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I thought the title was slightly clickbaity but I’m glad I clicked on this one. There are a lot of “Arri look on your xyz camera” videos but I think this is a far more interesting take on it. The question is are you doomed to never match it because it is baked in (not least the IR cut filter) and it can’t be reverse engineered in post? Can anyone who has bought the Arri license for their supported Panasonic camera chime in with their thoughts?

thanks guys! Really appreciate the answers! Yeah, I'll probably will focus on getting mic and lighting setups firsts

The previous comparing with this one is pure crap. :- )

The GoPro one in Seoul is very impressive.... I'm guessing they must be doing super-duper processing of the image. Still, for the form factor it looks like a great result. I'd be curious to see how the low-light is compared with previous normal GoPros. Some time ago I made the case that an action camera is the perfect vlogging camera, as it's the size of a pair of wireless earbuds but is mostly without the issues that continue to plague the "vlogging" cameras that aren't wide enough / crop for stabilisation / etc. If I was a vlogger I'd be using one of these 8K action cameras for sure, using the wide for talking head stuff and cropping in for more normal FOVs. No-one on YT can tell if you edit a 1080p and upscale to 4K on export, so a 2K crop from an 8K sensor gives a pretty useful FOV, assuming the readout isn't terrible.

Much better than the previous batch. I like where you're going with this. I think the grain is a bit too extreme now but it's not unrealistic. It would depend on the film stock as some film pictures are this grainy. The ones where I think don't work for me are the 5th ( the trees) and the 8th (city shot). Both of these I think the grain is too much. The one of the trees as well looks like there's more detail in the leaves than that amount of grain would show.

Not only small, two additional no-brainers to my book anyway -- people say this time GoPro has something or two really new:

Honestly your phone is more than good enough for this. Get one of the budget wireless mics that connects to your phone and you're good to go. Invest in a camera once you know whether you enjoy and are committed to it.