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New Nx500 owner.. which 2.5K hack?

Started Apr 20, 2017 | Discussions thread
OP ohcello Senior Member • Posts: 1,787
Re: New Nx500 owner.. which 2.5K hack?

Kisaha wrote:

ohcello wrote:

Hello all, I just purchased an NX500 with 16-50mm lens and will likely get the 30mm f2 next. I'm hoping the NX500 can replace my Panny LX100 as my primary video camera and portable travel cam. I own the Nikon D610 for serious work etc. The lx100 is great, especially for video, bit it's slightly soft at wide angle and a bit noisy for my taste. Anyway, video performance is a pretty big part of the equation for me, so I want to attempt the 2.5k hack not only for the crop factor but also to help with low light noise compared to crop 4k (?)... so, which hack is easiest or best to implement? Thx all.

I love the LX100, but NX500 is a so much better camera.

Both are great, Vasile's is a bit faster, but more steps to enable it, I haven't even tried it to be honest, Kino Seed's is super user friendly and has a ton of features (which most are no needed, but good to have a look).

If you care only for video, maybe Vasile's is more appropriate, maybe I have to give it a go too.

Thanks so much.  These hacks... do you have to load them every time you start up the cam, or just implement it once?  Looking forward to putting the LX100 vs. the NX500 in the field ; )

I'm wondering if having no crop with 2.5K video helps in low light vs. cropped 4K video?  The one nice aspects of the LX100 is having f/1.7 Image Stabilized video at 26mm... I'm hoping that f/3.5 on the kit lens is 'close enough' in that regard ... or else I can get the 16mm f/2.4 but no IS, etc.... I'm not thinking about the 16-55mm f/2-f/2.8 just yet ; )

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Sony a6300 Sony E 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 PZ OSS 7artisans 35mm F1.2
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