- So Nikon has been in the
mirrorless game for a while now
but a huge announcement just dropped.
That is that they will be
the first mirrorless camera
company to allow RAW
video with ProRes RAW.
Plus they're releasing a
brand new filmmaker kit
that's an insane value.
I'm gonna be talking
with Dave from Kinotika
about all of the details in this video.
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- Hey what's up, Shawn
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We're here at CES, I'm
with Dave from Kinotika.
How's it going?
- It's going great.
- I'm super pumped to
be hanging out with you.
You are definitely one
of my filmmaker experts.
I'm so excited because
you've been rolling around
with the Nikon Z for a while now.
You've had hands-on.
I want to talk about the filmmaker kit.
I wanna talk about your thoughts.
What's interesting here is
I think that this camera
is taking serious punches
at some of the other brands
with the fact that you
could use it as a beginner
and really get a lot of features.
Now you can take it all
the way up to RAW video.
Break down what you're thinking about this
whole thing, Dave.
- Yeah, this is really exciting news.
Ever since I first shot on
a RED camera I always wanted
to have RAW video.
A lot of photographers are
spoiled because they've had
the ability to edit RAW
photos for a very long time.
Imagine what you can do
in Lightroom with stills,
now in your video editor.
At a very affordable price point.
Up until now the only camera
that I would recommend
would be a RED and that's $20,000.
So at CES, Atomos announced
the ability to do RAW recording
on the Ninja five.
It's not out yet, it'll be coming soon.
If you buy the filmmaker
kit for under $4,000 you can
actually get everything
you need to be, kind of,
an indie filmmaker.
It's really amazing.
- Yeah and you know it's
interesting because,
of course Canon's released
mirrorless cameras.
Sony is bringing a lot
of mirrorless cameras.
Panasonic is announcing mirrorless.
What do you think now,
having been traveling around
with this Nikon mirrorless?
It's solid.
I mean you got phase detection.
You've got a good lens
offerings with a whole,
we'll put a link to it in the description,
a whole map of multiple lenses coming out
for it in the next couple years.
Of course you can adapt
all of the old lenses.
Really, it's a feature stacked camera,
from slow motion, across the board.
What are some of your
thoughts, having used it
for a while now?
- Well yeah, we've had
it for a couple months,
we've been using it as our
main camera for our channel
on Kinotika and we're shooting
everything in 4K full frame.
The thing that I love
about this is, first off,
it is full frame there's no crop going on.
You can do a crop if you
want but if you actually
want full frame you get that.
You also have amazing
auto focus, like you said,
with phase detect auto focus.
Very similar to Sony and Canon.
I can see that getting better
with time with firmware
and things like that.
Honestly, kind of everything
that we've always wanted.
This has stabilization on the sensor.
Kind of everything that
we've talked about.
Like, why doesn't this have this?
Or this or that?
It kind of has almost all those things.
The only thing that I wish it did have
was a flip around screen.
But, you know, beggars
can't be choosers, right?
- Yeah, 100%.
So what's interesting is that
when I start thinking about,
if you're trying to upgrade to mirrorless
you've got some big decisions to make.
What brand are you going to go with?
I think that you have so much similarity.
You have all the features you need
to just get started with the camera.
This is also a new lens
that's dropping soon, 14-30.
Really good vlogger lens.
You could start out,
and have you found that,
what would you say the
learning curve is if you were
just getting into the
camera and you wouldn't
really consider yourself a filmmaker yet?
- Well the thing that I love
about this camera is it's
really intuitive to use.
The button layout just
kind of makes sense.
There's some nice function
buttons in places where
your fingers rest that a
lot of camera manufacturers
don't take advantage of.
There's buttons right
here which I really like.
You've got a top LCD screen.
The EVF is really nice to use
and the grip is really comfortable.
If you're coming from an
older DSLR then this'll be
really easy to learn.
If you're completely
brand-new I think it will be
pretty natural for you to pick it up.
Watch some tutorials online
maybe if you're completely
unaware of how to change
your exposure for example.
This camera is a great place to start
if you're getting into video.
I think overall the message
that I want to put out there
is that Nikon is kicking butt with video.
That's kind of weird to
say cause for several years
that was not the case.
- Absolutely.
So you could pick up this body.
It starts at two thousand which is similar
to the other offerings on the market.
There's a kit lens,
kind of a fixed F4 24-70
that you could get with it as well.
If you wanted to jump
into the filmmakers kit
you get the body, you get that
lens, you get two batteries,
you get an arm, you get
the Atomos recorder.
You also get a MOZA gimbal.
And that filmmakers kit,
announced here at CES,
and it is available now.
At $4,000 you're saving almost $1,200.
What's cool about that
is, again, depending on
where you're at on your journey.
Filmmakers might already
be like that's legit.
Somebody that's maybe just
wanting to get into it.
YouTubers, content creators
now has kind of a package
that could really get them started
with creating world class content.
What do you think about the whole kit?
- I think the kit is wonderful.
Like you said it's a
place to start, you could
just shoot normal profiles
and don't mess with RAW yet.
Just kind of have the tools for when
you're ready to upgrade.
I think that's what's great about it.
Having that gimbal is a great
place to start to learn how
to get those stable movements,
kinda like a Steadicam
if you're not familiar with gimbal work
and things like that.
The stabilization on the
camera also is wonderful.
If you're not the best operator the camera
will help fix some of that as well.
I think it's a great place to start.
It has a Rode mic, it's
better than this one actually.
It's the Rode VideoMic.
Two batteries, these
batteries last forever.
Everything in it, you know,
it's everything you need really.
To get started.
- I agree.
So, as kind of a summary, you
know again, if you're thinking
about investing in really
maybe a new camera.
A mirrorless camera.
I'm excited about the fact
that you could start out,
if you were to get the filmmakers kit,
and then evolve as you go.
A lot of times there
is that learning curve.
You're creating content, you're able to
just make simple YouTube videos.
Leave things on auto, take great photos.
But of course you also
get the lens adapter
so you could adapt to other lenses.
Nikon has lenses everywhere
so you could always
pick'em up second hand,
craigslist, OfferUp, eBay
and really make your world much larger.
Then on the flip side you could
also evolve with the times.
Once RAW hits.
Once you start leveling up
your video editing, workflow
and things like that.
You've edited a little bit of ProRes RAW.
You said it's crazy.
Just for if you're new to RAW,
like you said, when you edit
in Lightroom you could
change your white balance
after the fact.
You have much more
versatility in your exposure
in case you shot your footage wrong.
Then of course color grading
and be able to push highlights
and shadows and things like that.
What is editing ProRes RAW
been like in your experience?
- Well right now at the
moment Adobe isn't offering
the ability to do ProRes RAW
so if you're an Adobe editor
just stay tuned, they are
going to do that eventually.
I'm a Final Cut Pro ten
user and that's the only way
to use it right now.
It just functions like
ProRes, it's kind of amazing.
If you're not familiar with
ProRes it's the native codec
on a Apple machine.
It always plays kind of the
best even compared to Hdot264
which is a smaller file size
but it doesn't play as well as
ProRes because Apple designs the codec.
Apple has worked with Atomos
directly, and Nikon and Atomos
have worked directly as well.
So it's this marriage of Apple,
Nikon and Atomos creating
this amazing RAW platform
to edit your footage.
It runs smooth, that's the main thing,
all these older RAW codecs like
from Blackmagic for example.
They shot uncompressed
CinemaDNG RAW, which the files
were ridiculously massive
and you couldn't edit it
in your computer.
You had to have a beefy
machine, use Resolve,
things like that.
Now you can use just a basic $300 program,
Final Cut Pro on a laptop
and edit RAW video up to 4K
with the Atomos Ninja five.
One thing that I did
want to mention though,
that I haven't heard a lot
of people talk about is,
if you want the benefits of
RAW but you don't want to mess
with 4K, you could do
1080p RAW on this as well.
So I think that's kind
of a interesting fact.
If you want a really fast
turnaround and you don't want
massive file size, you could
shoot in 1080p and still change
your white balance, get those highlights
and all the beautiful
things that you'd get
with RAW footage.
- I love it.
Well, obviously we're kinda
just doing an overview here.
Very excited about the
Nikon Z lineup of cameras
and the filmmaker kit.
Of course we'll list details
in the description below
and links to various things.
Now, we didn't really go
into depth of the features
of the specific camera, so if
you want to check out a video
Dave and I did I'll link
that up on the YouTube card
and put it in the description below.
Question of the day.
Are you thinking about
upgrading your this year
and what brand, what model
are you thinking about?
What do you think about
the Z series as well as
the filmmaker kit?
Definitely let us know in
the comments section below.
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