cable

Feel free to reply with any questions or concerns. Will accept paypal verified address only, price includes shipping.

GH3 + Ninja Blade

belfryman — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 07:36:23 +0000

Apologies if this is covered somewhere else but I've not spotted it, have seen issues with GH4 and had my own with the FZ1000. I've just been recording with the GH3 and Ninja Blade. I'm set to record 1080p25 (am in UK) on the GH3 with HDMI out set to auto (if I set it to 1080p I get no input on the Ninja). The Ninja Blade says it's receiving 25p but when I take out the SSD to edit in FCPX the footage I'm seeing looks mostly progressive but parts are very obviously interlaced. Anyone else had this, know a fix?

Atomos Ninja or any external recorder?

kazuo — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:06:38 +0000

Hi everyone,

I have been scouring the site for relevant information, but am gathering it in drips and draps, so I thought I might as well start a new topic.

I am thinking of getting an external recorder for my GH2 (i know, I am late to the game), but have read that some recorders don't work with GH2. But first, allow me to establish some background info I know (but stand corrected). GH2's output wasn't clean till Panasonic upgraded firmware to v1.1. 25p is now clean, and Atoms Ninja website has published instructions on how to integrate GH2 into the recording workflow. Testers have reported clean footage, but some testers claim that red channel is still jaggy (the extent of which i have not seen). Then I read that Black Magic Hyperdeck does not recognise GH2 output as true HDMI; some testers have reported unusable footage(?). In any case, whether 25p or not, the recorded output has been reported to be "interlaced" on the Ninja.

Now I have also read that GH2 with hacked firmware v1.1 yields aberrations, such as colour shifts, inaccurate gamma, ghosting(?) when recording onto the Ninja. Could someone pl verify this? Does hacked firmware not work?
I am on the brink of buying a Ninja, but thought I should look before I leap. Appreciate all yr kind views.
Cheers

FS:Atomos Ninja Blade

thougts2uk — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:32:22 +0000

Hi there,

I am selling my new Atomos Ninja Blade which is about 3 weeks old. This was bought for a multi shoot project and now no longer need it. There is a slight cosmetic mark in the bottom left hand corner of the case, which I have been told will cost $50 USD to replace. It works flawless and the waveform and the ability to record direct to Prores is amazing. The images out of a 5D MKIII being uncompressed 10bit looks so much better than the crappy internal H264. I highly recommend this monitor.

Price is $1000 inc postage.

Kind Regards,

Stu

FS: Canon C100 w. Ninja 2, 50mm 1.2 L, 17-55mm, zacuto z-finder, zacuto marauder

jimmydk — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:20:31 +0000

Decided to stick with m4/3 equipment, so Im selling my full-frame stuff: Canon C100 (w. extra Battery) Canon 50mm 1,2 L lense Ninja 2 w. SSD 840 pro Canon 17-55mm lense Zacuto z-finder Zacuto marauder

everything is as good as new. everything together: 6.000 euro

Perfer to sell to persons in Denmark, Sweden og Germany - as I would perfer to present the equipment in person if possible.

Atamos Ninja For Sale

driftwood — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:13:38 +0000

I have an Atamos Ninja for sale with two Toshiba Drives (I think they are 300Gb Ill check tomoz morning), caddy/reader, batteries and charger pack (in a nice Atamos case). Hardly used. I dunno what they are worth nowadays. pm me a best offer. Prefer to sell it to a UK based buyer.

BMCC vs CANON C100 w/ Atomos Ninja 2

GravitateMediaGroup — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:14:19 +0000

Is there a topic about this yet?

Atomos Ninja frying drive?

Gabel — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:16:28 +0000

I am an owner of a Ninja that I bought used and as such didn't get any drives with it. I decided on the new Intel 330 series, as they were very good specs at a good price. Everything worked fine in the Ninja, until after a shoot where I left the drive sitting in the caddy on the computer over night (as it was 3 in the morning and we didn't have time to go). I returned the next morning and found everything transferred, phew. But but I had an error message saying that the drive had been unmounted, so I put it into my Ninja... And it didn't register it! I couldn't even format it, to the Ninja I had "nothing" in the drive. It seemed it was dead. I heard that on the 320 series you could get the Bad Context 13x error, where if the drive was unmounted any way that wasn't perfect, it would die on you. Could this be the same here? Because if that's the case, then I'm really scared, as getting unmounted improperly can happen when you pull it in and out of different devices. It seemed to be enough to just have it pulled without the computer unmounting it...

So I wonder, can I do anything to see if I can get the drive working again? Any software, tips? I should mention that I'm a Mac user... And if not, is this a problem with the 330 drives then? If so, any tips on ones that doesn't do this? Because I can not have this happen again on a shoot!

Atomos AtomOS 3.0

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:30:40 +0000

Atomos, the creator of the award-winning Ninja and Samurai field recorders, will be previewing the next major release of their unique operating system – AtomOS 3.0 - at NAB 2012, Central Hall C3, booth C6647. This simple firmware update adds groundbreaking functionality to their 10-bit field recorders, at no extra cost.

"One of the key new features of AtomOS 3.0 is SmartLog – the ability to mark in and out points and tag clips using XML metadata so that you can effectively make a pre-edit on your Ninja or Samurai before you even get to the edit suite. Everything you log – good shot or bad shot, for example - shows up in your NLE. This is a huge timesaver and yet another example of how Atomos is innovating to make end-to-end production easier." said Jeromy Young, CEO and Founder of Atomos.

SmartControl was designed specifically for use in James Cameron's Deep Sea Challenge. It allows start/stop/pause to be triggered on any number of Samurais interconnected via their LANC port. This allows control of any deck, even legacy video equipment, from the Samurai and control of the Samurai from any PC or Mac device - great for custom video installations, or simply to control recording remotely.

AtomOS 3.0 also incorporates precision monitoring aides such as Focus Peaking, Zebra, False Color and Blue-Only. "Now there's no need for an external monitor", added Young. "We're responding to customer feedback by giving even more functionality, but at no extra cost".

Other new enhancements included in this major update are automatic file recovery in the event of power failure, auto-record when an input is detected, Loop Playback and iPhone/iPad/Mac/PC recording support – a great feature for gaming and app software companies to record and demonstrate in superb quality how their app or game works.

Originally developed in collaboration with Apple, the Ninja and Samurai field recorders allow the recording of pristine, 10-bit uncompressed images straight from your DSLR or camcorder directly to Apple ProRes or Avid DNxHD.

Pricing and Availability
AtomOS 3.0 is a free firmware update for existing Ninja 2 and Samurai users and will ship 30 April 2012. See http://www.atomos.com for details.

GH2 + Ninja

djhessler — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:53:17 +0000

First off I would like to thank Vitaliy for all your hard work on the HACK, hands down to you, but I wanted to share and have other users try this, I have been keeping an eye on improvements on the HDMI issue that we all have with the NINJA, I personally use FCS to edit, but I also have Premiere Pro CS5, and I notice that it handles the footage much better when it comes to interlaced and you wanna render to progressive, but today I tried to transcode in their encoder called Adobe Media Encoder CS5 and I got very surprised, but I'm not sure if I got it all wrong because it's just too easy. This is what I did: I recorder 24p on my GH2 connected to my Ninja, of course I get that crippled interlaced footage, then I decided to use Adobe Media Encoder CS5 to de-interlaced and see what would happen, and to my surprise, the footage looks amazingly good, but I want other to test and see if I may be wrong. Here is step by step what I did:

1. record in 24p in your gh2, connected to ninja recording
2. move your footage to your HD
3. open Adobe Media Encoder CS5 and drag a clip to it
4. VERY IMPORTANT... select clip in AMB cs5 and go to FILE, INTERPRET FOOTAGE,
5. select "Use Frame Rate from file 30.0000 (30p) Pixel Aspect stays the same
6. Field Order select "Conform to: Upper Field First" IMPORTANT
7. CLICK OK
8. now ur footage is interpreted as 30 interlaced, click on SETTINGS
9. AND render to preferred format to 23.98, I used Apple Pro Res HQ and my footage looks good.

can some of you confirm if this actually works? I know transcoding is an extra step, but doing it like this is pretty simple, specially if your on a mac like me and dont wanna go the PC route to transcode and fix the crippled HDMI footage.

Cant wait for you guys to try this out.

On a second note, I'm working on a cage specifically for the GH2, with lots of mounting options, good access to battery, hdmi, and audio input, I'll keep you guys posted as soon as I get it milled.

Hessler
www.beyondcinema.net

GH2 and Ninja recorder

Patrik — Sat, 21 May 2011 04:53:35 +0000

I bought Panasonic GH2 and a Ninja recorder. When record I get symbols from the menu and can not get rid of it. First a white symbol for the menu and also a yellow picture of a printer ?? I try to –Off- everything in GH2 but they are still there. Have anyone experience from that and have an idea how to solve it.