kidzrevil

Yeah man, I emailed because of your thread! 
Now we're on the Ballot!!!

Good work dude, 

Yeah on the g7. I may have a screengrab. I'll check and post a little later if I do. 

Thanks for all the comments from you guys, doesnt make it much easier, though
I checked my needs again and if I try to put the GAS aside, I think the RX100 fulfills nearly every of my needs except shallow(er) DoF. However as you guys pointed out, there is no THE camera. Stabilization is definitely wanted, so that removes the  BMPCC since there is no IS lens even with speedbooster that would give me nice DoF except the Canon 35 2.0 IS... yet with the speedbooster this will be sth like a 57mm FF equivalent which is too wide for my taste.
I ruled out the 5D mark 3. As nice as it looks like, it will be a waste of money since it will be pretty soon outdated due to the successor and I would need plenty of CF cards, etc... I think you guys reminded me of the fact that the process will be kind of cumbersome, especially when just being out their with my backpack. So long story short, I think RAW is not really an option.

Any craftsman or tradesman will tell you that you use certain tools for certain jobs...
I, personally, love the look of the 4K mjpeg coming from this camera.... Even in a measly 8-bit. I hope this codec trickles down into their cheaper models. 

So should we refrain from criticizing tools with flaws?

Yeah, GH4 + VlogL + 10bit external is great in my opinion. If you're shooting any of the other color profiles it probably doesn't make much sense to go 10 bit.

I assumed correctly they shot this on L series.  and it looks like also the L series 'cine' versions.  It's not the camera that makes this feel the polar opposite of the look of No Country for Old Men.  It's the glass.  If they'd had cooke s4's on the front of the 1dxmk2 i imagine the image would look like a real movie.  The fact that they can be in just about the most filmic location I can imagine and it still feel like a dslr shoot is because of the lenses.  
Canon glass = photo journalist snapping a criminal after his day in court 
Cooke glass = Hollywood.
Shame Canon stick with their EF mount and stop people using real lenses.  If you want it to look filmic you need filmic glass.  An Alexa mini with an EF mount and L lenses looks just as non filmic

We probably have developed an optical memory. It's like a shot with a Tilt-Shift lens that looks like a miniature.

Their 25 and 50 are excellent as well. In fact, every side by side I've seen has shown the 25 to be a hair sharper than the voigt, and with smoother bokeh. 

I was also turned off the voigts by the 42.5's occasionally harsh bokeh. It's charming to some, but not really my style. 

Man!!! That looks great. Sharp as shit. And the grade. Really good stuff. The perfect amount of contrast and DR in the blacks.

Thanks everyone that worked on the bitrate hack and the no limit rec one ass well. Im enjoying my NX1 more because of you guys. I really appreciate it. If i can pay you guys with a beer or coffee send me the the rite place so i can make it happen. Sorry for not naming everyone but if ill miss someone ill feel bad, i been looking here since it started and joined this thread and forum in March because of all this, see its going great, wish Samsung would have seen the potential that everyone here see's in the NX1 and the NX500. 

I've traveled around the world and back.  As long as you have a competent camera, you'll be fine.  
I'm not ashamed of any of the footage I captured via SD, neophyte HD, mature HD, or UHD.  Although I will say, on some shots it would have been nice to have more DR, since controlling the lighting was never an option.
From my experience, I'd say a good long lens can be a cool tool to have every once in awhile.  Otherwise, shorter and standard focal lengths are fine.  The smaller and assuming the camera, I've found, is the best bet as it lets you move around people without being too ostentatious.  Also, who's to say it's "once in a lifetime?"
 

The GH4 appears to be sharper 4K vs. the A7S II. I used to prefer the GH4 colors for skintones vs. the A7S, however the A7S II with SGamut3.cine and Slog2 or Cine2 gamma has better skintones vs. the GH4 (Natural or Portrait). Post-sharpening the A7S II looks similar to the GH4. I recently did a test trying to get the GH4 (Portrait) to match the A7S II for skintones (SGamut3.cine and Slog2/Cine2)- couldn't do it in a reasonable amount of time (colors seemed limited, perhaps related to DR, like comparing near-B&W to color). The GH4 footage looked very nice and detailed, however the colors were very limited compared to the A7S II. Cranking up the saturation or vibrance didn't help.
I use the ARRI Alexa SL profile Input LUT in Lumetri (PP CC) to get really nice skintones with the A7S II and SGamut3.cine+Slog2+16 Saturation (exposed 1.7 over). This combo is so nice for skintones, as good or better than 5D3 RAW, along with 4K, amazing DR, and tiny files. Doing a multicam shoot with the C300 II soon, it should match very well (static cameras; the A7S II has poor RS compared to the C300 II, and of course very poor AF compared to the C300 II's PDAF (A7R II's PDAF is much better than the A7S II's)). I wanted to use the GH4 for another camera angle, next I'll try the old A7S or FS700.
Without doing comparisons, the GH4 is a nice compact 4K camera, especially for outdoor, well-lit shots. With the Voigtlander 25mm F.95, it's not too shabby in lower light shots.

Natural is the best profile on the GH4, hands down I think.  Perhaps not as much grading room as V-Log or Cine-D, but the colors are usually pleasing. 
GH4 is a hell of a workhorse camera, no doubt about it. 

Humbled this week while I am in Nicaragua using an older camera that would never be my first choice...the GH4. I have been pleasantly surprised by the image quality once I figured out how to dial in the picture profile. Shooting on Natural with contrast, saturation, sharpness down all the way and using filmconvert to bring the image back to normal. Shooting mostly with Sigma 18-35 with speed booster on a MoVI M5. Love the long battery life. The very efficient 4k compression. The audio preamps for in camera audio. Weather sealed body. Great slow motion in camera.
My previous experiences with the GH4 SUCKED. Hated the IQ and never gave it a chance. I think once you dial in a solid workflow and picture profile...you have a killer video machine! More to come later. Ill post in this forum post. Should have a video soon. 

Same here, was watching some videos today and it looked great again.

Not sure how this is an elephant in the room... Like the other thread, it is just a quarterly, with minimal details to draw any conclusions from.
I imagine that their mobile sensor tech is lumped in with the imaging department too, so it is a little skewed when trying to use it as a baraometer for sales in the cameras we use and discuss here. I do think Sony have set themselves up well for the foreseable though, with a good range of products in exciting areas like mobile tech and VR, as well as strong offerings in the imaging field.
But seriously..... Don't get excited about quartlies, they are useful, but are in no way an accurate way to measure the long term health of a huge company. Apple's quartiles fell for the first time in years, this Q1, whereas Samsung's were up... I don't really think that equates to a huge sea change towards Samsung though... It is just a quarterly.

The GH4 hack will probably be the GH5. In fact, I think that was one of Panasonic's smartest moves... Listen to what the customers wanted based upon the popularity of the hacks. If Canon followed suit, the 5DIV should have 1080p Raw video. It probably won't though. 

Yes, fringing is evident in video, especially wide open. Didnt care since no one other than us techies sees that. In fact, I used that lens mostly at f2.0 and f.095 when DOF needed or lowlight.

Sony had it's fare share or disappointments, failed proprietary standards and they hit low on 2012 , since then it looks they've been recovering little by little and trying to get a foot in the market by offering whatever we say in the forums... Slowly and by bleeding us with price, I agree, but at least they're now listening. I'm happy for them for the same reason like you, more players means less cake and more competition. The a7 line is not overhyped, the people were really surprised with the stuff they crammed up in those little bodies and the results in good hands speak for themselves. It's always has been about the hands, regardless of the manufacturer of the camera.

I've been lately having the feeling that Sony is done with their sprint. They stepped into the game for another round, they got their name out there again with the a7 FF line dropping bodies like every other month and reached some kind of sales or status point they set as a milestone. Now that they have a fighting chance, they will slow down to concentrate on the other complains: Resurrect their alpha line for high end pros, fix the lack of lenses and grow from there. The good thing is now we have a great battle ahead; with another global economic slowdown, Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, Olympus and even JVC will have to offer something significant in exchange for our money or we'll probably pass and wait or move somewhere else. Interesting times.

Thanks. Great video, btw. You really knew your way around that gh4. Good stuff. 

Yup, Ive thought about that before as well.
A lot of people get excited by the "new Sonys with even more specs", but they sometimes seem to miss the fact that the price went up as well.
So the "bang for buck" argument actually gets weaker with every new model. Same thing in the RX100 line. They haven't "added more", just raised the price accordingly.
Imo Panasonic is the mirrorless company that keeps cost down by releasing the G-model of their GH-cameras.

If only their camera would be as good...

Yeah, exactly! thanks, man! I think we all win here with bitrate hack, it's obvious for me, Results may vary (he-he, LB here) but overall anyone can find exact right way to treate bitrate as he (or she) wants and needs. Of course it is not about exact numers at all, many of scenes works fine even in 100-120 mbps, bot for me there is always bugging me idea - how it really works and how exactly it impoves quality of my work, despite the opinion of others and even myself, you know, like blind test, but not "blind" exactly ))

Stiils from 180 mbps video of that gig