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    • Have you compared it to the replacement 35-70mm? The latter lens is very handy on the GFX 100 and filmic looking.
    • Try it. It’s basically your any 5 personal settings at the turn of a dial. OK, in C3, also requires a menu selection of 1,2,3 but still, far FAR quicker then fannying about with actual settings etc. The only real issue in shooting hybrid as in flipping between stills and video, is ND’s. The options are: A. Shoot either higher shutter speeds, or with a greater depth of field, or, B. Flip up VND, or, C. Shoot stills with a VND, but on it’s lowest setting so if it’s a 2-5 stop, pretty OK actually, but if it’s a 6-9… I have tried all 3 and could make a case for and against all of these and use C. It’s OK usually with short clips, but longer stuff or matching multiple camera angles which always have a different WB… Each to their own, but you might as well pick an outdoor WB and am indoor WB and get consistency. It’s never exactly the same just as it isn’t with stills unless it’s just one single light source, but it rarely is and instead a balance of artificial and ambient and proximity and angles and all that physics stuff. Vlog and a baked in LUT has been a game changer for me. I still haven’t quite dialed it in and it will probably always be a work in progress but getting there and more than happy with it. It’s not Hollywood or even Indie movie colour grading, but I don’t have the time and am not being paid enough! Nope. Never shot in anything sub 4k even though I deliver the longer form stuff such as ceremony & speeches in 1080. The 7.2k out of the S1Rii looks fantastic to me and it’s my next area of exploration… 1. Nail down the tools. Check (finally) 2. Work on the next level of creativity from a purely storytelling perspective. 3. Work on the capture quality and grade ie, bringing that beautiful 7.2k into the process and that grade I’m still working on. I think we get to a point where we are at about 90% with every and anything and that last 10% is always a work in progress…
    • I'm going to try the C1 etc set up. I've been a bit lazy to try that. It makes sense to start with auto ISO when switching to video, I hadn't thought about that. Heat is a big thing here and the S5iis handle it perfectly! I sometimes use AWB with AWBL (lock) in very tricky lighting. The AWB does a good job but the lock seems a bit random. Sometimes it says locked for a good while and other times it turns off and I haven't worked out why. I have no desire to go into RAW. I'm just starting to use VLOG and built in LUTS!  Have you ever tried 3.3K 4/3?
    • A little bit of trial & error plus fine-tuning in the final (all LUMIX) line up and I really did think the 28-45 would be perfect and Job 01 I was kind of OK with it but Job 02, it was niggling me and I flipped to the 50mm f1.8 just to see the difference and the penny dropped. I think even if they popped out a 45-90mm f1.8 with internal zoom, I wouldn't bother now as with a 35 and 85 (which is how I used to work pre L Mount, 90% of my work), I can real world do anything a 28-45 + 45-90 pairing can, but at 1/3rd the weight, 1/2 the size and 1/2 the cost. It doesn't but you can do exactly the same thing with C1/C2/C3 etc. For the brief period I used the S5ii for hybrid, I had: C1 outdoor stills (5600K) C2 indoor stills (4500K) C3-1 6k 30p 5600k Low auto ISO outdoor video mode C3-2 6k 30p 5000k High auto ISO indoor video mode C3-3 4k 60p e stab on 5600k auto ISO, gimbal-like / slow mo mode (obviously goes into crop mode for this) The photo/video switch on the new bodies simply gives you 5 options for each instead of 5 total as with the S5ii. Those were the 2 lenses and for the same reasons, I was using the year before last. I wouldn't trust the S1Rii statically, on a tripod, in direct sunlight, on a 30+ degree Celsius day, say filming a ceremony. Not tested it, but no need because I have no need and the S5ii does it just as well if not better, so right tools for the right jobs and all that. Unless you need above 6k video or stills above 24mp, absolutely no requirement for either the S1Rii or S1ii and even the S5ii can shoot raw for anyone that needs it to with a paid software download. I think if I had 10+ years left in the industry, I'd be at least looking very hard at raw video, but I haven't got 10 years and don't want to get into a whole new learning curve and massive hardware/storage updates for something my type of clients would never notice, so nah. Your plan for a pair of S5ii's with an S9 makes sense. I could live with 3, but having 4 in the end I decided now makes most sense with 1 permanent static (the S5ii) and 1 semi-static (the S9) with the pair of S1Rii's hybrid in the hand.
    • Sounds like you are finally getting what you were looking for! I'm still mainly video but still have quite a few video and photo events. I think I've decided that I prefer having one camera set up for video and one for photo as the S5ii doesn't have the photo/video switch. I've been using 6K OG 30p and it's good but I miss 50p. I'm starting to test the 3.3K 4/3 50p. It's apsc but I think it might give me a happy medium for horizontal and vertical filming with 50p, kind of a OG lite. This means I'd have my 28-70 2.8 as my main photo lens with the Lumix primes for special moments and I think I'll test a second hand Sigma 18-50 2.8 apsc lens to see how that works for video. It would give me similar focal lengths on both cameras. If it works well for company events then I'll try that at a wedding when i get my next hybrid one (this year they are 95% video only). If that turns out to be a good combo then I might look to get the Sigma 17-40 1.8 for video. I've decided the new Lumix's are not for me at present. It's too hot here to make use of the video features so I'm going to workout how to get the most out of the 2 S5iis and if it all works out, get a 3rd camera, the S9 and the Sigma and that's me good for a few years.
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