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  1. The only thing I'm not sure of is how it would work with mattebox, because focus ring is right at the front of the whole setup.

    That is my concern too. I'd love the try the Rangefinder on my Samyang primes, but I shoot with a mattebox when the internal ND's on my FS7 are not strong enough. The Rangefinder's focus gear will be unusable with a mattebox, however I think if you screw on an 82mm plastic lens hood to the Rangefinder like the one below, it'll give you plenty clearance to use a follow focus and mattebox. The only issue will be using wide lenses as you willl probably get vignetting.

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Phot-R-82mm-PRO-Screw-On-Mount-Tele-Telephoto-Metal-Lens-Hood-Canon-Nikon-Sony-/271812381956?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f4947cd04

  2. Brillliant work! I for one have always agreed, no matter what you do to the GH4 in camera settings and in post, something was always wrong with the colour chemistry making it always look like 'video'. It might look that you've cracked it, although I'm seeing a bit more noise in the shadows with your LUT.

     

    I'll give these a go soon. Thanks for your hard work!

     

    Adrian

  3. Hey everyone,

     

    I got my GH4 the first week of May here in the UK and so far I've been blown away by the image. I came from a 5D MKIII and I can't say that I feel like I'm missing much at the moment. Although I did shoot ML RAW on the 5D, I can't say I miss the workflow and the occasional camera crash... its so good to be shooting 4K without worrying that its going to crap out during a take.

     

    I think I will add a Speedbooster and Sigma 18-35mm next!

     

    Anyway, here is my first few days out with the GH4 around some famous London landmarks. Hope you are enjoying your GH4's!

     

  4. Slow-mo at 60fps is better, the image is much sharper. Slow-mo at 96fps is ok for most stuff but you do notice the softness with wider shots and if the subject is quite far from the camera.

     

    4K is the point of the GH4 for me. Slow-mo an unexpected bonus.

     

    4K footage is very gradable... you will see. I have shot with every pic profile and will upload a comparison. I like CineLikeD the best.

     

    Next daily report is being prepared now, just need to finish editing the footage and wanted to do the Digital Bolex piece first, so have a bit of patience and good things will come to those who wait :)

     

    Hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyy!!! :D

  5. A lot of blown-out signs there. I wonder what it would take for them not to be blown out? Is it a sensor size issue? Lack of DR? What is it exactly? What cameras can prevent this?

     

    I would attribute that to DR. Only the BMCC and BMPCC would perform better here. We still need to wait and understand what the GH4 is capable of. As I said, the footage above is ungraded.

  6. It is truly an amazing image, as jcs says.  I want one!  But it still has that video-look, high contrast and sharpness.   It looks like what 1080p is meant to look like.  I can't see the difference between that and the best broadcast TV.  You have to hand it to Panasonic!  All the said, I don't believe it will have the 3D pop you can get from RAW shooting.  We'll have to see. Musty, don't sell your 5D3 unless you have no interest in what RAW does.

     

    Get one! :)

     

    The guy that shot the footage said it was ungraded so with some half decent grading or running it through FilmConvert, you can pull out a less video looking image. That is just for starters! You can also tweek the shadow and highlight curves in camera.

     

    I do shoot ML RAW, but as I said in another post, the image is truly amazing but it is still only a hack and you can't rely on it when doing any paid jobs. Plus it eats up so much card space and the post-production process is still a pretty long effort. If I could afford to keep both the 5D MKIII and a GH4 I would, but its not an option. I'm quite happy to sacrifice that lovely RAW image for something that still looks pretty amazing and is 100% stable and easier to work with in post.

  7. This indeed shows how better resolution may influence the way you see things. There are a lot of wide shots I would have subconsciously avoided with my Pocket (as well as with my GH2). To make the clip even better, there should have been more close ups of simple structures in between. The camera can resolve the chaos, but after a minute or so this gets somewhat boring.

     

    I don't think the person who shot this meant to make anything entertaining. Its just a bunch of test footage he shot in order to show what the camera is capable of.

     

    I didn't detect any rolling shutter on those fast passing trees during the taxi ride footage... nice!

     

    My Canon 5DMKIII is now on ebay...

  8. the 128gb ones are known to be slow, the 64gb versions are recommended 

     

    The 1050x 128gb ones are fine, its the 1000x 128gb ones that are slow. I have a 1050x 128gb and I can record 1080p 25 continuously until the card is full on my 5D MKIII.

     

    Either the card is faulty or you have something set incorrectly. Check you have set prefered card to CF. Its also worth deleting the BENCH.LOG file on the SD card and running the benchmarks again including the buffer test.

  9. I would love to get a C100 but I don't want to invest in a camera that's still overpriced and is three years old. While it has two more systems that has came after it and that are overpriced too. 5k for a system that doesn't even shoot 60fps. No Thanks. 

     

    Totally agree Cassius. The C100 only records 24Mbps AVCHD internally too! Such a crappy codec for 5K... what a joke.

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