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Thanks, you just reminded me that I'll need batteries for this thing!

@Steve M. Very nice blog, bookmarked!

It sounds like the tilt axis needs adjusting. Raise or lower the the arm a little at a time, lock it, and see if the camera swings freely. This may take a few minutes.

I went ahead and ordered the FeelWorld F7 myself. Tired of squinting at 3" LCD monitors.

Do you really believe the difference between those two frames is due to sharpening algorithms, not motion blur?

If you skip forward to 37'05" in Gordon Laing's complete review of the GH5, you can hear Doug noting how, during a pan shot, the image becomes noticeably sharper once the camera stops moving, perhaps partially due to the camera being able to lock focus, but mostly due to motion blur. There are also two freeze frames for reference.

To be fair, he does point out most of the positive points you mention in his video.

Revisiting this thread after so long is just an unpleasant reminder of why I'll never purchase a Filmpower product ever again, self-balancing or no. Customer service is really essential.

Looking at the specs, it doesn't say it supports 4K. HDMI Support Mode: 480i/480p/576i/576p/ 720p(60/59.94/50/30 /29/25/24 /23.98)/1080i(60/59.94/50)/1080p(60/59.94/50/30/29.97/25/24/24fps/23.98/23.98fps)

The Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 is just blowing my mind. I've got the Leica 12mm f/1.4 next in line, but the Sigma's really raising the bar. Everyone's saying how the Leica's tack sharp from wide open, but I've yet to see any footage from the lens that convinces me of that. And most of the charlatan reviews showing the bokeh wide open, first of all, either there isn't anything sharp in the image to begin with, or they never bother to say what the camera settings were or whether any sharpening was added in post. it's no different from someone posting a review of a $50 LED light and saying how they were able to shoot at f/9 from 12 feet away, meanwhile not saying that they were filming at ISO 12000! i just (almost) finished a review where the YouTuber published all of three or four pictures shot with the lens. Incredible that he's been so productive! My last video had at least sixty images. Another reviewer, talking about the Oly 12mm f/1.2 and filming with the PanLeica 12mm f/1.4, switched lenses in the middle of the review to show how much sharper the Oly was wide open, but neglected to inform readers that the Leica is sharper than the Oly when stopped down a touch. I think people considering spending $1,200 on a lens deserve more than just verbal reassurances that the lens is fine and worth the dough. I will say the build quality of the Leica is impressive, but you shouldn't have to spend over $1,200.00 USD for Panasonic to produce lenses with aperture rings and a solid metal casing. I'm not anyone's fanboy, but if Fuji can build lenses in Japan with high quality metal housings and aperture rings for as little as $500, Panasonic should be able to do the same with their lenses built in China. After all, there are metal bodies, then there are metal bodies, just the as there are high quality polycarbonates (or whatever!) and cheap plastics.

They will, but customs could charge me $500.00 USD. They are like the mafia here. My only choice would be to refuse shipment, in which case, I could be out $200.

Apparently FeelWorld makes some great inexpensive monitors. I'm hoping a shop here can get me one that does 1920X1200 and can accept a 4K signal. But in the third world, not an easy task. Practically nobody here shoots 4K.

In fact, even if it's lower resolution with motion blur, you're almost always better off shooting 4K with today's mirrorless cameras, since they will have less moire and aliasing when downsampled to 1080p and it also gives you the option to crop the image during editing.

And those will be obsolete in 2018, when Panasonic introduces 8K...

Here's one I'm looking at.

I've also wondered how to do smooth orbital shots, as well as which mode is best. Best solution is to email Rose at Zhiyun Tech customer care, with a link to your video. She will respond the same day.

There has been great television by renowned directors even as early as 1973, with Ingmar Bergman's powerful miniseries Scenes from a Marriage. And beginning in 1984, Edgar Reitz's epic Heimat, which I believe was shown on television before being released in theaters, but I'm not 100% sure about the chronology. Heimat was also my very first movie review. There must be others, but I'm no TV historian.

Wow! In my own blog, I just discretely add or delete stuff from my reviews as I get more information, but I only have around five followers. I was just looking at the comments section over at 43 rumors from last week, when I came across this gem from Michael: Many years ago I got to preview the Cinema5D website before their site launched. I noticed some flaws in the site. Instead of giving the site operators feedback on potential issues, I decided to alert everyone I could on the Internet, that the site was flawed beyond repair and that people shouldn't bother visiting the site. A lot of people were stunned and angry about my opinion, but I don't tolerate rude responses and that kind of tone.

Everyone knows or should know, there's much more to a camera than image quality alone. The menus, ergonomics, lens ecosystem and even style. If I were to choose a camera costing $2,000 or less for image quality alone, I'd purchase a Fuji, Sony or even a BMPCC. The reason I choose Panasonic is because it's extremely easy for me to use (I actually have the X-T2, but I end up shooting more with the Panasonic). And if Olympus works for you, great.

It's not that big of a deal. We're shooting videos here, not test charts. And I don't even own a 4K monitor. It's actually more complicated than that. We shoot at 24 frames per second in order to introduce motion blur. Our brain then takes those blurred images and assembles them into what appears to be a sharp image. Check out this demonstration. If you shot a still photo of a moving car or even a bicyclist at 1/50 second, it would be blurry. But shoot them with a motion picture camera and project them on a movie screen and nobody would say the images were blurry.

It happens every time you press the shutter button. If in my last field test of the Olympus 25mm f/1.2, I had locked the camera down like I did with the Fuji, all the images would have appeared sharper.

Yeah, I think it's been there for a while now. Kind of took me by surprise when I first started watching television again a couple years back.

This from an interview with Newsshooter According to ARRI, if you are filming in 2K or 4K at 24 frames per second with a 180 degree shutter angle (1/48th of a second) and the camera is moving quickly, the amount of motion blur means the image will look the same in 2K as it does at 4K. The only way to perceive a difference between 2K and 4K when the camera is moving is to use a higher frame rate and shutter speed – with less resulting motion blur. ARRI maintain that if you want to have higher resolution for motion pictures where objects are moving and the camera is moving, then you need to use higher frame rates for capture and display to see a difference. Within the industry, the jury still seems to be out on whether HFR material still looks at all like film and whether strobing artifact effects are needed for it to retain its film look. Kraus told me he was aware of the ongoing debate but added that if we don’t move to higher frame rates, then we need to end up with images that are more static, or forget about higher resolutions altogether.

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The Sigma Art lenses are all superb. If you check the Lenses thread, you'll see a small discussion about using adapted lenses vs. native glass. My own experience with the Sigma Art 50mm f/1.4 and Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 when used with a Speed Booster is that they are sharper than some native m43 lenses, as well as being much faster. Excluding the one-time purchase of the adapter, the Sigmas are no more expensive than some recent lenses released by Panasonic and Olympus. I shot a couple videos with the Sigma Art 50mm f/1.4 and G85, and IBIS worked really well. The Sigmas can also be used on other bodies should you ever decide to switch from m43 to APS-C for example. If you don't mind the bulk and weight, there is no reason to spend a lot of money on a second set of lenses. Here are two videos shot with the Sigma Art 50mm f/1.4, MB SB XL and Lumix G85.