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Just use velcro Oh snap!

They're also all lacked a SD recording resolution option. Agree it should be a four way face off with the original GH5 as well. Five if you consider counting the Kinefinity Terra 4K as well!

A "pro" shared by all three (yet is very rare at this price point!): timecode inputs! It is an unknown however as to which of the three are implementing it best, my money is on perhaps the BMPCC4K https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1304877-REG/panasonic_dmw_xlr1_xlr_microphone_adapter.html The Panasonic DMW-XLR1 is a specific pro in favor of just the GH5. The mini XLR input is a pro just in favor for the BMPCC4K

Three horse race: Hydrogen vs Pocket 4K vs Z Cam E2 No wait, yes it is a two horse race: Pocket 4K vs Z Cam E2 As once you add the interchangeable lens mount module for Hydrogen then I am 100% sure it will be in a completely different pricing territory to either the Pocket or the E2 (more like Terra 4K price, if not even much more!).

They mine the sand for the glass themselves? :-P

That is why I said mk3! But knowing Canon maybe you need to wait for the mk30

Maybe mk3 of this camera series is what you'll want:

https://www.newsshooter.com/2018/04/13/canon-intelligent-compact-camera-concept/

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?167012-Update-4-12-2018 Heh, RED has been pretty bad in the past with delays (or straight up cancelling projects), but even still now in 2018 they don't meet shipping targets. I think we can give BMD a bit of slack! Even though I'm fairly optimistic they'll meet their November target.

GH5: IBIS/EVF/AF/UI/weatherproofing/stills/etc

My all time record is 13 phones gone through in a single year. So your daughter is not doing too bad!

Not using the same base OS in the M50 as in the Canon DSLR series, thus I reckon the chances are near ish nil that ML will be ported across.

Heh, makes me wonder if there is a market opportunity to take in ANY record trigger to then pass it out in ANY other record trigger. (for instance feed in Canon trigger, pass out Sony trigger) For recorders etc which don't support all the record triggers.

https://www.sounddevices.com/support/downloads/mixpres-firmware Only just saw this earlier this afternoon. No major major changes which change my overall opinion on them, I reckon the Zoom F4 is still the best buy in the sub $2K ish market. Unless there is something else which you very specifically need.

Yeah I have tonnes of Yi action cameras instead. I should never have purchased my GoPro Hero 3 Black EmpowerAll.com and FunBug are all gone and non-used domains now!

But was it real, or FUD aimed at the competitor? Always important to consider where the source of the "info" is coming from.

Yes, I remember this being said as well. That is pretty close to the max fps! Which is nice if you don't wish to window it. I imagine for people trying to shoot with 4K on the BMPCC4K with an ultra frugal budget (i.e. not just getting a tonne of CFast cards), that their shooting style will have a lot of similarities to the way RED ONE folks shoot (for those who don't have the SSD module, or only have a limited number of gigs on it). At least until CFast prices fall further. What they'll do is for the tripod shots they'll use their USB-C (just like RED ONEs using their RED-DRIVE for tripod shots) but then switch over to using their CFast card when handheld (again, just like how RED ONE owners would then switch over to CF or SSD when then going handheld). Taking this hybrid approach is saner than constantly having a USB-C drive hanging off at all times.

I could easily imagine a future a decade or three down the tracks where AI robots have "stolen our jobs!" HOWEVER, I don't believe the way this would happen is by using an ambisonic mic that then "focuses" in on what is wanted. Rather it would instead by via liberal usage of lavs (and/or plant mics) which then gets agressively cleaned up via super advanced AI like we're already starting to see in the likes of programs such as iZotope RX (together with advanced automixing). Which then ends up producing quite usable dialogue even from sloppily used lavs. Saw this posted on FB, worth sharing on this topic:

Buy it in 2018!! By getting the Rode NT-SF1 instead for a fraction of the cost. Although the support Zoom (and soon in the future MixPre series as well) has for the AMBEO B format means I wonder if the extra cost makes it worth it. Oh hey, there is a secondhand one up for sale: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sennheiser-AMBEO-VR-MIC-Microphone-3D-AUDIO-capture/183172958311 Ah good, we're on the same page in that regards then. As without that qualifier of it being "decades away" (and heck, who knows what might be happening then... movies as we know it might be dead! Everything tapped straight into our brain stem instead) then a person viewing this thread could easily get the wrong impression that this is relevant to something today. Even (or especially?) with 360 degree filmmaking you are carefully setting up and thinking about each shot. I worked on a 360VR shoot last month (doing sound for the crew, using an ambisonic mic) and each and every shot was carefully done, is why we did nearly a whole week of filming with full days. I think for your needs of run-and-gun with no crew, then you'd be better off chucking a lav on each person then crossing your fingers as you pray and hope for the best, than to use an ambisonic mic (where would you place it?! On top of your camera?!). For what delivery medium? For 360VR delivery? Or conventional HD (or 4K) 16:9? (or 2.35 aspect ratio or whatever) Are you a teeny bit part Canadian?

Sounds a bit like people who defended soft HD because you still got so much better resolution than even good SD? It is US$780 body only. You could buy nearly four Z Cam E1 for that amount. Or you could buy a Nikon D7500 for this (just went on sale btw, dropped down to this price. Well, only a hundred dollars more: https://nikonrumors.com/2018/04/11/new-low-price-refurbished-nikon-d7500-camera-for-899.aspx/. Seems the D7500 is not only a much better stills camera, but a better video image too). Or you could buy a Panasonic G7 with a lens and still have hundreds spare. Or get a Panasonic G85 with a lens for only a hundred dollars more. Sorry, but whichever way I look at this then the M50 doesn't make sense. If Canon slashes its price in half then we could start talking.

I love your business minded mind!

Now you understand the main usage of this for filmmakers, it is for use with VR cameras. Sorry, I was wrong. As nope, you're still not getting it. As a well placed boom mic will still be a much much better idea than one ambisonic mic stationary positioned in the scene! And I see next to zero chance this will change any time over the next decade. (sure, maybe in the very long term this might happen, and also we might all grow wings and learn to fly via genetic engineering. Who knows!)

I came "this close" to buying a second 2010 Sony PMW-F3 this week.

Yes, I've seen the video, but I don't feel the Rode guy is doing justice to the mic in pitching its proper usage. You're better off using a well placed shotgun instead, be it a CS3e or SuperCMIT or 816 or whatever.