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The SLR Magic Anamorphic also works on Panasonic 14mm without problem, but not Olympus 17mm F1.8 which you get vignetting and border quality are bad. It good to know that Leica 15mm also works! That F1.7 is handy for indoor/low light..

Really interested if GH4 can do 4:3 recording in 4K, I would definitely trade the 1.33X Anamorphic for that!  2X squeeze give you far more view than 1.33X does

for only £26 extra you get: 3 year warranty, free lightroom and leica decal, seems like a steal!

Well this will be the default astro lens for M43, though use it with steadicam/gimbal would be awesome too, since DOF will be deep so no need to worry about out of focus when following the subject.

And come with Adobe Lightroom which cost $135 extra.

This one still have 30minute recording limit, what a bummer.

They don' t fit on the E-M1 as they would touch the hump at the top

Who need big expensive 3 Axis gimbal when you can get 5 Axis build in

I remember Secretariat used E-PL1 for close up of horse racing. So E-P5 with 5 Axis IS might be used for some shots that is too big for normal rig.

14mm + $12 wide angle adapter make it 10.6mm.. that is pretty wide for cheap price

A lot of people are waiting..

I sold my 35-100mm for 42.5mm, it is definitely worth it, I would be getting FZ1000 to replace the zoom I lost with 35-100mm and as 4K Bcam.

OIS really helps especially on 85mm FOV, something my 5D with prime can't do unless it was on tripod.

Me too, waiting for LX8 to come out, since it appears to use its own in house 1" sensor, I hope the 4K crop is not too great compare to FZ1000

Autofocus on E-mount active speedbooster is really slow, if it can work on M43 I bet it will be even slower on M43 body without build-in PDAF.

First up, I want to ask: How is autofocus with this thing? Because it might be useful for stills here.

If you just shoot video I consider Voigtlander 25mm, manual focus is easier than focus by wire from modern lens, and F0.95 gives you that FF like background blur.  But if you take photos + videos and don't have too big of budget then Leica 25mm and Olympus 25mm is more versatile.

I think Andrew should update lens recommendation with Leica 42.5mm F1.2, OIS really helps at longer focal length.

I have both Olympus 25mm and Voigtlander 25mm, but I am thinking of getting Canon 35mm F2 IS and active speedbooster for the IS.

Hi Andrew

 

I am considering the Voigtlander f0.95 or the Panasonic Lumix f1.4 (both 25mm). Your guide does not clearly favor one over the other. There is one sentence regarding the Lumix lens which is not quite complete: "The only real drawback of the lens [Lumix lens] is that it looks the option softer look of the Voigtlander at F0.95 and (...)." Do you mean that it lacks the option of the softer look of the Voigtlander? So you prefer the Voigtlander due to mainly the soft look at f0.95 if you do not take the size aspect into account and just quality?

 

Thanks for shedding some light!

I think in 4K it just uses normal Power OIS, just 1080P and less it uses Hybrid+ OIS and level recording (probably too much data for CPU to handle atm, have to wait for 64bit ARM for that!)

Panasonic is making wave for 4K this year!

Now I need to decide either FZ1000 or LX8 for GH4 BCam..

FZ1000 comes with 5 Axis Hyrbid+ OIS, so I guess for handheld it will be better than GH4 + Power OIS

FZ1000 4K video sample

Interesting to have it as B-cam for 4K (and G6 for 1080P B-cam)

Whoa, this one paired with those 3 axis gimbal stablizer and its pure win! flying and follow focus at same time :D

hmmm - this camera is suddenly very attractive.

I could dump my 5D2 if the price is true..!

So Sony have 2 constant F4 power zooms, I wish Panasonic had something similar in the pipeline.  Currently their true constant zoom is 35-100mm, 12-35mm flicker when changing zoom. Their current PZ offering is really for consumers.

Yep but I don't mind for the fps .. ;) just want FF stills quality for portrait and landscape, and  GH3 like video quality. Just hope the price is under 2k...

Notice the product placement is one notch above A7R, I think about $3000 for price.

GH4 is still the cheapest cinema 4K body you can buy without add on.  But one thing for sure A7S will look gorgeous once fully geared up, but it just out of my budget.

I just wondering how would Sony resolve the heating issue

GH3/4 have to use much bigger body so it can shoot all day without heating up.

M43 didn't suck for landscape, check out Amos Chapple, his latest one is done in GF5, and his photos look a lot nicer than those so called "FF"

one thing I hate about the sony is the $@%%@$@ AVCHD, no MOV no sale for me

btw FF is overated, I tend to find myself shooting in lower F stop so I can fucking focus properly

Russian's protecting themself? what a joke! look at Ukraine crisis ....