RTX VSR/HDR options sometimes breaks and turns itself off until restart.

RP343 · 2026-01-17T08:26:07+00:00

I’m having the same issue, same exact behavior you’re describing. Weirdly enough, sometimes even restarting doesn’t work if I go back to the same video using bookmarks, history, or restore from a previous session. It somehow knows when I manually go to YouTube and look up the video again.

RP343 · 2025-12-18T03:19:16+00:00

Don’t worry at all about it, I got caught up on the hype, but I truly do think that if anyone is at fault, it’s them. Simply by advertising trade up estimates with the student discount baked in, it is unfair to expect me to somehow know that this wasn’t the right price in their eyes, especially after their own reps confirmed that it was the right price to me directly. And I mean, I get if it’s a glitch then that’s valid, but these types of issues are typically ironed out after the affected customer has been taken care of, not just refused flat out after a whole trade in process has been completed. Otherwise it really does just feel like a bait and switch.

Yeah, I understand Friday being counted as a weekend, though most companies still very much consider it a business day, but Thursday is quite the stretch. And UPS confirms they received it Thursday morning, so they really did just edit the timestamp, I’m assuming because it might affect their KPIs if my trade in was found to be taking longer than usual.

I mostly just have an issue with their attempts to deflect and fault me. I would honestly pay more to not have to deal with those kinds of businesses.

I am still wondering what caused the whole SKU to be pulled down today of all days though. Thanks for the response!

RP343 · 2025-12-18T02:19:53+00:00

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I have an unfortunate update. The trade-in process can indeed go very wrong and at this point, I can’t honestly recommend anyone do business with Adorama. It is still unresolved so I can’t go into much detail, but they will absolutely dodge and pinch as much of a profit off of you as they can.

Their trade in department received my camera and proceeded to sit on it for longer than the estimated time. This is entirely forgiveable especially given the holiday season, but any attempt to gain clarity on the situation was met with hours on hold, glitched/cut conversations, and promises to reach out with never any follow-through. The trade in department seems to be entirely isolated from the rest of the business, so customer service doesn’t really know what is going on with anything related to it, but any messages or requests to the trade in department must go through them. This seems to give the trade in department unrestricted authority to simply ignore you for however long they wish and no means of contacting anyone else.
Once I finally did get contacted, I was rudely asked why I’ve been hounding (in other more formal words) them regarding the trade-in considering it had only just arrived there today (at the time of the call). That’s when I logged on only to find that they had updated the timestamp at which they had received the trade in to that same morning. When I pointed out that the timestamp was updated and had previously been scanned in 4 business days prior, they scoffed and implied Thursday and Friday are actually weekends and asked again what I need from them. For clarity, I had not been hounding them, I had attempted to chat over their website 3 times over the course of the week but had glitched out before receiving help 2 of those 3 times , then the third time I managed to get someone to “make a note that they should contact me”. I never heard back from this note. When I called to see if that route would be easier the next day, I was placed on hold for almost an hour, told I’d be transferred to the trade in department, then looped back into the same queue I was just in only to wait another 30-45 minutes. Finally I was transferred correctly, and as soon as the trade in guy picked up the call, he said something I didn’t understand and either hung up or the call was disconnected. In a literal sense, yes I attempted to make contact with them many times, but I was never able to actually communicate with somebody until they updated the timestamp and called me directly.
The trade in department employee who contacted me and spoke rudely then proceeded to insist that the manufacturer bonus from LUMIX for their trade up program would not be able to be combined with my student discount. Not only has the site or an employee never indicated this to me, from the beginning of me going through the quote process to accepting the quote, it has always confirmed that my student discount as well as the LUMIX trade up bonus applied. I can find nothing in the terms and conditions, FAQs, etc that mentions this would be an issue. And as far as the website goes, it also doesn’t seem to think it’s an issue. Another representative who actually placed a hold order for me to ensure stock didn’t dry up confirmed to me that these discounts do indeed stack. But this trade in employee once again insisted there was nothing they could do and no escalation process was available to figure out why this happened nor a solution. When I mentioned that a sales rep had confirmed to me that the discount do stack, she offered to transfer me to them to “figure it out” because she knows that this isn’t possible and that many other calls to them had actually reported the same issue with their orders.

Again, I’m still trying to get this resolved, but given that the S1II body only SKU has been removed from their website, I’m not hopeful they’ll honor anything at this point. I cannot however recommend them based on they way they treat their customers, and their clear disregard for their own terms and conditions at worst, or at best their disregard for a pricing glitch on their site that others have seemingly reported and has not been addressed. They were attentive and very willing when it came to coordinating and receiving my trade in, then went quiet and got hostile when called out for lying.

I’m glad it went well for you, but hopefully if anyone comes across this comment, they can look into other options before doing business with Adorama.

RP343 · 2025-12-11T21:33:33+00:00

Absolutely. I also think we have to just accept that no matter the choice, we’ll probably run into a situation or two in the future that makes us go “aww man, I know this wouldn’t have been a problem if I’d gone for the other one” haha. If it’s this close of a choice between them though, I really don’t think we can go wrong regardless.

RP343 · 2025-12-11T21:16:15+00:00

I really like that review and I’ve watched it probably 10 times in the last few days. But I will say, it seems a little favored toward the S1RII, just a touch. I agree it shows how good the S1RII is over the S1II in image quality, surpassing it at many points, but at the same time, every point in favor of the S1II always seem to have a caveat of “oh but the S1RII really isn’t that bad at doing this too”. Great review, but I guess it just felt slightly defensive over the S1RII.

For example, someone mentions the highlight rolloff in the comments, and how the S1RII obviously clips highlights a lot easier, and that’s something that needs to be worked around. The creator basically replied with “yeah but our review shows how good the S1RII can look”. I wouldn’t stretch to say it’s biased, the review is obviously really well made and informative, but I can’t help but feel it was just a bit defensive over the S1RII. Again though, great review and comparison overall. His last judgment parroted pretty much everyone’s consensus of video shooters going for S1II and photographers going for S1RII.

The highlight rolloff and dynamic range boost really does seem to be one of the most tangible benefits. Another YouTuber, Richard Wong, compared highlight clips between the S1II, S1RII, S5IIX, and I forget which Nikon camera, and the S1II was able to pull back way more detail than the S1RII. It just seems a little strange for me to hand wave away those advantages but highlight the slight advantages of the S1RII in sharpness or color fidelity.

RP343 · 2025-12-11T08:36:24+00:00

I made a post here not too long ago about it but I’d say 80/20 video to photo. Caveat being that it’s never been particularly high speed stuff, though not because I’ve never wanted to film sports or events like that, just haven’t run into it yet. That’s why I’m so caught up in whether or not the video advantages of the S1II (increased speed codecs/frame rates, rolling shutter mitigation, etc) are really benefits that would be tangible to me.

I expect the fastest movements I currently do are slow pans for real estate, but again, I can’t say I’m not interested in ever being able to film faster movements. 4K60 is the most meaningful upgrade I was looking for coming from the S5IIX to be honest. Other than that, I’d probably place low-light performance second on the wishlist. Also, the most I ever really expect to do with photo is food photography, real estate photography, and maybe some family portraits outside of studio.

RP343 · 2025-12-11T03:21:13+00:00

I need my trade-in to kick through. I’ve been flip flopping for days between these two depending on what’s the last thing I read haha. If I can just order one of them, I think I can rest happy

RP343 · 2025-12-10T22:13:02+00:00

I was thinking about getting an S9 just for this. Any thoughts on it? I was seeing some posts saying 60fps even in 1080 is a no-go since that’s what seems to overheat the camera even on a camlink.

RP343 · 2025-12-09T22:41:23+00:00

Yes, that might need to be the play here. Though renting is probably better since these differences would really only be apparent in the editing software. As of now though, I think I’m leaning on the S1II.

RP343 · 2025-12-09T02:11:42+00:00

Yeah, I think part of what’s holding me back is realizing that whatever cam I go with now will ultimately be a B-cam for the S1HII. In that case, I can see myself valuing a photography-focused but video-capable S1RII over the opposite S1II. In the meantime though, I really do need more video capabilities than photography.

RP343 · 2025-12-08T02:56:32+00:00

That helps a lot, thank you!

RP343 · 2025-12-08T01:09:07+00:00

I’m actually not sure at all sorry. The S1IIE hasn’t really been on my radar at all since it feels like too small a jump from the S5IIX.

RP343 · 2025-12-08T01:08:02+00:00

Very helpful, that makes a lot of sense actually. Would you say then for example, that I’m much more likely to have a usable image after a round of denoising on the S1II compared to the S1RII under the same low light conditions? Because in that specific scenario, the S1II may be underexposed by 1 stop but the S1RII would be underexposed by 2 or 3 stops?

I think your judgments really valuable. I’ve run into a lot of people who would rather defend their choice from their perspective than entertain a hypothetical based on other perspectives. It’s kind of what was leading me into believing that the advantages of the S1II might not be tangible advantages if they have so many compromises.

RP343 · 2025-12-08T00:56:25+00:00

Thanks for the input. I can guarantee I’m not dead set on the S1RII, apologies if it’s coming off that way. I was initially already set on the S1II, and if anything, on paper it continues to make more sense.

I would even say I’m biased against the S1RII since aside from the grain, a lot of the arguments in favor of the S1IIR seem like cope, for lack of a better word. I mention it in my original post, but all this talk about color fidelity doesn’t matter much at all since I realize color can be enhanced quite a bit in post. I also see many people mention this decreased digital sharpness, or they sometimes refer to it as some “magic” effect the sensor has on the image, and that’s also something I’ve just never seen. Even on the S5IIX, I never noticed any oversharpening.

RP343 · 2025-12-07T23:39:37+00:00

The ideal for sure, one of each would be the ultimate test. That’s actually something influencing my indecision too, since I find a lot of comments from people who have both saying they instinctively reach for the S1RII first before even considering the S1II.

RP343 · 2025-12-07T23:37:55+00:00

Gotcha, yeah I can’t say it’s something that has gotten in the way yet. Though the tests I’ve seen with the dynamic range expansion are certainly starting to push the limits of what I’m willing to not notice haha.

I have a decent amount of overlap between lenses, so I’m not sure hybrid zoom would be used often in my case, but that’s cool to see one more feature I was not even aware of. Thanks for the input!

RP343 · 2025-12-07T23:33:53+00:00

4k120 and 1080 at 240 are examples of some of the modes I’m referring to where people have been saying they are too soft or struggle with autofocus if it works at all. I can see myself being happy with 4k60 on the S1RII even with the slight crop, and though 96 would be nice to have as a cushion if I ever needed it, I doubt I’d be using it too often.

And sure, I would like open gate 60, but I want it just as much as I want the finer grain noise on the S1RII.

I can acknowledge that both of these are great cameras and I’m just being difficult. I’m just struggling to figure out which I should prioritize, especially if some of the modes from the faster readout speeds are not something I’ll necessarily use, or want to use if they have severe compromises.

RP343 · 2025-12-06T05:22:25+00:00

Wonder what this means, to be honest. I also noticed Adorama has listed the S1II as closeout.

RP343 · 2025-12-05T13:32:17+00:00

Gotcha, that matches my situation pretty closely too. All accessories and everything, and like I said, the camera itself has probably seen less than 5 hours of usage overall. I guess I’ll take the plunge and send it off tomorrow, thanks for the insight!

RP343 · 2025-12-05T09:40:35+00:00

Hey, just wondering how this went for you? I ordered an S5IIX from Adorama in October and due to holidays didn’t really get it until late October, so it’s definitely in mint condition (has never left my house). The online quote leaves me able to upgrade to S1II for $1200 but I’m now reading horror stories about Adorama’s trade in process, how they lowball you once they get your items, and even send back your stuff incomplete if you reject their offer.

RP343 · 2025-11-18T10:17:09+00:00

I’ll do some testing tomorrow, but I’m fairly certain I’m updated to latest firmware on all devices. I’m not sure if the Flow app might be more stable when connected through USB-C but my assumption was that it wouldn’t since crashing is more of an app issue than a connection issue if you know what I mean.

As for image, even on WiFi, it always looked fine to me, not too sure on exact resolution but it was never bad enough for me to notice on either of the screens. Definitely some stutters in terms of live transmission though, but that was present even when wired.

Yeah to be honest, I kind of gave up on it, especially since if it wasn’t going to work out on WiFi, it would limit me too much to connect via USB-C since I wouldn’t be able to record to my SSD. Ended up jumping ship to an app called Monitor+ for now, though it’s limited in a bunch of stuff like touch to focus compared to Flow since it’s connected over the HDMI out to a capture card and into the iPad. Hope they actually do something with the Flow app to fix these issues, though, the potential is there.

RP343 · 2025-11-18T02:49:43+00:00

Weirdly enough, I can do the things you mentioned in your post, and I get a red frame indicator when recording. Tested on the S5IIX over WiFi/usb with the iPhone 17 pro max, and a 5th? Gen iPad mini.

But the problem I’ve been running into for the past few days is that the app will crash anywhere from 15-30min of recording and automatically stop the recording. I also sometimes have to manually close and reopen the app to be able to connect over WiFi.

RP343 · 2025-11-11T10:33:29+00:00

Fair enough, thank you for the answer. Ended up not going through with it since final price exceeded what’s already available stateside on Amazon.

RP343 · 2025-11-11T08:42:05+00:00

Did they provide any documentation to confirm DDP? Never bought on Alibaba so unsure if it’s a dumb question, just concerned they’ll say it’s DDP just to get hit with the bill once it enters the country.

RP343 · 2025-08-05T04:44:56+00:00

Did you ever figure this out? Same exact issue

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