Sony NEX-FS100E : A review

A company I work quite a bit for wanted to test out the new (ish) Sony FS100 for a recent green screen shoot at
Spectrecom studios. The camera itself isn’t great. Ergonomically it’s a disaster, it all feels very awkward and rushed in
it’s design. It doesn’t have any built in ND’s, no SDI out and is a good £1500 more expensive than the superior
Panasonic AF101.

However, the worst complaint has to be the stock lens it ships with. This thing is without doubt the worst lens I have
ever used! At it’s widest focal length, it’s a pretty slow f3.5. Zoomed in, it drops to f.6.3 which is a complete joke.
Even with plenty of light, I was having to introduce some gain… FAIL.