jonpais

Get the Zhiyun Crane. Period.

Thanks Michael, but I believe John Matthews already posted about that here.

Looks like they've announced four lenses in all: the Art 24-70 f/2.8, Art 14mm f/1.8, Art 135mm f/1.8, and Contemporary 100-400mm f/5-6.3.

Since the GH5 has USB-C, I wish someone would test the speed difference between offloading 30GB to a new Mac with the cable vs an SD card on the 2015 MBP.

Thought so! whew!

Sorry, I couldn't resist. ? I think it's like saying Fuji users are all hipsters. I don't think you can judge people by the computer they use. As far as Xiaomi goes, if they had Apple's iOS, I'd get one in a heartbeat. Edit: I own the 2016 MBPr with touch bar and haven't experienced any problems as of yet.

Am I reading this correctly - you shoot at -5 Contrast? ?

I've heard that some Apple fanatics are Jews!

This isn't new - it was already posted in this thread weeks ago. ?

I commented on all the above: the acting's super for non-professionals, and they say the V-log has a lot of latitude - they just don't let us see that in their grade. Edit: I don't know why the blacks are so crushed. When I upload videos to YouTube, which I try to do every week, the videos are very representative of the tonality of the original files - no crushed blacks, no blown highlights. So not sure what's going on here.

I guess this is what is considered the ULTIMATE look for wedding photography, but I find the skin tones in your video flat, washed out and rather cartoonish!!! (exclamation points and caps added for emphasis, since nobody would understand what I'm saying without them).

It looks better with your settings on my lowly iMac which apparently is a piece of shit according to one member, but which unfortunately is all I can afford at the moment.

First of all, the OP is talking about a price range starting at $300.00 USD, and, to the best of my knowledge, there is no gimbal that can handle 2.2 Kg at that price point, so I think he is out of touch with reality. Secondly, the great thing about newer gimbals like the Crane is that there is absolutely no need to go into complicated and time-consuming PID settings - we can adjust dozens of parameters using a smartphone or iPod, and the entire process takes just seconds. Calibrating the Crane takes under five minutes. So my question is, does the OP even own a gimbal, and what exactly is it he wants to accomplish? Thousands of people are using gimbals like the Crane, and I presume they are happy not to have to mess around with PID settings, which are a pain in the ass, it just works out of the box.

mine are hazel

Even at 16-235, the blacks are way crushed on my iMac. I had a look at the original scene from Goodfellas, and of course, there is much more detail in the shadows. And Levi said he was careful not to clip the blacks, a term which I'd never heard before; I've always heard clipped highlights and crushed blacks... Clipping refers to blown highlights. So when they're looking at the clips on the timeline in Resolve and say what lattitude Vlog has, I'm not seeing it in the final result. Also, the sound engineer says the internal preamp on the GH5 has a low S/N ratio, whereas I believe he meant to say high, because a higher number reduces the perceived noise. But I don't want to be too critical, after all, how many camera reviewers also have some acting chops?

Why so antagonistic? You only posted the topic a couple hours ago... why don't you share your setup with us first?

That and the mystery why I can no longer watch videos on YouTube in 4K with Safari. But I don't have a 4K monitor anyway. Correction: I know why, how long till Apple fixes it?

Good to know

is this a high school science project?

Are you for real?

Yes, a in few of the shots I violated the 180 degree rule, but I really dislike the look, and a few of the clips where people, motorbikes or cars are moving in the background gave me a headache while looking at them on the timeline. I almost always shoot in the shade, some days I use a UV filter, others, a Hoya ND8. Not many of the shots are at f/1.8, but I don't keep track of the apertures, so not really sure which I used for each shot. When shooting m43, as a rule, I usually try to avoid closing the lens down below f/5.6 because of diffraction. Concerning your shooting at f/2.8-4, with such a long focal length, it will still give nice soft backgrounds, and that's probably the sweet spot too. At the same time, there is no point in buying ultrafast lenses like f/1.2 if you're not shooting wide open much of the time, because when stopped down to f/5.6 or so, those lenses probably don't perform much better than slower, less expensive glass. As far as manual focusing goes, since I'm mostly a street shooter, I don't have time, so I use autofocus. I set the camera to manual and press the AF-L button, this way I can confirm with focus peaking. The G X Vario 35-100mm is a beautiful lens, I guess Panasonic is making a few changes to their two Vario zooms, like the smoothness of the aperture blades when zooming or something, and a few cosmetic changes, like the color, but I really wish they would consider making their lenses out of metal rather than plastic. On a side note, I could never have made that video if it weren't for IBIS.

This left me breathless, almost in tears, so I just had to get this up here before anyone else. Your work looks great.

Agreed, if buying for m43, best to steer away from the slow consumer zooms. Any of the lenses you mention will be far more versatile than the PL 42.5mm alone; in fact, I would never attempt to create a reel of my daughter with just one prime of any focal length whatever. As far as the elusive film look goes, that would depend more on the OP's experience, artistry, color grading ability and so on than the camera itself. A GH2 could do it. So could the Sony RX100. I would also advise the OP not to get the GH5, but instead look into a less expensive camera and use the extra money to invest in good glass, a microphone, a brushless gimbal stabilizer and possibly some lighting. A Lumix GX85, Sigma 18-35 + MB SB, Rode mic, Crane gimbal and Aputure 120t + Light Dome would come in at around the OP's budget, and he could always upgrade to another camera in the future, since there is no end to G.A.S. anyhow.

Agree with the part about not pushing ISOs too much with m43.