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4 minutes ago, Shirozina said:

From an engineering standpoint plastic can have advantages over a metal. 

Sure it can. But the GH5s is weather-sealed - dust, splash and freeze resistant; the Pocket 4K isn't.

In a nutshell:

No big difference when used with the EOS R or X-T3.

Essential with Nikon Z N-Log.

You will see a difference when shooting Sony S-Log.

Also useful for GH5 4K 60p.

5 minutes ago, DBounce said:

The future is electronic. A sensor only has a couple of millimeters it can possibly physically move. 

If so, Sony’s got the edge, as they are a technology juggernaut. ?

Weathersealed magnesium alloy body, 240fps, waveform monitor, vectorscope, double battery life, usable smartphone remote app, flippy screen, proven reliability.

Since it has been conclusively demonstrated that Nikon’s sensor does not have any more freedom of movement than Sony’s, it gives hope that Sony will continue to improve their IBIS.

Joy stick replaced with touch bar - good idea?

Control wheel on back of camera removed and replaced by ring on lenses - good idea or Canon’s way of making third-party lenses less desirable?

If you don’t care for oversampling, just enable s35 crop mode. Oh, forgot - it doesn’t have one.

1 hour ago, JDW said:

The FW279S is listed on Amazon Japan now, advertising 2200 nits at a ¥45,300 price point.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/FEELWORLD-1920X1200-IPSカメラモニター-2200nit-外部撮影用モニター/dp/B07HH1ZKKK

$400 USD. That.  Is. Insane.  

Which is more bokehlicious?

2 minutes ago, Kisaha said:

Do we know for sure that BRAW is going to be added in the future, or is it pure speculation as of now?

It is a certainty. I think.  

I'd love to see a teardown of the Pocket 4K btw.

I'm guessing ProRes XQ will annihilate ProRes LT.  

Just now, Deadcode said:

You are shooting with 5D right? Could you please show me what is the difference between ProRes LT (88Mbps for 1080 24p) and ProRes XQ? Just convert Raw to ProRes do a grading and crop the difference please.

i have no idea what any of that means, but I'm eager to see what happens.  

And my wife would be perfect if only she would squeeze the toothpaste tube from the bottom. ?

53 minutes ago, kye said:

I'm now an official member of the GH5 owners club.  Spent three hours last night trying to understand the settings and set up the camera how I want it.  I am so confused!!

I'll work it out, but holy wow, the complex interactions of the record format, record quality, VFR option, and system frequency settings are making my brain hurt..

Let Griffin Hammond walk you through it.

Alternatively, you can just download his settings over at YT, place them on your SD card and import to camera - mission complete in a couple seconds. And congratulations!

wow. first m43 is dead, now murder and obliteration. forums getting pretty morbid.

3 minutes ago, mercer said:

Theoretically it should as the GH5 outputs a highly compressed 4K 10bit 4:22 400mbps image.

Even with 1080p only, the OG Pocket murders the GH5, so one would think the P4K would obliterate it. 

23 minutes ago, Snowbro said:

A7iii

For some inexplicable reason, still the number one best-selling FF mirrorless on Amazon and B&H...

3 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

You're imagining that I'm afraid.

The 6D II has a lot of aliasing going on, a lot of moire. It's a step back from the 5D Mark III, which had this under control.

What you perceive as more 'sharpness' is due to false detail.

The Canon body you want for the best 1080p is actually the 5DS, believe it or not. I don't know what footage you've been watching, with undisclosed amounts of digital sharpening applied in post and different shots revealing different perceived amounts of detail but if you look at a chart you will see the truth.

It goes 5D3 and 5D4 pretty much identical, 5D4 maybe a bit more digital sharpening applied but same 'real' detail as 5D3, that is to say not much, then step up to 5DS and A7S (full pixel readout).

Really though? For me the 1080-look stands out a mile as dated, low-fi. If that suits the intentions of the documentary then ok, maybe it's about being minimalist, anti-technology, anti-4K. Getting back down with nature, or whatever.

The content in that trailer is great, but it's not a piece of amazing cinematography - nothing unique or special about that look at all.

For me that trailer is just not cinema.

At this blog we have spent the past 7 years trying to get closer to film, not closer to 2009 Digital.

In 4K however, sharpness is a different story.

Canon's 4K is soft as well, but here is where I don't care.

I find a more natural, softer per-pixel detail and contrast in 4K beneficial to how cinematic the overall picture looks. If it is too sharply detailed like the Sony A6500, you can end up with quite a fatiguing image on the big screen.

You can see that the GH5S and NX1 clearly have the "technically" superior fine detail levels.

But the 1D X II / 5D IV / EOS R have a mojo to their un-sharpened images which helps make detail look more natural when downscales to fit a 1080p TV or projector, NOT pixel peeped, i.e. viewed normally full-screen.

What about the abominable rolling shutter? 

The shop threw in a free battery when I bought the camera, so I’m not paying a single dime more for anything. Not all cheap Chinese knock-offs are any good, and Sony can’t inspect each and every one to make sure they’re not going to swell up or whatever. Panasonic, Canon, Blackmagic and other companies do the same. If it’s a huge problem, just don’t update the firmware. lol

4 minutes ago, padam said:

Nothing special, they just simply did a carbon copy of what Canon does with the 1DX II (does not support most aftermarket batteries and when it does it will display a warning and not indicate the level).

I think you and I both know there are possibly very good reasons for the change, but I see I’m not about to convince you or the hundreds of others over at SAR.

Even the Pocket 4K exhibits different behavior when using generic Canon batteries. I don’t automatically jump to conclusions. 

7 minutes ago, webrunner5 said:

Even that Red Bull planes flying video has the same Funeral Home look to it. God, it is Horrific.

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll have to watch it then. ?

6 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

Yeah well backlit, underexposed faces will do that.

It's not the camera's fault is it?!

It's the cinematographers job.

I think maybe we have so much technology now, we expect the camera to fix everything, rather than getting it right ourselves in terms of the light and grade.

which is precisely why it is not a good example of what the Z7 is capable of. 

40 minutes ago, webrunner5 said:

Why is all of this Z7 footage look so Dark, and Horror Movie looking?? Kind of depressing. ?

That footage looks awful - hideously oversharpened and skin tones at the beginning make the model look like she’s been embalmed.

4 minutes ago, scotchtape said:

Thanks Sony... 

After reading all the heated debate, it’s clear to me why Sony did this. I only buy OEM batteries anyhow.

A smartphone in case all else fails. ?

6 minutes ago, DBounce said:

The 23mm F2 is a lovely lens and has lots of character. 

So it has a lot of flaws then? ?

@anonim You should probably clarify that the sentence in quotes belongs to @wolf33d , not @Oliver Daniel .

Without going back three hours to read his original comment, it makes it sound like the ravings of a lunatic. ?