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Hey Thomas, the GH5 is a serious movie making machine, unbelievably so, at that price! The GX85 is a super fun camera, with nice 4K and soso HD quality. With the GH5 you get perfect HD, so no need to film in 4K for HD delivery from an image quality point. Battery life, Full HDMI, ergonomy, GH5 is superior in these regards. EVF on it is nice. It´s not nice at all on the GX85. But the GX is one of the most fun cameras to have, to hold in hand and to do smaller pieces of film with great image quality. For serious filmmaking buy the GH5, for doing visual sketches without a filmcrew, the GX85 is good enough in my opinion, much better with a second battery:) If it had twice as long battery life and G6 or G7 level HD quality I would not fancy a GH5. Or maybe I would, but less:)

hey ed, gotta take off in a minute. the models are DP 1,2,3 Merrill, each with a different lens. yours has 4.5 or so counted megapixels, merrills line has 14 something. Sigma likes to multiply them by 2 or three due to three layers of the sensor. the gf1 is an old mft photocam. i love it for its desingn and size. cheers

Hey guys, I am looking for royalty free music in the style of the John Carpenter and Keiichi Kuzuki, specifically in the style of Carpenters Precinct 13 and Kuzukis OST piece Gambling House from Zatoichi. It´s for a shortfilm in the state of postprodcution. Thanks! The piece by Keiichi Kuzuki would be perfect. Maybe someone can hook me up with him

Hey @freeman, Thank you for your post and for giving background information on the applied shooting style and tricks! Makes me want to see more of the artist roaming through the streets of this beautiful city!:) Ibis is working and fitting the video very well here!

The plustek has flimsy negative holders and handling. The Kodak is very robust, has been used by newspapers back then. Still think the DP Merrill cams are the best marriage of sensor and lens. Still got my GF1 for the combo of an optical viewfinder for estimated manual focusing. Have not tried because of worries about screwing up. Meanwhile have shot so many crappy pictures with EVF. "The process dictates way more than specs", very well said.

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okay, good to know. Thanks. Now I´m really interested to see this footage on a HDR display. Maybe at Mediamarkt plugging an usb stick into a TV set. Never done that before. Exiting:)

Hey guys, I cannot say that I appreciate the videos above more than non HLG stuff. Would it look awesome or just better on a HLG capable TV? I mean, a PAL video looked baaaad on NTSC TV back then in DV times. Playing it on a Pal set it looked fine then of course. Playing a badly done video would look adequate but still bad on the adequate PAL TV. With the videos above, do they just look adequate or awesome on the adequate TV sets? I imagine that they are nice tech demos, demonstrating the DR, little noise, variety of colors, even if not so pleasing looking. That way the footage might be showing off the blank and techy looking qualities for what it´s necessary to be able to shoot some real awesome looking image quality..

That is a most foremost thing, staying on topic! About working and training muscle memory and beforehand being in a good shape: At one thing handheld shooting made my shooting better conceptually, simulating a jib, a tracking shot, pan- helpin all in laying out and planning a sequence. What it also did though, it made me miss that one or two important locked medium shots. So best is to have physical practice and to have the very basic film grammar down. Anything else can be rooted from that. Having shooting styles of the greats boiled down into one liners and standard vocabulary. Tony Zhous video essays are great examples of that. And writing or writing stuff down improves cinematography fundamentally, as a great master of cinema gives a great example of:

Hey guys, We all know the IBIS is awesome, by the way, Oly IBIS shooters should feel just as well adressed. I´ve been testing my GX85s IBIS for many weeks now, about three months. Testing, testing, testing, what it´s for and what it´s not for at all. Seeing the possibilities and limits. I did all this in prep. I put the cam on poles rigged to my waist or chest, swingin the cam like a bird. Well, I did this and everything else:) Would love to see your stuff, your favorite and your favorite quirky shots. In the end I rented a GH5 to do a short because of its perfect HD (no need for 4K with that:), ergonomy, crop and battery life. I think the twice as faster sensor read out helped well in doing beautiful one take action. So let´s see some IBIS action and some BTS infos and facts how it was done and performed.

Lemme know, when you´re around. We could hang out and shoot something nice and relaxed.

Yes, Andrew, it is impressive! I´ve been a fan of the potential of the Panny codec/color from G6 on. It´s been giving me exiting possiblities for color work. This weeked I shot my short on a GH5. I completely trusted that pixel perfect HD and its least color mode: the glourious 8bit 420 REC709 Natural profile with contrast at 0. This is a screenshot, quickly graded. Hope to get it through the edit and music and postprod quickly. If 8bit rec is already of such beauty, the other modes will be massive. By the way, I shot it 8bit and rec, because of older hard- and software infrastructure available at the moment:) Nothing more uncomfortable than having footage laying around unedited EDIT: We know about the advantages of contrast 0 in rec709 on the new Lumix cameras, sharpness and noise at -5 of course:)

@jcs, Your texts on technology are exellent and providing all the information and help for further research. On topics like health, in my opinion a different style of writing would be adequate: Eat well, do exercises and your camerwork will be better thought out and executed. That way camerawork will stay in focus. Otherwise your post would rather suggest your own thread.

Exellent observation, Fritz Pierre! Unfortunately out of likes now! Too many cool posts in this section!

Ed, I´ve been writing this on this forum a few times. Maybe it would be time to be quiete about it now for the sake of us lens lovers No you did not! Not fair, Gear Ac Syndrome is grabbing me!

Footage doesnt look anything C1,2,300 like. What´s this post have to do with the love for the arts? I don´t see that. Thread is dubious.

Another beautiful RAW vignette by Colby Moore:

@Cinegain that Pentacon lens is not a Soviet lens but from German Democratic Republic, just like the Zeiss Jena lenses are

I shot a short this weekend with it in 8bit HD, knowing with its pixel perfect HD and 100Mbit it will a massive bump in gradeability compared to the already awesome HD image and codec in the G6, G7 and G85, which was running somewhat around 28Mbitpersecond. 8bit Rec709 in Natural contrast at 0, noise+sharpness at -5, looks fantastic on the GH5, if graded with care. A 200mbit 10bit Intra HD Codec with Vlog and perfect HD is already heaven to me. I think I will indeed buy this true cinema camera. GH5 is massive!

Hey Matt, yeah that 28 f2.8 keeps surprising me. I always loved the look of it. I should do a test against my 20mm 1.7 with it. Hmm, gonna do it right now. Wait a minute:) Test result: the FD with a focal reducer is higher resolving in the centre at F2.8 than the 20mm at F2.0.

Good idea about making another one. But for this one I had a crew working just for meals and having an awesome time with one another.. The next thing would have to be a one man band again. I don´t know if I know that many people who enjoy doing sound for free:) Maybe GH5 cannot be in the challenge. Its image quality already in HD 420 is too tremendeous, C100 good. Okay, back to lens talk. Canon FD 100mm SSC F2.8. Awesome lens, compact, hefty enough in hand, massive image quality wide open. On S35 it´s a winner. Still looking for that awesome ultra wide for FD. Maybe the Tokina 17mm 3.5 is Canon FD good, @Matt Kieley?

Got a Lumix G7, hardly ever used it, because body feels kinda shallow. Funny that a G6 feels so much more satisfying in hand. Still got my G6. Fun camera, never disappointed. I feel I can trust it. Second nature to me now. Nice battery life, with two original and a cheap battery. GX85 is lovely, kinda to pretty to shoot with it. Great image quality and nice but tricky IBIS. Battery life in 4K is so lala. HD is not satisfying enough, almost good enough but really not. Easy to grade. Shot with a GH5 this weekend. Fantastic cam. HD quality is fantastic. Gradeablility in 8bit 420 is very good already, I´d say Canon C100 II good. The battle for best 8bit 420 would be hard to estimate a winner for.

I think you are right. Put them both on CineD with 0 contrast, -5 sharpness, 5 noise, -3 color. Best is to do a test of a face of a humble friend in daylight, tungsten, fluorescent with same lens.

@IronFilm, Hey man, aren´t you from New Zealand? Asking, because my mates and me met a cool director from NZ. He has a beard just like you. Are you in Berln right now?:) You and I talked before with eachother on here, about that kewl Sony F3. So don´t get scared by my Toshiro Mifune back and neck when I am asking you this question:) Cineama5D, I used to get them mixed up with EOSHD because of the Canon reference. But I was always looking for EOSHD, of course. It must have been about six years ago. So I should be forgiven, even more when only just looking for that cool EOSHD articles:) First provocation, than honey spilling. What a low life move, I should go to Cinema5D and apologize:)

Hey Glenn, yeah, rail free follow focus should give me some nice tactile feel. They come with reverse option for Nikon? The SLR Magic and my FDs drove me a bit nuts this weekend when filming and focusing different directions:) Btw Glenn, It´s my shortfilm I shot this weekend with a rented GH5 instead of my poor GX, which is a little pity, because it would have been so cool to have a legit shortfilm done with the GX85! But battery life and positon of batterydoor with card slots was not adequate. So that shortfilm might be allowed for our 8bit shortfilm challenge, since I shot in classy, sassy glorious 8bit 420? Or maybe not, because its 8bit 420 on roids:)