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Wonder how many more decades they'll be in Beta for...

I like the RX100 IV that I have. But, it has serious deficiencies that remain in the V version - the overheating problem is worse than any Sony camera. I mean you cannot use the camera in high ambient heat settings and take 4K video. The camera will just stop after a few minutes of short clips. that is the true "paralysis." In the same exact settings the A7s ii just does fine. Second, the focus peaking is worthless, giving you no clue as to what is in focus. Forget manual focus (there is no magnify on the IV in 4K either, but I believe at least this was fixed for the V).

Just buy a Sony FS700 @ $2K for slow motion instead :-P

Enjoy. I'll give you a free copy of EOSHD Pro Color to go with it, just DM me when it arrives!

Interesting!! You could make a control grip like say the FS7 for using while the Panasonic camera is mounted on your shoulder

Wait for the D750 mk2!
 
Or buy now a D500 / D7500
 
Fully ?% agree that Nikon should have released the DL18-50!!
 
Would have been a massively kick as camera for real estate or drones.

Yes, it does all of the same functions (and a few more actually) and you could fit in pretty much whatever worked ergonomically.
Once its in its finished much more compact form (just the size of the blue-ish control panel in the video) its pretty small.
You could probably gut something like this PC Joystick (which is about £15) to use the handle part which has a similar ergonomic approach to the Sony grip and mount it in there.
For me, its better as a pocketable thing but thats the beauty of it being a bit of a DIY hack, it can be a lot more custom than an off the shelf product.

Wait for the D750 mk2!
 
Or buy now a D500 / D7500
 
Fully ?% agree that Nikon should have released the DL18-50!!
 
Would have been a massively kick as camera for real estate or drones.

Yeah the crop is dumb and I suppose for interiors you would need that wide end. But it is a really nice 4K image. And the 1080p is gorgeous as well. The Tokina 11-16mm would cure that or for low light their 14-20mm f2 could work.
Here's a 4K video shot with the D500 which has identical video as the D7500. This looks like it was shot in the Flat Profile and it doesn't look like he did any, or much adjustments in post, but it still looks great. Of course, this type of video doesn't really help you make a decision for what you need in a real estate video camera. But it's still a nice video...
In all honesty, if you need 4K for your work, you may be better off with an RX10ii or an XC10. The FZ2500 does really nice video as well. The high bitrate, all-i 1080p in CineLikeD is really good and at no time did I feel like I should have shot in 4K. 

If you hate using the a6300, what makes you think you'll enjoy the a7s? The D7500 will be released this week, may be the smaller, lighter body with a little cropped 4K will be a better fit for you until the D760 gets released. 

So as I've hinted more than a few times in the other thread, the discovery of the Cinelike D and other bits and pieces for the GX80 etc was actually a bit of a happy accident while I was trying to do understand the Panasonic wifi stuff for something else.
And here is that something else.
Well at least a prototype of it but it is fully functioning and will just be finessed a bit more.
Basically, its a wireless hardware remote for the G series cameras that operates over wifi and can currently control record start/stop, shutter speed as well as aperture and focus if you're using a native lens, including a single shot AF switch.
For the non-Cinelike D cameras that can now be hacked to have Cinelike D there is also a dedicated button to toggle it on and off so you don't need to mess about with browsers and computers or smartphones anymore.
Focus and aperture control are done on a joystick and everything else is switches.
I'll be putting a layer switch on so that it can be toggled back and forth to a different control mode for ISO, WB and other stuff.
As this is the prototype it is nowhere near the finished piece and it will be reduced in form factor to just be about the size of the control board. Power is by any USB source so there are billions of options.
There is a lot more finessing and feature enhancement to go on with regard to the focus control (and yes, I know exactly what you'll all want it to do !) but the hard part is done now.
It does support the display of the values on a screen and I'll be sorting some options out for that.
The purpose of this gadget is primarily for use with a gimbal but it can also be really useful on a tripod bar for anyone shooting live event stuff. For cameras with inbuilt lenses I'm going to add a zoom mode on the joystick.
A very quick very rough demo so you can see it in action.
Any lag you might see between me operating the controller and the camera video is just a sync issue between me throwing the two recordings on very quickly  
 
 

Cheapest? Good?
Yeahhhhh..... you have a bit of a contradiction there!!
 
Oh wait, it gets worse.... :-o
It is going to be an on camera mic?!?!
Sorry, that is only ever going to make this even worse :-/ That should only ever just be for reference on a scratch track.
As mic placement matters even more than what microphone you use! & putting it on top of the camera is a damn bad place to put it.
 
But if you are looking for a very affordable microphone that is incredible bang for your buck then I recommend the Aputure Deity.

Sucks so bad the Panasonic EVA1 lacks a Locking Micro Four Thirds Mount (like a baby made from the union of the JVC LS300 & Sony FS7 mk2 mounts).
Panasonic has blown a massive opportunity to provide an upgrade path for their GH users as they progress through their career, & was an opportunity to grow Panasonic GH5 sales at the same time.
However credit can be given to Panasonic for blasting out of the water the C200 which Canon just announced, but that fact should surprise exactly no one.

Hopefully Panasonic will see people's reactions online and then tweak development to release a locking Micro Four Thirds Mount version!

+100 here ....you said exactly how I feel perfectly...this camera might have gotten my money...instead if I do a project I have in developement, I will go to the Varicam LT instead....I own far too many lenses to mess around on an EF mount on this camera...perhaps Panasonic will pay attention and add an optional M4/3 mount...and I'd like to see a professional locking mount instead of a DSLR push button release!

I suppose not, but they are calling it AVC-Ultra, which is not the same codec used in the GH5. I'd highly doubt it's the GH5 codec for two reasons:
1. The codec in the GH5 was brand new, not the same one shared with the larger varicams. 
2. The Lumix team and Varicam teams HATE each other, and rarely share anything between the two lines.

Sucks so bad the Panasonic EVA1 lacks a Locking Micro Four Thirds Mount (like a baby made from the union of the JVC LS300 & Sony FS7 mk2 mounts).
Panasonic has blown a massive opportunity to provide an upgrade path for their GH users as they progress through their career, & was an opportunity to grow Panasonic GH5 sales at the same time.
However credit can be given to Panasonic for blasting out of the water the C200 which Canon just announced, but that fact should surprise exactly no one.

The C200 is in reality a crippled camera that aside from raw (and let's wait and see how well/badly it is implemented) has a shitty shit shit codec inside it.

The C200 is in reality a crippled camera that aside from raw (and let's wait and see how well/badly it is implemented) has a shitty shit shit codec inside it.

Sucks so bad the Panasonic EVA1 lacks a Locking Micro Four Thirds Mount (like a baby made from the union of the JVC LS300 & Sony FS7 mk2 mounts).
Panasonic has blown a massive opportunity to provide an upgrade path for their GH users as they progress through their career, & was an opportunity to grow Panasonic GH5 sales at the same time.
However credit can be given to Panasonic for blasting out of the water the C200 which Canon just announced, but that fact should surprise exactly no one.

Believe it or not, that amazing Varicam 35 reel that blew us all away a few years ago was shot on the same 10-bit AVC-Ultra codec.
 

I hate to say it, but I agree. Only maybe 5% of tv and 20% of theatrical features (I'm guessing, but it's along these lines) are shot on RAW. Because it's not worth the extra expense on productions already costing $250,000/day to get that last tiny little bit of image quality. And yet it's a huge omission on a camera that costs $8000? 
You can't expect everything. Or you can, but you'll be disappointed. 

Boy do people like to complain. A camera is announced two days ago with a feature and you expect every other camera to have it? We're also talking different recording media than the C200 and Blackmagic. Different ecosystems can support different things. It seems like they're trying to push as much into this ecosystem as possible, while keeping the "real" costs of a full kit as manageable as possible. And everyone's losing it over the internal raw of C200, yet the reality is that 98% of the time that raw is used will be in a controlled environment where external monitors are the norm and an external recorder isn't a big deal. And if you start factoring in the difference in SSD costs vs cfast... well, cost-wise the playing field starts to even. The weirder thing would be building a small camera that's perfect for doc and indy uses, shoving raw internal into it, an old ass 8 bit codec, and nothing in between... and no way to get non-raw 10bit... even from the output...

Yeah, electronic that is. Probably not just some plain warp stabilizer, but perhaps actually a gyro and accelerometers to guide the processing a little better, but yeah, actual sensor stabilization that is not, expect some motion artifacts and such. Agreed with an earlier comment though, I didn't expect physical sensor stabilization either and do agree that it's not a must in these type of cameras.
Exciting camera though. I was indeed hoping for GH-users to get a natural upgrade path type of camera and indeed, this at sub-$5k with 'shittier' tech and MFT mount sounds amazeballs. Yeah, poor JVC. Basically giving you all that and getting no love... tough crowd we must be to them! But yeah, this does sound like an ARRI Alexa Mini for the less fortunate. Super dope! 43rumors mentioned some specs earlier and a pricetag of 6499. If that's true, then it's still super exciting... tho entering the segment where Canon, Sony and Blackmagic are already well established, might be tough to break into.

Sucks so bad the Panasonic EVA1 lacks a Locking Micro Four Thirds Mount (like a baby made from the union of the JVC LS300 & Sony FS7 mk2 mounts).
Panasonic has blown a massive opportunity to provide an upgrade path for their GH users as they progress through their career, & was an opportunity to grow Panasonic GH5 sales at the same time.
However credit can be given to Panasonic for blasting out of the water the C200 which Canon just announced, but that fact should surprise exactly no one.