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The Sony FX-1 consumer camera

These images were shot in Haleiwa, Hawaii by Gabe Hoeffken using an FX-1 from Sony and by DSE from Sundance Media Group. If you wish to link to this page, that is fine, but you may not copy these images for placement on your own pages. You may not link directly to the images.
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This shot was taken at CF24. It is recompressed, as it's part of a much larger file, but other than extracting this segment via a render of a region, nothing has been done to it. However, since it has been processed, even as a cuts-only, it's not optimal. but it's what I have available that's cleared.

Shot with Z1U


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This shot is at CF 30, the day is clear, and biker moving very fast. At the middle of the shot, the wheel of the bike tosses mud into the camera lens so hard that the entire front end of the camera had to be disassembled to clean the mud off.

shot w/Z1U


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Cloudy day, under exposed, very fast moving. This is shot in CF 30, using a custom Picture Profile in the camera.

shot w/Z1U


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Shot on a cloudy day just before sunset, this shot is heavily backlit by the western sun. I underexposed more than I might normally want to, but was conscious of the next bike that had lots of white on the rider and bike.

shot w/Z1U


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In this walking surfer shot, notice the smooth color, and the depth of color. This is shot with the Gamma enabled. (54MB) Here is a Windows Media Stream in the 720p format. Click the image to download the raw m2t stream. (NTSC format)

Shot with FX1

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To get an idea of the zooming quality of HDV, zoom in on this surfer with your NLE, and watch what happens. Pretty amazing stuff. This is shot at full wide angle with CineGamma enabled. Click the image to download the raw m2t stream.

Shot with FX1

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In this one, you get an idea of the depth of field on the cam. Notice the depth of the colors in the image. Gamma is enabled in this shot.

Shot with FX1

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These files are raw HDV files in m2t format. Some NLE systems will allow you to drop m2t files directly on the timeline; others won't. Cineform has a demo/trial of their famous intermediary tools for Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere. Lumiere has a demo for their intermediary for Final Cut Pro.
Download these files, and use the Cineform or Lumiere tool to convert them so that you'll be able to render/edit/experiment with these files. You might be able to convert them to an editable format using Huffyuv as well. Be aware that converting them via Huffyuv means you are taking the video out of the ITU BT.709 colorspace and viewing them in an ITU BT.601 colorspace, damaging the integrity of the colorspace.
Keep in mind, unless you are viewing this footage on a 1900 x 1200 monitor, you aren't seeing the full value of the information and your system may be creating artifacts in the scaling of the images.
If you're using Sony Vegas software, you will likely find the GearShift plug in to be a great timesaver.