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The Chinese translation supposedly says its going to fill a void in the photo market. A left handed camera would certainly do just that.

Sounds like a modern day drive around some parts of London in the past couple of years.

Yes, and it is strange to me that seriously video oriented shooters so rarely consider that fact "from the field". This fact and personal experiences drove me even to conclusion that m43 sensor (with high end rendition capable lens) is actually some sort of sweet spot for shooting guerilla art-movies that very rarely, from narrative reasons,  need DoF more shallow than provide by aperture value of 4 (in FF terms)!

Ahhhhh! That makes way more sense now. Thanks.

Steady on, I think you'll find that its you lot that drive on the wrong side of the road.

The M43 sensor dates back further than M43. Olympus had the 43 system which rather encompassed the 'small sensor, big camera' notion which compared to 'big sensor, small camera notion sounds pretty silly although some manufacturers still try it. Their arguments included that the 4:3 ratio made more efficient use of the lens image circle (I have to give them that) and that light from the lens image circle would be more perpendicular from a short flange distance resulting in sharper and brighter corners in the image (again some sense here.)
In my view they made two miscalculations. One rather obvious. 1) They probably didnt think that the cost of sensor silicon would fall as fast. It seems pretty clear though that sensor costs would fall (and there is only one in a camera) while lens costs (a variable) would remain pretty flat. 2) The other problem was near impossible to predict (I would have thought). That the emergence and dominance of even smaller sensor, smaller, cheaper (?) smartphone cameras would undercut them from below.
So in effect M43 has been squeezed by FF at the top and smartphones at the bottom. The fact that M43 is regressed to a small sensor, big camera approach rather indicates exactly how badly they have been undermined by smartphones. If you buy a really small M43 camera and put a really small (but slightly slow) zoom lens on it (which in terms of size and cost has an enormous advantage over FF) what you find is the image equality isnt much better than a smartphone.

Raw HD must by definition be cropped. 

This is true for all cameras. 

(unless it is a native HD sensor)

Hahaha. My autocorrect is Chinese or something. This is still decent. In social media chats it indulges in all sorts of innuendos. I think they will arrest me soon for obscene language, very soon. 

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13249/nvidia-announces-geforce-rtx-20-series-rtx-2080-ti-2080-2070
 
Way back in the early 2000's I remember doing basic ray tracing with my personal PC, it was very very very very very slooooow. Is cool there are now mainstream consumer cards which are specifically targeted to doing this, & in real time! Astonishing.
 
https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/08/20/nvidia-reveals-its-rtx-graphics-cards-with-game-changing-ray-tracing-tech/
 
https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/20/nvidia-unveils-geforce-rtx-graphics-chips-for-real-time-ray-tracing-games/


But will it play Crysis?

Seems curious they are including a hdmi cable with the camera. Intriguing as to what this might mean for output specs for video and video IQ in general. Maybe they will be able to pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat! 

https://nikonrumors.com/2018/08/21/breaking-the-first-leaked-press-photo-of-the-nikon-z6-and-z7-mirrorless-cameras.aspx/
 

 
First pics of the new cameras Z6 and Z7

@Danko announcement is in 1 day 19 hours... but best believe this is only the start of their marketing campaign.. Notice the coming soon slot after "Photographers": https://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/mirrorless-is-coming.page
Btw, there is no official mention of anything specific on the stills side either (AF, megapixels, DR etc).. just generic stuff like "more pictures you take the greater it is" "shooting becomes addictive" "when you zoom in you're still super sharp" lol.. 

Not just folks who still use the C100 as their main camera, but there are lots of people I know with say a FS700/C300mk2/UMP/REDs/etc who still bring out their C100 on a semi regular basis for their cheaper/smaller jobs such as the OP mostly does. 

You're acting like he's planning to buy an XL1 or something! That's an antique. You don't call a perfectly capable camera that meets most professional's requirements an antique because it doesn't shoot 4k or have insane HFR.
He'll get superior image quality, vastly better audio, better ergonomics, and the ability to record longer than 30 minutes (a necessity for the content he wants to produce).
The C100 is still used by tons of professionals even today. I know at least a dozen personally that shoot on it still, from studio work to going into war zones in Iraq to shoot news/documentary footage. I'm sure if he had the money he'd buy the C200 or C300, even if he still only shot in 1080p. But for under $2,000 and for his specific requirements (wanting to stay in the Canon family), he's not going to do any better than the C100 and it'll still be a relevant and capable camera for years to come. For his uses and budget it's a good investment. 
Hell, in a couple years he'll still be able to get something for it, probably at least half of what he'll pay for it, if he decides to sell or upgrade. 

Auto focus is a necessity, not so much for me but for those that have become obsessed with it. The GH5S showed that good low light is possible, and even the GH5 showed that low light capabilities are improving over previous cameras, so that's not a major issue these days, but narrowing the gap in low light performance is obviously something they need to continue with. 
I think exploring a APS-C sized sensor might be something they should look more into. With adapters it can get you very close to full frame, which is another thing people seem to becoming more and more obsessed with.
Overall though I think Panasonic has done a good job developing the system. Nearly 2 years after release I think the GH5 is still worth every penny and is still the only camera in its class capable of doing so many things. 

I guess while this Site is called Eoshd.com, it was the GH2 (and its various hacks) that really got things going, and the various models of M43 cameras that got most indie filmmakers excited around here.
The Sony A7iii seems to have ruined the party for a lot of people, way more than one could imagine. And the below $2000 price tag has suddenly made things harder to sell, for almost everyone (Including Sony's own models that can be easily replaced by the A7iii, due to its price advantage, and plethora of superlat8ve features for the price).
It was the 10th Anniversary of the birth of the M43 and Mirrorless format, last week. While the GH5 and GH5s, and the Olympus OMD 1D are great cameras, their (former) $1999 price seems a lot, especially for Olympus.
What all areas do you think Panasonic and Olympus need to work on, to push the Mirrorless advantage for Mirrorless, now that Nikon is also finally crashing the party? 
Suggestions could be anything from the high bitrate (with no noticeable advantage except in very heavy grading) to the low dynamic range of VLog (between 1.5-2 stops below that of the sensor's in RAW), to the Lack of 14-abit RAW to lack of PDAF (on the Panasonic) etc.
 

We shot event with live switch/live stream/live projection + QA with couple c100mkii and gh5s, works really well, full size hdmi out is a must cause I break so many mini/micro hdmi out cables in the past.
We also use 5D3 and M50 with C100mkii for some other shoots, they match really well together vs matching with other brand of camera. (like the GH5S and A7III I own).
I wouldnt do C100 on Ronin, too heavy and big for all day shoot, the 6D2/80D will be better for that, especially with touchscreen autofocus and fd and smaller size/weight overall. For stage event 30P is enough, i dont think i ever have to do a slowmo for those kind of stuff.
 

It helps to have options though, something you never even considered might be a fantastic choice for your described uses. 

https://nikonrumors.com/2018/08/20/what-if-the-nikon-d3400-gets-replaced-by-a-mirrorless-aps-c-camera-with-f-mount.aspx/   
There is this last rumor coming out of nowhere about a future Nikon D3000 (lowest denominator in the Nikon lineup) camera coming soon, still with the traditional Fmount and Mirror Less. I guess if it is not competing branch in the Nikon management/engineers coming out at the same time. I always thought that Nikon would move its consumer APSC line  first to Mirrorless, because when you think about it, it is much cheaper to manufacture a Mirrorless camera than a dslr. You add and evf but get rid of the mechanical mirror mechanism, penta-mirror and AF module. You also won't be getting people complaining that the grip is too small, or where the AE button has been removed or that their 30 years old lens doesn't work well on it.

Maybe the guy is a Lithuanian basketball center turned spontaneous hipster moment catcher... It's all matter of context.

Yes, but I'm not recommending that people start out with their first wireless be something which is over 8 times more expensive than a RodeLink. Not at all, I recommend instead better products (Sony UWP-D11) which are still in the same general price bracket.

Of EXCITEMENT!!!11ONE 

Of EXCITEMENT!!!11ONE 

Hey! Where are the NX votes?!!

Here is another statistic they dominate after +3900 votes.
And thats on my channel where Sony is getting constant praise.