jonpais

It wasn't clear to me whose turf they'll be playing on. I think Joseph wants home field advantage.

nope

Photo Joseph's already accepted Max's invitation. I think they're on for tomorrow, 9:30 AM. Should be bigger than Fischer/Spassky '72!

But he went ahead and got another one for comparison

The patient has a fever. No! You're doing it wrong. You're supposed to take his temperature under the armpit! No! Put it in his mouth! Wrong! On his forehead! What are you doing? You're supposed to put the thermometer up his ass!

Not pro or con anything. Just won't stand idly by when people are attacking Max's integrity.

Manual focus native Leica primes would be a dream come true.

You are now officially on my 'ignore' list.

I thought CDAF on the Fuji X-T20 was supposed to be excellent though...

Does the GH5 even have manual focus? ?

I truly hope Max doesn't pay for Joseph's travel expenses.

I respect this man so much.

From 7:59 onward, good skin tones, no hunting AF.

You're missing the point. You see one comparison over at imaging resource, an unreliable site to begin with, they only publish sugar-coated reviews, then you condemn the camera without even holding one in your hands. You began a new thread saying the NR sucks, but many other reviews have found otherwise. Sounds a bit, well...

Thanks. I used the Zhiyun Crane. No ND filter. All natural light, ISO 800, f/4-f/5.6.

Hate to open up old wounds, but wasn't it you who started the thread GH5 Noise Reduction @high ISOs simply sucks... ?

haha. I never ask for permission.

The problems I ran into were (1) I began shooting at a lower ISO, and I realized that since I was getting up close to my subjects, there wasn't enough depth of field, (2) I'd been overexposing my shots, and (3) I shake a lot, and even the gimbal couldn't help me. So I raised the ISO to 800, shot at between f/4-5.6, I learned to be sneakier so I didn't shake as much when the subjects would look directly into the lens, and I trusted the LCD.

ha. I wasn't satisfied with what I'd shot, so I've been shooting more. You already know I don't respect lens reviewers who only have three pictures to show - one of ducks, one of some tree branches, and one cat. I'll try to finish it up this evening.

The one and only time in my life I ever gave someone the benefit of the doubt. Guess I won't make that mistake again.

Thanks for those tests, Ken. While it's highly improbable Max received two bad lenses, it is entirely possible Max's body is defective. All I really object to are the number of comments that he is biased - after all, he purchased the camera with his own money, he spent hours trying desperately to get it to work, and he stands to lose a considerable amount of money from lost sales by his viewers. To be honest, I've owned five Panasonic cameras myself, and they've all been so reliable, that I could forgive Max for not entertaining the idea that his GH5 might be malfunctioning. It's also important to remember that several other testers have also found the AF unreliable, West Coast Media and Kai to name only two. And Max's tests were reasonably scientific in that anyone should be able to perform the identical tests at home. Anyhow, I was only able to watch your tests on my iPod, but that's reassuring news. Thanks.

I'm in the middle of watching an excellent program on Al Jazeera about ultra rich Asian girls, these three young women they follow around have got their own tele-reality show in Vancouver, and the two-man film crew just handholds Canon C300s or something, no rig, nothing. Must be nice! I shake so badly sometimes that not even IBIS can save me.

If it's vignetting at 18mm, that's a clue that it's not working optimally. I'm guessing it'll be fine if and when Metabones issues a firmware update.

Which is why it's so important to support those who bring us content that we rely on every day.