Emanuel

I actually came back here after I don't know how long to figure out what camera to get. I've loved my Panasonic S5, until the LCD broke. The frame is now off-center and stuck in selfie mode. Very weird, especially since I babied this camera. And it's past the 6 month warranty from mbp. I bought a nice new external monitor, bit I hate rigging it up. I was thinking of selling it and putting the (probably) meager amount I'd get for it on ebay, now that it's faulty, to another S5, but now I'm afraid any copy I get can break down on me like that. So I'm trying to figure out what to get instead.
Recently I finally upgraded to Resolve studio and I've been remastering old projects in 4K. I'm surprised how good I can make old footage look. I have shorts shot on the GH1, Nikon D5100, and the Sony a6300, which I can make look really good in spite of the "old, bad" Sony color science. Even the short on the D5100 looks great. I've already thought for a while that we've had great image quality for a long time now, and the advancements in software have extended the life of these old cameras.
All I really want is something compact, with good 1080p that doesn't have horrible artifacts or chroma noise, uncompressed internal audio with good preamps, enough dynamic range that highlights don't blow out so easily (I can live with dark blacks and even kinda prefer it) and long battery life and is easy to use without rigging it up. Oh, and doesn't overheat. I've been trying for a while to pare down my gear and see how far I can go with minimal equipment, which can be burdensome.
I totally get why my favorite director, the late David Lynch (RIP) loved shooting with the Sony PD150. He knew it looked like shit but he loved the creative possibilities it gave him. He could shoot stripped down without a crew and cumbersome equipment to slow him down. He called the PD150 his "ugly, beautiful little thing". It's why I loved shooting with camcorder and the GH1 int he first place. I want to try and de-program myself from the cult of pixel-peeping and dynamic range charts and just embrace the "ugly". 
Any recommendations? I liked the G7 a lot when i had it.
Here are some old short (and sample footage) remastered:
"Ballad of Crazy Pete" was shot with a hacked GH1 (100mbps hack although it never yielded bitrates that high, some shots in that short are as low as 10mbps)
"Crappy Halloween" was shot with the Nikon D5100 (or was it the 5200?). I don't think I used nay flat or special picture profile.
I'm still remastering Chicken but here's a grading test I did with resolve. Shot on the a6300. 8bit Slog 2 with the "old, bad" Sony color science. All of these have film grain applied. Without it the remastered images were pretty clean after light NR (not all shots needed it).
Just for fun here's an old G7 test video from like 2017. Shot in 4K, but I don't have the raw footage anymore so this is just the original 1080p export scaled to 4K in Adobe Media Encoder. 
Another thing to note, I recently did a paid video gig with an old Canon HF100 consumer camcorder. I bought it for like $60 just for fun "vibes" and the client, who is a young woman in her early 20s, got really excited when I said I could shoot with an old camcorder, and requested I shoot with it. So times you don't need the latest and greatest.

Not to bring religion into it, but Jesus wept.
The column highlighted is in the classic Ionic style.
They need to stop teaching the classics at places such as Oxford, Cambridge or in architecture.
And knock down what remains of Ancient Greece.

I think you might need to seek professional help before you go shoot up a pizza restaurant (which doesn't even have a basement).
The AltCine people took their camera out and saw a neat-looking building and filmed it.  To demonstrate detail, they zoomed in on a thing that has diagonal and curved lines that show aliasing.
Please don't turn a camera discussion site into some bullshit about freemason conspiracy theories.

you should probably get in touch with the police about your concerns.  I'm sure they are competent enough to get it sorted.
I have no idea where that building is, but if i had of walked past it, i would have taken exactly the same photo because of the symmetry. I'd guess its close to where he works or on the way home  perhaps. Heck i have even been known to drive a couple hours to photograph wheat silo's on sunset.
We know diddly squat about its past, who owns it now or before and you want to break out the pitchfork and torches. 
my front door so you don't add me to the conspiracy list.

 

Just as an add-on to the topic: Feiyutech realsed a new Scorp Mini, with stronger motors (good) a detachable wireless back handle (kinda good - the remote function is interesting, but I have concerns about robustness) and an updated tracking model (better, but not as good as DJI's).

Performance look almost on par with the RS4 Mini, but much cheaper.
 
 

you  should definitely get the sub editors job Emanuel..
i mentioned earlier energy drinks briefly in a round about way, couldn't believe my eyes today when i spied this today. I have never been a fan of energy drinks, now i know why.
 

Never mind just a thread, I'll make it a whole sub-forum.
https://www.eoshd.com/comments/forum/38-gimbal-dji-drone-action-cameras/

This is not so much about the quality of the image but more to do with the quality of the posts on here.
Historically, the action cameras have produced a LOT of spam on here either directly from new members setting up accounts to pimp them or some very suspicious stuff from existing members.
Having a single repository for them makes sense to me in the same way that there is one for lenses.
If people have an interest in new developments (as indeed I do myself) then there is a specific thread to subscribe to without numerous individual ones popping up that then have to be curated and assessed.
Of course you could argue that this could then be true for a lot of topics but the historical context of dubious spammy shite for those is different.

Joking about ponies aside, the line can be a bit fuzzy sometimes.  Does the Osmo Pocket 3 count as an action camera?  There's some crossover in that use and using it for filmmaking.  The RX0 uses the same sensor as the RX100 V and a 24mm equivalent rectilinear lens.  The Insta360 One R 1" edition has a sensor of the same size and also has a 24mm rectlinear lens.
Obviously we're not dumb and can easily tell an action camera from a non-action camera so I'm not trying to make that case - just making the point that as the years go on, they're increasingly capable filmmaking tools and increasingly useful to have on set.

Red bull might have something to say about that, It would seem to me that they have made a truckload of money off the back of extreme sports shooting as well as selling a few more cold drinks in the process.  I suspect its also kept a few camera men / editors in a job as well. It may not be your "thing" and definitely its a niche area but it still videography and worthy of a thread i think.
Like eatstoomuchjam and Emanuel have said, your house your rules and we appreciate that you opening up this thread. No idea where the next david lynch or Spielberg is coming from but there's a good chance one of his / her cameras  will be an action camera of some type to cut their teeth on. 
I was blown away by Chris Benchetler' chasing el nino series from like ten years ago. amazing scenes of winter  wonderlands, great skiing and huge jumps with alot of gopro footage. Inspired enough to buy a gopro anyway lol. In hindsight i suspect there was probably a film crew with your typical camera gear doing all the normal stuff with a few skiers wearing gopros. If i was more cynical i'd say very clever marketing by red bull and gopro, however still very impressive visually.
I dropped and cracked a two day old iphone 13 pro max while documenting the local roads after the last big storm / flash floods we had. Really wish i'd gone out that day with the gopro... 
 
Hats off to anyone who gets out there and does stuff.   Be it a wedding, forest trail or car show and I'm brand agnostic, so use what you got.  

WTH of a combo! 56 grams + 1/1.7-inch CMOS sensor delivering 4K video at up to 120 frames per second...
https://dlmag.com/dji-osmo-nano-leak-reveals-ultra-compact-action-camera-set-to-revive-modular-design/
 

WTH of a combo! 56 grams + 1/1.7-inch CMOS sensor delivering 4K video at up to 120 frames per second...
https://dlmag.com/dji-osmo-nano-leak-reveals-ultra-compact-action-camera-set-to-revive-modular-design/
 

WTH of a combo! 56 grams + 1/1.7-inch CMOS sensor delivering 4K video at up to 120 frames per second...
https://dlmag.com/dji-osmo-nano-leak-reveals-ultra-compact-action-camera-set-to-revive-modular-design/
 

Not sure what the situation is with Sigma and the Z mount.
They do three of their fast compact APS-C primes in Z mount but not the zooms or full frame.
They do more in RF mount but, again, no full frame.
You could speculate that pressure from both their L mount partners and their sensor supplier keeps them out of supplying the big two with full frame lenses.
In the case of Nikon it’s a bit moot as with the Megadap you can just buy the e-mount versions anyway and have them as near as dammit native anyway.

Its not

Now thats, what you call vintage glass. 

Are you sure it was on May 25 and not sometime in the middle ages?  😛

Quick phone the police, Ai has stolen nona's broomstick !!

Having used both professionally, I'd go FX30 all day. The XS-20 is a fun photography camera, that does video pretty well too. It's just not quite up for pro level work in my opinion. The image is really good, the size is fun, and the color is pretty good too. It's kind of fiddly though, lacks a good selection of custom buttons, overheats a lot, struggles with autofocus a bit and has the SD card in the battery compartment, which is something I personally don't enjoy. 
While not being maybe "as fun" as the XS-20, the FX30 is more of a workhorse. Decent color, duel native ISOs, integrated Sony cinema features, solid autofocus, good cooling, easily riggable form factor and the list goes on. The major con is lack of a EVF, but I rarely use built in EVFs, so that doesn't bother me. 
Basically if I'm choosing a family camera for stills and some video, I'd go the XS-20. For professional video work, the FX30 is a much more reliable choice. 

"Best" is pretty subjective.
If autofocus is the main thing that you want, then Sony's is the industry leader, followed closely by Canon.  Fuji's has been mostly OK for me, but it definitely doesn't seem as magic as Sony/Canon.
Most of the other stuff is going to be a matter of personal opinion.  If you have a local camera shop and they sell both, your best bet is to go try both of them in person.
But both cameras are going to be completely usable for vlogging, interviews, event coverage, or whatever else you want to do.  They're both very nice and with much better specs than what a lot of us were using as high-end cameras 10 years ago.

Not cinematic enough.  I fixed it for you.  Now that's cinematic.

What are your most treasured pets (I mean cameras) that somehow buck the trend with the cutest personality. Personally, mine are...

And the X-Pro3 DURA with all that expensive titanium and unusual screen design.
Following closely behind...
Panasonic GM1 and the batshit crazy Sigma Quattro series, including the SD mirrorless.
What's yours?

If anyone wants to have some retro CCD fun then I have found a fun little bargain for you...
https://www.wexphotovideo.com/olympus-e-500-digital-slr-camera-body-used-3242908/
This is using the same Kodak CCD sensor tech as the M8, just a slightly smaller chip at 2x crop vs 1.5x.
The colours and grain are a thing of filmic beauty and it has the rather lovely Olympus colour science in JPEGs too.

No kidding? @Andrew Reid I love the colours people are getting from the M8 sensor.
Some classy classic read from a photoblog favorite of mine. Those colours in these shots, bw as well!
https://blog.mingthein.com/2012/07/12/revisiting-the-leica-m8-a-cheap-entry-into-digital-rangefinders/