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Only ten pages worth.... ! :-P

Noooo..... Don't even joke about spreading nasty rumors like that!

I strongly doubt it. G85 is half the price of a GH5! Which will make it an attractive purchase for many people.

B&H occasionally has a few weird glitches when they mark something as discontinued when they just mean out of stock. Plus the G7 would get discontinued before the G85....

4fps away from the magic number ;-)

Oh sh*t, that Kangaroo must be annoying! Try a different cable perhaps? You might just be unlucky with that. (had a similar issue with my F3+Samurai, until I swapped it out)

I think now with the Atomos having a new recorder to do 4K 60fps and even their oldest 4K recorder the Shogun being able to do FS raw, it makes the FS700 still quite attractive even another year later in 2017!

Blackmagic Design is a bit of an oddball here in terms of what they offer. So you can't expect Panasonic to give them much thought in terms of competition, they probably think of BMD as even less competition than JVC is?!?! (Which would be wrong to do so. But it would not surprise me if that is the way Panasonic thinks about it) Panasonic will regard Canon and Sony as their main competition to beat. Of course they'll beat Canon in terms of value for money, that shouldn't be hard to do! (Only thing Canon has got going for them is their "colors", & autofocus. Panasonic should be able to beat/meet one of those, and if we're very lucky they'll manage both.) And Panasonic will "beat" (in their minds at least) Sony in features for your buck. That doesn't however mean it will be better than the FS5 in terms of EVERY spec point! So yeah, zero surprise here if Panasonic skips external raw. Nope

If you are a one man crew then I think it is an even stronger argument not to shoot raw. You don't want to be fluffing around with AC or DIT duties.

Almost for certain I'd go for ProRes or some other similar but high quality compressed codec (such as AVC Intra). Had exactly this discussion too with a director that I was going to shoot a feature with (although that sadly hasn't happened yet, as his life went through a few upheavals out of the blue that he had to focus on first), he is a diehard raw fan! But when you are so very constrained with resources when it comes to time/money/people, then that little extra 1% gain from raw is just not worth it. So ProRes HQ it is! (was going to be shot with a mix of Sony PMW-F3 / BMPCC / BMCC, although we did for a little while have access to an F5 too) Although we did kinda come to a compromise that on very very very rare occasions then we might shoot specific shots in raw instead, where we/he thought it would really benefit from raw for that shot.

Exactly, and if "13 Reasons" is not shooting raw then I also don't have to always shoot raw.

Surely leaving the fan running on 100% of the time is just crazy overkill??? Not even REDs do that! (but then again their fans are a lot noisier....) Oh and this guy is very obviously a blatant spammer! Perhaps a mod wants to take care of him....

Ohhh... didn't know it only went up to 3! Was used to the 43rumors and sonyalpharumors sites which both go up to 5, thus a 3 rating is nothing much.

If you're a small indie production then you have an even smaller post production budget than the big boys.... so raw makes even less sense! I dunno, these cheap chinese tripod seems pretty good: https://www.came-tv.com/collections/video-tripod

Is only a CR3 rumor rating however

Travel days means half days (which get charged at roughly two thirds rate of your daily rate). Plus of course they cover traveling expenses.

When even multimillion dollar productions are not shooting in raw, I don't believe it to be a big deal breaker at all if it is missing out on raw from the new lower priced Varicam. So long as there is from the Varicam sensor an internal 4K 422 10bit and 2K 444 internal as well, then we should all be very happy indeed! :-)

SxS and P2 are both used still often enough on many many sets. I used SxS very recently, & I think next weekend's shoot will use P2. Wait and see what the specs are of the Panasonic. For all we know, it too might have: adaptable mount, high FPS modes, variable ND, 10bit internal, raw output, etc But even if it doesn't.... wouldn't you rather have the dual ISO and colors of the Varicam over the FS5's limitations? Because only the small oddball outsiders like Blackmagic Design and Kinefinity are letting you use off the shelf consumer SSDs. All the big established players are insisting you use typical media formats like in the rest of their cameras. Which is why I'd be very surprised to see a Varicam that let you record straight to an off the shelf consumer SSD. Going from GH5 to a7S mk3 would be a strange sideways "upgrade". Anyone doing that is probably suffering from gear addiction syndrome..... and needs to slow down! I suspect the price gap between an FS5 and this new Varicam will probably be small enough that it won't be the biggest factor when people are choosing which camera to go with. No thanks, 80D would be a massive downgrade from a G85 And it is just a momentary blip in time that there is a large price and feature gap between the G85 and GH5, because the GH5 just came out. Very soon enough if we are just patient and wait, the G90 will come out which will close down the gap with the GH5. And we'll probably see a successor of the G90 to come out as well before a GH6 arrives, further reducing the gap between the GH and G line ups (even catching up and exceeding the GH5! Like happened with the GH4 and GH3 before it).

Ahhhh....... heaps better!

It seems so damn obvious to bring it out with a locking MFT mount! But companies often do strange and silly things instead.... so I won't count on it having a locking MFT mount :-( SSDs will not happen. It will be SD cards, or P2 cards of some sort (I hope not.... I'd rather XQD or CFast, but this is Panasonic so they'll prefer their own P2 system of cards). The fastest SD cards are damn fast now, so I think it is very sensible indeed for a camera at this price point to use SD cards. Well, I'm the soundie on the project not in the camera department. But I'll give what feedback I can :-) As I'll be working somewhat closely with it.

Picky picky! And he said FE mount, not A mount. And I know about Air NZ and Qantas, I'm an Aucklander ;-) Fly on Air NZ just last week for a shoot down in the South Island!

Fujinon is also bringing this out in X mount as well as for this pair of lenses, as well as E mount, makes you wonder if Fujinon is going to bring out a cinema camera.... their stills cameras are doing 4K after all. So, is this mount on the lenses swappable between X mount and E mount?? I wonder *if* the new lower priced Varicam ships in MFT mount if they will then release this for MFT mount as well?

OMG!! Would be kick ass!! But I really hope they go for a positive locking Micro Four Thirds mount instead. Would be better optics (in the marketing sense! But true in the other sense too!) for Panasonic and the MFT Consortium. Oh heaps of things they could gimp on it to differentiate it from the Varicam LT. Such as: no raw, no interchangeable mount, no 4K 60fps, no genlock, or no 2K 240fps. They might even do something really stupid like have no built in ND filters, or no timecode. Image quality, 4K 10bit 422 internal, and dual ISO alone should be enough to tempt people away from buying a C100mk2/FS5 This rumored price is only $750 more than an FS5, basically nothing at all when you're considering a camera at this price point. It is $1.5K more than a C100mk2, which is not that much when you're thinking about a camera that costs $6.5K, but still a decent size leap up in cost.... however the features leap is MASSIVE over a C100mk2 And when the C200 (or C100 mk3) comes out, the pricing gap between this and Panasonic one should be almost nothing at all, yet Panasonic will still have a big lead over the Canon in terms of capabilities.

Exactly. Classic Canon. Overpriced. Under delivering. I wouldn't say no to buying a Canon camera, but only if I get it at waaay under market price. Which is how I purchased my Canon 50D

Sure, any other laws of physics you'd like me also break for you? Faster than light travel? Apples to fall upwards? Kiwis to fly?