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worked on mine... and now I'm going to buy it, after spending 5 minutes with it... it's brilliant! I gotta say if this wasn't a ploy to drive up sales it should've been!! 

If I had the GH4, I would rather just pay for it to support Panasonic's efforts in improving their firmware. The price is very reasonable.

2.3 kg compared to FS5 827.8 g......not including lens....no matter how good the image is, it is simply too heavy for events and run & gun documentary kinds of shoots....There are many critics when C100 first came out. Many people complain about the lousy specs but I see the potential of this cam for weddings, events and non high level commercial shoots, thus I bought it and simply love it. It simply works with excellent ergonomic and I've been using it for 3 years and never regret buying it. I've gotten myself a A7s and although the image is much much sharper and detailed compared to c100, I still prefer the C100 as the ultimate run & gun cam. The only thing that's holding me from upgrading to C100 Mk2 is the lack of 4K and higher frame rate which is much needed for me. With the announcement of FS5, it has won me over with the same excellent ergonomics as c100 and good specs. Ultimately all I want from a cam is it to work out of the box, highly portable and good ergonomic. Whether its 420 or 422, 8 or 10 bits doesn't matter to me because all my clients are layman and can't tell the difference and IMO, most modern cam have excellent image quality. 

The Surface Pro needs a dedicated graphics card. Something high end for tablet/ laptop video edit. I don't know why they don't add that. Otherwise with its (upto) i7 lineup, it seems pretty neat.
I think that and quick charging are something Microsoft should consider for its  new Surface Pro. 

Not the first sanveer, lots of people fly BMPCCs too

I think the iPad Pro looks useless. 32gb of non expandable storage, max 128gb storage.
The only hope is a new Surface Pro next month, but I assume it won't come close to the new Lenovo P50 and P70. At least the Surface runs a proper OS that can use software (instead of lightweight apps) and with the dock it has the ports you need. 

because the sky is purple in the version processed by their app.

I personally doubt whether the improvement will be very noticeable. The only exciting video from a mobile phone regardless of frame rates appear to be the S6 and Note 5 with that crazy 200Mbps Flat Profile app (4k Cinema App).
Also this jump to 12 MP from 8 is another disappointment. Quite frankly most of today's announcements were lack lustre.
I believe Samsung (along with Motorola) seem to be 2 companies who are really heading in the right direction (along with the One Plus guys). Samsung's 6GB RAM is another great move, especially for gaming and for shooting high res 4k video. While Sony makes superb sensors IMHO it is unable to make the best phones to use these technologies. Also its phones look very poorly designed. Samsung seems to be really nailing it. I won't be surprised if their next generation of phone sensors compete with Sony in a big way. 

Aren't a lot of these features already there on Android (Samsung) phone? The Apple Pencil was the S-Pen, amd 4k was a natural  (albeit late) progression. 
 
I found most of the announcements rather cold and unimpressive. The 4k app on the iPhone btw hangs and causes all sorts of strange issues.
More than anything I would like a shootout between this and the S6. Especially with the 4k Cinema App ... ;-)

I wonder if we'll have a Log profile with 12-14 stops and LUT on a smartphone...who's gonna do it first?  Apple, Samsung....Sony?
My Galaxy Note 4 does 4K, 24p at 50Mbits/sec with the OpenCamera app.  The Exynos variant (not common) even does 4K with HDR enabled and looks pretty amazing.  Just needs a few more stops of dynamic range.

Am I the only one who thinks that those high frame rates are useless?? The bitrate is so low... The videos always look like a crappy 360p video, full of artifacts!

I think based on Phil's FS7 slow motion video I have an idea of what he does to grade which I always liked.
 
I recolored my slo mo fs7 video with same style:
 
Basically I think he applies even to sony cameras in filmconvert an arri alexa lut - probably fuji eternal and or kodak 5219 - and raises the shadows up - milky shadows. From here he just affects the offset and plays with sharpness over the final image.  The alexa lut in filmconvert gives really nice greens and blues as a starting point.
I did that plus went to a kodak release print by going after filmconvert to rec 709 generic impulz luts to a cineon then off to a film print.
But not every video is the same technique at all and not one lut works well for each video - each is different depending on scene - color balance - etc - but I like the rich look he got out of the fs7 and it made me reevalutate the camera.  I am now pro the fs7 again and think the fs1 will be a pretty amazing camera.  I am still completely mesmorized by color - by how it all works - to get good skin tones but also to create looks that feel unique and interesting.  It's a very patient and experimental artform.
I no longer think we should all be trapped to c300 for skin tones - great skin tones and feel can come from s log 3.
 

1080p at 120fps is a very notable upgrade too, before it was 720p

Long ago they had posted screen shots from a 5k Red Camera and the image was way too sharp and no grain had been added. I could literally see the hair on the nose of the actress. Me being me,  I pointed it out. They obviously deleted the post and blocked me. Hahaha

I have a question,  Would it be possible to expose using something like the Standard Profile, then switch to V-Log for shooting?  I can definitely see some problems trying to get accurate exposure while in V-Log?    Should I expose using the histogram and meter on the camera?   Never used a log format before so pardon the newbie question.  

Maybe I should get back into selling diffusion filters . . . 'cause I don't know one actor/actress who wants to see their pores reproduced in 8K detail.

Canon just keeps announcing random grossly overdone camera technologies. 4 million ISO, and then this. And then everyone is kept in the dark for the next 10 years over what the footage actually looks like, because NASA is using this for indulging in voyeurism wrt to spying on alients making love on Pluto.
I think Canon should concentrate on making cameras to compete with the G7, the GH4, the LX100 etc etc instead of all. 

True. But, they've found marketing works. Don't forget, today, their C-line competes directly with RED.
:-)

Canon just keeps announcing random grossly overdone camera technologies. 4 million ISO, and then this. And then everyone is kept in the dark for the next 10 years over what the footage actually looks like, because NASA is using this for indulging in voyeurism wrt to spying on alients making love on Pluto.
I think Canon should concentrate on making cameras to compete with the G7, the GH4, the LX100 etc etc instead of all. 

Man, I'll never be able to make my Magnum opus if I keep having to wait for these new cameras to come out.

Th BlackMagic video assist is pretty neat. I hope they add a few hundred to the price and do a 4k version of it too. 

That would be the 3rd topic on the same thing...

Th BlackMagic video assist is pretty neat. I hope they add a few hundred to the price and do a 4k version of it too. 

Hi,
Matthew has written a review about the app on the Play Store, and he has a Note 5:
"OMG! I've been waiting for an app like this for eons. Flat profiles, 200mps, 24fps, full manual focus (w/assist!), AE/AW locks. Realtime stats. Effective, simple UI. This is very close to my pro NX1. Works brilliantly on my Note 5. I now can use my phone as a reliable B-Cam. Suggestions: Grid lines, (like thirds) manual focus/zoom during record & focus/exposure peaking. Very, very impressed. Was using Cinema-FV5 but it's extremely buggy. Now I don't have to! Thank you! I got the paid version."

It's more than double the cost of the Blackmagic Video Assist, but this is smallest, cheapest 4K recorder I'm aware of. Video Devices PIX-E5H. 5" screen. $1200.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1137222-REG/video_devices_pix_e5h_5_4k_recording.html