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Sony already killed the C100 (& C300!) years ago. With their FS5 & a7S mk1/mk2 releases.

Or just a more general rule: INCLUDE MAXIMUM CONTEXT!
As there are many many threads which would benefit from more information: specific budget, overall budget, what country, what do you do already, medium/long term goals, etc

I think a lot more has been made of replacing glass because of the higher resolution sensor than needs to be.  The D500 has the same pixel density as the D850, but I don't hear the same arguments.  In general, a higher resolution sensor will make any glass look sharper.  You can see that by looking at DXOmark tests.  Higher quality glass will just look even better.

mk1 is from a different generation, mk2 was the current one when the FS5 was released.
 
If  we want to talk about older secondhand cameras, then we need to include the likes of the Sony F3 or FS700. Which I'd take over a C100 any day.
 
But yes, the C100 is still an excellent camera (their being better cameras doesn't change that) which can be an absolute workhorse (heh, just last night I did a shoot which had the C100 as one of our cameras).

USB charging has been a feature on Sony bodies for a while now. I think that the mark II series was the first to allow charging while in use too, so many people used a power bank for longer shoots. Mark III has microUSB and USB-C and you use both to charge (depending on the cable you have available) or you can use one for charging an the other for some sort of camera control (intervalometer? tethering?).

FINALLY!!!

I grabbed my Samsang NX300 this morning for the first time in ages and the battery was flat, but not a big deal! Didn't need to find a charger, could just grab any one of my many many USB cables I have lying around and charge up the NX300!  Very useful. (and this is not even counting the handy feature of using it with a USB powerbank, as an external battery)

Made me wish that every camera had USB charging, why isn't this common place with all cameras??

Personally guys, I won't be buying one.
You can bet the A7S III will blow it away for video.
And the competition is huge... D850, GH5, Leica SL in particular.

i get it, but some people were expecting an s update today. now it's up in the air again. And gh5 seams the only viable option for video now.

I shot on my A7s extensively for three years before upgrading to the II and I can't say that I was ever lamenting the lack of IBIS. Certainly, if it was a choice over IBIS or low light, I'd go wit low light personally (at least in the case of A7sII) despite the fact I agree with: 
It's a rare situation that I shoot over 3200ISO. Too much obsession with paper specs these days. 
That said, the sensor size of the A7sII is what secures it for me. And the benefit of its low light abilities is that you can shoot at 800, 1600, 3200 ISO very cleanly, not something you can do much on other DSLRs. That's a much more useful feature than being able to shoot a mess of noise at 409,500 ISO.

Eh, it's not a bad upgrade per se, but it does kinda give the impression of something hurriedly put out to compete with the D850. Then again, Sony's really been killing it with just about every new mirrorless for the last few years, so I guess they had to stop and catch their breath sometime.

No 10bit and oh my god, we're still at a 100Mbps bitrate for 24p/30p 4K?!?!  Goddamn Sony.. throw us a bone for video here.

So A7S III will also not have 10bit. Sony is becoming the new Canon. Seems my 5DIII(ML) will still remain my backup body for my ump for quite some time. The good news is that I dont have spend cash on body's the next year

I predict a 300 2.8 and 400 2.8 at a gazillion dollars each (and worth every cent IF you can afford them).
 
That said, the sensor in my crystal ball was made by Sony so I could be wrong.
 
 

Well, seeing as this thread is titled "...addressing some of the myths around..." let's address some of those with the GH5/MFT!

Should stating "lowlight" be enough to rule out the GH5? Of course not! 
Because it is very likely the GH5's lowlight capabilities is sufficient for the asker's needs. 
It is good to remember some historical context, remember how excited everyone was about how good the 5Dmk2 was in lowlight? (a camera which I don't regard as superior to a GH1+speedbooster combo) Of course now the 5Dmk2 is seen as being "bad" in lowlight by 2017 standards. 

But then again the MFT world hasn't stood still either since the original MFT camera the GH1 either, which each model (GH2/GH3/GH4/GH5) taking strides forward in improvements in lowlight since the previous model (that is a lot of steps of improvement! We're up to the GH5 now).
Look at this shot at night with the old Panasonic GH2 for instance with only practical lighting:

Is it perfect? No. 
Is it unacceptable? No.
 
I think in this day in age, there is no reason in 2017 to be against any of the current cameras due primarily to its low light capabilities. Unless you're in some niche scenario, such as say you are doing a one man doco of homeless people living in underground sewers?! But even then, I'd happily use say my D5200 with a Sigma 18-35mm f1.8, if that is all I had available to me. 

 

Radical alternative thought: don't buy another camera! :-o I know, it sounds sacrilegious, but it isn't so crazy. Especially if you're just an occasional amateur, then I'd recommend you sit out another round or two of camera upgrades.

However, if you're a professional who is out there getting paid with shoots 3 to 10 times a week, then yes it could start to make more sense to consider an upgrade. 
 

My "next system" will need to be 8k@30, 4k@120, 2k@460, apsc or bigger, 10-12bit at all the resolutions, with very high bitrate (over 200) and h.265, in a packaging with the size of nx1 and a cost of 2k$ for the body at most. And a good selection of outstanding, yet affordable, af lenses.
I think I'll have to wait several years, since Samsung is no longer in the game.

H.265 was a common complaint about the NX1, which is much more commonly supported now.
 
It is sad that the biggest criticism of the NX1 is: "was too advanced for its time"! :-/

It seems you might be mistakenly thinking that the only microphone on a boom is a shotgun, which is very *very* wrong :-/ 
 
As a scratch track for reference, or for very quick turn arounds, then it is a reasonable approach to take. 

Few of us have the luxury to have a massive selection of microphones at hand to match one to each person's voice :-P (although.... I do own quite a ridiculous number of microphones!)
But if you have two (one for indoors, one for outdoors) then that is more than good enough for most situations for the kind of shoots you're doing. 

I would also like to add to that I am extremely happy with how the NX1 has aged meaning that if you asked me last year if I would still be using my NX1 in a year I likely would have said no yet here I am and I don't even see anything on the horizon that could really grab my attention for another year.
I always thought that once the GH5 saw a price drop I would pick one up but I am not really that drawn and with the GH6 at least a year or more away I could be using my NX1 until I end up finally dropping it off a cliff and need to replace it.

We'll as I see it the two websites that were champion of NX1 was EOSHD  (it earned its own hack forum here) and DP Review (they prob got paid by samsung) 
article looking back at what was and what could have been.   After reading the article check comment section is quite interesting.  All most 300 replies in 24hours.  
https://***URL removed***/articles/3890465710/tbt-the-samsung-nx1-is-still-impressive-three-years-later
 

I sold my 1DC for a 5Dmkiii. So I too would go for the D850 with a D500/7500/5500/bmpcc backup.
The Tokina is sweet. I used to have the 11-16 back in the t3i days.
Tomorrow Im finally getting the 18-35/1.8

Hi, everyone, and thanks for contributing to help me solve my issue.
I talked to Atomos today, and after a bit of back and forth the guy asked me to check my HDMI cable--and see if it worked for 4k.
Now this seemed futile to me, because I KNEW it did.
But I pulled out my XC15 Canon to test the cable and BOOM, the Shogun was recording 4k like a top!!
Back to the Sony--Bupkis. 
But I did recall I had another micro HDMI cable, so,.....  just for laughs I decided to try it--and BLAM!!! The Shogun screen lit up with the Sony 4 K and I was recording on SSDs. 
So, here's the deal. Just because a mini or micro HDMI feeds 4k into your external recorder for one camera or brand of camera does not mean it will feed 4 k into another. 
Capisce?!?
Try to remember this...because it will be on the test.

... about the controversial topic - here is an interesting article in the NY Times about Robert Zimmer, head of the University of Chicago makes the educator´s case for free speech:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/opinion/robert-zimmer-chicago-speech.html
 
 

Most of the discussion in this thread proves my point that climate change isn't up for debate and very good science will be ignored as a result.
As a liberal creative person I can't even so much as ask a damn question, let alone consider arguments outside my liberal bubble, without the finger pointing of moral condemnation from fellow liberals.
When the simple act of considering some related issues and problems is considered "denial", followed by a lot of frenzied arm-waving idignation and accusations of being alt-right, that is a major problem - and we see it in our politics every day.
This is really unhelpful if the human race is to solve the issues of managing our climate and understanding it better.
Today, we either fit in one camp or the other. To satisfy a consensus you have to either flat out deny climate change exists, or claim that it is all proven, settled and we know everything. Anything else is heresy.
The fact is we don't know it all... we aren't considering some related issues and problems with clean energy sources and impact on agriculture, farmers, food and lives.
This is too complex a problem to pledge allegiance to one of just two opposing dumb football teams and attack it with a tribal mentality.
It's sad to see people do so on this thread without even having watched the film.

in regard to camera gears at least none of us is conservative, let alone alt-right. in regard to social/political matters, its always expected independent content makers reject popular culture, and in our time many liberal/left ideas have become part of the popular culture.