Post B16 comments here...

[jbeale]

Apparently, the grey bars are not an exposure assist, they are just a fixed grey "chip chart" to help you set the screen contrast, if I am understanding what Jarred says here: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpos...92&postcount=7

[Brandon Fraley]

Apparently, the grey bars are not an exposure assist, they are just a fixed grey "chip chart" to help you set the screen contrast, if I am understanding what Jarred says here: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpos...92&postcount=7

gotcha (damn do rumors moves fast around here lol).

In that case what's the new exposure assist we've been hearing so much about?

[Brian Broz]

B16 looks great!
Re-booting the camera after re-assigning ABC was required to function and display correctly. Not a big deal though.
The customizable key configurations allow much much faster changes and less time with the menus and joystick...which is real nice.

A user assigned key can be set to:
User 1 for focus assist/pixel2pixel zoom
User 2 assigned to false color (works well combined with User 1 simultaneously)
The LCD (top left) button assigned to waveform

[Jarred Land]

That scale lets you visually see what represents white white and black black (and everything inbetween) in terms of monitor lighting conditions ( i.e, when you are in the bright sun) ... sort of like purge bars.. it can help in some situations, but its not something that most of you will want to leave on all the time ( although in the beta build there is no off yet )

[Brandon Fraley]

That scale lets you visually see what represents white white and black black (and everything inbetween) in terms of monitor lighting conditions ( i.e, when you are in the bright sun) ... sort of like purge bars.. it can help in some situations, but its not something that most of you will want to leave on all the time ( although in the beta build there is no off yet )

why would you want to turn them off? it's just empty space on the side of the monitor right?

[SF Geek]

why would you want to turn them off? it's just empty space on the side of the monitor right?

I'm guessing it's less distraction. Brian, is there pixel 2 pixel or is it the 2x zoom we've had in previous builds?

[Brandon Fraley]

appears to be 2x

[Brian Broz]

It appears to be 2x not a full pixel to pixel. But toggling between focus assist, magnify, waveform and false color is really fast !

Not a bug, but I noticed viewing the on-board LCD in RedSpace displays a bit more noise than the Rec709 setting...more of an FYI.
But image viewed in Redspace mode is "brighter" (than Rec709) and seems to more accurately reflect Tstop and Iso settings.

[cinepost35]

If you are doing extended exposure times - below 1/4 sec - the camera can benefit from a new Black Shading Calibration at that exposure. i.e set the exposure you expect to use in timelapse, then do a Black Shading.

If you do this, remember to repeat the process when you go back to the relatively shorter exposure times.

Dose it have any negative affect on the camera to Black balance often if you do these shots frequentley.

[Jannard]

Dose it have any negative affect on the camera to Black balance often if you do these shots frequentley.

No. Only negative is the time it takes to do it.

Jim