As an ultraportable camera, it performs worse than a Canon EOS-M100 for a fraction of the price (except for the full frame sensor), as a full frame photo camera, it is vastly inferior to a Sony A7iii for the same price, as a video camera, it is inferior to the Blackmagic Pocket 4K and 6K (in recording options/codecs, full sensor image quality, audio connectors, time code and remote control options, menu ergonomics, touchscreen operation, on-screen assist functions including zebra and focus assist during recording etc.) The camera does not present a great value as a raw video camera because Blackmagics 6K and 4K Pocket Cinema cameras are superior in practically every respect, with the 4K camera being cheaper than the fp, and the 6K producing a better image in APS-C than the fp with line-skipped full frame recording. Sound recording levels can only set in a camera sub-submenu, and not lower than -36db, which can result in clipped audio when recording loud sources (such as rock concerts). The recorded CinemaDNG files are not recognized as valid CinemaDNG by Davinci Resolve and need to be imported and stitched together as separate image sequences and sound files. Zebras and focus peaking cannot be used together. It is not clear what the native ISO of the camera is and how the sensor needs to be best exposed in Raw video mode. CinemaDNG is uncompressed (not even losslessly compressed) to circumvent RED's patents and results in enormous file sizes, as opposed to modern raw video codecs like REDcode, Blackmagic RAW or ProRes RAW. In APS-C crop mode, it doesn't have any native lenses for its mount. Flash sync speed is 1/30.Īside from lacking features that cameras in the same price range do have, such as a viewfinder, sensor stabilization, phase-detect autofocus, double control wheels, customizable function buttons.Īs a RAW video camera, the fp has various issues: In full frame mode, it only records 4K from the 6K sensor, producing an image with line skipping artifacts, aliasing and moiré. The rear wheel is loose and bad to use for camera control. Many camera settings are buried in submenus of submenus and confusingly named. In M mode and with Auto-ISO, exposure compensation cannot be put on a dial or easily accessible control button. Rolling shutter as well as color banding under energy-saving or projector light occur because the camera only has an electronic shutter. Metering tends to overexpose and is inconsistent between images. Autofocus is contrast-detect only, slow, often hunts and unusable in low light, with AF-C being generally unusable. It has 0.1 seconds shutter delay - with the recorded image not actually being the image you see on display after having pressed the shutter, which makes the camera unsuitable for any kind of action photography. I own the fp, and it's a rather awful stills camera.
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