As much as I love the BMPCC, and I do, I can no longer ignore how much time and effort I work on shooting, copying and grading the footage. Video is secondary for me. So I bought a GM1 based on Andrew's insight and have to agree that when time is at a premium I can get more done with the GM1. I'm going to sell my BMPCC because I know I'll be tortured knowing it's here. If I was making films, there is NO WAY I would do this. The BMPCC is an extraordinary camera. It is truly a "cinema" camera.
What surprised me about the GM1 is how small it is. It makes the BMPCC look big. That gave me a laugh. The physical dial is very delicate (con). The smartphone app is what I've always wanted (plus). The image is much better than the GF3. I wish I had the GX7, but I saw a GM1 body used, for cheap, so that's what I got. Still, the image from it is nothing sort of phenomenal. IMHO it blows the d600 video out of the water. I'm surprised they got a MFT sensor to do as well as it does in low light.
So, tail between my legs, I go back to H.264 land. Thanks Andrew ;)
Top Reasons I'm switching
1. Copy, grading is very time consuming. My hard-drives over-floweth.
2. As soon as I start shooting I worry about running out of card space, battery, etc.
3. The screen is not good enough to make me confident I have focus
4. If I run up against moire I may have to degrade the image to h.264 type quality
5. Davinci Resolve has been buggy lately. I question BM's support of camera. Took them days to respond to support request.
6. 3x crop factor is a killer because I like wide lenses
7. Center button brings up slate if not clicked double for focus zoom, annoying. Audio is not good. Little quibbles everyone writes about.
Again, I love this camera. It's just too much for me.
BTW, the "silent shutter" feature of the camera is something I would now struggle to give up if I changed my mind.
A bit off topic but I just spent a day with the D5300. Whereas the Sony video had little to talk about over the gh2, i really like the 5300 image. It doesn't have the crunchy detailed sharpness of the gh2 but its nowhere near as soft as the canon apscs. Dynamic range seems better than a6000 and high iso is remarkable. Bit blocky in the shadows when you try to recover detail, but compared to gh2 at least it has detail to recover.
Much further along with my A6000 experience now since the introductory blog.
The codec has real issues. Lots of banding and mud. A very bad implementation of AVCHD I'm afraid. AVCHD can be good. On the FS100 it's fine! What a shame Sony do not pull a Panasonic and give us a proper codec on their stills cameras.
There is still some moire and aliasing too but then it's now more in-line with other cameras, and certainly not as bad as before. Better than the A7 for sure.
It's still a nice camera for the price but the D5300 will give you a better image.
