Sony FS5

The Atomos Shogun Inferno is the latest flagship 7-inch 4K Raw recorder and monitor with 10bit HDR Monitoring, 1500 nits brightness, and Raw to Raw CDNG recording up to 4K DCI/UHD 30p or 2K/HD 120p in addition to 4K/60p in ProRes/Avid DNxHR or HD up to 240fps.

Here are the details of the highly anticipated Sony FS5 Raw update and firmware 2.0, which were just announced by Sony at their live NAB 2016 press conference in Las Vegas. The Sony FS7 also gets a new firmware update with some exciting new additional features.

Sony recently released a new firmware update for their latest Super 35 XDCAM 4K camera - the PXW-FS5. The baby brother to the FS7 has been extremely popular with small production companies and freelancers doing a variety of work including, but not limited to events, weddings, documentaries and corporate gigs, but there have been reports from various users about some compression artifacts when shooting in Slog3 in high ISO's. Luckily Sony just issued a firmware update version 1.11 which addresses those issues.

Version 1.1 allows simultaneous QFHD internal recording and QFHD output to an external unit that serves as the monitoring device. A new menu item (“QFHD REC OUTPUT”) in the recording menu permits switching between simultaneous QFHD internal/external recording, with loss of VF and LCD operation and internal recording.

With so many exciting cameras, new lighting solutions and audio kit this year, it wasn't easy to pick the stand-out product of the year for us, but after careful considerations we came to the conclusion the Sony FS5 ticked all the major boxes for professional video production.