jonpais

I guess the idea of selling off all my lenses and camera body is too dreadful to even accept that the NX1 might be that much better.

I'm not seeing the Samsung battering the X-T2 at all. At 2:26 and a couple of other spots, the NX-1 outshines the X-T2 in detail and DR, but even though they were both shot simultaneously, the X-T2 appears to be out of focus for one thing. I don't own the 18-55, but it can't be that blurry, no way. I say this because although i don't own the 18-55, I do own at least a half dozen other Fuji lenses, and they are all tack sharp. I've also seen footage shot with the 18-55, and nothing I've seen looks that soft. Edit: I will say however, that if I could buy the Samsung and 16-50 in Vietnam today, I'd do so in a heartbeat. The footage of Nepal shared by another forum member the other day blew my mind. Maybe I'm mistaken, it's happened more than once! Is the DR of the NX1 really that much more than the X-T2? I won't be able to sleep tonite.

Have you shot with Cinelike D?

But Vlog should give at least a couple stops more DR than the regular picture profiles of the GX85. I would consider that pretty big, though it's not immediately apparent from most of the videos I've seen online. I even consider Cinelike D to be much better than the other photo styles of the G85.

I would choose the iMac for sure. 8GB is barely adequate for video editing, the i7 processor will be better, you can always add faster storage. Also, I really consider 27" to be the minimum for serious editing.

$710.00 for a viewfinder??

And yours for only $14,000 - $33,000. ?

I'm working on yet another lens video, this time where I discuss the high cost of m43 lenses. ? Shot with the Leica 12mm f/1.4, Nocticron 42.5mm f/1.2 and Olympus 75mm f/1.8. Should be done sometime next week.

The woman with the black hair on the top is the correct one.

Beautiful work, shot with the 16-50 f/2-2.8 kit lens (24-75mm full frame equivalent).

Nobody's going to ask you anything about your gimbal. Don't check in any camera gear, bring it with you on the plane. Airport staff will destroy or lose your check in stuff.

The peaking is great, it's always been reliable.

It would have been entirely possible for Zak to have forgone the model completely, to have stepped into the frame and have the camera track him at a fairly wide aperture, which I think is amazing.

Without knowing what the OP usually shoots... if it's street photography, generally anything from 35-50mm full frame equivalent is considered the most practical. Anything wider, and you've got to get up in people's faces, any longer and you've got to step back too far to avoid filling the frame with people's heads. As the OP already owns the Panasonic 14-140mm and Leica 25mm, and plans on purchasing the Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8, rather than overlapping much of the range of these lenses, I might even go so far as to recommend the Panasonic 7-14mm f/4, which can produce some striking cityscapes, but which is neither weather sealed, nor does it have a filter thread. Another possibility is to wait for the Leica 8-18mm, which Fritz is considering, and which has both weather sealing and a filter thread.

I'd say go with the fastest of the three: the Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8.

But ... why should it be assignable to a Fn button?

I just shoot video, so I set the front dial to shutter speed, because I was always changing it accidentally.

That's definitely not cool. Have you actually compared the audio levels of the two cameras? What's your audio setup? May I ask why you'd want to change the function of the aperture and shutter speed dials on an ongoing basis?

Would you be kind enough to share an example of someone walking directly toward the camera at wide aperture with only one operator?

An example of AF-C in video mode, ASPC at 3m 20s. This would be difficult to achieve using MF with a single operator I would think.

For what it's worth, a discussion usually means looking at the advantages and disadvantages of both points of view. It does not fruitfully begin with 'my way is right, yours is wrong'.

Just out of curiosity, I would like to see footage of moving subjects or where there is camera movement by some of these manual focus zealots on paid jobs where there is no focus puller. This might be more convincing than twenty pages of comments. Also, I don't understand why these MF crusaders must be so condescending and resort to profanity to make their point.

In an interview with Panasonic's Dir. of Imaging business, Yosuke Yamane tells DPReview ‘On-sensor phase detection doesn’t work any darker than F8, [which can be a problem in video]. It’s not necessarily true that phase detection is better than DFD plus contrast detection.’ I think they also used to claim that OIS was superior to IBIS for video. He also adds that the development cost of phase detect and putting it in all their sensors would be tremendous. I don't see why anyone would normally be shooting at f/11 or f/16 on a m43 sensor anyhow, so that's pretty lame if you ask me. So it all comes down to expenditure.

This is the first time I've heard someone voice exactly how I feel about subjects being in focus all the time. I often prefer when a moving subject goes in or out of the range of depth of field without something like AF-C constantly tracking them.