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LOL Man, when I will be hired by Panasonic you are next : D that is, if you won't enter before me, I would recommend that! :-) Jokes aside, it is a beauty to see these cameras at this level to produce this outcome, no matter the manufacturer. Something you have with Panasonic though: they don't mind to implement in their lower level certain features presented in their high-end. Let's keep our hopes in high for their new 8K organic sensor! This attitude is truly valuable. It is worthy to bet on their system. Unfortunately not every camera maker act in the same way, here's an example to follow, so it rather is. With a certain information from industry inside or the way they think their business for more than 25 years now, I'd say IMNSHO Sony and Canon (mainly since the C-line of products for the motion picture sector) are the more reluctant (not necessarily the most, especially Sony after their fasting when their Trinitron trump was over) to follow Panasonic's legacy for filmmaking. Better now in the digital realm than before but not yet at their level.

@anonim Indeed. Thanks for posting! : ) From Fujinon glass... hehe Filippo, old dvxuser fellow and the filmmaker chosen by Panasonic to promote EVA1 from his footage skills, is one of the most delicious digital painters known by us geeks of a certain kind to offer the best each release he puts his hands-on. This camera is a hit. Pity they had charged a premium 500 bucks though. No excuse will avoid you of that way as you wish anyways. I put my hopes on the upcoming a7SIII but I guess Panasonic will still be a most secure choice, no matter how much they will try to overcome certain issues as overheating a smaller tight camera design won't give so much room for.

@Trek of Joy Great post Chris! : ) Glad Jon's post gave you the chance for. I am a sincere admirer of his insights for their uniqueness. @UncleBobsPhotography's point on bit rate already spoken earlier here is also part of the equation. Andrew has also recalled the grace of H.265 and its efficiency, positively confirmed by Matthew just now. Hadn't had time yet to read all of you. Don's highlight on a sorta affordable 1DC is a very pertinent scope FTW. Filmmaking is a combo. Certain variables are much relevant than other ones, for sure. As Jon wrote using other words, no camera justifies other priorities as far as gear concerns. As much as shooters vary in degree and shooting circumstances or workflow or as you Chris wrote even time for in their needs. Fuji's color science coupled to a much better bit rate and codec gives us something more. Horses for courses. Let's forget slow motion with them as Andrew's comment finely confirms in a line. This can't serve as excuse to start selling some other tool completely misplaced; maybe not, time but room here. You're right on this one :X I wouldn't either if I would misquote someone only to diminish the man because of the point I am not agreeing with. Don't kill the messenger, dude, Hit The Road Jack! ; ) Why the hell someone needs to praise someone else's Lord in another church?! This is a Fuji camera's topic last time I checked. Guess what? Doing the same in one of the countless GH5 or GH5S' threads *rolleyes* Don't let my triumphant usual mode, you say, to become foolish on your system (adjectives are a bitch! NaN) nor fool you : ) I am a truly optimistic good fella :-D Just know my dear colleagues of this thread know am still one of the usual posters there as GH5 series supporter too ;-)

LOL I'd love to choose a mirrorless system for its (superior... ah forbidden word! ; ) color science but I can't *crybaby* (now :D) It is a pleasure to read your colorful juicy posts as usual, much better than when you are all out of likes hehe ;-)

Seems pretty decent, even though Johnnie Behiri had found the version he got access only inconsistent. Devices require a fair learning curve so I guess we'll find better samples in most skilled hands-on from then on. Two's company, three's a crowd. So many posts later along this thread, I am really flattered by this time... The last or almost every single post from yours contempt citations from my own posts, you're a loyal reader I see. I thought all that because of a tool... You're fully right on that one: how naive I am! *Sigh* (may I? :D) So, I am in doubt which one to choose right now LOL Man, I won't sleep tonight. My babbling dictionary is all out of entries to follow you after hours here, I'm sorry hehe Where exactly sits the playground we met before? A déjà vu crosses my mind ; ) on February 12 (same deal, same bitch, page 9, not too much or never enough?!... after all, tools like guns, triggers, etc don't kill, men instead do) you had advised me to not going on some "uber-patriarch" style you dislike, because of that our good sailor "here in EOSHD" as you wrote "in the incarnation" of some "intonation" you're not colored with, we could all read. My deepest feelings, I'll try my very best to keep the topic (Hit The Road Jack, not the man, so never you!) in my thoughts and prayers if I find a place for such :-D "Life's more complex than an arc of a screenplay" (~ Ben Wheatley) Hard to find twice the same color (E :-)

So you played with a Fuji camera and are you still in doubt? Sorry to say but once you play with their colors, not easy to look for outside anymore ; ) To my view, 4K 50p/60p is their major missing feature to pair with those anamorphic modes you find on GH5 but not on GH5S though, even more than 10-bit 4.2:2, the most professional touch on Panny side. About the leftover... they are peanuts, ergonomics included. AF doesn't count, even now with the new workaround found.

LOL What have you written, Dennis?! Don't dare to say a Fuji camera is better than any of the usual suspects when people already left their pennies for, especially in such sensitive case... Don't you see is soooo videoy here too? hehe Fuji can't be more cinematic than any other because it is not! :X As simple as that :D when people simply don't let it be so... *cough cough* Remember, it is 8-bit! Don't dare to say highlights rolloff are sweet and look like smoother than GH5 either. Even if you and me, we have been two of the best supporters Panasonic may afford... without demanding payback points to redeem whatsoever ;-)

If you have VAT number at your disposal, it will cost you less than EUR1600 net from UK : ) GH5 is cheaper though. More versatile one as well. GH5S instead will end in that price range.

Indeed. As written earlier above-posted, that's a pretty advantage not easily found with other players or even any other camera manufacturer out there. Their color science is their major asset, my dear fellow of these boards, @anonim :-)

Is this unique? Is this the best Fuji? Sure not. As Don @webrunner5 wisely pointed out even though he forgets to apply the same criteria on his RAW love : D almost anything can be mimicked with talent and effort. The other perspective on their superior approach is how easy this is able to be reached or how close and far the failure or loss is straight out the box. Art has no need to be complex. Certain vulgar or simple stuff as you wish works out more fluently lots of times LOL ;-)

Mini-Alexa. End of story. You're right on those both ones beyond neglecting Fujifilm fact as an unforgivable hehe exception that confirms the rule ;-) BTW don't hold your breathe too much on RAW, Don : ) It is an amazing tool but you can mimic enough on material shot on 8-bit much more than people tend to let it expressed in these lines over internet :-)

@anonim (what's your real : D name BTW?) 8-bit is only a number like any other. And its visible limits much more prone to actually be consequence of short low bit rate from those old days now and meaningful color space than anything else... @jonpais Jon, my old good fellow of these boards, you know my Fuji love didn't pop up yesterday night nor the day before ;-) without mention more than an opinion their superior color science is a solid fact to everyone except those crippled by mother nature when only protanopia does them be unable to see...

LOL I am buying one to couple a more professionally capable and versatile GH5 camera model (some other tech pearl of today to pair with the most expensive and higher resolution powerful on stills side but no less video-idiomatic a7RIII; take a look on that lowlight performance of the beast : ) Impossible to resist to the sublime Fuji's colors though. High-end players struggle to beat it. You should remember when I literally am used to my customary tongue-in-cheek when people underestimate Fuji clips because of 8-bit output. Yours as for instance also still look like from some other league of gear. BTW your GH5 stuff too so I guess the user is also something connected with, no more no less ;-)

No, not at all! : ) You're just right about so much else though : )) But, imagery is not real, it is always fake! A proposal of another reality not alike to alternate or then you'll locate yourself outside, you have no need to stay there ; ) Reality is the bitch you are really done with!

Yes @Matthew Hartman, again, the proof is in the pudding... Some comments read here are funny... Sorry guys, but when one praises the NX1 because there's an obvious earnest link connected with but not yet with the new toy *cough cough* C'mon people, take a look on the magenta color of your sensor character first, before starting to criticize the greens of Fuji, because they are really green rather those from early times of RED, before jumping to yellowish especially by night : D or Panny (without mention the reddish Canon or the greys à la Sony ;-) To me, this camera is a mini-Alexa, yeah you read it right: brings the 'green world' of FujiFilm (Kodak was gold, remember?... for some reason, horror movies were better shot with Fuji colors and melodrama with Eastman) to become ours (even privately!) with IBIS in a small form factor instead ;-) Still on RAW mantra... I recall Miguel De Olaso aka Macgregor when he was used to the heretic quote there's nothing new to see there except to let lazy DoP work for post LOL

There's no other like FujiFilm color science. No matter what. Reduser fella output: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?165603-Fujifilm-X-H1-announced-the-first-video-focused-stills-camera-from-Fujifilm&p=1785905&viewfull=1#post1785905 Sorry guys, but didn't resist either... ; )

There are workarounds if not too much oversharpened at the root though. People tend to overstate the issue instead. With the high-end, people would call it sharpness or not Canon-like softness at that 1080p time, 720p output in disguise of full HD... :-D Yeah, people are funny. Never done, never enough ;-)

The point is people have a bit trouble to get that the proof is in the pudding ; ) A camera starts to show its potentiality in the sensor's color character. All manufacturers have a color signature by their own. As Inazuma wisely pointed out, FujiFilm is above the line. Color blindness won't be able to see it, that's for sure :-)

No monochromatic simulation mode can save the absence of rich tones of grey. Stands only B or W then, not even B&W... ; ) The surprise to me is the understatement as signature here. Any doubts on the superior Fuji color science? How daltonics see the world is my humble suggestion for a new perspective on the whole forest than only the brown of the leaves of the tree (out of autumn season :-D)

The most funny is that all in a sudden, ergonomics & the usual stuff to endlessly discuss somehow related, but not really so useful as apparently the wishes of a few would like to pretend to be, it is much more important than IQ... What the hell... I thought people are here because of the pictures. We may all be geeks but not at 1st rate, I thought. I see I've been really wrong after all :-D Filmmakers usually live immersed in shortcomings to look for workarounds and learn to take them as part of their craft. Like warriors on their scars.

@Matthew Hartman Take a look on the Portuguese clip and you'll find a video camera in disguise of a stills film camera as well... ; ) Strictly as video camera, the X-H1 outcome reminds me the JVC HD100 series film look (known by that in just 3 minutes, that is, straight out the box) much more than a decade ago... Or the Silicon Imaging camera from Ari Presler and Jason Rodriguez with the help of the codec master and R3D competitor, David Newman by Cineform (later, part of GoPro), the same camera also used in the Academy Winner Slumdog Millionaire ten years ago...

You are right though : ) A shame no other competitor is able to produce something as much closer to film than these guys from FUJIFILM. I guess the fact they have no high-end other than medium format speaks ages on it other than probably Panasonic. Any other manufacturer it is useless to let different hopes for.

I don't see anything more beautiful than the colors produced by this camera (I don't give a shit if they are 8-bit even though 4:2.2 is available through HDMI) but I told you already: They should really hire you! Cheers, as both Panasonic (GH5, G7, etc) and Fuji (X-H1 for pre-order) customer, E :-)

https://www.fujirumors.com/kipon-announces-3-canon-ef-fujifilm-fx-gfx-autofocus-adapters/ As well, any EF lenses to cover full frame, even those made for crop format but to cover the larger size in the higher end of the range (v.g. Tokina and Sigma wide zooms) if/when coupled to a focal reducer. So, smart adapters will apply too.

More than a prediction, it is reality already and officially announced: http://news.panasonic.com/global/press/data/2018/02/en180214-2/en180214-2.html