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Simo, have you already tried any one of these tips?
https://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/24937-gh5-autofocus-improvement-on-new-firmware-update-for-soon/?page=3
https://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/24937-gh5-autofocus-improvement-on-new-firmware-update-for-soon/?page=2
 

Simo, have you seen these?
 

I think we can move on from random AFC comments/tests. What is more interesting is "I really wanted such and such shot for this scene and here is what happened". I did 20 minutes of blog style and it was terrific for that. 
Have noted the Vlog assist dropping. Am investigating. 
Really happy with the ease that it edits. Very tempting to use it a lot despite the size. 

Factory is onto it.

I just bought a used Pana 25 1.4 and besides its stunning imagery, I was very surprised by its manual focus capabilities, which was unexpected to me. This lens was produced back in 2011, but its the best manual focus fly-by-wire native MFT lens that I've used so far and by a great margin. I own 14-140 zoom (3.5-5.6), 42.5 1.7 and 20 1.7. They all are PITA for manual focusing, especially 42.5 1.7 which I would consider otherwise a superb small and affordable lens, but its MF is just so wired - one second very slow, then suddenly blazing fast. Completely unreliable for video and I hate its unpredictable acceleration and speed. Who's genius idea was to setup modern MFT lens behaviour like that? The 25 1.4 has fast smooth MF with close to none acceleration so I can easily pull focus on any shot without any extra effort or shaking my camera. Its reliable and constant. But all other lenses I've tried are plain terrible at that!
So I wounder, WHY PANASONIC MAKE THEIR CURRENT LENSES BEHAVE THIS WAY?!  
And it would be so EASY to correct, just by adding some extra menu setting with a profile for every lens for a) acceleration control (starting from zero) and the lens speed itself. Only two freaking parameters and thats all. That would safe so many people from constant struggle with that MF flybywire bullshit. 
And now try to explain my why its not done yet? And consider that Panasonic stronghold is video, they are perceived by many as video camera makers, they excel in video.. but, they did not offer any solution in that department for all this years. Unexplainable idiocy. 
BTW, maybe some hero hacker can modify MFT lenses firmware to change those parameters? That would solve this too. 
P.S. Well at least now I have one lens with which I can focus comfortably. 

It is pretty good but the focus throw is a too short.

Excited to test the image quality out of it.
I don't think it will compete with a larger sensor like the GH5 that's optimized for still and video with V-log, but I mean, for a director on a shoot who wants to steal a shot of the sunset on the scout, and doesn't have a camera on their person, just a quick shot here and there.
For instance I did a short film with Matty Brown - and he added a bunch of picks up because he has a beautiful hyper-connectic style.  
Say he didn't have a small mirrorless or DSLR on him, and there was like a scene with tons of birds flying in the air, and the DP was changing glass or whatever, and he just whips it out of his pocket, it may be okay in the piece, since it is 23.98, maybe a good shutter speed, HEVC codec - it may cut.
It's exciting to me to think this.
There have been so many missed moments on sets because the crew is wrapped for time reasons that the director would love to grab.
 

First apologies to starting this thread - I know there is another one - but that seems to focus on the iphone x as a phone.  This is about using it and h.265 to record.  And possibly log or raw out of it.
 
H.265 is no joke - as I have seen with the NX1, and with apple supporting it, you can bet your donuts they will make it easy to integrate and convert.
And a wide angle and  a  telephoto lens, with an optical zoom. 
This could be a useful camera in the field if you need to pick up a shot.
Curious about dynamic range, singal to noise, color fidelity, skintones, motion cadence - all that fun stuff
 
Here are the specs:
12MP wide-angle and telephoto cameras
Wide-angle: ƒ/1.8 aperture
Telephoto: ƒ/2.4 aperture
Optical zoom; digital zoom up to 10x
Portrait mode
Portrait Lighting (beta)
Dual optical image stabilization
Six‑element lens
Quad-LED True Tone flash with Slow Sync
Panorama (up to 63MP)
Sapphire crystal lens cover
Backside illumination sensor
Hybrid IR filter
Autofocus with Focus Pixels
Tap to focus with Focus Pixels
Live Photos with stabilization
Wide color capture for photos and Live Photos
Improved local tone mapping
Body and face detection
Exposure control
Noise reduction
Auto HDR for photos
Auto image stabilization
Burst mode
Timer mode
Photo geotagging
Image formats captured: HEIF and JPEG
 
4K video recording at 24 fps, 30 fps, or 60 fps
1080p HD video recording at 30 fps or 60 fps
720p HD video recording at 30 fps
Optical image stabilization for video
Optical zoom; 6x digital zoom
Quad-LED True Tone flash
Slo‑mo video support for 1080p at 120 fps or 240 fps
Time‑lapse video with stabilization
Cinematic video stabilization (1080p and 720p)
Continuous autofocus video
Body and face detection
Noise reduction
Take 8MP still photos while recording 4K video
Playback zoom
Video geotagging
Video formats recorded: HEVC and H.264

HDR codec and HDR10 display will make a difference. Is the H.265 10bit?
4K 60fps on a phone proves heat can be managed in such a thin device, and that Canon with their shitty DSLRs have no excuses remaining.

I'm an Apple guy, but I'm not too impressed by this new iPhone: I would love to buy an iPhone with a nice real tele lens, not an electronic one, in order to shoot better videos.
Anyway, nice design and very good for photos: it is not an 1DC, but I think it is good enough for every day pics...

The dot projector that maps your face could be used for some interesting games and tech demos.
The camera has a nice bump on the X
The digital portrait lighting is very cool and something I wish all cameras would implement, especially for video!
The new processor and GPU I am sure is very good
I like it and good to finally catch up with Samsung, on the OLED front
Apple however are generally more boring than they used to be and lack charisma under Tim Cook. The products are still solid, but there's something missing. Personality?

You're not quite understanding the way the hardware works Jimmy.
The sensor delivers that 3840 pixel wide image under the normal Canon firmware, every time you hit the focus magnification button and it's capable of sensor windowing with any full pixel readout crop of the full frame sensor, like 3.5K, 3.3K, 2K, whatever you like. Magic Lantern are extracting the existing capability of the camera within the normal spec and clock speeds of the hardware, they are not running it at full capacity or increasing clock speeds.
That 3.5K image goes into the buffer as normal and then Magic Lantern take it from there and put it onto the card. The only heat increases come from a harder working card and battery due to the data rates. The processor and sensor do not get 'worked at breakneck speed'. In fact the processor is relaxing if anything because it doesn't need to think about compression or H.264.
The only reason the live-view isn't as nice as in the normal 1080p mode, is that Canon's code is designed to show the 5x punched in display for focus checking, so Magic Lantern had to hack it to give us accurate framing for the entire resolution, which is very difficult as they lack any kind of documentation from Canon or an SDK to tailor camera operation to their choosing.
The hardware is 100% capable of 4K video and likely with the same MJPEG codec as the 5D Mk IV and 1D C. The reason it is not in there is due to marketing. They wanted to reserve the feature for the 1D C and target the 5D3 predominantly at a stills audience and consumer crowd for whom 4K would be somewhat overkill or wasted and result in more support costs, distracted focus in the marketing messages, confusion on the shop floor, etc. The 5D3 also wasn't allowed to compete against any of the pro Cinema EOS cameras which were fresh on the market at the time it was released, because the margins would be much greater on these cameras and video shooters should not have been tempted by something cheaper offering such a recording high spec... That's another reason the 1D C cost $15,000 on release.
Plenty of compact flash cards in 2012 were fast enough for MJPEG 4K, otherwise they wouldn't have released the 1D C the same year doing MJPEG 4K to compact flash cards. You talk like the cards didn't even exist or would drop frames.
Also in 3.5K there are no dropped frames or occasional messed up frames, it is continuous recording with perfect image quality, like you see in my video. Sometimes a clip may stop due to the data rate being on the limit of the card, but there are no corrupt frames...and we always did have these occasional stoppages with the original uncompressed 14bit 1080p as well... that didn't stop a ton of AMAZING work being shot with it. For many things, shorter takes are enough. And if you want longer ones just decrease the resolution slightly and shoot 10bit lossless instead of 12bit.
10bit has more advantages than just less banding my friend
In rec.709 your dynamic range is limited in 8bit because you simply run out of room.
We know the look that comes with trying to compress more dynamic range into a rec.709 8bit, colour suffers, it looks like HDR puke.
That's because with 0-255 you have regions of large variation in brightness crammed into the last 5 or 10 shades, so things like a sky looks like crap, no accurate colours in it.
LOG is a way around this to a certain extent but is also a form of compression
The reason the rec.709 image looks so good on the GH5 is the entire image processing pipeline is 10bit this time round... things have room to breathe and when you do bring up the blacks or pull down the highlights there's 100x more information in there and they don't fall apart.
So in short, 10bit = more dynamic range, especially on a 10bit HDR display using Hybrid Log Gamma.
That's why the HDR standards all demand 10bit or more. Dynamic range!
Also 10bit raw = more dynamic range, plus more control over colour and white balance as it isn't baked in.
Also lossless compression = 50% smaller file sizes with no loss of visual quality, so it is almost like having uncompressed raw, rather than compressed H.264 10bit.
In addition the bump to 12bit and 14bit on the 5D3 with Magic Lantern gets you a bit more dynamic range, but close to the ceiling of the sensor.
I'd say the image quality at 10bit is very close to 14bit... 12bit even closer as to makes barely any difference. 14bit has a bit more accuracy in the highlights. Shadows still look AMAZING in 10bit, like the Blackmagic raw cinema cameras but less noisy.

There's a lot of misinformation out there because there's a lot of fake 10bit.
The whole camera, colour processing, colour profiles, image pipeline and codec need to be built around 10bit for it to be an advantage, like on the GH5, or in raw on the 5D Mark III with Magic Lantern (where the colour profiles and image processing is done in POST, bypassing the camera's 8bit processing limitations).
The 10bit GH5 Rec.709 image is night and day better than the GH4 10bit HDMI output.
And don't get me started on 8bit "uncompressed" HDMI... It is compressed as hell! No point in recording it. Especially not as 10bit ProRes.

I will be uploading some of the original ProRes clips and Cinema DNGs. They amount you can push them in post without them falling apart is incredible.

Panasonic GH5 and G7.

I replaced GH4 and G6 (both great cameras!) and had BlackMagic Pocket and Micro, some Canon etc... but the Lumix are the camera I like most. I recently used the RED Scarlet W, amazing camera, but I'm more then happy with the easy GH5 with V-LogL  

Panasonic GH5 and G7.

I replaced GH4 and G6 (both great cameras!) and had BlackMagic Pocket and Micro, some Canon etc... but the Lumix are the camera I like most. I recently used the RED Scarlet W, amazing camera, but I'm more then happy with the easy GH5 with V-LogL  

What's your current personal camera nowadays?

Tonino Guerra.... screenwriter of most of my fav. movies! <3
"L'ottimismo è il profumo della vita!" (Cit.)

@PannySVHS, you're on the spot : ) and we live cinematic days from Walmart toys... *cough cough*
Real movie cam, yeah, seems more appropriate to call them so, when the results are beyond any screen requirements.
BTW, speaking of big-big-screen, a dozen years ago, in a Master Class with Tonino Guerra, the great master had all his eggs for the future of motion pictures in those 'cineprese giapponesi'... His words when he pointed one of the attendants with one of those consumer digital cams in his hands filming his lecture.
Nice to see he stands fully right ;-)

Nothing wrong to assume predictable framing for cinematic purposes. On the contrary, people go to film school in order to practice predictable techniques :-)
Cinematic can also be the word for Russian wedding cinematography:
No need to go to the movie theater... at all.

Sure, all about the shooter... There are better capture devices than other ones though ; )
Here's more from the same production house. Worthy to take a look. Those two couples shine because there's an eye beyond the camera and skillful hands to handle it.
 
 

You only have 2 choices:

1. Use a camera with great autofocus like the Canons. The NX1 also has great autofocus.
2. Manually set the focus and stay the same distance from your subject.

V2 has a built in quick release system, shorter handle and different batteries, payload is the same as v1. I think it's a pretty universal consensus that the crane is easily the best pistol grip gimbal around, bar none.