The new ECAM f8
so here it is the brand-new e2 f8 from
zcam they've had the f6 which is the 6k
version of the camera out for quite some
time but this is the 8k version so as
far as we know this is the first round
of shipment for the 8k version so we're
gonna go ahead pull this completely out
of the box show you everything that it
comes with and then we're going to show
you some really six sample footage well
there you have it that's what comes in
the e2 f8 box so we have the camera
itself and then we have what looks to be
the Wi-Fi antenna with the word gift on
it and then we have a couple power
connectors here we have looks like a
DTaP connector and adapter so that's
pretty much it so we went ahead and we
bought a tilta cage for it because
we're just tilt the fans here at gear
focus so I'm gonna go ahead and put the
cage on it and then we're gonna go from
there so the cage we got doesn't fit so
we're gonna figure that one out alright
so we've got everything set up on the
camera I'm not gonna lie to you is not
exactly the easiest setup of a camera
that I've ever done but the first issue
we ran into was the cage so because this
camera is so new the cage that tilt has
said would fit didn't and we were able
to get the cage mounted I just had to
take the top plate off and then I took
the top handle and put it into the
quarter 20 mount that is on the top of
the camera so we have it set up
generally the way that I would set it up
anyway I have my 24 to 105 on there as
well just to kind of get it set up and
start messing around with it here at the
studio the other thing was the app so
zkm does have an app for these cameras
the Z cam app was super slow even when I
was trying to just change my shutter
speed it would take a good five or six
seconds for it to even register what I
was doing and it would black
screen out and everything well five
seconds doesn't seem like a lot of time
it's definitely annoying to have to
press a button and sit there and watch
the little spinny wheel just go go and
go and then your setting changes like
that's that's a really long time when it
really shouldn't take that long another
quirk that I did notice is when you
switch the recording resolution to 6k it
does crop in on the sensor but at the 8k
and the 4k it is the full-frame sensor I
guess all that's left at this point is
to go and film so we're gonna go head
out we're gonna get some sample footage
it's not gonna be anything that's super
ridiculous or has any super crazy motion
it's just going to be to show you what
the 8k does and I'm going to take it
into the editing studio and we're gonna
see how well it it's in Premiere Pro
because that's what I use to do all of
my editing so I will see you guys when
we're shooting footage
alright guys we're back in the editing
studio and first off I just want to give
a huge shout out to my good friend Jay
who helped us out with that b-roll
sequence that you just watched I'm gonna
leave the link to his website and all of
his social media stuff down in the
description below so feel free to check
him out so I just wanted to give you
guys a few of my first impressions of
working with this video so first up we
filmed pretty much everything with the
h.265 file format now there are several
different formats that we can use but
with the 8k we pretty much only get the
h.265 and the 0 and 0 isn't exactly
where it needs to be in order for me to
want to use it right now so I just went
ahead and I use the h.265 so one of the
benefits of the h.265 file format is the
fact that they are pretty small so we
shot a bunch of clips in Baltimore and I
only wound up with about 55 gigs worth
of footage which is quite a contrast to
the typical Blackmagic raw files that
I'm working with so that was really
really nice to see but on the flip side
the h.265 files do not really play all
that well in Premiere they're super
laggy and they don't really playback
smoothly unless you use proxies or if
you convert them to something like pro
res so while we're on the topic of the
pro res you can record pro res
internally on the z cam but you can only
do that up to 6k so you're probably
wondering why we decided to get an ake a
camera considering that most people
can't even view their content in 4k let
alone six or eight K the benefits of
using the higher resolution is like you
saw earlier on in the video where I
zoomed in to the American flag you can
do that with a K or 6k and you can zoom
in pretty far and still maintain a 4k
resolution or even a 1080 resolution
aka footage is actually four times what
4k is so if you took an AKM egde you
could zoom in up to four times and still
maintain a 4k image now for something
like a YouTube channel 6 or a K isn't
exactly necessary but it does definitely
make the post workflow much much easier
as I don't necessarily have to shoot
additional shots to get closer up I can
use these same shots that I used before
as long as they maintain their focus so
I just wanted to give you guys a real
quick video of my first impressions and
some sample footage of the Z kami to f/8
we are going to be doing a full review
and tutorial later on down the road so
make sure that you stay tuned for that
so go ahead down in the comments below
and let us know what you think of the
camera and if it's something that you
would even consider putting into your
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you have a good weekend I'm Dan with
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