stephen

Thanks a lot for the hint ! Better user experience when not holding the ISO button while changing ISO with a wheel.

It looks my first guess is correct except company is not Panasonic but Sigma. 24Mpx sensor in a relatively lower cost cinema type of camera body could only be the one in Nikon Zr, Z6 III, Panasonic S1 II.

ZR ctl or Paralax Monitor is great. Interface is good and allows to change practically any major video related setting. For somebody like me who is not familiar with Nikon menus it is a great help. Connectivity with the camera is breeze too. Just plug the USB cable. It solves also another problem which Z6 III has - lack of LUT support. It is important for me as I use LUTs to set exposure. Using a LUT is by far the best and easiest way to set exposure for video and also save lots of time in post. Kudos to the creator. Megadap ETZ21 Pro+ is the first adapter that I know which allows you to stack electronically two adapters ! Any A-Mount Lens + LA-EA5 + Megadap ETZ21 Pro+ can autofocus on Nikon Z bodies. Same with Canon EF lenses and Metabone adapter + Megadap ETZ21 Pro+. Almost any Sony or third party lens for Sony E mount works (can autofocus) with Megadap ETZ21 Pro+ on Nikon Z bodies. Practically I can use all the lenses that I use on Sony. Of course there will be some penalty with continuous autofocus but I rarely use it anyway. Nikon Z mount cameras have some quirks too. For example they lack the third wheel that most mirrorless camera have. You need to push and hold a button and keep it pushed while changing ISO. Assuming that for video we lock the shutter at 2x frame rate, 2 wheels will do the job. Nikon however don't give the option to assign ISO on some of the wheels. You can only switch them - one for shutter and one for aperture and vice versa. I bought Nikon Z6 III instead of Zr. Z6 III has full size HDMI and great EVF plus a physical shutter for photos. Flip out screen being small or big is not that useful for me. A monitor or smartphone that serves as a monitor and sits on top of the camera and slightly in front is much better. Price second had is now around 1600/1500 E mark. Low enough to get it and scratch this internal RAW view itch 🙂

For me it works on Sony ZV-E1 without external USB power with HDMI connection only. In fact it is the only camera I tried that can do this. I don't think there is something special with the connection between the camera and the EVF. The EVF has a very small button that controls the brightness of the screen. I've noticed that it works only after certain level of brightness is reached. Try increasing the brightness of the EVF LCD and see if this can make it work.

Emanuel, I've been on many concerts 🙂 Mostly rock, pop groups and individual performers. 🙂 More or less concept is the same as Sony maybe Honor has a better implementation. IMHO it will have low market demand. I am motioncam user and visit their community forum from time to time. How many members do you think this forum has ? It recently crossed the 10K mark. More than half of the people who bought the application will run a few test clips and forget about it. Let's assume it has 10K active users or 3x this number. It is still a tiny number compared to the billions of smartphones sold per year. While the economics work for the application and team of 2 people I doubt it will work for the design and production of an add on module + related application and software that can be used only with specific smartphone model. Smarthones are primarily communication devices, then cameras. It doesn't make sense to spend 2000 Euro for a smartphone only because of a particular camera module or add on. 1000 Euro for a phone with decent cameras + 1000 Euro for a better cameras with interchangeable lenses makes more sense. Again IMHO those add on camera / lenses, telephoto lenses, robot phones, they will not last long. We'll see. Let us know if you buy this particular smartphone / camera.

Nothing new under the sun. Sony tried this concept 13 years ago with Sony DSC-QX100 and Sony DSC-QX10. It didn't work / sell well. Maybe their implementation was not good, maybe smartphones were not fast enough or price was too high. I somehow doubt it will work now. 99.9 percent of the people are quite happy with the cameras on their smartphones. Those who want something more are a tiny minority and they have plenty of other toys to play with. So again I doubt this will sell. Same as those telephoto 300mm,400mm and more add on lenses. Who the heck needs those ? Bird shooters, sports shooters ? They are a tiny minority of a tiny minority and they will buy a mirrorless camera for those tasks. Smartphone manufacturers will soon realize they waist time and money. I am quite happy that we now have : 1. RAW video and basically great video IQ from smartphones with 3rd party applications 2. Finally one company broke the mold and produced a flagship smartphone with 35mm focal lenght main camera

According to the rumor the L mount camera that will appear this year will be a Sony FX5 competitor. IMHO this camera will come from Panasonic or Blackmagic. Most likely Panasonic as it already has the Nikon Zr, Z6 III sensor in Panasonic S1 II and proved it can get better IQ than Nikon. Plus it has all the exposure tools already available. It seems logical Panasonic to try its luck with FX3/5, Nikon Zr type of camera. The game changing camera will come next year. Until we know what is game changing we can only speculate. Here is my take: Sensors come from 2 companies - Sony and Canon. Canon keeps their sensors for themselves so in practice it is only one company - Sony. It already showed their best sensor in FX5/A7R VI. So we have 2 options left: A. Sigma or Panasonic come with a new type of sensor: Sigma Foveon or Panasonic Organic. IMHO very unlikely in both cases. B. DJI which so far has proven to think and create out of the (Japanese camera tradition) box can come with something interesting. Recently I've leaned that DJI developed electronically controlled ND filter for Mavic 4 Pro which is not yet officially announced but already is selling on ebay and amazon by unknown Chinese sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHt0OaxKu4E While not perfect it shows DJI has the potential to come with a camera that solves the ND problem for mirrorless cameras. DJI can come also with better price and user interface both of which company already proved is capable of. Current and previous generation of mirrorless cameras are great so I doubt any of those can tempt me to go back to L Mount. It so good to forget for a while about cameras and lenses and just go and shoot something. 🙂

Sony FX5 has the same or slightly modified sensor from Sony A7R VI. Interesting. FX5 would be a tempting proposition if you buy a new camera for commercial work from a local shop. Difference with FX3A is about 1000 $/E. As others already mentioned same FX3 sensor is available in the form of A7S III and Sony ZV-E1 for much less in the second hand market. Difference in picture quality between the FX3 sensor and FX5 one in real world shoots will be minimal. Not to mention that I can monitor and control current Sony cameras from a quality monitor like Portkey LH5P or a smartphone or use cheap external EVF and have all the tools for comfortable and quality work. Thanks but no thanks, not for me at this price.

Tradingshenzhen also has Vivo x300 Ultra global version. Will buy the Chinese version as difference with global one are small and definitely not worth 500 Euro. There is a lot of ongoing development in video for smartphones. A new application now allows every iPhone from 13 Pro to 17 pro to shoot Log with HEVC 444 codec. Same quality as RAW much smaller files. Amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTDz2yyx_yE

Samyangs at f1.4 are not cheap plus they are big and heavy. As far as I remember you don't like big and heavy. Maybe older sigma lenses from HSM generation as Anaconda_ suggested. Sigma 24mm f1.8, 30mm f1.4, 50mm f1.4 HSM. They are all under 200 E/$. Not small though. If you want smaller and cheaper lenses then you have to accept they start at f1.8, f2 and f2.8. Then you have lots of option and not only with Canon. You can also adapt vintage lenses to EF adding second adapter. With speed booster they become f1.4 to f2 both quite usable in low light on m43 in my personal experience. I was in this place more than 5 years ago with BMPCC 4K. Went trough speed boosters, calculating focal lengths, spending lots of time researching and trying to build decent lens sets both vintage and modern. My frustration grew with time as I realized this won't be cheap nor ideal to my goals. Went FF and never looked back. My decision was driven specifically by lenses. I realized the hard way a well-known truth: We buy systems not cameras and lenses are more important than cameras. If I want to use vintage lenses, cheap lenses, have access to the largest pool of lenses - FF is the right choice. I may change one FF camera system with another, my vintage lens sets stay, lenses have the same focal length and character. Same is true for Canon EF lenses. A FF system is no longer more expensive than m43, especially when we include the lenses. Example Panasonic S5 vs Panasonic GX85 + speed booster. Paradoxically a FF system (body + lenses) may even come cheaper due to large pool of lenses than m43 + speed booster.

According to this reviewer VIVO x300 Ultra is the GOAT of smartphones for video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbh6Kplm8pc RAW video with DCG on all 3 lenses with the MotionCam Pro 5 Beta and 35mm on the main camera. Now question is should I buy the Chinese version from tradingshenzhen.com or wait 10-12 month for global version to appear on second hand market at decent prices.

I've used Metabones Ultra 0.64x speed booster with my Blackmagic Pocket 4K. Compared to 0.71x is moves your crop factor a tad closer to FF 0.64x -> 1.28x vs 0.71 -> 1.42x and gives you a little bit more light (1/3 stops) and a little bit more DOF. You can use it not only with Canon EF but all lenses which have flange distance > than Canon EF. Like Contax Yashica, Nikon, m42, Pentax. Biggest issues for me is the weird crop factor. x2x0.64 = x1.28. Now I want an angle of view equivalent to 35mm in FF. Which lens should I use ? 28mm as 28x1.28=35.84 And so on. That's why I moved to FF. 35mm is 35mm no matter if lens is vintage or modern, plus I can use Minolta MD, and a bunch or other brands and bayonets. No need for speed boosters. Lens is used exactly as it was intended by the manufacturer. Sensor if big and has no problem with low light. For vintage lenses and in general for lenses alone FF is the way to go for me. I was tiered to calculate crop factors and deal with speed boosters.

Programmer and creator of the application is different person not the one behind MotionCam. However he used the same msraw format/container as motioncam. As result workflow is exactly the same and motioncam MacOS or Windows application is needed to extract the DNG files. Yes agree image quality is indeed lovely. Limitations however lead to some frustration for me. I may reconsider and use it from time to time, we'll see.

Now any iPhone (pratically from 12 and up) can shoot open gate RAW video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TkrKTOOGLE However after trying extensively RAW or Android and Log on iPhone I am not keen to shoot video on smartphones. Too many restrictions and the whole idea to have a cinema camera that you can just pool from your pocket at any time and start shooting doesn't work in practice. Still several accessories like ND filters, cage + hangle or gimbal are needed. I would rather take a small camera with small lens like Sony ZV-E1 + Sony Zeiss 35mm f2.8 with me than a bunch of smartphone accessories.

I hear the same thing. Most small and one man video production companies and teams use Sony FX3 and FX6 cameras plus Sony auto focus lenses. No manual focus or fancy anamorphic lenses. That explains why Sony doesn't care about open gate.