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No, but I usually eat my breakfast off of it. Oatmeal. Gives the outer glass a nice buff when I clean it off before the shoots and the thorium adds a nice metallic aftertaste.

I guess that's a big reason why I enjoy vintage lenses. They certainly offer a more filmic look, and I've never really ever cared about autofocus or EXIF. 1970's FD's are pretty good to take the edge of the "video" aesthetic. Plus, they're radioactive. Fun with decaying isotopes.

Used 5D3 would be fine based on the prefs you've laid out here.

I'm shooting stuff on the EM10III right now and while it's certainly not the GH5 I sold, this modest Oly is so perfectly capable that I'm still kind of amazed you can find them for $300. Olympus Imaging is circling the drain and not long for this world, but if they're willing to go out with a flourish I'd simply suggest that they offer the soon-to-be-released EM10IV with three very simple achievable specs: 4K60p, Audio Input, and Headphone Monitoring. Everything else they do with the EM10 is fine. Hell, I don't even care if it stays a 16MP sensor. There's your vlog camera for the masses (and cheap ass old farts like me) It'll never happen, but why can't a cheap camera have audio inputs and a headphone jack? Surely those components aren't THAT expensive to include?

From what I saw bopping around online, they have a patent for a transmitter with audio recorder. Seems like if the recorder was on the receiver, that would avoid the patent nonsense? I don't know. What I do know is that it would be nice if I could simply get a wireless audio signal into a receiver mounted on the hot show of my camera and listen to what it's getting...so many of these audio options (like, say, mounting a lav mic w/recorder on the subject like theTascam DR-10L) can't offer any outboard monitoring.

What are they? Patent trolls?

I'd Really Like This Audio Gear: A wireless mic receiver that records to a miniSD card, has a line output, and has a headphone jack for monitoring audio in real time. I've been using my Sen. ew100 system with a Zoom recorder for-eva', and it's useful, but, man, it would be so much more convenient if the receiver was a recorder unto itself with monitoring and output ability. I went out looking for such on the interwebs, but no go. Seems like this sort of thing would be ideal for 1-man-band folks with a DSLR. Does it exists?

A really impressive accomplishment for sure. However, other lens manufacturers with competitive products, and a notorious cinematographer using their glass, could probably buy a PR campaign --and thus a chance to win at the Academy if they so choose. The Oscar is not some agnostic award, its political. Yes, even on the science side of things. Winning is cool and great, but no need to place complete merit on a product based on what statues are given out by the Academy. That said, you can bet I'd change my tune if I was ever nominated for one!

You have to admit, there's a big difference between public and private though.

Of course. A career that lasts 65 years is pretty cool. We all should be so lucky. Not knocking your appreciation for Ennio, just giving him credit for all the years devoted to the craft.

He's been in the biz since the mid 50's. And has 2020 credits. The "almost" should actually be followed by the number 70. Over six decades; legendary talent and career.

"Almost" 50 years? Ummm...

Well, if not Oly buying it, someone else perhaps? .0001%? Is owning a camera company a fool's errand at this point or could that potential organization have a place in the market? Eh, that's me, always rooting for the underdog.

What are the odds that Oly sells to JIP in order for JIP to unload expensive assets and employees. Oly can't do this legally under Japanese law. Then, after restructuring, OLY buys back the new company which is more nimble, streamlined, and able to exist in the black? .001%. Wishful thinking?

I'm currently planning to make a reel out of all the 1080 travel footage I've shot over the past 15 years. Big damn project that requires weeks of completely re-structuring my media storage, catalog management, and then some really long editing days. Good opportunity to learn a new NLE, new color grading, and practice some new editing techniques. Ultimately it's an exercise in production. Getting a video out of it to help sell myself will be a nice bonus.

The IQ resolves a bit better in camera than doing it in post. I also made a 6-part doc series in 2016 with two GX85's. The EM10 and GX85 are pretty much the same size. IQ between both cams is similar. The eyepiece is in the middle on the Olympus though, and I like that. I also like that the Olympus is more affordable right now. Any camera on your list will give you creative options. No worries there.

So I'm currently shooting my personal stuff with the EM10III, and I keep the rig very small by going an extreme route: I've put a 24mm f2.8 Pentax A110 lens on the body. (I also carry an A110 50mm and 18mm f2.8 - these things are TINY, so why not) So, with the Oly and the 24mm lens I get a 48mm FF field-of-view equivalent. IN your particular case You could also keep it small with a more modern prime too. Panasonic make a decent pancake 20mm f1.7. You'd get more light gathering from that and not a lot of additional bulk. I imagine you're not thrilled with considering a fixed prime, but here's the thing regarding the EM10III, in 4k mode they have a 2x punch in feature that's actually decent IQ-wise, especially if you're editing mostly in 1080 like I am. Basically, you get to have a FF equiv 40mm lens and 80mm lens with the touch of a button. Not sure if that moves the needle for you in your decision, but that's an option to think about, two FOV 's out of one lens.

I really don't get this argument. Limitation in one aspect of photography, such as sensor size, might not be a hinderance if it allows a superior option in another, such as compact gear and IBIS. Certainly not all photographers want the same thing. I'm a videographer that's attracted to small gear for the ease of use. I have to imagine photographers are into that convenience as well. Maybe not at the levels required to be market successful, if that's what you mean.

Yowza. Seems like a dive into the code and firmware updating would fix that. Too much trouble? I always wondered why this persisted. And, yeah, Japanese culture is cool and frustrating at the same time. Japanese business culture is all that amplified to 11.

Had the GX7 as well. Sadly lost it. Great video camera. Wanted to buy another one used. Found out that one could buy a new/refurbished/warrantied Olympus EM10III for less than this 7 year old LUMIX cam. (!) Olympus is going to be trove of value for videographers over the next few years. I'm not scared off by the recent news; kind of excited about it for mainly that reason.

I shot one of my documentaries mostly with that lens. Unfortunately I thought I was filming with a field of view FF-equivalent of 45mm. Boy, was I wrong! Seriously though, it's a purty lens. Don't like the AF or focus-by-wire aspect of it as I'm partial to old manual glass, but it certainly rendered really nice images. Olympus is dead, long live Olympus!

Just watched "Doctor Sleep" and this literally happens in the sequel. So, at least there's that I guess.

FWIW, I used a GH5 for the most recent doc I made. Toured with the film and put it on the "big screen" often. I like to think I know what I was doing visually and in regards to focal lengths. I also just sold my GH5 and bought an Olympus camera. Olympus plans to sell their camera division later this year, if you haven't heard.

One of the reasons I bought the EM10III is simply because it would fit easier in my favorite leather camera bag than my GH5. Sometimes the decisions to own a camera are weird, but whatever works for you.

I don't think any of that is surprising in retrospect analysis of the company. Olympus is/was a frustrating company. You could tell they had a team and the basic technology to do something cool and inventive, but it always felt a bit shackled from taking the bigger riskier step to really compete. There's probably scant chance the remains of Olympus imaging will spin off into anything amazing in the future...but the irony is that there's still a narrow path where they could thrive in a market niche, I think. If anything has shown us from the bast 10 years is that these companies don't necessarily need to have to have the latest and greatest sensor to build a really impressive, useful, and cool camera. What they do need to do is wring more out of what's been developed in the CMOS arena already. But it's out of the hands of people with an engineering/artistic passion for cameras, and it's into the hands of financiers. Best to to throw hope away for Olympus at this point.