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The $700.00 USD G85 (hat's what I paid for body only in Malaysia anyhow) slaughters the $2,000.00 made in Vietnam EM1 Mark II in low light, moire, aliasing and detail.

I wasn't aware that there were eternal discussions about the JPEGs, since I'm primarily a video shooter. Sorry about that. Anyhow, he always shoots JPEG and RAW and just uses the JPEGs as a reference point, AFIK. Also, I notice he shoots without altering the highlight and shadow curves; if he'd lowered highlights and shadows a bit, the results would have been a tad closer.

For anyone who's got $900.00 burning a hole in their pocket I've got another, more in-depth field test of the Olympus 75mm f/1.8, my very favorite u4/3 lens, coming this evening. Edit: Looks like I've got to do some more shooting. Hopefully, tomorrow evening.

This is primarily aimed at stills shooters, but I really like this guy, and it shows what I like so much about shooting video with this cam - the skin tones are wonderful right out of the camera (most of the time!)

Drop a mask in the upper right and lower the luminance.

I recently watched some jaw droppingly beautiful music videos - crystal clear, gorgeous bokeh - shot by a friend with a 50mm f/1.5 Nikkor AI and cheap Chinese adapter that altogether cost him under $50.00. If you have talent, you can create great stuff with any tools at your disposal.

Great to hear you're getting along with the X-T2 at last. It takes a while to look past its shortcomings, huh? I've been loving using it on the Crane. And like you say, the colors are great and require little correction in post.

The Olympus 17mm f/1.8 falls below the level of Olympus's best offerings, it is inferior in resolution even to Panasonic's modestly priced, more compact 20mm f/1.7, and for a moderately wide angle lens, it is too slow to create amazing bokeh. In sum, the Olympus 17mm is an average instrument that is nowhere near the level of the lenses mentioned by me earlier.

Three of the best primes for u4/3 are the Olympus 75mm f1.8, the PanLeica 42.5mm f/1.2 and the Sigma 30mm f/1.4. They all have nice bokeh and are blisteringly sharp. The Leica is the only one with OIS, but to me the IBIS alone is good enough. You'll probably want a wide as well, but I can only provisionally recommend the Leica 12mm f/1.4, as I've never used it and haven't seen any videos with it as of yet. It is also insanely expensive for a focal length I wouldn't be using very often. If you get a focal reducer, the options are limitless, from Zeiss Milvus to Sigma Art lenses, and they will all give you incredibly detailed images with next to f/1.0 or thereabouts. Here are a few tests I did with the lenses mentioned above.

Actually, the Tokina must be used with an adapter, it's an APS-C mount lens. Another possibility is to look into a used Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 pancake. It's not too expensive and it will give a wider field of view than the Sigma. Many people love the 20mm.

Mitakon adapter. It goes between the lens and the camera. It won't work with u4/3 lenses. It will run around $150.00 new, but you might find a used one on eBay for less. Hope that helps.

I'm assuming you're on a budget, so if you want to go wide, I'd suggest getting a Samyang/Rokinon 12mm f2 lens. They can be had for less than $200.00 used. Another option is to get a cheap Chinese focal reducer and a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8.

There will always be a crop in 4K, so the answer is no.

Agree 101% First of all, the Crane comes with two sets of batteries, and they last forever. Secondly, I wouldn't go out in the wilderness with untested Chinese batteries that may not even last as long as the originals, so it may end up costing more in the long run. Have you bought the Crane already? Are you aware how long the batteries last?

He's just some random guy who walked into a camera store and shot with the GH5. I hope we won't be posting many more of these.

Just for the record, I don't for a second believe that Panasonic, Olympus or Fuji are intentionally holding back on reliable AF-C in movie mode. It takes the best engineers in the world years to develop the technology and the algorithms to get it right. Nakagawa: “First we started by shooting a predetermined subject, then testing the focus shift. This work was to confirm that it conformed to Canon’s established standards. Of course we confirmed through simulations that focus was achieved with Dual Pixel CMOS AF, however, there were some cases where it did not go that way during actual testing. With old lenses in particular, as this was technology that was not envisioned at the time, disagreements with the simulations were more apt to occur. So, it was necessary to check them all. With the labor of checking the zoom positions for 30 minutes to an hour for each lens, when checking 50 lenses for example, if a problem occurred with the 50th lens and the algorithm needed to be revised, there were cases where all 50 of the lenses would need to checked all over again. From the start of testing, it took about half a year to finish 103 lenses.”

Here's a video I sent to Zhiyun a few months back, regarding a problem with the screws not staying tight. They've since changed the way they manufacture the Crane, and it is no longer a problem. Just wondering if you can move the camera back and forth, side to side and the camera will hold position like in the video. If not, it's not balanced properly. Video.MOV

Not really sure what your point is. Essentially, what you're asking is, why can't Sony make a full frame camera with all the features of the GH5 with Canon color science for $2,000, or whatever it is you consider a reasonable asking price. Asking why no camera manufacturer makes the perfect camera for you sounds kind of naive to me. And since Panasonic isn't even in the full frame camera business, I am kind of perplexed. Maybe you should start a new topic and ask why Sony doesn't step up their game, instead of targeting Panasonic.

The X-T2 along with any of Fuji's f/2 lenses works great on a Zhiyun Crane - the 23mm, 35mm and 50mm lenses will all work fine, and it's super easy to balance, around five minutes tops. I believe I saw some videos where they used the kit zoom as well, it's fairly small as well and has OIS. So it's not as if you can't go out and shoot while walking around. No doubt, IBIS + gimbal would be better still.

If the AF drifts, just add a little oversharpening. ???

How hard is it to have someone walk toward you as you shoot in continuous AF, yet nobody's done it. Panasonic reps said the beta version of AF-C was already good and that it would be improved upon. As far as over-sharpening goes, over-sharpening means excessive sharpening, and to prefer excessive sharpening is akin to liking excessive jello or excessive noise. Excessive means calling attention to itself, compelling the viewer to focus on the image's defects rather than the content. Only angels should have haloing.

The exposure needle is located to the left of the screen in the X-T2. It's very tiny. Aside from that, no exposure aids in video mode - the histogram is only available in stills, and there are no zebras either. From what I understand, they'd have to replace the X Trans sensor in order to allow IBIS. The new GFX has a CMOS sensor with standard Bayer RGBG so maybe we'll see something like that in the X-T3.

Yeah, I know you weren't. But I do think we're getting a lot of new forum members signing up just to tell me how wrong I am.

So, are you saying the G80/85 would hold you back creatively as a filmmaker, and that your content will be that much better with the GH5? I just finished watching hmcindie's punksteam sci-fi-fi work shot on a Canon and thought to myself that no amount of equipment in the world would enable me to create something as crazy and wonderful as that.

I'm pretty sure your camera is just balanced incorrectly as well. I would not suggest calibrating the gimbal, it's only necessary if you run into extreme temperature situations.