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I'd be willing to bet that fans of The Damned wouldn't notice a difference in the GH5 and an Alexa. Except maybe that <1% of cinephiles.

Excellent. I love the Blade Runner influence with the holographic lounge singers.

It’s a great feature! Why wouldn’t Panasonic highlight this in the specs?

Alex Mitchell and John Brawley from BMCuser have been confident in this fact, and a Panasonic rep confirmed it via email:

"The Gh5 does not have the Optical low pass flter however the GH5s does indeed have an optical low pass filter. that is fact one of the differences between the models.

Thank you."

Sincerely,
Customer Relations
Panasonic Canada Inc

I'm seeing a lot of awful images on Instagram shot on film. The people who know what they're doing like Dana Gonzalez and John Chema obviously have stunning results, but I look at accounts that are great with digital cameras and their film prints are cringe worthy.

I posted a GH5 vs UM46K sample last year. I prefer the Ursa color, but GH5 and 5s are great.

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My main beef with the camera was the image falling apart outside of the native ISO. I would see a lot of banding, and any post exposure controls had to be micro. Other than that it has a beautiful image. Plus it's probably the most dependable camera under $40,000.

It’s funny you mention the C100 bc I was looking at an old video that i shot in 2015 with it and had a fond moment of wistfulness. 

39 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

"Best"?!

It is a bit like the people who pop in and ask what is the "best" camera to film with...

Forgot to add *in your opinion.

Good info here. I LOVE sound design but I'm pretty limited in my knowledge. What is the best preamp available for field recording? (Other than rackmount PCI-e type devices)

Theres definitely a big difference in the F35 and S8+. 

Great job! 

I don't know if I'll upgrade right now. I have no need for Fusion. The only feature that is tempting is the GPU speed improvements.

5 hours ago, IronFilm said:

internal NDs is the big feature missing from the BMPCC4K

It's $1295. Gotta keep some features on the Ursa Mini Pro only.

I'm thinking about renting this camera one weekend. It's $280 per weekend around here.

EDIT: Nevermind it's the Terra 6K. Is it basically the same with larger resolution?

44 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

It's a shame it lacks the tilt screen. It is fixed, with a slight slant like the BMCC 2.5K.

I wish they would've implemented the tilt/swivel screen, even if it pushed the price up to $1499 with no Resolve license.

Can't underestimate how lovely that 5" touchscreen looks. Although it's a bummer that it doesn't swivel, it totally crushes any other mirrorless or DSLR screen.

My experience in the past with BM products is to not preorder, and wait till they start shipping. You'll be able to find a small retailer on ebay selling them that no-one preordered from and have it before most people.

Is it the same sensor that is in the GH5s? Dual native.

Damn, they nailed it!

3 minutes ago, anonim said:

It would be so nice... But, from my experience with usage of BM cameras, I always at the end had to add at least little bit of sharpness in software... So, for me it seems also logical question - weather is possible to make even better sharpening algorithm in cameras that use them (obviously because of consumer part of aimed market)?

I'd much prefer to add sharpening as needed in Resolve. I always keep Sharpening OFF on the Ursa to keep odd noise patterns from creeping up.

5 minutes ago, mercer said:

It seems easy to me as well but maybe not to the marketing team of the consumer camera division... as much as I love an organic, soft image, a lot of users don’t. Sadly. 

Why not have options under sharpening (OFF, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)

1 minute ago, mercer said:

Fair enough, but I would question the subjectivity of the statement? ProRes HQ with no noise reduction or sharpness will beat the best codec on the GH5/s every day of the week. When you add Raw to the mix, the objectivity becomes clear.

With that being said, the GH5/s is are amazing tools but different beasts.

I've been begging Panasonic to add a firmware addition to turn off internal sharpening. Seems like it would be so easy.

I guess pro is the wrong term. Choice is a better description. If IBIS is on a camera then you are stuck with it's quirks. It's a super cool piece of technology however, especially for photo.

12 minutes ago, anonim said:

At the end of a (successful shooting) day, every adding instrument and feature becomes "pro". So IBIS, I'd say, just is a pro feature - problem is in dependency of history of using and in open mind. I'd also say: don't relay on old prejudices...

Well, if we’re playing semantics then any piece of tech could be pro.