Emanuel

This is a great resource. Thanks for sharing. However, my version of Resolve 18.5 Studio cannot see the BRAW files. I click on the folder in Media Storage, but it appears empty in the browser. Has anyone else been able to get it to work? Or are these files just too new for the latest version of Resolve?

Going in a different direction slightly, let's eliminate some variables and look at some controlled tests.  Luckily the absolutely spectacular YT channel ShareGrid has hundreds of lens tests on their controlled setup, so we can compare..
https://www.youtube.com/@ShareGrid
Here's one of the highest quality lenses, the Zeiss Master Anamorphic:

it looks detailed and clean, even wide open.
Contrast that to the image of the Hawk V-Lite Anamorphics...  

No, this isn't motion blur - that's how the lens actually is.
You might be thinking that this is just a relic of history, but you'd be wrong.  These were used on:
13 Reasons Why (2017) Atomic Blonde (2017) John Wick (2014) Serious films with serious budgets that could have chosen other lenses, but used these.  I think this shows we have some serious latitude in terms of resolution and sharpness.

There is an optimum resolution and sharpness.  More is not always better.  
This is why movies aren't all shot with the highest MTF lenses currently available - DoPs choose the optimal lenses and apertures for the scene / project.
However, I shoot with cheap cameras (iPhone, GX85, GH5, etc) which are far too sharp, and look video-ish.  Luckily, we can reduce this in post.
This thread is me trying to work out:
What the range of optimal resolution / sharpnesses are actually out there (from serious professionals, not moronic camera YouTubers or internet forum pedants) What might be a good point to aim for How I might treat iPhone / GX85 / other cheap shitty video-looking footage so it looks the least video it can be These techniques will likely apply to all semi-decent consumer cameras, and should be able to be adjusted to taste.
I'm still at the beginning of this journey, and am still working out how to even tackle it, but I thought I'd start with some examples of what we're talking about.
Reference stills from the Atlas Lens Co demos from their official YT channel, shot on Komodo and uploaded 6 months ago:
(You have to click on these images to expand them, otherwise you're just looking at the forum compression...)


Reference stills from the Cooke SP3 demos from the official Cooke YT channel, uploaded 11 days ago:


I've deliberately chosen frames that have fine detail (especially fly-away hair lit with a significant contrast to what is behind it), in perfect focus, with zero motion blur.  I think this is the most revealing as it tends to be the thing that is right at the limits of the optical system.
So, what are we seeing here?
We're seeing things in focus, with reasonable fine detail.  It doesn't look SHARP, it doesn't look BLURRED, it doesn't look VINTAGE, it doesn't overly look MODERN (to me at least) and doesn't look UNNATURAL.  It looks nice, and it definitely looks high quality and makes me want to own the camera/lens combo (!) but it basically looks neutral.
But, that's not always the case.  This is also from the same Cooke SP3 promo video:

The fine detail is gone, despite there being lots of it in the scene.  Is this the lens?  Is this the post-pipeline?  We don't know, but it's a desirable enough image for Cooke (one of the premier cinema lens manufacturers in the world) to put it in their 2.5 minute demo reel on their official main page.  It also has a bit more feel than the previous images.
Contrast that with these SOOC shots from my iPhone 12 Mini:

I mean....  seriously!  
(If you're not basically dry-wrenching then you haven't opened the image up to view it full-screen.. the compressed in-line images are very tastefully smoothed over by the compression)
More:



and my X3000 action camera also has this problem:

Those with long memories will recall I've been down this road before, but I feel like I have gained enough knowledge to be able to have a decent stab at it this time.  We'll see anyway.
Follow along if you're open to the idea that more isn't better...

Hypersmooth is great, not matched by anything. No blowouts - dynamic rage good, colors good. But...
More noise, softness I never saw before.
Shot in Linear + Horizon Leveling, 5.3K 60P, 10bit, G-Log, auto WB. Edited using the G-Log LUT, with no other color changes, but lots of luma adjustments (many of the clips were overexposed (but no clipping - maybe does on purpose for G-Log).
Shooting without worrying about focus, color, stabilization, keeping the camera level and being able to move with the camera effortlessly without extra equipment is always a pleasure.

It's huge this one as app, really, my fav filmmaking user interface by the way...
- EAG :- )

Just sold a new unit of the new iPhone ; )

It's huge this one as app, really, my fav filmmaking user interface by the way...
- EAG :- )

Looks like a great camera. I get why there’s no internal nds but man that’s a bummer. Also no 6k 50, but Blackmagic has been pretty good about pushing frame rates in updates.

Whatever it is, it'll be incredibly ugly, unwieldy, and have terrible battery life. 
Can't wait! 

Who needs titanium?... Have oversharpening artifacts under control and I am in.

P4K
 

There are better acquisition devices IQ-wise out there :- )

Correct. But glass is still what I love going along this format. No other one matches the most affordable and smallest variety of glass options we can find. Let alone from slow to fastest ones. Always light and convenient. It's a hell of a format. Everything or almost, even PL mount, LOMOs, anamorphics and so on, fits there. Therefore, FF look too ;- )

In fact, they had to solve that bloody thing already mentioned up there which put everything or almost to invariably look like coming from a smartphone... : X

Panasonic has partnered with DJI to integrate their LIDAR technology, which when coupled with a focus motor, can do AF on any manual focus lens.
The technology is coming.
Ironically, if Panasonic releases this soon, they'll be the only manufacturer who provides easy AF on MF lenses, and then we'll see if all the Sony/Canon PDAF folks obsessed with plant-eye-detect-AF switch over because Panasonic would have the best AF in town....

P4K
 

Indeed. I completely understand you. This is one of my wishes for coming one of next Christmas... : D
 
 

Dunno but nothing beats these guys now coupled to PDAF IMHO... : P
 
Well, only Blackmagic user/filmmaker camera interface to my book ; )
Reason why P4K is still one of my favs but that's a whole distinct speech TBH, right.

True. I wish some of the f0.95 M43 glass would re-emerge. At one point there were so many f.095 M43 lenses around. I secretly even hoped for an autofocus version, solely because it would be a little easier to use at night. And at that aperture level, it looked very ... Full Framish 😉

Wish there were Anamorphic Lenses with autofocus 😁

WOW

Z6 is an old camera these days?
Man, that makes me feel old now...
Not long until we can get an OG Alexa for $2.5K
 

It is meant to be announced later today, and things have leaked already...
Leaked (translated) specs:
Micro 4/3 Live MOS Sensor Image plane phase detection AF Internal 5.7K 60/50p 10bit recording ProRes 5.7K & ALL-Intra 800Mbps via USB-SSD Anamorphic Mode 5.8K 30p 10bit Burst 75fps AFS – 60fps AFC





For everyone that wanted a PDAF GH5 v3, this looks like it.

99% of GoPro users are skiers, skaters or drummers. Most of them don't even know what Super 8 is! 

Hoping for Labs firmware for something like 400Mbps All-I codec.