Emanuel

Your lucky that Silent Movies was a passing fad!

Stealing from Facebook:

 
 

 
 

This is with the Batis 85. It is a 'still' from a 14bit raw file so you can obviously process how you want unlike the 100mb/s 8 bit video where your ability to process is very limited.
Here are a couple of straight out of camera jpegs (8 bit) to show how the Sony renders by default.

This is the original jpeg of the earlier photo....

And this is another straight out of camera jpeg. So you can see that Sony renders its jpegs with a lot of contrast, saturation and a lot of sharpening which is different to Jon's video grab (and most video). I also think the Sony has a tendency towards slightly cartoonish colors.
Theoretically you can match the video to stills with PP2 (still) from the video picture profiles. My guess is that most people wouldnt go down that route.

David, beyond... Don meant a dozen years ago or suchlike, more than a decade, eleven years to be more precise ;- )

Jon Pais is not Ebrahim Sr...
Because...
I am the illegitimate love child of Ebrahim Sr and Steve Bannon.
Whew... I’ve never said that aloud before.

And so it begins...

http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/news/kofic_news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=1763&blbdComCd=601007
 
"50% lower" is a broad statement, 50% lower than who exactly? If it is 50% lower than the current cheapest anamorphic lenses then this is exciting, but if it is 50% off $50K well maybe not so much.....
 

Had a quick test with the Hoya Solas VND. It is exactly what it claims, there is almost no polarization or colour shift. It also maintains the sharpness as if there is no filter. It is better than the SLR Magic MkII in every way. 

As far as VNDs go, I have always used them and have always been happy with them. But I have two points of criteria after testing a lot of cheap VNDs and a couple moderately priced ones...
1. I will only use VNDs that have hard stops.
As most on here know, due to the nature of VNDs, if you push them into no man’s land, you can get the dreaded X pattern and in most instances you won’t notice it until after you get the footage into the computer. And strangely enough, there aren’t that many brands that offer the hard stops.
2. Color neutrality - most VNDs will have a color cast, especially the cheaper ones.
With some cheap ones, like the Fotga, you’ll get a crazy greenish/brown color cast but you do gain a very specific look that is interesting in its own way, so for the price and a specific shoot, the Fotga is worth the $10.
But most of the time I don’t want any color cast.
So there are really only two brands I use now... 
• Bower - cheap around $30 a filter with neutral color and hard stops.
These were shot wide open with an f/2 lens or faster and a Bower VND...

• B+W Vario ND - they’re more expensive with less stops of ND but they are better built with a really nice coating... gotta love Schott Glass. And the less stops actually keeps me honest... forcing me to stop down my lens sometimes.
These were also shot with an f/2 lens or faster using the B+W Vario ND...

Your Crazy LoL. You Do realize they have had 4k cameras since about the beginning, and some of their stuff even has Global Shutters, No rolling shutter problem. Kinefinity has just come out with 90% of their stuff. BMD is not old by any means, but they make Kinefinity look like a startup company, which they are.

Here is an article on the GH5s from DPR on DR.  It pretty much thinks it is a bit over 12 stops. I agree that is probably the top.
https://***URL removed***/reviews/panasonic-lumix-dc-gh5s-review/6

Actually I have never really had a problem with Sony skin tones but, then again, I live in SE Asia too. I have a 'vague theory' that Sony colors work well with Asian skin tones. I have certainly seen some pretty horrid Caucasian skin tones from Sony.
Inserts token portrait from earlier this week ...
 

Well with the 4K BMPCC having Raw in it I am sure it will have more DR than the GH5s. How much, heck who knows. But I would guess an easy 1 stop more. I am more thinking the GH5s really has 12 stops in V Log. So the 13 might be right on the BM.

Link to the technical specifications 
 
https://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/436M6VBPAB_00/momentum-4k-hdr-display-with-ambiglow/specifications
this is not a grading monitor per se and sells at less than £1,000
The primary issue is the lacknof an SDI input and the fact that the displayport is only 1.2 therefore HDR comes from HDMI 2.0 or USB-C DP alt mode. The latter may be interesting if it gives displayport 1.4 but am not sure
If you have a windows computer running HDMI out of graphic card this may be very interesting
for mac users need to understand if a thunderbolt 3 to HDMI cable can carry HDR and what is supported 
 

It's a 43" Monitor!! Only one I can find?? Link please.

A quote from the review of Terra 4K: https://nofilmschool.com/2018/04/review-kinefinity-terra-4k-offers-bang-buck

I suspect most of the people that said no have not used a Canon camera with DPAF. Having this feature does not mean you have to use it, but on a gimbal it sure helps keep the weight/complexity down.

I completely agree with this. Twice the price for great autofocus is a ripoff. $99-199 is the max that one could charge for that feature.
Double the Price should include IBIS, Dual UHS-II cards, Weather-sealing and Double/ Triple the Battery life. 

or put another way - would you buy a C200 instead of the BMPCC 4k if it was 1/2 the price.........

Twice the price? No. $2,000? Yes. I'm really that not obsessed with auto focus. 

Sure. That's a mere comparison though. Sound and image don't compare at all as much as hearing and sight are senses of a very different nature. With much distinct limits indeed. See the example between animal species of unrelated kind as far as their sensory system range concerns.
Therefore, perception is the main key element then. That's all about that.
Fair point anyway, Aaron (E :- ) 

+1
4k is not even a capture tech - it's just a sampling rate. '4k' can be HD 8bit 4.2.0 in a 25mbps badly compressed codec up sampled or it can be derived from 8k RAW 4.4.4 16bit. It's not a standard of image quality at all unless you start referencing broadcast standards where resolution, chroma sub sampling, bit depth and data rate are objectified and testable criteria. Thus a client who requests '4k' in image terms is like a client who requests 'hi-fi' sound in audio terms.......
 
 

There where numerous debates in the late 90s about bit depth & sampling frequency in audio. The majority of professional audio engineers today will agree that a 24 bit, 96 khz audio recording is more than enough for music, except sound design applications where you may want to slow down the recording. With a proper parallelism, a musician will get this. A 1080p video will be totally "fine" for every web application just as 16 bit/44khz will be more than enough for an audio track that will end up in Spotify or Soundcloud in a shitty audio codec.
But if your client/musician are one of those guys who are considering analog equipment as superior due to it's "warmer" sound, or he is trying to justify a 10000 $ investment in a single rack audio unit which magically adds wonderful harmonics on a poorly mastered track, then don't try to explain anything. Just shoot in 4K and make him happy :).

I think the most complete review for now, very very nice camera for the price but the dreaded yellow zombie skin tone is very visible for me.

Finally did the update for the new X-H1 firmware yesterday.  Here are my first impressions:
Autofocus in AF-C is leaps and bounds better.  My test shots on some birds and physically walking up to and away a moving subject were very good.  Using the 16-55mm zoom lens it was able to accurately track my wife walking around the yard watering plants while I slowly walked from one end of the yard to another.
Auto ISO transitions are super smooth and almost imperceptible. While I rarely use the Auto setting for video, it's nice to know I could use it in a conference or presentation situation and be okay.
IBIS is slightly improved.  Using the fuji 16-55mm, a 45mm minolta and 55mm super tak I didn't find as many huge jumps and shifts while panning.  I'm sure this will be the focus of their next update.
The overall system stability seems to be worse.  I had 3 write errors happen while just messing around with the camera. All three happened while shooting in manual with peaking turned on.  I'll be testing this more.
Here is a link to the firmware if you're looking to upgrade
http://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/software/firmware/x/xh1/index.html
Overall a really good firmware update, looking forward to the '2.0' update that is rumored for September